The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-23
Goaat nrrus.
CALIFORNIA.

Hanford wants a new county to lie
formed out of parts OF Tulare and Fresno
counties.
The residence of ]. X. Lynch at Ala
media was gutted by fire Jan. IL and
Anna kunfe.mann, a domestic, perished
in it,
Assemblyman Young has introduced a
bill providing line of from 500 TO $1,000
for selling liquor TO persons under. 10 or
soLANo COUNTY.
John Mckenzie fell dead on the street
at Vallejo Jan. 6. He worked In the
navy-yard.
Natural gas has been found on the
ranch of James Hunter, three miles from
Vallejo.
Vacaville voted to incorporate but the
supervisors threw out the entire vote on
technical grounds.
AMADoR COUNTY.
The prison directors fear that the
waste way of the dam for the 800, 900, 600
gallon reservoir for the school of industry
at lone is too small. The bursting of
the dam would be great calamity TO
the country below.
BUTTE COUNTY.
William Leonard, an old miner, fell
over a thirty-foot embankment near
Thompson's Flat and broke his shoulder
blade.
Manuel King, a teamster, had three of
his ribs broken, his shoulder dislocated
and his body otherwise bruised in run
away accident near Ofoviile.
Lew Jones, miner, while travelling
along county road Jumped over ditch
ard landed on the concealed mouth Of
on old mining shaft. The earth gave
way and Jones was ,precipitated to the
uninjured, but considerably shaken up.
cALAvERAs COUNTY.
Judge Lindsay's son fatally stabbed
Constable George Carson at Angels, Jan. s.
The rope broke in the Utica mine shaft
Jan. 5 as the cage was going down with
nine men and they were all killed in the
fall which resulted.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.
An explosion in the California powder
works at Pinole, Jan. s, destroyed one Of
the buildings, killed a Chinaman and
probably fatally injured Fred Larsen and
l. G. Campbell.
FRESNO COUNTY.
Charles Schillman confesses that j. Z.
Williams gave him and Fred Miller $500
to burn an undertaking shop at Fresno
which was well insured. All three are
under Indictment and arrest.
Los ANGELES COUNTY.
The saloonkeepers are fighting the
Sunday-cloSing ordinance, claiming that
it is unconstitutional.
Alexander Campbell, foreman of the
Southern Pacific roundhouse at Los
Angeles, was run over by an engine Jan.
10 and probably fatally crushed.
Frank a. Vaudeville tried to kill Mrs.
Millie Shaw at Los Angeles Jan. be-
IA hi In
failed, and then he shot himself dead.
Martin Reagan, who was badly beaten
by Frank Glencross in a quarrel about
Glencross' stock trespassing on Reagan's
land near Downey, has died and Glen
cross has been held for manslaughter.
soNoMA COUNTY.
Frank Sargent has been arrested at
Santa Rosa, charged with embezzlement.
The acreage of grain is larger than
ever before and the prospects are ex-
cellent.
MERGED COUNTY.
Albert Whistler was killed by the burst
ing of his gun while hunting near Mer-
ced Jan. 8.
Mrs. Perry Mcdowell was shot and
killed at Cottonwood Jan. 9. L. +. Hale
was arrested. The assassin fired through
the window of a house where Mrs. Nc
Dowell was visiting.
MONO COUNTY.
James townsend of the Homer Index
was imprisoned in a mining tunnel by a
snowslide and was dug out again after
three days.
NAPA COUNTY.
Burglars blew open A. HATS safe at
Napa Jan. 10 and got S25.
James Flamant, Lee HarraIl and Bert
Blanchard, Napa boys. have pleaded
guilty to arson. Sentence was suspended
and they were sent to the Boys and
Girls Aid society in San Francisco.
NEVADA COUNTY.
The Grass Valley mines shut down
Jan. 10, the bitches that supply them
with water power having frozen up.
PLACER COUNTY.
Emma Wiley, a seven-year-old girl Of
Auburn, whf1e recovering ftom the diph-
liberia was afr ted witt lot - eoagus
lated blood ne OF the
left leg. 0rtjfie
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