The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-15
Edward Parker Deacon Now
in the Social Swim.
THE wHIFECAPs IN THE STRIP.
Large Number of Idle Miners on the
Gogebie Range Illicit Stills
Destroyed-Etc.

Nlti bC buAit hOhi obs lbuirs
Texas people demand cut in railway
rates to attract immigration.
Rhode Island has voted by large ma-
jority in favor Of plurality elections.
Several theaters at Cincinnati have
sued local union for damages for boy
colt.
The driveways Of Central Park, New
York, are to be lighted by incandescent
lamps.
i A concise" report Of the Worlds
Fair in twenty-five volumes is to be pub
lished.
The Kansas State Board of Dentistry
is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists Of
that State.
The President has removed Postmaster
Thomas Of Topeka Tor violating the civil
service law.
The next session of the Ohio Iegisla-
ture is likely to pass an act providing for
biennial sessions.
There is one child dependent on char
ity for support in every 100 inhabitants
in New York city.
The sale OF Columbian postage stamps
was only 81 ,000, 600 instead Of $2, 500, 600,
as had been estimated.
4 A whaling captain says 100 whales
were killed and let go sdrift in the Arc
tic seas the past season,
The widow OF Jim Fisk is living in
poverty in little wooden house in se-
cluded part Of South Boston.
Kansas City does not pay for her wa
ter, and the water-works company
threatens to cut off the supply.
Whitecaps are making things lively
for sooners" and lot jumpers in the
recently opened therokee Strip.
There is gigantic scheme to connect
New York and Chicago with an electric
railway. The time can be shortened ten
hours.
Pneumatic-tube mail-carrier service,
which Postmaster Coveney favors adopt
ing in Boston, can be made almost self
sustaining.
Officers Of the Guarantee Investment
, Company at Chicago have been convicted
Of using the mails in the interest Of a
lottery scheme.
Cincinnati's Mayor wants that city's
population to be swelled by 1900 by
annexing seventy-fve square miles in
Hamilton county.
Chicago hotel men complain that their
houses are deserted. A house that had
5000 guests month ago now has but
300; and SO it runs.
1t is estimated by the Register Of the
Treasury that only about SIS, 300, 900 Of
the registered bonds Of the United States
are now held abroad
B The discussion still goes on at Chicago
, about retaining the Worlds Fair struct-
ures in jackson Park as long as they can
2 BIZ preserved against decay.
The strike OF catchers and hookers
against 10 per cent reduction in wages
throws 900 men out Of employment in
the Newport (Ky.l rolling mills.
As result Of alleged boodling the
Mayor Of Omaha has been enjoined from
: approving franchise granted the local
; gas company by the City Council.
/, The idle miners on the Gogebic Range
/ in Wisconsin number about 1000. They
|, are in helpless condition, and measures
are being taken TO give them relief.
, The Boston and Maine road will abb
} sorb the Concord and Montreal and
Maine Central, together with another
: road yet unnamed, by longtime leases
: Prof. Marlowe Of the High School Of
2 Terre Haute, Ind, who sent his youne
I wife to her parents recently, telling her
. he no longer loved her, has been dis
missed.
9 The number Of distilleries operated
r during the year was 4,748, decrease O
,182 compared with 1892, but the de
B crease was wholly in the class Of fruit
8 distillers.
Predictions are made at Philadelphia
that the Knights OF Labor as an order
! cannot long exist. The way the manage
. ment has conducted business has beer
very unsatisfactory.
According to the last report Of th,
State Auditor OF Iowa there were 13l
farmers mutual insurance companies il
!, the State, which in 1892 carried owe
. $lO9, 100000 Of risks.
: The persistent ravages Of diphtherit
' in Philadelphia and the heavy resulting
: mortality during thief last two year
: make it imperative that no means shouIt
q be neglected which will give promise o
0 efficiency in the effort to stamp it out.
Y On each day Of the Chicago Fair tn,
a net receipts averaged s67,0g6. The tota
receipts from oil sources we're $28, ,l5l,
: 1853; total expenditures, s25, SAC, ,537
: balance, s2,6l0,8Sl. From this are de
J. Quoted obligations to the amount o
Q $74S, ,l47, leaving net assets, $780,, ,48S
al Governor Tillman Of South Carolins
v roasts the Supreme Court, using su,l
: expressions as "the tall wags the dog ;
I and judicial insolence" Referring i,
q railroad litigation the Governor says th,
4 unluclv marriage hetWeen the dipnits