Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-04-14
LATER NEWS.

leave Plattsburg, n. Y, for San Fran
cisco, whence they will proceed to Ma
Mia.
The controller OF the currency has
issued call for a report of all the ma
tional banks at the close of business
April 8.
Major General Shafter has arrived
at Washington. He will testify before
the army court of inquiry into the beef
charges.
The operators and conductors of the
Wheeling. W. Va, Railway Company
have struck for an advance in wages.
and the road is tied up.
The London Mining & Manufacture
ing Companys property, at Ducktown,
Tex, has been sold to the Levisohn
Bros. the copper kings, for $l1O, 900.
At the bimonthly meeting of the
Association of Steel Shafting Manufac-
turers, in Pittsburg, it was decided to
make an advance in prices, averaging
3 per cent.
Public sympathy is with the en-
ployes to such an extent in the street
railway strike at Bay City, Mich, that
the sheriff can secure no men to act as
deputies.
Judge Field, the great American
jurist is dead at his home in Washing
ton. He had served longer term on
the bench than any judge ever ap-
pointed.
George Reid was killed, Mack Reid
probably fatally wounded, and two
other men hurt in a pitched battle be-
tween the Preacher and Reid factions
at Brunson, S. G..
Jack Macmillan, we'll known in
Europe and the United States as a
curler, was caught in belt in a -four
mill at Lindsay, Ontario. and SO badly
mangled that he died.
James Elsey, the English messenger
boy who left London, April /, for Cali
fornia, to rival the recent trip of Jag
gers, the messenger boy sent to Chica-
60, has arrived at New York.
Miss Marie Burroughs, of the Stuart
Robson company, accidentally stabbed
Harold Russell, of the same com pany,
in the face at the Broadway theater,
Denver. Mr.. Russell's injury is slight.
Topmen in the mines in the South
ern Illinois coal district have decided
to strike as the result of their employ
ers' refusal to grant raise of 25 cents
a day. This will tie up at least 5000
men.
Hollister Mcguire, fish commission
er, and State Senator Reed, of Oregon,
were drowned in the North Umpqua
river. Their boat upset in the rapids.
W. f. Hubbard saved himself by
swimming ashore.
There has been heavy fall in the
price of wheat in the Chilean market.
Fire at Lead, S. D.. destroyed prop
erty worth 100000. One entire block
of buildings was consumed.
The Keystone Slate Company, OF
Bethlehem, Pa, has increased the
wages OF its employees 10 per cent.
1t is stated that $225, 900 has been
subscribed toward the construction of
the alumni hall at Yale university.
A secret movement is under way in
Hawaii to flood the islands with Portu-
guese laborers from the Azores islands.
One hundred and eighty -four Amer.
leans have been killed and 976 wound
ed iE the Philippines since hostilities
opened.
A decision was rendered by Judge
Peabody in the st. Louis city police
court that under certain conditions a
husband has the right to beat his wife.
After attempting to murder his wife
and baby, Walter Miller, foreman in
the Detroit soap works, sent two bullets
into his own brain and died almost in.
stantly.
The three largest Of 30 pearl button
factories operated at Muscatine, la.
have advanced wages l5 and 30 per
cent. Six hundred button workers are
employed in the factories.
The bill providing for the incorpora-
tion Of the st. Louis Worlds Fair, to
celebrate in 1908 the centennial of the
Louisiana purchase, has passed the
Missouri senate. 1t has already been
passed by the house.
The Kilauea Plantation Company
has been Incorporated at San Fran
cisco. The capital stock is 81, 900. 900.
The directors are A. b. Spreckels, j.
ID. Spreckels, William Irwin, @. A.
Hugg and w. d. X. Gibson.
A large number Of Spanish officers,
who had been prisoners in the hands Of
the Tagals, have entered the service
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