Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Justice Worthen, of Kansas City, Mo-,
in the case OF the State against the pro-
prietors OF the Midland Hotel and Coates
House for violating the Newberry law
which forbids the maintaining of games in
dram-shops, has decide that in the eyes
OF the law, hotel bar is not dram shop,
and he. therefore. dismissed the case. The
originator of the law, Mr.. Newberry, was
present in court. and said he did not have
hotels in mind when he framed the meas
ure, and did not think the members of the
Legislature did when they voted for it.
Nevertheless the case will be appealed to
the higher courts.
Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro Brazil,
state that the army has risen in revolt. the
Minister OF Finance has been killed, and a
republic will succeed Dom Pedros empire
Great excitement is reported in Mont
gomery County North Carolina. owing to
the alleged discovery OF a gold mine. 1t is
said that one man, in two hours. secured
1900 pennyweights 0 pure gold.
"A revolution has occurred in Venezu-
Ella. President Guzman Blanco's admins
llbllOI h6tN DeCll ONCl I'LL CIV II. Inc EtNOlu-
ton occurred October 2S There was seri-
Gus riotng, but no civil war, and Il firm
republican form OF government appears
still to exist
The visible supply OF wheat and corn is
respectively 20,40l,778 and GO9l,Oj5 bushels.
Since last report wheat increased 1,553,519
bu hels, while corn decreased S75, 1873
bushels
The water is so low in the st. Lawrence
River that pontoons in front of the Mon
treal wharves have grounded. and many
steamers have been grounded and badly
damaged
Lawrence & Brown, OF Mahanoy Plane
Colliery, in Pennsylvania, have made a
tremendous hit in striking a new mammoth
vein OF anthracite coal. The vein is said to
be 2OJ feet thick, containing millions OF
tons. Il will go on record as the greatest
accidental find" of pure coal ever known.
The vein was struck while making drift
440 yards under the surface. 1t is believed
the mammoth vein basin has been found.
1t is impossible at this time to accurately
compute the millions of tons of anthracite
fuel contained in it. but the operators re-
gard it as ,nexhaustibe.
The Oklahoma convention has ad-
iourned having accomplished the purpose
of its call Congress is memorialized to
create a comm sson for each town to give
titles and to establish a court to hear ap-
peals from its action. 1t is urged that the
| town to contest cases be decided as
! quickly as possible and hat the law limit
ing town site entries to 800 acres be re-
pealed. The convention elected delegates
! to 90 to Washington to urge the passage o
! the remedial laws su sgested In Congress.
AT the Ninth Street Theater. in Kansas
! City, between acts, D.. A. NJ. GoldsteiI
amused the spectators 10y kissing his wife
The Doctor was very indignant at the
! laughter that followed, and so expressed
himself loudly. The special policeman OF
duty at the theater took DR.. and Mrs. Gold
stein out, and they were not allowed to re-
enter After his ejectment from the tneate
he was arrested and lined s..
A Sacramento Cali dispatch says tina
the National Grang hls decided upon At
lanta c a., as the place for holding its mex
annual meeting
Miss Ada Tanner, OF New YORK, conf
dental clerk to the Comm ss.oncr OF Pen
sions, has resigned.