The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
NEWS saevlries.
Ia the Northwest.


The state convention of the Iowa
Farmers Alliance Is in session &C Des
Moines with 400 delegates present. The
day was spent chiefly In listening 10
speeches pro and con as TO the advisa-
biiity OF entering politics as an indie
pendent party.
The Iowa railroad commissioners
have instructed the attorney general %
commence suit to compel compliance on
the part OF the railroads with the com
missioners' joint rate order TO the effect
that ON continuous shipment over two
or more lines in Iowa each road shall be
entitled to 80 per cent. OF the regular
local rate for ifs part Of the haul.
Nearly all OF the trunk lines within the
the state are violating the order.
Ii Is further learned of the South
Dakota supreme court decision setting
aside the acts Of Huges county commits
sioners IN establishing polling places and
appointing judges Ia several morgan
lied counties in the late Sioux reserva-
tion, that the rights of the settlers 20
vote are not affected in the least,
Pending rehearing Of the case their
ballots will be cast, but the vote win
not be canvassed until IL Ia finally de-
cided. The best legal authority claims
that they mAy vote upon proper pre-
sentation.
In General.
At Fall River, Mass, the excursion
steamer Bay Point during the high tide
Thursday was lifted from her ways,
listed and sunk.
Fire was discovered in Tettenborn,s
and l0-cent store at ia West Fifth
street, Cincinnati, but too late 20 stay
the damage 10 contents of the building.
The building was also badly damaged.
The loss viii reach $50, 600; insurance
unknown.
AT Columbia, Ind, an attempt was
made TO assassinate Joseph Smith, o
farmer, while he wae returning TO hiA
home early in the morning. The two
highwaymen pnlled him from his horse,
and after robbing him, beat him and
left him for dead.
The New York World says report is
In circulation that George s. Knight,
the dialect comedian, had died In the
retreat for the insane, In which he had
been placed some months ago. Mr..
Knight, whose real nape was George
Sloan, was about IS years Of age.
Foreign.
Owing 10 the new tariff law OF the
United States 1000 weavers In SiiesiA
are idle.
The new German-African company
hopes TO divert the stream OF emigration
from America to the colonies which it
was organized TO establish In South and
Southwest Africa, and in Morocco and
Tripoli.
The proposition 10 tax titles u receiv-
ing unexpected support In the French
climber Of deputies, owing 60 fhs Bou.
langist revelations and the general In.
dignafion against the noblesse impli-
Gated In the Conspiracy.
The residence of . tar collector named
Juhass, at Erlau, la the Theissan dis
trict of Northern Hungary, was sntered
by burglars. Juhass and his house
keeper were aroused, and, In attempt
ing to capture the thieves, were both
murdered.
Advices from Lisbon are to the effect
that the Portuguese cabinet has pre-
sented evidence to Lord Salisbury shcw-
ing the violation Of Portuguese territory
in South Africa by agents of the British
South African companies, and that tho
English premier has consented 10 stay,
croachments on the dominions of Portu-
gal.
Professor Koch, of Berlin, has par
fected hts plan for the cure Of consumb-
tion by yinnoculation, which he submitted
to the recent medical congress, and In
vites expert examination Of its modih-
cations. The mode Of treatment is said
10 have received the unqualified ap
proval of many Of the leading German
physicians who until very recently
secuted the idea.
Mr.. Charles Fenwick, the Gladstonian
member Of parliament for the Waus-
beck, division Of Northumberland, has
prepared q bill which he viii introduce
Ia the house OF commons as eaaly as
possible after the reassembling OF parlia-
ment, providing for the payment 10
members of the house of an annual sal
airy of 800 pounds. A bill Of this kind
has been often suggested, but never
hithnrtn lnnkad urnnn with anx rrreaf H.