The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-13
TELEGRAPHlC.
Al Epilons q h. Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

GeOrRe W llSOn was ha0Reu at Al |
bion, N Y fnr str,ngling his wife in
January, 1887.
Fire at Elmora, Colo, destroyed
half the business portion of the town.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, So 600.
Joseph Stafford. OF New York, bell
boy, shot and killed Rosie Sheridan,
cook in boarding house, and then
ehot and killed himself.
VIM. Moore, the colored man who
assaulted Mary Bingardiner at Mat
toon, H., WAS taken from the coun y
Jail and lynched by masked men.
George Arnold shot and killed
George Burton at Minatore, Neb., in a
quarrel over the settlement of debt
of $l2.
Marion Stewart, who had been
drinking heavy, shot and killed his
wife and his brother at their home
near Louisville, KY.
About 400 people were precipitated
from grand stand at Memphis,
Tenn, by the seaffolding giving way.
None were killed, but numbers had
legs and arms broken.
0utink u Edttic ~ NASNtNt
tion park at Pittsnurg, Pa, Dunlap, of
the Pittsburg baseball team was struck
in the face with hard hit ball and
broke his jaw.
A Lincoln, Neb., firm, with a capital
of $5,000,000, will develop coal lands
and establish furnaces near Alva,
Miss, and will put up an iron and
steel plant at Omaha, Neb.
While Robert Foster and Mr..
/ Swartzeman were on their way home
in Hitchcock county, Neb., during a
terrific storm, they were both killed
by lightning.
James McGeorge and VIM. Smith
special deputies OF the sheriff, got into
a quarrel at Prineville, Mo, and shot
each other fatally. A bystander wa,
seriously wounded.
Joseph Tomowski, wealthy farmer
at Warren, Mimi, was murdered il
the woods by his lS-year old nephew
in the hope that he would get some o
the old mans property.
Joseph Greenfield, who stole fur
valued at $500 from his father
store, ON Broadway street, New York
was charged with theft in the cour
by his father, and committed in de
fault of bail for trial
During a sham battle that {, ol
place in the celebration of the Fourtl
AT Kilbnrne, Wis, J. w. Carpente
was killed and c. II. Foote seriousl
injured by the premature discharge G
a cannon.
The five-story building of the Read
ing Hardware Company, OF Reading
Pa, was DESTROYED BY fire. The los
aggregated $35O,000, we'll insured
seven hundred employees are throw
out of work.
Patrick Coffee, worthless drunkarc
shot Miss Agnes Smith in Jersey Cit,
and then turned the pistol on himsel
Both viii die. Coffee, who has vii
and grown-up children, was infatuate
with Miss Smith.
A big timber raft will be launche
at Joggins, Nova Scotia, during th
r present month. The raft contain
; 22,000 logs, is valued at $4,000, an
; will take six days, at 800 day, I
. reach New York.
/ AIHEG AAAChh WAS AEENENGu ~ NSN
2 ark, n. j., for attempting to pois7
her father, brother and sister. Sh
1 confessed that she bought the deadl
/ drug and administered it TO the famil
out of curiosity to see how it woul
. | act.
0 NJ. B. Wilson, of Marquette, Mich
q one of the bosses on the new govern
/ ment building, was shot and fatal
injured by Polish workman whol
. he discharged. The man then sin
!. himself in the mouth, inflicting
a fatal wound.
; Theodore Castora, farmer, was a
q tackled on his way home from King
III ton, Mich, by three brothers name
Drost. who demanded his money. L
shot one dead, fatally wounded a
4 other, and thinks he hit the third, wi
4 escaped.
. Peter Broneck was hanged at
I Joseph, Mo-, for the murder of b
wife two years ago. The prisoner h
borne up bravely, and denied any i
tent TO commit the crime. He claim,
that he was drunk when he did
IL though at the time he declared
killed her because she WAS untrue.
!" While train was moving up h
from Butte, Mont. the cars becan
n uncoupled from the engine and dash
down the grade, jumping the tra'
= and killing two boys, named respe
b lively Green and Burns, of Cent,
~ vile, and injuring two brakem,
~ whose names are not known.
in Lawrence Russell, of Spring6e
ie Mo, has been placed under arrest
ch lnclosing his 10-year-old son in a b
Sc four feet hign and making him sta
r FIVE hours in that position. Also
n tying the boy to plank and smeari
ell molasses over his face to attract fl
n 20 torture the child. Neighbors int
or tered and caused the arrest of the U
ell natural father.
,n A storm at Boston, Mass, ov
W turned the sloop Millie, in the cal
I'd Of which were John Cannon, NJ
in Catherine t. Tripp, aged lO5, and /
II little niece Katie t. Trip. GamC
=. when taken from the water was ali
. The body OF Mrs. Tripp was fou
IN near the yacht. The body of her
er tie niece is supposed to be still in t
n; cabin OF the overturned boat.
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