The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-05-02
EASTERN NEWS.
A Young Lady Swallows an Open
Pen Knife.
A STRIKE BY MUNICH CARPENTERS
Richard Proctor, Son of the Late AstrOno
mer Becomes Insane.

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Two negroes cutting levees in Luna
county, Miss, were killed by guards.
| Gladstone dined at the Grand Hotel,
London, with several American friends.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres an
nounces the resignation OF the Argentine
ministry.
The Tampico branch of the Mexican
Central railway, has been opened for
/ regular traffic.
The steamer Bilboa, from Grimbsby,
England, has been lost in the North Sea.
Fifteen lives were lost.
The discovery of wonderous precious
minerals in the Grand canyon OF the
Colorado river is reported.
The wife of Michigan sheriff is badly
injured by an escaping prisoner, but
manages 10 knock him out.
The Denver police arrested seventy
saloon and restaurant keepers for yio-
lating the Sunday-closing law.
I William O'Brien denies the report that
he is engaged to Mile. Raffalovitch,
daughter OF Partisan tinancier.
The indictments against the New York
Doodle aldermen Kirk and Shiels, OF the
/ Sharpe period, have been quashed
A strike of carpenters has occurred at
Munich. Nearly all the workmen in
this trade are Idle in consequence.
/ Charles f. kincade, the Washington
correspondent who killed ex-Congress-
man Taulbee, has been ordered released
on $40, 600 bail.
4 statement is current that the United
States Express company has decided TO
reduce the pay OF It's employees 10 per
cent. on May l.
A German chamber of commerce has
been formed by the residents of the Ger
man possession OF Togoiand, on the
West African cuast-
/ State Treasurer Archer OF Maryland
refused to appear to answer TO the charge
of defalcation and was formally removed
+ from office by the governor.
Dr. Knapp, late German consul at
Samoa, has been placed upon the retired
/ list owing to his conduct at the time of
the disorders at that place.
/ A report comes from Manila that the
/ Spanish steamer Ordonez has eollided
/ with the Spanish mail steamer Romulus
and sunk No lives were lost.
/ Coneii Brace, a noted mESsssaf the
British turf and breeder of ST Gatien,
/ winner of the Derby in 1884, has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
/ At Ottawa, Ont, Miss Alice Elliott,
while suffering from dementia, swallowed
{ 81.
so far she has experienced no unpleas-
ant results.
The London Standards Berlin cores
pondent says that the emperor has given
express orders not to interfere with May
day manifestations except in case of alb
solute necessity.
An International conference on fishery
questions will be held in London next
August. The conference will deal mainly
with questions of international boun-
daries in deep sea fishing.
Richard Proctor, aged twenty-five,
only son of the late famous astronomer,
K. A. Proctor, has become insane at st.
Joseph, Mo, and il has been decided TO
eonfiBe him in an asylum.
A large meeting of unemployed work
men was held in Rome. Some of the
/ speakers indulged in such violent and
anarchical languagei that the police fl
nally dispersed the crowd.
4 The Sampson Low company, London
i publishers Of Stanley's new book,
/ Darkest Africa" will soon issue five
/ million copies of the work. The book
viii be printed in I5 languages.
All the delegates elected by the pres
! bytery of New York city to attend the
general assembly at Saratoga, May l5,
/ for final action on the revision of the
confession cf faith, favor revision.
| All the tailors of Manchester, Eng,
/ have gone on a strike in conjustion with
similar action on the part of their
brethren in London. The movement
may possibly become national one.
i Millet's 'L'Angelus'' is now deposited
in the vaults of the Bank OF Montreal.
The owners were obliged to remove it
| from the United States or pay $50, 600
duty on it, and they chose the former
course.
The steamer Shakharah, which left
San Jose destined for Hamburg, went to
pieces on the rocks near Acajutla, Qua
E Tomaia. None OF the cargo OI lS,bBO
sacks of coffee, valued at about 100000,
was saved.
Abraham Kelly and Samuel Logan,
young married men of Springfield, KY,
and lifelong friends, qnarreled after ban
tering each other about their wives.
Kelly secured a shot gun and killed Lo-
gan instantly.
The indictment against Frank Wood
ruff, alias Black, charging him with COM
plicity in the murder of DR.. p. III. Gro
min, has been dismissed by consent OF
the state. The Indictment for horse
stealing still pends against him. John
Kunse has also been dismissed.
The Darling river, Australia, is still
rising. A large expanse of country is
flooded. Several buildings in the sub
merged town of Bourke have collapsed.
Hundreds of inhabitants have taken
refuge in the railway depot, the custom
house and postofice, which are protected
by dams.
The body Of Lieutenant Frank r.
Heath, who died in San Francisco last
June of pneumonia, resulting from ex-
posure during the fatal hurricane at Sa-
moa year ago, reached his home at
Richmond, Va, recently, in charge oi
Passed Assistant Engineer Strickland, oi
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