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Eight thousand employees Of the
Chicago packing:houses struck on
Friday against the effort of the en-
ployers to return to ten hour work
ing day.
Thos j. Cluverius was sentenced
in the Hastings Court of Richmond
to be hanged December 10, for the
murder of his cousin, Miss Fannie
Lillian Madison.
Twentythree persons are known
to have been killed by the explosion
of La Mascotte, on the Mississippi riv-
or and it is feared that there are
other victims.
The Hindoos tied squealing pig
in the grand mosque Of the Moham-
medans at Delhi, which SO enraged
the latter that riot ensued in which
several persons were killed.
Margaret Link, aged 60, and her
daughter, aged Is, were burned to
death in fire in Cincinnati Sunday
morning.
Frauds have been discovered in
the settlement of the accounts ofthe
state of Indiana with the federal
government.
Margaret Halligan, employed rs
cook in Toronto, has fallen heir to a
large plantation in Mississippi by
the death Of a brother.
Chauncey M. Depew has been Sc
lected as orator on the occasion OF
the unwilling of Bartholdi's Statute
OF Liberty.
The state board OF health OF Mis-
souri, has established a quarantine
for ninety days against cattle from
the infected countries in Illinois and
Indiana all of the state of Ohio and
the provice Of Quebec.
The marble capital OF Connecticut,
at Hartford, 800 feet long. is said by
engineers to be three inches longer
in summer than in winter.
A Fresno (Cal.) horticulturist re-
Gently picked LAO pounds Of april
cots from a single tree, grown on land
that five years ago was desert.
Natives Of northern states who are
residents OF North Carolina will hold
q convention at Raleigh October 26,
and invite their frieds in the north
to meet then there at that time.
Out Of 1890 cans of milk examin-
cd one day recently by the New York
health department, seventy were
found to contain adulterated milk.
The Louisiana orange crop will be
almost total failure. The freeze OF
last year did terrible damage. The
crop usually amounts to between 3d.
100000 and 50,000,000, but this year
will hardly be 1000, 900.
The southern part OF Grant coun
ty, Indiana, is being devastated by
hog cholera. One farmer states that
in his immediate neighborhood, not
less than 1000 have persisted. There
are not less than q hundred farmers
in the county who have lost from
thirty to sixty head, and hundreds of
others who have lost smaller numbers.
| Ground oats are first class food for
milk. Oats are q typical food for
muscle, and it may be said that what
ever food is well adapted to build
muscle or replace waste of muscle,
contains the albuminoids in proper
form for the production of milk
Bran is also q good addition to oat
meal. But these two foods do not
make complete milk ration.
In the New York dairy commission
er's report just issued, DR.. R. ID.
Clarke, of Albany, argues that oleo-
margarine, or artificial butter, is not
a wholesome article of food, on the
following: First, on account Of its
lindigestibility. Second, on account
of insolubility when made from ami
NAL fats. Third, on account OF it's
liability to carry germs Of disease into
the human system. Fourth, on ac-
count Of the probability of it's contain
ing, when made under certain patents,
unhealthy ingredients.