Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30
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tcal American mica man.
Contracts have been let for Winni-
pegs new municipal electric power
plant, to cost approximately $1,O14, 700.
The Winnipeg Electric Railway Com
pany has three times offered to sell
Its Lac du Bonnet plant to the city.
Preliminary work for the construc-
ton OF lndla's large new steel plant
near Kalimati station is making good
headway. The plant on the Ramrana
manganese property has proved to be
OF the highest value. A forty-five mile
railway Is already under construction.
The output of the British shipbuild-
ing yards amounted in 1898 to only
about 100000 tons Of merchant steam
vessels, or little more than half of the
preceding twelve months. The number
OF British ships now laid up at home
and foreign ports Is estimated at l.
100000 tons.
John Brown was executed at Harp
ers Ferry on Dec, 2, 1859. 1t was short
ly after II o'clock In the morning. Two
thousand Virginia soldiers were ranged
around the scaffold when he was
brought from his prison house and
placed in wagon which was to convey
him to the scene Of the execution.
The curator of the museum at Brus-
sels has just been pursuing an interest
Ing claim in the Belgian courts. In
May last Nine. Bouriant, the widow of
an Psychologist, offered to the museum
two scarabs with inscriptions, which
the lady claimed related to a voyage on
the coast Of Africa referred to by Hero
dotus. The curator purchased the sea-
rabs for $1,000, and, as may be imag-
ined, they created a great deal of inter-
est in the learned world, the final judg-
ment Of which was that the so-called
antiquities were forgeries. NJ Capart,
the curator, has sued the widow for
the return of the purchase price and
the courts have decided in his favor.
From the War Department comes no
tice Of an interesting relic formerly the
property Of President Lincoln. Upon
the occasion of his memorable visit to
Gettysburg the President cut with his
own hands cane, which he afterward
presented to his War Secretary, Edwin
M. Stanton, by whom it was naturally
highly priced. This cane is now in the
possession Of Mr.. Jahncke, president OF
the Jahncke Navigation Company Of
New Orleans, who married grand.
daughter of Secretary Stanton. 1t has
gold top with an engraved inscrip-
ton, which was probably placed on
the treasured souvenir by Secretary
Stanton.-National Magazine.
Few Swiss scholars have had more
brilliant career than the new principal
of the University Of Lausanne. DR.. H.
Charles Louis Blanc was born in Lau-
same, fifty years ago and began his
studies at one Of the primary schools
In the city. At nineteen he took his de-
gree In science, afterward going, as so
many Swiss scholars have done, to Ger
many, first to Stuttgart, then to- the
University Of Fribourg- en- Brisgau,
where he won his doctorate in philoso-
ply with honors. Since then he has
made his mark as zoologist, and now
enjoys a European reputation. He has
had hand in research work and in
experimenting geological museums in
Switzerland and in Germany.
There is at present an interesting ex-
hibit in No. 9 tank at the Brighton
Aquarium, says the London Globe. 1t Is
something like dogfish. only much
larger, while in the matter Of sheer
ugliness 1t stands unrivaled It's tech
nical name is the topper shark. 1t Is
six feet long and weighs from eighty to
ninety pounds, while its mouth looks
large enough to fake an elephant single
handed. The shark came into the pos
session Of the aquarium in rather a
curious manner. A man named Lane
of Brighton was fishing some two miles
off the Palace pier with long line,
when he felt vicious tug at his hook.
He quickly "hauled in his slack" and
then the topper came to light Mr. lane
at once hurried ashore and placed the
topper in his new home.
There was recently introduced in the
House Of Representatives a bill for the
purchase of the house in Tenth street,
Washington, in which Abraham Lin
coin died on April Is, 1865. The bill
proposes the acquisition of the two ad-
Joining houses and the entire collection
Of the Oldroyd relics OF Lincoln, of
which there are some 5000 pieces in
the building. There is also included a
library of a thousand volumes all relat-
ing to Lincoln and the civil war. In
one of the rooms is "blacE locust"
rail split by Lincoln in 1880, and taken
from fence around his old home, and