The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-26
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Legislature Of Iowa Passes a
Stringent Tramp Law.
A Scheme to Connect Lake Erie and the
Ohio River by Means Of Huge
ship Canal.


The membership Of the brotherhood
OF Locomotive Firemen Is 1900.
The prospect for passing the copyright
bin at this session Of Congress II not
bright.
II is reported from Washington that
Senator Evarts Is threatened with totai
blindness.
La grippe has sreappearedi In New York.
II is stated that over seventy eases were
reported week ago.
Work has commenced ON the Belt Line
road for Baltimore. The line VIII tap
all the railroads in The city.
A new branch OF the Salvation Army,
known as the Salvation Navy, Is saving
souls along Erie's water front.
The crop bulletin OF Iowa estimates
the weld OF corn throughout the State
at thirty-four bushels per acre.
The Illinois Board Of Equalization is
discussing proposition TO raise the Cook
county assessment 1922 2,OOo,OoO.
The public schools of Largo, Ind,
were Obliged 10 remain closed ON account
of the prevalence Of scarlet fever.
Apartment houses have been multi
piled TO such an extent in New York
that decline in rent is imminent.
sarah Bernhardt Is to open at New
York in February, and will sail from
San Francisco for Australia in May
Diseased meat has been sold, il is
charged, in Chicago by the firm em-
ployed by the State To kill lumpy-iawed
cattle.
jaw Gould saws excessive railroad con-
struction need not be feared. There will
not be much railroad building as long as
inimical legislation continues.
The Iowa Commissioners have ordered
suits to be entered against several rail-
road companies for refusing To obey the
order in relation to joint rates.
There is a movement TO consolidate
the etobacco-warehouse interests OF Gin
cinnati and Louisville and contine the
amalgamation to American parties.
1t is now said that the yield of the
wheat crop of Michigan will be 24.OOO,-
600 bushels, nearly a full average prod
uct This is twice a. large as was pre-
dieted in July.
| Captain Sherwood has been appointed
postmaster at Washington His appoint
ment is a direct recognition of civil
i service rules. as ne tftS bN6h dcctStnht
postmaster for eight years.
Outside of the New York delegation
all but three of the members of the
I House of Representatives express them.
selves in favor of the removal OF General
Grants remains 10 Arlington.
Having picked up most of the avail
able breweries and factories OF the land,
the insatiate London syndicate is now
prospecting among our mines. Just now
tin mines are the most attractive.
Advices received by the Ottawa gov
ernment state that Notwithstanding con
Trajectory reports the damage TO the
wheat crop of the Northwest is much
more serious than is generally known.
A peculiar and destructive disease has
appeared among cattle in Southern Kan
sas. and the animals are dying by th'
hundreds. A quarantine against South
ern cattle is being establishing in Kan
sas.
Major Powell of the geological surve!
saws that diamond fields are likely to b
developed in the United States. III
states that diamonds of fine water hav
already been found near Atlanta, Ga.
and in Russell county, Ky.
The House has passed the Senate bill
lopening the abandoned military reserva
tions in the State of Nevada to home
stead entry. This will add over 25,0O
Lacres of the best agricultural land :
Nevada's public domain.
The scheme to connect Lake Erie an
the Ohio river by a ship canal is soon t
be presented to the people in the forI
of the report of the committee appointe
to investigate and report upon the praC
ticability and location of the huge cana
. The Fort Dodge Presbyterian Synoe
comprising twenty-five counties in Nortf
western Iowa and embracing seventy
two churches, has inaugurated a can
paign in favor of Sunday closing at tn
Columbian Exposition to be held !
Chicago.
The mechanical difficulties in the al
/ plication of the new ballot law are a
tracing attention in New York. One I
. the greatest undertakings will be th
printing, perforating and numbering I
. the 5000 900 official ballots, which mui
. be done in ten days.
Iowa has passed a stringent tram
law. 1t declares that any male perso
I6 years or over who is physically able
, work who is wandering around begglT
n or idle, and who cannot show reasonab
n eIIOrJS 10 SecuFS Sih pAOyihChts SAioi
deemed tramp, sent to jail and put
y hard work.
. The latest thing in trusts is reportt
q from Chicago, where broker name
it Russell has Incorporated the p" Nation
It Tonsorial Parlor Company" with ca
Il ital of $25. 900. Barber shops are to
= established in the principal cities, al
= tickets of membership issued good f
Is service for year.
Senator Stewart has been successf
10 in having an amendment attached
Is the House bill repeating the timber-cul
l, ure law, which has passed the Senat
y practically putting an end to the sui
4 brought by the United States against
\ number of mining companies in Neva'
= and California for cutting timber {
: = public lands.
:. The many friends of ex-United Stat
Treasurer Spinner will hear with regI
oI that he is approaching his end. In
60 letter to the editor of Frank Leslie's
D. Illustrated Newspaper he says that t
cancer on his face has progressed to su
an extent that there is no hope OF
surviving much longer. He is SO yes
'n old, and up to the time when the cane
appeared had always enjoyed rugg
= health.
=, ~ Philanthropic and wealthy Hebre
are likely to be addressed from Philad
phia by the promoters of mOveme
now stirring in that city. 1t is quit
ening and extension of the Jewish A
i ance of America, organized some yes
ago in Philadelphia, to respond to I
- rush of Jewish exiles from Russia n
- Roumania. A national organization
- l<SsoI lr,<1froc a nd sc Ia now eOrte