Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-02-24
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

ly injured in a powder explosion at
Mossgrove, Pa.
Four Chinese have diea from in
juries sustained in the San Francisco
Chinatown fire Sunday.
Silas Jones and six children were
burned to death on the Richardson
and May plantation, at Cornerstone,
Ark.
H. NJ. S. Leander has been ordered
to proceed with all speed to Bolivia to
protect the property and lives of Brit
ish residents during the revolution.
Fire in Cincinnati destroyed the
clothing houses of Kahn & Felthmeyer,
H. A. Heinsheimer and Sanford, Stern
q Sarner. The loss is nearly $500, 900.
There is rumor in Paris that ne
gotiations are taking place between the
Panama canal company and the Wash
ington government, looking to the COM
pletion of the canal.
Thirty-five persns have died of small
pox in the Creek nation within few
weeks. The victims were negroes aud
Indians. All of Western Oklahoma
has quarantined against the infected
district.
The recently arrived Filipinos, Gen.
Riego de Dios and M. Rivera, are on
their way to Montreal to urge Agon.
clio, the Philippine government repre-
sentative. to go to Washington and sue
for peace.
The buildings of the Greer Ma
chinery Company and the Whittle
Trunk Company, at Knoxville. Tenn,
with their contents, were destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at between
$4,000 and 100000.
In the United States senate Tuesday
the McEnery resolution, declaring that
the ratification of the peace treaty is
not declaration on the part of the
United States to permanently hold the
Philippine islands, was passed by a
vote OF 26 to %.
There was a celebration in Salem on
the 14th, the occasion being the 50th
anniversary of the extension of the
laws of the United States over the Ore
gon country. and the 10th anniversary
of the admittance Of Oregon into the
Union as a state.
Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an
nouncing the death of Captain Oliver
Perry Smith, commissary, from acute
nephritis.
Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and
Will Johnson, Collins county farmers,
were frozen to death Saturday night
near Dallas Tex.
The senate has passed bill creating
the Office of admiral of the navy.
Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood,
will be named for the position.
On Monday an ocean liner in dis
tress was sighted of Dread ledge, in
Swampscott bay, Mass. The life-sav-
ing crew could not reach her on ac-
count Of the ice.
The outbreak at Manila has enliven-
ed business at the United States re-
cruiting Office in Portland. Nineteen
more men mustered out of the Eighth
California were enlisted last week.
The senate has confirmed the nomi.
nation of Q. ]. Bell, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, and that OF Lieu
tenant-Colonel f. M. Coke, to be as
sistant paymaster-general of the army.
Otis wires the war department list
OF deaths in his command since Febru-
ary A, not including those of men killed
in action. They number nine. Among
the names appear those of Private Dam
iel Kyger and W. Chopwood. First
Washington, and Michael p. Crowley,
Second Oregon.
Speaker Reed was not at the capitol
Monday, and Sent word he thought it
advisable to adjourn on account Of the
storm. Less than hundred mem bel s
were present, and those who braved
the storm refused to adjourn, and went
on with consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
There is reported a serious hitch in
the work Of the Anglo-American com
mission. The obstacle is said to be q
demand made by the Canadian COM
mission for the cession of the town OF
Skagway, Alaska. The American com
missioners have definitely refused tc
ceded that gateway to the Yukon.
Terrible blizzards swept over the
South, East and Middle West Sunday
and Monday. The winds went so high
on the Atlantic seaboard that ocean
steamships were storm bound In the
harbors. Nine big Atlantic liners due
at New York Saturday had not put In
their appearance Monday. Intense
cold accompanied the storm and much