The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-03
TElEGRAPHlC.
Il Eiions d he Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest


It i reported that Edison has sold
ms interest in the phonograph for
$i,0OO.0O0 to New York man.
Near Parkersburg, w. Va, a boy
was mistaken for u ground. hog and
fatally shot.
Some of the bedding OF Arkansas
conylcts, it is asserted, has not been
washed or cleaned in four years
England is having a summer worth
mentioning. Snow has been falling
this month in the suburbs of London.
Three million dollars, it is now said,
Is the extent of the loss by the floods
IN Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
VIII Houghton was hanged at
Winston, N. c., for the murder of
negro woman.
Edward Deacons, a tramp who had
murdered Mrs. Ada Stone because she
refused him food, was hanged at
Rochester, N. Y.
Klippendorf, Dittman & Co.'s fac
tory at Cincinnati, o., was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$161, 900.
Charles 81. Wright, of the Detroit
postofhce, who has been supposed to
have been stealing letters for the past
thirteen years, has just been arrested.
A sailboat containing four young
men was upset in squall on the lake
opposite Northwood, Mimi, and its oc-
cupants drowned.
King Humbert's palace at Rome
contains two thousand rooms, but the
King and his family occupy only 125
of them.
The Mormon hierarchy is said to
pay Mr.. A. NJ. Gibson salary oI
$4,000 year to look after the inter
ests of Zion at Washington.
The department of state has in
formation that ineendiary fires al
Port-au-Prinee DESTROYED about one.
fifth of the town including many ot
the public buildings.
The Folsom heirs, one of whom i:
Mrs. Cleveland, have filed petition
for a partition of their several interest:
In fifty lots in Omaha, valued a
several hundred thousand dollars.
A party of fourteen lumbermen wer,
drowned ON Mattawan river, Quebec
The Iumbermen were drunk and il
attempting TO run the rapids thei
canoe was overturned and all hand
perished
The boss alligator hunter of WeIaka
Fla, is L. A. Morris. he having kille,
last week twenty-three good-size,
ones, which net with teeth, hide an,
carcass, about 81 30 each. He ais
bagged thirty-six small ones.
Henry Romas was stabbed to dealt
by Theodore Sutter, at Chicago, III
The murdered man had been keepin
company with Suffers sister an
thereby incurred the dlspleasure c
the brother.
A collision occurred on the Norfol
Il Western road, near Lynchburg, Va
between two freights, killing both er
gineers, one fireman and five of th
crews. The loss of property is 800
coo.
Two photographers who went out
get a photograph of a wrecked trai
on the Burlington road, were set upo
by mob OF strikers and severel
beaten. The Photographic instru
ments were smashed.
A passenger train on the Milwaukee
road, struck a cow near Red Wing
Mimi, and three cars went down a
embankment. W. 0. CLARK, of HUI
ley, Wis, was crushed to death, an
two ladies were injured, one having
leg broken.
Carriages containing a weddin
party on their way TO the preacher
house at Plymouth, Luzerne county
Penn, the other day, ran over an
killed a little girl The whole part
were arrested, and the marriage di
not take place.
a fatal boiler explosion occurred q
the coal shafts OF Williams & Mos
near Zion, KY. David Stone, the Ell
gineer, and Moses Haskin, the frt
man, were killed, and Fred Williams
and Frank Throf and Alexande
1ongnecker were badly sealded. Th
latter will die.
Final preparations for the scare
for the treasure of the British ship-ot
war Braak, sunk near Delaware break
water in 1893, are complete, and tn
expedition will start IN a large vesse
with ocean charts, maps and naut
cal instruments. The hulk is believe
to contain $2,oo0,O00 in Spanish gole
Mr.. Zachar, of Wisconsin, who, O.
account of little disagreement wit,
his father, has been going withou
food for fifty three days, has at las
consented to eat something. Livin
on water, however fat the animalcula
may be, emaciates man more or lest
and Mr.. Zachar sVonsiderably skele
tonized.
Ben Dutton, a farm hand, went t
the house of John Lamont, thre
miles east of Dryden, N. Y, aud al
tempted to kill Lamont and Mis-
Root, a young woman employed il
Iamont's family. Dutton fired on
bullet at Lamont, which took effect il
his face, and four at the girl, all c
which took effect.
a recent deer hunt near Martin
Tenn, came to a queer end. Afte
the sportsmen had chased the ani.ns
for several miles, and the hounds wer
close to its heels, the frightened AM
NAL turned suddenly, and, running u
to one OF the hunters, tucked its heaI
under his arm, as if for protection
No one had the heart to kill the plead
ing animal, and the hunt was aban
doned.