New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-22
TIE GIST OF CHICAGO MATTERS.
MR. ARMOURS NEW SCHEME-CANADIAN
PACIFIC ANRITiO HORSES FOR FOOD.
iBr TELEGRArH TO Tile TRIRTaRI


CHICAGO, Jan 21.-Thc managers Of insurance com
panes here are in great state of excitement over
the accidental discovery made only few days ago,
that shortly tefore the adjournment OF the Territorial
legislature OF Dakota bill passed providing
that " in all where publication of legal notices
Of any kind Is required by law the person desiring
such publication shall be required pay % cents
Ier square of twelve lines of nonparcil type for the
first Insertion and so cents per square for each sub
sequcnt Insertion" This law will make advance
Of from S54 to s24O for each publication of the
statements of insurance companies which by law he
latter required 10 publish in districts Tho in
surance men say they will not submit to 1t and
threaten to suspend their Dakota agencies.
An application has been made to the License De
partm Mt by two enerprsing citizens for permission
10 open market for the sale of horse meat in this
city. number of physicians havo been interviewed
the subject and they unite in declaring that there
is no reason why the license should not be granted,
provided broken down diseased horses are used
Unless tho projectors of the scheme contemplate
making horse flesh popular that the people VIII
pay high price for il as luxury, 1t is difficult to
how the plan would pay. If their purpose Is to
compete with tho beef butchers In prices II may
reasonably be supposed that they do not intend to
be very particular about the condition Of the
horses they buy, provided they cheap
II is stated that at Warrentown a town tho
OF. Idul TOdu dDOnI thlIlN mics from TIC CITY, MI
p d. Armour is sinking a well with the hope of
finding natural gas Another feature of the enter
prise IS the purchase of all tho surrounding farms by
Mr. Armour, Who 1t is reported, has secured con-
tracts large of land in the vicinity. Those
Who informed of the facts have we'll developed
suspicion that the shops Of tho ST. Paul road may
be established there. but whether the well is an In
cidcnt TO tho erection of the shops on the shops
dependent upon the success OF the we'll seems to be
an unanswerable conundrum at the present time
The necessity for some better means of protection
at the railway crossings In the city was again shown
by the narrow escape which number OF passengers
I'm street had at of the crossings the other
night. train crashed into tho street car. and 1t
was q miracle that no killed To give some
idea of the number Of lives sacrificed by the absence
Of proper precautions 1t be mentioned that during
tn first year twenty-seven people we're killed In
Chicago at the railway crossings of the Northwestern
the Milwaukee and ST. Paul and the Lake Shore
Railways
Chicago is to have weekly paper modelled
after " The London Truth" Its projectors are Mr.
Reginald De koven and Mr.. Ii. b. Smith. OF Begum7
fame. ana the financial hacker OF the affair is Mr.
Hobart Taylor rich young bachelor of some thirty
years OF age MIR. Taylor is prepared TO put up
SlOO'oOo for the new venture. Mr Smith and Mr.
weekly casd The RamOeT ne The psper was
not success and after short existence died.
One of the incorporatOrS Of tho company which pro
6ch
market has received alton from tha T,,oa
States Fish Commission speaking favorably Of he
scheme. and he states that COmmis soper GooSe ,r
proves the idea Of the combined fish expoSton "a
MAJ ket Another letter from DR.. A. ". Morris snc
gess that there he added TO the aquarium a batcbsrv
for the distribution OF Government fish to points in
the West and Southwest. making Chicago a great
centre Of supply.
The General Manager Of the Canadian Railroad. who
was here this week. predicts that within year they
VIII be able to take passengers from Europe
iokohoma In twenty days. line OF very fast
steamships Is TO be run in connection with the rail-
way from England TO Halifax, TO which point the
ROAD Will build a line from Montreal. At Vancouver
they viii have steamers that make the trip to
Yokohama Ia eleven days
The four weeks engagement Of Mr.. Irving and Miss
Terry al McNickei"s, which ends with this afternoons
pefiormance Is the most successful tina, they have
piayed In Chi ago. and that ia spite of very bad
weather most OF the time. The irving company leave
nge abo nj z O'Clock tonight and are duein Boston
Sunday night.
nj, ma rs Dudley Warner seems TO be ENJOYING his
81 10 .hlcago and goes out into society great deal
"' runners, receptions and other festivities have