The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-12
General News.
UNITED STATES.

Several persons were killed in riot
at circus at Mahanoy City, Pa,
May 27.
Miss Laura Bonhominee of Ovens
boro, KY, escaped from her fathers
house and eloped to Indiana with a
Mr.. Jones, where they were married.
Her father swore out a warrant for
her arrest, charging her with perjury,
AID the governor made a requisition
on Governor Hovey of Indiana for
her, but Hovey refused to surrender
her.
The rubber trust has collapsed.
Rev. George Vancil, who converted
and started in the ministry Jeremiah
counterfeit money at Duquoin, ILL.,,
has been arrested for the same crime
VaneiPs convert had led him, too,
astray.
Mary Anderson says she will not re-
turn to the stage.
Miss Jennie Webb, school teacher
at Pontiac, Mich, has been arrested
for fogging boy pupil so as to cause
his death.
A colored man named Baldwin,
feeling that he had been slighted at
Vreth's hotel, Boston, on account of
his color, took colored reporter with
Among the things they ordered were
pudding and glass of milk The
pudding was salted and the milk was
watered They took samples away
with them and gave them to the health
inspector and the hotel man has been
fined $50 for selling diluted milk.
1t has been discovered that the
Louisiana law against jury bribing
has no penal clause and the bribers Of
the Haffa ityy-x- will facaana
Harry Tracy killed James Burns
with foul blow in a prize fight at
Lynn, Mass, and is under arrest for
manslaughter.
Enemies of David Glickman drew
over his head a bag soaked in coal oil
as he was going home in Chicago the
other night and set fire TO it. He and
friend who helped remove it were
frightfully burned and Glieklnan may
never see again.
Lawrence Dryer drove off band OF
White Caps who broke his door down
at Waterville, Wis, by firing a shot
gun into the crowd, but unfortunately
he failed to kill any of them.
The New York Society of Friends
| discussed the liquor question and the
men voted to prohibit the use of in
4 toxieants by members, while the
women voted to refer the question to
their discipline committee, which will
confer with like committee from the
men.
Judge Patterson of the New YORK
supreme court has just handed down
an important decision in which he
holds that an illegitimate child car
inherit its mothers property regard
less of will executed before its birth
and adRlitted to probate
The Harvard students have painted
the marble statute of John Harvard
red again.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue has issued another circular OF
the federal liquor license question
closing with the words: "Once fol
all, this office wishes it understood
that the government does not license
liquor selling of whatever description
and only puts a yearly tax on liquor
sellers, and does not seek to interfere
in prohibition districts.
Leonie Burthe was offered $1,000 t,
get on the jury that tried the Mafi;
murderers in New Orleans and secur'
their acquittal. He refused it ant
after the lynching was given $1,000 t
leave the city and not testify in tn
bribery cases, but he was arrested a
st. Louis and taken back.
Barnum's body is to be cremated
1t was buried first, but grave robber
have been after it.
A large tract of land is to be bough
| near Harrison, N. J., and fifty cot
tages built for needy Jewish refugees
and il this experiment is a success
200 or 800 more cottages will be bull
from the Baron Hirsch fund.