The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-27
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Important Patent Decision Made
BY the Supreme Court.
WAR ON SWEATERS IN BOSTON.
The Number Of Victims That Judge Lynch
Has Executed During the Past
fsar-0ther News.

The authorities Of North Dakota pro,
: pose to enforce the prohibition law.
The Carnegie mills at Homestead
Pa, are running full in every depart
ment.
The New York theater ladies have
taken to removing their hats during the
performance.
The boys In the State Reform School
at Topeka have just finished putting up
$50 tons Of ice.
II Dr. McGlynn says he never ridiculed
the Pope, although charged wilh the &C
clesiastical offenBe.
i A combination OF manufacturers Of
wire goods and cut nails 10 being formed
by large Western firms.
| George G. slosson has challenged any
| body in the world to q match game Of
billiards for 81, 900 side.
| The principal operators Of silver mines
In Colorado have practically agreed to
shut dowE until silver advances.
New Orleans ia finding much difficulty
In enforcing the Sunday law, owing to
the apathy OF the police officials.
The Carnegie Company was q great
financial loser by the recent strike, and
it is economizing In its management.
Gidon Marsh, the fugitive President Of
the wrecked Keystone Bank Of Phila-
delphis, is said to be in South Africa.
| In Boston the bosses and the clothing
cutters have joined hands to compel the
sweaters to grant the demands Of their
wOrkmen.
The Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
agreement for the cesaion Of 2,50O, 900
acres of land has been sent to the Sen.
ate by the President.
The train bearing the old liberty bell
to the Worlds Fair will run only by
day, in order to give people along the
route chance to see it.
The industrial and financial conditions
in South Carolina are reported as grati-
flying because OF the improvement in
the agricultural interest.
1t is reported that unless prompt meae-
ures Of protection are adopted in the
natural-gas district oil Indiana the sup
ply will s0on be exhausted.
Chairman Hood OF the New York
Board Of Assessment estimates that
fully $i00, ,000, 600 Of personal property
In the State escaped taxation.
Philadelphia is entitled to be known
as the city Of siaterly love. According
to recent police census the city boasts
Of 23, 900 more women than men.
A New York letter to the Philadelphia
Prew intimates that Baby Ruth 10 to
have rival, and there will likely be
birth at the White House this spring.
President Harrison has received cane
made from the wood Of house on Porto
9anto, one Of the MADEIRA Islands, in
which Christopher Columbus once lived.
Congressman Dalzsll is going to make
another attempt to get through Congress-
the bill providing for survey for ship
canal TO connect Lake Erie and the Ohio
river.
1t Ia estimated that Judge Lynch hae
executed during the past year 1886
increase over 1891 OF forty
one. His victims were 231 men and five
women.
The railroad construction In the
United States during 1891 does notreach
high figures, being only 1900 miles.
The total was the smallest since 1873,
except those Of 1884 and 1856.
Major General Scho6eld does not
think the massing OF troops at the
Worlds Fair for display would prove
good idea or that 1t would give any
beneficial return for the expense in
Volyed.
The Cotton Bureau Of the National
Alliance at Memphis, Tenn, has issued
an address to planters, advising the
planting OF less acreage to cotton.
This seasons crop ia largely reduced,
and the planters have got better prices.
Michigan's war Governor, Austin
Blair, received certified check for
n, ,l25 as a Christmas gift from promi-
nent residents Of that State. The ex-
Governor Ia writing his recollections OF
The war, and the money will be used in
getting out the book.
In the case Of the DR.. Briggs heresy
,ase the New York Presbytery, without
approval Of the critical or
theological views embodied in DR..
Briggs' address, or Of the manner in
which they have been expressed and
pronounces Briggs fully ac-
luitted Of the ofenses alleged against
lim.
The Mutual Life Benefit Insurance
company Of Hartford, Conn, has de-
'ided TO 90 out Of business, and has
made arrangements with the National
Mutual Insurance Company Of New
York to take all ita members who apply
Or a transfer.
The Supreme Court has denied the
notion to advance the case Of Merrick
Z rel. Va. Charles Foster, Secretary Of
be Treasury, popularity known ae the
liver brick cane. This is the case
Fherein the plaintiff sought TO compel
he Qeoraks . II fnir Into dollara q asigas !