The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-17
UNITED STATES.

The Arkansas legislature asks for
the election OF United States senators
by direct popular vote.
Spreckels is reported to have gone
into the sugar trust, which Will keep
up the price and pocket the bounty
All the directors of the New York
Central railroad, including Chauncey
Depew, have been indicted for heat
ing cars with stoves, contrary to 1aw,
which stoves caused a fire and loss of
life in a case of a railroad wreck.
The striking clothing cutters, trim-
mers and foremen of Rochester have
| savAra@ heir connection with the
knights of Labor and many of them
have gone back to work.
italian laborers on railroad at
Alton, w. Va, murdt red Section Boss
A. b. McCauley because he said the
Malta members were served right in
the New Orleans lynching. They then
stripped his body and dragged it over
the ground until it was torn in pieces.
A double-barreled shotgun was fired
into a schoolhouse near Liberty,
| Miss, March %, while the building
was full of colored teachers and pupils
at an exhibition, and fourteen persons
We're wounded. There is no clew TO
the would-be murderer.
DR.. f. 81. Moleskey has been driven
from the town of Freedom, ILL.,, by a
mob of women who became convinced
that he was quack and had been
treating them with nothing but bread
pills.
Mrs. A. W. Clifford, a wealthy woman
of st. Louis, who was cured of a
nervous disorder by the faith cure and
then went to preaching and practicing
the cure, has gone insane.
Tho honlyhnHn nf tho VnIionn h,,;IJ
ing trades troubles has been broken.
The General Contractors Association
and Carpenters Union arrived at a
compromise. The agreement pro-
vides for a permanent arbitration
committee. eight hours for days
work, overtime at time and a half,
and Sunday and holiday work at
double time. The carpenters agree
to work with non-union men in the
other trades.
A saloon at Bloomville, O., was
pulled down and the liquor destroyed.
The saloon man, Miller by name, got
a new stock and opened again, when
he and his barkeeper were assaulted
by crowd of citizens and given an
hour to leave town.
The Cramp shipbuilding firm has
bought the I. Z. Morris iron works,
one of the largest in the country, ad-
joining the shipyard.
A counterfeit So silver certificate is
out in which, for the first time, the
governments silk thread in the paper
is almost perfectly initiated. The
government has stopped printing 50
certificates until it can get plates en-
graved for a new design, varying
from the counterfeited one.
John Broderick, New York letter
carrier, cut his throat March 81, hay-
ing gone insane from the excessive
use of cigarettes.
Texas fever is raging among stock
in Missouri.
The grip is raging in Chicago.
William Brown, a striking steel
mill hand at Chester, Pa, was killed
while engaged with others in an at
tack on non-union workmen April 1.
Nineteen italian immigrants were
refused landing at New York April
8 under the new law. Some were dis
eased and others were paupers.
The discovery of mutiIated body
in trunk at New York has been ex-
planned by the confession of a Span
lard named Gonzales that at San Jose.
Guatemala, he lured Carlos Santi-
banez, a rich banker, to his house
and, with the aid of his mistress and
another Spaniard, murdered the
banker, robbed him and shipped the
body to New York.