The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-20
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Al Epitsns d ihs Principal Events Now
Attracting Pablo Interest


at Haverhill, Mass. Loss, 500 600;
insurance, $4,000.
A construction train and engine on
the Joliet & Eastern road was wrecked
by Instructions on the track. Three
Italian laborers were Instantly killed.
Gus Boyles, aged 10, was hanged
for the murder of VIM. Morgan, in the
Greek nation, a year ago. He died
very hard.
At Buena Vista, H., Charles Deck
Ter, farmer, aged 55, sent his chill
dren out of the house and then shot
his wife, killing her instantly, and
shot himself and cut his throat.
r. B. Parrish, wholesale shoe
dealer at Louisville, KY, reputed TO
be worth 100000, committed suicide
because he could not pay five dollar
board bill.
The street railway stables at Wichi-
Ia, Kan, were burned. Three em-
ployes were very seriously burned and
otherwise injured. The loss was not
ascertained.
David Clark and his wife were found
hanging in corn crib near Sandwich,
Ill. They left paper signed by both,
saying they died f,r each other Clark
was thirty years old.
Fire destroyed half the business
portion of Elmoro, Colo, some half a
dozen business houses, with contents,
being consumed. The loss is estimated
at $4,000; insurance $1,000.
The body of Alice Kelly was found
in the ou skirts of 0ttumwa, Iowa,
with the throat cut and the head
badly beaten. The nature of the
wounds indicate murder
Hattie de Baum, aged Is years, was
shot and killed by her aunt, Mrs
Jennings, at Terre Haute, Ind. The
two had been quarreling for some
days.
Josiah Wilder, 90 years of age, q
prominent business man of Cincinnati
committed suicide The only known
cause is an ELECTION of the head which
gave him great pain aud rendered hin
Respondent.
Three men entered the flee of al
insurance company at Milwaukee, ans
engaged the cashier and clerk in con
versation. Before they left one o
them stole $1,000 from the casi
drawer.
In the roundhouse of Winslow
Ariz, fireman named Snyder had !.
few words with a night watchmaI
about some oil, and the latter sho
Snyder twice. The latter died in ter
minutes.
A freight train on the Louisville
A e.
into a small land slide. The locomo
tive and ten ears were wrecked. D4vi,
Julian, brakeman, Engineer Harne
and Fireman Blaehman were killed.
Henry Soper, farm hand, con
fesses to killing 8 year-old Franki
Williams, kicking HIM to death be
cause the child followed him to tn
field to see the cows milked, at Hunt
iDgton, Long Island.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simon shot and in
stantly killed VIM. Dowling at Bury
ranch, Wyo Dowling was assaultin.
her S-year old daughter Mrs. Simoi
was given hearing and discharge,
amid cheers.
A large fire in the business block
opposite the Erie railway depot brok
out at Patterson, n. ]. Escape b
the ordinary way for the inmates wa
cut of In a few minutes. Number
jumped from windows and esca pc
with slight bruises, but it is reporte,
that several lost their lives.
Fire originating in a sawmin at A
pena, Mich, spread rapidly, and wa
soon beyond control. All building
for a space Of three blocks wide an
half a mile long were consumed
causing loss OF about 5000 0O0 Fl
teen hundred persons are homeless
and several seriously injured.
Matthias Schreiner, a .whitewashe
was discovered at Chicago, H., burne
horribly and diving. He had com
home drunk, and his clothes had bee
saturated with kerosene and fire,
His wife, moiher-in-l+w and a boardt
are under arrest, and indications al
that they were the perpetrators of til
horrible deed.
While 800 or 400 people were seate
in the grand stand ON the gr Iunds
the Yalobusha county, Mississipf
fair association, the supports gave W.
without warning, and the structul
fell to the ground. No one was kille
outright. but nearly fifty people we.
t. ken from the ruins with broken arm
and legs.
Laursl Fork meeting house
Weakley county, Tenn, was seer
of terr BILE tras edy Just as Il
minister was announcing hi text
voiley OF firearms WAS discharged oU
side the door. When the smol
cleared away it was found that Eve
Lawson and his son, John, were kille
and that three Fusion boys, Tom, il
and Zoos, and John Porter, were
tally wounded.