The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-05
EASTERN . ITEMS.
The Tunnel Under the St. Clair
River About Completed.
An Immigrant on His Arrival at New
York Confesses to a Murder
in Denmark.

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1t is said that Edison has perfected a
noiseless electric motor.
Cape May proposes henceforth to be a
winter as well as summer resort.
1t is said that several more Baltimore
breweries will be bought up by English
capitalists.
The Chicago gas trust is reported to
have cleared over 81 900, 900 in the last
six months.
Counterfeit silver dollars have been
discovered in the vaults of the sub-treas-
ury at Philadelphia.
Much alarm is felt at the spread az
diphtheria in the mining towns of Luz
zerne county, Pennsylvania
The Atlanta Constitution thinks that
more than two-thirds of the next Geor-
gia Legislature will be farmers.
Chief-Justice Morton of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court has rendered his
resignation prompted by failing health.
James Gordon Bennett has leased for
$50 900 year a lot at Broadway and
ihlrty-htth street for new Herald Of
! fee.
Property along the Hudson river for
residential purposes is held at figures TO
sell higher than have prevailed for sew
eral years.
large butter and cheese firm at Mon
treal has been seized for importing the
best American butter and entering ii as
an inferior article.
The New York health authorities fear
that there is slight return of Ia CRIME
IN that city, and il is said Southern yis-
itors are especially susceptible to it.
In 1880 there were nineteen out of
thirty-eight Safes each with a popula-
ton OF less than a million. There are
now only seventeen out of forty-four.
Under the new law men who have en-
listed IN the regular army of the United
States and served one year may obtain
their discharge by the payment OF 1920.
Miss Francis E. willard saws there is
a movement on foot looking to a union
for work OF the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union and the Salvation Army.
White caps are threatening the s.stav-
out-lates" at Arlington, n. J., with con-
dlgn punishment. Some have already
been pelted with rocks while returning
home late.
The latest site offered to the Worlds
Fair directory is in the northern part of
the city, and borders on Lake Michigan.
1t Is i've and half miles from the cen
ter OF the city.
An oil well has been opened at Find
lay, o., which flowed over 900 barrels
the first hour, and in seven hours filled
=, ,S49 barrels. This breaks the record OF
oil wells in Ohio, if not in the world.
Hon. Charles Fitzpatrick, who is about
70 be sworn in as member of the Que
bee Cabinet, is believed to be the first
Irish Land Lacquer 10 become Minis
ter of the Crown in the Queens domin-
ions.
The elevated railways in Brooklyn are
all resisting taxation. Some of their Of
ficers say openly that the roads should
not be taxed until they are on a paying
basis; others complain of overassess-
ment.
Shing Woon, the Chinese Consul at
New York, says he was requested by the
Chinese Minister at Washington TO no.
tify the public that China had not agreed
TO Corea's plan to negotiate a loan OF 81
100000.
The partial failure of the North Da-
kata wheat crop is said to threaten thou
sands of farmers with bankruptcy.
Settlers will have to be aided with food
during the next twelve months and sup
piled with seed in the spring.
The man who is believed to be the
chief conspirator in the Minneapolis
census frauds is in Canada, and he pro-
poses to resist extradition on the ground
that his offense was not a common for
gerry, but rather political crime
A convention of Governors of all the
cotton States has been called to meet at
Atlanta. The convention will consider
the matter of direct trade with Liver
pool; also questions relating to weights,
freights and the handling of cotton.
Alexander Philipsen, who arrived at
New York with his wife and two chill
dren in the steerage of the Hamburg
steamship Normandie, has confessed to
the murder of the man whose body was
discovered in barrel of lime that was
brought to this country on a steamship
from Denmark and seized for duties bv
the customs officials a few months ago.
All the brick in New York have been
used. Six million bricks are daily used
in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey CITY,
and brickmakers along the Hudson and
about Philadelphia have cut off the sup
ply. The union workmen of the three
cities boycotted the Hudson-river man
ayers, and this is the result. One hun
dred thousand men will be compelled to
quit work.
There are some very much disgusted
real-estate investors in Chicago. There
are those who bought land near jackson
park at fancy prices, thinking it settled
that the Worlds Fair would be located
there. Some of them paid $500 to $4O0
per front foot for property that five
months ago would not have brought one
sixth OF that, and unless the fair should
after all go to Jackson park, not a few of |
them viii be ruined
A scheme is to build a railway east !
ward from Quebec some eighty miles to st. |
Charles bay on the Labrador Coast, from |
which point large steamers are expected !
to make the voyage to Milford haven,
Wales, in three and a half DAYS, is pro- |
jected in Canada. BY this route it is |
expected that passengers and perishable !
freight can be carried from Chicago to |
London inside of seven DAYS. The pro-
visional directory is composed of wealthy
men.
The workmen engaged upon the two
ends of the st. Clair-river tunnel be-
tween Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario,
shook hands with each other on August |
"a under the ST. Clair river, and made |
the great subterranean highway echo |
with their cheers. This marks the com
pletion of the greatest river tunnel in |
the world and probably the greatest piece |
OF engineering in this country It is |
eleven feet longer than the Brooklyn
bridge.