The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-27
The Eighty-fourth Parallel Of
the Pole Reached.
MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Large Number Of Deaths Csused by
the Recent Storm Below New
Orleans, Louisiana.

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The cotton crop is 40 per cent rt Of
last years yield in Southwest Te, J.
For 10 cents each children un, .r IL
are now admitted TO the Worlds I .ir.
Dengue or break-bone fever has made
its appearance at Corpus Christi, TEX,
Ex-Treasurer Green McCurtin Of Ok
lahoma is short $l04,727. He has dis
appeared.
A public library and literary resort ex-
clnsiyely for the blind has been opened
in Chicago.
The Ferris wheel at the Worlds Fair
has taken in the $500, 900 it cost and
$l00, 900 beside.
New York city will spend $4,000 to
make her day ut the Worlds Fair a
memorable success.
Many railway bridges have been swept
away BY floods in the Indian Territory
and Northern Texas.
Denver has contracted to ship to Eu-
rope by the way Of Galveston, Tex, 900
tons Of Colorado hay.
The Welsh in the United States claim
that they are in number as many as their
eountrymen in Wales.
The manufacture Of cigarettes shows q
remarkable and steady increase over
other forms Of tobacco.
The cruiser New York will be the first
United States vessel TO receive q battery
of Whitehead torpedoes.
Eight thousand men are employed on
the canal that viii carry the sewage Of
Chicago to the Illinois river.
In New York the grand jury has made
a presentment recommending that the
Office Of Coroner be abolished.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, has induced over 800 persons to
sign the pledge at Tuscola, La.
A Portland tMe.) furniture man, who
has failed for nearly sS00. 600, shows up
with less than 5000 worth OF assets,
The employees Of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad have agreed to accept
10 per cent reduction in wages until Jan
uary.
The chilly autumn weather has
brought sickness and death to the
0rientals on the Midway Plaisance,
Chicago.
The diminished price Of silver has
caused the shutdown Of many Mexican
mines and also greatly decreased the
revenue.
Contracts have recently been made for
between 800 and 1000 cars in Nebraska
for transportation Of last years corn and
hay crop.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett OF Tanner, W.
Va. gave birth to her twenty-ninth
child few days ago. All the children
are alive.
1t is safe now to number the deaths in
the recent storm below New Orleans al
1900 and over, and the loss in property
will be many millions.
The house Of the late Justice Bradley
formerly the Washington home Of Ste
phen A. Douglas, has been purchased by
Papal Delegate Satolli.
The Texas Associated Press has con-
tracted with the Associated Press for
period Of ten years and severed its con-
nection with the United Press.
A correspondent Of the New York Tri-
bune suggests the holding Of great
Worlds Fair at New York in 1900 to eel
ebrate the closing Of the nineteeth CEN
tury.
There is movement in Canada for
having national park created in the
Nepigon country, in order that the
trout fishing there may be eternally per-
petuated.
The New York Herald announces that
President Mcleod Of the New England
railroad has secured an entrance to the
center Of New York city with good termi-
nal facilities.
Fourteen members Of the Board Of
Of Patterson, N. j., have
been convicted Of making $40, 900 fraud
ulently in the purchase Of courthouse
for that town.
at present there are EeVenty-one pub
lie buildings in course Of construction in
the United States, and the plans for
frty-nine new ones, for which apprOpri-
ations have been made, are being pre-
pared in the Treasury Department.
Representative Caminetti has discoy-
cred way to avoid the heavy expenseof
Chinese who refuse to register.
He proposes that the government send
some Of the old war vessels going out Of
commission for that purpose.
The Standard Oil Company has bought
900 acres Of land near the lake front at
o., with the intention Of
erecting bigsteel plant capable Of turn
ing out 1900 tons per day. The location
is favorable for securing supplies Of
cheap coal and ore.
The Old Mary Washington monument
at Fredericksburg, Va, was pulled down
and the box in the cornerstone turned
oyer to the officers Of the Monument AS
sociation. The box was filled with water
and a confused macs OF pulp. None Of