The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-01
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Attracting Psblis interest
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known persons.
Richard Mitchell. employed in slid
logs in Provo canyon, Utah, was
d, being struck by a log.
Mrs. Eliza Lewis, an aged woman
and her three grandchildren were
sn1othered to death In house at
Cleveland, Ohio.
At Ashland, Wis, VIM. Andrews
shot and killed his wife. He then
shot himself, but not fatally, but fin
ished the tragedy by drawing razor
across his throat,
james Dobie, a middle aged English
man, shot and fatally wounded his
wife at 4 hotel in Pullman, Ill. She /
had left him several months ago on
account Of his general worthlessness
A collision occurred between a pas
senger and freight train, twenty miles
from Barcelona, Spain. Three persons
were killed and forty-six injured, sew
eral Of whom have died.
VIM. ]. Mcfarland, of Cleveland,
Ohio, quarreled with his wife, while |
under the influence of liquor. In his
fury he drew revolver, shot his wife
aud three year-old daughter, and then
shot himself All are dead.
A barn belonging to A. NJ. Forbes,
and located on West Monroe street,
Chicago, burned. Seventy horses
were suffocated, and several people
barely escaped with their lives. The
loss is about SO, 600.
Sergeant James White, OF Company
G, stationed at Fort Gibson, /. T., met
with fatal accident He was hold
ing a stake in his hand, when a horse
Scked at him and drove the stake
through his body. He died instantly.
a cyclone swept over Brownton,
Texas. destroying the Methodist, Bap-
tist and Congregational churches and
eight dwellings. One person wa
Killed, and eight, including the sheriff
and county recorder, were fatally
wounded.
Mrs. Anna Bryant was murdered by
her father, William Greenwood, at
Curtis, Neb She had Just given
birth to child, after she had been
married only three months. Her hus-
band has lett the country. She was
only 16 years of age.
Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil,
appears to be stricken with paralysis,
He has lost the power of speech, aud
his breathing is labored. Oxygen was
forced into his lungs, and cotfeine was
injected under his skin, with the re
suit that he became less inert and par
TALLY conscious, but there is little hope
for his recovery.
A man named Likens at Spring.
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two children, boy and girl, aged re
spectiyely nine and eleven years, with
an axe, and then cut hts own Throat
with pocket-knife. He expired II
ten minutes.
William Bullock, an employ of the
West Shore railroad at Newark
Wayne county, New York, shot his
wife four times with a revolver, killing
her instantly. He then placed tbs
weapon to his own head and fired, IN
fiieting fatal wound. Jealousy wa:
the cause. Three children, aged from
nine to eighteen years, survive.
The steamship City of Para, which
left Colon for New York, went ashor,
on Old Providence Island near Pana
ma. At last accounts she was lyinE
IN seventeen feet of water. The yes
sci Is in no danger, unless heav.
weather sets, in, which is very unlikel.
at this time of year. The passenger
mails and specie are still on board.
At the Chickasaw Indian nation,
bloody bowie knife butt hery occurred
Two farmers named Wash Edwar'
and James Schneider got into a fgh
with knives, and the former was liteI
ally torn to pieces, his right arm be
ing severed at the shoulder, and hi
back split entirely open, besides re
eeiving numerous other mortal gashe;
Charles Carey, who deliberatel
killed Moy Nj Ding, a Chinaman, &
the stock yards packing house IN Ch
cago, has been sentenced to fifty yea
by the Judge The victim went t
buy scraps, when Carey walked up /
him, laughed, pulled revolver an
shot him dead. To the horrified spet
tators he said: give only killed
Chinaman."
Three horrible and unjustiiab
crimes were avenged by the hangin
Of one white man named Graham, an
two negroes named David Moore an
Millard Hall, at Greenville, Mis-
David Moore killed companion du
ing a game of dice. Willard Ha
killed 15-year-old boy. Graham, Il
white man, was hanged for killing tn
white men on the Sunfiower river.
The steamer City of Peking whic
arrived from Hong Kong and Yok
homa brought definite account
the wreck of the steamer San Pabl
near Turnabout island, in the strai
Of Formosa. A heavy fog prevaile
at the time, and the steamer ran u
on hidden reef. The locality is i
tested with pirates, and as soon as the
saw that the San Pablo was agrouI
they made an attempt to board he
but were driven off after a sharp fgh
in which a number of shots were fire
by the officers and crew Of the steame
It was found impossible to get the Sa
Pablo off, and she was abandoned, .
ter which the pirates went aboard al
ransacked her, and then set Il
steamer on fire, burning her to Il
waters edge.
Twenty years ago Enoch Hall,
Morven, Ga. picked up the seeds tn;
an orange eater had dropped an
planted them in a little box. A fe