The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-01-15


half cent pound, and II ID reporte'
that another advance will be made thi
month.
Henry Deisel, promising yount
man Of Darwin, was taken TO Marshall
ILL.,, 10 be tried for insanity. He ha'
been very violent, aud constantly de-
mandsd blood TO drink. Chickens
were killed for him and he drank thoil
warm blood. When the supply was
exhausted be msshed bis hand terribly
and drank the blood from that. His
mother Is in tho insane asylum now.
William Kennedy, student at Tas-
culum College, Chattanooga, Tenn. WIS 10
the dormisory with number of compan
ions, whom one Of them picked up an
army pistol from bis trunk and began
aourishiug It, supposing 1t was not
loaded. Il was accidsntly discharged,
whOrenpon Kennedy clasped bis hands
to his breast, crying, "I'm shot" and
fell back dead.
Chattanooga. Tenn, has been thrown
into considerable excitement by tho an
nouucsment that saloon keepers, against
whom the Sunday Law is being rigidly
enforced, had sworn out nearly 100
warrants against those engaged ia ell
the trades and prsfessions who do busi-
ness en- Sunday. The whisky men
say they have been Disseminated
against and propose TO test the Law TO
It's full scope. The warrants include
newspaper publishers. livery msa and
street car companies.
Dc. Hartwell Of Johns Hopkins
University says that German soldier
can scale twenty-foot wall with bis
arms aud sccourtrements, or jump an
iron spike fsaee without getting caught.
Gymnastics are compulsory ia the Ger.
man schools.
The cattle men Of Montana have
formed = protective organization, Of
which the motto is: "You bad better
mind whose range you ara on and
whose cattle you arc branding
Washington Territory construed | -
miles Of railroad las, year.
Judge David s. Terry and Sarah
Alshea Hill were married at 8 o'clock
Thursday of last week by Rev. Father
o'Conner. Two o's we'll NTH
Lee Dun, youth, was aeeidently
shot in the face on Thursday Of last
week at Sacramento, Cal, with re-
volyer by Jc. Elder. Il was known TO
be loaded
Theirs were 2ls divorces granted in
the CommoL Pleas Corrts of PhiIadel-
phia during the past year, as compared
with 2il 10 1884. As largo ~ these
fgures appear they enly indicate nbont
one-half tho number of people who
have sought relief from their marriage
contracts in the Courts, for many ap-
plieations are still undes consideration,
while others have been refused. Verify
al divorces a,e not granted in Oregon.
The San Francisco Cremation Society
is about 70 erect eresaatory at coat
Of So, 900 en- Poiat Lobos road near
the city. Adolph Sotro is one OF the
incorporators, ADD proposes TO donate a
lot. The apparatus has been ordered
from italy to be ready for business in
June. There are already three in
America, one at Fresh Pond, Long
Island, ono at Lancaster, and one ct
Buffalo.
Some twenty colonies have been
established in tho Santa 10 district Of
the Argentine Republic. Their terri.
tory occupies ninety-tive square leagues,
and tho settlers number ,359 families
During the last thirty years the district
has grown through colonization until il
has population Of IL, 900 souls.
| A young man in Bath, Me-, recently
called on young lady and stayed st
late that the indignant mother called |
policeman and had thu visitor sent Il
the lookup. He was released the mex
day on agreeing TO leave town. and th'
people Of Bath justify the punishmen
on the ground that an "example" i
needed.
Two French women entered into
contest to determine which of then
could talk the faster. Amutual frien,
was appointed umpire, and the sum Q
1000 francs was to go to the victor
For three hours they read from Edgen
Sues feuilleton, and during that tim
the victor succeeded in pronouncinI
296,Sll words. Her adversary cam
in bad second with 203,460 words.
Minneapolis is said to turn out 70
horse sales with greater enthusiasm
and unanimity than any other city i
the Union.
A machine called the Buffalo hom
trainer he's been invented, by wbic
bicycIists can traia for races in The
own room. It is stationary.
Contagious diseases have excited II
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