The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-05-12
Strike on the Union Pacific
Satisfactorily Settled.
A CONSCIENTIOUS HORsETHIEF.
Pennsylvania iron Trade Expects
Much Trouble This Year In
strikes-C. W. Harris.

!, Kansas is filling up this spring witt
: Germans.
"Gum-chewers' lockjaw" has mad,
its appearance.
: The new directory Of St. Louis con
tains lsl ,52S names. m ra
A $4,000, 900 postoflice is to adorn tn,
city of Buffalo, N. Y, f8.p .gof
Boston is planning to build an elevated
railroad to cost s25,000, 900.
!, Nut culture is attracting attention
ION the Delaware peninsula.
4 George Gould says the Union Pacitic,s
floating debt is enly s4,00G,0OO.
The New York Legislature has dried
up the pool rooms in that State.
Missouri crop prospects are most dis
ccuraging, owing to heavy losses.
y is said the railroads will ignore the
Nebraska maximum freight rate law.
Eastern capitalists are said to be try-
ing to buy the st. Louis street railroads.
The water is very low in the ,Eoutbi
Pass at the mouth Of the Mississippi.
river. f&
There are seventy-seven branches Of
the TheosopEical Societyin the United
States. e I'M ~r
The strike on the Union Pacific il at
an end. The terms Of settlement have
not been made public. n
Pittsburg capital, controlling 10000
acres Of gas territory, will build great
iron mills at Munice, Ind.
Governor Flower OF New York viii
commute the sentence OF CARLYLE w,
Harris, the wife murderer.
The 1907 electric-light lamps of
Chicago are maintained at the expense
to that city Of sl02 each per year.
Louisville will offer $1,000,OOO in
bonds and a building site, il the State
will move its capitol from Frankfort.
The Populist women Of Kansas have
begun organizing women sutferage clubs.
The first WAS organized at Topeka last
week.
The Pennsylvania iron trade expects
much trouble during this year in strikes.
manufacturers will attempt to reduce
wages.
General Harrison has been invited TO !,
make the chief speech at the unwilling
of the new soldiers monument at Ath-
Ems, o.
Cargoes Of horse meat, it is said. are
being shipped from New York TO Bel
;ium as food for the poor people Of that
country. Ii
The Goodland Rain-making Company
s said 70 be contracting with farmers in |
y estern Kansas counties at an average
i 81 600 per county. Il
A Kansas woman, who held man up
i u revolver point and went through
lis pockets, has been sent to the peni-
entiary for two years.
Governor Nelson of Minnesota has
igned the anti-scalper bill, which be-
ONES law April Is next. Scalpers |
ay they will contest it. q
According to q recent decision ii ia an
ttense against the laws Of the United !
tates to send 0 dunning or scurrilous Q
lessage on postal card.
Electric roads in Ohio are 10 numer- J.
ns that there is a prospect Of 80 many
eng jammed together as to form a
'ntinuous line across the State.
As o result of the immense crops Of
rain harvested the last two seasons in
outh Dakota, that State is this spring
aving the heaviest immigration in ten
ears.
The first grain fleet Of the season has
cared from Chicago with 11,0OO,O 600
lshels. Notwithstanding the severe .
inter, navigation has opened earlier :
IAN usual.
The wonderful influence Of the sun on :
nth is shown by the fact that during
g than three minutes while the last
lipse was total the temperature fell
rec degrees.
The receipts from water rates in Chi 4
60 during the last fiscal year aggre- :
ted 1850, 1862, and the operating ex-
nses were only q, ,170,O98. This leaves
profit Of 1885, ,S54.
Steel caskets for the bodies Of those i
70 die suddenly on shipboard are or
ing carried on many Of the transatlan-
Liners. The remains are placed in
EN- and Theoretically sealed. .
The Supreme Court ofthe United States W.
8 had occasion to declare itself on the
estion whether singular or plural pro-
urs ought to be used in speaking Of IN
United States. The Court sustains n,
constitutional form, "The United ~
ties are.n
Iohn Railey, Tennessee farmer in
I'd luck, has just been made happy by
receipt Of 1856 from Frank X. Wall
IN Of Reading, Pa, being in full pay O.
Mt with 0 per cent interest for horse
ich Walldran, then o soldier, appro-
ated from Railey's stable in 1864.
n the effort to keep New York's Hol
,ets clean four hundred red barrels Ho,
10 haan s.iAnaH a. fha nf,rs, s,r. .f Tf..t5 IIo,