The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-10
HomE AxD ABROAD
Work on the Eleventh Census Begun
London 70 Have an Underground
Electric Railroad.

len recently.
Mexico has decided to give bounties "a
sugar producers.
Preparatory work has already begun on
the eleventh census
The Welden Extradition bill has passed
the Canadian senate.
The crop reports from Minnesota and
Dakota are favorable.
Beautiful modern houses near London
rent for 500 per year.
A rich gold discovery is reported in
Franklin county, Va.
There was s75, 900 fire at Buena Vista,
Col, ON the 18th inst.
Henri Rochefort's SON committed sui
eide st Bona, Algeria.
Silk weavers TO 90 to New York are
for in Switzerland.
The American Samoan Commissioners
are at London. on their way TO Berlin.
A team iron the Manhattan Athletic
Club viii he brought TO the Pacific Coast.
Edinburgh has voted the freedom of
the city to Parnell by vote OF II to l3.
The Standard Oil company has come
into possession OF the St. Louis Gas Trust.
Burglars secured $23 600 from the post
Office at La Harpe, ILL.,, on the 9th inst.
James, the deposed Long Branch
preacher, has been arrested on three
charges.
There were l2S deaths from pneumonia
in New York city during the week end
ing April lS.
London is to have an underground cleo
.ric railroad that viii do" two miles in
ZEN minutes.
Yellow Jack swung southward from
Floriday and has killed 4OO0people at Rio
since last LAll.
Those who didn't get good claims in
he Oklahoma rush declare the whole
hing swindle.
Some uneasiness il felt at the City OF
Mexico over reported filibustering in
Lower California.
Emperor William has been instru-
mental in the building Of four new
.hurches in Berlin.
A man died from sunstroke at Okla
lOma City last week while sitting on his
.laim unmatched,
LADY Ionsdale sailed on the Umbrz on
he nth inst, TO Join her husband, who
5 in San Francisco.
A fire in the Lee-Deening Company's
at St. Louis, on the 18th,
aused loss Of sl25, 600.
Scott Bailey, the negro who assaulted a
'oung lady at Halifax courthouse, Va
ecently, was caught and lynched.
In Greenwood Cemetery, BROOKLYN,
which was opened in 1640, the 250, ,000th
nterment took place there recently.
The City Of Paris, the new steamer
which has Just completed its first trip,
ost $2,500,O00 and can accommodate
900 passengers.
George Francis Train has tasted eleven
lays. He drinks only water, which ne
links is sufficiently nourishing 10 any
ne but glutton.
At the Texas Spring Palace in Fort
Worth, 173 varieties of Texas grass viii
'e exhibited. The exhibition viii be
pened this month.
Billy Wilson, Of st. Paul, Mimi,
Ieayy weight, SAYS that he is anxious to
meet Peter jackson in fight TO finish.
10th are colored men.
Barron's amendment to the supply bill,
Increasing the duty on gaw-logs fOr ex-
Ort from Canada, has been rejected by
be Canadian parliament.
The women Of Paris now indulge in
igarettes made OF tea, and the effect on
he nerves is much more marked than
hat exercised by tobacco.
There is bad show for wheat in Rus
ia as well as in Austria, but there Is
right outlook in 8ll the wneat-gTowing
istricts Of the United States.
Colonel D. B. Dyer, Of Kansas City, |
as been elected mayor Of Guthrie, Okla |
oma, as a cwmpr0mise candidate. /
iamblers are being driven away.
The Prussian Minister Of War, at re-
ent reception to the Emperor, surprised |
ie guests with music furnished by an |
rchestrs made up Of army officers.
An EngIishman has made toy con-
lining 400 animals and men. They are /
4 put in motion by windmill turned
y the current from burning candles.
There Is considerable excitement in
aline county, No., over the discovery Of
Did near Arrow Rock, California ex-
ert having pronounced it a rich find.
The bark ]. w. EcammeIl, from st.
1hns, N. r., for Rio Janeiro, ran into
ew York, her c-ew having mutined.