The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-05-26
Secretary Hoke Smith Trying
to Correct Evils.
AN AUTOMATIC VOTE RECORDER.
Heavy Rains Disclose Some Valuable
Relics on the Historical Mas
sic Farm in Ohio.

2s5,00O population.
A "Colored Tariff-reform Club" has
been organized in Atlanta.
The Michigan Legislature has indorsed
an automatic vote recorder,
The licenses for 5000 dogs are annually
taken out in New York city.
Cold and frost has rendered necessary
much replanting Of the cotton crop.
Carter Harrison has forbidden smok-
ing in the Chicago Council chamber,
A new law precludes the possibility of
an absolute divorce in Massachusetts,.
The population OF Johnstown, Penn,
has increased over 5000 since the flood
Of ASS9.
The coal and coke business OF Colorado
is now in the hands Of four great com
panies.
The Duke de Veragua is so much
taken with America that he proposes to
stay indefinitely.
Milwaukee has been taking little
census Of its own, and is satisfied that
its population is 25,0l8.
The Ohio Legislature has again re-
jected a measure looking to the granting
Of the veto power to the Governor.
st. Louis banks have turned over
$2,OOO,O00 in gold to the United States in
exchange for Treasury and bank notes.
Alabama reports an increase Of 6h
per cent in the acreage in cotton, 2I2
per cent in corn and 0 per cent in
wheat.
Last year there were $500 arrests for
violations OF the excise law in New
York, but the convictions numbered
only thirty-fve.
The consumption OF domestic beer in
the United States last year was about
one-half barrell per capita, or some
thing like barrel, barring teetotaers.
According to official report the prohi-
bition town OF Portland in Maine uses
$4,000 worth OF liquor year for
'medicinal and mechanical purposes"
Deaths from exposed electric wires,
very frequent in New York before Mayor
Grants crusade against the dangerous
and unsightly poles in 1891, are now q
thing unknown.
The great tunnel which is to drain the
Valley Of Mexico is nearly finished, and
will be completed in fifteen months.
1t is expected to transform Mexico into
a very healthy city.
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The New York Board Of Electrical
Control has condemned three-fourths Of
the electric-light iron poles in that city,
and ordered them replaced by wooden
poles with cast-iron bases.
American corn shipments are moving
into Mexico as heavily as last year. 1t is
estimated 1000 car loads will be shipped
into the republic before the close Of the
year il the duty is not restored.
There seems to be fair chance for
the restoration Of the death penalty in
Michigan, for the Judiciary Committee
Of the Legislature has reported fayorably
upon the bill introduced to that end.
"a stone $50 feet long and 10 feet square
at the base has been quarried at Prem
tice, Wis, and it is proposed to use ii as
monument to james Il. Blaine. 1t is
iorty-six feet longer than Cleopatra's
needle.
The Western General Agent OF one Of
the larger New York insurance COM
panies is authority for the statement
that number OF retirements Of insur-
ance companies may be expected before
many weeks.
Wall-street brokers have adopted a
new gambling device in the shape Of a
phonograph which squeaks out from a
colossal funnel quotations on mining
stocks, as many as dozen fluctuations
being recorded in minute.
Secretary Of the Interior Smith is try
| ing to correct the evils that have been
constantly growing at Yellowstone Park
in the way OF monopolies and conse-
quent excessive charges for everything
the tourist is required to use.
1 Heavy rains near Chillicothe, Ohio,
have washed the earth away and dis
closed some valuable relics on the his
torical Massie farm, consisting Of stone
implements, bullets, coins and silver
buttons. The gold coins are dated l727
and 1850.
The great dam now being built across
the Colorado river at Austin, Texas, is
built Of large, rough blocks set in con
crete in the interior faced on both sides
and on top with cut granite. 1t has q
total length Of 1,275 feet, and maxi.
mum height Of 66 feet.
The story is revived in Washington
that the White House is to be devoted
exclusively TO residential purposes
President Cleveland Is said to.be con.
sidering the moving Of his Office to suit.
able apartments in nthe army, navy and
State Department buildings,
Southern California is the Meccs
toward which the restless negroes Of the
section about Chattanooga, Tenn, are
now turning their faces. Great excite
ment exists among them over on emf
grafton scheme to the Pacific Slope,
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