The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-09
@rurraI nrrus.
Mrs. O'Shea is in Paris.
DR.. Sehliemann is dead.

Pullman car shops.
Extreme destitution in Peru is leading
to revolutionary movements.
Sitting Bulls followers, bound for the
Bad Lands, have been captured.
The German Catholic clergy have been
instructed to make war on socialism.
An attempt to have the bible read in
the Chicago public schools was failure.
A thousand railway men at Hull have
struck for shorter hours and higher
wages.
Four hundred and six Italian paupers
We're refused landing at New York
The Glasgow strikers have been trying
TO wreck trains and assaulting non-nuion
workmen.
The Russian government has ordered
the expulsion of 1900 Germans and
Austrians.
Several persons have been arrested for
a plot to overthrow the Argentine gov
ernment.
AS stated in this column several weeks
ago, the Indian scare in the northwest
has petered out.
The London Times is making war on
Booths scheme of social regeneration
| for darkest England.
Twelve girls were drowned in Holstein
Dec. % by the breaking of the ice while
they We're skating.
| The Columbian congress has legaIized
the extension of time for the completion
of the Panama canal.
Urugl ay is likely TO raise the tariff on
spirits, sugar, perfumery, silks, canned
! provisions and tobacco.
Isaac B. SawtelIe has been convicted at
| Dover, n. H.. of numbering his brother
Hiram for his property.
| Five negroes were lynched for the
murder Of DIR. F. R. Higgin in Mecklen-
burg county, Va, Dec. 20.
A farmer in Mahaska county, Ia. found
gold nugget weighing, seventy ounces
on his place the other day.
John Watson, bookkeeper of the Meri-
den silver plate works at Meriden, Conn,
| is defaulter and missing.
Samuel Malone and John Hicks We're
burned to death in Malone's house at
Holden, No, on Christmas.
Mrs. Pearcy. who murdered her para
\ mour's wife Mrs Hogg, and her baby,
near London, has been hangCd.
The Masonic temple at Baltimore has
| been burned and all the records of the
/ Maryland grand lodge destroyed.
| Joe Taflinger and Bud Robinson We're
killed in a fight at a Christmas enter
tainment in church at McNabb's Station,
KY.
DR.. E. L. Shurly of Detroit is treating
/ consumption successfully with subcuta-
neous injections of iodine and chloride of
gold.
I Inc treasury department ueC1OeS I0aI
natural gas piped from Canada INTO the
/ United States is subject TO duty OF 10
/ per cent.
Though Parnell's candidate in North
Kilkenny was defeated by Mccarthy s
ParneI viii continue his fight for the
| leadership.
The steamer Shanghai has been wrecked
near Nanking and the crew of sixty
natives and several European officers
were drowned.
At New Corydon, Ind, Dec. %, Wesley
Tells Killed Nirena Travel and himself
because the girls parents would not let
her marry him.
Americans travelling in Germany are
warned that it is a crime to remain
| seated when the emperor's health Is
proposed.
John p Matthews, postmaster at Car
rollton, Miss, tried 70 kill w. s. Mcbride
/ Dee. 25 but Mcbride fired first and killed
Matthews.
Nineteen showers of counterfeit silver
dollars, sent out from New York, and
S1100 of the coin have been captured at
Pittsburg-
All the American republics except
i Guatamala, Uruguay and Paraguay have
adopted the plan for an international
silver coin.
Bob Pruitt killed City Marshal Kit
| trell who attempted TO arrest MIN at
Gainesville, Ga, Dec. 26, and Policeman
Lowry killed Pruitt.
| A strike of railroad employees stopped
traffic between Aberdeen and Edinburg
Dec. y, and many coliieries, furnaces
| and large factories had to close.
Earl b. Smith has been driven insane
by a hazing he was subjected TO at
/ DeveauX Episcopal college at Suspension
Bridge. His recovery is hoped for.
Parnell says the defeat cf his candidate
in North Kilkenny was accomplished by
the priests threatening spiritual penal
ties TO all those who voted for him.
The government building at Chicago
sunk so as TO burst the water pipes and
flood the building Dec. "a, running, among
other things, much Christmas mail.
The Jenkins hotel at Washington, Ind.
was partially wrecked with dynamite
Dec. 26 by James Mcbride because his
wife, who lived in the hotel, refused tC
see him.
| Cordova, the second city in size in the
Argentine republic has been swept by a
flood, resulting from the bursting OF a
dam, which destoyed 100 houses and as
many lives.
Alexandria, Mo-, once one of the most
prosperous towns in Northeast Missouri
has been swept by successive fires anC
floods until Dec. y it was almost com
pletely wiped out by fire.
A man named Nickel killked his wife
and stepdaughter because they woulc
not get up and drink with him when ht
and then committed suicide.
Three men have been sent to prison
for from two to thirteen months IL
Paris for aiding the escape of th'
nihilist Padlewsky after he had murdered
the Russian General Seliyerskoff.
r. B. Merriam, 49-year-old widower
seized Miss Josephine de Marse anC
jumped into the river with her at Water
town n. T.. Dec. "a, because she woulC
not marry him, but both were saved.
Tie census shows that there are 1901
Jewish families, with 60,030 members, ii
the United States, and the death rat
among them Is about half the genera
average of the country, being I'll in 1000
At Des Moines, Ia., six aldermen ant
ex-aldermen, six eX-constableS and half
dozen other citizens have been indictet
and arrested for conspiracy and attemp
to evade the prohibition law. They wer
released on $1,000 bail each.
The mayor of Deadwood had the fir
hose turned on a lot of drunken ant
quarreling railroad graders Dec. 26 t.
quell disturbance and there we're thre
fires that night, believed TO have beel
set in revenge by them. The loss wa
$25, 900.
The Detroit Boat company is building
feet beam and fourteen feet in depth o
hold which will rnn by an electric motor
carry supply of oxygen and be lighte
will bring it to the surface.
The severest snowstorm in years visite,
the Atlantic coast Dec. 26 and many yes