The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
General News.
UNITED STATES

Napoleon of Finance Ives is out
of Jail and active in Wall street again.
The barbed-wire trust is complete.
Constitutional prohibition has been
indefinitely postponed in the Mime
sofa Legislature.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Ok, says .
At the county election the Farmers
Alliance ticket was successful, but the
Republican office-hoaders, claiming
the election TO have been held without
authority, refused to give up their
offices. The farmers set up indepen-
dent offices, and broke into the old
county offices, opened the safes and
vaults with crowbars and sledgeham-
mers, and took possession of the
books and began business.
Dave Seville killed Mart Majesty in
a prizcfight at Jacksonville, o., Feb. 25.
John l.. Sullivan talked abusively to
a train hand at Augusta, Ga, Feb. "a,
and the railroader knocked the slog-
ger down and BACKED his eyes and
beat him until bystanders interfered.
G. L. George and his bride were
dragged from their bed at Clear Lake,
Ia, Feb. "a, their wedding night, by
White Caps and George was driven
from town. He was a well-known
business man and no cause for the
outrage is known except the opposi-
ton OF the brides family TO the mar
riage.
Oliver Reilly, in charge of the rail-
road coal chute at Salida, Col, at
tempted to drive away a coal thief
Feb. % and Conductor Sullivan inter
fered in favor of the thief, when Reilly
shot Sullivan dead. A mob gathered
IQnfIfx~ hs
make any explanation.
James Dougherty, Mary Anderson's
crazy admirer, has gone to prison for
life for killing DR.. Lloyd in the Flat
bush { N. " insane asylum.
Edna, o., was nearly destroyed by
fire Feb. %.
The Kansas legislature has reduced
passenger rates to AZ cents a mile.
w. j. Elliott of the the Sunday Cap
itol, Cincinnati, and A. G. Osborne of
the Sunday World of the same city did
some editorial work with revoivers
Feb. "a and Osborne and bystander
named w. l.. Hughes were shot dead,
a brother of Elliott was shot through
the arm and back and four others
were wounded.
The Pullman car rcompany's finishers
dI elh lAiNlCciot III
wages and struck. The company re-
duced wages and sought other help.
Five men were taken out of the
GAINESVILLE Pa mine alive Feb. 23,
eighteen days after the explosion. A
hundred and twenty dead bodies had
been recovered up to that time.
The house refuses to appropriate
50, ,000, 900 to pay judgments and debts
fNf no n
railroads on the ground that the rail-
roads will not be able to pay their
debt to the government when it falls
due. The senate passed bill to pay
the money.
In western Pennsylvania 26, 900 en-
ployes of coke and iron works are on
strike.
A line of steamers has been estab-
lished to run from Baltimore to Brazil.
Six persons were burned in fire
that destroyed a Brooklyn tenement
house, occupied by thirty-two families,
Feb. 81.
Rev. J. G. Reed, pastor of the first
Baptist church at Grand Island, Neb.
has left his wife and children and
eloped with Miss Lottie Zediker.
Resubmission of the prohibitory
clause in the constitution of Kansas
has been defeated in the legislature.
The Republicans and Democrats voted
for it but the Farmers Alliance beat
them both.
The typefounders of the country
have formed combine.
A snowslide at the Bullion King
mine, near Irwin, Col, Feb. 26, de-
stroyed two houses and killed five
npoole