Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-07-28
LATER NEWS.

tered on the Koyukuk and other
branches of the Yukon.
Elihu Root. New York lawyer, has
accepted the portfolio of war.
People with money are coming into
the Northwest in great numbers.
A big elevator burned at Toledo, o.,
with property loss of 81, 10000
President Mckinley and Mrs. Nc
will take an outing at Lake Cham.
plain.
Oregon's hop crop will probaly reach
3d. 900 bales, according to latest esti-
mates.
At Cleveland the militia resorted to
a bayonet charge to clear the streets of
riotous strikers.
The battleship Iowa, recently over
hauled at Port Orchard drydock, is now
at San Francisco.
Secretary Alger claims the credit for
the suggestion to send the Spanish cap
tured at Santiago back to Spain.
About 2, 500 clothing workers are on
strike in New York. and it is said this
number will be swelled to $4,000 with
in two weeks.
Two rapidly moving electric cars
crashed INTO each other al Los Angeles
The cars were crowded, but no one was
seriously injured.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, killed
deer while in Cololad and the state
game warden is after his scalp for
shooting game out of season.
President Diaz, of Mexico, and his
cabinet will be formally invited to
attend the ceremonies of the laying of
the corner stone of the new federal
building in Chicago on October 8.
The Dominion government telegraph
line is now completed to Five Fingers,
and is progressing SO rapidly that mes
sages may be sent over it from Skag.
way to Dawson in less than two months.
The president has issued his proca-
nation publishing to the world the
reciprocity agreement between the Uni
ted States and Portugal, the first of the
agreements under the DingIey act to be
concluded siLce that made with France
last year.
Three negroes were lynched near
Saffold, Ga, and the mob is hunting
for five more, who are believed to have
been members of gang that robbed J.
Il. Ogiltree, agent of the Plant system,
at Saffold, afterwards binding him and
assaulting his wife in his presence.
Twenty-Five Chicago bookmakers
have been indicted.
Italy has subscribed 5000 lire to
Texas flood sufferers.
The Union Pacifc's Ogden Omaha
line will be double-tracked
Secretary Alger has rendered his
resignation, to take effect in two weeks.
Prince Henry of Prussia is in Corea
looking out for the interest of Ger
many.
The secretary of the Chicago school
board has confessed embezlement of
$S4, 500.
Frances w. Healy, of Vancouver, has
been appointed a lieutenant in the reg
ular army.
President Angus Cannon, Mormon
leader, has pleaded guilty to unlawful
Cohabitation.
Spanish prisoners are to be ran
somed. the money to be placed in
bank until the war is over.
A fire, origin unknown, destroyed
more than $3.50, 900 worth of property
on the Brooklyn water front.
The wrecker of the Perth Ambov
bank has been sentenced to six years
in the New Jersey penitentiary.
The Oregon volunteers think Otis is
incompetent and nearly all are of the
opinion that General Miles should be
in charge.
A Rome dispatch says there was an
eruption of Mt. Etna, accompanied by
subtenaean noises and a number of Sc
we're earthquake shocks.
New York trolleymen have joined
the Brooklyn trolley men in their big
strike. In Brooklyn dynamite was
used to blow down the elevated struc-
ture.
The price of -four has dropped 90
cents a barrel and is now cheaper than
for sometime. The drop is said to be
due to the steady decrease in the price
of wheat.
Abe Rothschild, known throughout
the country as crook and diamond
thief OF the first water, has been con.
victed in Texas and given three years