Thomas County cat., 1890-05-08
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The general officer of the order of Knights
of Pythias has issued general order calling
on all true Knights to be at Topeka at 10
o'clock, Tuesday, May 20, 1880, in full dress
uniform.
Paris had bit of scrimmage on May day.
Five hundred arrests were made out of dis
orderly gatherings. There was some parties
wounded during a charge of cavalry upon
mass of people who disobeyed the order to
disperse.
The aggregate circulation of national banks
in 1881 was S325, 600 600: in SS, S3O5, ,0OO 900:
in 'S6, SOP 600, 900: in 'SS. 143. 100000, and in
'89, it had dropped to $12s, ,OOO, 600; loss in
the nine years of 49,, 100000. 1t is easy to
see that it will soon pass away entirely.
Senator James B. Beck, of Kentucky,
dropped dead in the Baltimore & Potomac
railway station, at Washington, D.C. His
death was very sudden and unexpected.
Frank Woodruff, at one time suspected of
completely in the murder of DR.. Crvnin, was
before Judge Hawes of Chicago, on the
charge of horse stealing. He pleaded guilty
and was given sentence of six months in
Bridewell.
There is duel going on at Lexington, Mo-,
between a pontoOn bridge and steam ferry
boat. The boat has to pass the draw in the
bridge every trip to make the regular land
ings; and it makes trips as rapidly as posi-
BILE and swells the water every time trying to
destroy the bridge.
The provisional government of Brazil has
issued decree declaring criminal the publ
cation of matter tending to weaken the gov
ernment, or to impair the credit of the nation:
and the establishment of special tribunal at
Rio Janeiro for the trial of parties arrested
for these acts In any part of the country.
Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, has pub
ished a letter which he sent to Senator Pad
dock, in which he urges legislation against
gambling in grain. He also complains that
Nebraska corn is graded unfairly in Chicago,
and urges that United States inspectors shall
be provided to grade grain in that market.
One of the striking signal men of the::Great
Southern & Western railway, Ireland, who
was prosecuted by the directors of the COM
pany for abandoning his post. was tried and
found guilty. The court imposed fine of
f10 upon him. The prosecution against six
other signal men was withdrawn.
The Irish railway strike situation is be-
coming worse instead of better. Labor dis
turbances in Ireland, like social disorders in
that country, seem to assume more bitter
aspect than similar affairs in most other
countries, and it is not improbable that seri-
Gus trouble will occur before the present diff
fculty is settled.
Richard j. Hinton, formerly of Kansas,
has been appointed superintendent OF the
artesian irrigation department of agriculture,
and has an appropriation of $4,000 to ex-
pend before July l, proximO, in ascertaining
whether the agriculture of the Dakot and
adjacent states can be benefited by the arte-
sian system.
The supreme court of Michigan has de-
clded that the high license liquor law, as
passed at the last session of the legislature,
Is null and void, as the act which was en-
rolled ana signed by the governor was
not the act which that body passed. 1t fur
ther holds that the act of 1887 must now gov
err the liquor traffic.
In March the excess of exports over i'm
ports was S. 452, ,9S6, being 81, ,6O7, ,41 against
and bullion of exports over imports was ST.
765, ,296. Kansas City imports for the month
amounted to S59,30. The total immigration
for the month was 35, $50 persons, against 3d.
Sol for the corresponding month last year.
The latest reports on the condition of the
growing crop show the present condition as
follows: Illinois "a per cent, Indiana 66H,
Ohio 85, Kentucky Sc, Missouri 81, Kansas
81, Michigan n. Wisconsin IS. Condition of
winter wheat May 1. 1889: Illinois 100 per
cent, Ohio 95 Indiana 9S1a, Kentucky 80,
MlsSOuEl IOl, AtSuSsaS 1lo, 1AiSIlSdA ~, WIS
cOnsln 81.
A renewal of the S1,6SS, 600 chattel mort
gage, executed by the Union Pacific Railway |
company, in 1887, to the American Loan and
Trust company, has been filed with the reg
lister of deeds of Wyandotte county, Kansas,
by Noah W. Jordan, of Boston, trustee of
the loan and trust company. The mortgage
covers the rolling stock of the Union Pacific |
company.
The presidents first veto was on bill per- |
mitting Ogden, Utah, to bond itself beyond |
the limit allowed by statute, which is per |
cent. Ogden, with population of 5000,
asked to go in debt half million dollars; or
$27 per capita, which the president thought |
unwise. As there is no exceptional circum-
stances in the case of Ogden, he thinks there |
is no good reason for going beyond the stat
ute limitation.
There Is apparently good authority for
the statement that the government of the
United States and Great Britain are now
further apart in their negotiations in regard
to the Qeestion whether or not the Behring
sea is closed sea, than they have been at
any time'snce the negotiations were begun.
The United States maintains that it is a
closed sea and was made so by the treaty of
Of 1926, while the British government con-
tends that that treaty does not at all cover
The case.
Better than Oklahoma.