Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-06-03
LATER NEWS.

Rosa Bonheur, the famous animal
painter, is dead at London, England.
The North Atlantic squadron will
make Newport, K. L., its summer
quarters.
Cuban soldiers at Havana refused or
the first day to accept the SO allotted
them by the United States to surrender
their arms.
Secret service officers have un-
earthed the counterfeit face and back
plates of a $40 legal tender United
States note at Philadelphia.
From Hardeeville, S. c.. is reported
the burning to death of Jacob Solo
mon, his wife and seven children, in
an accidental fire which destroyed
their house.
Particulars received regarding the
famine in Russia confirm the previous
narrowing accounts. Some authorities
estimate that as many as 100000, 900
peasants are starving.
The Spanish troops have withdrawn
from Fam boanga after battle with
the insurgents. The insurgent loss
was severe. The Spanish loss was nine
killed and 81 wounded.
Harry and John Anderson, brothers,
went out sailing on Young's bay, near
Astoria, Or, in small boat, and were
drowned by the capsizing of the boat
when they were less than 80 yards
IRON shore.
Howard R. Kretz. a young man
about % years of age. an art student
of the Academy of Design of New York,
made startling and successful jump
from the Brooklyn bridge, and came
out of the river uninjured.
An Oakland, (Cal.,) miner, who has
just returned from Copper river, Alas
ka, says that he knows of 80 prospec-
tors III that section who are missing.
If not already dead they will die in an
effort to reach civilization. Most of
them went out in small parties, with
only provisions enough to last them a
few months. Rescue parties have been
unable to get trace of them.
The London Times in an editorial
dealing with the prospect that the re-
suit of the peace conference will be
permanent arbitration tribunal says:
mo government or people have devot-
ed themselves with greater ardor to the
study of the theory of arbitrator than
the government and people of the
United States. The Americans not
only possess great lawyers. but are a
community in which knowledge of
legal principles is more widespl cad
than in any other"
A Manila dispatch says the approach
OF the wet season finds the insurl &C.
tion seemingly taking new lease of
life. All along the American lines
the rebels are showing more aggressive
activity in their guerrilla style than
at any time before or since the fall of
Malolos. They keep the United States
troops in the trenches, sleeping in
their clothing. and constantly on the
alert against dashes on our outposts,
and then make life warm for the
American garrisons in the towns.
Colonel Summers, OF the Second Or
egon, has been promoted to brevet
brigadier-gen eral of volunteers, and
Captain Case to be major by brevet.
Queen Victoria's SOth birthday was
celebrated throughout the British en-
piIe. Festivities were also held in the
leading capitals of America and Eu-
rope.
The coroner's jury investigating the
train wreck at Exeter, on the Reading
railroad, found that the accident was
due to the negligence of employees of
the company.
The Duke of ARGOS, Spanish minister
to the United States, and the duchess,
were among the passengers on board
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, sailing
from southampton.
The naavl orders posted at Washing
ton, assign Captain j. b. Coghlan to
duty as commandant OF the Puget sound
naval station, June 80, by which time
the Raleigh will be out of commission.
AT Griffin, Ga, the flogging of four
colored operatives of the Kincaid mills,
by whitecaps, has led to sensational
developments. The mayor has called
out the militia to protect the negroes.
AT Copenhagen, while some men
were engaged in filling shells at mil
itary laboratory, some of them exploded,
killing several men and severely injur-
ing noncommissioned officer and two
woIkmen. The laboratory was de-
stroyed.
Rain and hail has done much damage
to the crops and property in Central