Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-02-10
Comprehensiv Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled F~om the Telegraph Columns

ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
Iowa mineworkers are making an
effort to have eight hours declared a
days work.
Native troops are to be utilized in
Cuba and American soldiers gradually
withdrawn.
A syndicate composed of American,
Canadian, English and French capital
lists. is making an effort to secure con-
troll of all the railroads in Cuba now
building and in operation, and all to
be constructed hereafter.
The bishop of Havana has declared
that Protestant services cannot be held
over the graves of the Maine victims in
Columbus cemetery, as it is consecrated
ground. Americans were preparing to
decorate the graves on the anniversary
of the explosion.
The Central Cable Company an
Eounces that the United States govern
ment in the Philippines has modified
the recent prohibition of kilograms in
ipher or code. Messages in secret Ian
guage may now be accepted, subject to
government censorship.
The senate committee on naval
affairs has decided upon favorable re-
port on the bill providing for addi-
tional pay to laborers in navy-yards
who worked overtime during the emer-
gency of war with Spain. The amount
required is about $300,0 900. and about
5000 men are involved.
General Otis cables the war depart
ment, giving the number of deaths in
his command since January Z. The
total is 10, many of whom died of
smallpox. The greater number of
deaths ere of Kansas. Colorado, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania privates In
the list appear the names of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington.
January 16, typhoid; Earld A. Jeans,
First Washington, January 2e. ty-
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, private,
Second Oregon, diphtheIia.
Cuban General Gomez refuses to
disband his army unless paid nearly
$60,000,000. He claims to have 40, 900
men under arms. for which he asks
pay for three years service, at the same
rate as given American soldiers. For
his own services in the past he wants
$1,000 year, the same as paid an
American acknowledgement. He has
about 200 brigadier-generals, who de-
mand pay at the rate of So, 500 annually
for three years past, besides numerous
other officers, whose pay aggregates
$3,7S3, 900.
The North German Gazette again
denies the rumor that Prince Hohenlohe
contemplates resigning the imperial
chancellorship.
Twenty children are reported to have
been drowned by an ice disaster at the
village of Warpuhnen, Boirheim, re-
Gently.
The president has nominated Colonel
Asa B. Carey. assistant paymaster- gen.
eral, to be paymaster-general, with the
rank of brigadier-general.
A terrible blizzard was general
throughout the Mississippi valley on
the 29th and 30th of January, reaching
as far south as St. Louis.
Three representatives of 40 German
families in the East are looking over
the Pacific Noi oithwest with view to
buying several thousand acres of Land
foi colony.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, who has
settled the estate of her late husband,
Leland Stanford. and who would be en-.
titled to $S57,768 as fees, refuses to &C.
cept anything for her services.
Companies H, d, X and L, of the
Seventeenth United States infantry,
Ala enlisted men and nine officers,
have left Columbus for the Philippines.
They go via New York.
The American shipping interests o.
the Hawaiian islands have largely IN.
creased since their annexation to the
United States. There are now load
ing for or on the way to the islands 5C
vessels, of which 35 fly the Am ericar
flag.
+. w. Peck, United States commits
sioner-general to the Paris exposition
asks congress to increase the amount
set aside for the government exhibit tC
$l,000.000. The first appropriation
was $65, 1000, which Mr.. Peck says is
entirely too small.
The reported rich strike of gold a
Cripple Creek has been confirmed. L
is the richest ever discovered in tn,
world, estimated to run as high al
$500.0 to the ton. There is blocked
out in one level, at depth of $50 feet
$4,000, 900 worth of ore.