Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
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OF Hurf1eo Readers.
Twenty thousand strikers at Roubaix,
France, have resumed work. The strike is
practically ended.
The strike at Ottawa, Ont, OF the bricklay-
ers, stonemasons and carpenters is ended.
They wanted the contractors to grant a nine
hour day and the contractors yielded.
The throne of Dom Pedro has been sug-
gested as novelty for the worlds fair, on
the ground that the throne of the last Amer
lean monarch would be great curiosity.
fire swept over Wright county, Minnesota,
destroying farms, timber: everything. The
losses are very heavy. Every slough, swamp
and small water course Is dry, and the. fire
finds nothing to stop 1t.
The American Express company's Office at
Hartley, Ia, has been robbed of large
amount of money.
The senate has decided that the territorial
admission bills shall be considered after the
silver bill is out of the way.
Spotted fever is epidemic in Sumner and
Webster counties, Tennessee. 1t is more
than usually fatal: nine out eff ten dying.
Farms and all kinds of stock are offered for
almost nothing by the panic stricken people.
A meeting at Denver of the Colorado Silver
association took action in favor of the free
coinage of silver, which, they say ''will bring
back the price of land and the products of
labor to where they were in 1873, when silver
was demOnetized."
The entire business portion of Gilboa, n
Y, is destroyed by fire, twenty two buildings
in all. Not a store is left in the town, and
most of the stocks were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at from $150, 600 to $172, goo; in
surance estimated at about $4,000.
The Missouri Pacific is building and plan
ming to build several new lines in southeast
Missouri, some of them extending into Kan
sas: as, one from Joplin to Chetopa through
Galena and Baxter Springs, and one from
Clinton to Garnett, through La Cygne.
The house committee on war claims has
reconsidered its action IN deciding to report
adversely the bill appropriating $685., $50 to
reimburse Kansas for money expended in
settling the claims of citizens of that state
for property destroyed 10y the confederate
forces during the late war.
The river at Jefferson, Texas, is still rising,
caused by back water from Red river. There
are miles and miles of lowlands flooded. The
loss in stock is great. The large, substantial
bridge, known as Misley's, was swept away
ton of the county is cut off.
A Maine Judge has rendered the first deci-
sion under the recent original package deci-
sion of the supreme court. He said that in
absence of proof that the title to the liquor
in question was to remain in the shipper un-
til delivered that the title passed to the per-
son who ordered it when it was placed in the
hands of the common carrier.
The latest reports on the condition of the
growing crop show the present condition as
follows: Illinois a per cent, Indiana 661a,
Ohio IS. Kentucky sc, Missouri 81, Kansas
81, Michigan ~, Wisconsin IS. Condition of
winter wheat May l, 1889: Illinois 100 per
cent, Ohio 95, Indiana &315, Kentucky 80,
Missouri 101, Kansas 116, Michigan 93, Wis
cOnsln 81.
The Singer sewing machine factory, at
Elizabeth, n. j., is burned down. 1t had
$500 employees, 1000 of them men, with a
weekly pay roll of $4,000. The main build
ing, which covers several acres of ground,
went first. The loss of property will amount
to several million dollars; and the loss of the
means of living to an army OF workers can
not be computed.
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 oeestion whether or not the Behring
sea is closed sea, than they have been at
any timelsince the negotiations were begun. |
The United States maintains that it is
closed sea and was made so by the treaty of |
of 1925, while the British government con-
tends that that treaty does not at all cover |
the case.
The board of directors for the Kansas pen |
itentiary have awarded the contract for the
output of the ''pen" coal mine to w. E. |
of LeavenwOrth. Sir. Thomas gets |
all coal mined, with the exception of that re- |
quired for the ''wagOn trade" and that needed |
by the state institutions, and pays therefor /!
as follows: Six cents per bushel for lump |
and CRATE, 4 cents per bushel for nut and 2 |
cents per bushel for pea during the months /
Of April, May, June and July. During the |
months he pays 61a cents per
Dushel for lump and CRATE, with no change
N the price of nut and pea coal.
The Colby convention, by a tie, vote re-
fused to receive report from its committee
)n credentials seating all uncontested dele
cations: then, on another vote, the same
proposition was carried 81 to So. The reports
we're offered by the committee on each con-
ested delegation separately, Jewell county
irst. The report on this contest immediately
seated a Hanback, delegation, with right to
,ote on other reports of the committee. Then
'epOrts ON contests from Mitchell and Rocks
counties were made, seating both delegations
rom each of these two counties, giving each
delegate half a vote. Wallace county was
hen given to McLennan delegates. This
rave the field against Turner twelve majority.
Better than Oklahoma.