The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-17
TELEGRAPHIC.
An EpIToNE OF TuE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING PUBLIC INTEREST.

Four of the finest buildings in
Macon, Mo, We're destroyed by fire.
The loss is over 100000; insurance,
$4,000.
The loss by fire at Chattanooga.
Tenn, on Aug. 10, was 100000, and
the loss of life is estimated at ten peo-
pie, and four badly wounded.
Lees planning mill and adjoining
structures at East Saginaw, Mich,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance
light.
Yellow fever has been declared an
epidemic at Jacksonville, Fla, and
the people are fleeing The weather
is hot and very favorable for spread
Of the disease.
Duriug a thunder storm Martin
Olsen, living on farm three miles
west of Lonsboro, Mimi, was killed
by lightning, together with two of his
children.
The colored porter of sleeping car
attached to the Union Pacific west
bound flyer was shot and instantly
killed by an insane passenger named
Hutchinson Arnold, of Nicholasville,
KY.
Mrs. D, Mazee, toll-gsto keeper on
the turnpike at Columbus, Ind, was
shot and killed in cold blood by man
who rode up to her lodge at midnight.
Henry Keller, deputy sheriff, is held
for the crime.
Trappers encamped on the Red
River near Denison, Texas, report the
killing by Indians of trapper named
Meyers, with his wife and two chill
dren July 16, while in camp on the
Territory side of the river. Meyers
was from Michigan.
A four-story tenement house in
avenue A, New York, caught fire.
The family of Gustave Beg, consisting
of himself, wife, daughter and mother
in-law, living on the top floor, were
burned to death. The other occu-
pants escaped. The financial loss is
insignificant
William Bowan was arraigned at
Roekaway, n. Y, charged with hav-
ing plucked his wife's eyes out. Two
years aho he plucked her right eye
out, but since then has threatened to
have the other one, and on July I3
he succeeded IN gouging out her re
manning eye.
Bearden, the negro who shot and
fatally wounded Officer Palmer at
Springfield, Mo-, was captured, but
not until his body was filled with lead
He was placed in the Springfield jail
which is now surrounded by mob OF
800 armed men, who threaten to
lynch the desperate.
Mrs George Allen was burned to
death at Cleveland, Ohio, by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove. She
rushed from the house and fell upon
the pavement, shrieking horribly
Every particle of clothing was burned
off but her shoes. Her husband is
now maniac from the shock.
Charles Henry Riedel was hanged
at New Castle, Del, for the mgrder OF
his wife and child, on the night oi
September Is last. Riedel then
turned the weapon on himself and
fred two bullets into his head, bui
they did not penetrate the brain, and
he recovered. Poverty and despond
epcy caused the act.
W. G. Lams, a blacksmith, was sho
and killed at Danville, H., by o
Allen, a notorious character, who haC
been hired by Detective Hall to ar
rest Lams on a charge of assaulting
woman Allen claims was his wife. Tht
murder was most deliberate, Lams of
fering no resistance to arrest. The in
dignation against Allen may end il
lynching.
A of 1T
Mapleton, Pa, where gang of me1
were building a bridge, and crashed
through a light trestle, crushing tn,
workmen into the Juniata river, fifty
feet below Two men were fatally in
jured, and three are in dangerou
condition. They probably will b.
crippled for life Several others were
more or less injured.
At the Ohio & Wisconsin Goa
mines, two miles west of Abba, Iowa
Michael Dial, an old miner, killed hi
son Dick with a shotgun. The sor
was about q years old. The old mar
is in custody of the sheriff and nearly
crazed with grief. It seems thar
there was family row, and the father
claims he shot his son in self defense
James P. McLaws, civil engineer
was killed on the line of the coal road
of the Southern Pacific Company, be
tween Croeker aud Carbonate, Cal
Mr.. McLaws came up on the grade
just as heavy blast was being ex
ploded He was crushed by falling
rock. He was buried in Carbonate
He leaves wife in Memphis, Tenn
He was aged about 80.
A mixed train on the Fairland
branch of the Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, St. Louis & Chicago road, was
thrown from the track near Morgan
town, Ind, by a broken rail- The
baggage car and single passenger
coach rolled down thirty-foot EN-
bankment, and every person in the
car, with one exception, received in
juries. No one was killed outright
but one or two may die.
-Piain girls are thought 10 wear
best because it is noticed when they
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