Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-08-04
LAT Err NEWS.


of settling the Cleveland street car
strike.
Fire at Tupper lake, in the Adj
rcndacks, destroyed a hotel and 10
buildings.
Yellow fever as broken out in the
National Soldiers Home, near Hamp-
ton, Va.
Twenty governors will attend the
trust conference to be held in Chicago
in September.
Cubans are finding fault with the
census commissioners appointed by the
United States.
President Mckinley will tender Ad
miral Dewey reception when he ar
rives at Washigtion.
Private James A. Doyle, of company
D, Second Oregon, succumbed to dys-
entery at the Presidio.
Because a volunteer would not re.
enlist. General Otis denied hill a per-
nit to 60 into business in Manila.
The tripartite committee has abol.
ished the kingship of Samoa adjudging
it to be without authority and useless.
The 3O-knot torpedo boat destroyer
Goldsborough, was successfully
launched from the ways at the Wolff &
Zwicker iron works at Portland, Or.
The Hartman Alaska expedition has
returned The expedition, both from
a scientific and pleasure point of view.
was an entire success. A journey OF
over 5000 miles was made.
The Nebraska regiment and two bat.
teries of the Utah artillery, have ar.
rived in San Francisco. The Nebras.
kans have 100 wounded men. Their
losses including sick. amount to 2O4.
They say they have had enough of
Philippine fighting.
The rumors regarding the formation
of ChinO-Japanese alliance are semi
officially denied at Pekin, and it is as
serted that the ENJOYS recently sent to
Toxic were appointed simply to prove
the friendly relations between the pow
ers.
A Paris dispatch says two automo-
biles beat the Paris-St. Mole express
train in a race between those cities, a
distance of 226 miles, making the best
time ever recorded for an automobile.
The distance was covered in Z hours
and 48 minutes.
General OTIS has informed the war
department OF the arrival at Manila
OF the transport Valencia. There were
no casualties en- route. The Valencia
sailed from San Francisco, June 80,
with headquarters B and M, Fourth
cavalry, and f and H, Twenty-fourth
infantry, in all 10 officers and 454 en-
listed men.
The California volunteers have sailed
for home.
Dreyfus is reported to be seriously i'll
with fever.
American stocks now command con-
tidence throughout Europe.
Caroline islanders want to be an
nexed to the United States.
President Heureaux, of Santo Do.
mlngo, has been assassinated.
The body of the late Robert q. In.
gersoll was cremated at Fresh Pond
N. Y.
The fight between the linseed oil
combinations has been amicably ad-
justed.
The messenger boys strike in Pitts
burg has been settled. The BOYS claim
victory.
At Hartford City, Ind, Ralph Shelby,
a 9-year-old boy, was thrashed to death
by his playmates.
Otis reports another engagement
with bandits in Cebu, in which Ameri-
can forces were victorious.
A Chicago negress is alleged to have
attempted the stealing of four children
within an hour. She is now in Jail.
-Four life-timers in the Columbus,
o., penitentiary were so unruly that
specal steel cells We're built for their
| incarceration.
Otis has been cabled to send volun-
teeis home as soon as possible, it being
the desire of the president to have no
delay in the matter.
William II, Proctor, who went to
California in lS49, remained there Is
years and accumulated a fortune, is
dead in Brooklyn, aged S4 years.
1t has been decided to discontinue
the use of coal as fuel on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road and to substitute coke for it on
all locomotives.