The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-06
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Attracting Pablo Interest

Deacon Isaac Bronson, Of pokeville,
Conn, murdered his wife with an ak,
and cut his own throat with razor,
The motive is unknown.
As the result of hoyish quarrel,
Horatio Hatfield, aged II years, shot
and fatally wounded Thomas J. Allen,
aged 10.
Sheriff John Rains and his son we've
killed at Jackson, Tex, by w w, Ter
rell. An old family feud was the
cause of the fight. Terrell was shot in
three places.
Thomas Prentice and Patrick
Rooney were instantly killed, and
Henry MiIlbach was seriously injured
at Wellsville, n. Y, by the premature
explosion of dynamite cartridge.
Fire at Fort Apache. A r., destroyed
the entire quartermas'e and commits
sary supplies. The estimated loss 10
the government, including buildings,
is 100000.
The Mexican freight depot and an
adjoining building in Paso del Norte,
Texas, burned, also about seventy
freight cars. A large amount of freight
burned. The estimated loss is 5000,
600.
George Wilson, wife murderer, was
hanged in the Jail at Albion, n. Y. He
strangled his wife in he'd, owing to
complications growing out OF his as
sociation with pretty l6-year-old Laura
Thompson.
Wallace Mitchell, the murderer, vino
was brought back from Trinidad, Col,
to Syracuse, Kas., charged with the
murder of boy named Johnson and
the wounding Of his father June 9th
WAS taken from the sheriff by a body
Of armed men and lynched.
A colored man named George
Deans, his threelittle children, and an
other child. Auna Godfrey. ate break
fast, and soon afterward all were taken
violently sick. Two of the children
died. Deans and his other child ar,
in critical condition. The Godfrey
child will recover.
BY the burning of small fram,
house ON Edwards street, occupied by
Mr. Burmeister and family in ST. Paul
Burmeister's l5-year-old daughter
Maud. and Mrs. Maggie Ross, an ar
tist from Chippewa, Wis, were suffo
Gated 20 death. Burmeister and thre,
younger children had a narrow escapd
The small steam pleasure yach
Enia was struck by the steamer Jane
w Baldwin, mile south of New
burgh. n. Y. There were eight pei
sons IN the small boat, and two o
them, Miss Aunie Miller, and the wifi
OF Benjamin Oiell, Jr., W, re drowned
The rest Of them were rescued by tn
steamer.
AT ranch near Cheyenne, Mont
John Cowan was apprehended IN tn
act OF riding fellow cowboys truns
and he was taken 20 corral aud wa
about TO be hanged, when the foreman
interfered and allowed him TO escsp,
The enraged cowboys followed hiu
aud administered castigation Cowa
half dead, reached Cheyenne aud toll
his story, but no arrests were made.
Silas Robinson shot his wife an
Nick Wiess, with whom she was ou
walking, at Minneapolis, Mimi, an
afterwards put three bullets into hi
own body. Robinson had been
drunken fellow, and his wife left hir
about eight months ago. Wiess fe
fatally wounded. Mrs. Robinson WI
killed instantly, while her husban
viii probably die from his suicid,
shots. Mrs. Robinson bore an unsu
he'd reputation.
On the PENNSYLVANIA & Sehuvlki
Valley railroad, az Gable City, fIeigt
train was shifting cars when a gray
train bound for ShanAokin, Pa, ra
into the re&r end or il and ten out
eleven 1aborers who were seated on tb
Font car of the gravel train wei
= buried in the wreck. When assistaut
arrived, six dead men, horribly maj
gled, were taken out, and four other
badly injured. 1t is not believed the
can live. The victims are all Hunga
ianS, and their names are yet unknow
II is reported from the flooded di
tricts OF Mexico that 500 lives we
lost by the inundation. One tho
sand bodies have baen recovere
Leon is a city OF 10000 inhabisant
and large part of il is in ruins. I'll
Mexican collector of customs at Pa
del Norte has received an official di
patch stating that 100 miles of Il
Mexican Central railroad i impas
able. 1t viii be ten days before mai
can get through, and twenty days b
fore freight can be moved.
A south-bound train proceeding
Mobile, Ala, went through a sma
bridge at Tensag. John Morgan, e
gineer, Saul Williams, fireman, al
two tramps who were stealing a rid
we're killed Mail Agent Davis W
dangerously hurt. Four passenge
and the baggage master were slight
injured. The engine, baggage Ca
mail car, two passenger coaches al
one sleeper were totally wrecked. IT
killed and wounded were taken to NJ
bile. The cause Of the accident was
weak bridge undermined by hea'
rains.
Cholera in Japan.
Some history of cholera in .Innan b.