The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
Plan for kidnapping Children Dis.
covered in Kansas City.
The United States Takes Hold Of the census
Cases, and WIN Investigate the
Crookedness,

Madam Bavatsky has sued the New
York Sun for lible.
John X. Foster Of Indiana has been |
offered the Spanish Ministry.
Mexico has decided 10 reduce her
army and change her system OF recruit
ing.
A strong movement to defeat Powderiy
for General Master Of the Knights of
Labor at the coming election is being
made.
The cash receipts of the Mexican
Treasury the past year were $3T 900, 100,
sum never Eefore equaled in Mexican
history.
The population OF the State of Yer
mont, as announced by the Census
Bureau. is 332, $50, decrease in ten
years OF thirty-one-
Efforts are being made by citizens OF
Galena, H., 10 secure the removal of
General Grants remains TO that place,
his home IN early life.
The Postal Telegraph Company of
New Jersey, which is to open an office
shortly in Orange, is going TO mount its
messengers on safety bicycles.
New York has suffered this year con-
siderable from the drought. All the
streams in the northern part of the
State are 30 low as TO affect the canals.
All the designs submitted in the COM
petition for New York's monument to
| General Grant are drawn on the suppo-
sition that the work is to cost 5000
Presumably owing 10 some religious
disagreement six Icelandic students,
who have been studying in Winnepeg,
have gone to Dakota TO finish their stud
I les.
The Cincinnati Board OF Public Inn
prove-nents has adopted a resolution
/ providing for competitive bidding for the
purpose of introducing natural or fuel
gas.
A company has been organized at Des
Moines, Ia, to establish a colony at the
South, where Edward Bellamy's plan
of Socialistic government can be prac-
tically tested.
New York's mounted park policemen
have appeared in an outfit of tight riding
breeches and top boots, Whitman sad
dies and Prussian army bits for the
horses brides.
Clara Belle Mcdonald, well-known on
the Pacific Coast ON account of her mat
rimonial troubles, has arrived in New
York with her child, where she pro-
poses to study law.
A boycott is being established by At
lantic steamers against cowboys who
are returning after taking over consign-
ments of cattle. The actions of the
men are declared to be outrageous.
Philadelphia iron manufacturers and
dealers have subscribed $4,000 for the
entertainment of the members of the
British Iron and Steel Institute, who
are to visit the United States next
month.
Regarding the Chicago dispatch stat
ing that j. f. GODDARD would succeed
Richard Gray as traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific, President Crocker
stated that Gray would remain with the
company.
Uncle Ben Baker, Assistant Secretary
of the Actors Fund, and one of the
most widely known and popular members
of the profession, was found dead at his
residence in New York. He was sew
enty-two years old.
The State School Commissioner and
Attorney General were in consultation at
Atlanta, Ca, in regard to securing for
purposes OF negro education In that
State sum of money that has lain in
the Bank of England for many years.
The total gross exchanges for last
week, as shown by the dispatches from
and Canada, is 81 ,094, 720, ,790. an in
crease of twenty-one per cent as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
year.
The Boston express Saturday evening
struck a suburban train on the Dan
bury and Norwalk branch of the Housa-
tonic road in Boston and badly dam
aged it, besides shaking up and painfully
iniuring thirty or more passengers, none
of them dangerously.
J The United States Grand Jury has
taken hold of the census cases, and viii
investigate the alleged crookedness in
Minneapolis and st; Paul Subpena'
are out for almost all the enumerators
in both cities, and also for number o
Bohemians and Swedes whose names
are said to be duplicated.
, Among the passengers on the Teutonic
, which has arrived at New York, was Sii
J George Baden Powell, member of Par
. lament. 1t is not unlikely that his visi
,, will have something to do in the way o
settling the fisheries questions now in dis
pute between this country and Grea
: Britain. He is bound for British Co
{ lumbia.
: The Brooklyn Board of Education ha
: ordered that the law against minor
: smoking shall be read in the publ,
have already arranged plan to defea
the operations of the statute. 1t pro
: hibits smoking tobacco and especial,
: cigarettes Hereafter they are all al
/ fiicted with catarrh and smoke cubebs
= An audacious plan for attempting t
] kidnap children has been revealed a
e Kansas City. The plan was to kidnal
q children of wealthy parents, conduc
!. them to some secret place in some dis
|. tant State and keep them there unit
their ransoms should be paid. TIL
;, Grand Jury found true bill for the oil
9 tense against Henry G. Wilson, tn
owner of livery stable.
VT. Murdock, the young man VIII
claimed to have discovered the RAJ
across the track of the Boston an
Maine railway, near Lynn, and warne
i an approaching train of the danger, ha
y been arrested, and confessed that h
had himself placed the obstruction o
@ the track, though he disclaimed any in
~ tention of wrecking the train. He sal
7e the act was done in the hope of bein
r. rewarded.
;" The annual election of the Norther
Ne Pacific Company will be held on Octobe
vs. 16 at New York. 1t will be one OF tn
be- quietest on record, no contest is antic
g pated, and, as one of the officials put i
- !" We expect every thing to pass off 9
- smooth as a silk ribbon.n Not even
= committee of proxies has been appoint e
se but there will be proxies enough preser
as to transact all the necessary business
u, The fact that no committee has been al
Of pointed to solicit proxies arises from th
INV fact that the company has no importar
% change from the present situation
suggest.