The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-04
Mexico Will Make a Big
Exhibit at Chicago.
1000, ,0OONEW VOTERSIN 1892
Arizona VIII Ask to Be Admitted Into
the Union as a State at Next
Session Of Congress.

Chinese immigration is being solicited
by Mexico.
Alligators have appeared in the Mis-
souri, river.
Mexico will have $2,0O0,O0 exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
There will be eighty-flve buffaloes in
the Worlds Fair 200.
Kansas papers speak Of the corn crop
as practically assured.
There are to be SS7 polling places in
New York city this year.
The agricultural building for the
Worlds Fair will cost sSU0,000.
A million Young men will cast their
first vote for President next year.
At the next session of Congress Ari-
zona will ask for admission as State.
Complete census returns give Iowa a
population Of l,9l1 1896, gain Of 2S7 ,2Sl
since 1880.
The irrepressible George Francis Train
proposes tour around the world in forty
days by party Of 1000 persons.
Connellsville, Pa, will drop natural
gas and use coal for fuel. The gas is
nearly all exhausted, and rates are high.
1t is reported that 900 acres Of land in
Cape May county, Nd, have been pur-
chased on which to colonize Russian
Jews.
A German doctor, advertising in New
York an Institution OF European staff
Physicians" has been prosecuted for
fraud.
Senator Warren thinks the United
States should cede the arid lands under
proper restrictions to the States and Ter
ritories.
Bellew is furious about the report OF
his alleged marriage to Mrs. Potter. He
says she cleared 100000 on her Austral-
ian tour.
An advance of 10 cents per ton on an
thracite coal has been ordered from Sep
tember at New York by the producing
companies.
There are more boats now running on
the Missouri river than at any time dur
ing the last ten years, and every one OF
them is making money.
More than 5000 clerks, salespeople,
teamsters, porters, janitOrs and other
wage earners are out of work because OF
the recent big fire in Chicago.
The drought in the Lower Rio Grande
has put all the ranchmen in debt, and
the great scarcity Of money is causing
the sacrifice OF cattle and sheep.
According to the recently published
statistics there is one pauper to every
643 inhabitants in this country and one
to every thirty-eight in England.
James Phelan Of San Francisco has
sold the historic Stevens House, q to 27
Broadway, New York, to W. I'll. Mairs OF
Brooklyn for 81 ,O00,0 ,000-partly in cash
and partly in Harlem property.
An estimate received by the Bureau Of
American Republics places the value Of
wool which will be available for ship
inent to Europe in October and Novem-
ber for the Argentine Republic at $780,
0O0,0 600.
Charles S. Wolfe, who was elected
Executive Commissioner Of the Worlds
Fair by the Pennsylvania State Commits
sioners, dropped dead within an hour
and half after his election from heart
disease.
The new chinch-bug remedy by inocu-
lation discovered in Kansas has been
tried with apparent successin in Wisconsin,
some Of the imported infected insects
causing the death Of millions Of the bugs
in wheat field.
One Of the little bands Of Russian He
brew refugees sent out from New York
to homes in the country by the trustees
of the Baron Hirsch fund complain that
they are starving and have been swim
died and abused.
The employees Of the Union Pacific
having entered into contract previous
to the passage Of the eight-hour law in
Nebraska and the contract still being in
force, they are not taking part in the
struggle TO enforce the law.
There has been great deal Of exag-
geration regarding the dismissal Of vet
Grams from the New York Customs
house. Out Of eighty-three employees
dismissed only sixteen were veterans,
and Of these three have already been re-
instated.
Postofiice Inspector Stuart at Chicago
is in receipt Of many letters which show
that the National Capital Savings, Build
ing and Loan Association was even a
greater swindle than at first supposed.
Victims are being heard from all over
the country.
Owen Murphy, former Tammany Of
fetal, who stole $4,000 Of the funds Of
New York city and fled to Canada in
1877, turns up as one Of the principals
in the corrupt dealings that have been
brought to light by Legislative commit
tee at Ottawa.
Amos Howard Fiske Of South Franz
ingham, Mass, has been appointed chief
engineer Of the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University. Otto Willweber, late man
ager Of the Southern Pacific restaurant
at Sacramento, has been appointed stew