The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-11-17
A Kansas Nan Convicted on
Thirty-fve Counts.
APPENDICITIS ON THE INCREASE
An Effective Measure Being Taken
to Close Gambling and Pool
Rooms In st. Paul.

Large beds OF porcelain clay have been
discovered in the Cherokee Strip.
A war Of determination against oleo-
margarine has begun in Pittsburg.
Opposition to the electric railroad at
Gettysburg has apparently died out.
Nearly $4,000 is paid for pensions to
firemen in New York city every month.
The grand jury Of Baxter county, Ark,
has indicted sixty persons for au airing.
A. G. Burnham OF Champaign, H.,
has given 10000 to found q hoscital in
the town.
New York is developing bountiiul
harvest OF cranks since the Harrison
murder in Chicago.
Crop failures and the opening Of the
Cherokee Strip have almost depopulated
Southwestern Kansas.
Survivors Of the recent floods In Lou
isiana propose to establish 8 colony OF
1000 families in Colorado.
The tobacco crop in the Housatonic
Valley, Conn.,, hiss an estimated value Of
IS, ,000, 900, the highest on record,
The expectation OF coke has recently
become a feature OF Baltimore's trade.
Alarge supply is dispatched every month
to Mexico.
The United Press has taken up its
abode at Washington, D, c., in suite
OF ten OF the handsomest newspaper
rooms in the country.
A society has been formed in Balti-
more, the avowed object Of which is to
assist in perpetuating the memory Of
Christopher Columbus.
There is talk OF transporting the New
Hampshire State building at the Chicago
Exposition to Manchester, N. H., and
turning 1t into public museum.
1t has been suggested that the many
duplicate volumes in the Congressional
Library be made the nucleus OF free
circulating library for Washington.
G. o. Beardsley has been convicted on
thirty-five counts Of selling liquor ille-
gally at FL Dorado, Kan. His fine will
be "a, 800 and his Jail sentence ,050 days.
After careful investigation the New
Orleans Times-Democrat states that the
oyster industry OF Louisiana was not So
rioualy injured by the late severe storms.
Encouraging results are said to be OBJ
tanned from the exploration Of the Pie
dras Negras coal mines Of Mexico, which
is being made for the G. P. Huntington
interests.
Within twenty-iour hours after the
Battle Creek disaster on the Grand
Trunk railroad fifty lawyers were on the
ground looking for damage suits on the
percentage plan.
The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
has decided that a man is justified in
stopping dog fight, and II he gets Bit
ten while doing it, the master Of the dog
is liable for damages.
The Medical Society Of New York has
adopted report calling attention to the
danger Of drinking water from the aver
age water tank, as found in railway cars
and other public places.
Most Of Wisconsin's fine fish exhibit
at the fair will be taken to foreign lands
to further experiments in propagation.
The Chicago public schools will receive
portion Of the display.
In view Of the alarming spread Of APP
pendicitis prominent life insurance
company proposes TO insert the ques-
tion: do You swallow grape seeds2"
in It's application blanks.
Rev. Edward Bapley, pastor Of the
Christian Church at Washington, has
been selected to be Chaplain Of the
House by Democrats, to take the place
Of Rev. s. w. Haddaway, deceased.
The exhibits at Chicago Of grain and
rice from Mexico, Liberia and Trinidad
are to be disiniected, with the object Of
preventing the introduction in this coun-
try of insect pests not native to our soil.
| A Toronto capitalist is at niagara Falls
trying TO organize company to build q
bridge across the river for the exclusive
use Of trolley cars. He estimates that
the structure could be constructed for
$400, 600.
| The Real Estate Congress at the
Worlds Fair developed the fact that the
site OF Chicago was marked rs q trading
post on La Salle's map, made in in 1900,
and that it was then designated " She
kaw-gu."
| Albert Abbink at the 81. Louis MO-
city hospital is suffering from q disease
called ancliylostomum dodenale, the ef-
feet OF which is TO render him as white
as marble. Even his tongue, gums and
finger nails are devoid Of all color.
w. II. Riley. senior member Of the
large dry goods importing house Of W.
| II. Riley & Co. Of New York and Paris
has been arrested in the latter city and
charged with entering imported goods al
the custom-house by means Of false in
voices, by means Of which the govern
ment has been deirauded.
i News from Washington intimates that
the naval force Of the United States in
Brazilian waters is being reinforced tt
counteract the influence Of Germany and
England, which Is exercised in favor o.
\ Mello and to the disadvantage OF tho
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