The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-10
COAST cULLINes.
DEvorED PRINCIPALLY TO WASHINGTON
TEaRrroRY AND CALIFORNIA.

A young man named Peter Leon
ard, of Sacramento, CAL, was caught
between two fruit cars in freight
yard, and crushed 10 death.
A son of Morris Murphy, 13 years
old, of Marysville, Cal, was accident
ally killed in drift in the old mine at
Smartsville.
John Gore, the young man injured
by the explosion of the boiler of
threshing machine at Vallejo, Cal.
died from the effects of his injuries.
Won All Ly, who murdered another
Chinaman in San Francisco July, Is,
was arrested in All Fook's place,
Chinatown, in San Jose, by Chief of
Police Brown.
Frank Havery, an employe in the
Denn Lomond vineyard in Santa
Cruz, Cal, was shot and killed by
Carl Russ, fellow workman. The
shooting was accidental.
II. w. Platte, well-known real es-
tate dealer and pioneer resident of
San Jose, Cal, fell from stepladder
at his residence and broke his neck,
dying instantly.
The east and west bound freight
trains collided at Antelope station,
near Sacramento, Cal. Ten cars are
badly wrecked, and three engines dis
abled. No one was injured.
VIM. Hood, conductor Of passen-
ger train, was crushed in the chest,
while coupling cars near Vacaville,
Cal. 1t is thought his injuries are
fatal.
| A fire broke out in the Hidden
Treasure mine, near Forest Hill, Cal
A number of miners were killed,
and some who went to their rescue
were also killed.
w. B. Howard, a piano agent of
Los Angeles, Cal, deserted his wife
and children, leaving them penniless.
It was also learned that he was de
faulter in large amount.
John Blake, a laborer, about As
years of age, was run over and killed
by freight train at San Mateo, Cal.
| He was sleeping under hay car, and
the train in switching ran over and
killed him.
| Charles Kennett's boot and shoe
store was being burglarized AT Seattle
w. T., when the proprietor, sleeping
in the baek part of the store shot
twice. The man was not hit, but was
captured by the police.
A robber stopped a stage at San
Luis Obispo, Cal, containing six per
sons. made them all stand in lire, ant
robbed them. He also obtained Wells
Fargo & Co.'S treasure box, containing
about 5 600 and made good his es
cape.
A fire destroyed the following prop
erty at Virginia, New; l. Rosenbaum'
furniture store, loss, $500; Young
Bros. saloon, $500; Joseph Singleton
lodging house, $4,000; other prop
erty, $500. No one but Young
Bros. was insured.
Joseph c. Margot, a Frenchman, o
San Francisco, who was brought t,
the receiving hospital with a bulle
wound in mis- right eye, and who tolC
wild story about being attacked b,
footpads and robbed, has finally con
fessed that the wound was inflicted b.
himself with suicidal intent.
NEAR hcu SAiy lltS
of two young Indian women, passen
, gers on the Redding local train, boun'
south. caught FIRE In some inexplic
able way, and in their fright the,
jumped from the train, one being in
stantly killed, and the other dyini
! shortly after The remains wer
buried where they were found.
ADtone Klespar, German living a
! Port Kenyon, Cal, who had beer
! a away from his family for some time
returned, and asked his wife to l.v
: with him. She refused, and he Gu
! her throat with pocket knife. The
! ne came to Ferndale, procured bo
: of trough on rats" took it and died il
: short time.
VIM. Bein, misar, at San Fran
cisco, left fortune of about $250,O0
: to charitable institutions, but il wa
:, declared void, op account of u Law
e compelling a will leaving an estate t
D charitable organizations to be mad
: out at least thirty days before the tes
e tators death. Bein made his will jus
: twenty-eight days before his death.
! The Napa train ran into and kille,
! Alexander Carmichael, near Vail, jc
: Cal. He was IL years old, and, witt
another boy, ran away from home
J, He was walking on the track and ha,
sat down on rail to rest, and fel
) asleep. The engineer of the train di,
o not see him in time, and he was strucl
on the head, and soon died. Th
e other boy narrowly escaped.
At Dangber's ranch, near Genoa
s New, band OF Washoe Indians be
came engaged in a drunken quarre
D One of the band was knocked d0wl
Q with club and then ira ramped to death
His head was beaten in with bricks
and nearly every bone in his bod
: broken by the infuriated savaget
! While he lay, begging for his life, hal
i dozen Indians were jumping up an
! down upon his body until he was
d shapeless mass. The murderers tle
+ to the hills and have not yet bee
' captured.
i A fatal shooting scrape occurred q
q Merced, Cal. 1t seems that ma
:, named Williams borrowed pistol an,
t started out to kill Dan Donovan
2 against whom he had longstandin
r grudge, Failing to find him he got i
t a quarrel with man named Morley
J Williams was drunk. He fred d
y Morley, missing him, but striking
man named Adams in the ches
e Adams died after lingering a FEY