The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-04-05
miscellaneous News Notes.

:, The bill comforting municipal suffrage on
women, on final pasaage in the senate. OF
New York, was killed by vote Of 5 to Is.
Peter Brisbers. q saloonkeeper, OF Eau
Ciaire, Wis.,, beca me insane from drink and
attempted to kill his children. He was
jailed.
The will OF the late vice President Wheel.
er il being contested at Malone, n. Y. lilo
left $35, 900 to charities and SIC, COO t.
relatives, who are the contestants:
The nth annual report 81 the .Chicaso.
Milwaukee & st. Paul company shows the
gross earnings during 1887 were $35, 1866.
123; net earnings, $40, l55. 1874 de-
crease OF Sis, 7OS.
Mrs. Charles S. Steele has CONNIE ced
an action egAinst tn. St. Paul street rail.
way company for fifty thousand dollars
1or damages sustained in the cable car
accident. in which Mrs. Steele had her
nose broken and SUSTAINED other severe
injuries.
An important meeting of anthracite
managers was held in Philadelphia. It
was decided unanimously to maintain the
prices for anthracite during tho season OF
1889. beginning April l, and to regulate
the output OF coal 80 that the market shall
not be burdened by on over. production
this year.
In the United States circuit court at
Detroit Judge Brown ordered the sale OF
the Chicago 4 Canadian Southern tnilrond
under foreclosure unless the past intere st
On the first mortgage bonds, amounting to
50, 93l .O69.G7 is paid on or before Aug.
8 of this year. Among other conditions it
is provided that the road; shall not he sold
for less than $4,000 The sale will take
place in that city.
THO s1on;.;o,, rono.kl,
case ri the Bohn Manufacturing company
W.. Jameson ct al. by Judge wilkins of st.
Paul, il OF vast Importance to the work
ingmen OF the state. deciding. as it does,
the mechanical lien law OF 1887 to be un.
constitutional. The only question argued
was the constitutionality OF the new law,
and Judge Wilkin decided to be unconstitu.
tlonal, giving no reasons therefor.
There has been for several days an
agent at Austin. Mimi. for fancy oats,
charging SIS bushel for the seed, and
then making n contract for buying back in
the fall at the rate OF $40 u
farmer from Freeborn county gave his Sc
cured note for 5000 for forty bashcls and
holds contract to sell back eighty bush.
els for $40 a bushcl to the agent after
harvest.
The Manitoba is about to equip. it's line
between st: Paul and Minneapolis with
the Palmer torpedo railway signal, an APP
p!!ance which is 4 combination Of visual
and non. visual signals for preventing acct.
dents. 1t It's combnati ton Of semap!,ore and
torpedo signal. Whatever the semaphore
Is set ut danger a torpedo is automat.
'ca!ly placed in such position beside the
rail that the first wheel explodes it. 1t
can he manipulated either from q tower,
as an ordinary SWITCH or automa tically.
1t is proba bic that the appliance will also
he adopted on the Northern Pacific.
A convention to ta'e action against
trusts and monopolies was held at
Fargo. D. I. The attendance was light, but
farmer asitators from North Dakota and
Gay county, Slinn., were present. Smith
ottnnel was made temporary chairman,
and in taking the chair said that lie be-
l'eved the farmers should combine and
hold their wheat until the millers must
have it. tie did not think tho protective
tariff had anything to do with the farmers
troubles. England had free trade. and her
farmers were in q worse condition than
those Of this country, and trusts originated
IN England. Lyman Loriny OF Minnesota,
thought the tariff was the farmers bane,
and after further discussion Mcssrs. Slim
me'' James Hales and Lorfng were appoint.
Ell II committee to correspond with the
Kansas farmers antitrust monopoly. The
permanent organization is as follows:
Smith Stimmcl president; T.. A. Webb,
secretary; James Hales, treasurer.