Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-02
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will be turned by electricity, the
first one of the kind in this country.
Senator Manderson says that a
list OF the candidates for office in
Nebraska would look like a directory
of the state.
Representatives of the owners of
the copper mines in Montana state
that the mines will continue in
operation.
At National City, Cal, the aged
widow of Cyrus w. Field fell and
broke a shoulder-blade, and is not
expected to survive.
Robert Sigel, son of General Franz
Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging
pension checks, was sentenced at
New York to six years at hard la
Dor.
1t is estimated in San Francisco
that over 100000 cases Of Oregon,
British Columbia and Alaska salmon
of the pack Of 1889 have already
been sold.
An English weekly observes that
there is "a fierce rivalry between
the states of st. Louis and Chicago
as to which has the tallest governor"
And such is fame!
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
the only way to walk properly is to
walk upright with the whole body
resting on the hips, and the arms
swinging slightly.
The Mexican Government, it is
reported, has taken steps to prevent
the introduction into that country of
American lard, owing to the reported
adulteration in that article.
Emma Hill. n San Francisco Jew
ess, has sued Fan Iujun, Chinese
merchant, for $4,000 damages on
account of "A breach of promise by
the defendant. What are we com
ing to?
In some parts of the west they
define a White Cap as an immoral
and good-for-nothing man who
takes upon himself the duty Of
furnishing all other immoral and
good-for.nothing men.
Mrs. Margaret e. Sangster has ac-
ecpted the offer of Harper & Broth
ers to become editor of Harper's
Bazaar, She is a writer of graceful
verse and is well known as u writer
for the religious press.
A negro boy near Camden, S. c.,
one day lately lost a dollar that be-
longed to his mother. He felt so
badly about it that he began crying
bitterly, and did not stop for twenty
four hours, and then he died from
exhaustion.
The finest exhibition ever given in
old Rome was when thirty-eight |
men and women were torn to pieces !
by twelve lions which had been |
for three days. Each |
lion was called out from three to six |
times,
a remarkable case has just come
to light. The new state capitol at
Georgia, for which Sl,OOO,OOO was
appropriated, has been completed,
the work having been done for S20,
600 less than the sum set aside. 1t
is generally several million dollars
the other way,
School teachers i'm Kansas have
borrowed an idea from Massa-
chusetts teachers, who introduced
the reading of the leading items of
daily paper during war times.
Children who are kept posted re
garding current events become
bright men and women.
1t is reported from Scranton, Pa,
hat Charles Nier ran needle into
his foot u week ago for which the
doctors searched in vain. He was
aiken to the plant of the Suburban
Electric Railway, and his foot held
lear one of the dynamos. In fifteen
as reported, the needle was
irawn out.
The electric apparatus by which
loomed criminals will be put TO
leath In New York consists Of
hair probably Of iron. The current
viii be sent from arm TO arm of the
ubject or the head TO the spine,
'he exact location of the poles no
Ioubt will vary with subject and
pinion Of the physicians.