The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16
The Coal Product Of the
United States.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS
Arrangements Complete for the Poly
technic Excursion TO the
Worlds Fair.

The Twin City (Minneapolis) Athletic
Club has assigned.
1t is said Canada intends to reimpose
an export duty on logs.
Ohio this year produces the largest to-
bacco crop in her history.
A cooking school is a part Of the pub
lic-school system OF Milwaukee.
The validity Of the convict lease sys-
TEN in Tennessee is to be decided BY the
courts,
Turkeys flag has been the first to be
unfurled on the Chicago Worlds Fair
grounds.
The waters Of Lake Erie are TO be
piped to Cincinnati, taking in many
other cities en- route.
Most OF the fires in Wisconsin were
confined to districts burned over last
spring. The rains have checked them.
A factory is to be built Mt Minneapolis
by parties who claim to be able to tenn
per copper SO that it can be made hard
as steel.
The Millionaires' Club OF New York
will erect a $750, ,000 house. The proposed
site is ON the corner OF Fifth avenue and
Sixtieth street.
The people in Emmons county, N. d.
who lost their property by prairie fires
are said to be in deplorable condition
without food or shelter. Y
Since the passage Of the American
copyright law 1t is said that one New
York song publisher has paid $4,000 in
London for manuscripts.
France, tits believed, win next month
rescind the pork prohibition laws Italy
promises to rescind her prohibitory reg
ulations after France acts.
1t is stated that the government has
realized $6,000,000 from the sale Of lands
in that part Of Kansas which il beyond
the line Of certain rainfall,
In the Red River Valley, N. d, farm
labor is very scarce, and the railroads in
that section carry men free to various
points where they are needed.
The large yield and high pricsof wheat
will, it is estimated and expected. make
this seasons Dakota crop equal in value
to those Of the 6vepreceding years.
a railroad surveying party that went
up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado
nearly two months ago has not been
heard from, and there are fears that the
members have been lost.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establish
ment Of branch photographic office on
the lakes to look out for the vast mari
time interests centered there.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 0. O.
E f., has voted down the proposition that
members could become eligible to the
degree Of Patriarchs Militant without
going through the encampment.
Georgia is going to tax bachelors. A
bill for that purpose has been brought
into the Georgia Legislature, and the
House Committee on Hygiene and Sani-
tation has reported it favorably.
An extra session Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature has been called with view
to remove the Auditor General and State
Treasurer, whose connection with the
financial scandals has been charged
openly.
The Sovereign Grand Ledge OF Odd
Fellows has voted against the eighteen
year limit to eligibility to Join the order.
The vote WAS l07 to 58. The question
regarding liquor sellers was postponed
until next year.
mi drunken fight on a train from
Mount Vernon to Carmi, Ill. William
Robertson stabbed Sheriff Williams
slightly, and man named Stanley, who
went to Williams assistance, was badly
cut and will die.
The conductors, switchmen and brake
men on the Southern Pacific Atlantic
system have demanded an increase in
wages, and strike at an early day il
possible, as the company refuses to ac-
cede to the demands.
Florida's Secretary0f State, Mr.. Craw.
ford, refuses to attest the commission Of
ex-Congressman Davidson, appointed by
Ex-Governor Fleming to succeed Senator
Call. Mandamus proceedings will be
taken by the Governor.
Asecret organization is terrorizing the
people in the neighborhood Of Tellville,
Ark. II is composed Of "moral regu-
latora," but they are brutal in their
treatment Of those who come under the
ban Of their displeasure.
A committee Of physicians at Louis
lville is examining the caseof Mrs. Stuck
enburg, who, 1t has been widely pub
lished, on Fridays goes into a trance,
when the stigmata or bleeding wounds
similar to those Of the Savior when on
the cross are said to appear.
AT the Gravesend race track at New
York an ingenious trick, by means ol
which the bookmakers got news Of the
races, was discovered. A coachman =
with big hat was arrested in the field
for carriages, and 1t was found battery
was in the hat and small wires around
the mans body, while in the rear Of the
carriage WAS an operator who sent mes