Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-01-20
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue shows that
during November, 1898, the receipts
amounted to $22, 4O4. 405. against $19,-
$685. for November, 1897.
The president has sent these nomina-
tions to the senate: Charlemange
Tower, of Pennsylvania, now minister
to Austria-Hungary, to be ambassador
to Russia; Addison G. Harris, of In
diana, minister to Austria Hungary. \
At Hong Kong, the Filipino COM
mittee has broken off all relations with
United States Consul Wildman. The
committee has issued a writ in the su-
preme court to recover the sum of $47,-
600. which the Filipinos claim to have
been deposited with Wildman as
treasurer of the Filipino independence
fund in June last
The gnnboat Yorktown has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, via
Honolulu. She will go all the way
under full head of steam, and should
make the run in three weeks IL she is
not delayed at Honolulu. She is the
bearer of full instructions to Admiral
Dewey and General Otis in regard to
the situation in the Philippines.
The New Years honors include Lord
Dunraven being appointed plivy coun-
selor for Ireland, and Sir Edward
Chichester, R. NJ, being appointed
companion of the Order of st. Michael
and st. George in recognition of his
services as captain of the British first
class cruiser Immortal, which was sta
toned at Manila during the war.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, occupied
the attention of the senate for nearly
an hour and half Tuesday, with
speech in support of his resolution de-
claring that the United States will
never attempt to govern the people of
any country without their consent.
In many respects the speech was one
of the most notable utterances from
the senate thus far this session.
At Kokomo, Ind, there are 18
tramps in the Howard county Jail
slowly starving to death. Two weeks
ago the hObos refused to work on the
stone pile, and Sheriff Harnes put
them in iail on diet of bread and
water, mostly water, until they signi-
fled a willingness to work. At the
close of the second week of the strike,
the jailer reduced the bread supply to
two loaves day for the entire gang.
They declare they will starve to death
in their cells rather than hammer stone.
Thirteen persons were killed and
from 30 to 40 injured in railway COL
lision near Bound Brook, N. ]. There
was headend collision between
local train and the Black Diamond ex-
press.
President Alonzo's advance guard is
within six leagues OF La Paz, capital
of the republic of Bolivia. 1t is likely
decisive battle will be fought soon
between the government troops and
the rebels who now hold the capital.
1t is proposed that memorial be
erected at Manila to the memory of all
Americans who fell in the capture or
died of disease during the campaign.
The proposal is that all Americans now
resident in the Far East, of whom
there is a very considerable mum ber,
should be invited to contribute toward
this object.
Filipino committees have made a
formal protest, and President McKin-
ley has been warned from Paris, Madrid
and London not to attempt to take
forcible possession of Ilo Io. The
ground is taken that the American
claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that the United States is not the
possessor of the Philippines until the
peace treaty is ratified. The Filipino
agent at Hong Kong says fight with
the Americans at Ilo Ito is unavoida-
BILE, but little apparent uneasness is
felt at Washington.
The Cincinnati Express Gazette has
collected data anent the operations Of
trainrobbers during the past year. The
effect of federal jurisdiction upon train
robberies is evidenced in Mexico. Dur
ing the past year there was not even
an attempt at train robbery in the Sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
there with instant death. The record
for 1898 is as follows: Number of
train holdups, 2S; number of stage
robberies. Z; number of passengers and
train men shot, A. number of robbers
killed, 8; number of robbers shot, 8.
Captain Il. r. Shaw and the Grew of
the British bark Glon Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and we'll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
abandoned the Glen Huntley in a fierce
gale June 4, 1898. For l54 days the