The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-03-17
|Salina Offers a Large Bonus for the
Capitol Of Kansas.
TWO BORDER BANDITS CAPTURED.
Hard Times for Working People in New
York-Bad Effect Of a Graphic
Pulpit Picture Of Hell.

A suicide club Of fifty members has
been formed at Bridgeton, N. j.
1t is now denied that sole leather
trust has been formed at Boston.
The present severe winter has been q
bonanss for the Florida hotelksepers.
The convict mining war troubles are
threatening to break out in Tennessee.
Missouri Commissioners are ordered
to raise the figures Of railroad valuation.
Congress is to investigate the employ
ment Of substitutes by department
clerks.
Ansonia, Conn, Is to have sidewalk
made Of imperfect pins and pin scraps
rusted together.
A St. Louis woman has applied for q
patent to cover the processes Of making
"sweet-potato -four"
Based ON the recent school census
Connecticut'a population is now 81 900
larger than 1t was in 1880.
Two more Of the followers Of Catarina
Cara have been captured by American
troops on the Texas bordera
The Bethlehem Iron Works have been
awarded contract for over $1,000, 900
worth Of heavy armorplate.
There has been unusual mortality
among the animals in the New York
Central Park .'Zoo" this winter.
Not one Ghinaman in Boston has reg.
istered under the Geary act, and only
one in the State Of Massachusetts,.
Allen G. Thurman has proposed the
silver dollar for national bank note ba-
ale as q solution Of the currency question.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
road will elevate all its tracks in Chicago
at the expense, 30 it is printed, Of s24,-
000,0O0.
Strong anti-race meetings are being
held in New Jer,ey in opposition to the
bill passed by the Legislature legalizing
horse-racing
A movement is on foot in Hoboken to
put the Catholic Darochial schools Of
that city under the Fairbault system Of
rchbishop Ireland.
The sayre election bill, which disfran-
chises 10000 negroes in the State, has
passed the Alabama Senate and been
signed by the Governor.
The citizens Of Salina, Kan, have
pledged 100000 and twenty acres Of
land to the State for the removal Of the
State capital to that place.
The people Of Norfolk, Va, are ar
ranging for great times during the rem
dezvous Of the nsyies Of the world in
Hampton Roads in April and May.
The typographical survey OF Connect
cut just completed shows its area to be
1904 square miles or $40 square miles
greater than given by some authorities.
The recent town elections in the State
OF New York show that both parties 70.
tain practically their relative strength
Of last year in the Boards Of Supervisors.
The dam across the Colorado at Au.-
tin, Texas, will cost 81, ,4OO, 900, stand
sixty feet above low-water, and will sup
ply l4,bOO-horse power, besides the
towns water.
kilograms have been sent to Speaker
Crisp, asking that the government open
the Cherokee 6tripor appropriate money
to feed the people who are starving
while waiting.
The colored teachers at Atlanta have
passed resolutions declaring their grati-
fication because Of the appointment OF
Hoke Smith as member OF Mr.. Cleye-
land's Cabinet.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
made fresh appropriation of $l65, 900
10 be added to the considerable aum
already expended ior the determination
oi the gypey moth.
suburbans find an argument for an
nexation to New York in the fact that
some great money-lending corporations
are forbidden to invest in real estate out
tide Of New York city.
State Department officials at Washing
ION disclaim any knowledge OF the re-
ported defalcation in the office OF Com
New at London. They place
no reliance in the story.
Although they will cost 1000 apiece,
liquor licenses have been applied for by
100 people in Philadelphia. 1t is esti-
mated that considerably less than one
lali that number will be granted.
Some Of the unstable Worlds Fair
,oins have been bought by New York
eweler and made up into various arti.
lies. A few have been made to serve as
ids to little purses Of silver mesh.
The Michigan Gas Company, engaged
n piping natural gas to Detroit, and the
Detroit and Mutual Gas-light Company
we're last week consolidated, the new
;ompany having capital Of $4,000, 900.
Last year generously disposed persons
n the United States contributed In sume
i $4,000 and upward no less than $29,-
6l ,927 for purposes Of education, char
ty and popular entertainment in various
Drma.
II is hard times for working people In
lew York when potatoes are selling for
l.50 per huahel, while pork or other
neats are one quarter higher than last
inter. Wages continue low, and work