The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-09

The ST. Louis, Arkansas & Texas
express train was robbed at Dingsland
Arkansas. The express messenger
locked the doors, but the robbers
smashed them in and secured between
5000 and $4,000.
The Union Square Theatre, with all
iis contents, was destroyed by fire AT
New York city. The Morten House
adjoining it on two sides, was badly
damaged. Six firemen were injured
by falling walls, three fatally.
A false alarm of fire raised in a
crowded synagogue in Hamburg, Ger,
created a panic, during which four
women were killed and six persons
seriously injured by being trampled
upon in the general rush for exit.
A bridge crew on the Atlantic &
Pacific road, A. t., numbering twenty
men, working near Holbrook, were
poisoned by eating canned currant
Jelly, and several are in such bad con-
dition that their lives are in danger.
The village OF Valtorta, in the north
of Italy, was half buried by an ava
lanche. Many houses were wrecked
and the occupants buried i'm the ruins
Troops from Bergamo have arrived 10
aid in disinterring the buried. Twenty
three corpses have been recovered, and
several persons have been extricated
alive, though more or less injured.
The Montana Smelling Company
has closed contract with the Great
Falls Water Power Company of Mon.
tana, and will erect the largest smelt-
ing plant in the world at Great Falls
on the Missouri. The company has a
capital stock of 81, 5000, 600, which will
be increased, as their plans call for
nearly $2,000,000 for the erection oi
furnaces and other structures.
Mrs. Albert Traffert and her 12-year
old son were crossing the Ohio and
Mississippi track near Shattock, Ill.
in a buggy, when they were struck by
the east bound mail. Mrs. Trafferi
had her head crushed and her hand
cut off, dying an hour later. The boy
was wounded in the head and died
soon after. The buggy was thrown
sixty yards and ground TO kindling
wood, the horse being instantly killed
Charles Williams eloHed from Naco-
sari, Sonora, with the wife of Jack
Martin, a cattleman. The woman
appropriated $4,000 and a gold watch
and chain belonging TO Martin, while
Williams scattered the horses belong.
ing to Martin and neighbors to pre-
vent pursuit. The day following
Martin procured horses and a posse
and started in pursuit. He overlook
the party in a canyon near HilPs
ranch on the San Pedro. As soon as
Williams saw Martin he opened fire
on him, the shot passing through the
body and causing instant death, Both
Williams and the woman are heavily
armed, and declare they will not be
taken alive.
A passenger train going east and an
oil train coming west on the Union
Pacific near Cotton, Nebraska, collided
with terrific force. Both trains were
piled together in a broken mass and
took fire Immediately. In twenty
minutes all was consumed. Engineel
Powell was killed, but all passenger
escaped, although some were badly
bruised. Among the injured were
George McLarry, Portland, an ankle
sprained A. A. Brown, Portland, hsaC
badly bruised Adson Brown, age fiv,
years, face scratched; Mr.. Knowles
Union City, Oregon, back bruised
Mrs. Burton Reed, Cascade Locks
bruised; Mrs. Lighthall, Helena, Mon
tana, collar bone broken.