The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-24
The Total Coinage Of the
Minis During June,
ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN.
A United States Judge Renders a De-
oision Adverse to the Cherokee
Title to the Strip.

closed in New York.
Boston policemen now carry their
clubs in their pockets,
"A pearl-button factory has begun ope-
rations at Muscatine, la.
The total coinage Of the mints during
June amounted to "a, 1853, $1,000.
Prof. LIE Baron Russell Briggs has as
sumed his duties at Harvard College.
Illinois has passed law prohibiting
the employment OF children under Is.
Chicago talks of erecting theater
into which only people in full dress can
go.
Sidewalk distractions promise to be
made the subject OF vigorous fight at
Chicago.
A company to establish labyrinths as
a form Of amusement is to be formed in
the East.
The constitutionality OF Missouri's
new snti-pool-room law is to be tested at
st. Louis.
A new association in Kansas is ar
ranging to fight foreclosures OF farm
mortgages.
Allotment OF lands to the Iowa Indi-
ans in Oklahoma Territory has been
completed.
There is no truth in the rumor that
yellow fever has made its appearance at
Brunswick, Ga.
Chicago is to have another electric
railway, and one OF its present suburban
lines is to be extended.
Railroad building for the first half Of
1891 falls slightly short Of that for the
corresponding period Of 1890.
According to the last census Alabama
has taken Pesnsylvania's place MS leader
in the annual output Of iron ore.
Hurrah for the new flag with forty
four stars, each star the symbol Of peace,
prosperity and liberty among u self-gov-
erning people.
The opposition papers in Canada say
that President Van Horne Of the Cana
dian Pacific is practically the ruler Of
the Dominion.
The officials OF the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central railroad a mo-
nopoly OF carrying people to the Expo
sition grounds.
BY decision Of the Supreme Court Of
Texas the State will recover title to over
6,000,000 acres Of land improperly pat
ented to railroad companies.
The gas company Of Cincinnati has
constructed the second largest gas holder
in the United States. II has a capacity
OF 1900, ,0U0 cubic feet Of gas.
The annual report oi the Eastern Pen
itentiary Of Pennsylvania shows that
last year sixty-eight criminals sent to
that institution had relatives there.
The consolidated coal mines in the
Collinsville coal district Of Illinois have
closed down, and between 300 and 400
miners are thrown out Of employment.
The finding OF lump Of metal sup
posed to be gold on the farm OF John A.
Wright near Bumsyille, Ind, has caused
considerable excitement in the neighbor-
hood.
In Difference to the prohibitionists oI
Maine the government has ordered that
liquor seized in the State for violation Of
the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos-
ton for sale.
1t will cost 81, ,478, ,5i7 to run the city
Of Brooklyn during 1892. This is at the
rate Of $ll for every man, woman and
child in the city. The rate in San Fran
cisco is over SIS.
Extensive deposits OF onyx have been
discovered near Marion, Smyth county,
Va. -Four openings are reported to have
been made so far. The stone is said to
be Of excellent quality,
United States District Judge seay has
rendered a decision adverse to the Cher.
okee title OF the Strip, which, il eventu.
ally sustained, virtually extinguishes all
rights OF the Cherokees to those lands.
Negro exhibitors are to have 25,00(
square feet Of space at the Southern Ex.
position coon to open at Raleigh, N. G..
in which to make manifest somewhat Of
the races progress during the last TWEEN.
ty-fve years.
1t is stated upon good authority, and
il is currently believed in naval circles
at Washington, that Secretary Tracy
will soon apply civil-service rules also tf
the mechanics; in short, to all persont
employed in the navy yards.
The big dam on the Houaatonic river
in Connecticut, which was swept ava,
by freshet in January last, is being re
placed by a new structure $50 feet long
% feet high and slightly curved in plan
The cost will be about $780, ,000
The Bank Of Commerce Of Sheffield
Ala, has closed its doors, having as
signed. The failure was caused by that
of Moses Bros bank in Montgomery
the two institutions being closely allied
Assets and liabilities are unknown.
The bill passed by Congress provides
that the buildings erected at Chicago
for the Worlds Columbian Exposition
shall be formally dedicated October u
1892, and that the exposition itself shal
lbe opened not later than May |, 1893.