Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-07-21
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

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New York, Wednesday, shipped
10000 ounces of gold to Europe.
Roosevelt is being doomed in some
sections of the East for secretary of
war.
British soldiers have been ordered to
proceed to the Cape, presumably to
fight the Beers.
After thorough cleaning the battle
ship Iowa has been fioated out of the
Port Orchard dry dock.
DR.. Tuttle's "thorite," the new high
explosive, was tested at Sandy Hook
and pronounced a success.
Captain Watkins frankly admits that
his misCalCulations caused the accident
TO the steamship Paris.
The educational convention opened
at Los Angeles. The delegates were
welcomed by Governor Gage.
The Austin, Tex, cotton exchange
says the heavy rains benefited and
ruined an equal proportion of the cot
ton crop.
General Gilleta de Sanguiseppe, the
Italian officer recently sentenced to five
years Imprisonment as a spy, has been
pardoned.
The French government is attempt
ing to raise revenue by letting out the
backs of match boxes, which are state
monopoly, to outside advertisers.
The New York World says the presi-
dent is preparing to submit to the Gu
bans to vote upon whether they will
have independence or annexation.
Canada, it is said. will send mounted
police to the Porcupine region, which
is in disputed territory. and the United
States will respond by sending troops
to Pyramid harbor.
The president has confirmed and
commissioned the officers recommend.
ed by General Otis for the Thirty-sixth
and Thnty-seventh volunteer regi-
ments, now being organized in the
Philippines.
The war department has announced
that the customs receipts at the port
of Havana for June were $1,0l2, 800.
The total receipts for six months of
1899 are, to be exact. So, 146, $50. The
monthly average for six months is
$S57, sos.
Otis has cabled that he will raise
two regiments of veterans.
Spanish consular officers will be rec
ognized in our new islands.
Zola has declared positively that he
will not wlite OF the Dreyfus case.
Twenty thousand negroes are desti-
tute in the flooded districts of Texas,
and are being fed.
Hon. w. j. Bryan ascended Pixies
Peak in Colorado, where he was tend
cred an ovation.
John d. Rockefeller has purchased
extensive iron mines on Texado islands
in British Columbia.
The Omaha and Winnebago Indians
of Nebraska and the Dakotas, have
begun great war dance at Decatur,
Ill.
Two teachers were killed and ii
passengers injured at Newman, CAL,
by a collision between freight and pas
sengeT trains.
AT Cincinnati the Baltimore & Ohio
southwestern railroad was sold to a
committee representing the security
holders, for So. $40, 900.
Secretary Pierce, of the Russian en-
bassy, in an interview in Washington
SAID that Russia's great railway would
open up vast markets to the United
States.
f.. W. Clark, who has been to Behr-
ing sea to look after the seal situation
for this government, declares that seals
are being destroyed each year ut an
alarming rate.
Grand Duke George, brother of the
czar, is dead at st. Petersburg. He
was bonn April 81, 1871, and had been
in ill'health for number of years.
suffering from consumption.
1t is announced that copper ore, Of
almost incredible extent and iichness.
has been found in the Barry sound dis
trict, within about seven hours rail-
road distance of Toronto, Ont.
The coat tailors of New York, il is
reported, are preparing to 20 out on a
strike for an advance in wages and a
reduction of hours of labor. They are
said to number between 10000 and
$4,000, and of these $500 are women
and girls.
Acting Controller Mitchell has de-