Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-06-03
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

a bridg, for shipment to Japan.
The Missouri legislature has ad.
journed after session of 1873 days.
In a skirmish with the rebels near
Mariquina, two Americans were killed.
A clash is reported between General
Otis and the civil Philippine commits
sioners.
Admiral Dewey was given tremen-
dous ovation by the Britishers on his
arrival at Hong Kong.
The Washington state law requiring
railroads to accept grain for shipment
over competing roads has been de-
clared invalid
In the Sahara dessert Frenchmen
were attacked by Arabs. The tribes
men were repulsed and lost 10 killed,
without any loss to the French.
Charles w. Whitney and Frank
Whitney, brothers, were drowned at
Palouse rapids, about three miles below
Grange. Wash, by the capsizing of their
canoe.
Miss Hilton, of Aurora, Or, was
dragged from her horse by maniac.
Solomon Bachart, her assailant, at.
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself.
Rostario, Filipino congressman,
wealthy resident of Manila, and for
merly Aguinaldo's commissary gen.
eral, accompanied by an insurgent cap
tain has surrendered to General Otis.
The war department is not going to
spare any pains in making the return
voyageof the volunteers pleasant and
comfortable, and the trip across the
Pacific will be made in style.
Receipts of wool of the 1899 clip at
Pendleton have been to date $50. 900
pounds. Some wool is selling. and tho
prices range cents under the figures
of last year. The quality of the crop
is below last years standard.
A confession, of Claude Branton,
recently hanged at Eugene, Or, has
been made public in which he admits
firing the shot that killed Linn. The
confession was left to minister to be
published ten days after the hanging.
The Oregon state grange. Patrons OF
Husbandry, convened in it's 26th annual
session at Portland. Reports show
advancement all along the line. The
membership is growing fast, ana more
than uasual interest is being shown
by farmers.
General Lawton says he has found
letter near San Isid,o, written by one
of the Yorktown's crew, saying that
they were being kicked, that their hair
was being pulled out and that they
were cruelty treated in various other
ways, and imploring the Americans to
hurry to their release.
The grain shovelers' strike at Buf-
alo, N. Y, has been settled, and the
men will return to work.
The body of Ii. d. Mcclure, Ore.
CONS fish commissioner, was found in
the Umpqua n mile from where the
drowning took place.
The section men of the Grand Trunk
railway system recently asked for an
increase in wages, which was refused,
and about 800 men have struck. The
strike affects the road from Sarnia,
Ont, to Portland, Me.
A portion of the Ilwaco Railway 81
Navigation Company's trestle at H..
waco collapsed, while the beach train
was passing over il, and the locomotive
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but fortunately no one was injured.
While digging for relics at the site
of old Fort Mackinac. in Michigan,
six complete skeletons were un-
earthed. This is possibly the burying
place of some of the victims of the
massacre which took place 1870 years
ago.
Three Chicago men, employees of the
Aetna Powder Company, at Aetna,
were blown to atoms in the explosion
of tank OF nitro gycerline. A pipe
leading from the engine burst, igniting
some saw dust and leaves near a flue
leading into the room containing the
niuo-glycerine tank.
General del Pillar, one of Aguinaldo's
peace envoys, says: ''The insurgents
are anxious to surrender, but want the
assurance first that there will be no
putting to death of the leaders in the
rebellion, and some proof that Ameri-
cans will carry out the general state
ments in their proclamation.
Private letters from Riga, province
of Livonia, Prussia, report that Lettish
and Lithuanian workmen there quar-
relied because the latter worked for
lnNvnr Mnrns. and street fighting fol.