The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-29
EASTERN ITEMS.
Texas Judge Killed by the Wife of
a Defeated Candidate.
The Minority Makes Its Report in the
Clayton-Breckinridge Contested
Election Case.

inspect the route Of the Labrador Coast
railway.
A line from the dairy districts to sup
ply New York with milk is the latest
project in pipe-laying.
A disease, which some believe to be
anthrax, has appeared among cattle at
Cartwright, Manitoba.
There is much doubt over the passage
of Federal Supreme Court relief bill at
this session of Congress.
Returns TO the Census Bureau from the
South are disconraging the immediate
reapportionment pushers.
South Dakota's Supreme Court has
rendered decision sustaining the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic
Warden Dnrston says the official re-
port will show that the execution of
Kemmler was great success
In one of the Chicago hospitals 25 per
cent. of the patients are suffering from
the effects OF eigarette-smoking-
The total product of pig iron for IsS9-
80 in the Southern States was $50, ,3i6
tons, against ,7s0, 800 tons in 1890.
The Connecticut peach crop is said to
be a partial failure, but it is relatively
better than that of New Jersey and Del
aware.
The steamship Normandie has arrived
at New York with the statue of Lafay
ette, which France has presented TO the
United States.
A man in New Orleans eonfesses to
murder committed in England thirty
FIVE years ago, for which an innocent
man was hanged.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Nettleton confirms the report that the
Corwin has been ordered to Alaska, but
win say nothing further.
H. H. Simpson is on his way TO this
country from Australia to engage base
ball team. He represents a syndicate
with capital of $l0O,Oo0.
Systematic depredations of books in
the mails from the Philadelphia postof-
flee have been discovered and a clerk
arrested, charged with the theft.
The Committee on Commerce has re-
ported favorably to the House the Senate
bill to provide for the inspection of live
cattle and beef products intended for ex-
port to foreign countries.
Smallpox is ravaging Guerrero, Mex
lean border town, and Texas towns are
becoming alarmed over the possibility of
being afflicted with the contagion unless
quarantine is established.
At meeting of the trunk line passen-
ger agents at New York il was decided
to give 2-cent per mile rate for ten or
more persons travelling on one ticket on
any road of the association.
Judge Max Stein of Hidalgo county,
Texas. was killed in Renos, Mexico, by
Mrs. Della MeCabe- The trouble grew
out of an election, in which Mrs. Nc
Cabe's husband was defeated.
Among the contributions to the 81 900
fund to endow bed in the Monmouth
(N. J } memorial hospital is that of J.
b. Haggin, who gave 800, and many
prominent turfmen made donations.
Two hundred farmers of Huron coun-
ty, Mich, have asked for public aid be-
cause their crops were totally destroyed
by the storm which swept over the east
ern portion of the county at harvest
time.
Seventeen soldiers acting as a patrol
for the City Custom-house at the CITY of
Mexico deserted in a BODY after killing
their Lieutenant. Cavalry is in pursuit
of the deserters, three Of whom have
been captured.
New York's Board of Health warns
the public to beware of the average
towel supply at the public baths, as in
vestigation has shown that many victims
of ophthalmia can trace their affiiction
TO that source.
The Denver Lottery Company, which
recently opened headquarters in Kansas
City, Kan, has vacated its office, and its
officers fed the town after having re-
ceived $50, 900 by the sale of tickets, etc,
leaving all prizes unpaid.
Many of the people of Newfoundland
express themselves as strongly in favor
of annexation with the United States, if
there is not a satisfactory settlement of
the fisheries question, which is now
causing so much anxiety on the island.
George Faribault, Chief of the Indian
Police at Standing Rock agency, n. D.,
is dead. He was the Daniel Boone of
Minnesota and man of great influence
among the Indians. He saved the lives
of many whites during the Indian
troubles.
The minority report on the Clayton
Breckenridge election contest has been
made to the House. It charges that the
majority report was unfounded in
truth, not justified by the evidence and
is defaced by the repetition of partisan
slander. not sustained by any testimony" /"
Representative Carter of Montana re-
ported to the House from the Committee
on Mines and Mining bill to provide
! for the examination and classification of
certain mineral lands in Montana and
Idaho within the land-grant and indem-
nifty land-grant limits of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company.
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A Niagara Falls newspaper starts the
report that an English syndicate is at
work getting options on land on both
sides Of the Niagara, near Lewiston. The
object is stated to be the extension of
the Canadian River railroad, building a
bridge across the river and starting a
large manufacturing establishment.
The Kansas Railroad Commission in
reducing local rates on cereals 81 per
cent. and on other articles 10 per cent.
asserts that local rates have been main
tanned for some years after distance
rates had been reduced because the roads
of the State were embarrassed, but that
current earnings-which are undoubted-
ly most fAvorable-now justify reduc-
ton.
A Memphis electric-light company was
sued for $499. so damages few days ago
for destroying a shade tree in the yard
of a citizen. The damages were decreed
by default. The President of the COM
pany was subsequently arraigned before
a Justice, charged with trespass in put
ting up the wires He waived an exam
nation, and was bound over to the Grim
inal Court.