Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-05-26
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

is tired and wants to surrender.
Mrs. Mary Coleman, who was sick,
hanged herself at Moscow, Idaho.
A Georgia colored couple burned
their four children nearly to death; the
man ran away: the woman was caught
in the act.
Five thousand Spanish prisoners have
been taken into a northern province OF
Luzon, beyond reach of aid by Ameri-
can troops.
Dock laborers at Cienfuegos demand
ed more pay, and not being satisfied,
raised a riot, in which one was killed
and several wounded.
G. w. Nordstrom, who murdered
William Mason in Seattle over eight
years ago, has been sentenced for the
fourth time to be hanged.
William Lockrldge, an escaped Mis-
souri, robber and murderer, who was re-
ported to have been drowned recently
al Astoria, has been discovered and ar
rested in Montana.
The gigantic copper trusts recently
formed by Marcus Daily and W. A.
Clake, rival Montana mllionaires, have
taken up the Western Washington cop
per belt, near Index.
Rear-Admiral John G. Watson, who
will relieve Admiral Dewey in COM
mand of the Asiatio squadron, sailed
for his post on the steamer City of
Peking from San Francisco.
Several prominent government Off
cials at Washington have organized
themselves into committee to receive
subscriptions for Dewey fund. United
States Treasurer Roberts will receive
the subscriptions. The first sent in
was $3.50, from Felix Angus, of the
Baltimore American.
AT Moscow, Idaho, the United States
grand Jury session returned indict-
ments against the ringleaders of the
mob that delayed the Northern Pacific
and the o. r. 81 N. mail trains, and
some 400 others Of the Canyon creek
and Wardner miners that participated
In sezing the trains.
The United States government is
about to establish a permanent mill
tary post in Southeastern Alaska.
Light Notifications are to be put in and
large force of troops will be sent
north as soon as they can be spared. |
The recent trouble over the Canadian
boundary and rapidly growing feel
Ing OF uneasiness among the Indians is |
said to be the cause.
New York city has appropriated
Sl50,o0o for the reception of Admira,
Dewey.
Because he was Ieproved for teasing
boy. Chicago villain shot two
men, one fatally.
The window glass trust has finally
been organized and will control 3 per
cent of the product.
A crazy California sugar-factory
hand killed his wife by cutting her
throat, and then committed suicide.
The Wheeling Steel g. Iron Com.
pany, of Wheeling, w. Va, has grant
ed its 300 employees an advance of 10
per CeIL Ill wages.
Pawnee Bills Wild West show
came to grief in Princeton. Students
stopped the parade. Many were in.
1ured in the melee which followed.
1t is the intention of President Nc.
hinley to be in the Western states at
the time of tho return OF the volunteers
who have done heroic service in the
Philippines.
The federation of miners, which met
at Salt Lake, denounced the military
proceedings at Wardner, Idaho, and |
declared that union men did not de-
stroy the mill.
The secretary of war has Just ordered
that the Washington volunteers, when
sent home from Manila, will return di.
rectly to the Sound, without stopping
at San Francisco.
The steamer Hassalo, built for the
o. Il. IL N. Co., at Portland, has
proved herself the fastest sternwheeler
in the world. In trial run she made
26 2-S miles in an hour.
The Commercial Cable Company's
steamer Britannia has arrived at the
Azores. and will start this week to
make soundings for laying the strand
which is to connect Germany and the
United States.
The Russian demand for new rail-
road concession connecting Peking with
Russia's present railroad system in
Manchuria, is still exciting the gravest
anxiety in Peking. Germans and
Japanese are particularly uneasy.