The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-30
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UNITED STATES.

The Birmingham tAl.) miners strike
The senate has passed the free eoluage
bill.
The people OF Sherman county, Kan.
are starving for want OF food and freez-
Ing for want OF fuel. Crops have failed
for five years.
Mrs. Rachel Stlllwagon died at Flush
Ing. N. u, Jan. II, aged i05.
! A trust Is being formed to control all
the anthracite coal mines and raise prices
George M. bartholomew. brother-In-
law OF Cyrus w. Field, who embezzled
over 81 900, 900 while president OF the
Charter Oak life insurance company and
He'd 10 Canada six years ago has re-
turfed 10 Hartford, pleaded guilty and
gore To the .penltentiary for a year. He
ls "A years old and very feeble.
The barbed-wlre trust Is In perfect
working condition.
Emma Abbott's will! provides for her
parents aud relatives but leaves nearly
y, COO 600 TO charitable institutions.
The owner OF she seized British seal
ing schooner w. 2. Sayward has taken
the question of United States Jurisdiction
over Behring sea into the United tates
supreme court. That court Is likely to
dlsclaim Jurisdiction.
The rubber trust IL reorganIzIng TO
buy all the rubber In the world.
The North Carolina senate lndorses
the financial reform platform OF the
Farmers Alliance.
Professor Abbott of Johns Hopkins
university has been experimenting with
koehs lymph and Gays IL Is sure cure
for lupus, beneficial I'm consumption IL
taken In the early stages, doubtful In
tuberculosis In the intestines and of
benefit IN surgical treatment of tuber-
culosls.
The ii-month-old baby of Oscam NJ
Surries OF Baltimore was left alone I'm
the sewing room a few days ago. How
much II swallowed Is not known, but
physician and several emeties recovered
eighteen pins, four needles, eight taeks,
seven wads OF paper, two wads of mus
lin, eight china buttons, one vest button.
four pearl buttons, one shoe button, one
piece OF bark, FIVE pieces OF cork one
piece Of leather, one piece OF match, enc
shank OF button, one brass pants but
ton, six pieces OF chips and one piece of
wrapped cotton.
Branch mlnts at Omaha and Boise City
are proposed.
The leading oatmeal companies have
formed combine.
Miss Hattie Mcpherson OF Beaver. Pa.
40 years old, kept her bed for several
months thinking her right side was par
alyzed, but the house caught fire on the
evening OF Jan. 10 and she got up and
ran for the theater where her parents
The Polish ST. Stainslaus society of
Mount Carmel, Pa, refused To pay $500 sick
benefits TO the widow of a member be-
cause they We're refused admittance to
the church at his funeral when they re-
fused TO remove their regaliA at the door
Judge Kearney OF Shamokin summoned
them In suit to recover the money,
and they responded, 200 strong, with
ilags and banners aud brass band, and
drove him from the courtroom
Edward II. Horner. agent in the United
States for indemnity bonds OF Austria
Hungary and other foreign countries has
been arrested In New York for sending
lottery circulars through the malls, the
bonds being nothing but lottery tickets.
He has been doing larger business than
the Louisiana lottery ever did.
Dougherty, Mary Anderson's lover and
prosecutor, who escaped from the insane
asylum at Flatbush and, returning, shot
superintendent Lloyd, has been convicted
OF murder In the second degree, with a
recommendation TO the mercy OF the
court.
At split Rock quarry. on Lake Cham
plain, runaway ear on the tramway
crashed into a group of persons, killing
two sons of Superintendent Robertson,
the engineer and one quarryman, and
fatally injuring two quarrymen.
At Bells, Tex, Jan. IA. George Smith
with a revolver robbed seven men In
saloon OF their money and then killed
the town marshal, who fired at him. He
was arrested.
Commander ReiLer has been notified
by the secretary OF the navy that his
case has been definately disposed OF and
that he cannot have trial by naval
court.
The sugar bounty applies to sugar
produced after July 1.
The Indians came into the Pine Ridge
agency from the Bad Lands and sur
rendered, but they had hidden the greater
part Of their guns.
George Bancroft the historian is dead.