The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-11
EASTERN NEWS.
A U. :. Commissioner IIOrsewhipped
In the Streets of Chicago.
BOOMERS RUN OFF rnEcuERoKEEsrRlp
Prairie Fires Raging in Colorado and near
the Kansas Line.

The American squadron of evolution
has left Naples for corfu.
A bill has heen introduced In the
Maryland legislature making voting
compulsory in that state.
The German authorities have hanged
u slave dealer named Swahili for trying
10 embark slaves at Bagamoyo.
Il is said that Sheriff Flack Of New
York is fast breaking down mentally as
well as physically, aud will soon resign.
The Weather in Florida for the past
few DAYS has been the coldest for years,
and much damage has been done 10
fruit.
The grand jury at Washington has
brought in an Indictment against Charles
+. kincaid for the murder OF William 7.
Iaulbee.
The Bolton cotton industry is para
lived i'm consequence ol the coal strike,
and 80, ZOO looms are idle in Burnley,
England.
The troops are fast running boomers
out Of the Cherokee strip. Several ar
rests have been made but no resistance
has been met.
EN-State Senator Gillham of Alton,
H.. WAS silot i'm the breast and mortally
wounded in AN encounter with Il burglar
at his residence.
Emin Pasha writes that an Arab near
Mombassa had seen the body Of Dr.
Peters and declared that the explorer
had been murdered
Ben Cruel was lynched near Cynthia,
Ky He defrauded several citizens and
left the country. lie returned and paid
the penalty with his life.
The bill providing for the inspection
and grading OF all grain coming into Bal
timore has been passed 10y the Maryland
house of representatives.
Ii is now thought that DIR. Fosdick.
shot about a month ago at Kalamazoo,
killed his brother Albert, lie believing
that Albert would yet kill him.
j. w Woodruff, prominent business
man Of Buffalo, N. y, has left the city,
il is said, with Young lady typewriter.
Woodruff left numerous unpaid debts.
A large portion of Tianguestengo,
Mex, including the town hall, contain
ing valuable old archives, has been de-
stroyed by fhe. -Four lives were lost.
MIR. DaVitt, at a meeting of the strik-
ing Liverpool dockers, approved their
aim and assured them OF the support OF
the Knights of Labor and other unions.
Gov. Smith and Postmaster Holloway,
of the Soldiers home at LeaVcn worth,
Kan. have been arrested ON the charge
of purloining IA letter sent to an inmate.
The cloakmakers' strike that has been
ON in New York for ten days has been
declared off and the bosses have signed
the agreement asked by their employees.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has addressed
a note TO the German ambassadors
abroad, in which he intimates that he
will continue the policy of Prince Bis
marck.
United States Commissioner Simeon
w. King was horsewhipped in Chicago
by Mrs. Frank Kent, a widow, who
claims King had defrauded and calum-
mated her.
The bill providing for the inspection OF
all Western meats coming into Mary
land, and practically excluding that
product by "A tax, has been killed by the
Maryland senate.
Prairie fires are raging i'm Southeastern
Colorado down TO the Kansas border.
Already a hundred thousand acres have
been devastated. There are no facilities
for fighting the fire.
The United States Indian agent at
Muskogee, Ind. Ter, has notified the
chiefs of the Choctaw nation that any
one attempting TO operate the contem-
plated lottery will be arrested.
At Marshall, Mo-, Judge Ryland in
delivering his charge to the grand Jury
informed them that playing progressive
euchIe for prizes was violation of the
law and punishable as such.
There is an agitation among the stu
dents at Petrotfskoie, near Moscow, sim
liar to and in connection with the st.
Petersburg movement In fight with
gendarmes POO of the students were ar
rested.
A meeting of the French cabinet was
held in Paris yesterday to consider the
protests which have been made by va
rious French chambers of commerce
against the Mckinley American customs
duties bill.
1t is said that within a week or ten
days half of the glass factories of the
country will shut down, as the supply of
soda ash is practically shut off by the
strike among the dock laborers at Liver
pool. The price of glassware has adj
vanced 100 per cent within the past
month, and a still further advance is ex-
pected.
The Danish minister tof war has an
nounced in the folkthing that Socialist
workmen would not be employed in
state workshops. This decision is based
on the ground that they are subject to
foreign influence.
In West Chester, Pa, young woman
made a desperate attempt to escape
from convent, jumping from second
story window in her night clothes. After
running hundred yards she was cap
ured and taken back.
In Washington, the Metropolitan
Methodist church was well filled at
meeting called for the purpose of furth-
ering the project for the establishment of
a national university, under the auspices
OF the Methodist church, in the suburbs
OF Washington.
In Dublin Mr. Healey in speech said
that the land purchase bill proposed by
the Conservatives ought to be refused in