The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-31
OrnrraI nrrua.
Rtna is in eruption.
w. W. Belknap is dead.


Bismarck is making butter at Varzin.
Supreme Justice Sumuel Miller Is dead.
Stephen j. Field is home from Europe.
Edison says he win make an electric
air ship.
The London dock strike was ended by
q compromise.
Excavation for the Nicaragua canal
| began Oct. 16.
Three tin-plate factories are promised
near Pittsburg.
In the Charleroi district, Bilgium. 5000
miners have struck.
The health OF the prince OF Wales is
such as to cause alarm.
The abolition OF titles OF nobility is
being sgitated in France.
The Christians in Armenia are still
being harried by the Turks.
DIR. Koch has given up experimenting
| in the treatment OF consumption.
Canon Farrar has been made chaplain
Of the British house of commons.
The population OF Pennsylvania is
| :, PAS. .594, an increase OF % per cent.
4 Philip Briggs of Salt Lake committed
suicide on a train at Kelton, New, Oct. L..
| An English syndicate Is buying up the
/ best woolen mills in the United States.
The Perseverance cotton mill at Bolton,
England. with $4,000 spindles. burned
Oct. 10.
The play The CIemeneeau Case was
suppressed by the Boston authorities as
immoral.
The clear profits Of the Pullman car
company In the year just ended were
/ 3, SOS, 100.
Joseph Pulitzer is almost totally blind
and has retired from the management of
the New York World.
| The failure OF the Cape OF Good Hope
/ bank was so bad { at the shareholders
will have TO pay S150 a share.
! Lucky Baldwin predicts that next sea-
son, with a straight track at Monmouth
park. horses will trot mile in two min
utes.
with the United States and revocation
OF the law of mercantile relations with
/ Spain.
The British South African company
has traded with the king of Mutaca for
the territory OF Manica, which Portugal
claims.
Policeman Thomas Madden shot and
killed policeman Albert Jung in Chicago
Oct. Is, as the result OF a long-standing
feud.
The Leland hotel at Syracuse, y. Y.
was burned Oct. IS. causing the loss Of
twenty-five lives and Sa5o,000 worth Of
property.
The chief and several members of the
Denver police force have been indicted
for maltreating prisoners TO extort con-
] fessions-
The parliament Of Holland has declared
the king unfit 10 reign by reason OF his
illness. The popular impression Is that
he is insane.
= Bordeaux policeman named Porque-
ret, who had forced his 1s-year-old
daughter into unnatural relations, was
shot dead by her Oct. IA.
The Greek patriarchate has ordered
all the churches in Turkey closed until
further notice as a protest against the
| porte's action toward the church.
- The Tennessee Methodist Episconel
conference has suspended Rev: d. G.
Kelly for six months for running for
governor on the prohibition ticket.
The Farmers Alliance has bought fifty
acres at Kansas City and will establish
stoekyards where cattle will be marketed
Independently OF commission men.
The Montreal chamber OF commerce
asks for a duty of cents q dozen on
eggs of which 100000 dozen were inn
ported from the United States last year.
James Morrisey poured coal oil on his
sleeping brother Joseph and burned him
TO death while both were drunk on their
fam, six miles from Kingston, \. Y.
Oct. IS.
j. G. Van Dyke killed viii Long at
Winfield, Kas, and was arrested and
taken TO Grenoia, where Longs brother
Sol met him at the depot and shot him
dead.
The German government proposes TO
build workingmen's houses costing $1,000
each in North Berlin and sell them for
S75 down and the rest in installments OF
81 25 a week.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has sold to
Germany for 100000 marks his sover-
eigl nights over that portion of the east
African coast leased by the German East
African company.
The use of the German language on
shop signs or in public schools sch S.il IN the
hibited and the stipends OF Lutheran
ministers Withdrawn.
The Iowa women's Christian Temper
ance Union has withdrawn from the ma
tional Organization by a vote of 3l5 to
68. The sixty-eight delegates will form
an Iowa union on the third-party basis.
The federal circuit court in Kansas
and state court in Iowa have decided
that the congressional original package
act can apply only in states which pass
prohibitory laws after the passage OF that
act.
Dillon and O'Brien escaped in yacht
to France, on their way to dill their lee
turing engagement in America, after
which they will return to take their SEN
tence.
Two st. Joseph men named Fishabaugh
and Emerson were found dead in a box
Ear at Cheyenne Sept. q. Now 14-year-
old Charles Miller confesses that he was
stealing ride with them and killed them
for their money.
A workman was entering a railroad
tunnel thirty miles west of Leadville Oct.
Ia with box OF giant powder when he
accidentally hit 1t against the wall and
it exploded, blowing him and seven other
men to kingdom come.
Several passengers on an east-bound
Missouri Pacific train were robbed by
three men as the train was pulling out
OF Kansas City Oct. Is. A passenger then
drew revolver and drove them from
the cars.
Elder Cudney, an Advent missionary
| to the Pitcairn islands, is missing, and
| Elder E. II. Gates has started in ves-
the Pitcairn TO try to learn whether he
was shipwrecked or eaten by cannibalS.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, president of the
| New York Central railroad company, was
one of the most loudly applauded speak
| ers ut the annual meeting of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers at Pittsburg Oct. l6.
Britain negotiated a treaty with Port
ugal under which she was to have con-
troll of the Zambezi river. The people of
| Portugal protested against its ratifca-
out waiting for ratification Britain sent
| gunboatS up the river, and there is great
excitement in Portugal.
Gilbert Bell left his wife and five chill
dren in Delaware county, Ind, fourteen
years ago to seek his fortune. He re-
rich, and found that four of his children
were dead and his wife, hearing he was
dead had married again and was bring
| ing up second family.
Rev. A. H. Durant, assisted by Rich
ard Campbell, killed Primus Jones at