Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-08-18
LATER NEWS.
Manila is soon to have an ice-making

M. Labor, attorney for Dreyfus, was
shot down while going to court at
Rennes.
Paul de Roulede,, French deputy,
was arrested at Paris for conspiring to
overthrow the government.
Blockade of the island of Luzon may
be necessary to suppress illegal trading
between Filipino insurgents.
When the new regiments now form
ing have been filed, it is said Secre-
taly Root may ask for more volunteers
to relieve those who have served in
tropical countries.
The British commander, Percy St.
John, denies most emphatically having
criticised Major-General Otis, and de-
nounces the purported interview as a
fake of the worst kind.
Colonel Butts colored troops have
participated in their first engagement
at the capture of San Mateo. They be.
.haved we'll. their leaders having diff
Guilty in holding them back.
An Arizona recruit, while on spree
in Denver. shot and killed two police.
men who had attempted to arrest him.
He escaped and a reward has been Of
fered for his capture dead or alive.
Captain A. ii. Otis, of the First
Washington volunteer infantry, has
cleared himself of the charge of looting.
His name was forged to letter, and
efforts are being made to find the
forger.
A Seattle dispatch Says the recent
seizure OF six Canadian fishing boats
near Point Roberts by the United
States customs officials will probably
be settled in day OF SO by the release
of the boats.
In Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa
and Wisconsin, great deal of damage
was done by storm. In some places
there was loss of life, due to lightning,
and the loss in crops and DESTROYED
buildings reaches heavy figure.
The Americans have taken San
Mateo, 10 miles north of Manila. Their
loss was three killed and Is wounded.
including lieutenant of the Twenty
first infantry. Twenty-three of the
enemy are known to have been killed.
Government commissioners have ef-
ected an agreement with the Crow In
dians, which will become a treaty
when ratified by congress. About
1000, 900 acres of land will be pur-
chased on the northern end of the Crow
reservation from Fort Custer to Vel
lowstone river and thrown open to set.
tlement.
The transport Continental has ar
rived in San Francisco from Manila.
She narrowly missed couple of ty-
phoons, and was ashore on coral reef
where the entire crew barely escaped
capture at the hands of the Filipinos.
One of the sailors was killed by part
ing hawser, and one of the quartermas-
ters was stabbed by colored cook.
Cleveland strikers blew up another
car with nitro-glycerin. Nobody was
injured.
An English torpedo boat killed the
helmsman of French fisherman who
had come within the three-mile limit.
In the translation of words in the
secret dossier the French court was Of
ten puzzled. Dreyfus helped them out.
The San Dominican rebels are meet
ing with success and the government is
helpless. The rebel forces increase
daily.
The insurgents wrecked the steamer
Satnrnus flying the American flag.
They secured 100000 in specie and a
cargo of general merchandise.
A barkeeper at Wallace, Idaho,
knocked woman down in dancehall.
He was shot and killed by soldier
who witnessed the mans brutality.
England will send more troops to the
Transvaal, and will not wait 25 years
for redress. Secretary Chamberlain
says the present state Of affairs cannot
be tolerated.
letter received in Frisco from
Alaska asserts that the crew of the
Jessie were murdered and robbed by
Indians while they slept. and not
drowned as at first reported.
Two Cuban editors are on their way
to Washington to complain of the
wrongs they suffered by being confined
in a Cuban prison and later required
to break stones on the streets of Ha.
vana.
AT Canton, o., Mrs. Edward Eckin.
ger killed her husband and daughter
with shotgun. and then put another
charge through her own heart. Do.