Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-20
gate about S145 900, or sI4,O 900 more thar
the receipts during the previous year.

gate about S145 700 900, or sI4000, 900 more than
the receipts during the previous year.
-Ex-Empress Frederick, of Germany, accom-
panied BY her daughters. Princess Charlotte,
rrincess Victoria, Princess Sophie and Princess
Margarethe. and Prince Bernhard. Of SAKE
Meinlngen. the husband OF Princess Charlotte,
iert Berlin yesterday for Venice, on their way
70 Athens, where Princess Sophie is to be mar
Greece. A crowd had gathered at the railway
station and warmly cheered the ex-empress and
her daugh ters.
The Senior class OF Harvard College has
elected Clement Garrett Morgan, colored
man. as class orator. The election was hotIy
contested. but Morgan received substant1al
majority, about ZU men voting. He entered
college with little means and during his fresh
man year worked in odd hours in q barber shop
since then his rank as student has brought
MIN beneficiary money. Last year, as com
petitor for the Boylston prizes. he carried his
audience by storm and won first place.
AN immense prairie fire has been raging
since Yesterday morning within few miles Of
bismarck, n. ID. Efforts OF farmers to check
the huge cobfagration have been uDavailing
and large number of farms nave already been
destroyed A strong wind has been helping the
below BIZ marci. CON tissing Of Is blocks. is en-.
ttrely swept away and the inha bitants are re-
ported destitute. The wind is rapidly carrying
the fire to Bismarck and the city is enveloped
prehend great danger.
The dry weather which has prevailed in
Central and Southern Indiana for the past two
months hzs caused great Inconvenience to the
farmers, and the sowing Of wheat has been de-
layed in rnany places, owing to the hardness OF
the ground Wheat sowed q month ago has
not sprouted, and whole fields are believed to
have been burned out by the sun. The corn
crop is largely above the average, both in
Quantity and quality, and the buckwheat and
haxseed crops are reported much better than
the average. a larger crop OF wheat than
usual has been sown, but win be destroyed
unless rains soon fall.
The Iowa Supreme Court has rendered an
important decision here bearing upon the en-
forcemeut of the prohibitory liquor law. An
information had been filed before justice al
leging that certain liquors owned by Con Cree
den were kept in the Rock Island freight
depot IN Des Moines intended for sale in viola
tion of the law. The liquors were ordered de-
stroyed. The defendants appealed, claiming
that the liquors were in the custody OF the
railroad company as a common carrier and
that the matter became one Of
Interstate commerce, over which the
State courts had no Jurisdiction.
The decision of the Supreme Court finds that
Creeden was a persistent violator of the law
and had been receiving liquor in this way for
some time, using the freight office as a storage
room to keep the packages till needed The
Court holds that the Interstate commerce
feature of the transaction ended when the
liquors had reached the freight house; that the
railroad In keeping them for several days was
holding them not as carrier, but as a ware
houseman.