The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-08-25
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN FLORIDA
Suspended Pensioners Given More
Time IN Which to Make Proof
Of Their Rights.

The troops will soon be removed from
the East Tennessee coal mines,
| The biggest gas well in America was
struck near Pittshurg last week.
II is said all the members Of the Cab
met will keep house this winter.
| The Mormon Tabernacle choir will go
East 10 sing at the Worlds Fair.
! Work viii be begun on new Federal
building at Burlington, Ia, at once,
Hot weather has given East Tennessee
the best cotton crop in twenty years.
The Board Of Trade OF New Orleans il
working to secure better mail service,
There was an increase Of over sl7 900, :
600 in the amount Of currency during
July.
A plague Of grasshoppeu is sweeping
down on the farmers in the Tennessee
Valley.
Aluminium car tickets are In use ON q
hIichigan-street railway, and are quite
popular.
The United States Watch Company
Of Waltham has resumed work, but cut
down pay.
l Labor day in St. Louis. it is predicted,
will furnish the greatest procession ever
seen there.
More hard coal has been mined so far
this year than ever before in corre-
spending period.
1 Girls may legally smoke cigarettes on
the streets. So reads the decision Of q
Louisville (Ky.) court.
West Virginia has suffered from q
long-continued drought, but recent vi
oleut storm has ended it.
! In the Brooklyn elevated railroad Hys-
TEN steam as motive power Is to be
superseded by electricity.
Secretary Smith says the Cherokee
Strip will probably be thrown open to
settlement on September l.
New York is having no end Of trouble
with its cable railroad on Broadway. 1t
breaks down every day or two.
Ex-Governor Campbell Of Ohio an
nounces that under no circumstances
will he be candidate this fall.
Returns from recent school elections
in Kansas show that women are fond OF
exercising the right Of suffrage.
Adviees from Labrador report the cod
fishing excellent and salmon-ishing fair.
There are no reports OF distress.
The property in the county Of New
York which was exempt from taxation
last year amounted TO y804 ,0W,O00.
a Baltimore asphalt company has DIS
charged 1000 hands because the banks
would not discount its city warrants.
The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich,
among bis other qualifications has 3
mustache S21 inches from tip to tip.
i There is trouble brewing in railroad
circles Of Nebraska over the injunction
proceedings IN themaximum freight law.
A company has applied for incorpOra-
tion which proposes TO construct ship
canal from Lake st. Clair to Lake Erie.
The Australian ballot was used for the
frat time in Florida recently at Jackson
vile, and gave unqualified satisfaction.
New England farmers are reported to
be unable 10 harvest crops that are re-
markably fine because Of insufficient
help.
n The railroads centering in Boston ,suf-
fered depreciation OF more than Sl0,-
900, 600 in stock valuation during the
month Of July.
rLava ,r;fl h. ,,n ,,roS-a ,Iaatha fro,,
heart failure" in Philadelphia, for the
Board Of Health has declared that there
is no such disease.
H A Acolored peoples insurance company,
which had no existence, has been VIC
timizing the colored people in New Jer-
eey out Of large sums.
4 Taunton, Mass, some years ago decided
q site to the United States for Federal
building and, having lost patience wait
ling for the latter, wants the land back
again.
4 Itis rumored In New York that Will
lam b. Hornblower will be selected TO
fill the vaeancy on the United States
Supreme Bench caused by the death Of
Judge Blatchford.
A plot Of ground. 75x10O feet, on the
corner Of Filth avenue and Eighty-fral
street in New York has been sold to Au-
gust Belmont for s285, 900, or ct the rate
Of f3S square foot.
In Milwaukee an old couple took fright
and drew their eayings--a few thousand
doIlars--irom the bank. Since then one
Of them has sat up all Of every night
guarding the money.
Judge Lochren, ,Penaion Commissioner,
! has extended until October 10 the period
within which pensioners whose pensions
, have been suspended may make proof Of
their right to receive them.
A great scheme Of changing many o.
the important surface railroads in the
section Of New York city above Twenty.
third street into roads operated by CO.
bles instead Of by horses 10 agiiated.
Wolves and coyotes are increasing IN
u dnumbem on The stock ranges in South.
, ern Alberta as in the Dakotas and otliei
Northwestern Gtatee, and are causing
sarioua trnt1hie and Ioss to the rnnchere