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
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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.
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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.