Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-09-01
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

All the new regiments of volunteers
will be afoat for Manila by October.
At Passaic, N. j.. the Botany Worst
ed Mills Company is TO erect six build
ings.
Thirty-six volunteers from the Sec
ond Oregon have applied for pensions
for disability.
A South African mining engineer
made the trip from London to Dawson
City in II days.
At Appleton, Wis, mill boiler
exploded, killing two men and wound
ing eight others.
Dreyiu enemies are still after La
bori. Two Internal machines loaded
with gun cotton were sent him.
Thomas Bracket Reed has rendered
his resignation as congressman from
Maine. The governor has accepted it.
Typhus fever is following in the
wake of the storm in Porto Rico. The
stencil arising from the putrefying bod,
les is given as the cause
Majcr-General Otis is himself acting
as censor of dispatches. He dictates
correspondents reports of engagements
and with formal official phrases, mag.
nifies American success.
1t is alleged in England that the
Transvaal is republic only in name and
that abuses are manifold. Even tho
courts must agree with Dom Paul
KrpOar Or off on off rial hoalc
Near Marshalltown, Iowa, three
tramps, stealing ride on a Great
Western freight train shot, and killed
Brakeman Wilson and Conductor
Mathews and threw their bodies under
the train.
The present run of sockeye salmon
on lower Puget sound is so phenomenal
as to make it almost certain that the
Puget sound salmon pack will be large
enough to compensate for the shortage
in the packs on the Fraser and Colum.
bia rivers.
While endeavoring to rescue one OF
their comrades, arrested for drunken
ness, the soldiers from the Indiana had
fight with the police of Honolulu
which resulted in many heads being
broken, but the police finally landed
their man.
A Washington special says: Hope
full signs of an approaching end OF the
Philippine ipsurrecton have been ap-
parent since the organization of IS ad-
ditional regiments and Secretary Roots
action calling out 10 more for the Phil
ippine service. This action has dem
onstrated to the Filipino leaders that
resistance will be futile, and it is be.
lieved negotiations are now on foot
looking to n termination of tho war.
The Chilean ministry has resigned.
Quiet has been restored in the Blue
fields district, Nicaragua.
Lieutenant George +. Teller has been
appointed census supervisor for the
Second district of Oregon.
Dawson City saloon keepers have
formed trust and will make whisky a
dollar drink this winter.
Gold is reported to be again flowing
Into the bank of England and British
financiers are feeling better.
Two 17-year-old boys were killed
while stealing watermelons in Curay,
Colo. The murderer says he only shot
to scare the boys.
The hunt for gold on Kotzebue sound
brought fearful results. Seven per
cent of those who went into that in
hUspitable country lost their lives.
From the reports on the worlds
wheat crop there is little to indicate
failure in either Germany or Russia,
while Engand's crop is large.
Angered by the action of gambler
who assaulted one of their number, the
Indians of a grading camp at Winslow,
Ariz., threaten to exterminate the
whites.
At Wetumpka, Ala, Peter Louin
and his l5.year-old son we've taken
from Jail and lynched by mob. They
were accused of shooting Hall Jordan,
respectable citizen.
NJ. Labori appeared in court Tuesday
morning, and il his condition will per-
init, he will conduct the case for Drey.
fus until verdict is reached. He was
warmly greeted by the prisoner.
A seaman of the British ship Amphi.
trite was caught by = tow line. drawn
overheard and drowned as the vessel
was entering TIE Columbia river. An.
other member of the crew was lost in a
similar manner in Honolulu harbor.
A plot to escape from the guardh ouse
was unearthed ut Fort Sheridan. The