The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-30
Our Imports From China Over
top Our Exports.
MOURNING AMONG THE GYPsIES
Cholera Raises Havoc Among the
Hogs in Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska,

There are in Pennsylvania over 6,OOO
members OF the Sons Of Veterans.
Virginia Populists are making prepa-
rations for an active campaign this fall.
Twenty-three illicit distilleries were
raided in North Carolina week before
last.
Residents Of Lake George are very
anxious to have fish hatchery located
there.
An electric railway, several hundred
miles in length, is to be built in Ten
nessee.
The sentiment against bull-flghting is
spreading to nearly oil the States Of
Mexico.
Floods in the Tombigbee and saxa-
puila rivers have injured the Mississippi
cotton crops.
Moonshiners in Pickens county, Ala,
disguised as whiteaps, murdered a wit
ness against them.
Five thousand people in and around
Hope, Ark, were left homeless and des-
titute by the recent tornado.
A peculiar characteristic Of Washing
toms death rate is the excessive mortal
ity among infants and children.
The last letter written by George
Washington has recently been sold at
auction in Philadelphia for $3.50.
Western roads are paying commissions
Of s5 and s6 each passenger to get the
immigrant traffic from New York.
Forty-two foreign nations are now
represented at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition by 327 representatives.
The Connecticut Legislature has re-
pealed the statute requiring drunkaFds
to tell where they bought their liquor.
The sheriffs Of Kansas propose to make
q fight for the commissions on sales OF
property cut off by the last Legislature.
Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck Of New
York has fled the country. 1t is said he
feared punishment for burning his office
records.
In the last two months fully one-half
OF the Young hogs in Northern Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska have died
OF cholera.
Passenger business over the PennEyl-
vania lines is now SO heavy that the
company declines to furnish cars for pic
mics or excursions.
The merchants tailOrs Of Texas have
formed q State organization 10 fight COM
petition OF agents from abroad who take
orders in that State.
The Massachusetts Commission on
Highway Improvement finds that half
the towns OF the State cannot afford to
improve their roads.
Suits for $4,000 against the various
branches OF the Standard Oil Company
have grown ont Of the big food and fire
on Oil creek last summer.
Though the entire cotton crop Of the
country was under 7,00O,090 bales last
year the enterprising New York Cotton
Exchange sold 81, ASK, 800 bales.
Senator Sherman has just moved into
his new s150,000 house. Much OF the
Senator's wealth has been made by in
vestment in Washington real estate.
The exports Of breadstuffs from the
United States the past nine months
have shown loss Of nearly 500, ,000, 600
in comparison with the preceding year.
According to the Albany Law journal
women are eligible as delegates under
the law providing for the holding Of
constitutional convention in that State.
The Civil Service Commission has been
called upon to decide whether the Post
master-General can remove clerk in
the classified service Tor insubordination.
The cable cars on Broadway, New
York, appear to be q great success, TAX
ing in, ii is eaid, nearly three times as
much money as the horse cars they dis
placed.
There is mourning among the gypsies
because Of the death in Illinois OF Mrs.
Harrison, who had been chosen to sue
coed Mrs. Young as Queen Of the Ro-
many folk.
Mr.. Jewell, the latest Of the Kansas
rainmakers, whose first attempts CHANGED
10 be coincident with remarkable rain
falls, finds that he cannot play the trick
a second time.
Rev. Mr.. Mckinney Of Tarrytown, N.
Y. thinks 10000, 600 Of the people of
this country will die Of cholera before
iall II the Worlds Fair should be kept
open Sundays.
Leading capitalists in Eastern cities
have been comforting with a view Of
forming company to establish electric
lines on large scale in number. of cities,
East and West.
The New York Five Points, once re-
garded as the wickedest spot as well 90
the most densely populated, has been
condemned, and will be converted into a
magnificent park.
Among the West Point graduates are
Edward Taylor Of Idaho, Frank B. Nc
Kenna Of California, William X. Smed-
berg, Jr., of California, and Verting *.
Hart Of Wyoming.
We bought Of China last year mer-