The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-13
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UNITED STATES.

ingalls, Tor federal senator from Kan
J sas and elected William A. Pfeffer.
Several buildings at Bluefield, W.
Va, have recently been destroyed
with dynamite and a reign OF terror
exists.
8. A. Bradford of Wilkinson county,
Miss, having been acquitted on trial
for train robbery the people of the
lcounty held mass meeting and
adopted resolutions that he shall be
put to death IL he shows his face in
the county again except in obedience
TO an order OF court.
The Democratic legislature OF Mil
Taukee has repealed the law requiring
children to be instructed in the En-
glish language in school.
Tom Hetlund and Charles Thomp-
son, ranchers, have been arrested for
extensive cattle stealing practiced on
Bad river, 5. D., and heretofore at
tributed to Indians.
O. III. HoIlingsworth, late receiver
in the land office at Austin, Tex. is
$12 900 short in his cash.
The supreme court has reversed the
decision of the court Of claims which
gave the Central Pacific Judgment for
S19S, OBI against the government, and
has decided that in estimating net
earnings under the Thurman act
money spent for improvements must
not be deducted from the gross earn
| ings.
Kentueky's anti-lottery law has been
declared void because IL specified GER
tain lotteries and prohibited them
without prohibiting others OF the same
class.
Texas has prohibited prize fights.
4 - n
OF Armourss and Morris butchers and
sheep-shearers at Chicago Jan. 26 was
fizzle, only about sixty men going
out. Their places were quickly filed
At Milwaukee Jan. 26 Freddy Hack
brath and August Preise. aged I2.
while skating were seized by three
older boys who said they wanted TO
make niggers out OF thefn," and
held their faces over a log fire until
they were horribly burned. The boys
will be disfigured for life
Harris A. Smiler, wife murderer.
was electroeuted in New York Jan. 26.
Whether he liked it or not, he was a
Smiler to the last.
| The Nebraska house has passed a
resolution asking for the foreclosure
OF the governments mortgage on the
Union Pacific
Frank Patterson stopped Miss NJ.
E. Wilmount on the street in Chicago
Jan. "a and tried to snatch her purse,
containing $50. but she grabbed the
purse with one hand and his hair with
the other and called for the police.
He tore away from her, but she held
his hair 50 firmly that she tore OF a
large peice OF his scalp and he was
traced half mile by the blood that
dEipped from his wound and arrested.
The United States takes 2s. 900 bales
Of wool from Australia this year.
G. Perry Bryan, widely known as
g the youngest soldier of the rebel
lion, and Henry Hart have been ar
rested at Chicago for selling a large
number of parcels of land which they
did not own. Bryan was exposed by
a widow of St Paul whom he promised
to marry but who found when she
followed him to Chicago that he
already had wife and children.
Miss Sarah Little ofSaginaw, Mich,
set her clothes on fire and was fright
fully burned. Her sister Louise al
lowed eleven strips of skin each one
inch wide and seven inches long to be
taken from her body and grated
upon Sarah's, and both are doing well.
The town of Mitchell, Ind, a lawless
lplace, has been changed to peaceful
community by. a crusade of women.
Many saloons, which were formerly
very. prosperous, are now doing no
business.
I. A. Mann of Omaha became en-
ragged at COW and tied her and sawed
i her legs of. Then he had to fly to
ESCAPE being lynehed.
| Secretary of the Treasury William
Window dropped dead from heart dis
ease in New York Jan. 20 just aftel
delivering speech at a banquet oi
the board OF trade and transportation.
Dave Cronin, with several aliases
who was with Jimmy Hope and Bige.
low when they were caught in the act
of breaking into the safe in Sather
Co. IS bank in San Francisco, but who
ESCAPED then. is in limbo in New York
a The national. Farmers Alliance re
ports the prospective wheat crop to bt
10,000,O 900 bushels less than shown By
the government report.