Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-10-13
LATER NEWS.

Admiral Dewey will receive a 81 900
watch from the municipality of Boston.
The city will spend $12,5O0 giving
the admiral welcome.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, en-
tertained President Mckinley at q
banquet in the Auditorium Saturday
night Thirty-fve hundred guests were
present.
According to the Sebastopol CORE
spondent of the Daily Graphic, the
Russian naval credit for 1900 amounts
to the ernomous total of 81, 500. 900
rubles.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Mail says: learn that Germany is
about to hand over documents which
will lead to the quashing of the Drey-
fus verdict.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment,
returning home from the Philippines,
was royalty entertained in Portland.
The regiment remained over night and
attended the exposition.
The Spanish government has sold
the Havana floating dock for 5000, 900
to a syndicate of Vera Cruz merchants.
Several New York firms have been
asked for terms for conveying the dock
to Vera Cruz.
Admiral Dewey has chosen j. w.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the office
of the judge-advocate-general of the
navy. He will hold the rank OF lieu
tenant in the navy.
Near Chicago five persons were in
jured in collision bewteen a Haw-
thorne race track train on the Illinois
Central, and freight engine which
stood upon a siding, the switch of
which had been left open.
Don Emanuel Aspiroz, Mexican am
bassador to the United States, and the
first of the distinguished guests whom
Chicago has arranged to entertain dur
ing the fall festival, has arrived in the
windy city from Washington.
The third attempt to sail the first
race beteen the Columbia and Sham
rock, which took place Saturday,
proved failure, the wind giving out
when the yachts were five miles from the
finish. When the race was abandoned
the Columbia was slightly in the lead.
A petition to President Mckinley,
urging the friendly services of the Uni.
ted States in mediation between Great
Britain and the republics of the Trans
vaal and the Orange Free State, has
received the signatures of more than
400 representative men, including 80
odd presidents of colleges, so church
dignataries, governors of states, may
ors of cities, justices of the United
States and state courts, senators, con-
gressmen, editors and others conspicu-
GUS in public matters, the professions
and commerce.
The Thirty-fifth infantry has sailed
from Portland direct for Manila.
A Chicago rat-catcher is reputed to
make Sc, 900 year at the business.
Admiral Dewey at his own request
has been formally destached from the
Olympia.
The United States revenue cutter
McCulloch, formerly dispatch boat of
Dewey's feet has arrived in Portland,
Oregon.
President Andrade is said to have
given up the struggle in Venezuela and
to have engaged passage on a steamer
sailing for New York.
Agents of the British government are
now in this country picking up horses
and mules by the hundred, and arrang-
ing for speedy shipment.
Shipping men fear that disaster has
befallen the Cyrus Wakefield, a month
overdue at San Francisco. Five per
cent reinsurance has been paid on her.
General Otis reports progress of the
war in the Philippines. A robber
band operating in the western portion
of the island of Negros has been exter-
minated.
Western roads are considering prop.
osition to discontinue the practice of
granting reduced rates to officers of
volunteer regiments returning from the
Philippines.
The Pacific Biscuit Company, otht r
wise known as the cracker trust, + as
been fully organized and is now doing
the bulk of the cracker and candy bu si-
ness of this coast.
The president is said to favor de-
partment of industry and commerce to
be represented in the cabinet. 1t is
being urged by the Business Men s
League, of Chicago.
The big ship Edward Sewall, with a