LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
K. E. COLLINS, K.litor.
TOLEDO .OREGON
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Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Past Week
Called From the Telegraph Colonial.
Reports of foreign grain crops are
Unfavorable.
A government assay office will be
established at Seattle.
Kansas has the biggest corn crop in
eight in the history of the state.
Los Angeles will issue $2,000,000 in
bonds for purchase of waterworks.
Three ton's of gold dust were deposit
ed in one day in the Seattle banks.
Admiral Dewey will be banqueted
by the Americans at Trieste, Austria.
The battleship Iowa has received or
ders at Seattle to sail for San Fran
cisco. A reciprocal treaty between the Uni
ted States and the West Indies lias been
signed.
The Philippine commission reports
encouraging progress toward pacifica
tion of natives.
The Addison Bteel loundry at Cin
cinnati, employing 200 men, burned;
loss, $400,000.
The Shamrock in a race with the
Prince of Wales yacht Biittania easily
beat her 13 minutes.
Three were killed and three injured
in a railroad wreck near Portsmouth,
O.. caused by a heavy fog.
The administration will' ignore the
Manila correspondents' "round robin,"
and await favorable news.
The royalties paid to the Canadian
government by Klondike mine owners
will amount to over $800,000 this sea
eon. Five thousand immigrants- were
landed in San Francisco last year.
They brought with them a total of
$337,754.
The Filipino junta will be moved
from Hong Kong to the island of La
baun. a British colony, six miles from
the northwest toast of Borneo, as the
American officials have watohed the
members of the junta eo olosely at
Hong Kong that the latter have found
it impossible to supply the insurgents
with arms. '
Admiral Dowey has filed his claim
for naval bounty.
Aguinaldo is said to be negotiating
with General Otis for peace.
Sacramento river steamers are tied
up on account of a deck hands' strike.
The new French cabinet wants to
end the Dreyfus agitation and hush the
scandal.
Near London, Ky., as the result-of
a fend, live men woio killed in u
pitched hat tie.
Senators and representatives are said
to have dictated appointments of new
volunteer otlioers.
C. B. Winn, of Albany, has been ap
pointed census supervisor for the first
district of Oregon.
Americans have gained anothor vic
toiy lit Tho Hague in securing tho
right of revision of aihitral rewards.
McKinley will recommend 1'iat con
gress give Eighth anuv corps members,
including Oregon volunteeis, special
lnavery medals.
All of the bodies of tho dead in the
Second Oregon regiment will bo
brought home for burial at the govern
ment's expense.
Dissolution of tho O. R. & N. voting
trust means that hereafter tho road
w ill serve Union Paoitioand itself rath
er than Northern roads.
The ('(dorado supremo court has de
cided the eight-hour law unconstitu
tional. Tim smelters will resume
operations on the old schedule.
There are now at St. Michaels be
tween 200 and 300 stranded piospoe
tois, who do not know where their
next meal is coming from. The gov
ernment station on the island is be
sieged wth piteous appeals for aid.
Attorney-General Blackburn has
rendered an opinion at the request of
Newt Livingston,' slieritt of Grant
county, Or., in which he expresses the
opinion that slieritTs are not entitled
to constructive mileage in serving pa
yers. Newspaper correspondents In the
Philippines liave made a vigorous pro
test against the close censorship of dis
patches, and say they are forced to in
lulgo in misrepresentations. Otis has
appointed a new censor and promises
n more liberal policy will bo pursued
in tho future.
A fruit tanners' combine, including
11 coiporations and S3 plants, has just
been formed in Wan Francisco. The
now combine includes almost every
important cannery in California, and
will cut a prominent liguro in the fruit
industry of tho state, besides controll
ing prices and dictating tonus to tho
fruit-growers.
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LATER NEWS.
Forty additional surgeons are needed
;'n the Philippines.
tered on the Koyukuk and other
branches of the Yukon.
Elihu Root, a New York lawyer, has
accepted the portfolio of war.
People with money are coming into
the Northwest in great numbers.
A big elevator burned at Toledo, O.,
with a property loss of $1,000,000.
President McKinley and Mrs. Mc
will take an outing at Lake Cham
plain. Oregon's hop crop will probaly reach
85,000 bales, according to latest esti
mates. At Cleveland the militia resorted to
a bayonet charge to clear the streets of
riotous strikers.
The battleship Iowa, recently over
hauled at Port Orchard drydock, is now
at Sau Francisco.
Secretary Alger claims the credit for
the suggestion to send the Spanish cap
tured at Santiago back to Spain.
About 2,500 clothing workers are on
a strike in New York, and it is said this
number will be swelled to 25,000 with
in two weeks.
Two rapidly moving electric cars
crashed iiiiu eauh oihei al Loa Augeiea.
The cars were crowded, but no one was
seriously injured.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, killed
a deer while in Coloiado. and the state
game warden is after his scalp for
shooting game out of season.
President Diaz, of Mexico, and his
cabinet will be formally invited to
attend the ceremonies of the laying of
the corner stone of the new federal
building in Chicago on October 9.
The Dominion government telegraph
line is now completed to Five Fingers,
and is progressing so rapidly that mes
sages may be sent over it from Skag
way to Dawson in less than two months.
The president has issued his procla
mation publishing to the world the
reciprocity agreement between the Uni
ted States and Portugal, the first of the
agreements under the Dingley act to be
concluded sir.ee that" made with France
last year.
Three negroes weie lynched near
Saffold, Ga., and the moij is hunting
for five more, who are believed to have
been members of a gang that robbed J.
E. Ogiltree, agent of the Plant system,
at Saffold, afterwards binding him and
assaulting his wife in his presence.
Twenty-two Chicago bookmakers
have been indicted.
Italy has subscribed 3,000 lire to
Texas flood sufferers.
The Union Pacific's Ogden-Omaha
line will be double-tracked.
Secretary Alger has tendered his
resignation, to take effect in two weeks.
Prince Henry of Prussia is in Corea
looking out for the interest of Ger
many. The secretary of the Chicago school
board has confessed eiubezlenient of
$34,600.
Fiances W. Ilealy, of Vancouver, hue
been appointed a lieutenant in the reg
ular army.
President Angus Cannon, Mormon
leader, has pleaded guilty to unlawful
cohabitation.
Spanish prisoners are to be ran
somed, the money to he placed in a
bank until the war is over.
A fire, origin unknown, destroyed
more tban $250,000 worth of property
on the Brooklyn water front.
The wrecker of the Perth Amboy
bank has been sentenced to six years
in the New Jersey penitentiary.
Tho Oregon volunteers think Otis is
incompetent and nearly all are of the
opinion that General Miles should be
in charge.
A Rome dispatch says there was an
eruption of Mt. Etna, accompanied by
Biibteriaean noises and a number of se
vere eaithquaku shocks.
New York trolleymen have joined
the Brooklyn tiollev men in their big
strike. In Brooklyn dynamite was
used to blow down the elevated struc
ture. The prico of flour has dropped 20
cents a banel and is now cheaper than
for sometime. The drop is said to be
duo to the steady deciease in the price
of wheat.
Abe Rothschild, known throughout
the country as a crook and diamond
thief of the first water, has been con
victed in Texas and given three years
In the peititentiary.
Friends of Major-General Shatter are
endeavoring to have him continued in
his present position after his time of
retirement. It is not thought, how
ever, that congress will accede to this.
Tho Petrel is cruising around Linga
yan bay, about 200 miles from Manila.
The orew is unable to get any fresh
food or fruit fioin eiiore and Is com
pelled to subsist on the regular ship's
rations.
A statement prepared at tho war de
partment shows that of 66 officers and
1,310 men eulisted of the Second Ore
gon regiment, only 49 were killed in
battle or died of disease during the
campaign in the Philippines, percent
age of 8.02.
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ilUitLU 0 UIUm I 01
Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll Passed
Away Suddenly.
A VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE
The End Came Without Warning, (he
Only rernon I'retent at the Time Be
ing UU Wife Hit Lait Word.
New York, July 24 Colonel Robert
Q. Ingersoll died at his home, Walston-on-Hudson,
near Dobb's Ferry, today,
His death was sudden and unexpected,
and e.-ulted from heart disease, from
w hieh he had suffered since 1806. In
that year, during the republican na
ional convention, he was taken ill and
had to return home. He never fully
recovered from the attack of heart dis
ease, and was under the care of physi
cians constantly.
For the last three days, Mr. Ingersoll
had not been feeling well. Last night
he was in better health and spent a
portion of the evening playing billiards
with Walston H. Brown, his son-in-law,
and C. P. Farrell, his brother-in-law
and private secretary. Ho ccciaed
to be in better health and spirits when
he retired than he had been for Eeveral
days.
This morning he rose at the usual
hour and joined the family at break
fast. He then said he had spent a bad
night, but felt better. He had been
suffering from abdominal pains and
tightness about the chest. He did not
think his condition at all dangerous.
After breakfast he telephoned to Dr.
Smith, his physician, who is at Bell
Haven, and told him of his experience
during the night. Dr. Smith told him
to continue the use of nitro-glycerine,
and that he would see him during the
day. Colonel Ingersoll spent the morn
ing swinging in a hammock and sitting
on the veranda with the members of
his family. He said he was better and
had no pain.
At 13:30 he started to go up stairs.
On reaching the head of the stairs, Col
onel Ingesroll turned into his wife's
room. Mrs. Ingersoll was there. To
gether they discussed what they would
have for luncheon, and Colonel Inger
soll said he had better not eat much,
owing to the trouble with his stomach.
He seemed in good spirits then.
After talking for a few minutes, Col
onel Ingersoll crossed the room and sat
down in a rocking chair. Mrs. Inger
soll asked him how he was feeling, and
he replied: "Oh. better." These
were his last words. A second after
they were uttred he was dead. The
only sign noticed by Mrs. Ingersoll was
tha.t the whites of his eyes suddenly
showed. There was not even a eigh or
a groan as death came. Doctors were
hastily called, but their veidict wa
that death had come instantly.
BREAK AWAY FROM TRUST.
Jobber! I)lnt Isfleil With the Demor
alization of Trade.
Chicago, July 24. The "factor"
plan in the distribution of retined
sugar that is. on tenus dictated by
the sugar trust is in jeopardy and
may be dissolved at any time. A
meeting of wholesale grocers and job
bers heretofore intersted in furtheiing
the plans of the American Sugar Re
finery Company, was held at the Com
mercial Exchange, and the trade situa
tion as affecting sugar was discussed
The thing sought to be accomplished
was either ways and means of putting
a stop to the present demoralization in
the trade, or the abandonment of the
factor and the substitution of what if
known as tho "equality" plan, undei
the operation of whic h a jobber regu
lates his own prices.
The pieseut trouble began several
months ago, when jobbers showed a
disposition to break away from the
thralldom of the trust. Tlie bars were
let down later by the Haveinieyer tes
tiniony, that the factor plan had been
abandoned. Western grocers then de
cided to get together and agiee to work
uniformly on somo tdan satisfactory to.
all jobbing interests.
Iewey no the I'euce Conference.
Vienna, July 24. In the course ol
an interview had with him by a repre
sentative of tho Neue Freie Presse to
day, Admiral Dowev, when asked what
he expected would be developed for
the international peace coufeience at
The Hague, said:
"Who is tonibarm first? The exper
iment was tried in the United States,
and loon what it cost us to get ready
in time and how we had to fear thi
issue. We now think differently, and
are building 40 men-of-war. We shall
not be taken by surprise and found
unprepaied again; and it is haul to bo
lieve, in view of our terrific exertjong,
that the other powors will abandon the
advantage of their armaments and give
them up."
Head Wa Criuhnl.
"Walli Walla, July 24. In replacing
n pile of oveiturned lumber in Cham
berlain's yard this morning, the body
of a man was found, his head smashed
by fallen lumber. He had evidently
gotten under them to sleep. He had a
little coin and was a laborer. The
body was late tin the dav identified as
that of William Woody, of Milton. Ha
left family
TRANSPORT INDIANA ARRIVES.
UrlngK Sick Soldier From Philippine
KegliiipntR.
San Francisco, July 24. The Uni
ted States transport Indiana arrived to
day from Manila, the journey occupy
ing 82 days. The vessel was sent to
quarantine. The Indiana has 858 sick
soldiers on board and a number of Red
Cross nurses. The sick soldiers were
taken from the various regiments, and
a great many of them are suffering
from wounds received in battle.
Private Edward Crawford, Twenty
third infantry, jumped overboard while
insane, and was drowned. Among the
bodies brought back form the Philip
pines was that of Major Diggles, of the
Thirteenth Minnesota. Captain V.
Van Patent, assistant surgeon, First
Washington, and Second Lieutenant
Richards, First Montana, are among the
passengers.
After tiie quarantine officers had sat
isfied themselves that there was no in
fectious disease, on the Indiana, she
anchored off the Harrison street wharf.
The steamer has on board a party of
Filipino men and women for the Oma
ha and other Eastern expositions, but
it is possible that they may not be al
lowed to land. The crew of the Indi
ana is mostly composed of Filipinos,
among them being two graduates oi
the Manila university.
Among thee who rptnrned nn the In
diana was Dr. Day Wait, of San Fian
cisco. According to him, a Filipino
wounded in battle is insensible to pain.
One man had his eyes torn out by a
bullet and his jaw shattered. When
the wound was dressed he tore the
bandages off, and two or three days
later was breaking in a horse, as though
there was no gaping wound in his
head. The doctor oite9 other similar
cases.
A bandit named Rias is giving the
soldiers at Ilo Ho a great doal of trou
ble. He scours the country and mur
ders all who will not assist him. Six
native policemen were sent to confer
with him. Five of thera were brutally
murdered, and one returned more dead
than alive to tell the tale. The Cali
fornia boys made a forced maroh of 25
miles, hoping to capture the bandit,
but he escaped and was still carrying
on his depredations when the Indiana
sailed.
Sergeant Jones, of the Tennessee reg
iment, is credited with one of the most
daring exploits of the war. He cap
tured a Filipino flag by making a soli
tary charge on a band of insurgents,
who thought he had a larger force be
hind him.
SAILED FOR MANILA.
Nine Trained Knnei Leave New York
for the Philippine!.
New York. July 24. The 6 o'clock
through train on the New York Central
last night for San Francisoo, carried
nine more trained nurses for the Phil
ippines, sent out under the auspices of
auxilliary No. 3 for the maintenance
of trained nurses. Following is the
list: Miss Duensing, Miss Barbara
Zeigler, Miss Amy Pope. Miss Carlotta
Marshall, Miss Lyclia E. Coakley, Miss
Mary Murray. Miss Mary M. Su'mraey,
Miss Heleif Fraser, Miss Katherine
Yeakel.
These nurses are sent in response to
an appeal for more nurses cablod last
Saturday from Manila to Mrs. White
law Reid, chairman of the committee
on the maintenance of trained nurses,
to which auxilliary No. 3 turned over
the care of closing up its work. Adjutant-General
Corbin, as soon as advised
of the appeal, infornid Mrs. Reid that
the secretary of war would send in
structions to San Francisco to forward
the nurses at once on army transports
on the same conditions as formerly,
that they begin work immediately for
any sick soldiers on the tranports"dur
ing the voyage. He also suggested
that, with a view to making this Eerv
ice as useful as possible, ft would be
desirable to divide them into two de
tachments and send on separate trans
ports. Miss Duensing was accordingly
placed in charge of one patry of five
and Miss Fraser in chaige of there
mauling four, and in accordance witn
the adjutant-general's direction they
weie insructed to report immediately
to Major-General Shatter in San Fran
Cisco on their arrival next Tuesday
morning. J
WASHINGTON VOLUNTEERS.
Will Probably Leave Manila About
"gum io.
Seattle. July 24.-The war depart
ment at Mashington has given out the
following information in regard to the
W ashington volunteeis:
"General Otis has cabled that hsavy
storms are raging around Manila, caus
ing much dealy in loading transports
now there with the volunteers to be re
turned. The transport Grant leaves
tn is morn i no in, ti. vi...
, . ,,. v V,,D "n iiortn Da
kou. ust Idaho and First Wyomlna
t'luuHuie otner reci
merit, will leave in the following order
regi.
mler:
tana,
...... ..1.. numi-soia, rirst Montan
Just South Dakota, Fiist Washingto
n,
- " """i -nrst lennessea.
supposition is bus,.,! nn i, .,!..
This
General Otis to return the voluntee
given
rs
... i... vi.ier in which they left
the
unite, states for the Phili,,pi
ue
: r. ouier transpo
nts
... Iin wiui a capacity
sufli-
iv. iciiihi me regiments
men-
uuue.i uoove, anu it is probal
the 10th of August the First
' piobable that by
m PI... i
asuing-
ion mu nave leit.
THE SECRETARYSHIP OF WAR
Elihu Root, a New York Law
yer Has Accepted.
CONGRATULATED BY
ALGER
Tender of the Office Wat Made Aft,
Conference at the White Hou.e Wuh
Senator Matt.
Washington, July 25. Elihu Knot
of New York, has accepted the wur
portfolio in President McKinley' t.,(,;.
net. The telegram of acceptance wa'3'
received shortly after noon, while Sec
retary Long was with the president"
Secretary Alger had just left.
The tender of the war portfolio was
made to Mr. Root last night after the
conference at the White House. As
the president will leave for the Adiron
dacks Wednesday or Thursday, it i8
probable that Mr. Root will coma to
Washington to confer with him before
that time. It is regarded as more like
ly that Mr. Root will meet the presi
dent at Lake Champlain in the latter
part of the week.
(Elihu Root was born at Clinton, V,
Y., February 15, 1845, and graduated
at Hamilton college and the New York
university law school. He was admit
ted to the bar in 1867, since which
time he has been in active practice in
New York city. He was one of the
most prominent members of the New
York state constitutional convention,
where he served as chairman of the
judiciary committee.)
Washington, July 25. Sectetaiy
Alger this afternoon addressed tho fol
lowing telegram to Mr. Root, at South
ainpton, on hearing of his acceptance
of the war portfolio:
"Accept my best congratulations and
thanks."
RIOT AND BLOODSHED.
Crowded Street Car Itlown ITp in tlure
land. Injuring; Several.
Cleveland, July 25. A Euclid ave
nue car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion of nitro
glycerin or guncotton shortly befoie
11 o'clock tonight. The injured were
as follows:
Mrs. E. C. Martin, 79 Alabon street;
compound fraoture of the skull, right
arm uroKen and internal injuries, which
may prove fatal.
E. C. Martin, rii'lit. arm b.nllv rut.
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and bruised about the legs and body.
Mrs. Catherine Harris, 25 Cornell
street, suffeiing from nervous prostra
tion. F. A. Smith, 69 Vienna street, in
jured about legs and body.
Albert E. Fasset, 12 Wallace place,
legs injured.
Dora Schessler, 11 Oakdale street,
bruised about the body.
Late tonight it was learned that
Mrs. Martin, one of the injured, would
probably die. She suffered a com
pound fracture of the skull, had one
arm broken and was otherwise injured.
She was with her husband, who was
also badly hurt.
Tho force of the explosion was so
gieat that it shook all the houses in the
neighborhood, and it was heard for a
distance of. two or three miles.
There is not the slightest olue to the
identity of the person who placed the
explosive on the track.
Wan nn Important Victory.
Washington, July 25. The war de
partment received today from General
Otis another dispatch, giving addition
al particulars of the fight between Cap
tain Byrne, with 70 men of the Sixth
infantry, and robber bands in the
island of Negros. It shows that the
victory of the soldiers will be greater
than that reported in General Otis' di
patch of July 21, and that the loss suf
fered 1jy the robbers was consideiahlf
larger than before stated. Much satis
faction is felt by General Otis over the
Jesuit of this preliminary effoit in deal
ing with this disturbing element in the
islands, and ho leports it as already
having a salutary effect on other bands
inlesting the locality.
Laurler Talk of War.
Toronto, Ont., July 25. A special
to tho Telegram from Ottawa, says:
A violent criticism of the Aiueiiof
position concerning the Alaska bound
ary question by Sir Charles Tuppe'i al
this morning's sitting of the house,
brought forth a statement from Sir
Wilfrid Lauriei.
"It is clear," he said, "that there H
are only two ways by which the ("
culty may now be settled at bitratioD
or war. I have no hope at this niome"'
that we can settle the matter by com
promise. No one wants war. )V(
must exhaust every means of removinf
the difficulty by peaceful methods. 1
have not given up hope that it is po"'
ule to agreo to aibitration. Net""1'
tions are still going on. Wo must find
some menns of bringing about a peace
ful settlement."
Hape Fiend Lynched.
St. Louis. July 25. A Post-DisrB,cJ
pocial from Mexico, Mo., says: 'M)t
Euibree. a negro, charged with assiul'
8 14-year-old Miss Daugherty ''
Benton a few weeks ago, was takf
from the officers by a mob at Steinu""
and hanged to a tree,
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