Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-08-11
LATER NEWS.

rlson at Victoria quite materially.
The Mexican government, it is said,
has determined to exterminate the
Yaqui Indians.
The American and German repre-.
sentatives of the Samoan commission
have returned to San Francisco.
Officials at the Soldiers Home now
believe they have succeeded in effect
ually stamping out the yellow fever.
By the collision OF electric cars at
Saunderstown, r. l., the motorman,
NJ. W. Abbey, was killed and one lady
injured.
Toral and Pareja, who were on trial
in Madrid for having surrendered
Santiago TO the Americans, have been
acquitted.
Pension Examiner Benjamin Fl.
Smell brutally murered a 1S-year- old
girl with whom he had become iniatu-
ated in Washington.
Captain Dreyfus is again facing his
accusers. HIS retrial began at Rennes,
France. There was no demonstration.
The prisoner was firm but pallid.
At Bridgeport, Conn, 36 persons
were killed and large number in
juIed ia a street railway accident a
trolley Car dropped 40 feet into mill
pond.
Paris was visited by an electrical
storm and many buildings were slightly
injured and scores of trees destroyed.
The lightning conductor of the Eiffel
tower was struck ten times.
A colored American citizen, black.
smith, was mistaken for a Kaffir at Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa, and cruelty
matreated by the police. The United
States consul has taken up the matter
Hon. John Goodnow, consul. general
of the United States at Shanghai, has
rendered a decision, as referee in the
consular court, that will result in cut
ting off Aguinaldo's supply of aims he
has been receiving from China.
A big river coal combine has been
completed at Pittsburg, Pa, and 96 of
the l02 working coal mines along the
Monongahela river, together with a
large number of steamers and barges,
will be merged into one concern.
At Juvisy, suburb of Paris, two
fast trains collided and II persons were
killed and 70 injured The collision
occurred during thunder storm, and
it is supposed that the electrical cur.
rent may have been responsible for the
defective signalling.
During the excitement attending the
auival of battleships at Bar Harbor,
Me-. a crowded gangplank gave way
and $50 persons were precipitated into
the water. Seventeen were drowned
and three died subsequently from in.
juries.
The cotton duck trust is the latest;
capitalization. $23, 100000.
1t is said that Mexico's bad faith is
the cause of the Ya4ui Indians out.
break.
North Mississippi valley corn and
wheat suffered from hail and wind
stOlms.
The Charleston shelled the enemy on
the island of Cebu and compelled them
to retreat.
The Standard Oil Company has sue.
ceeded In purchasing the interests of
its only competitor in Mexico.
Charles Franklin, Portland man,
has been appointed to an important po.
sition in the Philippine postal service.
Zachert's remarkable story asserting
that the Alaska boundary is outlined
by monuments is not credited at Wash.
ington.
The hospital ship Relief has arrived
in San Francisco with 500 sick and
wounded soldiers on board. Two died
Ell route.
The new bankrupt act is not popular
ir New York, Those taking advantage
of it have not reached near the expect.
ed number.
While on tryout the new Columbia
broke her mast. When the accident
occurred she was mile in the lead of
the Defen ler
Dave Connell was shot and probably
fatally wounded while trying to secure
miners in Colorado for the Coeur
d'Alene country.
A tramp ut Independence, Kan,
has confessed to killing two farmers
who had let him iide all day. He
says he secured but $50 in money.
An American has cinch on coal in
the straits OF Magellan, and patriotcal-
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