The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-07-14
Quantity and Quality Of the
Texas Wheat Crop.
THE TRUST LAW OF ILLINOIS


4 OF 225,000.
4 Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to the Kansas wheat crop.
\ The State Of Texas has won suit to
recover lands grabbed by railroads.
II The woman suffragists Of Kansas
have raised campaign fund Of 100, 900.
Maine towns this year have paid II
bounty Of IS each on thirty-two bears.
The st. Louis health officers have be-
gun to inspect emigrants arriving in the
city.
Just before it adjourned the Illinois
Legislature passed very radical anti
trust bill.
| Thirty-two sites are offered for the
new Philadelphia mint at prices ranging
from 81 to 100000.
4 A telephone line $500 miles long is
Y planned in Canada to connect Halifax
with Vancouver.
DR.. Ernest Hart, the London sanitary
expert, says that Chicago's water is bad
and may cause trouble.
Thewomen OF Kansas, who are 10 open
their campaign for suffrage in September
next, are already afield.
\ A plot of ground was sold in Chicago
/ the other day for $400,000, which was
purchased in 1856 for $500.
Il Ironwood, Mich, has such an epidemic
OF typhoid fever that the public build
ings have been made hospitals.
\ By recent order Of the authorities Of
Carthage, ILL.,, counting has been iorbid-
den in the public parks Of that place.
I George Vanderbilt has purchased 20,
coo acres OF land in North Carolina,
7 with view Of making it game pre-
serve.
Lieutenant-G Governor Percy Daniels,
Populist, Of Kansas has scheme by
which no one viii be taxed but million
aires.
A New York printer has been sem
fenced to year in State Prison and
fined $1,000 for printing green-goods
circulars.
The big Chicago telescope will be ap-
proximately "a feet long and 4 feet in
diameter, and the dome will be 70 feet
in diameter.
The Kansas Railroad Commissioners
, are going to compel wholesale reform
} lin freight charges on the part Of the
/ roads in that State.
d Ii is claimed that thereis now due the
government in royalties for coal mined
on government lands in Kansas from
$4,000 to 100000,
The widow Of one Of the Italians
! Ilynched at New Orleans tried. to bring
/ suit us an alien, but the courts decided
that she was an American.
Southern papers say that the machine
e0tton-picker is success, and that In
many districts that commodity can now
be raised at cost Of 21s cents pound.
j., A company has Just been formed in
Oklahoma to develop the immense beds
Of asphaltum recently discovered near
I, the Arbuckle Mountains on the Chicka-
! saw reservation.
/ The Worlds Labor Congress at
Chicago, August ~ to September A, will
conclude with what is proposed to be
the greatest labor demonstration ever
! ! seen in America.
4 Charles 4. Yerkea, the Chicago cable.
: railway magnate. has commenced the
building q DSownstone nSn me- mansion W VIII Y
is to cost Y ,ooV,0VV' Wy nlrs' ierAes rooi
{ Is to cost sSO,uvV'
i The Berry trust law in Illinois, it i
/ stated, will enable the Attorney-Genera
to break up the passenger and freight
associations now controlling and fixing
rates to and from Chicago.
) Secretary Carlisle has issued circular
o reouaating Collectors 81 Customs 10 ex.
n ereise more care in the selection OF sub
II oyd;natee This notice has been callet
4 forth ~ liz Puget Sound scandal.
!, I. -.
e The raln-masing eApelilneh.s as. Y n nan
! cIanta;n ~ Il tbe Kansas National Guar
and d the serious injury Of two mel