The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-05-04
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest In q
Condensed Form.


A postoffice has been established a
Sidney. Coos county, and Samue
Schuek was appointed postmaster.
George l.. Mason has been appointed
postmaster ut Lake Greek, jackson
county, vice Joseph L. Deck, resigned
The mail service between Vale ant
Burns, Malheur county, has been in
creased.
Adam A Baser, the postmaster a
Spicer, Linn coulty, has resigned, anC
John w. Ball has been appointed
postmaster in his place.
Senator Dolph's bill, giving 10 Dale.
City n portion OF the military reserva
ton adjacent to that town for park
passed the senate.
I. b Merry, Of Portland, has beer
appointed assistant commissioner tC
Australia. Lieut. Marx has been ap
pointed secretary of the commission
John Milligan's team ran away al
Lafayette, throwing him from wagon
against tree and breaking his collar
bone.
J. A. Allison, while working on the
cars ut Blalocks, near The Dalles, as
brakeman, slipped and fell between
the cars, breaking several bones in his
left foot.
An east-bound freight tain was
thrown from the track near Pleasant
Valley, and the fireman killed. The
engineer and Others were severely in
jured, and the train badly smashed.
There was shooting scrare at Ne
tarts, in which man named Moor
mick was shot by another named Des-
mond, the bullet taking effect in the
groin and making dangerous wound.
At Astoria, Miss Rhea Durant was
awakened by the NOISE of a man en-
tering her bedroom, who had effected
an entrance through the window. The
young lady making loud outcry, the
burglar decamped in haste.
While the foundrymen at the peni-
tentiary were running off heat, a
quantity of molten metal was spilled
from la6le upon the limb of con-
Wet named Estes. The metal slipped
down the unfortunate mans leg and
into his shoe. In great agony he ran
and jumped into tub of water, where
he stood until the metal was cooled.
His leg and foot was painfully burned.
Charles Robertson, a young man en-
gagged in rolling logs near Erw n 8
mil, two miles above Silverton, Marion
county, nearly lost his life by having
one of the logs roll over him. The
log, which was heavy one, and was
rolling down side hill, crashed over
his legs and things, and then, striking
a maui, leaped over his body. In ad-
dition TO other serious injuries, Rob
ertson had several ribs broken. His
hurts were considered very serious,
but at last accounts he was getting
along all right.
At The Dalles, the little daughter of
w. III. Nj ody, aged about three years,
got bottle of carbolic acid, and be-
fore the mother could take it from her
had innocently swallowed nearly the
whole contents. Fortunately, Dr. Gil
mer, in his daily visits to one of his
patients, passed by the residence and
Immediately applied the usual anti
dotes for the poison and an emetis.
This circumstance, and the little girl
having eaten a hearty breakfast a
short time previously, undoubtedly
saved her life. AT last accounts the
child was doing well.
Fishermen all the way from st.
Helens to the Cascades are idle, on ac-
count of the enforcement of the law
prohibiting them from using nets with
meshes less than 4 inches-ihat is, a
mesh that stretchts to that length.
They say there is nothing running
but blueback salmon, and they have
20 use a 5 to 81 inch mesh to take
these, and they claim that tho enforce
ment of the law is all in favor of the
wheelmen at the Cascades. They say
that when this large mesh law wa
made there were no wheels and no at
tention was paid to blueback salmon,
which have now become of consider
able importance, as they are used by
the cannerymen.
William Garvin, locomotive fire
man, 81 years old, was killed in the
Albina railroad yards, opro lite the
coal bunkers. While the locomotive
on which he was employed, No. 81,
was on its way to the bunkers 10 take
on coal, he and Engineer johnson put
in their time oiling the valves, which
they did by standing in the cab. When
the bunkers we're reached, Garvin un-
dertook to step to the platform by
passing between the tender and the
locomotive. About this time locomo-
tive No. q, which had been down tn
tho f0urino mills rounded the curve.
just below the bunkers pushing eight
or nine cars. These cars struck loco
motive 81 while Garvin was in the
position previously stated and the ten
der being forced forward by the pres
sure, he was crushed to death. He
died in few minutes. There was q
large gash on the right breast and the
right leg was fearfully mangled. Sew
eral ribs were broken.
Some Other Disease.
'"They say she died of q broken