Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-26
LATEST NEWS.
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Of Hurried Readers.

The new torpedo boat, Cushing, on be,
snal trips ran mile In two minutes.
Three hundred plumbers joined the strik.
ing carpenters and mill men at Denver.
1here are now about 800 on q strike with
good prospects of being increased next week
oy the plasterers. bricklayers and hodmen.
cholera has been prevalent for some tune
N eastern Syria, especially in the valley of
ll2rls and Euphrates. 1t has spread into
the adjacent portions of the Russian empire.
1t has also appeared in Spain.
Thirteen thousand dock laborers at Swan
81, London, have struck for higher wages.
HE shipping business of the place, with the
exception OF the coal trade, is at q stand still
In consequence of the strike.
Jay Gould has been fined 500 for failure
TO answer summons to serve on petit
jury.
Three prominent citizens of Texarkana.
Ark, have been arrested charged with train
robbery. In their possession were found
such masks and DISCUSSES as were worn by
tho men who recently robbed train.
Superintendent Porter, of the census. has
revoked his silly order and will now permit
local census supervisors to give out footinRs
as fast as they are made, so that cities can
De informed at once as to their population.
The pnce of silver advanced in London
upon receipt of the news of the action of the
United States senate upon free coinage.
New York bankers talk that the senate's ac-
ton on the silver bill is bad legislation.
Five prominent farmers near Kenton, o.,
for serving white cap notices upon a neigh
Dor threatening the lives of himself and
family and the destruction of his property
unless he compelled poor family living on
one OF his farms to move have been arrested.
The board of directors of the grand lodge
of the Order of Railroad Conductors has
approved the claim of Chicago & Alton
conductor for s., 500, who was discharged be-
cause he was deaf. Total disability draws
the same amount from this order as does
death.
A tornado struck the town of Sibley, Ia,
destroying several buildings and injuring
several persons. The Central block was I'M
rooted and q quarter of mile of the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis d Omaha rail-
road was washed out.
Alice Goodale, an English girl, arrived in
New York and on her way to Chicago to be
married, was attacked with hemorrhage of
the lungs, on Baltimore d Ohio train, and
was taken to q hospital in Washington, d.
C., with no hope OF her surviving.
Reports of the post office department. show
that during the last three months of 1889 the
receipts aggregated SIS, s74, 353, and the dis
bursements $16, 5S6, 07O. This is an increase,
per cent. over the corresponding quarter
of 1888.
Secretary Blaine suggests an amendment
to the tariff authorizing the president to de-
clare the ports of the United States free to
the products of any American nation upon
which no export duties are charged so long
as such nations shall admit free to Its ports
the manufactures and products of the
United States.
The treasury of the state of Kentucky is
empty and the deficit will, by July 1, proba-
bly, amount to $4,000. Governor Buckner
will save the state credit by advancing money
without interest from his private fortune to
meet all urgent obligations. He has already
advanced $4,000.
Huron. s. OAK, offered WATERFOWL, nval
for location of the state capital. 10000 in
cash, with q promise of $4,000 more on
January !, 1891, provided Huron was sue
cessful at the election locating the capital. A
public meeting at Watertown decided to ac-
cept the offer and get out of the race.
Two hundred people were hurled from q
obo and ned Il msss
on the sloping sides of gully or precipitated
into the bed of the stream sixty feet below.
Forty persons received more or less severe
cuts and contusions, some of which may
prove fatal.
Near Harrodsburg, KY, heavy storm did
much damage to the fences, trees, etc. Light
ming struck q flock of sheep west of town, on
the farm of Mr.. Devine, killing twelve or
fifteen, and on the farm of Mr.. Atwood
Davids it struck tree under which some
horses were sheltered, killing valuable one
worth between $500 to $500.
A regular cyclone occurred near Lebanon
n Potter county, South Dakota, and swept
things clean for several miles. Valentine
injured. Houses from two to four miles
apart we're demolished. The storm Travelled
rom the northwest to the southeast. II
asted several minutes.
The Russian government has begun the
of several new lines of railway
n the direction of the Prussian frontier.
The strategic importance of these roads has
lroused the German authorities to active in
crest in their progress and the officials of
he war department in Berlin are already en-
.aged in perfecting plans to construct new
russian roads and especially adapted to the
apid transportation of troops to the from
ier.
The problem of securing deep water on
he Texas coast without government aid
Gems to be near solution. Colonel
Ropes enterprise to connect Corpus Christi
Jay with the Gulf of Mexico by means of
hip canal cut through Mustang island. is
rapidly and satisfactorily. The
lredge boats at that point are clearing over
100 feet per day. When the waters of the
,ay and gulf meet this will give an artificial
hannel deep enough and wide enough, when
completed, to admit the largest sea going
essels