The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-09-07
TELEGRAPHlC.
AN EprroNE or rHE PRiNcrpAL EVENTS
NEW ATTRACTING PUBLtc INTEREST.

Side Electric railway at Pittsburg, Pa,
ran away and was completely wrecked.
Seven persons were seriously injured,
one probably fatally.
A boy at Salt Lake threw lighted
match into a coal oil can, causing an
explosion, which resulted IN the death
of Cleo Garner, aged 5, and Guy Jor-
don, aged years, and the serious in-
jury OF David Jordon.
Charles w Waldron, one of the
owners and managers of the Waldron
bank of Detroit, Mich, has ahsconded,
taking with him money and securities
variously estimated at from 100000 to
$4,000.
In collision between a passenger
and construction train OF the Bur
lington road, near Krun, Iowa, an en-
gine and ten cars were totally wrecked
Roadmaster Rose, Dennis Griffin and
Patrick Ready, and number of others
were injured.
A stock train, running at a high
rate of speed ran into herd of cattle
near Fort Buford, Mimi, on the Man.
itoba road, wrecking seventeen cars.
Nearly 100 cattle were killed and five
tally.
A barn on the Spring Valley stock
farm, nine miles from Indianapolis,
Ind, was burned, and eighteen head
of fine horses persisted. The fine
stallion Brignoi Wilkes was lost; also
Ina, valued at $4,000; Mary c., $4,000 +;
Vassar Girl, Madam Homewood and
others.
Charles Northey, a miner, a native
of Cornwall, England, was precipi-
tated down the shaft of the Pollock
mine at Butte, Mont, distance OF
100 feet, by falling off the cage through
the carelessness of the engineer, and
was instantly killed. He leaves a
wife and two children.
A collision occurred on the Dayton
& Michigan road near Lima, Ohio, be
tween q freight and special from
0ttuws with military company on
the way to Columbus. One or tive
cars were broken up and two passen-
gers, one engineer and the conductoI
received slight injuries.
Mr.. James Bell, business man oI
Chicago, quietly stepped up 10 Mr.
john Stevens, a young man about
town. dexterously sliced his ear of
with pen knife, placed the severed
member in his vest pocket and walked
away. Mr.. Stevens, it is intimated
had too ardent an admiration for Mrs
Bell to suit Mr.. Bell.
A serious accident occurred on the
Columbus, Springfield & Cincinnati
Railway, east of Springfield, Ohio. A
train, consisting of eight freight, two
passenger cars and two sleepers, STRUCK
broken rail The engine and every
car were derailed. The sleepers, boil
carrying passengers, were thrown
down the emhankment. Four pas
sengers were injured.
The boiler OF locomotive attached
to Lehigh valley freight train ex
ploded while going up the mountair
near Wilkesbarre, Pa. brakeman
named Joseph Vanhorn, was blowr
from the engine into the woods, 20(
feet away. Both of his legs and ON,
arm were broken, and his back wal
injured. He died before reaching
home.
Mrs. Mullins, of Pittsburgh, was
witness against Mr.. Scholler in cas-,
which was to have been tried Tuesday
afternoon, and Tuesday morning Mr.
Scholler, in order to insure Mrs Mul
Inns absence from court, walked int,
her hause, and, seizing her by tn,
hair, cut her throat from ear to ear
Mrs. Mullins being dead, and, Nj
Seholler being in Jail, the case wa
not tried
The sheriff of ST. Louis county
No, accompanied by a posse OF depu
ties, went to St. Charles TO arrest thre
men for stealing ferry boat. 4 figh
with revolvers resulted. in which on
deputy was killed, and two other
badly wounded. The sheriff himsel
disappeared, and it is not know
whether he was captured by outlaws
or is still running for his life.
The false work for the super-struc
ture of the Chesapeake & Ohio raj
way bridge over the Ohio, betweel
Covington and Cincinnati was swep
away by a great raft of driftwood tia
had accumulated at its base, and 80
feet of the iron bridge dropped a dis
tance of 100 feet into the stream be
low. The trestle went down tn
river ten or twelve miles, where som
of it was anchored. The iron worl
lies in the river near shore. The com
pany estimate their loss at 100000
w. II. Leland, brother-in-law of
d. Adams, mine owner of Auburn
Cal, who is in Chicago to dispose Q
mining property, was drugged in sa
loon by bartender and accompliceS
When he recovered he was in tn
rear of the saloon, in an alley, ant
his watch and money were gone. Hi
assailants were cutting the flesh OF
his finger to get diamond ring of
He resisted, when they beat him an,
got away. Leland has identified tn
men.
Jacob Moxter, a piano dealer c
St. Louis, No., committed suicide
He entered his warerooms and begal
tuning piano. When the work wa
completed he sat down at the instru
ment and played dead march" A
the last note died away the report of
pistol rang out when a couple OF work
men rushing up found Moxter lyin,
on the floor beside the piano, with
thin stream of blood running from
wound in his temple. He died in
few minutes.
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