The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-01-20
CURRENT EVENTS.

Pendeton Is TO have a 100000 paper mill
The San Francisco bridge company has
failed.
There were 50 weddings in Crook county
during 1887.
Brakemen on the Q. r. & N. have dc
manded $40 month.
All live Oregon cltIes are going TO grow
during the coming few years.
Geo Wright was shot and killed by ! Il
Love at Wasco last Friday. "a woman In
H.
Speaker Carlisle has been Ill., During HIS
sickness Congressman Cox has been Ia the
chair.
The total list Of deaths frem the cold
wave Ia the East viii contain about 40,
names.
There was skating on ice IN San Francisco
last Tuesday for the frat time, perhaps, In
the history Of the city.
Six TO eight inches Of snow In Portland
| Tuesday, aud slelghs and cutters were tn
demand at SIS IN hour.
While playing shlnny on the ice at Salem
Monday, Addson Wright had the misfor.
tune to break his right arm.
| The nomination OF Lamar rs Justice Of
the Supreme Court was confirmed on Mon
dhy, g TO sS. Stanford, Stewart and Riddle
berger, Republicans, voted yes.
The cold wave seems te have been uni.
versal but there Is some difference between
our above zeros and the Eastern So below
zero.
Another war cloud in the East but these
Eastern war clouds arc becoming as com.
mon as rain clouds In Oregon aud do not
scare anyone.
Mrs Clara Foltz, who once lectured IN
Albany 10 an audience of eight, il an appll.
cant for the position OF Governor Tor should
Il be governess) Of Washington Territory.
A commissioner appointed by the New
ork legislature reports la favor OF capital
punishment by electricity. BY all means.
| q one.
Mr.. Geo Gay, of Charlottesville, Linn
county, who has been in the city undergo.
Ing an operation upon one of his eyes, has
returned home. he had the lid split and
muscle taken out, which entirely restored
his sight again zeiegrgm
DIR Geo Wright Of prlnevilIe, while hunt.
Ing last week had his feet frozen so badly
that anputation was thought necessary At
| first but fortunately was found not neces.
sary. The thermometer registered many dc.
gress below zero.
The Ochoco RstTew says at the election
In November Mitchell precinct went for
prohibition by vote Of % 70 I4,and yet the
first OF the year n Mitchell saloon keeper
presented petition 10 the County Court for
a license signed by "a voters, nearly all In
the precinct. Such conduct does look sort Of
funny.
Senator Mitchell has introduced bin ap-
propriating $4,000 10 build Postolfiee at
Salem. The Senator, like the rest OF his
party, Is in favor Of getting rid OF the sur
plus. Salem has about as much use for a
SISO,000 Postoiliee as Union has for Col.
ossus Of Rhodes 10 span Catherine creek
Oregon Scent.
A bill has been introduced In Congress
providing for Posfoiiice. and other govern
mental buildings In all cities having prcsi.
DENTAL possoiice, the building 70 eoas S1o,.
600 Il the population OF the city Is 10000
and $4,000 In cities OF $1,000 and over.
As Albany Is presidential Il. o. Il would
get hit but no such bill viii probably pass.
The residence of T G Albert, near the
University, at Salem, was entirely conauni.
ed by ire Monday. and some of the papers
there have since been kicking at the Inefii-
~t~sNF VI AAeh AtG tEENFkFbGuAs AfAG tAxls
Gus ieet-footed CapItols had not gotten
their engine block from their house when
the Tigers had a stream on the building
The former are mostly sidewalk and touTna.
ment fireman. the latter FIRE fighters.
We clip the following from a walla
Walla paper because Il may have a local
bearing A Statesman reporter was hurry
Ing along on Wednesday, when nc was
stopped by little crowd of men on the side.
walk, who said, Here. you are friend Of
the people, Amt you Z" "Why, Of course
was the response. "Then look there" said
the spokesman, and he pointed 10 a wagon
loaded with cord wood, fresh from some big
wood yard "Tney call that cord Of wood
but there Is not over two.thirds there Tho
reporter looked and gazed and thought Of
the hard winter few years ago, when the
farmers made a few dollars by cutting ur
their rail fences and loaded their wagons
with the wood, which they sold By the load
But nowadays they self by the cord, and
the reporter moved on, wondering. among
other things, when the people would be In.
. dependent Of monopolies aud could exisl
without railroads and Improvement" com
panies, who improve nothing but their owr
pockets.