The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-02-17
THE ROCKIES.
The Large Amount Of Natural
Gas Wasted in Indiana.
NEW YORK BEGGARS TO BE ARRESTED
A Negro Hanged in Delaware Nineteen
Years Ago for Criminal Assault
Was Innocent.

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Northwestern Iowa is liable to be in
volved in q meat famine.
Citizens Of Memphis are endeavoring
to suppress the gambling evil.
About forty employees In the New Or
leans Mint have been discharged.
Kansas sends in the best wheat report
Of any Of the wheat-growing States.
An investigation OF the ex-officials OF
the Illinois Penitentiary is asked for.
The Michigan Liquors.D Dealers Asso-
ciation has organized an insurance order.
Small game is reported to be very
abundant throughout Alabama this year.
Extraordinary precautions against the
cholera have been taken at the city Of
Mexico.
Philadelphia capitalists are figuring
on starting new bank in Wall street
with 81 900, 900 capital.
A Philadelphia syndicate has made
extensive pcrchases OF coffee lands In
the State OF 0axaca, Mexico.
The managers Of the Chicago Fair are
counting upon $8,C00, 900 in receipts for
concessions granted by them.
Mexico's exports to the United States
during the past fiscal year aggregated
$4,949, ,6Ss more than during the previous
year.
The fifty-cent Columbian stamps, II 10
discovered by 6t. Louis puzzle fiend,
contains the picture OF man smoking q
cigar.
The Union Pacific threatens to make
the rate from OGDEN to Missouri river
points $40, and hot rate war Is ex-
pected.
BARRIERS In Ohio are sgltating for q law
which shall make It legally possible for
a white barber to refuse to shave col
ored man.
Six OF the public schools OF Milwaukee
have been closed by the Health Com
missioners because Of their unsanitary
condition.
In Louisville man named Manning
has been arrested who is charged with
selling charms warranted to cure all
sort Of illness.
The Senate has passed the bill to re-
fer to the Court Of Claims the claim OF
Jessie Benton Fremont to certain lands
in San Francisco.
A Chicago lawyer has suggested that
ex-Presidente, when they possess the
legal requirements, be named for Su-
preme Court Justices.
Four saloons were erected in the mid.
die OF the Ohio river, which was entirely
frozen at Louisville, and did thriving
business for many days.
As the result Of recent order by the
government the immigration commits
sions paid by railroads to steamship
companies will be reduced.
Governor Hogg Of Texas, in his mes
sage TO the Legislature Of that State,
advocated the taxation OF venders Of
deadly weapons sud cigarettes.
Senator Warner Miller says Hunting.
ton and the Southern Pacific interests
are In opposition to the Nicaragua Canal,
and their agents are at work in Wash
ington.
A bill to prohibit prize-fighting in In
diana, providing that principals should
be fined 5000 and the newspapers
$1,000 for printing advance notices, was
killed in the House.
The Geologist OF Indiana says that
enough gas has been wasted in It's belt to
supply every family In the State for two
years, and that $22, ,000, 600 is but fair
measure Of the loss.
Police Superintendent Byrnes Of New
York has Issued orders to the police to
arrest all beggars caught plying their
trade. They had made general nuis-
ances Of themselves.
Four Thousand new postofIices were
established during the last year, 557, ,846
unmailable letters poured into the boxes,
32,8l2 Of them wholly without any out
eide sign, symbol or address.
An election contest in Massachusetts
has developed the TACT that the success
ful candidate for Representative in the
Wellington district was naturalized only
the day before he was elected.
The Minnesota Legislature is getting
ready to try Sew form Of paternalism.
II is proposed TO amend the State Con.
stitution go as to enable the State to in
sure all farm buildings at cost.
To the British emigrants who will take
up land in the northwest Of British Co
lnmbia the Canadian government Is Of
fering through the London Emigrants'
Information Office bonuses Of s5 to $40 a
head.
Miss Nellie Ahern will be the next
State Librarian at Indianapolis. This
was decided at a caucus Of the two
Houses in which sixty-four votes were
for Miss Ahern and only eight for the
male candidate.
AWashington dispatch says II has in
formation from a thoroughly reliable
source that M. NJ. Eatee upon the part
Of San francisco has offered the Santa
Fe $10,000,000 If the road would build
into the city.