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HOUSE BILL NO. 124.

A, act for The Protection of Employees
and LaborerS by making them Pre-
fered Creditors for Certain etGtms.
BE 1t enncted By the General Assemoty
Of The State Of Missouri, as Joftot0s:
Section /. That hereafter when the
property OF any company, corporation,
firm or person shall be seized upon by
any process of any courts of this state,
or when their business shall be sus-
pended by the action of creditors. or
be put into the hands of receiver or
trustee, then in all such cases the debts
owing TO labOrers or servants, which
have accrued by reason OF their labor
or employment to an amount not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars to each
employe, for work or labor performed
within six months next preceding the
seizure or transfer OF such property,
shall be considered and treated as pre-
ierred debts, and such labOrers or en-
ployes shall be preferred creditors, and
shall be first paid in full land if there be
not sufficient funds to pay them in full.
then the same shall be paid to them
pro rdtQ, after paying costs. Any such
laborer or servant desiring 10 enforce
his or her claim for wages under this
act shall present statement under
oath. showing tie amount due after al
lowing all just credits and set-offs, the
kind of work for which such wages
are due and when performed, to the
officer, person or court charged with
such property, within ten days after
the seizure thereof on any execution or
writ of attachment, or within thirty
days after the same may have been
placed in the hands of any receiver or
trustee; and thereupon it shall be the
duty of the person or court receiving
such statement to pay the amount Of
| such claim or claims 10 the person or
i persons eutitled thereto latter first pay
ing all costs OccasioDed by the seizure
of such prOnerty) ont of the proceeds
OF the sale of the property seized:
Provided, that any person interested
may contest any such claim or claims
or any part thereof by filing exceptions
thereto, supported by affidavit, with
the officer having the custody of such
property, and thereupon the claimant
shall be required TO reduce his claim
to Judgment before some court having
jurisdiction thereof before any part
thereof shall be paid. Z, : Il 81 z Z
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DIVORCES.

Hon. Carroll ID. Wright, our United
States commissioner of labor, has sent
in his special report on marriage and
divorce. The tables of statistics are
tull of curious information. The num-
Der of divorces granted IN the whole
country from 1867 to 1886, that is for
twenty years, was 32S,7l6. This does
not show Il happy average American
home, and will suggest whether our
method of match making il any i'm
provement on the eastern, where the
parents arrange most OF the prelim-
inaries. But worst of all is the increased
number of divorces from 1857 in the
first year of investigation to 25,5S5 in
the last year, an increase of l56. 09 per
cent. The increase of population dur
ing this time was but 60 per cent.
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n1vu or village containing two thou.

town or village containing two thou.
sand (2 .OOO) or more inhabitants.
Sec. 9. II shall be the duty of the
proper authorities charged with the
preservation of the public health in
The cities and counties of the state to
appoint one or more inspectors of cat
lie, sheep and swine for said counties,
who shall hold their offices for one year
and until their successors are appointed
and qualified, and whose authority
and jurisdiction shall be territOrially
co-extensive with the board 80 appoint
ing them. And said several boards
shall regulate the form of certificate to
he issued by such inspectors and the
fees to be paid them by the person ap-
plying for such inspection.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the 1D-
spectors appointed hereunder 10 in.
spect all cattle, sheep and swine to be
slaughtered for human food within
their respective Jurisdictions and within
"a hours before the slaughter of the
same, and if found healthy and in
suitable condition TO be slaughtered tor
human food, to give to the applicant
certificate in writing to that effect.
See. 4. Any person who shall sell,
expose or offer for sale for human food
in this state any fresh beef, veal, NUT
ton, lamb or pork whatsoever, which
has not been taken from an animal in
spected and certified before slaughter
by the proper local inspectors appointed
hereunder, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, aid. upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine OF
not more than 800, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding three months for
each OfIense.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this act shall be
construed to apply to or prohibit the
sale without inspection of canned
smoked, cured or salt meats.
This act shall take effect and be IL
force from and after its passage.
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A curious confirmation of the saying
that "murder will out" is reported in
the investigation of the murder Of
Thomas Wardell, the mine operator at
Bevier. Macon county, by striking
employees and their abettors. The
detectives in their Investigations made
the discovery that one OF The sho,s
fired at Wardell came from barber
shop, and that Immediately after the
firing bird dog belonging to the
barber rushed out of the shop and
after clrcling about, stopped at tie
body OF the mn' dered man. Irn2 10
it's cultivated instinct, the dog, intent
on retrieving the masters game, had
tonnd the dead man, and became a
dumb witness to the owners apparent
Uuilt
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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

Furnished weekly to the InteiIigcnccr by
Captain j. ID. Conner, recorder of deeds oi
Lafaye county, Mo.
Abstract of the deeds fled in the Office oi
Recorder OF Deeds from Saturday March o.
1889. to Saturday, March l6, ISS9. only
such as contain covenants of warranty con-
tanned In list.
ThOs. A. CatrOn to r. +. Downs.
2O acres, hf sw ne. 20, ii , 81 ...... s $50 90
Matilda Mccormack to james Z.
Eagan, 40 acres, NV NV, >, As. 2S... GEO On
Isaac w. AvIlt To Malcom Is.
AvItt, 80 acres, hi NV, =, AZ. - .. 2 0C0 90
Henry Durking to Aug. Erdman.
l3O acres. W hi ne; and 30 off slide
e bf NV, 10. 80, - l...... $500 90
Wellington Coal Company 10 Aug.
Leinburg, pit sc frac. IL, so, 2S; also
sirIp in same section except coal uu-
deriying. 100 90
A. h. Asbury, trustee, to Laura
IL. Logon, lot >, blk !, Asbury add
TO Hlgginsville ... ........ 100 OU
Geo. NJ. Dorman To VIM. White,
4O4 acres, W hi sw sw; also W hf NV
sw. 10; also pt sw NV, 10, A.. % .... 100 On
james 5 MuiiniX TO q. \. amp
bell, sw ne.5; and 90 acres of pIdc
NV So, 3, 4S, 100 on
Il. Wilson TO Laura W. Page, hf
lots l and 2, blk 2, Houx's add 10
GzB No instrument will be flied until the
ee IL paid. IN
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IRISH FAIrHFULNESS.

"Wbatever may be said for or
against the Irish people," observes a
writer in the Boston Traveller, "there
is certainly one respect in which they
may challenge the admiration of the
world, namely, in matrimonial fidelity.
In the recently issued tables giving
statistics Oh the subject OF divorce, after
finding that our own country leads in
having granted nearly hall a million
divorces during the twenty years, l
turn to the record of foreign lands TO
find that the European nations are
coming into competition. but. in look
ing against the name ireland l see
that there have been eleven divorces
throughout the length and breadth of
Erin. Protestant or Ca holic, in bappi-
ness or in abuse, the Irish continue the
partnership until it is dissolved by
1oath
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A M1d-Wlni er Blliad.

From Murray's Magazine.l
What tidings bore the boom AMI roar,
At parting of the day.
That from the north came laundering forth :!
A monarch on his way
Inspiring roll my inmost soul
To well-kuOwn signal thrills:
An army comes. with crash of drums,
Across the northern hills!
The dark sno v-cloud on Hiant proud,
Has spent its fury Wild:
And dawning blue, our sky anew
At stormy sunset smiled.
King Winter, hail! The trumpet gale
In frosty stiffness dies;
The moon shines bright on mountain white,
The bay unrIppled lies.
Twin evening stars. bright JOve and Mars,
Shine radiant and serene.
Supreme on high, while all the sky
Is lii with glOries keen,
Hail, wintry host! Hail. snow and frost!
Hail. monarch IN thv U'lIht!
With sunlights blaze. and hrief, glad days,
And splendOIs OF the nii;nL.
Flame, sunset glow, on peaks of snow,
And burn, clear evening sky;
Shine, winter moon. where diumOud-strewi
The gltterins mOOrlands lie.
Ice -fettered streams, like fairy dreams.
fringe of Jewels wear:
On waters lone, the cnrliDg-s
Rings sweet through frosty air.
Such prpsage bore the boom and roar.
VI parting Of the dty.
+ .rn the wild north 'hat thHndeI ell forth.
md died in calnI away.
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from the Columbia Herald I

Walter Williams, the bright young
editor of the Boonville Advertiser, has
accepted clerkship III the Missouri
penitentiary at 81, 800. We hate 10
see as talented a man as Williams leave
a field for which he is SO well fitted
and wherein there are such magnifi-
cent opportunities for development to
accept q clerkship, and, like the rest of
US, go off after lucre, but we wish him
well, aud hope he may soon return TO
the craft plethoric OF purse and full of
new energy to continue in his career
of usefulness.
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THE TOILERS' RANKS.

Reading, Pa. March 16.-rhe en-
ployes OF the Reading iron works
which shut down last week were
paid one weeks wages TO day. The
money is being raised to pay them
another installment next week. The
windows and doors of some of the
buildings have been nailed shut and
the 1000 employees anticipate long
period Of idleness. This feeling has
been heightened by the application of
some OF the creditors for the appoint
ment of receiver. The attorneys for
the corporation have expressed the
opinion that the reorganization of the
establishment will not be affected by
tho receivership proceedings.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-23
DOMESTIC ASTRONOMY.
From Harper's Young People.

IFTUW HHrptTS 1Oung People.
Grandmamma had been explaining
to the little girl how our earth is kepI
from flving off into infinite space by
the attraction of the sun, which is con-
stantly trying to draw the earth to-
wards itself, while the latter always
keeps its distance. "Grandma," said
the little girl, 81 should think the SUI
would get discouraged after a Will,
and let it go"
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-23
PONTOON BRIDGE.

The Sioux City and Nebraska Pon-
toon Bridge Co., recently let a contract
to Engineer Banks of Omaha for the
construction of pontoon bridge across
the Missouri river between that city
and the Nebraska shore at Covington.
The bridge will be $500 feet long, and
will cost Sl2 per foot, or $4l 900 Work
will begin March Is, or sooner, and
the bridge will be ready for travel by
lima
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a QUESTION OF ENDURANOE.

Fall River, Mass, March lG.-Fhe
first week of the wravers' strike
closes without any apprcciablr citHugc
in the situation and the question nov
settles down To one OF endurance Ear
manufacturers still express ."uti. .l"n""
that the wcavcrs will begin /" show
signs of weakness by Tuesday or We'd
nesday The strikers themselves dcuy
this claim and assert that they az" as
united as ever and that The mass meet
lug Tuesday morning will he ,h"
largest of the strike To-daN's meeting
was unanimous in favor of staying ont
and making determined struggle.
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Reveries of a Bachelor.

[COuntry Gentleman.
Methinks L hear him in the night,
Trying to Dacify from fright
And guarding from mosquitoes bite
Those twinlets
And as he bears one on each arm.
Longing In vain for peaceful calm,
He wishes 'em on baby farm
Those twinlets!
Laying each child upon its back,
He gropcs, to find the ipecac,
And steps bare footed on u tack
COnfound those twinlets!
He think, of freedom long ago,
And rest he can no longer know,
Aud wonders why should fate bestow
Those twInlets!
He envies then his old-tme friend,
Who time 'twixt stage and club may spend,
Secure from summons to attend
Those twiniets
Rail not, my friend, on loss of rest.
But nObly waves of effort breast.
And tn III shalt own that thou were blest-
With twinlets.
And after lapse of years a scere,
Methinks / Ope his library door,
See hopeful sultoT asking for
A twInIet.
And later, sttin" at hi. ease.
While fsir-haired cherubs climb his knees,
Methinks hear: "Fhank God for tia ese' =
The children Of those twinleis!
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MR.. WALTER WILLIAMS.
From the Mexico Ledger.J

Walter Williams, editor OF the Boom
vile Advertiser, has been appointed
book-keeper at the penitentiary. No
better appointment could have been
made, as Mr.. Williams is a young man
of fine attsinments and will make an
excellent officer. The press and the
public throughout Missouri are delight
ed with the appointment.
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4A!A.TETI:EI!,N7' A. ! ! 2, 7'1oN t!
The only and greatest living White Elephant holds
all his majestic splendor, he,dquar at
l.. SELVERNAN'S CORNER,

and owing to Wholesalers Reductions all grades of Liquors and
trust" the aforesaid powerful of all beasts has raised his
trunk this date strike out the heads and
stock of Whskes Liquors. Brandes Wlne
&c, &C., at the following reductions:
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Per Gal.
Ma 'and Rye, 5 years old. -...$S 5O
Vir. ia Apple Brandy, 4 years. W
Virg. aApple Brandy. years. 80
Tennessee Apple Brandy, 4 years. w
California Grape Brandy, Z years. 50
Maryland Blackberry Brandy. -. oo
Angelica California Wine. ...... oe
10 oIifornia Port t.. $50
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MISS0URI'S WEALTH.
fno Aggregate Valuations of Ihc
Properly Of The state.

Following is the aggregate valuatiom
OF the several counties in the state oi
Missouri as shown by the assessment
made on the 1st day of June, 1888,
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From the Nashville American.
Secretary of EW & .
Secretary of the Treasury,
Secretary of War,
Secretary of the Navy,
Secretary of the Interior, Me TOO.
POstmasIer-Gencral,
Attorney General,
Secretary of AgriruIiurr,
Keeper of VII te House, 3. Harrison
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Following are the two bills passed
by the convention which met at St
Louis, last week, TO consider the ques-
ton of trusts and combines in beet and
pork -
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Wabash hailroaa Time Fable.

Omnibus will leave the hotels IN this
city for Il. Il l.. Junction, making
connection with trains going east,
west and north. at ..................7 90 a. m
Returning, Will arrive at............ 30 u. m
Omnibus will leave Tor Is. 4 :. juno
tion, making connection with trains
going east and west, and north as
lar ~ Richmond, at ...... .... 4:30 p. m.
Returning, VIII arrive al. ............. p. IN
,InHN YnIING nj
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TIE HARRISON CABINET.

IErnm the Nashville Americnn.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
Three Boy hunters Killed.

Or. CITY. Pa, Now 3O.-The most terrible
explosion of nitrO-glicerine for years Oc-
Cured in the suburbs of this place at 2 P.
NJ to-day. i'll which two brothers. sons of
widow named Fisher-James. aged eight
Gen.. and Charles. aged, iSteen-and Ed
The gIycerine, to the amount of five tons,
owned by the Torpedo Company, was in a
boat-honse near Fairs ice-honse, and was
being unloaded and placed In the magazine.
a%ay hs Soys be
boat. aud it is supposed one of the party
fell and caused the accident. The shock
was tremendous one. Farm houses and
barns near by were shttered and blown to
pieces The ice-house building 800 feet
square. was reduced to kindling wood.
Windows in the pOstoffice and depot. two
miles away. were shattered by the shock.
The bodies of James Fisher and Ed Hoffman
have been found.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
A German Murderer's "Nian Trap"

LONDON, Nov. 30.-For some time past the
Berlin police have been mystified by the
the disappearance of several persons sup
posed to have been murdered. The victims
were all traced to certain locality. and
there all knowledge of them ended, despite
the strict watch kept over the neighbor-
hood. Finally. suspicion was directed to
the shop of tObaccOnist named Bobbe, and
to-day his house was searched with the re-
suit of finding IMAM trap" in the floor
covering q deep excavation, in which were
found the bodies of the missing men. Bobbe
was arrested. but has made no confession.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.,. Nov. 30-The annual
convention of the Womans' State Teach
ers Association of illinois closed
to-day after three days ses-
sion. and after electing officers
as follows: President, Miss Ann Anderson,
ofCarbondale; vice presidents. Sarah f. Ray
mond, Bloomington, Nancy E. Burt. Chica-
go and Mary Weich, Clinton; corresponding
secretary, Martha Buck. of Carbondale;
van;treasurer, Estella Hughes Bloomington.
executive committee. Louise Baumberger.
Greenville; Mary Holder, Freeport and Ira
Hamilton, Pontiac. The executive COM
mittee are empowered to fix the time and
place of the next convention.
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She L,l,es the Uuited States.
copyright 1889. by the New York Associated

Copyright 1859. by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, Nov. 30.-Count Herbert Bis
marck to-day gave diplomatic dinner at
which Count Schouvaloff, the Russian en-
bassador, Sir f. b. Malet. the British em-
bassadOr. and Mr.. w. w. Phelps, the United
The whole party afterward proceeded to the
reception given by Prince Won Radziwill to
the japanese prince and princess. The
latter cordially greeted Mr.. Phelps and his
family. The Princess said she liked the
United States better than any other conn
try she had yet seen. and she referred to
her visit at Washington as especially de-
lightful.
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Demands of Postoffice Clerks.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 3O.-The postoffice
clerks of this city have issued an address
TO their fellow clerks throughout the coun-
try. calling on them to cooperate with
them in arranging for the holding of a ma
tonal convention. 1t is proposed, at this
convention, to demand of Congress "a
more respectful consideration of the COM
plants of the postal clerks" to demand
that the measures of the Cox bill, which
provided them some relief, and which is
the matter of increased salaries. A de-
mand will also be made for a yearly fifteen
days vacation and for the strict enforce
ment of the civil-service rules.
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Withdrawinp from the X. or n.

CANTON, O.. Nov. 30.-The expulsion of
district delegate O'Malley. of Canton. from
the Atlanta Knights of Labor convention.
has borne fruit. Canton local assembly
of ID. A. 90. which Mr.. O O'Malley represents.
has withdrawn from the order and re-
turned its charter to District Secretary
Lewis to be forwarded to the general head
quarters. Delegate O'Malley said to-day
this was the first assembly of seven organ
lied in Canton and it is the last one to GO.
1t leaves this city without X. of l.. organi-
zations
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New Honor for Count Won Noltke.

BERLIN, Nov. 30.-The Emperor of Ger
many has conferred upon Count Won
Moltke the exceptional honor of the Crown
and Brilliants Pour Ia Merite. In a letter
to the Count, accompanying this latest evil
says, in part: ut is now fifty years since
your return from a tour through TurAey,
when you were given the insignia of the
order which you have again just received
This new honor is accepted as another
proof that the name of Won Moltke is still
remembered and respected both in Turkey
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
nIonongahela Mines to Close.

PITTsBURG. Pa, Nov. 90.-Arrangements
have been made by all the coal operators of
the Monongahela valley to close down their
operation have demonstrated that the de-
mands of the miners cannot be conceded.
with the price of coal as low as it is at pres
ent at Cincinnati and the lower ports. A
total suspension of operations will affect
= O00 men
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Many Wealthy Men Ruined.

WAYNEsBURG, Pa, Nov. 30.-During the
last three days Judgment notes amounting
to S500,000 have been entered in the pro-
thOnotarys office at this place, and many of
the formerly prominent business men are
ruined financially. The Farmers and
Drovers' National Bank opened its doors
again this morning and notwithstanding it
is considered safe, there was q rush made
at once by depositors which lasted all day.
The newly-elected president, G. l.. Wyly.
says the bank is safe and has plenty of
money to pay all the depositors. A. L.
elected cashier at meeting of the direct
ors this morning. At least twenty of the
most wealthy men of the comfy will be
ruined by being bail for those who have
failed. Among them are Robert Smith,
county treasurer. His bondsmen also are
heavy loosers. w. p. Lautz's liabilities
are about 100000 more than his assets; w.
Bradens, eX-tTeasurer, and ID. A. Spragg,
$4,000 each; Gen. j. T. Temple and ex-Col-
lector John Dowlin about Sl25,000 each.
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strangled by His wife's Paramour.

READING, Pa, Nov. 30.--At Pottstown.
this morning, the c0rOner's jury in the case
of John Chana, said to have become help
less paralytic. as result of blasphemy. and
who was found Thursday morning in his
room hanging on q rope fastened TO a bed
post. returned a verdict that death resulted
from strangulation at the hands of his
wife's paramour. John Kindarosch. and
that Mrs. Chana was an accessory to the
crime. Kindarosch and Mrs. Chana were
committed to prison this morning to answer
the charge of murder.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
His Clothes Caught In q Belt.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 3O.-Mathias Adams.
employed at the Banner brewery. while
working about the machinery had his
clothes caught in belt. by which he was
crushed to death before the machinery
could be stopped.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
New York Girl to Marry a Prince.

HALIFAX. n. s., Nov. 30.-An evening pa
per is responsible for the announcement Of
the engagement of Prince Victor Dhuleep-
Singh to Miss Turnlegeere. of Fifth avenue,
New York. Prince Victor is at present at
tached to the staff of Gen. Sir John Ross
the commander of the British troops in
North America