The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-11-10
Action of a Mayor Commended
by the Grand Jury.
IDAHO MINING EXHIBIT ROBBED
Grand Chief of the Order Of Railway
Telegraphers Indicted by an
Iowa Grand Jury.


The endowment orders are likely to
be driven out OF Texas.
The State Treasurer Of Missouri holds
$4,000 in cash awaiting distribution
among unknown heirs.
The establishment Of an ostrich farm
on St. Joseph's Island, near Rockport,
Tex, is being agitated.
A Kansas Judge has decided that
whisky contracts made in Missouri can
not be enforced against residents Of Kan
sas.
New York State enjoys a pretty reve-
nue. from its collateral inheritance tax.
The sum reported at Albany is $3,07l,-
67S.
1t takes 1000 men all night and late
into the morning to clean up the debris
left behind each day by the Worlds Fair
crowds.
Prof. f. b. Clapp Of the Greek depart
ment Of Yale has accepted call to the
Greek department Of the University Of
California.
A Burlington (Kan.) woman is going
to start crazy quilt with the ribbons Of
her husbands sheep secured at the
Worlds Fair.
Since August there have been twelve
railroad disasters Of more than ordinary
severity, involving the loss Of 127 lives
and the injuring Of 3SS more.
Exhibitors at the Worlds Fair are
complaining that the electric light given
them is not such as was promised, and
threaten to close their exhibits.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation Com
pany is sowing wheat in 10000 acres
along its bitches, and will use the result,
if favorable, to boom irrigation.
Mrs. Grant, it is reported, intends to
make her home in Washington in the
future. Mrs. Blaine has offered oil her
Washington real estate for sale.
The New York State building at the
exposition may be sold to the Chicago
Yacht Club at the conclusion OF the fair
and utilized as naval academy.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to build piazza Of glass around its
new Broad-street station in Philadelphia.
This unique porch will extend two blocks.
The Union Pacific has declined to take
off its rate Of 5000 from the Missouri
river to the Pacific Coast in compliance
with the proposal made by the 800"
line.
The insurance companies doing busi-
ness in Omaha have made an advance
in rates Of 81 per cent, The action ia
based on the inadequacy Of the fire pro-
lection.
The Idaho mining exhibit at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago was robbed Sun
day night Of gold nuggets and bar OF
silver bullion from the La Mar mine.
The loss is 5000.
Santa Fe employees have appointed a
grievance committee to wait on the Off
GERS Of the road and ascertain when they
will be paid their September salaries. A
strike is threatened.
In ballot taken in Boston to decide
upon the most popular names for babies
Helen led the list for girl with 1873
votes out Of the $4,000 cast, and Harold
was first favorite for boy.
The Union Pacific receivership makes
total Of 2B,8T7 miles OF railroad track
placed under charge Of the courts thus
far in 1893, or l6 per cent Of the whole
railway mileage Of the country.
FIG. Ramsay, Grand Chief Of the Or
der Of Railway Telegrapher, has been
indicted at Marion, Ia, by the grand
Jury Of Linn county. He is charged
with tampering with the wires Of the
Burlington during the strike one year
ago.
The grand Jury at Roanoke, Va, sum
moned to investigate the riot on Septem-
ber 20 and 2l, made report commend
| ing the action Of the Mayor and censur-
ing the police for their laxity in protect
ing the negro, Thomas Smith, from the
mob.
A gang Of outlaws has been discovered
| in Braoken county, KY. There are fully
| 100 Of the gang, and in order to become
a member one must take an oath to sell
every drop Of whisky furnished them by
the manager, John Boone, and break uI
all religious meetings possible.
Jacob schoefer, dealer in notions al
/ Williamsburg, N. Y, was held in s5,0Ot
bail on the charge Of having swindlet
Joseph Frese out Of $1,000, Max Fischer
81, 500 and Mrs. Catherine Frese s6,50t
by selling them brass filing for gold dust
Mrs. Frese dropped dead when she fount
out she had been swindled.
Suit has begun at Tiffin, o., agains
the estate Of Ex-Governor and ex-Secre.
tary Of the Treasury Foster. In thee
plant it is charged that the Foster firm
was insolvent two years ago, and tha
deeds to property to his wife had beer
made by Foster at that time and onl,
recorded on the day Of assignment.
| Among the whitecaps arraigned at Os
ceola, Neb., for whipping women wa
| Mrs. Head, the wife Of the President 0
the Bank Of Polk county, a leader in tht
4 Osceola church and several societies
The other women are wives Of prominen
business men. All are members Of tht
local Woman,g Christian TemperanC,