The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED
INTACT TO CHICAGO.
An Ohio Murderess too Depraved fol
the Gallows-A Remarkable Well
Near Pittsburg Fruit ofthe
Dime Novel In Boston

ne WlAe Vi Tie O1dI Vi RuSSld ude
become insane.
A threshing machine in England is
run by electricity.
Teams crossed over the Mississippi
on the ice last week.
All the American war ships will
soon be ready for sea.
A portion OF the imperial palace at
Peking has been burned.
The Mormon settlers in Minnesota
are selling out and going 10 Utah.
Oranges are now beiag moved in
Florida in b,ilk, the same as potatoes.
The Nah IFS followers are said TO
have made a saint of General Gordon.
At the Paris exposition this year
there will be q band of 1900 musi
clans.
A new naturalization bill has been
reported to the House judiciary cem-
mittse.
The bodies of Nine. di Murska and
her daughter will be sent to Gotha to
be cremated.
Shoals of black cod in enormous
numbers are reported of the coast
near San Diego.
A Wichita, Kans, clergyman has
been asked 10 resign because his ser
mons are too long.
Three murders similar to those OF
the Whitechapel 6end have been per
petrated in jamaica.
Three hundred houses were de-
stroyed by an earthquake IN the Saba
ret valley, Asia Minor.
The house in which Lord Byron was
born in London will be demolished, 10
enlarge diapers shop.
The cotton crop this GEAR will be
the largest ever made. and will ap-
proximate z 800 900 bales.
A Paris letter states that the whole
of DeLesseps' fortune disappeared In
the Panama canal scheme.
The Kansas house has passed the
senate resolution favoring the opening
of Oklahoma for settlement.
It cost Nebraska county nearly
$1,000 to run the poor farm last year
There were but two paup4rs.
The St. Lawrence river rose thir-
teen feet in four hours, last week, and
submerged the wharves OF Montreal.
There is apprehension of trouble
during the centennial celebration OF
the French revolution next summer.
During the past two months Mrs,
James G. Blaine, jr., has been study
ing hard for her debut on the profes-
sional stage.
A young physician of Fall River,
Mass, is laid up with a disease of the
tongue, attributed to excessive ciga-
rette smoking.
On December 1, three strong earth
quAkes were felt in Iquique, Peru.
with an intermission of only from five
TO nine seconds.
Dr. ]. Mile Jenkin, who correctly
located the bullet in G ,rfield's body,
dropped dead at Wilkesbare, Penn, of
apoplexy, last week.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W.,
says the German gunboat Olga has
taken Maliet0a, 4 king of Samoa, to
the Marshall islands.
William Pierce, probably the Oldest
convict in New York in point OF
continual penal servitude, has been
discharged from the asylum for in
sane criminals.
A rocking stone in New Marl-
borough, Mass, is so nicely balanced
that, Notwithstanding it weighs many
tons, the pressure OF a single finger is
sufficient TO move it about an inch.
The Canadi N knights of Labor are
seeking to g. cure the exclusion Of for
eign labor from the Dominion, and de
mand that the government pay no
more money TO secure immigration.
Joaquin Miller has finished the
novel he was to write, a. his contri-
button to the literary syndicate. II
is entitled "The Buried River" He
was engaged but six days in it's COM
position.
A remarkable well has just been
struck at Pittsburg, Penn. 1t pro
duces at one and the same time pure,
cold water, salt water and flow oil
gas that when ignited illumines the
entire surroundings.
The Empress of Germany cannot
use the imperial crown on her coat Of
arms, but must be content with the in
sigma of the Queen of Prussia. This
is the latest token of the filial affec-
tion of her eldest boy.
The prize fight between Frank
Shepley, of Helena, and John Cronin
of New York, which took place al
Missoula Friday, was a remarkably
brutal affair. Cronin was knocked in
sible and seriously injured.
At Boston Sunday George Gretzen.
gar, aged twenty, held up his father
with pistol and secured $40. After
ward he attempted to hold up his
mother but she called the police. He
shot two policemen before he sur
rendred.
Libby prison is to go to Chicago
The work of taking apart the ole
structure is now going on in Rich
mond, Va, and as the bricks and
beams are displaced they are Eum-
bered so that the building can be put
together again just as it stood in Vir
ginia. The interior of the old prison
is to be used as sort of war museum
The colored washerwomen of Al
bany, Ga, have served notice upon
Chung Lee, a Chinese laundrymar
who arrived there recently, that he
must leave the city at once. A veal
ago they drove couple of Chinamer
out Of the city by force. The China
man says he will go.
Phillip O'Brien, of San Francisco
committed suicide last Saturday, by
taking poison. Phillip, his son, shot