The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-16
0rnrral nrruB.
General spinner Is dead.
Canada wants TO buy Alaska.
Kinglaka the historian is dead

Canada wants to buy Alaska.
Kinglake the historian Is dead.
Augusta, Ca. had 100000 fire Dec 81
An express train was robbed OF $1,000
at Abba, Ia., Jan. i.
M. A. Dauphin, president OF the Louis
lana lottery company, Is dead.
The consolidation OF the harvester COM
panles lets out 10000 employees.
Most OF the western Pennsylvania coal
miners have gone out on strike.
Cattle coming into Vermont from Can
ada are quarantined at st. Adams
The striking coal miners In Alabama
are suffering and appealing for aid.
The combined steel producers have re-
duced prices and wages 10 per cent.
Blind Tom " has become pauper and
an idiot and is dying OF consumption.
The national window-glass trust Is
complete and prices will soon be adj
vaneed.
The Illinois steel works at Chicago
closed down Jan. 1, throwing 1870 men
out OF work.
The Missouri Farmers Alliance 10 form
ing cooperative factory to run against
the harvester combine.
There were but twenty-five more fall
ures In 1890 than in 1883, but the liabilities
were S4l, go greater.
Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago have
taken the Mckinley act into court 10
test its constitutionality-
A severe drouth prevails over large
section OF the wheat-producing states on
the upper Mississippi valley.
Scott fhompson's seven children at
Bay Creek, N. O., were burned TO death
in his house while he was at church.
Samuel Kerns was repairing a roof Ia
philadelphia Dec. 80 when he grasped an
electric light wire and was instantly
killed.
Henry Lutz, 81 years old, has beea
arrested ut Bethlehem. Pa, for murder
ing whole family In Germany thirty
years ago.
The Fifth-avenue theater in New York
mas been burned. together with Her
inann's theater and the rest OF the block
Loss s590.000.
James West, schoolteaeher, was frozen
10 death in Lincoln county, w. Va.
while on his way 70 his home to spend
new years day.
John ]. Reed has been sent to the PEN
itentlary Tor seven years for tampering
with the switches on the New York Gem
tral railroad during the strike
DIR. Blake White has a consumption
cure in use in New York that Is said 20
oe affecting patients in the Charity hos
pital as Koch's cure does in Berlin.
The first conviction for renting house
tOk 444llOl6A pQI DOS8c III NEW 1OfK &C.
cured Dec. 81. 1t was secured by the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty TO
Children.
The Minnesota Farmers Alliance in
dorseS the Conger lard bill, condemned
by the national alliance. and Ignores the
sub-treasury measure adopted by the
national body.
pipe works and the Charlotte furnace
and coke works have shut down, throw
ing ID0J men out OF work, and the Friek
coke company has closed 1900 ovens.
White Caps at Mipdietown, \. Y. seized
Roswell Nernoy wnlle he was visiting a
young lady the other ev' ming. bound
him and carried him of. leaving him Ia
snow bank, where he would have
frozen to death had he not been acct
dentaliy discovered.
Extensive robberies OF the mails have
been complained of In New York and
Brooklyn and George Huttlemaier, Is
years old, has been arrested in Brooklyn
with stolen letters containing paper
WOr h 500, 600 in his pockets He had
stolen it from letter boxes.
John Corbert. Frank Bennett and
Henry Featherstone locked the assistan;
cashier OF the Merchants Exchange
bank, in Chicago, into the safe ae noon
Dec. y and went on with $3.50 in money
and some deeds and mortgages, but tfley
| were pursued and captured.
| Thomas Labelle, the king of opium
smugglers. has been discovered driving
| q laundry wagon in Tacoma and arrested
on Jeffersonviile, Ind, indictment He
is wealthy and has been in hiding two
years, since he escaped from officers By
jumping through a car window in Mich.
i igan.
Hungarian strikers. go strong, attacked
leo men who had refused TO strike at the
Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad
4 dnRk PQ Ia md
fatally, injured four men and inflicted
smaller injuries on dozen Others The
loo workmen finally drove the 200 striker.
| from the works.