Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-10-13
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
COmpreh ensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
St. Paul plumbers are on strike.


Emperor Francis Joseph has ap.
proved the new Austrian cabinet.
William Waldorf Astor paid his
taxes in New York, amounting to nearly
half million.
Brigadier- General Eagan has decided
to appeal his case to congress and
hopes to secure vindication.
The British government has placed a
large order for canned meat and timed
fruit with one of Chicago's packing
concerns.
A party of American soldiers were
ambushed by Filipinos. A signal SER
geant was killed and two other Ameri-
cans we're wounded.
Joseph Kirk, the town marshal of
1nez, Ky., was shot by desperado.
A posse have gone to the mountains af-
ter the murderer.
AS the result of severe electrical
storm on North beach, Washington,
the house of the life-saving crew was
damaged by thunderbolt.
Two masked men stopped the Shot
fels stage near Ouray, Colo, and took
the mail, but overlooked a box con-
tanning $4,000 in gold.
indianapolis is carrying back to the
South the Confederate flag, which her
soldiers captured from the Ferry, Tex,
rangers during the civil war.
A writ of habeas corpus has been
granted to Captain Parker, found guilty
of misappropriating funds, and who
had been sentenced to imprisonment.
The Venezuela boundary award is a
compromise. Some of Great Britain Is
claims are disallowed. Her frontier
will start at the Waini river. The
award was unanimous.
The first race of the America cup
series resulted in fiasco. Time limit
was five hours and neither boat finish
ed in this time. Excursion boats in
terfered badly with the racers.
The sword awarded by congress was
presented to Admiral Dewey by Presi-
dent Mckinley. The address was
made by Secretary Long. The admiral
responded by saying that he now had
proof that republics are not ungrateful.
The Warren liner Bay State, from
Liverpool for Boston, is ashore near
Cape Race, N. F., and will likely prove
total wreck. Her crew and num-
Der of passengers are adrift in boats
which are lost in the fog One boat
reached Cape Fuller.
Pasteur methods are subduing the
plague in Portugal.
New York is ,jammed with strangers
to see the international yacht races.
There is talk in Japan of a triple al
lance between Japan, China and Corea.
Sir Thmoas Upton has been invited
to attend the Chicago corner stone lay.
ing
The empress dowager of China, 1t is
said, has determined to depose the en-
peror of Japan.
Fifteen men, with knives, revolvers
and clubs engaged in a street brawl
in Chicago and one man was killed.
Japanese laquers have been found by
a German chemist to be the most effec.
tive protectors of iron and steel from
rust.
Captain Albert Barker, who took
the battleship Oregon from New York
to Manila, will take command of the
Norfolk navy-yard.
In the event of war the British ex-
pect early reverses in South Africa.
The government is blamed for having
delayed sending reinforcements to the
Cape.
Gen. Otis says the insurgents are
maneuvering solely to gain recognition.
He has told Aguinaldo's envoys that
the only thing the United States will
consider is white flag.
A paddle steamer en- route from
Hong Kong to Manila foundered and
seven of the crew were drowned. The
disaster is said to have been due to the
ravages of the white rat.
President Mckinley has determined
to urge again upon congress the au-
thorization of ans-Paciflc cable,
and when that body meets will be able
to show the practicablity of such
route by naval survey.
A crook arrested at Knoxville, Tenn,
has offered to reveal the hiding place
of the timepiece stolen from ex-Presi-
dent Harrison some time ago. 1t is
worth more than 81 900 and was pre-
sented to Mr.. Harrison Ivy the senators
on his retiring from office.
AT Muncie, Ind, Francis Stoker.