The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
REMARKABLE BILLS INTRODUCED
INTO STATE LEGISLATURES.
The Eccentric VIII of New York Ped
agogue-The CHASTITY Crime OF
Philadelphia 6treet-c-r EN-
ployee-Cold Waves.


law in New York city after March 4.
The new union depot at Pueblo,
Col, will cost between 5000, 600 and
100000.
The Kansas legislature has passed
a bill restricting the ownership of land
in that state
Wisconsin lumbermen are up in
arms at an order forbidding logging
in certain districts.
The Dakota legislature has passed
a law taxing railroad property the
same as other property.
The bill to provide for infiicting the
death sentence by electricity has
passed the Ohio senate.
Four Cinnamon were scalded TO
death by a Geyser at Canyon City,
near Yellowstone Park, last week.
The post-mortem medical report in
the case of Crown Prince Rudolph,
sets at rest the rumors of his murder.
Major Stewart, of Austin. Texas, is
/ in New York in the interest of a ma
/ tional home for ex-Confederate sol
diers.
DR.. E. A. Kelley, superintendent OF
the State Insane asylum at Norfolk
Neb., has besn arrested on charge of
/ murder.
/ Ohio and Kentucky tobacco grow
ers have agiced to raise twenty-five
per cent less tobacco next season than
the last.
IL is said that Secretary Bayard has
accepted Bism .rck's proposition for
conference at Berlin ON the Samoan
question.
A very large meteor fell in Chicago
last week. 1t burst into many pieces
and specimens. have been picked up
for analysis.
Canada is making an effort to Sc
cure independence of all lines of traf-
fic passing thro ugh any portion of the
United States.
The Trades assembly at Chicago at
a mass meeting has demanded the re-
moval of Police Inspector Bonfield and
Captain Schaak.
The cold wave and blizzard through
out Canada Is intense, the thermope-
ter registering in many places forty
degrees below zero.
The supreme court at Washington
has lately decided the law constitu-
tional which prohibits ranchmen from
fencing any of the public domain.
At Marion, Indiana, an outbreak
Was prevented among tobacco strip
psfs and stemmers owing to the inn
portation OF negroes TO do the work.
Some of the Canadians not only
want annexation for their own coun-
try to the United States, but want TO
have Mex;co annexed en- the south.
The Arkansas legislature has of
fered a reward OF $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the thieves who
stole the ballot-box and poll-book last
November.
The wolves, it is said, are making
things deadly lively in some districts
in Montana, killing colts and steers,
aud in some instances pursuing hui
man beings.
A bill has passed the Indiana Sem
ate declarikg unlawful all trusts,
pools, agreements and combinations,
in restraint of trade, production, man.
nfacture or sale. The House will also
pass the bill
Inspector B 'nfield, Captain Schaak
and Detective LoweEstein, prominent
in the trial at Chicago of the anarch-
lists, have beer. ind, finitely suspended
from the police force pending charges
of corruption.
The report that General Boulanger
E Sua IN, boua baar. arroafad al
+ CATION of the government ministers on
the night OF his election from the de-
partment of the Seine, proves to be
unfounded.
! Otto Kaiser, a married street-car
conductor at Philadelphia, shot Anna
Klaus, young girl who believed him
single. He elhen returned to his home,
+ cut his wife's throat and ended his
own life at the approach of officers.
t A bill has been introduced in
the Pennsylvania legislature prohibit
4 ing treating, and making it penal
offense, punish able by a fine of not
less than $50 or over 800, for any
/ one to treat another TO Intoxicating
liquors.
/ Twenty-four persons, mostly all
children, have died, recently, in Web
ster county, Kentucky, of a disease
with which the doctors appear to be
unable to cope. The deaths usually
occur from six to twelve hours after
the attack.
NJ. W. Merriam, an eccentric Sut-
folk county, n. Y, school-master, has
willed his property in bulk to the Unit
/ ed States government. One of his rea-
sons was the government was rich
and could fight his sister if she at
tempted to contest the will. He was
worth 100000.
It is proposed by the people of Mon
tana to elect two Senators, to go to
Washington in the interest of the
Territory, and to urge its immediate
admission into the Union.
Nj. and Mrs. James Olsen, with
their three children, were drowned in
the Missouri river at Bismark recently
when the ice broke. The horse,
wagon and its occupants were all lost