The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-05-30
EASTERN NEWS.
Assignments of George W. Crane s
Co., of Topeka, Kan.
SUIT AGAINST Ex-rREAs. BURKE OF la.
Disappearance Of a Young Englishman AT
Montreal. Canada.

In Hamburg 200 dock men employed
on American steamers linve struck.
Twelve buildings were burned at Eli /
cotville, n Y. Loss, S50,00O.
Nine Thousand miners Of Bilboa
Spain, have struck. Troops are keeping
order.
Troops are requi ed 10 prevent strikers
from destroying machinery in cities in /
Bohemia
NJ lsambard. radical, has been elected
member ol the French chamber el depu- /
ties for Eyereaux.
II De Ruyter, Madison county, n. Y.
four stores and eighteen dwellings were
destroyed by fire.
An official report states that the gen
eral condition OF winter rye and wheat in
European Russia il good.
The Southern Baptist convention at
Fort Worth, Tex, has adjourned to meet
al Birmingham in May next
Joseph Sufrrin, wealthy Jewish mer-
chant of Chicago, is mysteriously miss
ing His friends fear he has met foul
play.
Five buildings were completely de
stroyed by fire Mt Ashley, Pa The loss
Is about s6n, 20; partly covered by i'm
surance.
fire occurred in the oil refinery OF
Sir W. A Rose 4 Co, nj Bankside, Lon
don, and cansed damage amounting 10
El20, 900.
The Norwegian bark Bereenseeren was
lost of the coast of Mississippi The
crew was saved, but the vessel and cargo
are a total loss.
In New York Andrew Carnegie spoke
At the laying of the corner stone Of the
II ,5u0,OuO music iiail, 10 construct which
he gave s500,0tn
George w Crane Il Co.. printors, To-
peka, Kan. have made an assignment
Liabilities, sl20,00J: believed To be fully
covered by assets.
The Mexicans in san Luis Potosi claim
that conspiracy exists among Ameri
can railroad men to keep Mexieans from
working ON the railroads.
Vienna newspapers announce the sus-
pension of Honus d Lang, Bankers
Their assets amount To 900 900 tiorins
liabilities, 7,0)O.O00 fiorins
The steamship werra reached New
York, having on board Director strauss
and his well-known orchestra. There
are forty-six in the party.
Great anxiety is ielt in financial cir
cles in Mexico respecting the action
which the United States congress will
take on the silver question.
In the strike riot at S,huftenhoven,
! Austria, the rioting was suppressed by
gendafmes. The strike movement has
I spread to Blieherg and Kreuth.
I The democratic congress held in Rome
/ adjourned after adopting protest
a ainst the presence of detectives
| There were 40 delegates present.
/ The leading business house and bank
OF Eskridge, Kan, owned by Mr. Nudge,
/ have assigned The liabilities are about
5000 70, while the assets are small.
( Owing to the council OF Mr. Davitt,
/ the strikers at Cork and throughout the
south of Ireland have yielded and the
trouble, for the present at least. is at an
end.
The ouisiana attorney general has
f fled suit i'm the civil courts against ex-
Treasurer Burke and his bondsmen to
recover S97 $50, the amount of the de-
falcation.
+ g F. Churchill, managing partner OF
the firm of Clifford * Churchill, Of Chr
cago, dealers in etchings, engravings,
etc, is said To be in Canada with some
Of the firms money.
A syndicate of Belgian bankers, which
undertook To issue 81 ,U01,O0O of Congo
state obligations, has been dissolved
They were able to place only one tenth
of the intended amount.
The Ha nburger Correspondent says
that the English government has in
formed the German government that
England will not yet press the execution
OF the London sugar convention.
The prime minister of the South Amer
lean republic of Columbia has arrived in
Berlin for the purpose of negotiating
with the Celman government for the es-
tablishment of trade relations.
Thomas Kimher, young Englishman
who came to Montreal about three weeks
ago, has disappeared, leaving behind a
large amount Of baggage. The detec-
tives have no cline to his whereabouts.
The New York senate has recalled
from the assembly the Saxton ballot re-
form bill and rehashed it, changing it so
as to agree with the amended Saxton
bill which was agreed to by the governor,
Mr. SaNton and others
A movement has been inaugurated in
New York to secure one million sigma
lures to memorial to he sent to the
czar of Russia, asking that he look into
and seek to ameliorate the condition of
the eXiles of Siberia.
Disregard of orders caused collision
on the Louisville & Nashville road south
of Birmingham, Ala. A miner stealing
a ride was killet., Harry Turner, civil
engineer of the road fatally and three
trainmen slightly injured.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that the pope is
satisfied with the German governments
concessions to the clergy, and disap-
proves the course of the Centerists in in
sisting upon further concessions.
Portions of the works connected with
extensive building operations at the
Alssises fort, near Namauec. France
collapsed, burying twenty persons in the
debris Five dead bodies and twelve in
jured persons have been extricated from
the ruins.
In Trentsin Ii Hung Chang opened
! Tho rsattpifsi,,al hall uhieb 10 rafnad afta,