The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-02
Skeletons Of Prehistoric
People Found.
SUICIDE MANIA OF AGN0STICS
Chicago Will Have to Modify the Plans
Made for the Worlds Fair
Buildings, Etc.

Minneapolis has no desire to consoli,
date with st. Paul.
Carloads OF diseased Chicago cattle
have been seized at Buffalo.
The Grady monument will be unveiled
at Atlanta, Ga, October 81.
There is something over S5, 900 natives
OF Switzerland in and around New York.
9. p. Huntington is to complete the
Middle and East Tennessee railroad
within sixty days.
A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one Of the latest
schemes In Connecticut.
The house at Appomattcx, Va, in
which General Lee surrendered to Gen.
eral Grant has been sold for $4,000.
Canada has sent but 10000 sheep to
Great Britain during the year Just ended,
as compared with $4,000 for the year be-
fore.
4 A landlords association has been
formed in Boston for the purpose OF mu-
tual protection against objectionable ten
ants.
The organ in the music room of the
residence of the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searle at Great Darlington, Mass, cost
100000.
So great is the homeward rush of
American tourists that many OF them
are unable to find passage on returning
steamers.
1t is said that the smuggling of Chi
nese into this country has been recently
accelerated by the price having risen to
500 per head.
Cleveland has passed law reducing
the price OF gas to go cents per | 1000 feet
and giving the city ali option on the gas
works at any time.
Judgments aggregating $l4, ,026 against
Alexander Hermann, the magician, have
just been entered in the County Clerks
office at New York.
The trade and commerce OF Charles
ton, S. G., last year amounted to $685..
BOD, ,7lS, met increase OF $l7, ,935 ,00l over
the preceding year.
Thomas Delany Of Albany. aged 10,
thought nothing Of smoking five or six
packages Of cigarettes aday. His funeral
took place the other day.
Judgments aggregating $l5O,OOO have
been filed against Adam Backer, the
commercial note broker of New York,
who assigned August 3 last.
Counsel for Joseph A. Davidson Of
New York has obtained an attachment
against the Mexican National Railway
Company upon claim for $l05,9O0.
Oklahoma is hardly year old as a
Territory, and yet we are told that the
question Of admitting it tC Statehood
will come before Congress this winter.
Chicago Odd Fellows are to erect a
thirty-four-story building. The structure
from ground to dome will be $50 feet
and it is to be completed by the fall Of
1892.
According to statistics gathered BY
charitable organizations throughout the
country there are 3,000, 900 people wholly
OR partly dependent upon charity every
year in the United States.
Two thousand men, mostly French
Canadians, employed in the saw mills at
Ottawa have struck for a reduction Of
one and half hours work per day and
an increase Of 30 cents in wages per
week.
A mound containing skeletons Of pre-
historic people has been discovered on a
farm near Carthage, I'll. The skeletons
lay In al conceivable positions, and are
supposed to be those Of warriors who fell
in battle.
Chicago will have to modify the plans
made for the Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds or face serious financial diff |
Guilty. The estimated cost Of getting the
show ready TO open is $l8,00O,0O0. This
is too much, even though the govern
ment should be induced to contribute
outright.
Congress at it's last session authorized
the recoinage Of the uncurrent fractional
coin now in the treasury abraded below
the limit OF tolerance, and made an an
Of sl50,O00 to cover the Joss
to the coin by the abrasion. This sum
II is estimated, will cover the loss on
about $4,000, 900 Of coin, and this amount
Is now being coined into quarter dollars
and dimes, for which there is very
Jreat demand. The recoinage into stand. Il
ara silver dollars Of the $1,000, 900 trade
iollars bullion, which the last Congress
authorized, is also in progress. Ii
Senor Celso Balsar Mareno, well.
Inown Italian American residing al
Washington and acting as an agent in
ms country Of the National party Of Ha- I
vail, corresponding to the Ghilian Con- !
'resslonalists, has laid before the Presi- I
lent a letter he recently received from a
correspondent in Honolulu, asserting \
England is now planning to take posses. q
ION Of the kingdom. The writer said i
hat some action on the part Of Tie d
lnited States is necessary; that the
lueen is favorable TO British interests !,
nd Is ready to countenance the move /,
hen made. The President was inter ! !,
sted by the letter, and asked Senior Ma 4 !,
1ll0 IN communicates .,.tL Co.. /