Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-01-13
LATER NEWS.

AI uro WHICH DfOKe out IN JDo no.
eel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa, three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly hurt.
A Paris paper says it learns from an
indisputable source that the court of
cessation is convinced that Dreyfus was
justly condemned.
Colonel Potter, special emissary of
General Otis to lilo Ilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town If the
Americans bonn bard the place.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com
muted the sentence of j. R. Colean,
who, while cashier of the Safe bank, OF
Fort Scott, in 1895, stole 500, 900 of its
funds.
Four dead, two injured. one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
ty of the Southern railway to the
amount of about $25, 900, is the result
of wreck which occurred at Knox.
vile, Tenn.
A heavy wind storm swept over the
remote section of Scott county, Ark.
At Boles, schoolhonse was blown
down and three pupils were killed, an
other was fatally wounded, and dozen
or more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremendous landslide occurred near
Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad. A mountain which has
long been an object of curiosity to
travellers crashed into the Fraser river,
damming it completely, and sending
the water in torrents over the fertile
Nicola valley. The course Of the river
was changed completely.
The Sebastapool correspondent OF the
London Times, who has been touring
in Eastern Russia for two months to
discover, if possible, some evidence on
the part of tie Russian government to
give effect to the disarmament propo-
sails of Emperor Nicholas. says all his
observations were quite to the contrary,
and that Russia is increasing her mil.
itary strength.
According to late advices from Daw-
son, the United States government will
be called upon to relieve INDECENT min
ers in the Klondike. The Dawson
Nugget says there is strong move
ment on foot at Dawson to send rep
resentative to Washington for the pur-
pose of enisting the United States
government in the cause of aiding in
remedying the great distress which
prevails among the miners of the Yu-
kon.
At the annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and
Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of
America, held in Chicago, resolutions
were adopted, urging congress to pass
the Nicaragua canal bill and also that
law should be passed making eight
hours days work on said canal. Res
olutions we're also passed urging con-
gress to pass the river and harbor bill
at the present session of congress. Con-
gress was also urged to create a labor
commission of three union men to see
that the laws in the interest of work
ingmen were enforced on all govern
ment work.
Senator Hale has been renominated
by the Maine Republicans.
Hon. Joseph Fl. Choate will be our
next ambassador to Great Britain.
DIR. H. Seward Webb, president OF
the Wagner Palace Car Company. is
mentioned as successor to Senator Nor
rill as senator from Vermont.
The first formal state dinner of the
season took place at the White House
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
Mckinley entertained the members of
the cabinet.
A sensation has been created in Ger
many by the publication in Cologne
paper OF an alleged conversation had
with the late Prince Bismarck, in
which he predicted the fall of the Aus.
trian empire.
An American named Boynton, who
is trying to travel around the earth
without money, met with terrible fall
into chasm while entering France by
night through the Pyrenees. He was
seriously injured.
Another disagreeable consequence of
the late war has been presented to the
government of claims from the cable
companies for damages sustained
through the suspension of their busi.
ness by the United States military and
naval forces. The aggregate amount
OF these claims cannot be foretold.
Representative Tongue, of Oregon,
has prepared an amendment to the bill
for coditication of the laws of Alaska,
now pending in the house, providing
for the licensing Of main business con-
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