The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-18
JACK DEMPSEY, THE SLoGGER
The Amount Of Wheat America Has
Shipped to Europe in the
Last Two Months.

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A An epidemic Of diphtheria is raging
in Belleville, Ill.
Illinois offers bounty Of 2 cents for
each English sparrow head.
II The First National Bank Of Damaris.
Gotta, Me-, has resumed business.
A girl at BRENNAN, Tex, was found to
be alive after having been placed in a
coffin.
1t is reported that the old town OF
Alexandria, Va, has boom and is
growing.
A new herring fishing bank has been
discovered off the west coast OF New
found and.
Two large freight houses are to be
erected at st. Louis, with capacity OF
| 100 cars at time.
Minneapolis is already estimating the
work necessary TO take care OF next
June's convention.
Iowa farmers who experimental with
sugar beets the past season are enthusi-
astic over the results.
The Vanderbilt lines propose to run
tourist sleeping cars through from New
York to San Francisco.
4 The Island OF Nassau will be connected
with the coast Of Florida by cable about
tine middle of January.
AT least sixteen men have been killed
thus far in the work OF drilling the new
tunnel at Niagara Falls.
Evidence is accumulating that New
York has been heavily swindIed in the
erection OF school buildings.
4 The sufferers by the great Boston fire
nineteen years ago who still survive
were paid 1850 during the past year,
!. The next Republican National Com
vention will be composed Of S9S dele
gates, or 800 in case Alaska is repre-
sented.
WI Sullivan, who recently resigned
the editorship OF the Chicago Evening
Journal on account Of i'll health, has
been appointed United States Consul at
| Bermuda.
David I. Beals, the Kansas City
banker, has recovered his child, which
was stolen, on paying 5000 reward for
its recovery.
In Kansas during the past FIVE months
and half there has been net reduc-
tion IN the farm-mortgage Indebtedness
Of $2,S00,0 ,000.
The survey Of the United States au-
thorities from Atlantic City to Cape May
has established an inland channel for
torpedo boats.
Commodore Melville OF the steam en-
| gineering bureau recommends that the
number OF engineer officers should be
increased to 800
| Reciprocity with the United States is
growing so strongly in public favor in
Canada that many OF the Tory papers
now advocate it.
| The State Of Massachusetts has de-
cided to give financial and other aid to
l03 Of its towns that they may secure
free public libraries.
America has shipped S7,000,000 bush
els Of wheat 10 Europe in the last two
months, and has received about 1856 ,000,-
900 in gold in return.
Jack Dempsey, the slogger, is being
treated by physicians for incipient con-
sumption. He is in New York, and his
condition is quite serious.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Conference Of Charities and Cor
rections decided to hold the next annual
meeting in Denver on June n.
BY the decision Of the Supreme Court
Of New York in the Ogden will case the
University OF Chicago loses 100000.
The decision may be reversed by the
Court Of Appeals.
The beet-sugar industry in Nebraska
has proven so successful and profitable
that Omaha is preparing to put up a
large sugar factory and have 1t ready for
operation next season.
The blue book Of New York shows
more bachelors than married men in the
ranks OF blue blood and money. Mar
riage is decried as too expensive by the
members Of fashionable clubs.
The order Of Confederate soldiers
known as the United Confederate Vet
Grams, General John B. Gordon COM
manding, with headquarters at New Or
leans, Is to extend its organization.
/ General ]. H. Rice, the father Of the
AllianeG arty in Kansas, has grown
-'ar,." Of the practices Of vat organ
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