Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-25

BY the Postal Telegraph Gable Cem-
pany ON the Union Pacific Roads
The Interstate CommIssioA to De-
| eide.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The interstate
commerce commission to-day received the
first application for proceedings against the
Pacific railroads under the ACT to require the
Pacific roads TO perform the obligations i'm
posed upon them by law in respect to tele-
graphic service and to make proper connec-
tions with such telegraph companies as may
desire it. The application is from the Postal
Telegraph Cable company, which has lines
extending from the Atlantic seaboard
throughout the northern States and which
also over the telegraph lines of the Canadian
Pacific has connection with the Pacific coast.
The company complains, however. that it
is unable to afford to its patrons the means
of reaching numerous important points now
rapidly growing up between the Missouri
river and the Pacific to which 1t desires to
extend the advantages of competition and
also that its connection over the Canadian
Pacific is insufficient for the purpose of COM
petition on the Pacific slope, besides being ct
times liable to interruption, and 1t asks OF
the commission that it make proper order
giving it means of connection over the Amer
lean Pacific roads, which are now giving ex-
elusive privileges to the Western Union. In
making this request the company say that
they do not seek to obtain any privilege or
service from any of the railroad companies
without making fair compensation. The
commission has taken the matter under con-
sideration and will announce its conclusions
at an early day.
Two Bills Vetoed BY the President.
WAsHIKeToN, D. c., Sept. 24.-The Presi-
dent to-day vetoed the House bill providing
for the disposal of the Fort Wallace, Kansas,
military reservation. The bill permits the
Union Pacific road to purchase within linn
tied time certain part of the military res
ervation, which ia particularly described, at
the rate of $50 per acre. The President says
that he is informed that this privilege might,
by reason of faulty description of the lands,
enable the railroad company to purchase at
the price named property in which private
parties have interests acquired under our
laws. It is evident that the description of
the land which the railroad is allowed the
option of purchasing should be exact and
certain for the interest of all concerned.
The President also vetoed the joint reso-
luton entitled "joint resolution to authorize
the secretary of the interior to certify lands
to the State of Kansas for the benefit of agri-
culture and the mechanical arts"
A Bullet Removed From His Brain.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Oficer John q "
Weinke underwent an operation yesterday to
obtain relief from an injury received in the
Haymarket riot May 4, 1886. Immediately
after the bomb exploded pistol bali struck
Weinke in the back of the head and lodged
under the skull At the hosuita1 the nhysi.
clans deemed the removal of the bullet not
necessary to his complete recovery and itwas
allowed to remain. At intervals since it has
troubled him greatly, sometimes causing him
the most intense pain for weeks at a time.
Yesterday afternoon Drs. Henrotin and Hoel-
scher operated for the removal of the bullet,
which was found completely covered with a
bony growth. The bullet had been fattened
into a shape resembling q horses hoof