The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-06
THE MELON CROP OF GEORGIA,
Huge Cucumber-Feniale Anarchist
in Limbo--South Cardinals
New Liquor Law.

ioreiBners than sne receives.
Awholesale removal Of pension agents
is expected in the near future.
The bees around Waterford, Mich, are
dying OF an unknown disease.
Texas reports that the pecan crop this
season will be the finest in many years,
The German Catholic Central Society
OF North America is in session at st.
Louis.
Governor Waite will call an extra ses-
sion Of the Legislature OF Colorado in a
short time.
Attorney-General 0lney has decided
that bicycles are entitled to free entry as
personal effects.
French Canadians are returning to
Canada in large numbers from the New
England States.
The Worlds Fair has nearly paid off
its floating debt and largely reduced its
other liabilities.
The New York Central is going to
withdraw the exposition fier' at the
close Of the fair.
Acucumber weighing iifty-two pounds,
raised by Houston-county farmer, has
been sent to st. Louis.
Treasurer Barrett Scott, who stole
$lO4 900 from Holt county, Va, has been
arrested at Juarez, Mexico.
Wisconsin's Worlds Fair Commission
ers have spent $l40, 900, and the people
are asking, " Where is 1t at?"
Saloonkeepers are not allowed to do
business in the Cherokee Strip until
they have formally taken out licenses.
1t is estimated that the Georgia melon
crop this year amounts to 1850, 900.
About 5000 carloads have been shipped.
1t is proposed to have national dedi-
cation OF the Ohickamauga and Chatta-
nooga National Park October II and IS,
1894.
Reports Of murders in the new Chero-
kee Strip are frequent. The causes are
attendant on the final settlement Of
claims to land.
Boston has issued 81 900, 900 9 per cent
bonds for improvement purposes. She
finds ready market at par and in some
cases q premium.
There has been remarkable revival
of interest in the abandoned farms"
of New England since so many mills
closed their doors.
The financial situation at Vicksburg,
Miss, has SO improved that the banks
have ceased to issue certified checks to
be used as currency.
Congress will possibly ask Secretary
Gresham for the correspondence with
the Chinese government on the extradi-
tion and registration laws.
The Columbian souvenir coins, which
1t was anticipated would be boarded by
people Of patriotic turn, are rapidly
drifting back to the Treasury.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist in Jail
in New York city for melting riot, is pre-
pared to plead her own case. She says
she needs no help from anybody.
South Carolina's liquor law seems to
be financially failure. Instead Of turn
ing $500, 900 into the State Treasury it is
not likely to yield more than $25, 1000.
Work on the great bridge over the Mis-
sissippi river at New Orleans will com
mence at an early day, the engineers
having finally decided on the exact loca-
ton for it.
The city Of ST. Louis has sent repre-
sentative to Europe to float 81 ,250, 900 Of
her municipal bonds. She did q similar
thing in 1890, and got out with per
cent interest.
Cornelius Ryan Of Waltham, Mass,
found in railroad station four years ago
wallet, which he returned to the owner,
whose name and address were among
the papers it contained, and recently
found himself named for 5000 in the
mans will.
The Worlds Fair directors met in spe-
cial session at Chicago recently, and
voted down a motion to lower the en-
trance fee for children, and tabled by
heavy majority proposition to let peo-
pie in on Sunday at half rate. The mat
ter Of extending the fair until January
went over.
Edmund s. Hincks, the late clerk Of
the Whatcom Board Of County Commits
sioners, has started from Fairhayen for
Mashonaland, Africa. He will take in
the Worlds Fair en- route, and does not
expect to reach Cape Town, South Africa,
before January |, 1894.
Charles T. O'Ferrall, whom the Demo-
Gratis have nominated for Governor Of
Virginia, is a native Of Frederick county,
and is 81 years Of age. He enlisted be-
fore he was 81 in the Confederate cav
airy, and at the surrender Of General
Lee was in command Of his cavalry de-
tachments, being at that time Colonel.
The House Committee on Territories
has considered the bill providing for the
admission OF Utah as a State, and it will
be reported to the House in the near fu-
ture with the recommendation that it
pass. A provision was inserted in the