The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-23
Total immigration During Ten
Month Ended April 80.
SOUTHERN PACIFIo's REPORT.
Reduction of Freight Rates From
New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Points Does Good.

The church taxation bin was defeated
in the Michigan House by vote OF 81
i TO 30.
The Texas Central is looking owe,
ground for its proposed extension in
Mexico.
/ Philadelphia wants new mint build
ing. The money is appropriated for o
new site.
/ Governor Flower OF New York is worth
several million dollars, and be is taxed
for $4,000,
Thousands OF acres Of land have been
laid waste in Southern Arkansas BY the
recent floods.
Joseph Pulitzer OF the World has given
500, GOO to the building fund Of the Co
lumbis College.
The Railroad Tax Assessors Of Kansas
are being urged by popular clamor to in
crease the taxes.
Dunn, chief Of the weather bureau,
| promises one of the warmest summers
we have ever experienced.
The Bell Telephone Company has Sc
cured an injunction against the Mckees-
port Company at Pittshurg.
A company has been chartered in
Kansas to print and circulate campaign
matter for the Peoples party.
| Kansas crops are improved. Wheat il
giving better promise, and the corn acre
age will be larger than usual.
Seventy furniture factories at Cincin-
natl have closed. This is the answer to
the demands OF the workmen for nine
hours and other concessions.
Tammany is in clover. The Governor
of New York did not veto the bill that
gives Tammany Sl0,000,0O0 dock inn
prOyements.
Since Jay Gould's death the "Gould
stocks" heve suffered shrinkage OF
more than s50,0O0000, and one-hali Of
this tails upon his estate.
Rev. DR., Lyman Abbott in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, Saturday referred to
Or. Briggs as modern prophet, fit to
rank with the prophets Of the Bible.
Michigan health officers are accused
By Canadian papers Of working DO
miniOu railways under threats OF inter
fering with their traffic arrangements.
Hundreds Of English sparrows have
built their nests in the Worlds Fair
buildings, and before the show closes
they will have increased to thousands.
Representative W. L. Wilson of West
Virginia, who is Cleveland's choice for
Chairman Of the Congressional Ways
and Means Committee, iayors anineome
tax.
The Kansas millers are buying wheat
outside Of The State for July and Sep
tember delivery for fear that the home
crop pwill not meet their grinding require
ments.
Late reports from South Dakota and
Nebraska state that cholera has wiped
out whole herds Of hogs, and that the
scarcity will be greater than it was q
year ago.
The st. Luke's Hospital property on
Fifth avenue, New York, has been sold
for ~, 100000 in cash 10 an unknown
millionaire one report says to Coils p.
Huntington.
A call from some OF the prominent la
dies Of Boston for q fund to provide
rocking chairs for aged women unable to
buy them was responded to by contribu-
tions amounting to over 500.
General Boynion in a letter in the
Washington Post saws the demand Of the
old soldiers is that the pension roll shall
he made roll OF honor, and wedding
out Of the undeserying il necessary.
The total immigration to the United
States during the ten months ended
April 30, 1893, was 1874, 1926, a decline Of
1l9, 1888 from the immigration Of the cor
responding ten months Of the previous
wear.
The annual report OF the Southern Pa
cific Company Ethe entire system) for
the year ending December 3, 1892, shows
net earnings Of $17 ,60S, 1905, against sl9,-
2s6.2O4 in 1892, being decrease Of ST.
G02, ,203.
1t is reported in Washington that At
torney-General 0lney and Assistant Sec
retary Of State Quincy will resign at an
early date, and that there is q chance for
a Pacific Coast man getting one OF the
positions,
The Eastern railroads find it difficult
to maintain rates during the Worlds
Fair. The latest scheme for getting
around the agreed schedule is reported
from Cincinnati, where one railroad dis
trihuted circulars offering trip to the
fair and return and weeks board for
SIG.
DR.. Briggs, who was convicted Of her
esy By the last General Assembly, says
it is high time that all broad-minded
men should organize and work together
for their own safety as well az for the
honor Of Presbyterianism. Hecalls upon
the Presbyterians to resist the encroach-
ments upon their rights by the General
Assembly.
The reduction Of freight rates from
New Orleans to the Pacific Coast points
has given an impetus to the rice trade,
Louisiana merchants being able To com