The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-22
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Louisiana Farmers Alliance
Denounces the Lottery.
The Governor Of New Mexico Wants
United States Troops to Sup
press White Caps.

The Pennsylvania crops win be far be-
low the average.
The drought will almost depopnlate
certain portions of Kansas.
1t is said that the lottery crowd is GER
tainly on top in North Dakota again.
John w. Mackay has been elected a
Director in the Canadian Pacific railway.
The net debt OF Pennsylvania in 1880
was sic, ,94o, ass, and in 1890 it is 81 1885,
026.
Kansas City, Kan, has population
of 3S, 10, an increase in ten years OF 2S,-
SD.
The Governor of New Mexico wants
| United States troops TO suppress the
White Caps.
Careful estimates of the growing or
ange crop in Florida place it at 2,0OO, 900
boxes, or about the same as last year.
The wheat crop of the Dakotas and
Minnesota is estimated at 100. 600, 900
bushels, one of the largest ever har-
vested.
| Pinkeye has appeared among cattle in
the vicinity of Kirkwood, ILL.,, caused by
the unusually dry pastures and scarcity
of water.
A war of ice dealers is threatened IN
Baltimore by the announcement that
the Saloonkeepers' Association will sell
ice at 55 cents per 100 pounds.
The Louisiana Farmers Alliance de
nounees the lottery. and is negotiating
with members of Congress and eandi-
dates TO support its principles.
Cattle in large numbers are dying in
the vicinity of Shullsburg, Wis. 1t is
thought they are poisoned by drinking
water drained from lead mines.
The two new battle ships designed in
I the Navy Department agree closely with
the 10, ,000-ton battle ships which France
/ has determined to build for its heaviest
/ line.
Missouri is now the only State or Ter
/ ritorv in the United States where gov
ernment lands may be taken up at pri-
vate entry or purchased outright AT 81 %
an acre.
The total estimated cost of the United
States Postal Service at present is $685.
! 700, 900. The net revenue is $56, 600, ,0O0
/ leaving the cost of the service So, 750, 900
more than the income.
| Philadelphia's population is reported
per cent since 1890. In the decade be-
/ fore that the growth of the city was at
the rate OF 2515 per cent.
/ The Florida Central and Peninsula
railroad now awards a premium of SO
I TO each of its engineers running sched-
ule trains who get through the month
without killing any cattle.
The National Bar Association, at its
meeting at indianapolis last week, deci-
ded to recommend to the State Legisla-
lures the adoption of uniform law on
wills in the different States.
Blair, in behalf of a majority of the
members of the Woman's Suffrage Com
/ mittee, has reported favorably a pro-
posed constitutional amendment to give
women the right of suffrage.
Cyrus w. Field has sold to Charles
Henry Butler 700 acres of his magnifi-
cent Ardsley Park at Dobbs' Ferry, n.
Y. The consideration is said to be in
the neighborhood of 81 100000.
/ Hereafter in Canada cigar boxes must
be destroyed as soon as emptied, the
same as in the United States. Dealers
are kicking, but il is the order of the
| Commissioners of Internal Revenue and
will no doubt be obeyed.
+ 1ncTc Is SOiuG III w hdSt1lllSiOh 10
/ the effect that President Harrison con-
/ templates sending a special message to
/ the Senate, in which he will point out
/ the importance of passing the Federal
Election bill this session.
There are three elevated railroads in
| Brooklyn, and they have applied to
Judge Bartlett of the Supreme Court for
writs of certiorari to review the action
of the Board of Assessors in fixing the
taxable value of their property.
General Sir Frederick Middleton leaves
Ottawa for England this week. Regard
ing his forced resignation from the COM
mand of the Canadian militia, he states
that he had been sacrificed by the gov
ernment to save the French vote.
The visible supply of grain, as COM
piled at the New York Produce Ex-
change is: Wheat-IS, ,49O, ,492 bushels,
which is an increrse of l ,l72, ,SI3 bushels
eorn-I ,121 ,032, go bushels; decrease
of 5,712. $50 bushels; oats-2, ,25e, ,7I3
4 bushels, a decrease of 271, ,104 bushels
barley-372 $50 bushels, a decrease of
81 ,437 bushels.
Superintendent Porter expects the
work of counting the population of the
country to be completed before the end
of the present month, and Congress, if
it so desires, can proceed to pass an APP
portionment bill and so determine how
many members shall constitute the next
| House. The population of the country
is estimated at 64,000,000.
The Senate Committee on Appropria-
tions has completed consideration of the
general deficiency appropriation bill and
reported it to the Senate with number
of amendments, which, with one excep-
ton, do not largely increase the total OF
| the bill as it came from the House. This
exception is the provision for the pay
ment for French spoliation claims aggre-
eating $1,239,6SS.
The struggle that has existed at Ur-
bana, o., for the past year and a half
over the issuing of bonds for natural gas
purposes is ended. The City Council
has passed an ordinance to issue $685.
600 for that purpose. The work of pip
ing from Mercer county has been let at
a cost of $221 900, to be completed by
November 10. There is general satisfac-
tion expressed by the people.
All the amendments to the river and
harbor bill affecting the Northwest have
been agreed to by the Senate. Among
them were numerous surveys of naviga-
| BILE streams in the new States, particu-
larly South Dakota and Washington. A
change was made in the extent to which
work is to be carried on on the Missouri
and in Montana by substituting Fort
Benton for Great Falls, which was made
the upper end of operations according TO
the first draft of the amendment. Since
the bill passed the House a good deal OF
argument has been made to individual
men on the need of these Northwestern