The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11
La Grippe in the New
England States.
KANSAS FARMERS ALLIANCE
The Amountof Silver Held on Storage
blythe Government-Pugil-
istlc Women.

and boulevards
Rainmaker Ellis is writing his report
to Secretary Rusk.
The grip is making great headway in
New England, especially in Connecticut,
Colored men are excluded from the
Choctaw nation by legislative enactment.
! The Economic Gas Company has been
enjoined from piping gus into Chicago,
A solid vestibuIe train will shortly he
put on between Cincinnati and Jackson
willie, Fla.
The initiation fee OF the New York
Musical Progressive Union has been
raised to $40.
The Vanderbilt lines are arranging for
through excursions from New York to
San Francisco.
A Florida paper says that the State ie
filing up with winter visitors at the rate
OF 1000 week.
John d. Rockefeller has virtually re-
tired from the Presidency Of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
Chicago is going to try the experiment
OF hauling some OF it's street cars with
steam locomotives.
The estimated value OF church prop
erty in Philadelphia exempted from tax
alton Ia $20,0O0,O00.
The Supreme Court OF the District OF
Columbia has decided that the civil
service act is constitutional.
Washington negroes are MOI even safe
in their graves. Ghouls tried to steal
Julia Scott's remains for college.
The cordage trust hopes to secure a
complete monopoly by buying the pat
ents upon all rope-making machinery.
The membership OF the Farmers Ali
anee in Kansas is said to have declined
from l40 900 last year to60 900 this year.
Wolves are rapidly increasing in the
sparsely-settled portions OF Kansas, and
threaten the lives Of the isolated farm
ers.
A remnant Of Big Foot's band Of In
diane under Red Cloud is in revolt
against the authority of the agent at
Cheyenne.
United States Treasurer Nebecker re-
ports that the total debt OF the District
Of Columbia on September 80 last was
1913, 400.
The Dubuque Street Railway Company
declares alter teat OF the storage bat
terry electrician equipment that the
scheme is a failure.
Secretary Tracy is expected to adyo-
cate change in our treaty with Great
Britain, 80 that naval vessels may be
built at yards on the lakes.
They are agitating the question Of re-
moving the capital Of Minnesota from
st. Paul. The western part OF the State
is ambitious for the honor.
The amount Of silver now held on
storage by the government would make
column one foot in diameter and six
and one-half miles in height.
The drop-letter service on the electric
road between st. Paul and Minneapolis
is very popular. The boxes are placed
within easy reach on the side Of the car.
Great opposition Is manifested by 3D.
mirers Of the late Oliver p. Morton OF
Indiana to the proposed removal Of his
statue in indianapolis from Circle park
to the State House grounds.
The government proposes to build an
other timber dock in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, the accommodations Of the
othpr Two docks being insufficient. Ills
to be about 800 feet In length.
1t Ii proposed by A number Of citizens
Of Maine to establish an asylum in North
Conway, N. H., at which drnnkards and
opium flends will be treated with the
Keeley bichloride Of gold system.
The foar churches at Chatham, N. J.,
the Parochial School connected with the
Catholic Church and the one public
school in the town are ciosed Indefinitely
because Of the prevalence Of diphtheria.
Hattie Leslie, the champion female
pugilist Of the world" and Gussie Free
man fought four rounds in theater at
Williamsburg, N. Y. The fight was SO.
we're. Miss Freeman was frightfully bat
tered,
In Arkansas IL has been shown during
an investigation that penitentiary pris-
oners were frequently branded with o
red-hot iron. All the Federal prisoners
have been ordered to the Columbus l0.)
penitentiary because Of this treatment Of
convicts.
Heavy losses we're 0ccasioned on the
the Chicago Board Of Trade by an al
legged dispatch from United States Min
ister Smith in Russia, saying that d
ukase had been signed referring TO the
prohibition Of wheat exports. Thelc
we're mAde In the rush to cover.
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