The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-10-20

Ihe Pacihc Insurance. eCompany lost
81, $50 900 by the Chicago FIRE.
East Portland is making 500. 900
worth Of improvments this year.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Clackamas county Jail last week.
The Times says the jackson County
Fair was an acknowledged success.
Placer county, CAL, has o mining
company with a capital of 81 200 900.
A lodger at the "Chemeketa" in
Salem, was robbed OF 500 last week.
Ex-senator Williams is travelling
over the State on the political out
look.
Three little children of one family
died at Eugene last week Of scarlet
fever.
Oregon still maintains her suprem-
acy as the champion apple-growing
State.
Chicago will get much lumber from
the Pacific coast for rebuilding pur-
| poses.
Chas. Height. Of Portland, COM
mitted suicided with q razor last
week.
APresbyterian Church at Alameda,
CAL, which cost $40 900, was blown
down.
The Nez Perces Indians of Oregon,
raised II 900 bushels of wheat this
season..
A Chinaman had his head cut of
in San Francisco last Monday by an
assassin.
| A little girl in Portland last Friday
put out her brothers eye with sharp
pointed stick.
| A. III. Loryea, the "Unk weed"
man, has been appointed Swiss Con-
sui for Oregon.
A woman circus rider ut the Fair
last week cleared Is feet OF ambient
air at single leap.
Mrs. L. Solomon, OF Jacksonville,
was thrown from buggy and her
collar bone broken.
California's grape prodnct this year
is ct timated at As. .00o, 900 pounds
an en- ormous increase.
Joao' uin Miller, the poet, is now
in San Francisco, and will arrive in
Oregon in q few days.
A Portland Teuton, who drinks so
glasses of la ger day. is preparing to
enter the lee ture field.
A petition rs feet long is signed in
Walla Walla for the removal OF Judge
Kennedy of that District.
A Chinaman was brutally murder
ed for his money Ivy couple OF white
men, near Seattle, last Sunday.
The California Masonic Grand
Lodge elected L. E. Pratt. OF San
francisco, Grand Mas ter, last week.
Richard Lucas, an aged resident of
Polk county, near Eola, was found
dead in his bed last Sunday morning.
Jacksonville has violent attact Of
the trnck-skating mania. It attacks
most of its victims with "stern" fatali-
ty.
Some enterprising genius has dis
covered that it was Ferdinand de
Magellan who named the Pacific
Ocean.
Mrs. N. J. SAVERS who killed Mrs.
Lake, some time ago in Stockton. for
running off with her husband, has
been indicted for murder.
Pompelly, who was elected from
the State Fair for refusing to wear his
badge on the outside, has sued the
ejecting Marshal for S. 900 damages.
The San Francisco steamer brou. ght
TO Portland last week $181 900 in
gold coin, most of which goes to
farmers Throughout the State for
wheat.
A singular affair took place at Pio-
chez, Nevada, last week citizen
playfully ignited a pile Of gunpowder,
and the most of the town left shortly
afterwards.
Three mrriages were last week
broken off in Jackson county just be-
fore the thing was clinched. The
Times thinks that business is becom-
ing monotonous.
A greeny who had never seen the
cars concluded to take q ride to Sa-
lem last week, and as the conductor
wouldn't let him take his dog on
board, greeny tied the dog behind
the rear car, SO as to let him follow.
It il sufficient. to add that he followed
vehemently rolling rapidly"