Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-04-07
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

OeneJdl MIlier, now III the Fnlllp-
pines, having reached his Gath year,
has retired.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington after an outing of two
weeks and day.
Stocks of the sugar companies in the
Hawaiian market are booming and
large advances are noted all through
the list.
A list prepared in the office of the
acknowledgement shows the casualties
in Manila since February to be 157
killed and 864 wounded.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Vienna says there are 10000 cases Of
influenza in the city of Brunn, capital
of the province of Moravia. Austria,
and that the death rate is enormous.
The restoration of the wages of l, 700
employees in the York cotton mills,
Saco, Me-, is announced to begin Mon
day, when a similar raise will affect
over 1900 hands in the LaConia and
Pepperell cotton mills, of Biddefo1d.
Harry Sanderson, the young farmer,
who attempted to murder his sweet
heart, Myrtle Fleischer, near Mayetta.
Kan, but instead wounded Mrs. John
Fleischer, her aunt, so that she died
later. was lynched by mob from
Mayetta.
Since General Macarthur made a
gallant advance north of Manila there
has been some talk that he should be
chosen as brigadier- general of volun-
teers, his rank in the regular army be-
ing lieutenant-Colonel of the adjutant-
generals department.
A Washington dispatch says: Gem
eral Thomas NJ. Anderson has been tor
some time past slated as a brigadier-
general in the regular army until he
retires next fall. He is to command
the department of the Columbia, with
headquarters at Vancouver.
The cruiser Chicago, which left
Hampton Roads March 13 under orders
to overtake the American liner Paris
and transfer from that ship ex-Secre-
tary Of State John Sherman, W no had
been taken seriously ill, has arrived at
Newport News with the distinguished
invalid on beard.
Seniors Jose r. Villalon and A.
Hevia, who were appointed by the Gu
ban assembly to present to the Wash
ington authorities the resolutions of
that body, have arrived in Washington.
Their mission, in addition to the pres.
entatiOn of the resolutions, is to ex-
plain in detail the situation with ref
erence to the insurgent army.
Polo has been burned and abandoned
by the Filipinos.
Japan is considering project for the
naturalization of railways.
A school of psychology will be held
at Chicago from April to s, inclusive.
The Twelfth New York volunteers
have arrived home for muster out.
Secretary of War Alger has arrived
at Havana on tour of inspection.
Two thousand men are idle as the re-.
suit OF the pantsmakers' strike at Phila-
delphia.
Half the business portion of Har-
rison Valley, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. Loss. $4,000.
BY collision between freight trains
near Pittsburg two men were killed and
two fatally injured.
The funeral of Ex-Governor Francis
Harrison Pierpont, of the Virginias.
was held at Pittsburg.
Denmark proposes to demand cession
OF treaty port in China, and will send
out cruiser tor the puprose.
Arrangements have been completed
for construction of railroad from AL
varado to San Andreas Tuxeto, Mexico.
War department officers express un.
qualified satisfaction with the work of
the volunteers before and around Ma.
Mia.
The search OF the Windsor hotel
ruins, at New York, for dead bodies
continues. Parts of human remains
were found.
Two carloads of Eastern oysters are
on their way to Willapa harbor for an
artificial propagation experiment by
oystermen.
The steamship Tacoma. which has ar.
rived at Tacoma from China and Japan,
brought S27 Japanese. most Of them of
the laborng class.
Rear-Admiral Sampson arrived at
Santiago de Cuba on board the cruiser
New York, and was given a royal well
come by the people.
Queen Victoria has been petitioned
to force President Kruger, of the Trans.