The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-10
UNITED STATES

Banker Kean of Chicago has been
indicted for fraud.
Boston has cremation society.
Lucius Robinson, ex-governor of
New York, is dead.
President Harrison's retaliation for
the exclusion of American pork from
Germany is expected to take the
shape of the exclusion from America
of German beet sugar, of which
SIC, 600, 600 worth was imborted last
year.
Clifford Bartlett, a prominent New
York attorney, has secured Montana
divorce without his wife's knowledge
and has run away with the widow of
Banker Myers of Brunswick, N j.,
who has fortune of IS, ,000,0 600
The wool hat trust collapsed.
The ST. Louis city hospital is full of
smallpox patients.
Miss Emma Bingaman of Kokomo,
Ind, and May Chrisurum of South
Charleston, O., were taken with fits
of sneezing after the grip and sneeZed
themselves to death.
Thomas Watt of San Francisco be-
came chloroform drunkard through
using the drug to get relief from pain
in the head which resulted from a
kick in the head. Finding the habit
New York March %.
The circuit court at Omaha has de
eided that in refusing other com
panies the use of the bridge there the
Union Pacific has forfeited the 81 sc, 900
bonds voted by the city.
Liquor dealers having claimed that
the federal retail liquor license author
lied them to sell liquor where local
laws prohibited its sale, the acting
secretary of the treasury has changed
the form of the license into that of
receipt for the tax levied on the bus
mess and issued a circular stating
that the United States does not license
the violation of local prohibitory or
restrictive laws.
General Joseph e. Johnston is dead.
A practical joker, Charles Button,
stated in an italian barber shop in
Chicago March % that he was MEM
ber of the New Orleans lynching party
and the Italians dubbed him to death.
Assistant Superintendent Van Fleet
of the Santa Fe road is reported to
have said there were no ladies in
Temple, Tex, and white caps there
fiogged a detective of the company
within an inch of his life and drove
him and and Van Fleet from town.
The union carpenters and the en-
ploying carpenters of Chicago have
signed an agreement fixing wages at
35 cents an hour for eight hours, price
and one-half for overtime and double
price for Sunday work for two years,
beginning April 13.
Robert WiIlink was killed in prize
fight at Savannah, Ga, March 81.
The Workingmen's Cooperative
society has been formed at Chicago.
The first stores opened will be for the
10 Of ~
it is intended to extend them to other
branches as the growth of the society
may warrant.
Hannah Dennis shot and instantly
killed her brother-in-law, Manuel
Dennis, at Suspension, AL, March 81,
while he was attempting to force an
entrance into her house under dis
guise. He was attempting only to
brighten her.
Harrison has issued his usual an
nual Behring sea proclamation.
The Indiana law which allows en-
ployes to collect for overtime il they
work more than ten hours without a
special agreement has been sustained
at Indianapolis and the case will be
appealed to the supreme court.
Cap Hatfield announces that the
Hatfield-McCoyf feud in Wayne county
W. Va, which has lasted thirty years
and cost 200 lives, is at an end.
The Delaware house has passed a
bill to set vagrants and tramps at
work. for sixty days at breaking stone
on the streets every time they are
arrested.
The local option bill was defeated
in the New Hampshire house. The
state has a strict prohibitory law.
The Maine house has passed bill
proyidinp for a 5000 fine for intimida-
ton or force to prevent any person
from entering or remaining in an
others employ.
Tom Hunter (colored) ambushed,
shot and killed J A. Burke at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, March 25, and
was lynched for it.
Howard Crosby is dead.