The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-05-05
Illegal and Fraudulent Disposal
Of Public Property
N THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Fire Insurance Advanced in an Iowa
City-The Cost Of the Recent
Chicago Election.

4
l. II is estimated that the recent Chicas
We election cost all hands $3.50, 900.
= / Newspaper writers unions are cro,
p ping up throughout the country.
y A bill to establish a bureau d labor
before the New Hampshire Legislator,
4 The charteringof electric railway con
I u panies IN Ohio is going on at rapi
" rate.
h Baltimore proposes to encourage man
Il uiacturing plants by exempting then
\ from taxation.
: Seven cruisers will protect the Cana
Q dian inaekerel boats in the Gull Of n
e Lawrence this season.
K Generous BROOKLYN Aldermen hav,
d given away for nothing street railwa,
!. franchises for which $3.50, 900 was offered
! The Park Commissioners of New Yorl
nave refused to grant q site in Unicr
square ior statue to Roscoe Conklinc
4 Vermont Judge has ruled that 4
! glrl who discards lover must return tbe
engagement ring ii he has given one to
her. IN =
Governor Hogg Of Texas has issued \
proclamation establishing quarantine on
the Gult coast and the Rio Grande bor-
der. .1e vt
A syndicate has been formed in Phila-
delphia for the completion oi The
charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail-
road. n -
Minnesota now gets from its tax On
the gross earnings of railroads 81 500 O00
year, and the amount increases vear
after year.
All kinds Of building material excent
iron and steel have advanced IN Chica,n
and numerous building projects have
been deferred. n
a number Of prominent women Of
Philadelphia have started a movement
70 prevent men from expectorating On
the sidewalks. =
Inc maximum freight bill Of Nebras
IA, having received Governor Crounz'
signature, is now law, Ii win II |
fought by the railroads.
The Attorney-General Of Ohio has Al.
clded that insurance against burglary IN
that State is legal, because burglary Il |
an accident 70 property.
This has probably been the worst win
ter ever known in New York for horses
pneumonia and pulmonary diseases have
carried them of rapidly.
Fifty American and eleven British
companies have recently been organized
TO develop business in Mexico with n
capital Of over 500, 100000.
i il proposed in Massachusetts to mo-
VIDE for the use Of indelibIe lead pencils +,
q elections to prevent the fraudulent
altering Of ballots during count.
President Gleveland's mail has reached
N \ average oi about 1000 letters day.
secretary Thurber and FIVE clerks are '
iept busy handling the packages.
The company which proposes to estab- 4
ish an electric railroad between CHICAGO
md 1t. Louis has let contracts for t6e :,
ntire construction OF it's roadbed. IA
Wife-heating has become 50 common III
New Jersey that there is movement
erect whipping posts for the punisb- =
nent Of the cowardly bullies who prac-
lee it.
Fire insurance rates in Des Moines
ave been advanced 20 per cent. The =
lleged cause is the inadeanacy of BRO
sctlon from fire on the part Of water
'orks Of that city.
A Washington special SAYS: Secretary
arlisle has definitely decided to redeem
silver the outstanding treasury notes
sued under the act Of 1890 and known
] the Sherman act. u
The highest recorded speed ever
'hieyed by locomotive was recently =
ade BY a compound engine on d New
ork road, when 1t covered mile inI
lirty-seven seconds.
Ground has been broken at the Bat
ry on the spot where is to rest the mag =
ticent bronze monument which is 70 {
dedicated to the memory Of John Er- :
sson Of Monitor fame.
Dr. Sheldon jackson, Commissioner Of
itication for Alaska, has received or
- ~ sp ~ I|uCI4a W pHEGIlANE and
inaport TO Alaska tame reindeer to be or
opagated there for the use Of the ma
'es
James Dixon, an expert accountant, .=
: just completed an audit Of the ac-
ints Of the Economite Society, show "
II to be solvent by small margin.
2 society's holding are valued at IT,
1000. n,
The extensive deposit Of asphalt near lii
10, In Montague county, Texas, is
ng operated BY local company hav-
Q capital stock Of $20O,0O0. The
duct is being shipped all over the
ntry.
he New York cuatom-house reports ca
I the government now holds $21 1904,
in bond for goods in the bonded
ehougeA. This amount Is said 10 be
largest ever held by the government Hon
bonded goods. "a.
is aaid that large number Of Chi Hon
recently discharged at TaEnpieo and Y 9;
3 various railroad construction camps