The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-05
UNITED STATES.

livery mouse on sugar Island, near
Sault ste. Marie has been DESTROYED
by forest fire. The Inhabitants es-
capped in boats.
The village of Amherst, Wis. has
been destroyed by a forest fire.
Eleven italian laborers were caught
IN caving sewer at Providence, r. L.
May l9, and four were killed
A quantity ofdynamite exploded on
work train two miles from Tarry-
town, N. Y, May 10, killing eighteen
men and badly iniuring fifteen and
completely destroying the train.
Window glass fell in showers on the
SIDEWALKS at Tarrytown and many
houses were cracked.
Judge Botkin has been tried by the
Kansas Senate for intemperance and
profanity and acquitted.
The Supreme Court OF New York
has decided that George Fl. Munson.
who left his wife and lived in CaIifor,
mia and got divorce on the ground
OF desertion without her knowledge.
is still her husband and is living in
adultery with his second wife and
that "the courts of one state cannot
usurp jurisdiction of the person of a
citizen of another [the defendant
without the actual presence in that
state OF the defendant and personal
service of process on such party or
appearance in the aetion''
An officious Boston policeman
named Mcguire arrested a man and
his wife for kissing in public. The
Judge of the municipal court dis
charged them May %, declaring that
they had committed no crime
Rev. Jeremiah Holmes of Duauoin.
Ill, has been arrested for counter
letting. He says his salary was too
small and he made bogus dollars and
haf-dollars to exc it out
Alfonso Taft is dead. He was a
Judge in Vermont, his native state,
and secretary of war and attorney
general of the United States and
minister to Austria at different pe-
RODS He died at San Diego May 81.
Detective Dominick O'Malley, who
was accused of bribing the Malta Jury
in New Orleans, has been arrested for
opening letters belonging to Jimmy
Carroll, the pugilist
Illinois has prohibited the owing by
mine owners of stores where their
employees buy supplies.
Vice-President Newton of the Des
Moines and Kansas City railroad has
been indicted for padding the mails
during the period when they were
weighed to determine the price the
road should be paid for carrying them
Iof the year. He Is accused of mail
ing great quantities of old news
papers back and forth during the
weighing period.
The boycott against New York lum-
Der dealers was failure.
The Pennsylvania coke strike is
petering out.
All the tin-plate manufacturing
companies have formed trust.
The forty-eight shingle mills in the
trust have shut down to raise prices.
Count Kalnoky of Austria fought a
duel with swords with l.. s. Rand at
Chicago, May "a, and was badly
wounded. An actress was the cause
of the quarrel.
The deputies who fired upon riotous
strikers at Morewood, Pa. have been
tried and acquitted.
The striking coal miners in Illinois
have returned to work.
The circuit court of Kansas CITY,
Mo-, has rendered a decision which,
il sustained, will close every liquor
saloon in the city.
The liquor law violators of Mason
City, Ia, have notified the Judge and
states attorney that their homes will
be burned il they enforce the law.