LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
It. K. COLLINS, Kriitor.
TOLEDO OREGON
I NEWS OF HE WEEK
CompnthenslTe Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Column.
The Belgian cabinet lias resigned.
Undo Pain is said to be negotiating
for a coaling station near Chile.
Distinguished Russians are in Chi
cago to study American railway serv
ice.
The returned volunteers are reportod
to be having a good time in San Fran
cisco. Ingersoll left no will. Ho consid
ered it unnessary, having confidence in
the laws.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern are believed to be friends
once more.
The gunboat Dolphin was injured in
New York harbor by colliding with a
ferryboat.
Theie has been a general advance in
the prioe of lumber from 15 to 25 per
cent since July 1.
Nine hundred employes of Morse's
shipyards, Brooklyn, want more pay
and have quit work.
I. L. Wilson killed Walter Cava
naugh, a brother of his sweetheart, in
a saloon at San Francisco.
A Filipino has sued an English mem
ber of the Filipino junta at llong Kong
for $50,000 damages for libel.
Mrs. E. 15. Crocker has presented
Sacramento lodge of Elks with her spa
cious residence in that city valued at
$00,000.
A Christian Scientist has instituted
proceedings against Mrs. Eddy and
her followers for $125,000, alleging
criminal libel.
Four wore killed and six others bad
ly injured near Boone. In., in a wreck.
The train jumped the track and all the
cars went over tho bank.
James Entwistlp, Dewey's fleet en
gineer, has been raised to the grade of
rear-admiral for excellent seivice in
the battle of Manila.
Tho remains of John Brown's raidors
will be taken from Harper's Ferry aiu"
Inured beside thoflo of the their leader
at North Elba, N. Y.
Sonator Bevoridgo, of Indiana, who
it 'A'as feared had been lost, has been
heard J oin at Nagasaki, Japan, where
lie had been quarantined.
Elihu Knot has taken the oath of of
fice. He was congratulated by Secre
tary Alger, who prayed that God would
give him strength and bless him.
Chicago will try to get Dewey,
Schley, Sampson and Cervera for Otto
boi 0, during the now federal building
coriier-Ktone laying. President Dole
mid President Diaz will also ho invited.
The messenger boys of Boston have
gone on a strike for an iiieieaso of pay,.
TI'O cup-challenger Shamrock ii
about ready to start for New York.
Henry Villard is visiting Portland for
the first time since 1SU1.
Maitin Dotz, said to have married
nix women, nil but two of whom are
now living,, was arrested in Chicago.
Admiral Kautz has raised his flag
on tho battleship Iowa, which is now
the flagship of tho Pacific siiuadron.
Tho garrison at Fort Monroe has
been ordered to niovo north as a pre
caution against yellow fever.
Now York and San Frano isco capi
talists will start a national bank in
Hawaii about September 1.
Ex-Aiubassadoi Eustiu has written
the facts in tho Dieyfns cuso and they
aro soon to ho published.
The North Dakota, Wyoming and
Malms have left Manila on tho trans
port Grant.
Fred Ij. Italian, of company 11, First
Washington, was wounded in the
shoulder during tho captuie of Ca
lamba. ltombthrowers are making life miser
able for the population of Seoul.
Seventeen persons have been arrested
by tho police.
Tho Al-Ki lias airived in Seattle
with lUOO.OUO in Alaska gold. Ont
third of tho amount is from the famous
Treadwell milieu.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas nays an
long as negro outrages upon white wo
limn continue in tho South there is no
remedy for lynching.
Admiral Sampson has entered suit
libeling the Spanish vcxsel Maria
Teresa nud claims huge prize money
for tho battle of Santiago.
Brakeman Constable wan killed,
Fireman Goldsworthy fatally and Con
ductor Fianio seriously injured in a
wreck near Winslow, Ariz.
Governor Poynter was on hand to
weloomo tho Nebrnskans. They were
Kivf n a great ovation by the citizena of
Kan Francisco and are now in camp at
the Presidio.
LATER NEWS.
Bubonic plain ge has made its reap
pearance at Calcutta.
Great Britain will increase her gar
rison at Victoria quite materially.
The Mexican government, it is eaid,
lias determined to exterminate the
Yaqui Indians.
The American and German repre
sentatives of the Samoan com mission
have returned to San Francisco.
Officials at the Soldiers' Home now
believe they have succeeded in effect
ually stamping out the yellow fever.
By the collision of electric cars at
Saunderstown, R. I., the motornian,
M. W. Abbey, was killed and one lady
injured.
Toral and Pareja, who were on trial
in Madrid for having surrendered
Santiago to the Americans, have been
acquitted.
Pension Examiner Benjamin H.
Snell brutally murered a 13-year-old
girl with whom ho had become infatu
ated in Washington.
Captain Dreyfus is again facing his
accusers. lis retrial began at Henries,
France. There was no demonstration.
The prisoner was firm but pallid.
At Bridgeport, Conn., 36 persons
were killed and a large number in
jiiifcd in u blieul itiiiuuy accident. A
trolley car dropped 40 feet into a mill
pond. .
Paris was visited by an electrical
etorni and many buildings were slightly
injured and scores of trees destroyed.
The lightning conductor of the Eiffel
tower was struck ten times.
A colored American citizen, a black
smith, was mistaken for a Kaffir at Jo
hannesburg, South Africa, and cruelly
maltreated by the police. The United
States consul has taken up the matter.
Hon. John Good now, consul-general
of the United States at Shanghai, has
rendered a decision, as rofeiee in the
consular court, that will lesult in cut
ting off Aguinaldo's supply of arms he
has been receiving from China.
A big river coal combine has been
completed at Pittsburg, Pa., and 96 of
the 102 working coal mines along tho
Monongahela river, together with a
largo number of steamers and barges,
will be merged into one concorn.
At Juvisy, a suburb of Paris, two
fast trains collided and 17 persons were
killed and 73 injured. The collision
occuurred during a thunder stouu, and
, it is supposed that the electrical cur
I rent may have been responsible for tho
' defectivo signalling.
During the excitement attending the
arrival of battleships at Bar Harbor,
Me., a crowded gangplank gave way
and 150 persons were precipitated into
the water. Seventeen were drowned
and three died subsequently from in
juries. The cotton duck trust is the latest;
capitalization. $23,500,000.
It is said that Mexico's bad faith is
tho cause of the Yaqui Indians' out
break. North Mississippi valley corn and
wheat suffered from hail and wind
etoinis.
Tho Charleston shelled tho enemy on
tho island of Cebu and compelled them
to retreat.
Tho Standard Oil Company has suc
ceeded in purchasing tho iuterests of
its only competitor in Mexico.
Charles Franklin, a Portland man,
has been appointed to an important po
sition in the Philippine postal service.
Zachert's remarkable story asserting
that the Alaska boundary is outlined
by monuments is not credited at Wash
ington. Tho hospital ship Relief has arrived
in Sin Fiancisco with 820 sick and
wounded soldiers on board. Two died
en route.
The new bankiupt act is not popular
in New York. Those taking advantage
of it have not reached near the expect
ed number.
While on a tryout the new Columbia
broke her mast. When the accident
itifn mill kIwi u-.ia !i mili in tliu l.i.i.l n(
Clio Deton.ier.
Dave Council was shot and probably
fatally wounded while trying to secure
! miners in Colorado for tho Coeur
' d' A lone country.
A tramp at Independence, Kan.,
I has confessed to killing two farmers
who had let him tide all day. lie
'says ho secured but ;!0 in money.
An American has a cinch on coal in
the straits of Magellan, and patriotieal
I ly charged the Oregon $11 n ton for
apply when iho made her long cruise.
Rumor Bays that William Waldorf
Astor became a British subject in order
to marry Lady Randolph Churchill.
His child i en also became subjects of
the queen.
The political situation at Tort au
Pr ince, Hayti, is causing anxiety and
numerous arrests have been "made.
Tho United States minister intetfeicd
in one instance.
Uuited States Senator Hull, who has
just returned from Alaska, fays the
Hudson Bay Company paid Russia a
stated sun for 10 years' lease on the
sine land now in dispute. This was
Tirtual recognition of ownership bv
Kussia, and the U-lted States cannot
now back down.
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Cyclone in Florida Brought
"Wide Ruin.
SHIPS PILED ON THE BEACH
A Number of I.lvn Were Lost Money
Damage la More Thnn 81,000,000
Insurance Was Small.
River Junction, Fla., Aug. 7. The
most disastrous cyclone that ever vis
ited this section of Florida, complete
ly annihilated Carrabelle, Mclntyre
and Lanark inn, south of here, yester
day. At Canabelle only nine houses
remain of a once beautiful and pros
perous town. A coiiimunioatiiin from
the mayor states that 200 families are
without homes or shelter, and many
are conmpletely destitute. At Mcln
tyre, only two mill boilers maik the
place of the town.
Lanark inn, the famous summer re
sort, was blown into the gulf. The
Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Geuigia lail
road is washed awav for a distance of
81) miles. A passenger tiain was
blown troin the track more than 100
yards. Many passengers weie injured,
but their names are unobtainable.
Maty Williams, colore), was killed at
Canabelle. Numerous others had arms
ami legs broken. Daniel Nell, of Apa
laochicola, had his back broken and is
not expected to recover. No fatalities
are reported from Mclntyre or Lan
ark. Fifty ship9 lying at anchor in Dot!
Island cove and upper anchorage are
now all high and dry at St. George and
Dog island. Tweive were loaded with
lumber and ready for sea. Nothing re
mains of them but a mass of wreckage.
When the Italian bark Cortesia struck,
she split in two from stein to stem.
Among the other vessels wrecked weie
the Norwegian barks Panavala, Vale,
Jafiner, Hindoo and Elizabeth; the
Uussian bark Latann, and three pil'ot
boats, and the steamers Oila and Capi
tila. Forty boats of under 20 tons
weie lost. Nothing of tho entire fleet
can be saved.
Five unidentified bodies were recov
ered today, supposed to be sailors.
Tugboats have 1:0110 from here to the
scene of the wreckage, and all possible
aid is being given. Fifty destitute
sailors were brought here today and are
being cared for.
A mass meeting of citizens is being
held here tonight and all possible aid
will bo given the Carrabelle destitute.
One million dollars will not cover
the loss.
Steamer Crescent City Sif,
Tallahassee. Fla., Aug. 7. The first
intelligei.ee concerning the steamer
Crescent City, which was reported lost
in Tuesday's storm, was received here
today. Tho steamer is safe np the
Chattahoochee river. Only four houses
remain in Carrabelle. Tho depot,
naval stores, warehouses and mills,
and, in fact, all business houses, wete
completely wrocked and the stocks de
stioyed. YAQUIS ON THE WARPATH.
The Mexican Iml ian Trouble CoiiHtanlly
Spreading.
Chicago, Aug: 7. A special to the
Tribune from the City of Mexico says:
Dispatches from Guayinas show that
the Yaqui insurrection is constantly
growing in extent, and all the Indian's
in the towns i.long the rivor are rising
in arms and taking to the woods and
mountains to join their companions al
ready arrayed against the authorities.
Jack Rainsev, tho famous frontier
character, and the Ameiican photog
rapher, E. N. Miller, were on the way
to Alamos when they were attacked by
tho Indians and killed.
It is reported that tho Romero family
wero captuied ao they wero about to
embark on one of the sloops and that
they were killed. Troops are pursu
ing the bands supposed to have the
family. Tho telegraph lino south
from Alamos has been cut. The In
dians along the Mayo river are quiet
and do not seem to be inclined to join
the insurrection.
Colonel Angel Garcia lna tele
praphed yesterday that Don Carlos
ll.ile, the noted merchant, has not been
killed as reported. Official advices up
to Monday, however, state cleat ly that
after General Torres' forces took Ba
cum, thev found ten dead of the troops
from Coacorit. and four of the body
guard of the Yaqui chief, Maldonado,
and the body of Hale. They say noth
ing has been heard of tho cliief.
Situation Is Favorable.
Washington, Aug. 7. Official re
ports to the marine hospital seivice
from tho Soldiers' Homo at Hampton
show that the yellow fevet situation
there continues favorable. Surgeon
White reports to Dr. Wyman that thoie
is nothing suspicious in the town of
Hampton. There were no new cases
and only one death at the Home today,
according to a report Dr. Vickery, the
surgeon at the institution, sent to the
surgeon-general tonight, Dr. Vickery
expressing tho opinion that the im
mune help on the way there should be
sufficient, as the epidemic seems to bu
checked. The coidon around the Home
anu me immediate adjoining village of
ouijccun nue says, is
tight as he ever saw it at any place.
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REBELS RECEIVING AKM3.
Americans Must Continue Fighting; f.
Every Foot of Ground They Hold.
Chicago, Aug. 7. The Tribune'i
special correspondence from Manila un
det date of June 26, says: The nexl
campaign can haidly begin sooner than
November, although the country may
dry up enough towards the middled
October to permit tho American troops
to take the field then. The American
army during the rainy season can
Hardly be expected to do anything more
than hold what it has gained and pre
pare for the next campaign. The
ground to defend is not very great.
On the 'south of Manila we have
Imus, abbut 15 miles away, where the
Fourth and Fourteenth infantry, with
several guns from the Sixth artillery,
are stationed. This teiritory was
gaiiud within tne last two weeks by
the hard fighting at Paranaque, at
which even the rattle pf the rifles can
be heard in Manila. We hold the road
that luns to Imus through Paranaque
and Baooor, every inch of which was
gained by hard righting.
Northwaid the furthest point in the
control of our soldiers is San Fernando,
41 miles from Manila, on the railroad.
The railroad is 149 miloB in length in
all, but the insurgents control all the
track between San Fernando and Da
gupan, the northern terminal of the
road. The Americans hold Car.adr.ba,
east of San Fernando 10 miles. They
hold all the towns along the railroad,
of course, to San Fernando and Ba
liuag, seven miles east of Pulilan.
Repoits continually come from Ba
liuag that the town is entirely sur
rounded by the enemy and is about to
be carried by assault. But Colonel
Page and the Third infantry have so
far driven the rebels back with disas
trous loss every time they have assault
ed the town, and he declares he can
hold it for an indefinite time, although
his position there is by no means an
easy one. Supplies and mail can only
be carried over to Baliuag from the
railroad under an escort of not less
than 150 men, who are invariably at
tacked some "vhere along the road, both
going and coming.
At San Fernando two determined at
tacks along the whole rebel line were
made last week. The second engage
ment lasted three hours, when the in
surgents wero driven back with heavy
osses. Bullets fly continually over
both places and stray bullets frequently
find victims.
Heavy shipments of arms are said to
he constantly arriving from Japan and
Australia and, it is said, even from
our own country. Cartridges picked
up in the insurgents trenches hear the
trade mark ot a big manufacturing
firm in the United States. The insur
gents have three factories where they
manufacture cartridges and other mu
nitions of war. If they were kept on
the run they would have no tlmo so
to equip themselves that they could re
turn after defeat, better able to fight
than they were before.
They are learning things evory en
counter with the Americans. Tho pa
pers in Manila have continually re
ferred to the fact that the rebels were
pione to shoot too high, and they
seemed finally to have learned the les
son and now they aie getting their
shots well down and showing a great
improvement in marksmanship.
Tho few Americans who came over
to Manila a week ago Tuesday on the
Esmeralda from Hong Kong weie as
tonished a few hours after sunrise when
their ship had steamed (Hit to quaran
tine, to hear heavy cannonading from
the. monitor Monadnuck, which was in
plain sight down the coast about live
miles below Manila. Some of the pas
sengers thought it was some sort of
salute in honor of the ai rival of some
distinguished naval or army horo and
they eagerly questioned a soldier who
sat on tho stern of tho health officer's
launch.
"That," said the young man, "that's
nothing. That's just a battle." It
was some time before the passengers
could believe the Americans and insur
gents wero fighting within, sight and
sound of Manila, where the war had
started six months before. The battle
laged all day and at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon the rattle of Binall arms could
be distinctly heard, and late in the
evening the health officer told us the
fighting had been at Paranaque.
CZAR WAS GLOOMY.
IlBd Decided to Abdlrnte II I - Throne
Keuson for Del ('tune's Visit.
London, Aug. 7. M. do Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of the Times, gives
an extraordinary explanation of M.
Del Casse's present mission. He as
serts that it was decided upon quite
suddenly for a "reason which admitted
of no delay," and then gives tho story
which he says he has from a "source
to which 1 am bound to attach impoit
ance." This is the explanation:
"Emperor Nicholas is disappointed
and tired of the thione. The absence
of an heir excites his superetititious
feeling, and he connects himself with a
Russian legend, according to widen an
heiress czar is to be succeeded by a
Czar Michael, predestined to occupy
Constantinople. The death of the
czarowitch and the failure of the con
ference at The Hague led him to decide
to abdicate, and on the occasion of his
coming visit to Darmstadt. On this
becomir.g known in PaiiB. M. Del
Casse was sent in hot haste to dissuade
biui fiom canjing oitf Una intention.
PLUNGES
'I
tiectnc Lar With Passer.
jumped the Track.
MANY KILLED AND
INJURE
Four-Ton Motor Fell Forty Feet ..
Helpless Victims.
Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 8,v.
40 persons were killed bv an J,.;!!'
on the Stratford extension of tUi
tn., at..t "".HI
,u" u,,DO' railway uompany al
o'clock today, when a loaded trolley,
vcm un mu iresue over pwi
millnnrwl of 0..fiww..i i .
, ... uniiiuijuo, nuiiui 8IXnij
iioiin or uiwgeport, and sank in,,
flats 40 feet below. Thus f ir ?r, '
sons aie known to b dead, and etv,, .
UJUiU HlJIlIiHl.
r..!..
. umv mu persons are Known to liat
escaped -unharmed. It is believed ft,
vnciu nolo iu ij.inneiiycis on tlie car, b'
me inuicaior was removed bva
I,.-,.,. .i.. J
uuuiiier car arm spirit
away, bo mat at present it is mm
ble to say accurately the numU:
4 UlUI i Vi .
Tho scene of the accident is niidwJ
Detween blielton and Bridgeport T.
car was northbound, running tonail
feiieiton. liie trestle is 4-10 feet Inn..
mado of iron, with Btone fouiiiluliot'l
and was not protected by guard rail.
South of the tiestlo is an incline docl
winch the car ran on the trestle!,
about 10 feet, the trucks left the rail;
The car continued on the ties about;
feet, when it went off the trestle ai l
dropped into the pond below, overtunl
ing and completely upending.
When tha car struck, the .foin-te
motor and tho heavy trucks crush:
into it, instantly killing many of tU
passengers. Three physicians, L
were passengers on a car a short Jii
tance behind, arrived quickly and ret
dered all possiblo assistance totlieii
jured.
Word was 6ent to Bridgeport at
three ambulances and a police wajil
were hurried to the sceno, ami tlJ
injured were taken to Bridgeport get
eral hospital. A morgue was imprc-l
vised in the main room of the ton:
hall at Stratford, and in a very hon
time 23 liodies were laid out avraitii:
identification.
DROWNED IN GROUPS.
Disaster to Maine ICxcuraJuiiiitt
Mount Desert Kerry,
Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 8. A scoi'I
of persons wore killed today hy tt:
collape of the gangplank of the Jlout:
Desert ferry. Seventeen were iho.vnH
and three died from the terrible ezjier
ience of immersion in the water audit-
juries while struggling for life.
The Maine Central today lan exclu
sions to Bar Harbor from all section;
of its line in Maine, the attraction 1
ing the warships which were expecte:
today. All tho morning long trait-
packed with excursionists were rusliitjl
to Bar Harbor.
When tho excursion fiom Bangor ai-l
rived at the ferry there was a rush for
tho steamer Sappho. Tho first few pas
sengers had crossed the gangplank safe
ly, and it is estimated that 200 people
were massed on the plank. SudJenlJ
they felt the plank give way, and
struggling, soreaming mass of human
ity was plungod into the water, 15fel
below the whaif. A few clung
inclined sides of the plank, but ot less;
150 were struggling in the water. TW
piling of tho wharf partially penne-
them on three sides, and the boat lyitJ
at the wharf closed the outer end'
the oiieniiur.
After the first moment of stupeifat-
tion the work of rescue benan. KDIlf'
and life preservers wero thrown totl
crowd, but in the panio the people:
tho water clutched one another am
many sank in irrouns in a death g"H
The exact numbei of dead will not 11
known for houib time vet. as a stroii?
tide sweeps under tho pier, and tM
bodies may have been carried awj
away by it.
YAQUIS PREPARED FOR WAR
It Will Tnke the Mexican C.oYornm""
a Long Time to Whip The""'
Austin. Tex.. Anir. 8. A special
oeived here todav from Terrazas, Cbi
huahua, Mexico, which is located dm'
the sceuo of the Yaoui uprising. 11
the effect that the Indians are nrrarg
ing for a prolonged war. The ap
save:
"It is going to take tho Mexican g"
ernment a long time and a big
troons to nni. II tlin rebellion.
Yaquis are better prepared now tli"11
ever before for a long and blooiij u"
paign. They are all well fixed nn
cially. nearly all of them having '
the 200 per head which the Mexi
government paid them when ",e
bigned the treaty of peace two Jfs'j
ago. They have been making
then, too, and it is known to b6 'aC
that they have been laying in big UP"
nlina nf mini n.i.l nmii..tnllinn tot BOB1
vr. u . J HIIU HlllUJUUI.lv.. ,.
tillin TlUof it l-,,i a linen nmiiniCn
among the American prospectoia in to
Ynmii vail il, ,.f tli in, liana wereP''
paring for another outbreak, but as I
braves had alwaya shown a fiien
spirit toward the Americans, i- j
thought they would not molest tu''
when they did go on the warpP
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