The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-03
General News.
UNITED STATES.

The next congress will have a
majority for free coinage large enough
to override a veto If one is interposed
/ 1t is feared that the Sioux, angered
at the snubbing of their delegates in
Washington and the failure TO carry
out the promises made when they sur
rendered last winter, will go on the
war path as soon as the grass is green,
and that they will be joined by all the
other tribes in the northwest
| A tenement house occupied by ten
families in New York was burned
March Is and four occupants perished
with it. 1t was five stories high and
when the fire was discovered the fire
escapes were so hot they could not be
used
Frank Waters, a New Orleans re-
porter, got drunk March IS and began
abusing the lynchers and the pros
ecutors of the Malta members and
picked a quarrel on the street with
Arthur Dunn, one of the counsel for
the state, in which Waters was shot
dead and Dunn probably fatally
wounded.
In the case of Mrs Inez McCabe,
who killed Judge Mat Stein at Piedras
Negras, Mexico, for insulting her and
escaped from Jail after being sem
fenced to the penitentiary, United
States Judge Maxey of Corpus Christi
has decided that under the treaty
with Mexico neither country is bound
to extradite its own citizens on the
demand of the other
The village of Highland, N. Y, has
been destroyed by fire.
Three mon were killed by a snow
slide at the Eureka mine, on Treasury
mountain, Colorado. March II.
The Union Pacific has compromised
with the telegraphers.
The government refuses to run any |
more gold into bars for exporters.
The Lehigh Valley railroad COM
pany refuses TO obey the order of the
interstate commerce commission to |
reduce freight on coal 80 cents a ton |
and says its charter from Pennsyl- |
vania fixes the limit The case will |
go into court.
Rev Howard MeQueary OF the
Episcopal church at Canton, O., has
been found guilty of heresy.
Dennis Cramer of Chicago lost a
suit in court March 16 and then
hunted up three of the witnesses he
had depended upon and who had
failed to appear and shot them, wound
ing two dangerously.
Louis Avery of San Francisco ad-
vertised in a Philadelphia paper for a
wife and has married Miss Lottie
a belle of Hammonton, n J.,
rs a result.
Lawrence Barrett is dead
Three children have died of diph-
iberia under faith-cure treatment at
Dubuque, Ia, medical aid being re-
used by the parents, and there is
intense excitement The faith-curers,
'wo old women, have fed the city.
Anderson, Churchill & Co.'s lace
i. sTn l
moved from Nottingham to the United ,
states
Secretary of War Proctor is expected !
o resign by July 1. L
Joseph Perrien, wealthy bachelor !
Il Detroit, was kidnapped by masked
men, blindfolded and carried off in a | :
oupe TO a house where he was held a
prisoner day and a night. He was
to sign check for $15, goo,
'ut the kidnapers failed TO realize {
n it and he was released. 4
The Malta is still busy sending =
kull-and-erossbone notices in New
srleans but its letters cause little
error.
The salt trust has fizzled.
Missouri has made it crime, pun a
5hable by fine of 800 a day, for any t
to belong to trust which | S
as in view the regulation of prices. +
The president has sent a eommuni- r
alton to Germany which is believed =
D be notice that if American pork
e not at once admitted to Germany
ur ports will be practically closed to
herman imports.
Eight hundred cloth capmakers are =,
n strike in New York.
A large oleomargarine factory at n
rovidence, r. l., has been seized for "
hipping unstamped packages in RI
iolation of the federal revenue law. q