Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-09-15
LATER NEWS.
Texas is suffering from drought.

Texas is suffering from drought.
Admiral Dewey has sailed from Glib.
raltar for New York.
Indignation over the reconviction OF
Dieyfus manifested itself in New York
by the burning in ef1gy OF General
Mercier.
1t is said by prominent railroad men
that the Hartman syndicate is quietly
working for a sea-to-sea railroad ar.
rangement.
Peary and his arctic expedition have
been heard from. They are coming
home after getting much geographical
information.
The government will soon have its
plant for the manufacture of smokeless
powder in operation. The location is
OH the Potomac near Indian Head.
An east bound Southern Pacific train
was held up and robbed near Wilcox,
Ariz., by four men who hired out as hay
cutters near there for several days.
Two hundred feet of trestle over
Broad river, near Columbus, S. c.,
gave way un Ter trainload of granite
and four of the train crew were killed.
Meridian, Miss. has quarantinsd
against all places infected with yellow
fever. At Key West and Jacksonville
the situation is reported to be growing
worse.
f,,e hoo
widespread Indignation outside of
France and there is much talk through
out Europe of boycosting the Paris ex-
position.
None Of the prisoners in the Ward
ner bull pen are to be tried at the pres
ent term of court in that county.
Their cases will 60 over until the Janu-
ary term.
Although the aspect of affairs is
more peaceable, the special dispatches
from Johannesburg report the greatest
anxiety there, and people are still leas-
ing the town by hundreds.
Jealous of the United States, Euro
pean influences are working in South
America in opposing pan American
unity. They say the great republic
seeks to dominate all America.
A Washington correspondent Gays
that free ports in Alaska are given to
Canada by tentative boundary agree
ment, and in return the United States
will gain additional privilege for New
England fishermen.
A force of 45O rebels, with one can
non, attacked Santa Rita and stimuli
taneously Guagua and San Antonio
were attacked by bodies of rebels
umbering about 600 men. All the
insurgents were repulsed without loss
to the Americans.
According to the statement Just
made public by the war department
our colonial trade for the first seven
months of 1899 beats all records.
Trade movements affecting the United
States were never SO uniform and
natural as this year.
A Seattle dispatch says; After
spending several hundred dollars in
assisting destitute Klondikers to their
Eastern homes, the county commissions
ers have called halt The cham ber
of commerce has taken a similar ac-
ton.
Puget sound guns will be tested by
the government soon.
Chicago has just passed through the
longest dry spell siIce the time of the
great fire in 1871.
The Porto Rican relief committee
will appeal for aid to all the churches
and banks in this country.
The Tennessee Coal & Iron Company
is believed to have a corner on the
coal product OF Tennessee.
Walker Hill, of st. Louis, has been
chosen as the next president of the
American Bankers Association.
Railway surveyors are at work in
Eastern Oregon and it is rumored that
they are in the employ of the Burling-
ton.
At the Empire City ,Trotting park,
New York city, Joe Patchen defeated
Star Pointer, John r. Gentry and
Searchlight.
Samuel B. Bishop and Henry Hawk
were blown to pieces by an accidental
explosion of giant powder in the May
flower mine at Nevada, Cal.
An open switch on the Erie road
near Meadville, Pa, caused collision
between freight and passenger train.
Three were killed and three injured
Texas, Chicago and New York capi-
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