The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-07-04
EASTERN NEWS.
Mormon Property TO be COniis-
Gated.
AN AIR SHIP TO 60 OVER THE NIAGRA
FALLS.
Chisagos Railroads Tied up.-Ceusus
Frauds.-English Syndicairs
at Work.

The Pennsylvania Goiiiery nj Mt. Car
mel. the largest in that region, is on
fire.
1t is reported that ten cowboys have
been murdered 10y Indians near Sepore,
Texas.
The laboring mems strike, which has
been in force at Denver for some time, Is
virtually at an end.
New York is importing ice from for
eign ports, where labor is 50 cheau that
the cost Of harvesting it is small.
Galveston has a-colored citizen worth
$350,o lives in elegant style, and as
house servants employees none but white.
Mrs. Harriet A. Ketchum won the
prize for The best design for soldiers
monument offered by the state OF Iowa.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
making it misdemeanor To use the
United States flag as an advertising pla-
card.
Indications are now that every road
running into Chicago will be tied up.
Any amount Of perishable freight is be-
ing lost.
Major Isaac Doughty, retired naval
officer, died at Po'keepsie, " Y, at the
age OF 81. He served the Government
over forty years.
Paw Paw, an Illinois village, was Wis
tied by terribly fatal cyclone, June
2Oth, leaving score OF the inhabitants
dead and dying.
Three desperate men lassoed Kansas
City capitalist in Iowa, dragged him
from bis buggy, and released him upon
his signing a check Tor 81 600.
Bangor, Me, is thoroughly tired of
prohibition Republicans and Demo
crats have joined hands and started the
bali to rolling for license campaign.
A coach-Ioad Of fifteen seminary girls
rolled down twenty-foot embankment
a. Fredericksburg, Pa, June 18th. Sew
eral were seriously injured, hut none IA
tally
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are using every effort 10 defeat the
proposition OF Postmaster-General Wan
amaker to establish a postal telegraph
system.
The Order OF Railway Telesraphers Of
of New York have added an amendment
to their bylaws providing for the expul-
sion OF any member using his influence
in creating strikes
Professor Campbell will in the near
futute make a trip over the Niagara Falls
in his air ship The balloon that Is to
float the ship will be filed with gas from
u natural well near there.
Two little children. while asleep on a
Georgia railroad track, were run over by
train The entire train passed over
the younger without injuring il, but cut
off tlle leg of the older one.
Rev. j. C A Grumbine, the hest
known Unitarian clergyman i'm Missouri.
is advocating the indulgence in sunday
sports He claims that they tend To
keep people from the saloons.
An eminent physician OF Philadelphia
claims that the widespread discussion
about the prevalence and treatment Of
hydrophobia has rad an effect to pro-
mote the symptoms Of the disease.
Millionaire Mackey has brought suit
+ against Cassius H. Reed and Edward :.
Z Stokes for the sum of S352 ,597, money
) loaned them to furnish the worli-famed
i barroom of the Hoffman House, y. Y.
Major A. 4. Sears of Portland Or, has
organized an II glish syndicate with a
capital oi quarter million dollars, that
will at once begin the project OF putting
I 5O0.001 acres OF land under irrigation in
Peru.
\ Snowman raised, among others, a
/ Confederate flag, in the town of New
4 Cumberland. W Va riot was pre-
vented only bv the decisive action of the
authorities i'll having the flag taken
down.
The Ohio Prohibition State Conven.
tion adopted, June 10Th. platform de
manding Congress to pass "a prohibition
law. an arbitration law to settle labor
disputes, tariff for revenue only and Z
free coinage OF silver.
Big census frauds are coming 10 tht
surface in Minneapolis. Seven enumer
ators were arrested on the 18th, charged
with swelling the totals. An ambition
to out-count their rival city, st. Paul
caused the crooked work.
A trio of Italians, including one MAJ
and two women, who arrived in New
York June 18th, We're soon after arrest
ed, for exchanging bogus Italian note
for our money. They belong TO a noto
rious counterfeiting gang.
The Edmunds Confiscation bill passe,
the Senate June 2lst. 1t calls for tin
confiscation OF the properly of the Polyg
amist Church, the same TO be devoted {
the use and benefit of the common
schools OF Utah Territory.
While a work train on the Milwaukee
road had been deserted ut railroa
boarding house, a tramp entered the ca
of the locomotive, opened the throttl
and pulled out. An engine was sent i
pursuit, finding the train seven mile
distant, abandoned.
3 At Greensburg, Pa, DIR. w. J. Har
mer, "a popular dentist, had disput
: with his wife. She called in her farhe
4 as peace-nlaker, when the doctor knocke
: him down with Il cane. Mrs. Hanme
6 Sc zed revolver and shot her husband
3 inflieting a fatal wound.
4 The wife OF Ratcliffe, the wounde
Texas-Paciiic train robber, who die
June 22nd, has furnished the authorize
a full statement OF the recent sensations
1 robbery. She states that persons now
Q jail, Detective Williams, Napoleon Nj,
: Daniel and John Browley, with hr hu
n band, committed the robbery. McDal
Y iel went through the express car, viii
) Browley and Williams stood guart
3 Radcliffe did the shooting which disable
: the express agent with Williams VIII
= chester, and Mcdaniel shot Ratclif
t through mistake, supposing in the darl
! ness that the trainmen had armed then
! selves and were determined TO resis
The woman did not in any way count
nance or encourage the robbery but ",
forced to silence.
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