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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1899)
UHCOLN COOHTY LEADER i R. E. COLLINS, Editor. TOLEDO OREGON I Ml OF 1 WEEK Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening of the Past 'Week Called From the Telegraph Columns. Ten regiments will leave San Fran tisco for Manila before tbe October 1 All unnecessary noises are to be Itopped by the health and police offi cials of Chicago. The plague is reported to be spread ing in India and famine is staring tbe in in the face. The state department has been in formed that a revolution has broken out in Venezuela. Mrs. Sarah A. Baker, who has jup died at Forest Home, Fa., was tbe old est American actress. A band of Macabee scouts number ing 100 has been organized at Manila from former Spanish volunteers'. An American interivewed at Atlan ta, Ga., knows much pbout the Drey fus case, and says Edterbazy ia the guilty one. The Thirty-third regiment of volun teers has started from Houston, Tex., for San Francisco, for embarkation to the Philippines. An American company will estab lish a gigantic . locomotive-building plant in Switzerland, employing American methods. The retail business of the country is now being done largely on a cash basis, and banks are seeking new mediums for investment. President Schurman, of Cornell uni versity, will act as Governor Roose velt's representative at the Chicago trust conference. At Johnson Springs, Va., a mob as saulted Mormon Elder Jose Wuffin, and then threatened lynching if be at tempted prosecution. This years' corn crop breaks the rec ord. The United States will produce 2,600,000,000 bushels. wUh KanBas in the lead and Nebraska second. Chicago will have a hotel for the poor. First class rooms including a bath can be had for 20 to SO cents a night. The building will be 10 stories high. The American Bankers' Association at their annual convention in Cleve land, O., took steps to have the com mercial papir laws the same the world over. English newspapers seem to regard the outbreak of hostilities with the Boers as a mere matter of time. Tbe officials, however, deny the situation is so serious. A Washington special sara Great Britain and the United States have practically agreed upon the Alaskan boundary line and present negotiations relate only to minor questions. All peace negotiations with the in surgents have been suspended. The commission has been dissolved and military men of the service have been given full sway in the Philippines. Copies of General Otis' order grant ing home rule to the inhabitants of the island o( Negroa have been received by the war departmetnt, together with a constitution proceed by the people, upon which they seek to have estab lished for themselves a republican form of government. A silk ribbon trust has benn organ ized. Fear of war Is effecting trade in England. Toronto bricklayers earn 37 J$ cent! per hour. The Washington volunteers have sailed for home. The condemned ship Relief is to b used as a floating hospital at Manila, Otis will send the Ohio after the grounded Morgan City troops at Nag asaki. Yucatan Indians now refuse to pay taxes m Mexico, and moro trouble is expected. Biitish seamen have declared a gen eral strike and the movement will effect all British ports. Thousands of veterans are in attend ance at the national G. A. U. encamp ruont in Philadelphia. The retail butchers propose, to make a great tight against the trust. They have 110,000,000 of capital and mem bers in neaily every large city in tbe United States. Kruger has withdrawn his conces sions to England. The time of resi dence necessary to obtain franchise baa been increased instead of decreased aa England demanded. At the next session of congress the Niearaguan government will open nego tiations with the United States for a treaty on the subject of the canal, and will agree to wipe out all other con cessions that have heretofore been grunted. LATER NEWS. Texas ia suffering from drought. Admiral Dewey has Bailed from Gib raltar for New York. Indignation over the reconviction of Dieyfua manifested itself in New York by the burning in efflgy of General Mercier. It is said by prominent railroad men that the Harriman syndicate is quietly working for a sea-to-sea railroad ar rangement. Peary and his arctic expedition have been heard from. They are corning borne after getting much geographical information. The government will soon have its plant for the manufacture of smokeless powder in operation. The location is on the Potomac near Indian Head. An east bound Southern Pacific train was held up and robbed near Wilcox, Ariz., by four men who hired out as hay cutters near there for several days. Two hundred feet of a trestle over Broad river, near Columbus, S. C, gave way unier a trainload of granite and four of the train crew 'ere killed. Meridian, Miss., has quarantine! against'all places infeoted with yellow fever. At Key West and Jacksonville the situation is reported to bo growing worse. The Drpvfiie verdict hss aroused widespread indignation outside of France and there is much talk through out Europe of boycotting the Paris ex position. None of the prisoners in the Ward ner bull pen are to be tried at tbe pres ent term of court in that county. Their cases will go over until the Janu ary term. Although the aspect of affairs is more peaceable, the special dispatches from Johannesburg report tbe greatest anxiety there, and people are still lead ing the town by hundreds. Jealous of the United States, Euro pean influences are working in South America in opposing a pan American unity. They say the creat reuublio seeks to dominate all America. A Washington correspondent ea that free ports in Alaska are given to Canada by tentative boundary agree ment, and in return the United States will gain additional privilege for New England fishermen. A force of 450 rebels, with one can non, attacked Santa Rita and simul taneously Guagua and Ran Antonio were attacked by bodies of rebels numbering about 600 men. All the insurgents were repulsed without loss to the Americans. According to the statement just made public by the war department our colonial trade for the first seven months of 1899 beats all records. Trade movements affecting the United States were never so uniform and natural as this year. A Seattle dispatch says: After spending several hundred dollars in assisting destitute Klondikers to their Eastern homes, the county commission ers have called a halt. The chamber of commerce has taken a similar ac tion. Puget sound guns will be tested by the government soon. Chicago has just passed through the longest dry spell since the time of the great fire in 1871. The Porto Rican relief committee will appeal for aid to all the churches and banks in this country. The Tennessee Coal & Iron Company is believed to have a corner on the coal product of Tennessee. Walker Hill, of St. Louis, has been chosen as the next president of the American Bankers' Association. Railway surveyors are at work in Eastern Oregon and it is rumored that they are in the employ of the Burling ton. At the Empire City Trotting park, New York city, Joe Patchen defeated Star Pointer, John R. Gentry and Searchlight. Samuel B. Bishop and Henry Hawk were blown to pieces by an accidental explosion of giant powdei in the May flower mine at Nevada, Cal. An open switch on the Erie road near Meadville, Pa., caused a collision between a freight and passenger train. Three wete killed and three injured. Texas, Chicago and New Yoik capi talists have bought 8,000,000 acres of timber and range land in Mexico, and will build up an industrial and com mercial center. A freight train rear Williamson, W. Va., broke in two ami the two sections came together in a tunnel, resulting in the killing of three of the train crew and four tramps. American apples are in such great demand in Germany this year that shipments have commenced one month earlier than usual. Last year 22,851 barrels were sent abroad. This year it ia expected the shipments will reach 100,000 barrels. As a reward for the Santiago cam paign Major-General Shafter will con ' tinue in command of the department i of the Pacific with his present volun teer rank after the time reached for his retirement, which was to have taken placthe 14th of September. DREYFUS IS Court-Martial Sentenced Him for Ten Years in Prison. GENERAL BELIEF IN A PARDON Term of Solitary Confinement Already Served Will Count as Double, and lleleaite M ill Come Soon. Rennes, Sept. 12. The expeoted has happened. Dreyfus has been con demned. The couit found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 yeaiB deten tion. As he has already suffered five years' solitary imprisonment, which counts as double ordinary detention, be will be released at the end of a fort night. In the meantinme, unleas the president of the republic pardons him, Dreyfus will have to be degraded here again within eight days. Though a majority of those in the urtroom this afternoon fully expect i the verdict, they were completely stupefied when it was given, and the silence which prevailed in the room and the way men turned pale and caught their breath was more impres sive than any other manifestation could have been. Maitie De mange sank back in his chair an 1 the tears trickled down his cheeks, 'arid Maitre Labori turned white as a sheet, while all round the couit men looked at each other iu si lence. The only sound to be heard was the rustling of paper from the report ers' bench, as each press representative tried to be first to send the news. As the audience left the courtroom, fully 10 or 15 men were crying openly, and the majority of those present walked quietly down the stieet for more than a block without speaking a word. It was like a funeral proces sion. Meanwhile, a tragedy was being en acted iu the little room off the court room, where Dreyfus listened to the reading of the verdict. Ho had been told the result by his lawyers, and had wept bitterly, but when in thepiesence of the officials of the court-martial, he listened impassively to the sen tence. His wife, who was waiting in tor ture and suspense at her house, bore the news bravely, and when visiting her husband this afternoon showed the onlookers who were in the streets no signs of her sufferings as she walked from her carriage to the prison. Mathien Dieyfus was not present in court this afternoon, but visited his biother after the verdict had been rendeied. He found him perfectly calm and without any manifestation of surprise at the finding of the court. The prihoner simply shrugged his snouiuers, uttering an expiessivo "Bah I" adding, as he embiaood his brother, as the latter was preparing to leave. Console mv wife.' The general belief is that Dreyfus will be pardoned; but this will not satisfy his friends, who vehemently de clare that they will refuse to accept the verdict, and will oontinue the hat- tie until the judgment is reversed. The verdict, they say, is directed more against the Jews than against Dreyfus, and if allowed to stand will make their existence in France impossible. Maitre Labori and Maitre Demange took the midnight train for Paris They drove to the station in a closed carriage, escorted by four mounted gendarmes. The road was practically deserted, and no demonstration oc curred en routo or at the station. Maitre Demange and Maitre Labori will tomorrow sign an application for a revision of the case, although there is no nope that the verdiot will be re versed. Both are much unset, thouali it can hardly be said that they aie sur prised. EXPRESS TRAIN ROBBED. Safe Blown Open and Contents Titkeii Men Escaped. Cochise, Ariz., Sept. 12. Express train No. 10. on the Southern Pacific was robbed near here last night by four masked men, who blew the safe open and took everything in sitrht The amount of their booty is said to be small. The train was stopped, the encino mail and express cais wore cut off from the rest of tho train and run a mil farther up the road, where tho bandits stopped to complete their work. Th express messenger was forced to open ins car and tno robbers attacked the safe with dynamite. The sttnnu hn was eoon blown open and the contents taken by tbe thieves, who hastily de parted. They were last seen going north on loot, and a posse started out on thei trail. The dynamite usod on the safe blew out the aide of the express ra and tore up the floor. Thoro ii no due to the identity of the robbora. Two Additional Regiment. New York, Sept. 11. A special to Ihe iribune from Washington says: Orders will be i6sueJ from the war de partment in a day or two announcing the field and staff officers of two add tional volunteer regiments, which will be organized after the manner of th so-called Immune regiments sent to i una last year, M GUILTY RAILWAYS IN LUZON. Arrangements Completed for Another Line on the Coast. Chicago, Sept. 11. Special corre spondence to the Tribune from Manila, under dste of August 4, says: Agents for a company of Spanish capitalists, some of whom live in Ma nila, announce that arrangements have been completed for the building of a modern railroad line in Luzon that will conneot Manila with all the important towns along the west coast of the island as far north aa Laoag. The route ia kept secret, but it ia under stood that it will be the same as pro posed in 1876, when the scheme for government railroads in the Philip pines was officially projected. Three lines were, planned at that time, only one of which was completed, the present railroad, which runs from Ma nila to Dagupan, a distance of 151 miles. The company is keeping its movementa secret to prevent the two or three companies that are said to be organizing in the United States lor the purpose of building railroads in Luzon fiom anticipating it in securing the same route. The Americans who have talked railroads here generally be lieve that a new town and port will be established either on the north coast of Luzon or the northern part of the west coast of the island, as a terminal of the railroad. Thin would onvfl ?RO rn 1 Hnilinw n Manila for ships from the United States or from Hong Kong, and with rapid communication to Manila through the richest provinces of tbe island, would be reasonably oertain to grow rapidly. INCREASED NAVAL ESTIMATES. Repairs and New Ships Cost Heap of Money. New York, Sept. 11. A special to the Herald from Washington says: The naval estimates for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1901, will aggregate about 150,000,000. This considerable increase in the cost of the navy is due in great part to the expenditures which will have to be made duiing the pres ent and coming fiscal year for the con struction of the 54 vessels building, and that three battleships and three armoied cruisers, which will be con tracted for as soon aa congress takes ac tion enabling tho department to phoa contracta for armor. "Admirals Hichborn and Melville have estimated that $18,000,000 will be required to meet bills of shipbuild ers. In addition to this sum, Admiral Hichborn estimates that $5,000,000 instead of $3,000,000 will be required for repair ships. There ia reason to believe that Admiral Crowinshield, chief of the bureau of navigation, will recommend in his forthcoming report that the enlisted force be increased to 20,000 men and will make estimates therefor. He will also make ample provision for target practice for the sei vice. Admiral O'Neill's estimate for the armor for the vessels under construc tion and proposed are very high. His estimates for the present fiscal year amounted to $4,000,000, which was ap propriated. The estimates for the com ing year will exceed this amount. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. Keepers Neglect to Search Insane Man and He Kills Three. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 11. News has reached here from Chihuahua. Mexico, of the terrible deed of a lunatio there a few days since. Last Tuesday a orazy man created a disturbance among the people in the plaza. He attacked an American with a heavy billet of wood, but the American knocked down his assailant with a walking cane. The police anived quickly and soon over powered the lunatic and took him off to jail. They locked him in a large cell, where 15 other prisoners wereconfined, and neglected to search him for wea pons. It soon developed that the luna tio had a long knife concealed on his person, and drawing it he began slash ing right and left at his nnairnl ii. mates. Two of them were killed an a third latally wounded before guards rushed in and disarmed the the lunatic. It is reported that the insane man will be shot for his crime. Merrltt Slated for the 1'hlllpplnes. New York, Sept. 11. A special dis patch to the Journal and Advertiser says: After 48 houra of almost constant discussion among the president, Secre tary Root, Professor Schurman, Sena tor Beveridge, General Miles and Adjutant-General Corbin, it may be stated positively that Geneial Merritt will go to the Philippines. No atatement ia made aa to what po sition General Merritt ia to assume, but it ia probablo the movement con templates the division of Otis present duties into two departments, Merritt to have charge of the military end. Miles May Go to Philippines. Chicago, Sept. 11. A special to the Record from Washington says: Nel son A. Miles, general commanding the army, will go to the Philippines to di rect the military operations during the approaching campaign. This state ment, while not authorized by any an nouncement from the president or the aoxietary of war, ia made upon the iiu thority of one of the offioeu of the de partment. mm m Portland's Fair Will Best to Date. WILL ECLIPSE FORMER FAIRS Begins September 28 and CluB, n 1...- oa I Uct- . ite open Day , Evening Band Concerts bally. A very excellent feature of the 0,. ion Industrial Exposition. v,;i. , held at Portland, ia that it represent, mo oniiro i uhic iiunnwest, and the products of this whole region are freelr mi ttun a r n ra i Vt i r , 1 i ' hibited. It ia truly a great fair, nml it lunuo juieicBiiiiK to ail. Kvnrvtki.. connected with it ia on a pronurU i.. suaio buuu an oenis me great region represented. Portland haa the capital ne i. . ... --J IV carry on buch a great tair, and her en terpri8ing business men freelv fumi.i. - -M'MICJ the money to pav the heaw w - -if juccg incurred. They know that in doing bo tney are aiding in tne general di opment of the entire Northwest. 0: People Wlio visit the Portland this autumn will make no mistake, for they will find there manj splendid attractions to interest them A full military band, one of the beet in America, will give concerts every afternoon and evenine. and them nin be amusement features such aa will please all, and audi as can only be found in the very best theateis. The great exposition building will be i Vtl a la rt oltrv art I a finntav stf Vinn4 and it will be well worth going many miles to eee the splendid exhibit of the products of field, farm, orchard, forest, nanery, factory and dairy. May Move to Spokane. Another new industry will probably it be established soon at Spokane. Tbe fr latest move in this direction is one Si that may result in bringing the laree i plant of tbe Ealge Woolen Mills Com pany to Spokane, from Brownsville, pi Or. The chamber of commerce is mak- I1 ing a movement in that direction and tl ita efforts bid fair to be successful, a Hugh Field, president of the Eagle Woolen Mills Company, has written ' that if sufficient encouragement ii P given him he will move his plant to Spokane, Should the plant be move" to Spokane. Mr. Field says he wl i enlarge his mill and have a four- woolen mill. This will give employ- t itimit in lfifl hnnrln C Municipal Licrlitlna: Flnnt. The leport of Engineer Byrne, ol 1 1 1 Pomeroy, Wash., has been received. jt He estimates the cost of constructing! ( flume and erecting a power-house and plant at $22,000. This does not in clude the eleotrioal machinery or the poles and wire, which it ia estimated will cost about aa much more. It ii not likely that the city will feel justi fied in attempting so large an under taking at present. Track laying In Idaho. Work on the Kootenai Valley rail way haa commenced in earnest. The necessary machinery for the work ar rived last week and ia now in readineei for operations. Superintendent Bob erts expects to lav two miles per day. If no accident occura the rails will reach Poit Hill by the middle of the month. The head of tbe lake will be reached by October 1. Walla Walla Bonds Sold. The city of Walla Walla, Wash., has sold $350,000 bonda, of which flSS. 000 were . sewer and water bonds Morris & Whitehead, of Portland, were the fiuccefisfiii hi.l.Wn. Thev bid for general municipal bonda 4) per cent interest and 6 per cent for sewer and water bonds. The total bonds aoU! at a premium of $2,100. Lewlston Bonds Sold. The board of trusteeB oi Lewistn, Idaho, state normal school, has nego tiated the sale of bonds amounting to $7,600 at a premium of 10 per cent, thua providing an aggregate sum o $8,200 to construct two dormitories and purchase physical and chemical ap paratus for the scientific department. Woolen Mills Rushed. The big woolen mills of ThomW Kay, in Salem, ia now kept running night and day in response to ordeit irom an parts of the country. uian. and flannels are now being turned out almost exclusively to fill these order One hundred persons are employed. Flour for Dawson. The steamer Alpha left Vancouver. B. C, last week with a cargo of 1?' tons of flour for Dawson, from the Mi" of the Woods Milling Company. At Dawson flour is selling at $6 per W and at thia rate the agenta of the firm in the North will be able to reali something like $28,000 out of tu whole shipment. Helena Bank Won. The result of the sale of the o't-v bonds of Helena. Mont., was that th Union Bank & Trnat Company, of that city, led all the Eastern banks in their premium offer and finally seoured tn bonds, amounting to $65,000, giving premium of $730. Thia brings the in terest down to 8.9 per cent. Bri -ON C fee on i im pae in ! Ca bre aie ... I i '