Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-03-24
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

DlOW az blIO BOnlo III CAOuObOL
of his general scheme of Fastening the
end OF the rebellion in Luzon before
the advent of the rainy season.
The appellate court, at Chicago. has
unanimously sustained decision
rendered by Judge Tuley last summer.
that express companies are obliged tt
furnish war revenue stamps to all ship
pers.
The sovereign camp Woodmen of the
World, the fifth largest fraternal an6
beneficiary order in the United States
are in biennial session at Memphis
Tenn. The session will last ten days
or two weeks.
Mrs. Minnie Adams has been arrest
ed at her fathers home, in San Fran
cisco, on suspicion of having murdered
her two-year.old illegitimate child,
John Richard Gray, by administering
dose OF carbolic acid.
Senior Quesada, of the Cuban junts
in Washington, has received cable.
gram form Santiago which says: 1.-THE
people OF Santiago disauthorize the as.
pairing public manifestation.
At the annual meeting of the Asso
c;ated Chambers of Commerce in Lon.
don, resolution was passed urging
the British government to maintain the
''open door" in China and prior Brit.
ish rights in the Yang tse Kiang valley.
A contract has been concluded be-
tween the German government and
Cecil Rhodes, the British South Afri-
can magnate, for the construction of a
telegraph line in East Africa. A
contract for building railroad through
the same territory is upon the point
of conclusion.
Rear-Admiral Hichborn. chief naval
constructor. in his statement of work
accomplished on the vessels now build
ing for the navy, shows that there are
now actually under construction. or al
ready contracted for, 81 vessels of vari-
Gus types. ranging from battle-shlps to
torpedo-b boats.
According to dispatch from Pinar
del Rio, five sisters of the American
order of Sacred Heart have been ordered
away from Cuba by Archbishop Cha
pelle, papal representative. The nuns
are all daughters of Indian chiefs, and
the reason given is the "old hatred
against the Indian sisters"
Three thousand insurgents moved
down to the towns of Pasig and Pateros
on the shore of Laguna de Bay, 'front.'
ing Wheaton's troops on the Pasig river
line. BY heavy fighting Wheaton dis
lodged and drove them back, taking
400 prisoners and inflicting heavy losses
in killed and wounded.
The torpedo-boat Fox, built at Port
land, has arrived at San francisco.
She made the 1un from Astoria in as
hours.
The navy department has abandoned
all hope of the recovery of the armored
cruiser Cristobal Colon, sunk in the
battle of July 3, at Santiago.
The navy department is informed by
Admiral Dewey that the supply ship
Nanshan has left Manila with supplies
for the new naval station at Guam.
A correspondent of the state depart
ment, writing from Ponapi, Caroline
islands, says the inhabitants like every
thing that is American. They are hop
ing and praying, he says, that the
Americans will take possession of all
of the islands. and, if not all, at least
the island of Ponapi
The differences between the Raisin-
Growers Association and the packers
of California, have been finally ad-
justed. The association will make the
sales and the packers will receive a
liberal commission. The packers will
form an organization with capital of
100000, of which $40, 900 is to be in
cash.
The city of Pasig, east of Manila,
has been captured by American troops
after an hours fight. The loss to the
Filipinos was 30 killed and l6 prison.
ers. The Americans loss was one man
killed. Six were wounded. The man
killed is Private O. Il. Thorn, of the
Twentieth Kansas. The battle was
fought by Wheaton's divisional brigade.
A search steamer which has returned
to Brisbane, Queensland. from Cook
town. on the Endeavor river, this
colony, reports that three sohooners and
so luggers were lost and that 400 col
ored persons and IL whites were
drowned during the recent hurricane
that swept the northwest coast OF
Queensland.
There has been popular demonstra-
tion in Christiana, Norway. against
Crown Prince Gustaf, Duke OF Worm
land. who was recently appointed re-.
gent on account Of the illness of his