The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-25
EASTERN NEWS.
Ohio and Mississippi Floods will Cause
immigration TO the Northwest.
CONSOLIDATION Of WHITE LEAD FIRMS.
Omaha COaehman Commits suieide.-Glu,
eOse and Starch Trust.

eose and Starch Trust.
The lower Mississippi is the highes
ever known.
The Red River Presbytery votes
against revision.
Il is stated that the German reichs,ap
will eoen ON May ..
A German Evangelical church opens
in Chicago with u row.
Duluth riparian cases are decided by
the state supreme court
Striking plumbers in Chicago talk OF
starting cooperative shops.
Arkansas City, Ark. has 1000 people
homeless from the floods.
Cnba is excited over prospective an
nexation to the United States.
The admission Of Idaho is decided up
on by the Republicans oi the house.
The Steele court martial results in
sentence Of reprimand and confinement.
The lease of the Wisconsin Central by
the Northern Pacific is formally an
nounred.
The Chicago board Of trade is power
less thus far in preventing quotations
from leaking out
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son admits the complete failure OF pro
hibition in Iowa.
Senator Cullom Introduces a hill to
make things more unpleasant for the
Mormons than ever.
Two thousand five hundred Utah Nor
mons are to migrate to the Canadian
Northw st this spring.
Horace Smiler. New York printer,
shot and killed his wife because she re-
fused To live with him.
\ Chicago paper makes very grave
charges against the city authorities in
connection with gambling.
j system of messenger pigeon stations
is being established throughout Canada
TO assist in detecting poachers.
The Brazilian bishops will shortly is
sue pastoral refusing TO consent 10 the
Of el .urch and state.
As the result OF dispute in a restau-
rant at Debretzin. Hungary, forty chal-
enges to duels have been issued.
\ house ,-ommittee will visit Southern
states and investigate charges of corrupt
Practices made against federal officials.
Tic t,,.> s,aa,,,l,,at ,,,,,,.,,;.,s .,,,oo.
ng between ~. Paul and ST Louis make /
an agreement touching the seasons bus /
ness.
The Massachusetts house has adopted |
without division bill making nine hours /
! legal days work in state and municipal |
Nine hours without a reduction in I
wages has been granted the :, 200 work I
men employed in twelve OF the marble /
actories in Boston.
1t is predicted that the Ohio and Lower /
river floods viii cause large /
from the inundated districts /
o the Northwest.
Sixteen persons are poisoned in Ar
ansas by eating wild turkey that had
aten bait impiegnated with strychnine.
'welve will probably die
Owing to the prevalence Of smallpox
I Piraeus the American squadron Of ev-
lufion viii not go TO Athens. The
qdadron remains at Corfu.
The house on the old homestead of
Horace Iireely near Chappanaqua,
!. Y, and occupied by his daughter,
las been DESTROYED by fire.
The trust recently founded for the pur-
'ose of controlling glucose and starch
Ias purchased the extensive works Of the
'oorhees starch company in panville,
H.
The crusaders excitement at Farming
on, Mo, il still at fever heat. The two
Grecked saloons will not be reopened.
he women destroyed fifty-fve barrels
nd eleven cases of beer
Six OF the leading concerns manufac-
uIing white lead in New York have con-
olidated under the name of the National
cad Company OF New York. The COM
ined capital is 81 ,000,0
Dudley Farlin, president of the Lima
Ohio Oil company, is authority for the
hises OF that company have been sold
D the Standard Oh company.
A coachman named Gotleib Benson
lew out his brains in the parlOr of
llllionaire n. Ii. Patrock at Omaha
\ the presence Of the servant girl. who
lad refused his offer of marriage.
Edward Sylvester, Charley McCran
nd Harry Williams, three of the most
xpert counterfeiters in the United
'tates, were arrested at Buffalo, n. Y,
While at work turning out counterfeit
DIN.
The Portuguese government has in
tied one firm in America and several
rms IN other countries to make tenders
Or the construction of four new cruisers.
20 tenders from English firms are in
tied.
A new manage of the Savoy hotel in
.ondon offended the chef, who immedi-
tely struck, followed by sixty cooks.
hen the walters, maids and porters
truck, and the hotel is practically
losed.
Some one Of a party of men in the
FOODS at Cummings Hill, Russell Mills,
lass. dropped a lighted cigar, setting
ne underhrush on fire. Before it was
topped over a mile of territory was
urnsd.
Fritz Cinnamon OF New York killed a
Iudson river pilot, William Abernethy,
18th blow which broke his skull. The