The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-19
FRIDAY, JUNE 10. 1891.
General News.
UNITED STATES.

The Nicaragua canal is being pushed
by 400 men and a dredger.
John A. Mcdonald is dead
Lebel, inventor of the rifle which
bears his name, Is dead.
John and Henry Won Bremen were
killed by their brother Jake in quar-
rel near Waterville June 8.
The attempt to prohibit, on the
ground of fraud, the sending through
the mails of paper which spiritualfst
Albro of Boston was selling as ssmag-
netized paper which developed spirit
ualistic power in the believer" failed.
The United States court commissioner
held that as Albro's customers be-
1ieved they had got what they paid
for the charge of fraud would not hold.
/. Charles Dunham, who a year and a
lhalf ago constituted the Dunham
Equipment company in New York,
dealt in railroad patents and was
worth $50, 900, drank his property all
away and died in an inebriate asylum
June 2.
The Peoples party has put ticket
in the field in Iowa.
The police raided the rooms of the
Alpha Delta Phi club at Harvard
June 2 and seized beer, brandies.
champagnes, whiskies and wines
Mayor Shakespeare of New Orlaaas
received an Internal machine through
the mail the other day, but it failed to
explode when opened and he escaped
death.
The largest number of immigrants
ever landed at New York in one day
was $3.50, June 2.
All the oatmeal mills of the country
have been gobbled up by trust.
Valentine Beck's house near Beaver
City, Neb., was burned June l with
boy of and a girl of in it while Beck
and his wife were absent.
The Bath iron works of Bath, Me-,
got the contract for cruiser 13 for
81, 500, 900. The Union iron works of
San Francisco bid $2,793, 900 and the
Cramps s2,745,0O0.
Massachusetts, has repealed the law
compelling persons drinking at
saloons to do SO only while sitting at
tables.
Arthur N. Sayles, clerk in the dead
letter Office at Washington, has been
arrested for robbing letters which
passed through his hands.
Young's hotel and the Parker house,
two of the best-known hotels of Bos-
ton, have announced that on account
of the riotous conduct of Harvard
students, no Harvard men are wanted
at those houses.
The Michigan Women's Christian
Temperance Union repledges its in
huence to the political party which
shall, by its platform, demand the
abolition of the liquor traffic, and
urges vigorous efforts in pushing the
woman franchise question and exhort-
ing women to closely follow legisla-
tive proceedings and statutes relating
to schools, and to avail themselves OF
every opportunity to vote at the
school elections.
Sawtelle, convicted of the murder of
his brother in New Hampshire, who
has always insisted that he did not
commit the crime, confesseS that his
brother was killed in his presence.
Three steers bitten by mad dog in
Atchison county, Kas., bit three Van
derburg brothers, all of whom have
died of hydrophebia.
Archbishop Corrigan interprets the
pope's latest encyclical letter as con-
demning the single-tax proposition.
A tiger escaped from a lnenagerie
couple of years ago in Fulton county,
ILL.,, and is now killing horses and
cattle for the farmers, who occasion
ally hunt it but run when they see it.
A large number of Chinese birds
were brought over on the bark Coloma
to be turned loose in the woods.
The imported European songbirds
are multiplying fast. A man has been
arrested near McMinnville for shoot
ing skylarks.