Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-07-14
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From tho Telegraph Columns.

Seventy-four cases of yellow fever
have been reported in Santiago.
Packing-house employees in Chicago
will not strike until September.
, The Democratic national committee
will meet in Chicago on July 20.
The peace treaty has at last been rat.
iied by the Spanish senate.
American exports of manufactured
goods now average 81, 900 day.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company has ordered three new pas
senger boats.
The government has taken a hand in
the Illinois labor troubles. The strik.
ers at Carterville have been enjoined.
The Fourth of July in Colorado was
ushered in at midnight bv magnifi-
cent illumination on Pixies Peak, a.
900 feet above the sea. Seventeen
hundred pounds of red, white and blue
powder was set off.
At Chicago one hundred frenzied wo-
men and 20 men rushed panic. stricken
from the three-story factory of the
Western Paper Stock Company to es-
cape being burned to death. Eight
women were injured in leaping from
the windows, and many more jumped
in safety.
Late Oriental advioes state that 20
ringleaders of the rioters who destroyed
and burned electric tramway cars at
Seoul last month were executed in pub.
lie at CoIea's capital four weeks ago.
They met their fate bravely. Their
heads were cut off and exhibited in
public places as warning to all evil
doers.
Reports have been received in Ma.
Mia of an outbreak in the island of Ne.
gros, incident upon the departure OF
the California regiment for home.
Some hostile natives, seeing company
OF soldiers at one of the small posts
preparing to depart, thought the Amer
leans were evacuating the island, and
a party of $50 rebels. mostly bolo men,
attacked the troops, and killed one man
and wounded another belonging to
company e. The Filipinos were easily
driven off.
The news brought from Honolulu by
the Coptic of the death OF the Dowager
Queen Kapiolani was not surprise to
Hawaiians, as her death had been ex-
pected for some time. She was So
years of age and was sufferer from
cancer, and recently had a stroke of
paralysis. following several attacks of
apoplexy. She was much esteemed in
the islands and her death was sincerely
mourned. Her remains lay in state
for eight days and were buried with
impressive ceremonies.
Belgian socialists are against elector-
al reform.
Many people were injured in rail.
road wreck at London.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
come to the coast this summer.
AS result of lovers quarrel San
Francisco young woman was shot by a
fireman.
Two were killed and number in
jured in street car collision at Pitts.
burg.
Otis has cabled the war department
the number of recruits necessary to fiji
vacancies in the regular regiments.
At Philadelphia, j. T. Carr, a re-
porter, was killed in street car COL
lsion. A number were badly injured.
Fire did damage to the extent OF
$4,000 at Summit, N. j. One hun
dred people, living in apartments, lost
their effects.
The negroes have all left Pana, H.,
on tickets furnished by Governor Tan
ner. The mines will reopen with un-
ION men.
Schurman has visited the southern
islands and ascertained the sentiment
Of the natives. He SAYS peace will
surely follow victory in the Philippines,
as the best people favor the Americans.
Union City, Ill.,, populated entirely
union miners, was destroyed by fire
and the miners driven to the woods bv
negroes, who sought revnge for the kill
ing of negro woman by the miners.
General Miles has paid high COM
pliment to the brave Oregon volunteers,
and says that in the West Is to he
found the best material in the world
for military service.
The rebels made a sally against our
lines at San Fernando, but did not
push the attack. The Americans lost
one man killed and four wounded.
The German delegates of the draft.
ing committee of the arbitration COM