The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-07-21
The Reported Conditions Of
the Various Crops.
DEsTITUTIoN IN WEST KANSAS.
Outcome of the Weather Bureau
Investigation at Washing
ton-The Mississippi.

Llzzle Borden mas Deen invited py TINT
Globe-Democrat to lecture.
! The work Of overhauling the halls o.
Congress is being pushed rapidly.
Toronto is wrestling with the question
Of running street cars on Sunday.
Leadville, Col, is filling up with idle
men, owing to the shutting down Of the
mines.
Serious charges Of discrimination have
been filed against a number OF roads en-
tering Chicago by local merchants.
BY using contemplating machines 0
crop can now be raised in some districts
of the South at cost Of 2llaa cents q
pound,
Near Valecitos, Tex, the Rangers and
d band Of Mexican horsethieves had q
fight, and Captain Jones Of the Rangers
was killed.
There is destitution in parts Of Kan
sas. The wheat crop is failure in large
sections. The Legislature may be called
in extra session.
Guileless immigrants landing in New
York sometimes are bunkoed into the
exchange Of good European money for
Confederate bills.
Secretary Of State I.esueur is receiving
complaints from all over Missouri re-
garding combinations OF insurance
agents to put up rates.
Governors will be elected next Novem-
Der in Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, and
Virginia. The contests in Ohio and Iowa
will be the most interesting Of them all.
The other day workmen in an old house
in Philadelphia, at one time occupied by
William Penn, discovered lot Of an
cient coin and English bank notes hid
den under the flooring.
The receipts OF the government for the
year aggregated 1886 100000, while the
expenditures will foot up 1885, 700, 900,
leaving surplus Of receipts above ex-
penditures Of $2,000,000.
The Department of Agriculture is
about to introduce calla-lily roots as a
vegetable. In appearance the root re-
sembles an Irish potato; It is easily
propagated and palatable.
The banks at Independence, Kan.,
have arranged series OF electrical alarm
bells, which are placed in different por-
tions Of the business part Of the city.
The town is now fully prepared for rob
bers.
A suit has been instituted at New York
against Senator Squire Of the State Of
Washington to recover ~, ,000, 900, which,
it is claimed, the Senator owes the
plaintiffs for lands sold and which be-
longed to them.
The outcome of the weather-bureau
investigation at Washington is the ex-
oneration OF Prof Harrington and the
dismissal Of Mclaughlin, chief Of the
executive division, who preferred the
charges on which the investigation was
based.
The new military order signed by the
President abolishes the Department Of
Arizona. and places Arizona, New Mex
leo, Utah and Colorado in the new de-
partment. California is restored to the
Department OF California, with head
quarters at San Francisco.
The abolition OF seed distribution
through members Of Congress and the
charging OF the cost OF meat inspection
upon the packers are likely to be two Of
the leading recommendation in the an
nual report OF Secretary Morton of the
Department Of Agriculture.
The United States makes very dis
couraging showing for this years crop Of
cotton. 1t is already certain that the
crop has been badly damaged by unfa-
yorable weather during the past six
weeks; that it has got a poor start that
ii is being injured by insects and disease
and cannot amount to an average yield.
More serious still is the prospect that
further adverse weather, which may
fairly be expected at this season, catch
ing the belated crop in its present con-
dition, will reduce the yield still further.
A few sections, as Florida and Louisiana,
seem to have been exempted to the me-
neurological fate that has oyertaken the
the cotton crop generally, but they are
not extensive enough to make any ma
terial difference in the crop as whole.
Acting Secretary Hanllin has instruct
ed Collectors Of Customs in order that
the department may be fully advised
concerning the admission OF Chinese
persons into the United States to pre-
mare and forward to the department a