The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
ELECToRAL Me sENGERs REFUSED
THEIR MILAGE.
The MARROW Band or Texas Despeaados
Disbsnd-The President and Cash
Ter of a Georgia Bank in
Jail for Theft

week, the first time in % years.
Mr.. Jas. G. Blaine, jr., has signed s
contract to go on the stage for three
years.
Two school children near Hitchcock
ID. t., perished in the snow storm oi
last week.
The West Virginia Democratic leg
islative caucus has agreed to support
Kenna for the senatorship.
The messenger with the electoral
vote of Florida did not leave the state
No reason is given for doing so.
Ives and Staynor were unable to OBJ.
tain $3.50, COO bail, and are locked up
in Ludlow street Jail, New York.
Ex-Governor Porter, OF Indiana, is
authority for the statement that War
ner Miller will be in the cabinet.
1t is anticipated that about 80 men
will be discharged from the apprais-
ers' Office at New York in day OF
| two.
The House committee on commerce
will recommend the building of =
lighthouse near the mouth Of the
Siuslaw river, Or.
Jack Carkeek, the Cornish wrestler
defeated Tom Cannon, the English
cham pion, at Milwaukee, last week
best three in FIVE falls.
President Tolleron aud Cashier
Richards, of the Mercantile Banking
Company, at Atlanta, Ga, have been
sent to prison for theft.
F. ]. Marshall, formerly cashier OF
the Northern Pacific Express Compa-
ny, at st. Paul, is under arrest for
embezzling money from the company.
The Indianapolis people are await
ing with patience the report of the
grand jury to see the names Of those
who have had bills returned against
them.
The Marlow gang of deperadoes, on
the border of Texas and the Indian
Territory, has been broken up, Boone
NARROW, thu head, being killed, and
his two brothers wounded.
Senator Stewart received yesterday
from the Nevada legislature a memo
rial to President-elect Harrison, re-
questing the appointment of a Pacific
Coast man in his cabinet.
The shortage of Moore, the Indian
apolis agent of the Connecticut Mutual
Insurance Company, may reach to
$l 100000. He has been missing for
three days, and is believed to be in
Canada.
Julian G. Mcclure, a prominent
man of Jackson county, Ind, has dis
appeared. 1t was reported that he is
short in his accounts as guardian Of
minor heirs to the amount of $23, 900.
Kelley, of motor fame, who had
been imprisoned for contempt of court
in not answering questions propound-
ed to him, has been released, because
the case in which he was under exam
nation was not fairly at issue
Rudolph Ericsson, of New Britain,
Conn, inventor of the new explosive,
extralite, has received letter from his
uncle in Sweden, stating that the
right to use the discovery in England
has been sold for $4,000.
The Supreme Court of New York
has affirmed the verdict of the Circuit
Court of $45, 600 against the million
aire coffee merchant, Charles Arbuckle,
in the breach of promise suit brought
by Clara Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio.
Ida Wilcox, daughter of Mrs. c..
Wilcox, of Bainbridge, N. Y, pretty
girl of IL years, was arrested in Paris
last week, with DIR. Seller, of Eng
land, with whom she had eloped. DIR.
Seller, it is said, has a wife in Eng
land.
The American ship, Henry Willard,
cleared from New York last week for
Seattle, w. T., with a general cargo of
merchandise. This is the first vessel
that has ever left New York for Seattle
and she will be probably two months
on the trip.
Three messengers carrying state
electoral votes have not been paid
their mileage, because the certificates
identifying them are sealed in an en-
velope which cannot be opened until
February l3. The messengers come
from Colorado, Kansas and Alabama.
The postmaster-general has sent TO
the chairman of the house committee
on postofices and post reads a pro-
posed plan for the classification of
clerks in all first and second class post
offices. The general effect Of this clas-
sification of the present force, it is
said, would be to increase the aggre-
gate salaries by about 100000
The report of the Atchison directors
resulted in no enthusiasm in Boston,
but if any increased the gloom, for it
is evident that the whole truth has
not yet been told, but that there is
something being held back. Wall
street tried to boom the stock, and did
send it up few points, but full de-
tailed statement of the condition of
the system is necessary TO secure con-
! tidence.
Membe4s Of the New York legisla-
ture complain of being worried by
corrupt lobbyists.
Cincinnati is arranging for fuel gas,
and expects to get 1t for 10 cents per
1000 feet.
Gold deposits of great value are re-
ported as having been discovered in
the state of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Three women contested for the IL
brarianship of the state of Tennessee.
The widow of confederate soldier
got it.
Eight thousand fruit trees and TO-
600 grape vines were handed out to
ranehers in the northern portion OF