The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-19
OVER THE STATES.
NATURAL GAS DISCOVERED IN
KENTUCKY.
The Wife of Theodore Thomas Dead
An Attempt to Assassinate the
Czar OF Russia General
Boulanger Refugee.

Labor strikes in Germany continue.
A regency has been established in Hol-
land.
Denver has organized law and order
league.
General Boulanger is a refugee from
France.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Kentucky.
Onions are one cent bushel in Can
astoga, N. Y.
The Eiffel tower in Paris will be 1000
feet in height.
Gladstone presided at the Parnell ban
quet on the 18th.
A heavy snow-storm ragged throughout
Old Virginia last week.
The wife of Theodore Thomas died at
New York Wednesday.
The town Of smithfeld, N. G., was de-
stroyed by fire last week
| A panic prevailed at Percyville, Ia,
I tdSt WNth3 VNOl uidu N"pkos
! Henry George has made a number Of
speeches in England recently.
-Four marbled polecats" are the lat
est arrivals at the London ZOO,
An attempt was made TO assassinate
the Gar OF Russia last week.
Governor Wolfley was hanged in efligy
at Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield.
ILL.,, is rapidly falling to pieces.
The Michigan legislature has made it
criminal offense to sell a cigarette.
The Smithsonian institute has re-
ceived three elk from Buffalo Bill.
The German man-of-war Olga, recently
beached at Samoa, has been fioated.
The recent losses by fire in Savannah,
Georgia, is estimated TO be $l,000,000.
The report OF the English admiralty is
that the navy Of that country is inefficient.
The effort to declare the present Chi
cagocity oyernmentinyalid, fell through.
The worlds conference Of Latter Day
saints was held at st. Joseph, Mo-, last
week.
Canada is in favor OF partial but not
an entire reciprocity with the United
States.
Lewis Conklin, OF Port Jeryis, l.. l.,
was Drained by his wife with an AK,
Tuesday.
The Oklahoma boomers encamped
around Caldwell, Kan, Wednesday, num-
bered 2000.
A negro at Clinton, Wis, broke his
neck while trying to pull his own tooth
Wednesday.
Thieves steal horses and buggies at
Chicago and ship them to Denver where
they are sold.
Snow as black and dirty as ii it had
been trampled under foot, fell at Aitken,
Mimi, last week.
Mosella White, music teacher, was
arrested at Susquehana, Pa, Wednesday,
for stealing $4,000.
Sandy Carly, a negro desperate, killed
Police Captain John X. Miller at BESSIE
mer, Ala, Sunday.
The u. s. steamer Pensacola, which
went down in storm last week at Nor.
folk, has been raised.
The Sultan Of Turkey has discovered
plot to depose him and TO place his
brothers heir on the throne.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT baseballists
were entertained in sumptuous style on
their arrival in New York last week.
Major Armes has made an abject apcl
ogy to General Beaver for pulling the
latter's nose at Washington recently.
Lee Sing. wealthy merchant Of Dem
yer, was arrested in Chicago Tuesday for
eloping with another Chinaman's wife.
Kilrain and Sullivan have agreed to
fight for wager Of $4,000. 1t is earnest
ly hoped hya long suffering public that
1t will be IA Kilkenny in every sense
OF the word
The prohibition state Of Iowa has had
five murder trials 80 far this year within
its borders, in each OF which intoxica-
ton was urged by the defense as a miti-
eating circumstance Of the crime.
Andrew Carnegie, in a speech in the
Pennsylvania house Of representatives
Tuesday, declared that the Pennsylya-
mia Central railroad was injuring the
value Of property in large sections Of the
state.
1t is said that lack Of coal at Pago Pa
go harbor, Samoa, was the cause Of the
recent disaster to shipping The absence
Of coal prevented the German and
American war-ships maintaining steam,
hence they were at the mercy OF the
storm.
Manuel Perales de Salinas and Dio-
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