Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-09-15
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
C,omprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns


cials of Chicago.
The plague is reported to be spread
Ing in India and famine is staring
them in the face.
The state department has been in
formed that revolution has broken
out in Venezuela.
Mrs. Sarah A Baker, who has jus
died at Forest Home, Pa, was the old
est American actress.
A band of Macabee scouts number
ing 100 has been organized at Manila
from former Spanish volunteers.
An American interviewed at Allan
ia, Ga, knows much about the Drey-
fus case, and says Esterhazy is the
guilty one.
The Thirty-third regiment of volun-
teers has started from Houston, Tex,
for San Francisco, for EN- mbarkation to
the Philippines.
An American company will estab-
lsh gigantic locomotive building
plant in Switzerland, employing
American methods.
The retail business of the country is
now being done largely on cash basis,
and banks are seeking new mediums
for investment.
President Schurman, of Cornell uni
versity, will act as Governor Roose-
velt's representative at the Chicago
trust conference.
At Johnson Springs, Va, a mob as.
saulted Mormon Elder Jose Wuffin,
and then threatened lynching if he at.
tempted prosecution.
This years. corn crop breaks the rec
ord. The United States will produce
1850, 100000 bushels. with Kansas in
the lead and Nebraska second.
Chicago will have a hotel for the
poor. First class rooms including a
bath can be hal for 90 to 80 cents a
night. The building will be 10 stories
high.
The American Bankers Association
at their annual convention in Cleve-
land, o., took steps to have the com =
mercial pap4r laws the same the world
over.
English newspapers seem to regard
the outbreak of hostiltles with the
Beers as mere matter of time. The
officials, however, deny the situation
is so serious.
A Washington special says Great
Britain and the United States have
practically agreed upon the Alaskan
boundary line and present negotiations
relate only to minor questions.
All peace negotiations with the in
surgents have been suspended. The
commission has been dissolved and
military men of the service have been
given full sway in the Philippines.
Copies of General Otis order grant
ing home rule to the inhabitants of
the island of Negros have been received
by the war Department., together with
constitution proposed by the people,
upon which they seek to have estab.
lished for themselves republican form
OF governm ent.
A silk ribbon trust has benn organ
lied.
Fear of war is effecting trade in
England.
Toronto bricklayers earn 371s cents
per hour.
The Washington volunteers have
sailed for home.
The condemned ship Relief is to b
used as floating hospital at Manila,
Otis will send the Ohio after the
grounded Morgan City troops at Nag
asaki.
Yucatan Indians now refuse to pay
taxes IN Mexico, and more trouble is
expected.
British seamen have declared gen.
eral strike and the movement will
effect all British ports.
Thousands of veterans are in attend.
ance at the national G. A. h. encamp.
ment in Philadelphia.
The retail butchers propose to make
n great fight against the trust. They
have $40, 900, 900 OF capital and mem
bers in nearly every large city in the
United States.
Kruger has withdrawn his conces.
sions to England. The time of resi-
dence necessary to obtain franchise has
been increased instead Of decreased as
England demanded.
AT the next session OF congress the
Nicaraguan government will open nego-
tiatons with the United States for a
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