The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-08
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Steamer Collides with Another
Off Fort Carroll.
A Young Spanish Nobleman, Who is At
tending School in This Country,
Said to Have the Ieprosy.

II is rumored that Christine Nilsson is
in New York.
Nine members of Congress have died
during this session.
The cruiser Philadelphia has been ac-
eepted by the government
A force of men at Johns,own IL still
engaged in searching for the degd.
According TO recent census the popn-
lation of Montreal Is estimated at 211,-
600.
more shows that % ,6a4 immigrants land
ed there.
Richmond, Va, has 100000 inhabi-
tants, but no hospital or public dispen-
sary, II is said.
The new census gives Atlanta, Ga, a
population of 10000. an increase of 100
per cent. in ten years.
A Western Republican Senator thinks
Congress will not adjourn before October,
and perhaps not then.
Schoharie, n. ", has according TO the
last census about 1900 less people than
she had forty years ago.
r
with the Cronin murder, is now wanted
in Kansas for horse stealing.
Ernest Hess, member of the Board of
Trade Of Chicago, has failed. He was
short 2,0O0, 900 bushels OF oats.
Several CITY officials at Omaha have
been arrested and charged with bribery
in selling a railroad right of way.
Paw Inspector George A. Lyon, T. :.
~, has been ordered in charge of the
paw office at San Francisco on September
10 next.
1t Is thought that the census will show
the population of Kansas to be about
100000. Nebraska expects nearly
l 100000.
The assessed valuation OF real estate in
Brooklyn this year for purposes of taxa
tion is $43I ,037 ,444, an increase of $23,-
S74 800 over last year.
Travel over the Brooklyn bridge is in
creasing 50 rapidly that the President of
the Commission saws a new bridge should
be commenced at once.
Secretary Tracy has signed the contract
for the tubular boilers for the armored
coast-defense vessel Monterey under con-
struction at San Francisco.
Albert Geonegan, City Clerk of Paris,
Tex, Is missing, and his accounts are
short between s., 600 and $40, 1000. Efforts
are being made to overhaul him.
James Mooney, the man who attempt
ed TO blow up the steamer Queen in
North river a few years ago, was drowned
at Fort Rockaway last week.
A subscription fund has been started
among New York physicians for the re-
lief of DIR. John III. Douglas, who at
tended General Grant in his last illness.
The total contributions to the Johns
town pa sufferers were $2.9l2 346.30
The total expenditures were =, ,S45, ~. .S3.
The commission has s67 ,205.47 cash in
hand.
The apple crop of Nova Scotia will be
below the average this season. Great
ravages have been committed by cater
pillars, which have stripped whole or
chards.
The Western railroads are considering
a plan by which no road shall take more
than a certain percentage of any COM
modify. tits to get around the anti
pooling law.
New York's water supply is graphic
ally described as stream equal to a
river fifty feet wide, ten feet deep and
flowing six miles an hour, pure and cool,
out of the hills.
The steamer Louise, with 800 excur-
sionists on board, collided with the
steamer Virginia the other day off Fort
Carroll, five miles from Baltimore. Sew
eral lives were lost.
Gambling is in full blast at Saratoga,
Long Branch and some other places that
could be named where the authorities
do not suppress it for reasons, perhaps,
best known to themselves.
Secretary Harris of the North Dakota
Board of Railroad Commissioners char
acterizes as unreliable the report that no
elevators in North Dakota will accept
grain for storage this year.
i An investigation is under way in Bos-
ton as to the running of peach trains
from the Middle States to New England
it being alleged that the Eastern mar
kets are Disseminated against.
Manuel Garutia, 20 years old, the scion
of noble family in Spain, who has been
attending the military academy at Ches-
ter, Pa, is now in New York, and it is
declared that he has the leprosy.
The House has non-concurred in the
Senate amendment TO the sundry civil
appropriation bill, which increased the
Santa Monica from 500, 900 to Sly 900.
Nearly 1000 heads of families in the
Province OF Quebec alone have made ap.
plication for the State bounty of 11t
acres of land voted to Canadians who are
the fathers of twelve children or more
The saloonkeepers of Chicago are il
arms against the big brewery syndicate
and will not accept orders from it. This
| - ou;ro tr q resolution of the Svndirat tf
binding saloonkeepers in an arbitrary
way.
!. The Western Union people will carry
up the partially burned building in New
York nine stories, discarding the man
0 sard roof, and will build an addition ninC
stories high on a twenty-five-foot lot il
rear of present building.
According to a telegram from Bostor
the damage in New England by the pres
ent drought is now past recovery. Mos
a of the districts have been without rail-
. sufficient for growing season for weeks
g Corn and tobacco on the lowlands ar,
$ still in fair condition.
!. J. A. Shea & Co., the fruit dealers o
/. Minneapolis, have commenced a wa
fornia, which is likely to be a prett,
warm business contest, and sooner o
later is certain to draw the other frui
and commission houses of Minneapoli
into it.
The colonization of Swedish immi
: grants upon the deserted farms of Yer
9 mont. a dispatch from Rutland (Vt
says, is not proving a success. Discon
4 tent prevails, and some of them are re
: moving to the lumber regions of tn
State upon the Canadian and Main