The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-09-01
The Kansas Coal Miners Strike
Nearing an End.
ACT OF A RELIGIOUS BUSATIC
A Nebraska County Treasurer Skips
With the Swag Drought In
New York State.

An irrigation canal eighty-six mile:
3 long is to be dug in Colorado.
General Pitz John Porter has become
| cashier Of New York's postottice.
General Booth Of the Salvation Army
Is coming 70 this country in October.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pan
proposes to reduce wages 10 per cent.
The late Thomas ]. Morse Of ST. I.ouis
carried $40, coo insurance on his life.
The Health Officer Of Florida declares
there is no yellow fever at Pensacola.
MobeFiy, No., has two banks which
are said toactuaily turn away depositors.
4 At Lancaster, Pa, recently hundreds
oil acres OF tobacco were ruined BY hail.
I The iron and steel miIls in Pennsyl-
vania that were shut down art starting
lup.
The New York Tribune declares tha;
racing is going downward in public esti-
nation.
1 Nearly $4,000 damage was done AZ
Lynn, Mass, by floods following a re-
L NAAf rAolADs
/ Representatives Of Egypt are studying
Southern methods Of embarrassing near
Atlanta, Ga.
! The New York Recorder rep. advo-
Gates the free coinage Of silver at q rea-
sonahle ratio.
B, P. Hutchinson, or "0ld Hutch.n
has sold his membership ON the Chicago
Board Of Trade.
Two OF the 5,00O-horse- power turbine
wheels for the great Niagara power plant
are nearly done.
Tbs Rock Island switchmen threaten
to strike ii an attempt is made to re-
duce their wages.
Mining experts are actively at work
inspecting the gold region Of the Rocky
Mountain States.
A fine qnality Of coal in seeming in
exhaustible quantity has been found in
Kerr county, Tex.
The New York banks will soon in
crease their circulation TO the extent of
s., ,0O0, 900 or $40, ,OO0 900.
Philadelphia Italians have been try
ing 70 wreck cable cars, because their
children were killed by them.
A company has been formed 10 intro
duce the sliding railway systern exhib-
tied at Chicago into this country.
A movement is in progress to intro
ence improved machinery in the gold
districts Of Alabama and Georgia.
One thousand saloons have suspended
business in Chicago this month. They
could not stand $500 year license.
Galveston il experiencing an excess Of
rainfall and New Orleans drought. A
year ago these conditions were reversed |
The Kansas coal minersi strike il near
ing an end. The strikers are trying TO |
return TO work on the best terms obtain
able.
There is great apprehension at Omaha
lest the foundation Of the new Federai
building IL not on ground stable enough
to support it.
A Chicago statistician figures that
wheat at the price it il now selling-sl9l
q TOMS only III ton more than timo-
thy hay IL bringing.
The employees Of the bureau Of en-
craving and printing at Washington
have been ordered 10 work till 6 O'Clock
every working day until further notice.
AtPhiladelphis Rachel Boyle, 25 years
Of age, during a period Of religious ex-
element cut of portion Of her lips,
and then bfoiled il az an offering to God.
The State officers Of Kansas have de-
,ided 10 send out commissioner to go
licit seed wheat for farmers OF that State,
.aking notes from the farmers in pay
nent.
The women of Hiawatha, Kan, are
-aising funds TO send ell Of the drunk
4rds Of that town 10 the Keeley cure,
md they expect to make money by the
operation.
The American Bankers Association
Convention, announced TO be held in
chicago September 8 and 2, will not
AXE place because Of the present finan-
:ial situation.
Barrett Scott, Holt county CNeb.)
Treasurer, has disappeared. and an in
iestigation Of his accounts shows a short.
ige oi about 100000. 1t is thought tina.
icott has gone 70 Mexico.
Topolobampo coIonists have reached
Kansas, and have asked Congressman
Sroderick 10 investigate the methods
,uFsued by the managers Of the colony.
he refugees say it Is swindle.
Only Massachusetts,, Virginia, Ohio,
Wisconsin and Iowa viii elect Governors
his fall. Only three Legislatures TO be-
hoaen--in Virginia, Kentucky and
oEa--will elect United States Senators.
Local bankers at Mobile, Ala, ridicuIe
iradstreet's report Of 8 probable crisis
q tbs cotton region, owing TO want oi
grrency. When the time comes they
BY all the necessary funds will be forth
oming.
Chicago has been 10 overrun with car
enters that the unions OF that city