The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-29
EASTERN ITEMS.


Navigation on the Mississippi above
Cairo, H., is practically suspended.
A whole fleet Of lake craft is stuck in
the ice foe at the head Of Lake Erie.
Minnesota has passed a law that all
substitutes for butter shall be colored
pink.
An anti-cigarette crusade has been or
ganized in the public schools Of New
York.
Congressman Holman Of Indiana has
succeeded to the title Of Father OF the
House,
Oklahoma has now more population
than any other Territory, except per-
haps Utah.
At the present rate the Treasury deficit
BY the end Of fiscal wear will amount to
$50, ,0O0, 900.
Reading, Pa, is to have a sewage
pumping station, with daily capacity
OF 5,OO0, 900 gallons.
For the first time in years book-mak-
ing on horse races is carried on at
present in Philadelphia.
An appropriation Of $1,000 900 will
be asked Of Congress to improve the
harbor OF Duluth, Minn.
Attorney-General A. G. Smith Of In
diana receives fees, ii is said, to the
amount Of $4,000 year.
Under the new rules for the prevention
OF forest fires New York did not have
any serious ones the past year.
A bill is to be introduced in the Ohio
Legislature looking to the regulation, il
not the suppression Of football.
Five hundred and twenty Mississippi
convicts were hired out to cotton plant
ers at $3.50 per month per head.
The Cleveland tO.) street-railway
authorities give 800 to all conductors
who serve year without accident.
The Savannah News expresses the fear
that the large shipments Of oranges now
being made from that city may glut the
Eastern markets.
Next spring newly organized COM
pany proposes to build and operate an
electric trolley railway between Buffalo
and Niagara Falls.
Revenues have come short OF expendi-
lures about $30,0O0,000 thus far this
nscal year, and only five months OF the
year have expired.
President Cleveland has summarily
from office the Postmaster Of
Topeka, Kan. for kicking out seventeen
letter carriers.
BOston's census Of the unemployed
ixes their number at 10000, and her
eading citizens are moving toward some
action for their relief
Ex-President Harrison has nearly
ompleted the lecture he is to deliver at
be Stanford University. He will leave
or California early in February.
Two new members Of the Aster family
AVE been discovered by New York's
tate Botanist. This swells the -Four
hundred to Four Hundred and Two.
1t is estimated that 81, ,OO0, 900 worth OF ,
he Wisconson tobacco crop is tied up" /
d warehouses in that State, uncertainty
8 to the tariff making buyers conserv-
tive. i
A movement is on foot at Chicago to {
rect monument to the memory OF /
layOr Harrison on the Administration
laza, where the Columbian bell now
tands. 4
Rev. Mr.. White Of Brooklyn, known 1
fame as the marrying minister, = !
'ho never turned away a loving couple, /
dead. In his life he married l4,000 a
eople. 1
The 7" danse du ventre," (which created 4
lch sensation at the Chicago Fair, u
as been suppressed in New York on |
he ground that it is brutal and dis d
lsting. c
II is said that the University Of Chi y
lgo will publish magazine intended =
be rival Of the Century and repre- :
'ntative Of the thought and tendencies 7
the West. q
1t is estimated that damage to the 4,
,tent Of at least $4,000,OO0 has been Il Il
used TO the crops in the Northwest y y
lring the present year by weed known :, q
the Russian thistle. 1;
The old parish prison at New Orleans is
Is been sold for $ll,0O0 II was from al
is building that eleven Italians, o
arged with killing Chief Of Police Il
ennessy, were taken and lynched. 10
The gross receipts Of the Yale Prince u
n football game at New York on 81
lanksgiving day were s4l 900; ex- d.
nses, $4,000; leaving $4,000 to be I'll
ually divided between the colleges.
Commissioner Miller estimates that ,
| ,0O0, 900 will be necessary to pay the "
unity on this seasons sugar crop. A -
ilifornia firm has filed claim for W
unity on l5,0O0,O00 pounds Of beet " u
gar. ~
The Georgia Legislature has declared ~
free coinage of silver and denied the y
.ht Of the national government 10 y
Eerfere with, restrict or regulate the pu
ue of paper currency by authority Of y =
D State Legislature. u u
rhe New York Presbytery has adopted =
esolution declaring that in loyal COM =.