The state herald., 1890-01-10
BY TELEGRAPH.

yellow fever has appeared in Rlc
Janeiro.
Patti refuses to sing for less thar
$1,000 m evening.
Heavy rains have dcluged the coun.
try about Houston, Texas.
Kansas experienced blizzard the
carly part Of the present week.
A great many negroes are leaving
the Carolinas for Texas and Arkansas.
The Royal palace in the suburbs ol
BRUSSELS was burned to the ground New
Years Day.
New York last year spent III, ,0O0,-
600 on her public schools hiring 81 ,0S1
teachers to instruct 500, ,667 pupils.
1t is estimated that 5000, ,OOO, 900 OF
English money has been invested in the
United Stotes in tho past eighteen months,
A hundred persons were more or
less injured by tho falling of nm amphi.
theatre at Mexican bull fight last Sun.
day.
An Atchison boy fifteen years old
shot himself tho other day because his
girl, two years younger than himself, had
iilted him.
Ono thousand Goa, .,liners have been
thrown oe.'p. work by the closing Of Con-
gressnan Scott's colllerlos at Mt. Carmel,
Pennsylvania.
The Massachusetts tariff reformers
gave their annual banquet Tuesday.
Speeches were made by Edward Atkinson,
Roger Q. Mills and others.
A public reception was rendered
Rev. L. Dewitt Talmago and Mrs. Tai.
mage, OF Brooklyn, Mt Constantinople Fri
day, by United States Minister Hirsch.
Vice President Morton and Secretary
Blaine treated their New Years callers to
wine and punch. President Harrison sot
nothing before his guests stronger than
coffee
Thirty-two officers have been ar
rested In st. Petersburg, charged with be
ing members Of secret society, the object
OF which is to abolish the aristocracy and
establis' Institutional monarchy.
Repor : -.atistics OF locomotive
building for 1850 show slight falling OF
from the product Of 1883. Reports from
about half the car-building companies
show = decline OF 90 per cent. from the
product OF 1883.
-Four hundred and forty thousand
pounds Of flour for Western indian rcser-
vations are TO be furnished by z. II. Scar
ing, of Arkansas City, Kansas, at from
81 40 to t4.D per hundred pounds, accord
ing to the place Of delivery.
The negotiations which have been
in progress for some time with view To
the establishment OF rubber trust arc
about completed. British capitalists II is
said, are to take an interest amounting "a
$1,000, coo and push the stock in England
and Scotland.
A dispatch from Grand Island, Neb.
says that Dane farm hand named Nels
Christensen was shot and fatally wounded
about fifteen miles northwest Of there
Thursday night, by another Dane, Nelson
in a quarrel over u farmers daughter, t6
whom both were paying suit.
1t is reported that the President has
not given serious thought to the selection
Of n successor Of Judge Brewer on the
bench Of the Circuit Court, but II 10 unden
stood that he Is inclined 10 promote one Of
tho district Judges embraced IT, tho Eighth
Circuit, over which Judge Brewer pre-
| sided.
A train OF nineteen cars left Wichita
Wednesday night for the suffering dis
tricts In Stevens, Morton aud Hodgman
counties. loaded with clothing and food,
| which have been collected from Scdgwick
and surrounding counties. Reports were
TO the effect that several hundred persons
were suffering st present.
During the performance OF Joan
dare" by Sarah Bernhardt at Paris Sun
day night the pyrc used in the play became
Ignitcd from tho surrounding fire. Mad
amc Bcrphardt, who WIS on the pyrc, ro-
ccived no injury from the FIRE, but tainted
Two scene shiftcrs were seriously burned
while cxtInguishing the fire.
Brddstreefs reports li,7l9 failures
in the United States for the year 1850, with
liabilities Of ti+0, ,3,9.+qV and aasots oi
s;0, $50. i6q. This is the largest number ol
failures and greater liabilities than for an,
year in tho last five years. The incrcas.
In the number OF failures over isSs In ], Sc,
increase In liabilities, t1, III ,0ss; incrcas,
In assets, ts,5g0,s5s.
senator Stanford, who, with hi,
wife, Is u fervent believer in tho justice o.
woman's suffrage, has given $500 to Susar
Is. Anthony towards printing and distrib
uting pamphlets on the subject Fiv,
thousand will be sent TO South Dakota :,
aid In the election which will be bel,
there next fall TO decide tho question O.
womau's right 10 vote.
Since the dedication OF Chicago.
Auditorium four weeks ago there hav,
been twcnty-onc performances, and III,
gross receipts OF these and the dedication
| W S-h<.vtb. ~ IN DC
licved that these figures exceed any rccorv
In the history OF amuscmonts In this coun
try. The rcccipts for the Inst week wsr,
the largest
Tho town Of wardncr, the principal
place OF CTur d'Aicnc mining district, hs,
been wiped out Of existence by hrc Tn.
loss will reach ejoo,0 900 with little or no In
surance. Tho water supply gave gu
and the frc had I, be fought with snow
There Is no telegraph and the only c,m
munication isby telephone mud that onic,
was second to burn.
Thc artcsian experimental well IL
process OF sinking NJ Santa Fc, is nov
down 300 feet aud sufficient hydrostati
pressure has been encountered to force tn
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