The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-11-24
American Protective Associa-
tion Increasing.
THE SMALLPOX IN INDIANA.
The Sender Of q Challenge to Fight
Q Duel Sentenced to the Pen
itentiary In Alabama.

Chlcago proposes 70 settle right down
| to business now.
A sixth bridge Is To be built across the
Ohio river at Cincinnati.
The State tax levy for Illinois has been
made. 1t calls for $2,500,0OO.
, The Salvation Army has opened ten
days campaign at Galveston.
Dengue fever in mild form has made
Its appearance at Sherman, Tex.
The Viking ship has started on its
trip from Chicago to New Orleans.
Gold quartz, assaying s46 ton, has
been struck in Northern Minnesota.
| Quebec Is being ravished by virulent
typhoid fever caused by bad drainage.
The Indiana Supreme Court has
knocked out the saloon screen ordinance.
The driveways Of Central Park, New
York, are to be lighted by incandescent
lamps.
The smallpox epidemic continues with
out abatement in the infected regions in
Indiana.
The present fad in New York Is said to
be the answering Of dinner invitations
in rhyme.
Arrangements are being made to win
ter an immense number OF Texas cattle
in Mississippi.
Worlds Fair stockholders probably
will receive dividend OF 10 per cent on
their investments.
The American Protective Association
is reported to be growing rapidly in
Northern Indiana.
A secret order known as the Pension
ers' Protective Association is being or
ganized in Illinois towns.
Claims under the Missouri diseased
stock law threaten depletion Of the SUR
plus in the State Treasury.
A large number Of silver dollars not
made by the government have been put
in circulation in West Virginia.
A company has been formed at West
Plains, Mo-, with ample capital to de-
velop the onyx Of Douglas county.
Gail Hamilton is still working for the
liberation Of Mrs. Maybrick, imprisoned
in England for poisoning her husband.
An Alabama jury has convicted the
sender Of challenge to fight a duel. He
will have two years in the penitentiary.
A pauper census Of the State OF Min
nesota shows in June last there were
1884 paupers, against 4,S69 the previous
year.
Captain Anderson ia deairous Of pre-
senting the Viking ship to this govern
ment, it to be kept permanently at the
capital.
Louisiana sugar is being marketed
rapidly, and the result is considerable
relief already in the financial situation
in that section.
Revenue officers have decided that
North Carolina distillers must pay tax
on three gallons Of whisky for every
bushel Of corn used.
During the fishing year just closed at
Gloucester, Mass, fifty-seven fishermen
have been lost, and ten vessels, valued
at $60, 1000, have been wrecked.
Governor Lewelling Of Kansas has ap-
pointed Mrs. Eva Blackman a member
OF the Topeka Police Commission, vice
Populist member whom he removed.
The number Of paid admissions to the
Columbian Fair during the ITO days that
II was open to the public was 2l AT ,2l8,
being an average Of 1l9,9S41a per day.
Senator sherman's real estate holdings
at Washington are rated on this years
tax list at 100000. He Is about the
heaviest individual taxpayer at the cap
ital.
It Is understood that the United States
Supreme Court will be asked to order
the naturalization OF Chinaman, with
view Of testing the anti-Chinese legis-
lation.
Brooklyn officials intend establishing
q squad Of police to protect pedestrians
from the danger Of the trolley cars. A
similar squad does duty on Broadway,
New York.
Cornelius Vanderbilt paid $3.50, 900 for
the old Seventh Regiment clubhouse in
order to pull 1t down and make a flower
garden on its site for his new Fifth-aye-
nue. mansion.
The President has appointed Colonel
George B. Rugges to be Adjutant. GEN
eral Of the army with the rank Of Brig
adier-General, to succeed General Will
Jams, retired.
About 250000 photographs were de-
stroyed al the Postoffice Department In
Washington on the 23th utimo. They
represented the accumulation in the
dead-letter Office since 1874.
A suit has been instituted at Madison,
Wis, which involves Governor Peck,
Attorney-General 0'Connor and other
State officers in an attempt to get at the
State funds in the Treasury.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed
an ordinance declaring poolrooms public
nuisances and making owners Of build
ings rented for poolrooms and their fre-
quenters guilty Of misdcmeanor
Tho pon~ayna Cnurt of tha TInitad .