The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-10
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AN Epr7oNR OF rHE PR1ScrpAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING Pubic INrERrsr.

Three boys-Jaccb Heem, Samuel
Ditson and VIM. Anderson-were
drowned in the Missouri river near
Omaha, while bathing.
Nearly the entire business portion
OF Suffolk, Va, was destroyed by fire,
which started in Webb's oil warehouse
The losses aggregate $4,000 with |
light insurance.
Adaughter of Dolph Mills, colored,
of Yazoo City, Miss, poisoned her |
FATHER and three brothers fatally at
breakfast. Family dissensions were
the cause.
Jacob Moore, carpenter, shot and
killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary
Moore, at Detroit, Mich. then shot at
her daughter, and missing, shot him
self fatally.
Kate and Dennis, children Of Pat
rick j. Byrnes, of New York, were
drowned in the harbor by the upset
ting of a rowboat. The f4ther was
saved with difficulty.
A. L. Pruden, assistant secretary to
the president at Washington, received
intelligence that his son, aged 16, was
killed in an accident on his farm in
Virginia:
A masked robber entered the farm
house of Conrad Doup, near Cleve-
land, Ohio, and beat the old man with
club, bound his hands, and stole
$4,000.
Willie Ellsworth, 1S-year-old son OF
DIR. Ellsworth, an old resident of La
Porte, Ind, was shot in the bowels and
killed by Oliver White, another young
man of the same age, during quar-
rel.
Fremont Emnons, q young man
who deliberately stabbed Bertha Shuts
at Pawnee City, Neb., short time
ago, because she had refused his pro-
posal of marriage, was taken from the
authorities and lynched by mob.
E. B. Eddy's lumber mill at Birch
ton, Canada, burned, together with
the entire seasons cut, valued at 1920,
000 A number OF workmen's houses
and toolhouses were lost. The total
loss viii amount te $500 900, on which
there is an insurance of 100000.
On the Ohio Valley railroad, be-
tween Henderson and Marion, KY,
William Cardwell, James Nichols and
Sam Num- indulged in a shooting
scrape. Cardwell and Num- were ia
tally shot, and Nichols jumped from
the train and escaped.
A Burlington fast train, west bound
ran into car which got on the main
track near Round Grove, Ill. The en-
CINE and one car were completely
wrecked. The engineer and fireman
were badly hurt. None of the pas
sengcrs were injured.
Albert NJ Fields. of Decatur, Ill
shot and mortally wounded Florence
Fitzpatrick, because she refused to at
tend camp meeting with him. Fields
attempted to escape, but was captured
four miles from the scene of the
tragedy.
Three armed robbers entered the
house of VIM. Clark, a wealthy
farmer, at New Castle, Pa, and bounC
and gagged the entire family of sever
persons. They then ransacked tbs
house, but only succeeded in getting
three gold watches and small sum o
money.
Fifty armed men visited the Jail a
Carthage, Tenn, and took out o. ii
Handy, who, on September 18th last
killed ]. B. Warman, a deputy sheriff
The sheriff refusing to give up th'
keys, the mob, with axes and crowbar
broke into Handly's cell. The mur
derer was carried across the river ant
hanged to a tree in sight of tn
Jail.
D. F. Ford, an old prospector o
Tucson, Ariz., has been robbed ant
murdered by Papagoes near the Quin
land ranch, on the Quijetoa road
Ford has been missing for Two months
but was thought TO be prospecting il
the mountains till a few days since
when one of the Indians disclosed tn,
murder, and offered to escort part,
TO the place.
An inmate of the asylum at An
chorage, KY, Laura Crull by name
literally boiled herself to death On
of the patients IN the female ward il
some manner opened a hot water fau
Get in the bath room, and allowed tn
tub to be filed Mrs Crull, seein,
the tub full, threw off her clothe
and jumped in. She was cookies
to death before assistance arrived
Her trouble was melancholy.
Deputy Sheriff Hayes, OF Blakfoot
Idaho, arrived at BOZeman, Mont, anC
identified Alex. Woods, the negro re
Gently arrested there, as the man VIII
murdered his wife and was sentence,
to be hanged on June 20. At tn
same time Williams was execute,
Woods broke jail and escaped, and ha
been at large ever since. Hayes hat
the necessary requisition papers witt
him and took his prisoner back t,
Idaho. The hanging has been fxe,
for August II.
Deputy Sheriff L. S. Elmer mur
dered Miss Mollie Korbel, at Wash
ington, Oak, under circumstances g
peculiar atrocity She was a domes
. tic in the sheriff's employ, and ha,
been interested in the management @
the household during the temporar.
absence of the family. She had jus
given the prisoners supper whel
Elmer, who boarded in the house
asked her if she intended going ou
that evening. She replied that sh
would if she chose, whereupon Elme
shot her three times, causing instan
death. He had not been paying he
attention, and no cause is known fo
his act: He was at once locked up. /
crowd gathered and tried to storm tn