Lincoln County leader., January 13, 1899, Image 6

Lincoln Goonty Leader
W. Ii. DAVIS, Editor.
1ATER NEWS.
OREGON.
THE PS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review . of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
' Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
General Maximo Gomez, from his
camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar
ciso, has issued a proclamation to the
Cuban army advising against disband
ing until the proceedings at Washing
ton regarding the pay of the insurgent
troops have been completed.
By the purchase of a large block of
Btockof the Calbarien railway, in Cuba,
L. Euiz & Co., bankers, representing
English capitalists, have seoured a con
trolling interest in that lit e. The
Bame men have also been largo pur
chasers of the stocks of Saguaand Cien
fuegos companies.
The monthly treasury statement of
the public debt shows that at the oloso
of business, December 81, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
fl, 129,176,286, an increase during the
month of 11,702,799.. This increase
is due to the delivery of 3 tier cent
bonds of the new issue, previously paid
for.
At Evansvifle, Ind., Minor Garrett,
Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl and William Morris, boys ranging
in age from 10 to 12 years, were given
a public whipping in the police court
for stealing some old wash boilers.
Their parents were given the option by
Judge Winfrey of whipping the boys or
having them sent to the reform school.
Governor Roosevelt, Greater New
York's new exeuctive, has estalbished
a code of rules to govern his considera
tion and determination of applications
Tor pardons and commutations of sen
tence, lie will not exercise executive
Dlemency in behalf of a man who has
been convicted of murdering or abusing
his wife, nor will he pardon any hab
itual criminal. His mercy will be
shown only to those whose sentenoo
Beems to have been severe or whose
commission of a crime was the result
of influenoe.
A most remarkable wedding has
taken place at the village of Trail, O.,
four brothers being married to four sis
ters. The four knots were tied at the
home of the brides, who are the daugh
ters of a farmer named James Hooh
atetter. Their ages range from 18 to
38, and the ages of their respective
husabnds vary only slightly. The
grooms are four sons of John Summers.
The ceremony of marying the four
couples occupied almost an hour, the
same olergyman performing all. The
four brothers and their wives will live
within a stone's throw of each other.
' A dispatch from Rome says a mob of
4,000 people had assaulted an internal
levenue sentry box, and stoned the
gendarmes around Niscemi, Sicily, as
a p:otest against ex lommunication. A
number of persons were wounded.
John Wellmer, of Lafayette, Niool
lett county, Minn, was shot in the head
and hip by two tramps, to whom he
had given eheltor. They bound Mrs.
Wellmer to a lounge with a clothes lino
and escaped with Wellmer's team.
The governor's office at the state
house in Springfield, 111., was entered
by parties unknown and $580 stolen
from a drawer. The crime is sat round
ed in mystery, as all floors of the build
ing are guarded by watchmen. The
theft was discovered by Colonel J. M.
Tanuor and an investigation is pend
ing. One of the most notable celebra.
tionns in the history of American col
leges was in commemoration of the
100th anniversary of Transylvania uni
versity, at Lexington. Ky. It was no
table on account of its many famous
alumni, including Jeffeison Davis,
president of the Confederate states, and
Justico Harlan, of the supreme court
of tho United States, scores of con
gressmen and mon prominent in publio
lifo.
! King Charles has opened tho cortos
iSerares at Lisbon. In the course of his
speech from the throne, King Charles
said that during tho war between the
United States and Spain, two friendly
nations, Poitngal proclaimed, and, as
was her duty, maintained strict and
absolute neutrality. Ilia majeNty said
ho greatly sympathized with tho czar's
disarmament proposals, and made a
reference to tho colonies which appar
ently disposes of tho rumors of tho sale
of Delagoa bay.
In China tho Yellow river floods
have destroyed tho crops, and famine
has resulted. Thousands of natives
are starving. Thousands of hungry
and ragged refugees are moving down
the river in boats, only to find the
walla of tho cities lower down closed
against the starving hordes. Tho gov
ernment appropriated 800,000 taols for
their relief, hut less than ono-flfth has
heon diHtributod. It is claimed dis
honest officials havo pocketed tho bal
ance. A roliof fund has been started
at Shanghai. nov. 13. Craig Tatter
son, of the Chhui Kian mission, appeals
to American frlonds for aid.
At a fire which broke out in the Ho
tel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa., three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly hurt.
A Paris paper says it learns from an
indisputable source that the court of
cassation is convinced. that Dreyfus was
justly condemned.
Colonel Potter, special emissary of
General Otis to Ilo Ilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town if the
Americans bombard the place.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com
muted the sentence of J. R. Colean,
who, while cashier of the Sate bank, of
Fort Scott, in 1895, stole f 52,000 of its
funds.
Four dead, two injured, one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
ty of the Southern railway to the
amount of about 125,000, is the result
of a wreck which occurred at Knox
ville, Tenn.
A heavy wind storm swept over the
remote section of Scott county, Ark.
At Boles, a schoolhonse was blown
down and three pupils were killed, an
other was fatally wounded, and a dozen
or more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremendous landslide occurred near
Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad. A mountain which has
long been an object of curiosity to
travelers crashed into the Fraser river,
damming it completely, and sending
the water in torrents over the fertile
- TllO CGuiSO Cf tu3 HVcf
GUI Bill FRANCE
Tension Between the Two
Nations Increases.
DARK CLOUDS OVER AFRICA
Thunderer's Fiery Language Cromer's
rial n Words at Khartoum Rhodes
Flaus a Cape Town-I airo Railroad.
NT!
was changed completely.
The Sebastapool correspondent of tho
London Times, who has been touting
in Eastern Russia for two months to
discover, if possible, some evidence on
the part of the Russian government to
give effect to the disarmament propo
sals of Emperor Nioholas, says all his
observations were quite to the oontrary,
and that Russia is increasing her mil
itary strength.
According to late advioos from Daw
son, the United States government will
be called upon to relieve indigent min
ers in the Klondike. The Dawson
Nugget says there is a strong move
ment on foot at Dawson to send a rep
resentative to Washington for the pur
pose of enlisting the United States
government in tho cause of aiding in
remedying the great distress which
prevails among the miners of the Yu
kon. At the annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and
Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of
Amerioa, held in Chicago, resolutions
were adopted, urging congress to pass
tho Nicaragua canal bill and also that 1
a law should be passed making eight
hours a day's work on said canal. Res
olutions were also passed urging con-1
gress to pass the river and harbor bill
at the present session of congress. Con-1
gress was also urged to create a labor 1
commission of three union men to see '
that the laws in the interest of work-'
ingmen were enforced on all govern
ment work.
Senator Halo has been renominated
by the Maine Republicans.
Hon. Joseph H. Choato will be our
next ambassador to Great Britain.
Dr. II. Seward Webb, president of
the Wagner Palace Car' Company, is
mentioned as successor to Senator Mor
rill as senator from Vermont.
The first formal state dinner of the
season took place at the White House
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
MoKinley entertained the members of
the cabinet.
A sensation has been created in Ger
many by the publication in a Cologne
paper of an alleged conversation had
with the late Prince Rismaick, in
which he predicted the fall of the Aus
trian empire.
An American named Boynton, who
is trying to travel around the earth
without money, met with a terrible fall
into a chasm while entering France by
night through the Pyrenees. He was
seriously injured.
Another disagreeable consequence of
the late war has been presented to the
government of claims from the cable
companies for damages sustained
through the suspension of tlmir Imui.
ness by tho United States military and j
navai iorces. ine aggregate amount
of theso claims cannot bo foretold.
Representative Tongue, of Oregon,
has prepared an amendment to the bill
for codification of the laws of Alaska,
now pending in the houso, providing
for the licensing of main business con
cerns in the torritory, and especially
the liquor business. Mr. Tongue says
that the Treadwell mines does not pay
anything in the way of taxes to tho sup
port of tho ten itorial institutions, and
that from the tegion surrounding Ju
neau about $6,000,000 in gold is pro
duced annually, and does not contribute
a cent to tho government.
Tho Havana afternoon papers sent a
tin ill through tho city with a report
that a torturo and execution ohamber
had been found at tho residonco of tho
Spanish miltiary governor, adjoining
the palace. The papers declareed that
there the Spanish officials questioned
and murdered political prisoners. Ac
cording to their accounts, tho floor of
the chamber was covered with dried
blood, and Its walls were indented with
maohete Btrokes. An excited crowd
soon gathered outside the house which
was last ocoupied by Uenoral Pairado,
London, Jan. 10. All events seem
to work together in European politics
to inoreaso the tension between Great
Britain and France. Tho past week
has brought Madagascar and Egypt for
ward as irritants just when the mutual
irritability was subsiding. Even the
most conservative observers begin to
take a pessimistic view of tho relations
between the two powers. This in
cludes those who up to the present have
considered the belligerency to be due to
supersensitiveness upon the part of
France and to the unnecessary gruff
ness upon the part of Great Britain in
insisting on what she considers to be
her rights.
The past 24 hours brought the pub
lication of Madagascar blue book, which
was followed by a leading editorial in
the Times denouncing France in lan
guage so fiery for that conservative
newspaper that Frenchmen are reading
tho two together and are construing
them as parts of a deliberate policy in
spired by one mind. That mind, in
the theory of the man in the streets,
is Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary
of state for colonies. Other papers
may storm and scold and not be no
ticed, but when the Times becomes
abusive, foreigners interpret it as being
the voice of the government. In the
present instance, some Englishmen
will place the same construction upon
its utterances, recalling how tho Times
led the "no suriender" ory over the
Fashoda incident, under evident in
spiration. One fact is certain, public opinion
in Great Britain will not sanction the
government to swerve an inch to avoid
war with France, thinking that if it
must come this is the best time to have
it out.
Many people give importance to the
issuing of the Madagascar blue book
almost simultaneously with the quiet
but unmistakable announcement at
Khartoum by the British agent there,
Viscount Cromer, in his leniarks to the
shiekhs, that Great Britain has set her
seal upon Egypt. If there was a doubt
in tho minds of her European rivals
that Great Britain intended to fore
close the mortgage upon which she has
expended so much labor and blood to
secure, it must have been set at rest by
the utterances of Lord Cromer, in
which tho word "protectorate" was
written in large letters, though the
government's mouthpiece carefully ab
stained from using that incendiary
word. A . moro definite notice that
Great Britain's tenure of Egypt is per
manent could not bo asked.
In the meantime an enterprise of the
utmost moment in the furtherance of
Great Britain's domination in Africa is
about to be consummated. Cecil
Rhodes, the ex-premier and alleged in
stigator of tho Jameson laid, and tho
so-called "Napoleon of South Africa,"
is going to England to arrange for
pushing forward the Cape Town-Cairo
railroad, so long the dearest dream of
imperialists. A definite proposition
will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to
London capitalists for an extension of
the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake
Tanganika. Ilo does not pretend it
will be a paying investment from the
start. Its importance for some years
will be political instead ot commercial,
and he hopes to persuade the British
government to smooth the way bv
guaranteeing per cent interest on
tho bonds to cover the cost of construc
tion. But one harrior stands in the
way, in tho form of tho Congo conven
tion, guaranteeing neutrality of tho
part of the continent about Lake Tang
anyika, which even the autocrat of
Rhodesia will find hard to force. Here
Germany has the veto on Great Brit
ain's advance, which she cannot bo
expeotod to waive without an indem
nity. '
PASSED THE SENATE.
No Debate on Dlntrlct of Columbia Bill
first Appropriation Measure.
Washington, Jan. 10. At a brief
session of the senate today, tho first of
tho regular appropriation bills to bo
reported to the body, tho District of
Columbia bill, was passed. It carried
a trifle over $7,000,000, and was passed
practically without debate. Tho pres
entation of a memorial horn a camp of
Confederate veterans in opposition to
the proposition of Butler of North Car
olina to pension ex-Confedorate soldiers
was mado the text by Allen of Nebras
ka for some remarks, during the course
of which he said that Butler, inriaking
his proposition, and tho president, in
suggesting that the nation care for the
graves of the Confederate dead, had
been cairiod away by their enthusiasm.
The houso was engagod all dav on
tho legislative, executive and jndioiacl
bill and completed it substantially as
reported, except tho items for tho civil.
service commission, which went over.
HONORS TO A DEAD SOLDIER
Services Over the Remains of Colonel
Maybry. "
New York, Jan. 10. A Herald dis
patch from Havana says: The body of
Colonel Maybry, of tho First Texas,
rested in state in a tent near Lee's
headquarters at Buena Vista on Thurs
day. Short services were held at 5
o'clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals
Lee, Keifer and Hasbrouck being pies
ent. The body was brought to Havana,
being escorted to the Almandares river
by his entire regiment. It will go tc
Miami on Friday to be forwarded to
Texas.
Adjutant-General Dorst, of the Fifth
cavalry, is critically ill with malarial
fever.
Lee's former forces are being lessened
day by day. Four companies now
doing provost duty in the suburbs have
been detached from his command and
ordered to report to General Ludlow.
When tho American occupation took
placo the members of a lottery company
that was famous a few years ago in a
Southon city made an attempt to secure
a concession here. Local papers have
apparently been subsidized, but Gen
eral Brooke declares that so long as the
American occupation lasts lotteries will
bo barred.
Smallpox has become epidemio at
Mariana, and General Lee has ordered
a number of infected houses burned.
Franklin Scott, a private of the One
Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has
the smallpox. Two hundred and fifty
naniguea arrived on Thursday on the
transport Covedonga, and were turned
loose in a bod v.
SANTIAGO'S TRADE.
General Wood's Report Shows It Is on
the Increase.
Washington, Jan. 10. Tho trado of
Santiago is already showing a surpris
ing growth under American adminis
tration. General Wood has submitted
a report to the war department, in
wnicn lie states that tho nolicv of lion
discriminative intercourse extended to
the vessels of all nations in Santiago
province has greatly facilitated the re
establishment of commercial relations
and has been one of tho chief features
in tho restoration of comparative oros-
perity in commerce, industry and agri
culture.
Outward cargoes of sugar and other
products are being uraudallv found for
shipping, but exportations from the
mines of the province have contributed
the bulk of the exports.
( "The fact," says General Wood,
"that the mines were put into opera
tion at an early date after the capitula
tion of Santiago was imoortant in
that the employment of laree numbers
of natives during a critical period was
stimulated Dy tho facilities for ship
ping ores."
The division of oustoms and insular
affairs of the war department has re
ceived Irom the collector of cuf-tnma at
Havana, Colonel Lasker II. Bliss, un
der date of December 29, 1898, his report.
Colonel Bliss says that the first fieri.
ous embarrassment he met with on tak
ing charge of the custom-house at Ha.
vana was caused by the fact that the
Spaniards had removed nearly every
thing except the bare walls and floors,
is first official step was to obtain n full
list of employes in tho custom-house,
tiieir salaries and nationality, nni nt
information as to their general charac
ter and reputation for integrity.
colonel Bliss says that, as whs in ha
expected, the several places in the cus
tom nouse wnen no assumed nhrm
were chiefly held bv Spaniards. th tn.
tal number employed being 239. The
prooiem that confronts him, he says,
is how to repair a houso from frnnrl.t.
tion to roof without a material fiictn-h.
ance of it occupants and without in
terfering with their daily business.
Under this condition, he remarks, he
cannot of course begin by tearing the
house down.
rilgrimage Ended In Riot.
Paris, Jan. 10. The socialist annual
pilgrimage today to the tomb of Blan
qui, in the cemetory of Pere la Chaise,
led to riots between rival partisans of
Henri Rochefort, editor of tho Intrans
igoant, and M. Juares, editor of tho
Sooiahst Potito Republiquo. Many
were injured, and the police mado a
number of arrests. The wreath intend
ed for the tomb was trampled upon.
Insurgents Respect Europeans.
Madrid, Jan. 10. Advices were re
ceived here today from a leading mer
chant at Ilo Ilo, to the effect that agri
cultural operations in the vicinity of
J o Ilo have not been interrupted, and
tliat all the insurgents respect the Eu
ropeans both at Ilo Ilo and on tho
island of Negros.
Present Release of Prisoner.
Madrid, Jan. 10.-Rios, tho Spanish
commander, telegraphs from Manila
that strained relntinnn i,n
. wvinccu I II
Americans and Insurgents prevent step
hill in. lol.,. I.. ., " r
, luvor 0I U1Q roeaBe
tho Spanrsh prisonors in the Philippi
islands. He adds that k -in .
that direction as soon as it is possible.
Immigration at San Francisco.
San Francisco, Jan. lO.-Tho report
or the immigration commission for
December shows that tho total immi
wnSr, intothI,0fr'of San Francisco
wa 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe
fi "..re wera 149 Japanese,
iwelve assisted Japanese were deport
ed and 27 others were not adm ttod
who could neither read nor write.
of
no
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Hi
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Agoncillo Desires Diplom
Recognition.
THE ISSUE WILL BE
Fori
General Miller Hag Uee
land His Troops at "
To Be Conciliatory With thefiji'
Washington, Jan. 9.-SenoP i
cillo, who is in Washington as
resentativeof the Philippine";
tnent. has asked to be recoonif
the United States as m$
acoordod the same rights as the
diplomats Hia requeBt j J
hands of Secretary Hay
Today, Dom Sixto Lopez, the pri
secretary of Senor iWmw.iiu .
the state department, and present"
uuu.a,a n miter to Secretary!
requesting, on behalf of Senor C
lo, an interview for the purport
ranging to present his ra.u, ,
President McKinley, and i
when it would meet the convenL
the president to meet tho Phii,
representative. '
The letter of Senor r.nn, ...,
states that he is instructed by S(
Agoncillo, in view of rwnnt a.
ments, to urge the advisability 0f
unuuniiuuing oetweun the Amen
government and the rpnrooni,i.:..
the Philippine people as to the r
lions uetween the respective natii
such understand in tn hn ronr.Uj
at Washington, through the joint
resentatives oi tne two government!
in the Philippine ishin.la in iik
. 1 ... iiao m
ner. The letter concludes with an
pression o! the earnest hope tha
friendly relations heietofnrn ,u
between the two uations may evei
maintained.
Accompanying the letter Ifl fl mfli
randum setting forth tho establish)
oi the Philippine republic, and
provision for a detailed svstemof
ernmcnt. From the facts submitt
says Senor Agoncillo, "it will app
that the Philippine Governmental
and it has been practically ever si
June 18, 1898, substantially in I
possession of the territory of the peo
it represents."
WILL FORCE THE ISSUE,
Geueral Miller lias Orders to Prot
Against Ilo Ilo.
Chicago, Jan. 9. A sneoial to I
Times-Herald from Washington 6!
President McKinley has decided
force the issue with the Filipinos.
decision may result in a battle at
Ilo. It may lead to a harrnssing
with the natives of tho Philippines,
is hoped and believed that such call
ities will be averted, but it remains
the insurgents to determine what
results will be.
Tho president has ordered Geuf
Miller to land his tioops at ilo 1
Tho order leaves the American cc
mandor no alternative. Ho isdirec
to be conciliatory toward the natit
but at the same time he is instmcl
to use force, if necessary, to effect I
landing and establish himself in I
deisirod camp. In other words, Gem
al Miller is to act on the defensive. I
will not fire a gun unless attacked I
the Filipinos:
STEAMERS MAY BE CRUSHG
Yukon Craft Will Be In DanjerlU
the Ice ISreaks.
Seattle, Jan. 9. News from Datrs
states that a number of Yukon tn
steamers v. ill bo lost when tlie i
breaks up in spring. Some werecwf
in very unprotected places, and i
scarcely escape being wrecked. 1
Robert Kerr, of tho Moran neei,
stuck fast on a bar 50 miles net
Circle City. The fine steamer Arco
of tho Ala'ska Exploration Compm:
fleet, wan pnncht hv the ice while I
on a bar some 80 miles below
Mile.
A cranlc bnnt nf the Empire lin',1
Seattle, is stuck 12 miles below Cj"
City. She is on a bar and ice i ?
med up all around her. The
and John C. Barr are also fast m 01
gerous positions.
Gomez' Ambition.
New York, Jan. 9. A dispatch
tho Ilorald from Havana says: i
nol in the insurgent army 8aT'
Uomez rei-entlv miuruled tli6 arn1'
his old ambition of uniting Cuba'
Santo Domingo under one govern
The wily old chief thinks tliat
United States can offer no object
this plan, which, if accompli8
would create a state strong enout
absorb Hayti soon. ,
With this done. Gomez Dew-
foundation wculd be laid foi nttf
which would soon tako rank
Western world second only w
United States.
Dismissed Cadets.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 9.-e
received from Lexington toiug
today the superintendent of t'ie
ginia-military institute issued an
dismissing the entire first class oi
institution, consisting of 85 (
The young men dismissed wprf
Statos. and their offense was ,
of discipline committed on e i
eve ia the faoo of special wornm