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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1899)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER W. ! DAVIS, Editor. TOLEDO OREGON HE Ii8 f HE WEEK OompreheniW Review of the Import ant Happening! of the Fsit Week Culled From the Telegraph Colum. Our sales abroad hava more than doubled since 1880. New Orleana will furnish the first two of the Spanish court stenographer! Otis asked for. A new sugar company organized in San Francisco has $5,000,000 to use in Ilawaian isles. One of the Prince Liiigi party panned out $1,800 in four days' time at Capf Nome, Alaska. Alter 26 ballots were taken, the Ken tucky Democrats nominated William Goebel for governor. A Japanese vessel has arrived in San Francisco and is said to have bu bonic plague on board. Rioting has broken out afresh in Cleveland. Several street cars were demolished by the mob. The government will use a shell ol terrific explosive power in the fall cam paign in the Philippines. The freight steamer Pawnee burned near Cape Henry, coast of Florida. Her crew of 34 was pioked up. The ship Selkirk went down on Ape reef, in the Philippines, with a $100, 000 cargo. All hands were saved. The Chicago stockyards strikeis have been successful, and have returned to work at an increase of 25 cents a day. The peace conference will lay aside disarmament proposals. The Kussian proposals were declared unacceptable. The 'varsity boat race was won by Pennsylvania, with Wisconsin second. Twenty-seven thousand people were in attendance. Vanderbilt has bought another road in the East, and the rumor is being re vived that he intends establishing a new transcontinental line. An asphalt trust, to control the pav ing material output of the. world, has been incoprorated in New Jersey with a capitalization of $30,000,000. Yellowstone has a new geyser. The size of the opening is about the same as the famous Fountain geyser. The eruption plays from 200 to 250 feel high. San Francisco authorities have disv covered counterfeit dies for stamping certificates of identification as given at Hong Kong. . They cut an important part in the Chinese smuggling schemes. Crop prospects in England and France have improved. Fire in the freight yards at Toledo, O., did $500,000 damage. Rich New Yorkers are on their way to Alaska to develop American minus. A life size statue of solid cold will be Colorado's state exhibit at tho Paris exposition. Rear-Admiral Sampson will re linquish oomniand of the North Atlan tic squadron in November. John Bull is said to be in a baq pinch and Germany and France are no far behind. They all need American gold. The now French oabinet is being well receive! Two hostile groups have withdrawn their opposition and most journals are favorable. Three hundred native Porto Rioans have been enlisted in the new battal ion authorized by tho war depurment, and 100 more will be taken. Aguinaldo expects reoognition after the next election. He has proclaimed that the present administration of the United States will moot defeat and Fil ipino independence will follow. Since tho announcement that about 10,000 voluntoois were to be mustered into tho army service in the Philip pines, the president has been dolugod with applications for commissions. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in tho col lege boat races, Pennsylvania four oared and Cornell freshmen were thi winners. The eight-oared race was an exciting contest between the lthacans and Columbia. A dispatch from Pekin says: G. A. Flitche, interpreter of tho French lega tion there, has been struok by a China man, and is differing front bruises. The French minister demands a public apology from the tsung li yamen. Sir Thomas Upton's cup challengei Shamrock was launched at Milhvall, England. As tho Shamrock reached midstream from the slips, a bargo col lided with her, stiking the vocht'a bow above the waterline, and making a big dent. At Pueblo, Colo., the Eilers smelt ers, one of the trust plants, has resumed operations with about half the regulai force. The wages paid out are about what the company oilginally offered, and the men aro guaranteed protection it they choose to violate the eight-hour law. NEWS. Returning soldiers say all Philippine news is censored. Daniel F. Timann, former mayor of New York, is dead. New York has a case of yellow fever. It came from Cuba. Fifteen hundred men are now out at the Chicago stockyards. Secretary Alger invented a parapet, but on a test it proved worthless. The writing paper trust has been in corporated, capitalized at $25 000.000. At a tumult in the Italian chamber of deputies in Rome 20 deputies were injured. At Belgium the government has con ceded to the socialists the right to hold meetings. London telegiaph company objects to a Pacific cable because it will hurt their business. The California miners who were re ported to have perished in Siberia, are alive and well. The peanut trust has been incorpor ated in New Jersey with a capitaliza tion of $50,000. Retail prices will advance in keen ing with those of the wholesale in the iron and steel trade. General Harrison Gray Otis says his namesake should have 50,000 men to route the Filipinos. The cruiser Chicago has gone to Pre toria. South Africa to Drotect Anmrinnn interests in the Transvaal. Dreyfus has at last been landed in France. He was taken to Rennes, where his retrial will take place. The United States consul at Salva dor, informs the state department that yellow fever has made its appearance there. Under direct orders from the presi dent, every nerve is strained to get the volunteer regiments away from the Philippines without a day's delay. No colored regiments will be organ ized for service in the Philippines. Any colored men enlisted will be as signed to vacancies in the present col ored regiments of the regular army. Heavy rains have done great damage in Texas. It is reliably stated that one family of six persons perished. The loss in cotton and corn alone will reach $1,000,000. while another $1,000,000 will not cover the loss to railroads and other property. California reports a profitable fruit season. Admiral Sampson has been granted a month's leave of absence. The Pewev home fund cnntrihntirmn have reached nearly $12,000. A German company will build a smelter in Shasta county, Cal. Spain has sold the gunboat Velas quez to Venezuela for 150,000 francs. A steam flue collapsed on a Missis sippi river steamer scalding five men, two fatally. After an absence of six years a Min neapolis man returned to stand trial for grand larceny. Captain Coghlan will go to Puget sound after all, as commandant of the naval station at Bremerton. The navy department has received information that Admiral Dewey sailed from Colombo for Port Said. Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has issued a pioclamation in whioh he says tho importation of miners must oease. Two Japanese Bailors jumped trom the plague ship anchored at San Fran cisco, hoping to reach Bhore, but were drowned. The campaign will cease in the Phil ippines until tho bad weather is ended. Meanwhile Otis' force will be increased to 40,000 men. The secretary of war has sent a re quest to Genoral II. G. Otis, at Los Angeles, to come to Washington for a conference in regard to affairs in the Philippines. The coroner's investigation of the two negroes killed in the Alabama race riot, found that they were shot down in cold blood, but failed to bring to light the guilty parties. Railroad ticket agents in the entire territory west of Chicago will have their incomes materially increased aftor July 1. After this date agents will receive liberal commissions for selling tickets over foreign or connect ing lines. These commissions will run from 25 cents to $4 per ticket, the av erage being about $1. A St. Louis police officer found con cealed in a dirty trunk and a valise a sum of money exceeding $15,000 in government bonds, gold and bills of large denominations. The police think that this small fortune is the property of Mrs. Walbonger Wackerle, an aged German woman who is now a patient at the city insane asylum. At Wallace, Idaho, deputy sheriffs have posted notices forbidding the publio observance of July 11. This la the anniversary of the riot at Gem, seven years ago. It has ever since been observed as Miners' Union day, tho ex ercises in the forenoon being similar to those of Memorial day, while in the afternoon Fourth of July spots nr held. LATER 'I Negroes From Pana Fired Upon by Strikers; GOING TO TAKE STRI KERS' JOBS One Woman Wua Shot Through the Ileiirt-Tlie Illot Led by an Italian Intonaa Excitement Prevails. Murphysboro, 111., July 8. At 9 o'clock this morning, Conductor Wil liam Hryan's train on the Johnson City branch of the Illinois Central, bearing 47 negro miners from Pana, was shot into by a crowd of miners at Lawder, in Williamson county. One negro wo man was killed by a bullet through her heart. The negroes were brought by Sam T. Bush, superintendent of the St. Louis Big Muddy mines, near Carters vi He, to work in his mine there, where there is now a strike. The miners, 50 in number, were armed with rifles and were hidden in the grass behind the company depot. When the train stopped the leader, an Italian, got on the platform and com manded the negroes to get out. Con ductor Bryan interfered, but was stopped by a revolver in his face. The train began to move and the miners poured in a withering fire. Conductor Bryan yelled to the negroes to throw themselves on the floor. Half a mile furhter on the negroes were unloaded and placed under charge of guards. They were then marched to the mine. Intense excitement prevails in the Carterville coal field, and bloody riots are expected, as the feeling has been intense for weeks. FIGHT IS INEVITABLE. The Rebeli Gathering to Attack San Fernando. Manila, July 3. A collision between the two armies at San Fernando seems inevitable soon. The insurgents are active all around the town, and can be seen working in the trenches to strengthen their position. Dav and night forces are at work. It is estimated that 3,000 men were seen marching in the road north of town yesterday morning. The Ameri cans turned out and manned the de fenses, exuectins an attack. Tho snl. diers sleep in their clothes and break- last at 4 o clock in tlie morning, eo as to be ready for an assault. The commission of three Rn.mish officers who entered the insurcent linen a lortnigtit ago to make a final attempt to arrange lor tne release of the Span ish prisoners have not returned. Tlmir long absence has occasioned alarm, but reports come to Manila that they were received by Aguinaldo at Tarlao and entertained hospitably. It is said that Aguinaldo gave a banquet in their honor, all the leading families of the rebel leaders of the present cabinet at tending, hence the Spaniards in Ma nila hope that the mission of the com missioners will be successful. General Ovenshine is in the hospital Buffering from fever. General Grant is commanding his troops on the south line. EXCLUSION A BLESSING. American! Benefited by Having Been Kept Out of Atlln. Seattle, July 3. Advices fiom Atlin mining district are to the effect that Judge Irving, who was sent into the district by the British Columbia gov ernment to straighten out the tangle caused by the alien exclusion act, has arrived there and has already settled many disputes over locations. He has decided that theorginial stakes, locnted before the passage of the exclusion act, Bhall stand, whether the locators are Americans or Canadians. Ru88 Ilumber. of Victoria, a late ar rival, says: "The condition of affaiis in Atlin is very serious. Nearly 4,500 men are in the district doing nothing. Many have run out of provisions and money. Only a few of the claims are turning out well. I would not give over $3,000 for the best claim in the dis trict. While I am a Canadian, I con domu, in the strongest terms, the ac tion of the provincial government in keeping the country closed up. Ameri cans should be thankful that the alien law kept them out." DREYFUS IN FRANCE. Famous PrUoner Itrncliert Kennel, Where He Will lie Tried. Rennes, France, July 8. Captain Dreyfus has arrived here. He was landed at Quidoron, and was conveyed by train to Bruz, 13 kilometers from Rennes. There he entered a landau, accompanied by the chief of the detec tives and prefect of the departmnet, and was driven to Rennes. where 25 gendarmes waited his entrance into tun town. Ten of the gendarmes entered a wagon ami followed the carriage. Thq rest followed on foot. The party ar. rived at the prison without incident. A large crowd assembled and wit nessed the arrival in silence and with out manifestation. Women Lawyers In France. Paris, July 3. The chamber of depui ties adopted a lesolution today author izing duly qualified women to piactice at the bar. II 1 IK RAIN GRAVES RENTED IN CUBA. When Payment Is Delinquent Remains Are Thrown Out. Havana, July 8. The citizens of Matanzas protest against restoring the cemetery to ecclesiastical authoirtes. It is asset ted by those who are particu larly active in their opposition that the church, though always regarding the cemetery as a leading soucre of in come, has invariably taken advantage of the poor in connection therewith, compelling them to pay exorbitant sums when renting graves for their lead, and then, at the expiration of the terms, relentlessly disinterring the remains and throwing them into mi consecrated ground. Brigadier-General Lee called upon the governor-general today with regard to future action against the thieves who have recently created bo much trouble in the district of Guana jay. The piompt meaures already taken served to check the outbreak of thievery, and it is not expected that there will be much more trouble there. Nevertheless General Lee wishes to take steps that will be absolutely pre ventive. General Brooke has received a decree drawn by Senor La Nuza, secretary of justice on the advisory cabinet, by the terms of which, for the time being, citizens of foreign countries who desire tlio reuugiiUiuu u Clitti tela aiiu ItOCiiSGa shall present to their diplomatic repre sentative or consul all such doouments for formal legalization. The people in Havana are deeply in terested in the reported discovery of yel low fever serum. Most of them doubt its efficacy, but thev say they will give it a fair trial if oppotunity offers. They believe that if administered in minute doses it would not harm the patient. OREGON MAN'S INVENTION. Naval Hoard Experiments With a New Explosive. New York, July 3. A dispatch to tho Heiald from Washington says: Important tests with thorite, a new high explosive, are being conducted by the board of ordnance and fortifications at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. Little is known at the war department of the characteristics of the new explo sive. It is the invention of Professor Tuttle, of Oregon, who asserts it is per fectly safe, and was willing Bome weeks ago to put a red-hot poker in a charge of thorite, declaring it could be done without causing it to explode. It is believed to have picric acid as its base. Tests of the explosive by the inventor are said to have been very sat isfactory, and it may prove to be the material the army has been seeking. Besides thorite, the ordnance depart ment of the army has been experiment ing with jovite, emmensite and dry and wet guncotton, paying more atten iton to ti e last named explosive than to any other. So far none of them has given the results desired before adop tion for service use. Captain William Crozier, military attache of the American delegation to The Hague conference, was instructed several weeks ago to stop in England on his way home and ascertain if possi ble the ingredients of hddite and the secret of the f uso used by General Kitch nei's army in the Soudan with such excellent effect. It is untrue that he has been directed to contract for any quantity of the explosive. Military officers In England have ap parently heen unable to secure all the information concerning the explosive the authorities would like to have. It is lecalled that emmensite, discovered in and used by France, was kept a se cret, but this government finally ob tained infoi mation of its ingredients and has. been testing it for 6ome years at Sandy Hook. Tests of jovite were made by the army offioials several years ago and were not very successful. The navy department has tested thorite with con siderahle success, and if it continues to bo satisfactory it may be adopted by the naval service. Joint Pacific Const Terminal Company. Tacoma, Wash.. July 3. A special from New York to he Evening News today says: Negotiations wihch have been pending for the past 90 days for settlement of the terms for a joint terminal corporation for the Pacific coast have been ptactically concluded, and the plan of organization agreed upon. Tacoma will be the center of the system, which will include various ports on the navigable waters of the North Pacifio coast, where the steam Bhip lines of the Pacific will be cen tered. Aotive work in the carrying out of the project, which includes the Great Northern, Northern Pacifio, Burlington and Union Pacifio systems, will be at once begun. Another Diplomatic Crisis. Washington, July 2. The negotia Hons in London looking to the arrange ment of a modus vivendl fixing the Alaskan boundary, have again nearly reached a crisis, the several confer euces that have taken place recently between Salisbury and Choate having been dismally disappointing in results. At moments it appeared the details could be easily arrarged. but it turns out that those very details cannot be agreod upon without the sacrifices of the interests of many American min ers, mainly those who are driven out of the Atlin district by the severe and discriminating Canadian laws. BROKE THE WORLD'S RECOR Murphy 57 Rode a Mile 4-5 Seconds. PACED BY A LOCOMOTIVE Bcreened From the Wind by riood the Train-Nearly Cost Ill.n H, J' Wheel Was Geared to lao. ' New York, July 3. Charles Jf Murphy, of the Kings County Wheel' men. rode a mile on a bicycle, paj by a locomotive, in 57 4-5 seconds to day. His course was a two-mile boa-H track on a siding of the Long ifiiailll railway. Murphy followed an engine and a day coach, the latter being pro. vided with a hood, which acted as j wind shield for the rider. The boairf track was laid near Maywood, L. 1 ami extended fiom that station Wo miles east, and was as nearly pei feet to a level as skill could make it. Fullj 8,000 people saw Muiphy make his dan ing tide. Engineer Sam Booth had his hand on the throttle of engine 74 when th wuru wuagivuii lo ttlurt at u:iu. The engine Btarted at a rapid rate, and be fore 400 yards had been traversed, was running at a rate of more than 50 miles an hour. Murphy was keeping well within tho hood. As tliey neared the beginning of tho mile stretoh, iht pace was a mile a minute, and a cloui of dust obscured everything from the view of the spectators, who lined the banks on either side. On entering this pace, which wonl) test his speed, Murphy, in reply 101 query, shouted: "I'm all right, Eend hor along." but there was no necessity foi liia remarks as to speed, as the en gineer was sending the big steam flyer along at top speed. The quarter was reached in 15 seconds, and the half ia 29 2-5. The time for the three-quarters was 44. At the finish, two of the watches showed 57 4-5, one 57 3-5, an other 58. and the fifth 67 3-4, which was held by Sheriff Creamer. The timers agreed that Murphy had coveied the distance in 57 4-5 seconds. Those on the back platform who had watohed Murphy all through his won derful rido stated that the rider's handle bars had knocked against the rubber bufft at least six times and each time the concussion sent him back fully Eix feet, but Murphy always had strength enough to regain this distance, During the last quarter of a mile, the rider covered the ground fnr the greater part fully a wheel's length out side of the hood, but as he passed the finish he was close up. Just then tm strong men on board the train reached down and seized the rider by either arm and lifted him aboard the car in safety. Their action undoubtedly eaveJ Murphy's life, because he was then in such a weak condition that had he been allowed to remain on the wheel he would have been unable to contiol it, and a serious, if not fatal, accident might have happened. ' Murphy was curried to the front part of the car and laid on a cot where physician administered to him, and in lees than five minutes the cyclist was able to converse with those around him. Murphy seemed dazed at first, anJ said, in answer to queries as to why he fell back so many times: "I did tint so that I might not come in contact with the planks which were being torn up in front of me." Later on, howevei, he did not refer to this, but said: "Boys, I've felt al ways that I could do this. Now that I have done it, 1 am satisfied, anil so are many otheis. " Before the train had reached Baby lon Murphy had regaineJ his normal condition. Murpliy rode a 28-inch wheel, ceareJ to 120, O'-inch crank hangers, and th weight of the machine was 20'-, pounds. GOVERNMENT OF SAMOA Governor Not to ite Subject to Atr0' the Treaty I'owers. San Francisco. July 3. The steam ship Mariposa arrived from Australia, via Samoa and Honolulu, today, J reports everything quiet in tho Si moan islands. The commission lost no time in Si ting to work and had an interview with the riavl kings, who agreed to surrend er all arms and abandon their claims'1' the thorne. The commission is no engaged in writing its report. ftpia is to be governed by a conn" and tnnvnr Tl. 4 .1 : : 1 A lir.lO- inatic functions of the consuls will I greatly restncted and the supren court and one law la roxnimiziid as ef ficient for the needs of Samoa. Ke, enue will be raised by indirect taxation bv m on n 1 IntieSt and the poll tax will be abolished. governor will be appointed who not be the subject of any treaty P' CIS. Ha will ha cnnnCll of three, one from each of the interest ed powers. This council will leisltlte for the Samoans and will be aided V a small body of representative Samoar Consuls Rose and Mazse are passeim1' on the Mariposa. Some of the rebels aie diaatiefleJ with the procalmation providing irt provisional dined to give up heir rifles.
