Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-02-10
LATER NEWS.

one at Chicago, with 500, 900, 900 cap
ital. and one at Boston with $40. .OOO,-
900.
San Francisco is to have a worlds
fair in 1901. 1t is to be known as the
Pacific Ocean and International Expo
sition.
Turkey is making military prepara-
tions in view of possible Macedonian
uprising. Bulgaria is also hastily Or
ganizing and arming troops.
President Mckinley has presented to
Charles A. Schott. chief of the oomput-
ing division OF the United States coast
and geodetic survey, the prize recently
conferred upon him by the Academy of
France.
Mrs. Cordeia Botkin, found guilty
by San Francisco court of the murder
of Mrs. John P. Dunning, has been
sentenced to prison for life, the judge
refusing new trial. The case will be
appealed.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war is devoting all of its
energies to closing up Its report. The
rough draft is practically completed,
and copies are being made of the docu-
ment. 80 far as it is ready.
1t is said administration officials are
urging the president to endeavor 10 EN-
list the services of Aguinaldo in the
settlement Of the Philippine question,
as he has the services of General Go.
mez in the pacification of Cuba.
Lord Charles Beresford. the distin-
guished British naval officer and states
man, will arrive in San Francisco on
the Japanese steamer American Maru,
due on February IL, and the chamber
of commerce is arranging for public
reception to the Englishman.
A battle between American troops
and insurgents began at 8:45 Saturday
night at Manila, which last into Sun
day, the insurgents being the aggressors.
Twenty Americans were killed and
about 175 wounded. The loss of the
insurgents is estimated to run into the
thousands. Naval vessels took part in
the battle by shelling the insurgents
position.
The situation at the mining camp Of
Independence, 18 miles from Aspen,
Colo. is critical in the extreme. STAR
vation stares the inhabitants of the
town in the face. Provisions and fuel
supplies are nearly exhausted. Wood
that had been cut and piled for winter
use lies buried under many feet of
snow, and cannot be reached. Roads
leading to Aspen, the only source of
supply for independence, are impassa-
BILE. Snowslides are so frequent be-
tween Aspen and independence that it
is almost suicidal to venture on the
route.
Fine buildings covering half block
in the heart of the businesss portion of
Columbus, O., were destroyed by fire.
The transports, Ohio and Senator,
bearing the Twenty second infantry to
the Philippines have sailed from San
Francisco.
A freighting party was caught in a
snow slide in Lincoln gulch, nine
miles above Aspen, Colo, and it is be-
lieved five men were killed.
The second battalion of the Seven
teenth infantry are en- route to Manila
via New York. They sailed from that
port on the transport Sherman.
Tbo lornoek oO,,, 80 ;oI
and distiling interests yet attempted
has been concluded in New York, un-
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
& Warehouse Company.
Negotiations for the consolidation oI
the leading pottery interests have been
concluded in New York by the forma-
tiOn of the American pottery compa-
MES. with capitaliz alton of $40, 000,-
900.
A snow. slide occurred on the Cana.
dian Pacific at Rogers Pass, in the Sell
kirk range. The railroad roundhouse
and other buildings were demolished.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and two injured.
Contracts have been let for the erec-
tion of a large beet-sugar factory al
Amers. a small town west of Omaha,
on the Union Pacific. The men who
are furnishing the money to build the
factory are Boston capitalists.
The United States transport Grant,
which left New York January 10, hav,
ing on board Major Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and battalion OF
the Seventeenth infantry, bound for
Manila, has arrived at Gibraltar.
Steamer Rhynland, from Liverpool.
for Philadelphia, went ashore foul
miles north of Penwick's island life.
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