The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-01
General News.
UNITED STATES.

The rope carrying a car in the shaft
of the Philadelphia colliery at Potts
vile, Pa, broke April Is while the
cage was coming up with nine men
the frs landing and the others fell
3Oe feet. All got broken arms and
legs, but, strange to say, four are ex-
pected TO recover.
Stanley has gone to England.
Three small sons of Thomas Munco,
residing near Washington, found a
partly empty nitro -glyeerine can April
II and threw stones at it. One of the
stones struck the can and then there
was only one boy there and he was
dying. The others were scattered
over four townships
The governments case against the
whisky trust, accused of hiring a man
to blow up the Shufeldt independent
distillery with dynamite, is growing
remarkably strong.
Spotted fever is raging at Mesquite,
Tex.
T. Martin, ex-president of the Dover
{ n. H. Shoe company, has been ar
rested on a charge of embeZzling
stock to the amount of $50, 900 from
Adolph Meyers & Co. of Boston.
DIR. Pides, one of the most prom
inent physicians of Wheeling, W. Va,
and Tay lor Foreman, superintendent
of the county poor farm, have been
arrested on warrant charging them
with grave robbery.
Upon the recommendation of the
civil service commissioners President
Harrison has ordered the classifica-
ton, under the civil service, of the
school superintendents, their assist
ants, school teachers, physicians and
Raatrons in the Indian service.
The report of a combination of the
sugar trust, the Independent refineries
and the wholesale grocers' associa-
ton Of the middle and eastern states
to control prices is confirmed.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr, has gone
to South Dakota to acquire residence
and secure a divorce, after which, it is
New York, who attended her through
her late illness. Her husband has
gone to Europe to avoid an appearance
in the divorce court.
N. P. Shafer's office at Scran ion,
Pa, caught fire several times in differ
ent parts of the room recently with no
apparent cause. Investigation by a
chemist showed tLat liquid had been
spilled about the room which, when a
certain point in evaporation is
reached, blazes.
E. T. Young eloped from Kentucky
with F. G. Cash 9 wife. Cash got a
divorce and then followed them, over
took them in Texas and shot Young
dead. He was tried for murder and
acquitted April IL and he and Mrs.
C..sh were remarked the same day.
Silas Slaughter, horse thief, de-
serted his wife and moved from Par
kersburg, W. Va, into Calhoun
county, and changed his name. to
Walker four years ago. Recently he
applied for pension giving, of course,
his right name, and this has led to
his arrest.
United States Treasurer Huston has
resigned and Enos Fl. Nebecker has
been appointed to succeed him.
The Indians in Colorado and New
Mexico have lost many thousand
cattle, horses and sheep through
severe weather.
Eben Touriee is dead.
Constable Green, who was search
ing for evidence against violators of
the liquor law in Burlington, Ia,
April 13, was set upon by twenty or
thirty of the lawbreakers and beaten
almost % jelly.
The Farmers Alliance is almost
certain to run a presidential ticket
next year. Judge Greshen is talked
%.
A crazy woman in the poorhouse at
Birmingham, AL, set fire to itApril
13 and it was burned with one bed
ridden inmate in it.
Adam Itzel, musical director of the
McCaull opera company, arrived at
Chicago April II, got into a hack clad
only in his underclothes, drove to the
Leland hotel, sent for blanket and,
clad in this, entered the hotel. His
clothing had been stolen on the train
from Baltimore while he was asleep.
A party of boys returning from Sun
day school at Pittsburg, Pa, April II,
stole can of giant powder from a
factory, built a fire and burned it to
see the fun. Michael O'Toole and
Edward Caldwell, aged about II, were
killed, and none of them saw any fun
in it.
A cyclone destroyed the courthouse
at Hansford, Tex, April II, killing
two men and injuring another, and
wrecked the little town of Paludona,
Oklahoma.