Lincoln County leader., August 25, 1899, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R. E. COLLINS, Editor.
TOLEDO OREGON
THE NEWS OF I IEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Put Week
Called From the Telegraph Column.
Portland, Or., is to Lave a bicycle
factory.
The Santo Domingo rebels have es
tablished a junta at New York.
Advices from Honolulu say that vol
canic action of Mauna Loa has entirely
ceased.
WiMamette valley hopgrowers have
agreed on 40 cents as tbe price for hop
pickers. July reports show that both exports
and imports increased over the same
month last year.
Andrew Carnegie has sent another
$1,000 check to the Anti-lmperialistio
League at Boston.
President McKinley spoke to the
scholars at the Gatholio summer school
at Lake Champlain.
Augustas Howard, wanted in Den
ver, is thought to be an escaped convict
of Sydney, Australia.
. A suspicious disease, having all the
symptoms of bubonic plague has made
its appearance in Portugul.
M. Labori is recovering from his
wound, and expects soon to be able to
attend tbe court-martial.
A case of yellow fever has appealed
among the marines guarding the gov
ernment property at Havana.
Lily Langtry, tle actress, has again
married. The groom is but 23 years
of age. of English parentage.
The United States cable steamer
Hooker is ashore in Manila bay and
efforts to tow her off have proved un
successful. Mexicans are holding the Yaqui In
dians down, and the miners now think
the Yaqui's war will be confined to the
Indian reservation.
The navy department has rsoeived a
letter from Admiral Dewey speaking in
high terms of the treatment he and his
men reoeived at the hands of the Aus
trian people.
The shooting of M. Labori stirred up
all Europe. The opinion is general
that Drefyus' cause is loser thereby
from the eulorced absence of the at
torney during the confrontation.
Secretary Wilson while in Chicago
after his recent trip to the coast says
he learned something of Philippine
agricultural conditions while here, and
is enthusiastio over the future of the
islands.
The Albion which has just arrived
in San Francisco leports that 100 peo
ple, men and women, without food and
means, were picked up on tin Kotzo
btie beach by the revenue cutter Bear
and taken to St. Michaels.
Ex-Secretary A!ger subscribed $100
to aid the Porto Rico sufferers.
The new Columbia beat tbe Defender
a mile in a race for the Astor on p.
It is estimated that 100,000 tons of
food will be needed weekly for relief of
Porto Rioans.
Frank Reims, who had much to do
with the development of baseball, is
dead at Chicago.
The forty-fifth annual session of the
International Typographical Union is
in session at Detroit.
Emperor William remembered his
former soldiers in Chicago by present
ing them with a banner.
Sir Chalres Tupper says we must ar
bitrate the boundary dispute or Canada
must build a railway to Dawson.
President Suhnrman, of the Philip
pine commission, will go to Champlain
to confer with President McKinley.
Tom Johnson, tbe Buckeye congress
man, and his brother, have secured a
contract to build arailroud in England.
When the Olympia arrived at Leg
horn from Naples, Admiral Dewey was
down with fever and unable to see call
ers. The revolution is gaining in Santo
Domingo and the people aie in a wild
panic. The situation isconsideied bad
for the government forces.
Secretary Root has sent telegrams to
governors of states, asking for the
names of two officers of each volun
teer regiment in the Spanish war.
The navy department thus decided te
give the cruiser Olvujpia a rest and
Dewev'a gallant flagship will be sent
to Boston navy-yard immediately upon
her arrival in Ameiioan waters.
Panios are said to be threatening
Germany and France, and England is
being kept busy in avoiding tiouble
from financial stringency. Her trade
conditions continue good, however.
Russia has agreed to arbitration of
the claims of American citizens whose
vessels were seized by Russia. These
claims amount to $300,000 and Russia's
willingness to arbitrate them is the
best evidence of their validity.
LATER NEWS.
Much damage was done by a wind
and rain storn at Decor ah, la.
The iron miners of Michigan aro be
coming restless and threaten to strike.
The Roanoke has reached Seattle
with $250,000 in gold dust from Cape
Nome.
Five people were drowned by the
capsizing of the schooner Savidge near
Detroit, Mich.
It is raid the trust conference at Chi
cago will be a representative, non-political
gathering.
Nebraska has raised $35,000 for her
brave regiment and will bring them
home in a special train.
The seat of trie Yaqui Indian war has
been removed to ground advantageous
to the Indians.
Eight hundred tons of supplies left
Philadelphia on a transport for tbe
Porto Rico sufferers.
Seattle won first place at the annual
meeting of the Pacifio Northwest ath
letic Association at Astoria.
, The secretary of the interior has is
sued orders to restore to public domain
the land once reserved for the Columbia
river boat railway.
Two Indians and one white man were
hanged for murder at Dawson last
month. They were the fiist legal exe
cutions in that conntry.
General Alert itt, after a talk with
President McKinley, stated to a corre
spondent of tne press that there would
be no change in the commanders of the
Philippines.
Two French lieutenants were assas
sinated in tbe Soudan, where they had
been sent to take command of a column
of troops. Revenge is thought to have
prompted the act.
In a head-end collision between trol
ley cars near Philadelphia thirty peo
ple were injured, some fatally. Care
lessness of the motorman is given as
the cause of the accident.
The Twenty-sixth regiment at Platts
burg, N. Y., has received orders to pre
pare to leave for Manila within a week.
Like orders have been received by the
Thirty-first infanrty at Fort Thomas.
Ky.
Prince Henry, of Prussia, who com
mands the German squadron in the Pa
cific, will visit San Francisco, on board
nis flagship after he leaves ChinaH
President McKinley has extended him
an invitation to visit Washington.
Mr. S. S. Peterson has purchased a
site at Port Angeles, Wash., and if sat
isfaotory arrangements can be made he
will put in operation a si ingle and
hollow-ware plant of gigantic propor
tions, which will give employment to
75 persons. The matter of granting a
franchise to Mr. Peterson was favor
ably considered by the council at its
last meeting. '
'The Colorado volunteers have ar
rived in San Franoisco from Manila.
General Davis says the deaths from
tbe storm in Porto Rico will reach
2,000.
The partner of Alex McDonald, the
Klondike king, denies tbe latter 's
bankruptcy.
The meat combine hns forced New
York butchers to raise the price three
cents a pound.
According to news received of the
fleet now in Beiing sea the whaling
season was not a great success.
The California Passenger Association
has agreed on a rate of $37.50 to the
Missouri river for returning soldiers.
An emblem of a badger four feet
long, cast from a Spanish cannon, will
adoin the new battleship Wisconsin.
At Caibondale, 111., striking miners
were arrested for violating the court's
injunction against interference with
mines.
Illinois wants a deep waterway to
the Gulf and a river convention will
be held in Chicago in Ootorber to or
ganize. Tbe anti-eipansic-nists talk of put
ting a national ticket in tbe field
against McKinley as "Continental Re
publicans." Eighteen thousand unstamped cigars
were captured at Tampa, Fla. The
factory has been carrying on a profit
able traffic for some time.
The automobile is to be given a test
for war service. An experiment will
be made in carrying messages and mail
from Chicago to New York.
In a brush with the insurgents who
aguln attempted to retake Arlgeles, the
Americans lost two killed and 13
wounded; the insurgents' loss is esti
mated at 200 men.
Admiral Sampson will have charge
of the naval reoeption to Admiral
Dewey. The North Atlantio squadron
will probably meet the admiral a day's
sail from New Yoik.
President Ratchford, of the United
Mine Workers, blames the state author
ities for the trouble atWardner, Idaho,
no says the miners' organization is not
oiiminal nor defender of criminals.
A Paris special to the New York
Journal says that a syndicate has plot
ted to kill Dreyfus if the trial results
in acquittal. The plan included the
killng of Labori. Assurance is given
that speedy acquittal may now be
looked for.
BY A III
Red Bay, on the Island oi
Andros, Swept Away.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST
The Storm Reached a Velocity of 105
Mile au Hour-Relief for the Forto
RIckdi -Great Distress.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 2,1. Ac
cording to a Miami dispatch to th'
Times-Union and Citizen, Captain Dil
lon, of the steamer Cocoa, states thaj
the town of Red Bay on the isand of
Andros, 20 mies southwest of Nassau,
was swept away in the recent tropical
hurricane, and about 300 lives lost.
An eye-witness of the storm estimated
that the loss of life on the island wai
fully 600. Scattered through the
wreck of houses at Red Bay after tbe
storm subsided, he said, were hundred
of corpses of persons of all ages and
classes. Captain Dillon said the wind
blew at the rate of 90 miles an hour at
Nassau, with an occasional gust which
reached a velocity of 105 miles an hour.
PORTO RICANS IN DISTRESS.
! f West IMaiitir.j and TTwt 3Itt.
Be Provided.
New York, Aug. 21. A dispatch to
the Herald from Saa-Juan, Porto Rico,
enys: Visits to the most distressed
districts of the island prove that the
former reports of terrible conditions
have not been in the least exaggerated.
People in the towns are huddled to
gether anywhere for shelter. In the
oourtiy tbe people are sleeping in the
open air. The food supplies have been
totally destroyed. Only the well-to-do
can afford to buy provisions.
Unless socoor comes in a few days
the people will starve. The supplies
from San Juan have not yet arrived at
the towns, but are expected. The de
pots in many towns are already sur
rounded by a large number of hungry
people. The mayors of the towns have
received no authority to dispense,
money, but most of them are contribut
ing generously out of their own pod,
ets to supply the most urgent needs.
As far as Caguas and Cayey, the san
itary conditions are not thieatened, but
reports from towns further south state
that their condition is dangeious. Tho
peril lies in the herding of the inhab
itants in the towns. Several of the
soldiers were wounded during the re
cent hurricane, but it is learned that
there were no deaths aomng them. The
best posted persons agree that it will
be necessary to provide work for the
inhabitants and seeds for the next
planting. An official report form Quay
mas says that 265 houses weie de
stroyed, 175 seriously injured and 201
damaged by the storm.
In the distiict surrounding Maya
guez, scores of women, old men and
children are homeless and begging
shelter and food. The schooner Con
cepcion, loaded with 200 Porto Ricans
going as emigrants to Samana. went
adrift today. All jumped overboard
and several were drowned. A Maya
guez paper. reminds the public that in
the year 1841 the city was destroyed
by lire for two days, the governor was
personally distributing $50,000 among
those who most needed it.
In Arroyo 90 per cent of the houses
were demolished by the hurricane. At
the port nothing remains. Many prom
inent persons in Utuado have signed
an appeal to tl e public asking food and
work for the .inhabitants. Two thou
sand persons Lave perished in this
whole district.
EXPLOSION IN MEXICO.
Killed FIyo American Engineer and
Three Mexican Firemen.
Chicago, Aug. 21. A special to tho
Record from Tampico, Mexico, says:
By the explosion of a boiler of a loco
motive on the Mexican Central railroad
seven men were killed and three others
fatally injured. The locomotive was
standing on the sidetrack at Cardneas
when the explosion occurred. It was
of a special pattern and of gieat size,
being used to haul trains np the moun
tain. .
Among the killed are four American
engineers who were in the cab. Their
names were Simon, Fitzgerald, Hussy
and Gibson. Another American en
gineer named Lokhart was standing
near the locomotive when the explo
sion occurred. He was hurled a dis
tance of 100 feet and was fatally in
jured. The other men killed were
three Mexican firemen and woodpuss
ers. Asylum for Consumptive.
Chicago, Aug. 21. The Illinois So
ciety for the Prevention of Consump
tion is preparing plans for the estab
lishment of a state sanitarium for the
treatment of consumption, which it
will aBk the next legislature to bniid.
The fundamental purpose ol the pro
ject is to provide means for the tieat
ment of the poor who are disabled by
the disease.
Governor Tanner has indioated his
intention of supporting it and of ap
proving the purchase of the societv, on
asking for an appropriation of $500..
000 with which to build the eanitar
ium.
JIMINEZ ARRESTED.
Caught a He Wm Leaving; Clenfuegos
Denounced the Arrest.
Havana. Aug. 21. In view of tho
fact that Colonel Eacallao, chief of the
secret police, peisisted in his declara
tion that General Jiminez. the aspirant
to the presidency of Santo Domingo,
was in Havana, eitner not having or
having returned, the military authori
ties telegraphed to Cienfnegos, in
struating Captain Stamper, oolleotor of
customs there, to ascertain whether
Jiminez was on the Menodez steamer,
and to take him under arrest if that
should be the case. ..Just as the steam
er waB about to leavoiCienfuegoe, Cap
tain Stamper -Ideated Jiminez and ar
rested him. Jiminez denounced the
arrest as an outrage. He said be bad
broken no law and would not yield
except to force. Captain Stamper re
plied that he was ready to use force, if
necessary, and Jiminez then yielded,
remarking that he did so because be
could not help himself.
Captain Stamper informed Jiminez
that he would make him as comfortable
as possible, and, after Jiminez and his
secretary bad packed their trunks,
they were, driven, accompanied by the
chief of police and Captain Stamper, to
tHe Union hotel, where two bedrooms
and a dining room were placed ni their
disposal. General Jiminez will be
kept under polioe charge until further
advioes are received irom the governor
onfrn.
PUMMELED TO DEATH.
McConnell Beat Frnnejr 1'ninerclfully
Charge of Manslaughter.
San Franoisco, Aug. 21. The au
topsy held on the remains of Jim
Franey, the pngilst, who died after
having been knocked , out by Frank
McConnell on Friday night, showed
that his vital organs were diseased;
that he was in no condition to enter a
ring as principal, and that he had
been pummeled and beaten to death
by Frank McConnell, who was arrested
on a charge of manslaughter, and is
now out of jail on bail.
A similar charge has also been
placed against J. J. Groom, J. D.
Gibbs, promoters of the fight; Hiram
Cook, referee, nnd the seconds of both
men engaged in the contest. All have
given bonds and are now at liberty.
Dr. J. L. Zabala, the city's autopsy
physician explains the cause of tbe
pugilist's death as follows: "1 found
severe contusions on Franey 's face,
shoulders and upper arms. There was
a hemorrhage of the biain on the left
side and the organ itself was in an a
anaemic condition. The man must
have reoeived a teriible punishment,
and death was nothing more than the
result of the blows which were rained
on bis face and head. The impact of
the head on the floor had nothing to
do with it. He was in a dying condi
tion before he fell.
"Franey should never have entered
the ring. An examination of his lungs
showed pleuralic adhesions, and his
system was otherwiee broken down. He
was fit for practical purposes in life,
but certainly not for unnatural exer
cise." FLOOD AT EDMONTON.
The Saskatchewan River Roie Forty
Feet In One Day.
St. Paul, Aug. 19. A Wi nnipeg,
Man., special to the Pioneer-Press
says: An Edmonton dispatch says the
Saskatchewan river has overflowed,
rising 40 feet during tho last 20 hours,
and continues to rise fast. Already the
bridge piers are four feet under water,
nnd electric light boilers covered
Floating islands of wood are passing
down. The ferries have broken away
and no mail has arrived. Thousands
of feet of lumber id adrift. At present
the water is rushing over the Hudson's
Bay. Company's flats. Two and a half
inohesof lain fell in 20 hours. The
end is not yet. The loss will be great.
The historic steamer Noithwest, one of
the Hudson's Bay Company's best
boats was broken from her moorings,
struok the middle pier of the bridge
and went down the river a total wreok.
The river is full of drift, miners'
shacks and effects. Citizens on the
river bank are moving out.
Street Duel at Wood.
Sheridan, Or., Aug. 21. News has
been received here of a serious fight at
Woods. The trouble began Saturday
night at a dance, and was between Bud
Pollard and a man named Miller. It
ended in the ejection from the hall of
a young man who had refused to pay
bis admission. Sunday morning the
men met on the street and had a duel.
Miller fired a shotgun point blank
at Pollard's head and shot away part of
one of Pollard's ears. Pollard emptied
his revolver at Miller, but was so nerv
ous that his shots went wild. One
shot hit Miler in the leg below the
knee. Considering that the men fired
at close range, their escape from seri
ous injury is remarkable.
Passenger Train Wrecked.
Texarkana, Ark., Aug. 21. A mes
sage has just been received here to the
effect that a notth-bound passenger
train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf rairoad went into Litte river, 50
miles north of here. A switch engine
with crew, has left for the scene. The
wreck is between Btations, and it is not
kown how much of the train went off
the bridge. It is known, however, that
the baggage, mail and express cars
went in.
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DEMONSTRA
Violent Mob in Paris WrecJ
a ihurcb.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE INJURE
Craclflz and Ornament Thrown It0 1
Heap and Flred-Tninultuo,,, '
Give the l'ollce a Hard Flg,t, '
Paris,' Aug.-22.-Paris was ,od
the scene of most serious disturbance
-T""' mo comniunt
In response to an appeal of tne Journal I
du Peuple, groups of anarchists and !0.
cialists gathered about 3 o'clock in th
afternoon in the Place de la fiepuh.
lique. The police had taken pre
tions, and there seemed to bo no dan
ger of disorders. Sebastian Faure and'
Faberot, well-known revolutionary an
arohists, were the ring-leaders. Fame'
standing on the pedestal of the statu,
which rises in the center of the Pal,
,l.ln lis . . . ".
no ia nepuoiique, auressea the croud.
Among other things he said that the
anarchists should be masters of the
streets. The police then iuteifered
and dislodged Faure and Faberot, mak
ing three arrests. The crowd at thii
point dispeioeu, but u co i umn of dera
onstintors, headed ' by Faure, and
Henri d'Hori, made for the Place de
la Nation. Tbe police broke through
the column and a struggle for the mas
tery followed. Shots were fired, and
M. Goullier, commissary of police, was
twice stubbed with a knife.
The rioters proceeded toward the
Fauborg du Temple, at the corner of
Kne Darberi and the Rue St. Mauri
Popincourt, they formed up into a com
pact body. Hatchets were suddenly
produced, with long knives stolen from
the counters of shops, and a concen
trated rush was made upon the Church
of St. Joseph.
The aged sacristan, seeing the mob,
hastily closed the outer gates, but these
were Boon forced with hatchets and
bars of iron. The massive oaken doon
were then attacked. According to the
first account, the wild horde burst into
the church, which instantly beoamea
scene of wild pillage and sacrifice. Al
tars and statues were hurled to the
floor and smashed; pictures were rent,
candlesticks, ornaments and hosts from
high altars were thrown down and
trampled under foot. The crucifix
jaoove wuia made tne target lor niisaiMK
land the figuie of the Savior wasfrao-1
tured in several places. Then, while?
rancorous voices sang the "Carmag
nole," the chairs were oarried outside,
piled up and set on fire in the center of
the square fronting the church. When
this stage was reached, the crucifix
was pulled down and thrown into the
flames. Suddenly the cry was raised
that the statue of the Virgin had been
forgotten, -and the crowd returned and
tore this down also. :
Au attempt was made to fire the
choir of St. Joseph's with petroleum,
and the firemen were called in to
quench the flames. Several parishion
ers were severely mauled in their ef
forts to defend the church from sacri
lege. The church is situated in tlx
poorest auarter of the city. JSo disord
ers of any kind occurred in the fashion
able district.
Meanwhile the sacristan, who had
been captured by the annrchists, es
cuped, and oalled the polioe and repub
lican guaids, who promptly arrived,
with many constables. They were
compelled to fall back in order to form
np into line of defense, as the anarch
ists attacked them fearfully with
knives.
Did Dewey 8av This?
London, Aug. 23. The Naples corre
spondent of the Daily News telegraphs
the substance of an inteiview he had
with Admiral Dewey there during the
admiral's recent visit. Admiral Dewey
said he believed the Philippine ques
tion wonld shortly be solved. In his
judgment, the inhabitants are capable
of self-government, and the only way
to settle the insurrection and to insure
prospeiity is to concede it to them.
He declared that he was never in favor
of violence toward the Filipinos, and
remarked that after autonomy had been
conceded, annexation might be talked
of. When asked whether a conflict be
tween Germany and the United States
over the Philippines were possible,
Admiral Dewey replied, according to
the correspondent:
"It is impossible to foresee the un
foreseeable." Fight With Kobe!.
Manila. Aug. 22. One lieutenant ol
the Twelfth infantry was killed and
another was seriously wounded while
reconnoitering last evening north of
Angeles. The Americans encountered
a large force of insurgents and drove
jthem Irom ther position.
. Lieutenant Cole, of the Sixth infan
try, with 80 men, encountered 100 in
surgents intrenched in the mountains
of the island of Negrcs and routed
them, after an hour and a half of se
vere fighting. The Americans had
three men slightly hurt. Nineteen
dead insurgents were counted in the
trenches. Six rifles and a quantity of
reserve ammunition were captured.
The insurgents recently out tbe cable
In Laguna de Bay, leading to Calamba.
on the south shore of the lake, but tbe
break has been repaired.
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