The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-24
TELEGRAPHlC.
AN EpIToNR OF TUE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING PUBLIC INTEREST.

$550,o0o; insurance, $430,0o0.
The main building of Wells col
lege at Aurora, N. Y, was burned.
The loss is over 100000; insurance
100000.
The new Catholic church at Cole
man, Wis, collapsed, killing one man
and crushing seven others so badly
that several may die.
Edward Hanlan, Jr., young son Of
Hanlan, the oarsman, of Toronto,
Canada, while playing with matches,
set fire TO his clothes and was burned
to death.
A passenger train ran into the rear
end of a freight at Darlington, Ohio,
badly damaging the passenger loco
motive and breaking several cars,
Nobody was hurt.
The Macintosh sampling works at
Sandy, fourteen miles south of Salt
Lake, was burned. The loss is about
$4,000, insurance $4,000 The
cause of the fire is unknown.
For the second time in three years
a large part of the business portion of
1itchfleld, Conn, has been burned
The fire destroyed several business
blocks.
A FIRE broke out in the Caldwell
Griffith block, on Market street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, at
Chattanooga, Tenn, and destroyed
100000 worth of property.
The wholesale agricultural imple-
ment house of Martin Il Co, and
Kingman 4 Co., in Peoria, H., were
burned. Loss, 100000; insurance,
SI20,000
The cottage of ]. D. Mccarthy, at
the Mount Tabor Methodist camp
meeting grounds, at Newark, n. j.,
was burned. Two children and the
mother were burned To death.
A boarding house and store at
West Charleston, w. Va, was burned,
aud Mrs. Wallace and son Simon,
aged 30, We're cremated. Robbery,
murder and arson are suspected.
Deacon Lowering, aged 80, and his
sister, Mrs. Richardson, of Greenfield,
Mass, We're instantly killed by light
ming. Their farm house and out
buildings were burned.
Information was received at Tue
son, AriZ., that two men were killed
between Crittenden and Huachua, and
that the deed was supposed to hav.
been the work OF Indians. The men
killed were Mexican vaqueros.
While Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
was riding in victoria in Bellvue
avenue al Newport, Il. l., the carriage
was run into by a dogeart, and Mrs
Vanderbilt thrown out. She sus
tanned serious injuries.
George Metzinger, who was the
chief iustigator in the Chicago bomb
makers, and connected with the Hay
market riot, died in an insane asylum
at Jefferson, ILL.,. recently. No on,
claimed his body and il was used fol
dissecting purposes.
At Moose Lake, near Duluth, Minn.
Japp Cox, a welltC-do farmer, sho
and instantly killed his IA year-olt
son. The father was testing a Win
chester rifle, when it was accidental,
discharged, the bullet penetrating th'
boys head.
Adolph Harman, a German EN-
ployed as clerk in Morford, Brown
4 Cos store, at Long Branch, N. J.
tried to shoot Mrs Hayes, his mother
in-law, and then killed his wife an,
himself at highlands or Navesink, il
the woods back of Twin lighthouse.
While Officers Jones and Rosenberj
We're attempting TO make an arrest a
a house on Lafayette street, in Loui-
vile, KY, which has been notoriou
for crimes committed there, both wer
stabbed to death by Charles Dilgel
formerly private policeman and watch
man.
Nancy Railing, a colored woman
living st Norfolk, Va, who has beer
sick for some months, has vomited
living frog, nearly as long as a finger
and almost white from long deprivs
ton from light. 1t is supposed th'
some time ago the woman swallowe
a tadpole.
During heavy gale the sloop Flor
B. capsized near New Castle, De
She had on board, Mrs. Eliza
Wheaton, Mrs. Johnathan Turnel
Mrs. Saml. Wheaton and daughter,
years OF age, and Mrs. Thomas Finnt
gan, all of whom were drowned.
Jennie Woolver, a domestic on
farm near Woodland, Miss, was she
and killed by George Moons, aged 2
years, who then blew his brains ou
Moons lately returned from Colorad,
and it is supposed that he killed th
girl because she was soon to be MAJ
ried TO another man, and refused hi
suit.
Three young men SOloman ReiC
aged 16 years, VIM. Lawrence, age
Is, and the third name unknown, wer
drowned in the East river, opposit
Sixth street, in New York, from
boat which was upset by theSw was
from ferryboat. They tried to swir
ashore in a strong tide, and their fiv
com panions were rescued after clinE
ing to the boats keel for half an hou
The locomotive of a west-boun
Chicago express on the Erie roa
jumped the track near Corning, N Y
and dashed into Lehigh Valley l.
comotive standing on the track. Th
passenger locomotive overturned an
crushed to death John Mercereau {
Hornellsville, the engineer. The fir,
man escaped. Henry Fisher, the l.
high engineer, was hurt about til
head. Two baggage cars and
smoker were wrecked. Several pa
sengers were badly shaken up.