The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-26
NEWS MISCELLANY.
PARNELI's ACTION IN THE IRIsH
COURTS.
The Steam r Wisconsin Missing Sails
bury to Visit Bismarck = The
Danmark's Passengers
Heard From.
Mary Anderson, the actress, is i'll.


! Mary Anderson, the actress, is i'll.
i Dr. Bergman, bishop Of Munster, is
dead.
/ TIE Prince Of Wales dimes with Mrs.
Mackay.
II is rumored that Salisbury will pay a
visit to Bismarck after Easter.
Parnell's action in the Irish courts
against the Times win be abandoned.
One hundred and forty-six men lost
their lives during the recent storm ut
Samoa.
Kossnth is rapidly sinking. His sons
have been summoned to his bedside 1T
/ Vienna.
Thenew Compton d 'Escompte Of Paris,
will he constructed on the lines OF the old
concern.
Eight sets OF twins and five OF tripIets
were recently born in Pike county, Ga,
within two days.
/ Georgia peach trees have blossomed so
heavily this spring that ii has been me-
cessary to thin them out
| Philadelphia is the only city in the
country where the toboggan slide has
paid expenses the past winter
The steamer Wisconsin of the Cunard
line, which sailed from Liverpool last
week for New York, is reported missing,
John Albert Bright was chosen to fill
the vacancy in the British parliament
created by the death Of his iather, John
Bright.
| The Iowa cattle quarantine has been
revoked, except as against New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland.
! "The Kansas farmer, who wants TO 90
to Oklahoma" says local paper, sis the
man who uses his $500 harvester for a
henroost."
Two toads found imbedded in coal at
Thomas G.. Henn's premises, in Tioga
county, Penn, "A few days since, were
alive, but stone blind.
The Minnesota legislature is consider
ing the convict labor problem and bill
has been introduced for the adoption OF
the State Account system.
Bismarck offers to cede Damaraland to
England. 1t is entirely reasonable TO in
fer from this that Damaraland is not
worth the first syllable Of its name.
A committee OF 100 has been appointed
to arrange for the celebration at Lancas-
/ ter, Penn, on July 4th, Of the Tooth an
niversary Of the signing Of the first Tariff
law.
All the dogs in Pittsburg have grown
fat on the garbage, which can not be
burned now that natural gas is the only
fuel used in most OF the houses OF the
city.
The safes of the wrecked me:=.-oi-war,
Trenton and Vandalia, containing large
amounts OF money, have been recovered,
together with a number OF other valuable
articles.
! Postmaster-General Wanan.aker has
established an inviolable rule that no
postofIice shall be kent in saloon, or in
any room from which saloon may be
entered.
Patrick Molloy, the perured witness
! for the London Times before the Parnell
commission, was convicted last week and
sentenced to six months imprisonment
at hard labor.
Sixty-fiye Indian boys at the govern
ment school at Carlisle have been dis
tributed among Pennsylvania farmers for
summer work. The boys represent half
dozen tribes.
reported that Mr.. Parnell talks Of
coming over to America this summer. II
he comes and can stand the racket, he
will have one Of the biggest times ever
granted to a foreigner.
AT Ruatan last month the Rev. Henry
! Hobson, his wife and q young lady, all
natives Of Jamaica, were murdered bv
Joseph Bures while they were asleep.
Robbery was the object.
AT caucus held in Detroit recently,
the burden of all the speeches was that
the best man should be voted for. After
the ballot it was discovered that every
man had voted for himself.
In jacksonville, KY, the authorities
have passed an ordinance forbidding
brass bands from meeting flor the pur-
poso Of learning new pieces Of music with
in 300 feet Of dwellinghouse."
Alexandria, Va, has population Of
10000, yet during the thirty days consti-
tuting the month Of March, not a we'd
ding occurred in the place, and not
marriage license was issued by the clerk
OF the court.
Charles Hodges and Evan Madden,
while passing through an abandoned
working in the Grand Tunnel mine,
Pennsylvania, one day last week, ignited
a large amount Of accumulated gas and
both men we're blown to pieces.
The thief who distinguished himself
several days ago by forcing Denver
bank president to turn over $21 900 at
the point Of a revolver, will thunder
down the aces az the most daring rogue