Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-05-12

Now it is peanut trust, to control
the whole product OF the country.
Quay's friends are working hard to
influence senators in favor Of seating
him.
The Reading, Pa, Iron Company adj
vanced wages for the second time this
year.
Strikers at Cleveland were success
full in obtaining more wages and shorter
hours.
The price of gas in New York has
been reduced from ST.. to So cents per
1000 feet.
German papers are anxiously advis-
ing President Mckinley to give up the
Philippines.
Lieutenant Gilmore has been heard
from. He has sent word of his cap
ture to General Macarthur.
Cecil Rhodes mas failed to secure the
aid of the British government IN his
Capeto Cairo railway scheme.
Paymaster- General Stewart, having
reached the age limit, will be retired
with the rank Of rear-admral.
Howell T. Morgan, who returned to
South Bend, Ind. from Alaska. where
he had lost his mind and money, COM
mitted suicide.
Secretary Hay has been formally no.
tilted Of the release Of the Spanish
garrison at Ponapet, in the Caroline
islands. and OF naturalized American
citizen named Melinder, held as a pris-
oner Of war since last summer.
Aguinaldo has again sent ENJOYS to
General Otis with peace proposals, but
as they bear the same instructions as
before they will accomplish nothing.
They still insist that consent OF the
Filipino congress must be obtained.
AS a result of General Torres op-
pressive conduct toward American
merchants trading at BIuefelds, Mica
ragua, this government has deter.
mined to require the Nicaraguan gov
ernment to relieve him from duty at
that point.
Archbishop Corrigan's letter to the
pope, thanking him for his declaration
against "Americanism, was answered
Immediately by the cardinal secretary
OF state, who expressed to the arch
bishop the great satisfaction which it
gave his holiness.
The acknowledgement has directed
the postmaster at San Francisco to take
out of the mails for Manila three PAM
phlets issued by Edward Atkinson, Of
Boston, vice-piesident of the Anti.
lmperiaistic League, discomfort and
even mutiny among the soldiers being
stated by the department to be the de-
sign OF these publications.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld is dam
gerously i'll.
Various Toronto workmen struck for
higher wages.
Admiral Dewey cables that ten OF
the Yorktown's crew are prisoners in
insurgents hands.
Chilkat Indians are reported on the
warpath in Alaska, and driving whites
off the White Pass trail.
Returning Copper river prospectors
bring horrible tales of suffering. sick
ness and disappointment.
While Americans in Manila expect
peace soon. Otis keeps vigorously pre-.
pairing to prosecute the war.
Captain Baxter, chief quartermaster
Of the department of the Missouri, has
been ordered to Manila for duty.
Fred Whiteside, ex-senator from
Flathead county, has brought suit for
500, 900 against the Butte Miner for
defamation of character
Under the terms of the recent naval
appropriation law, the department is
authorized to enlist $500 boys and half
that number must be constantly at sea.
Murderer w. q. Magers, under sem
tence Of death in Polk county, Oregon,
for the murder of Ray Sink. last Sep.
tembeT, has been granted new trial
by the supreme court.
An officer is missing in the Philip
pines. He has not been heard from
since April 2S. Captain Rockefeller,
OF the Ninth infantry. went to visit
outposts, and no trace OF him has since
been found.
Brieadier.Geneia, Harrison Gray
Otis, lately in high command in the
Philippines, has arrived home in Cali
fornia, having voluntarily resigned.
He will at once resume the editorship.
in-chief of the Los Angeles Times.
Action has been taken by the navy