The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-16
TELEGRAPHlC.
IL Epiaas o. The Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas,
destroying the carriage works and
causing two deaths.
The French steamer Fleur de la Mer
foundered of the island OF Cayenne.
Sixty passengers were drowned.
Thos. ]. Potter, Vice President and
General Manager of the Union Pa
ciic Railroad Company, died at
Welcker's hotel, in Washington.
The survey Of the canal contem.
plated in Southern New Mexico il
about completed. 1t will cost nearly
80, 600, 900, and will reclaim 100000
acres.
AZ st. Johns, Arizona, Alex. Rudd
shot and instantly killed sheep
herder named McCaw. The difficulty
was over sheep. immediately after
the killing Rudd mounted his horse
and fled TO the mountains.
The state deaf and dumb asylum at
Fulton, Mo-, burned. The fire caught
in the dome i'm the fifth story, and the
building burned down. Ii was a large
one and cost the state nearly half a
million dollars, and was insured for
but $4,000. There were $50 pupils
in the building, but all were removed
without injury.
A fire occurred in the Methodist
University, at Mitchell, Dakota, from
the spontaneous combustion of rags in
the art room. There were forty in.
mates in the building, including the
faculty, students and servants. AL
bu3 ten OF these escaped. Four young
men jumped from a second story
window. Four others and professor
/ jumped from third story, aud another
prsfessor descended from the roof by
a clothes line. The building was com
pletely destroyed. The loss is $4,000
The university will be rebuilt.
i A mln and his son living at Poplar
Grove, Dakota, were eaten alive by i
pack of wolves. The facts, as near a.
can be obtained, are that the father
and son left their house with shov /
10 clear snow from some haystaeks no
more than fifteen or twenty rods dis
tant. They were at once attacked BY
pack of sixteen wolves, which liter
ally ale them alive, while the wife anI
mother gazed through window a
the horrible sight, knowing il wa
certain death to go TO their assistance
H After the brutes had eaten all the feel
off the bones they came up TO tn,
house, ran around it several times an,
then went away. Next day the re
mains were visited, but nothing wa
found but few bare bones.
The new Office of the Evening Uniol
at Springfield, Mass was burned out
and the blaze was attended with tn
most sickening horror ever witnessed
in tn ,t city, six of the employ es meet
ing terrible death, most of then
jumping from the fifth story and bein,
crushed into a shapeless mass below
six others were badly injured. A larg
canvas sheet was stretched over th
sidewalk Three men jumped on thi
but broke through and fell on tn
pavement A woman also fell through
the canvas and tanned on the sidewal
insensible. Joseph Landlord wa
standing on the sidewalk at the COZ
ner, when Mrs. Farley fell. He stoo'
his ground and reached out his arm
To catch her. She fell ON his neck
: throwing him TO the ground sensel, 5
+ Mrs. Farley was killed instantly. Tn
dead are as follows: Henry j. Gould
, ing, foreman of the composing room
burned TO death; Miss G. Thompson
proof reader; Mrs. Frederick f. Fal
: lev, editorial department, fell from th
i window and killed; Mr.. Lamzor
| Quebec, jumped and killed; w. L
| Hovey, of Boston, fell to the sidewalk
Mr.. Brown. a compositor.