The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS News Notea.

1He Iowa nIrLiaceuClca ASSOCIATION
resolved that all members should let their
permits lapse and not renew them.
Will Hubbard Herman, the former editor
per called the Free Lance at Kansas City.
Thh great strike at the Edgar Thomp.
son steel works was declared off by Dis.
trict Master Workman Doyle, OF the
Knights OF Labor.
The committee on admission OF dele
gates to the Methodist conference: decided
against the admission OF women delegates
and declared their seats vacant.
All the boys employed as ''off. helpers
in the brick yards OF Kansas struck for an
advance from 81 to $1.25. Their de.
mands were acceded to in all but two
yards, leaving 60 of the strikers.
The city OF st. Paul, for the first time in
about twenty years, has elected a republi.
can city council. Out of seventeen mem
bers, eleven arc republican. About nine.
teen thousand votes were polled, but there
was only two-thirds OF the voters register.
ed.
The first Sunday under the operation OF
the new Ohio liquor law found a few def.
ant saloonkeepers in the outskirts OF Gin
%cinnati and on the hilltops selling liquor.
but as q general thing the law was observ-
ed, and the effect was noticeable in the alb
sence OF drunken people on the streets.
Out OF 2, 200 salo ons about fifty were re.
ported by the police as being open in VIC.
!ation of the law.
The directors of the Minneapolis & Pacif-
ic, Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Allan.
tic. Minneapolis & st. Croix and Aberdeen,
Bismarck & Northwestern roads have
formally approved the articles OF consoli.
dation OF the four companies. TIL action
OF the directors will now be submitted for
the approval OF the stockholders OF the
several lines. When the consolidation is
approved by the stockholders the names
OF the four lines will be changed to the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie.
The celebrated case between the Pull.
man and Wagner Car companies in regard
to the vestibule trains was decided by
judges Gresham and Blodgett in favor of
the Pullman company and enioining the
Wagner company from a further use of
these trains. The decision is based on the
validity of the Pullman patents. complete.
ly r~efuting the claim Of the Wagners that
the vestibule cars have been long in use in
other countries before Pullman obtained
his patents. The decision gives the Pull.
man company tho monopoly OF the man
ufacture OF vestibufe cars in this country.
There have been whisporings in Albany,
N. Y. OF a possible effort to impeach tho
governor on the grounds already develop.
ed by theFassett investigation committee.
Senator Fassett's absence gave some color
to the suggestion that he was preparing
articles vi impeachment. While tho Fas.
sett committee will continue it's investiga.
| tions after the legislature has adjourned
any steps toward impeachment must be
taken within ten days before the legisla-
ture has dissolved. It is doubtful whether
there is enough developed in the testimony
upon which to successfully inaugurate i'm.
parchment proceedings.
A sensation has been caused in the di-
vorce suit OF 8. w. Rawson, the Chicago
banker, by the arrest OF a colored servant
girl named Sarah Deneat, who some days
ago gave testimony before Examiner Hine
as a witness for the banker. The warrant
was sworn out by Mrs. Rawson at the sug
g~estion, OF her counsel. The warrant
charges that said witness testimony re-
garding alleged criminal intimacy with
Judge Lochtans was false in every particu.
lar and that the witness did commit wilful
and corrupt perjury. Mrs. Rawson says
that all reports to prove that she was or il
q had woman, have failed, and expects to
establish the charge Of perjury in this case
and trace it pack TO the persons who she
says induced the woman Deneat to make
statements that she did.