The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-04-14
Florida Orange Crop Probably
the Largest Known.
THE PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN.
Nebraska viii Elect Her Presidential
Electors Hereafter by Congress
sional Districts.

Western wheat-crop prospects are not
encouraging.
Another epidemic Of grip is threatened
in New York.
In 1892 the railroads in Pennsylvania
killed l ,4S9 persons.
!, A case Of malignant typhus has APP
peared in Cincinnati.
The Worlds Fair has taken in $780,
900 in admissions already.
A syndicate is reported to have pur-
chased the New York Times.
Nearly 400 applications for patents
were made last year by women.
! The Treasury Department has plenty
OF gold for all practical purposes.
Arkansas proposes to tax all sleeping
car, express and telephone companies.
| The new iron-pipe combine in the
Southwest will have $2U, 100000 capital.
| Americans can now buy bait in New
foundland without taking out a license.
| An artful New York Italian has made
about $1,000 by raising 81 bills to $5 bills.
A bank, exclusively for the colored
race, has been organized at Admission,
Ala.
Cattle in the Colorado country win
tered exceedingly well during the late
cold spell.
New York's Board Of Electric Control
Is still laboring to get the wires under
ground.
The Cherokee Strip will not be opened
to settlement in time for the planting OF
spring crops.
The Atlanta Constitution is earnest in
declaring that Georgia is entitled to 2, 800
Federal offices.
Two ex-Auditors Of Illinois are being
sued for the recovery Of interest on State
money placed in banks.
Thomas Helm Of Austin, Tex, offers
$500 to any one who will secure his ap-
pointment as Postmaster at that place.
Governor Northern Of Georgia'is tired
Of politics, and has become enamored
with the life Of religious missionary.
The right Of saloon-keeper to eject
female crusaders from his premises is to
be tested in the Illinois Supreme Court.
The trial trip Of the cruiser New York
has been every way successful. All
cruiser speed records have been sur
passed.
A Chicago syndicate of capitalists is
contemplating the establishment Of an
extensive Westinghouse plant in the
City Of Mexico.
1t is learned positively that dispatch
has been received from Oxford by the
Yale Boat Club opening negotiations for
an international race.
The City Electrician Of Nashville,
Tenn, states that it would be very dam
gerous for women wearing crinoline to
cross the electric car tracks,
Rumors Of shortage have led the
Randolph County tMo.) Court to begin
an investigation Of the books Of County
Treasurer Matlock Of that county.
For a long time hitherto New York
city bonds have sold at a premium in all +
the markets Of the world Some new 8
per cents have been selling at par.
AWashington special to the New York
Herald says that President Cleveland has
finally made up his mind to call an extra
session Of Congress next September.
The Union Club Of New York has en-
gagged Captain Charles Perry Smith, late
OF the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, as
its Superintendent at salary Of 5000
year.
The Delmonico Restaurant at New
York viii have to move from its we'll
known stand in May. The Wormser
Brothers, bankers, have bought the
property.
A friend Of the Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia, has presented the institu-
ton with 10000, with which to pay for
a new building for the 0ut-patient De-
partment.
A bill providing for the election Of
Presidential Electors by Congressional
districts has passed the Nebraska House,
and is likely to pass the Senate and be-
come law.
The Lower House Of the Kentucky
Legislature has declared against the
marriage Of cousins on the ground that
children Of such marriages are frequently
weak-minded.
The United Brotherhood Of Switchmen
held a secret meeting at Philadelphia.
No definite resolution was formed as to
a strike when business is crowded dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
There are on file in the Postoffiee De-
partment more than 5000 designations
Of Postmasters. These cases will be
considered and disposed Of before any
cases Of removals are takenup.
The admission fee to the Worlds Fair
grounds will shortly be raised from 25
cents to so cents, TO discourage visitors
until the work, which must now be
pushed night and day, is completed.
The result Of the efforts to increase the