Lincoln Goutity Leader
XV. !. DAVIS, Editor.
j.QLEDO ..OREGON.
Interesting Collection of Item From
Many I'laoe Culled From the Ti mm
Keporta of tha Current Weak.
Manzanillo, Cuba, is now fully con
trolled by the American authorities.
A plan to dismember the republic oi
Switzerland is under discussion in
Europe.
Twelve men, it is said now, were
killed and 23 wounded in the riot at
Virden, 111.
Mrs. Nancv Geer, wife of the governor-elect
of Oregon, expired suddenly
of heart disease in Omaha.
All Spanish civil courts in Philippine
territory now subject to American con
trol have resumed business.
The government now has 55 warships
in course of construction. When com
pleted, the United States navy will
rank third.
Secretary Alger lias wired Governor
Tanner, of Illinois, placing the Fifth
Illinois volunteer infantry at Tanner's
orders, in case the state militia is in
sufficient to end the coal troubles.
The Spanish mail steamer Reina
Maria Christina has sailed from Ha
vana for Spain with 1,073 officers and
troops, (151 cases of military archives
and a heavy cargo of ammunition.
As a result of eating canned lobsters,
Rbriinps, and clams, two Knights of
Pythias, J. I. Jonoa and Charles Young,
who live near Rainier, Or., are dead,
and Walter Furrow, of the same lodge
and town, is critically ill from- the same
poison.
The government has apportioned the
prize money for tho men of our war
ships. Sampson gets the lion's share,
Dewey the next largest sum, while
Schley will receive less than some of
the captains. Tho men will receive
from 30 to $200 each.
The imperial Chinese government
has granted to the Peking syndicate of
London the right to open and work
mines and to construct and operate
railroads in the empire free from Chi
nese control. This is the first conces
sion ever granted by the Chinese gov
ernment to a foreign syndicate.
The annual report of Land Commis
sioner Hermann estimates that over
11,000,000.000 feet of public timber
has been destroyod by tire during the
past 25 years. The report says forest
lires form tho main subject for the at
tention of the land office, now threaten
ing, as they do, not only the growing
forests but the foiest lands whose pro
ductiveness they retard indeiinitely.
The report that the treasure of the
khalifa was found at Khartoum and
forwarded to Cairo is without founda
tion. Alexandria advices received at Lon
don say that the troops who have just
returned to Khartoum are dying oil
like flies from enteric disorders.
Jesse James, jr., son of the notorious
bandit, has been placed under arrest
for complicity in tho many train rob
beries in the outskirts of Kansas City.
The anniversary of the death of
Charles Stuart Parnell wps observed in
Dublin with a procession and exercises
at the grave of the home rule leader.
Marquis Ito, tho Japanese states
man, has expressed the opinion that
the anti-foreign policy recently adopt
ed by China would be modified upon
representations being made by thj
j'owi'rs.
An unknown whito man was burned
to death in a negro church at La Flore,
Miss, by the negroes, who thought
that because tho man was ill he must
be affected with yellow fever. The
church was entirely destroyed.
The Bear Island or Pillager Indiana
will surrender, and the threatened
war has bee averted. The recalcitrants
have agreed at a conference to como
into the agencr as soon as details of
tho terms are arranged.
A terrible experience is related by
Samuel Ensign, an American. He
was deprived of his liberty for 18 long
years, and robbed of all his worldly
post-ess ions, anil thrown into a Cuban
dungeon. He lin.illy escaped and re
turned to his native land.
Two bloodless uprisings have occur
red at Guam since American rule was
established. Both were quickly quel
led. Spanish priests incited the na
tives to deeds of violence. Tho Amer
ican flag was hauled down on each oc
casion, but soon replaced by the local '
police. A young sailor is now running
things for Uncle Sam.
A rear-end collision between two O.
R. & N. trains ocouirod at Sullivan's
gulch, near Portland. Two engines
were wrecked, four box cars smashed
into kindling-wood and tho caboose of
the first train wrecked and thrown
down a steep embankment into the wa
ter. Almost miraculously no lives
wete lost. The trainmen saved them, i
Belves by jumping. I
EPITOME OF THE D
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LATER NEWS.
The Oregon legislature adjourned sine
die Saturday.
A genuine blizzard visited the Middle '
Western states, doing considerable
damage.
A Polish priest has sued the Catholic
church for $ 50,000 for excommunicat
ing him.
It is said in London that the French
must either withdraw from Fashoda or
go to war with England.
The German government haa now
decided to appoint permanently a naval
attache at Washington, who will reach
his post in January.
The British ship Blengfelt, from New
York, burned off Margat, England,
early Monday morning. Eleven of the
crew, besides the oaptain'a wife and
ohildren, perishod.
Seven barges, containing 800,000
poods of naphtha have been burned at
the petroleum port of Astiakhan, Rus
sia. Three persons were killed in the
conflagration, and soveral others in
jured. The war department has received a
detailed description of the fortifica
tions of Havana. Besides old guns,
there are 43 new guns. These guns are
principally oi theHontoria and Ordonez
pattern, but there are a few Krupps
among them.
In a head-end collision between two
freight rains near Great Falls, Moat.,
due to a misunderstanding of orders,
Engineer Charles Goddard aud Brake
man Robert T. Juno were killed, an
Fireman A. L. Ritchie waa probably
fatally injured.
The government will undertake ths
transportation of Christmas boxes for
soldiers at Manila. A steamer will
start from San Francisco early in No
vember, so packages must bo forwarded
soon. Only small quantities of sweet
things will be accepted.
It is announced that Montreal and
Quebeo are to be thoroughly fortified
as part of the scheme for the defenses
of Canada. Colonel Dalton, chief of
the imperial defense commission, is in
Montreal, completing plans for 'the
fortifications of tho cities.
A curious method of aiding charities
has been initiated in Paris, where, it is
announced, the saloons of the high
aristocracy, which have hitherto been
extremely exclusive, will be opened to
strangers, on reception davs, for a
money consideration, wbioh will be ap
plied to the charitable works of which
the lady of the house is a patron.
A reoeption was tendered tho army
heroes at the Omaha exposition.
Colombia will risk no future trouble
and diplomatic relations with Italy
have been reversed.
It is reported that Gen. Maximo
Gomez has been selected for president
of the Cuban republic
A military plot against the French
government was discovered and frus
trated by prompt action.
The International Typographical
Union in biennial session at Syracuse,
N. Y., voted to abolish the referen
dum. A cabinet crisis has occurred in Cape
Colony, South Africa, and the assembly
has voted a want of confidence in the
government.
Murderer John Miller was hanged at
San Quentin, Cal., for the killing ol
James Childs in San Francisco, in No
vember, 1896.
The American peace commissioners
wore entertained in Paris with a pri
vate theatrical performance, arranged
in their honor by Figaro.
Frauds amounting to millions of dol
lars have been discovered in the Chilean
arsenal. Senor Navarro, the chief ac
countant, has committed suicide.
The Paris peaco commissioners can
not agree over the Cuban debt ques
tion. The Americans claim tho matter
is irrelevant, because tho United States
is not annexing Cuba.
It is reported in Manila that Macab
nlons, chief of the five northern prov
inces of tho Philippine islands, has
rebelled against Aguinaldo, and that
lighting haa taken place between the
opposing factions.
News to the effect that largo nnm
bors of political prisoners have been
horribly tortured in Ecuador by order
of the government, has been brought
to San Francisco by the steamer Pan
ama. Han Ky, the Corean minister ol
justice, has been dismissed for having
pernitited tho brutalities perpetrated
by the populace on the bodies of the
men recently hanged for conspiracy to
poison the ouiperor.
Chief Sweenie, of the Chicago fire
department, while directing his mon at
work on a tiro, fell into a manhole and
was severely injured. The engineer of
the building, John Meldrum, was
killed, and two other men were scalded
by escaping steam.
Liouteuan Briands has written a let
ter saying that the voyage of the Obdam
from Forto Rico waa not fraught with
danger or suffering. The sensational
newsnapor stories of flro on the trans
port and to the effost that the wounded
and sick soldiers being brought home
were badly fed, nie denounced as un
founded and ridiculous.
Fil DEMAND Of SPAIN
Flatly Refused by American
Peace Commission.
SETTLED BY THE PROTOCOL
Americana Positively Decline to A-
ume Responsibility for the Cuban
Debt Two Week's Labors.
Paris, Oot. 18. The American and
Spanish peace commissions closed their
first two weeks of labor here today,
and the progress made haa been chiefly
by negative action, owing to tho atti
tude of the Americans.
The first article of tho protocol pro
vided that "Spain will relinquish all
claim to sovereignty over and title to
Cuba." The Americana openod their
oase by the assumption that little or no
action was necessary regarding Cuba on
the ground that its disposition was
definitely fixed by the terms of the pro
tocol. Notwithstanding ut the meeting,
last Thursday, the Spaniards submit
ted suggestions and propositions
amounting to holding that the United
States should take over all or part of
the Cuban debt. Tuesday, Senor Mon
toro Rios, president of the Spanish com
mission, verbally repeated it at length,
and reiterated the same in summarized
form.
The Americans at their own session,
Wednesday, took up the Spanish pres
entation and determined the formula
tion of the answer of the United States.
Careful, exact, and full was the prepara
tion of the answer, and, therefore, it
became impossible, as intended, to
serve a copy of it on the Spanish before
the hour of opening the session, so that
the oral discussion .might' begin
promptly.
Whatever may have transpired at yes
terday's sessiou, whether the Spaniards
were or were not advised that the
United States deolined to assume tho
Cuban debt, it may be distinctly said
that with such light as it now has. the
United States commission will consist
ently and to the end refuse to assume
all or any part of the Cuban debt. Tho
Spaniards will, if indeed it has not al
ready been done, have impressed upon
them the fact that by the signature of
the protocol, they utterly relinquished
all claim of sovereignty over and title
to Cuba.
Thus possibly progress haa been
achieved negatively, for, with the pres
ent light, the Americans decline, or
will refnse the responsibility of a single
peseta of the so-called debt.
FIRST AT SAN JUAN.
New York Regiment Enters the Capital
of Forto Rico.
"Washington, Oct. 18. The follow
ing dispatch was received at the war
department this evening:
"San Juan. Oct. 18. Tho Forty
seventh New York arrived at San Juan
at 6 P. M. EDDY, Colonel."
It is presumed by the war depart
ment officials, inasmuch as nothing ia
said to the contrary, that the regiment
was permitted to land at San Juan. It
was feared objection might be raised by
the Spanish officials to the landing of
the regiment at San Juan before formal
possession waa yieldod to the American
force8 on the 18th inst. The Forty
seventh New York haa the honor of
being the first American organization
to enter tho capital of Porto Rico.
Commands of the Districts.
Ponce, P. R., Oct. 18. Tho Stars
and Stripes will bo formally raised at
San Juan Thursday. Brigadier-General
Fred Grant will be given command
of tho district of San Juan, comprising
the jurisdictions of Arecibo, Bayamo
and Humacoa. with tho adjacent
islands. Brigadier-General Guv V.
Henry will be given command of tho
other portions of Porto Rico.
THE CRISTOBAL COLON.
Ilobson It Confident or Raising the
Spanish Cruiser.
Santiago do Cuba, Oct. 18. Navul
Constructor Hobsori, who has arrived
horo from the wreck of the Spanish
cruiser Cristobal Colon, will leave to
ruoirow for Guantanamo on business
connected with the Infanta Maria
Teresa, which he expects to got off to
the United States before the end of tho
month. For the last few days he has
been engaged in preparing to raise the
Cristobal Colon, a work which is prao
tically impossible from the sea because
of tho dangerously heavy swell. The
operations will, therefore, be conducted
from the shore. Mr. Hobson has built
a trolley line out to thn ship, a distanoe
of 150 feet, with a suspension bridge;
and the oompreesed air pump is now in
position. On his return from Guan
tanamo he will push his operations vig
orously, as he feels absolutely certain
of raising tho hull uninjured.
Tbe naval board appointed by the
president to investigate disputed points
in the conflict which resulted in the
destruction of Cervera's, fleet, find that
"although tho American fleet in the
battle off Santiago on July 8 obeyed
the general orders of Rear-Admiral
Sampson, given in advanco to meet
just such an emergency, it was esBen
tially a 'captains' fight.' " Muoh
credit is given the battlo-ship Oregon.
Jor its good work.
THE LIZARD WRECK.
Codies of Many of tbe Victims Have
Been Recovered.
London, Oct. 18. The Atlantic
Transport Company issued the follow
ing statement this evening regarding
tho fate of the passengora and crew of
the steamer Mohegan, which waa
wrocked last Friday evening off tho
Lizard, between the Manacles and Low
lands: "Of the passengers, 1,1 have been
saved. 10 bodies have been recovered,
ind 83 are missing. Of the crew and
jattlemen, 39 have been saved, 14 bod
ies have beon recovered, and 51 are
missing."
Since this statement was issued, nino
other bodies have been picked up, in
cluding two that have been identified
as those of passengers. The reports of
the various correpondents differ widely
as to the rescues, recoveries and losses,
though none agree as to the exact nnm-
! her of those saved or of the bodies re
covered. .
The bodies of tho following passengers
have been recovered: T. W. King,
Edna King, Master King, Mrs. Weller,
James Blackey, Miss II. M. Cowen, M.
Fallows, B. Franklin Fuller, Mrs. L.
M. Luke, George Seymour, Miss L. H.
Warrener.
Tho latest advices from Falmouth
this evening say that 88 bodies have
been identified, mostly the bodies of
sailors. Four are as yet unidentified,
including those of two olderly ladies.
One appears to bo German. She wore
a watoh and wedding ring, both on
trraved "1S71." The ether were a sil
ver brooch with the letters "D" in
pearls. This is probably the body of
Mrs. Charles Duncan. Nine of the bod
ies have been brought to Falmouth;
the others were taken to the villatio
I church at St. Keverine.
Tho rescued passengers are being
sheltered in cottages along tho shore,
! and the crew at tho sailors' home at
I Falmouth.
Tugs have been cruising in the vicin
I ity all day, despite the very rough
! weather, in the hope of picking up
. other bodies.
The cause of tho disaster remains the
profoundest mystory. Nobody at
j tempts to explain how the Mohegan got
j so far north of her true coursefrom
six to seven miles. There was no fog
at tho time, while the wind on her vort
j quarter was not sufficient to prevent
I her answering the helm. It has been
suggested that her compass waa faulty;
I but daylight lasted, long after Eddy
stono light was passed. The sailors
say tho fact that the Lizard light was
visible should have served to give the
alarm.
i GOMEZ IS OBSTINATE.
The Cuban General Refuses to Disband
Ills Army.
New York, Oct. 18. A dispatch
from Havana says: It is generally bo
lieved a serious breach has taken place
between the executive department of
the Cuban republic and the leaders of
the military forces. Word was received
here that General Wood has received a
communication from President Masso,
advising that nothing be done by the
Americans that can be construed as re
cognizing the Cuban government. Mas
so has been joined by his colleagues in
declaring that the time has arrived for
disbanding the Cuban forces. This
course will be vigorously com batted by
General Gomez.
General Juan Ducasse, one of the
closest advisers of Gomez, has arrived
in Havana to consult the opponents of
Masso and all those who favor a Cuban
republic and oppose further American
intervention. General Ducasse declares
that Gomez will lead the insurgents
back into the field before he will sub
mit to disarming them while the Amer
ican and Spanish soldiers remain in
Cuba.
Colonel Waring's first inspection of
the city filled him with surprise. Con
ditions are much worse than he expect
ed. Everything is favorable for an out.
break of fever. In normal times deaths
in Havana number about 800 a week.
They now average fully 100 a day!
The deaths are mostly the result of per
nicious fever.
ANARCHIST PLOT.
King Humbert, as Well ns the Em
peror, Was to lie Assassinated.
London, Oct. 18. The Alexandria
correspondent of the Daily Mail, tele
graphing regarding the anarchist plot
against Emperor William, which was
discovered Friday, says:
Tho plot against the kaiser is hourly
proving more important, each arrest
disclosing new ramifications. The doc
umonts found disclose a plot to kill
King Humbert already well matured,
lufteen persons, all Italians, have been
arrested. The original plan was to
throw a bomb of guueotton and ful
minate of mercury on Emperor Wil
ham's carriage in a narrow street of
Cairo. When the Egyptian trip was
abandonod.elaborato arrangements were
made by the conspirators to send con
federates to Jerusalem to carry out tho
plot during tho dedication of the Ger
uiau Church of Our Redeemer.
Insurgents Overdo It.
Manila, Oct. 18. -The insurgetns at
Lagaspi have prevented tho American
steamer Hermnnos from loading or un
loading, on tho ground that there are
Spas'.rds on board. They also refused
to allow any of the men of the United
States cruiser Raleigh to land without
permi8810n from General Aguinaldo.
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Foundered Off tha
With Great Loss of L
j OVER .50 PERSONS DR0Wf)
On the Way From London t
York, She Strni, ,0 fc.
Terrible Gale. RCk'
London, Oct. 17. The An
Transportation Comm,,,.. 1,1
Mohegan, formerly the Olfln. E
the Wilson..FUrsS-LevlaJUrV
wnicn leit London for New Yn 1
terday with 50 nasHnnum-, ... . rvfc
150. is asi.oro nf? T..-I 7a.c,6ii
the Manar.lfiH on,! th i,....! bet
lal(l8
It ia rumored that there has been
great losa of life. m
A coast guard message reporta
the DaHHOnsfirs nro "A lu'
V
D. ... uruw
vning
rats."
Anothei account
savs: "rjn,i;.
washing ashore, one being that nf
lady lashed to a plank, with both i.
severed.
Particulars of
Vile dlSMStni. o,n j
vut.. Xl appears that ,f.
.umrciidu mines a gme Was
uuu mo e was running high
Lifeboats put off from tlie Lizard
from Falmouth, one ri'tnmi
with passengers. Several were drowned
however, it ia reported, on the pas
of the lifeboat to the shoie. Another
lifeboat saved six persons.
The coast at that point is extremely
dangerous, and has been the scene oi
numerous wrecks. Some vmm .
there was a movement set on foot to set
a lightship placed there, but it failed.
a uispaicn irom Dalniouth says tht
luoiiegan iounuereu aiu! was probablj
Diuwu itnuuie iij me ueavy east wimj
alter ner machinery was disable!
All the Falmouth tugs went out but
were unauiu to approach the vessel
A lifeboat has landed 80 of the Mohe
gan s passengers and returned for mom
One lady died after she waa brought
ashore. It is rumored that tho position
of tho Mohegan is serious and assistance
is urgently needed.
According to a dispatch just received
from lalmouth, out ot 200 passenger)
constituting the passengers and crew ol
the Mohegan, only 31 have been m
iliis intelligence was forwarded from
the coast guard by telephone to Fal
mouth. Iho coast guards are watch
ing for bodies and wreckage. The life
boats have gone intc Port Ilouttook,
The steamer Mohegan, then the Cleo
patra, armed at New York un August
12 last, on her maiden tnu from Lon
don. She ia a single-screw stool vessel
of 4,510 tons register, 480 feet lung by
53 feet beam, and about 80 feet in
oenth of hold. She hail accommoda
tion for 125 Dassencrers and a can.icitv
for between 7,000 and 8,000 tons ol
freicht and 500 cattle. Her com
mander is Cantain Griffiths, commodore.
ot the Atlantic Transportation Cora-
nanv's fltit. Sim is one of the five
vessels recently purchased' from the
Wilson-Furness-Leyland line by the
Atlautic Transpoitation Company to
reulaoe the Mohawk. Mobile. Man,
Michigan and Mississippi, which were
sold to the United States government to
be used as transports.
COMMERCE OF THE PACIFIC,
Will He Iucrenteil by the negation of
the 1'hlllpiiiiirn.
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 17. -D. F.
Brown, irpnoral ncrflnf of the Catiuuisn
Pacific Railway & Steamship Company
at Hong Kong, speaking today of tho
growth of trade betweeen this country
and the Orient, said:
"The trade of the last five yean
should more than double in the neit
five years, owing, in the first place, to
increased transportation facilities, al
in the second place to tho close rela
tions that will have to exist hereafter
between this country and the Oriental
the result of holding the Philippi"6
islands. We are perfectly willing tnai
the United States should hold" on to '
the Philippine islands, and when once
the matter is definitely settled, anJ
business is again in full swing, it wi"
not be long before the commerce of tli
Pacifio will bo as great as that of tin
Atlantic. Especially will this be the
case when railroads shall open up Chit
to tho commercial and industrial world.
and make this Northwest coast M
landing point."
Plot Asulndt Emperor Willi"""-
Alexandria, Egypt, Oct. 17. The
Alexandria police have arrested nine
Italian anrachista since last night, nwl
have thereby frustrated a plot nt'1,18t
Emperor William, now on his way to
the Holy Land, to be present at the
conseoration of the Church of the Savioi
at Jerusalem. The first arrested was
a cafe keeper, a well-known anarchist,
in whose houso the police discovered
two wire bombs of great strength nJ
full of bullets. This arrest was nil
in consequence of tho notification frorn
the Italian consul-general at Cairo that
two anarchists bad left Cairo for Po
Said. vr;
France Join Abylnln-
Rome, Oct. 17. The Italo enyj:
"Franoe has concluded a treaty witn
Abyssinia againBt England in the x
Bboda affair."
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