Thomas County cat., 1890-10-23
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Of Hurled Readers.
A gale has prevailed on the Atlantic coast.
extending from jersey to Halifax
Minister Ryan telegraphs from Mexico
that the Mexican republic will adopt the
recommendations of the international Amer
lcan conference with regard to q uniform
system of weights and measures.
In the city election at Chattanooga, Tenn,
the dem ocrats captured two wards the third
and eighth. The political complexion of the
new board of aldermen will be eleven repub-
hcans and five democrats.
The treasury department Mt Washington
has been officially advised by a telegram
from the Canadian commission of customs
OF the removal By that government of the
duty on lumber exported to the United States.
The Rock Island route will now have a
through Chicago to Denver train via Beatrice,
Nebraska.
| Great indignation was manifested at Okla
homa City over the governors veto of the
bill that would have located the capital in
that city. Hundreds of men were excited
and Governor Steele was hanged and burned
in efigy.
Skilled British workmen are not sitting
down to wait for retaliation or any concerted
| form of revenge against America, they are
| simply picking up their tools and coming to
the United Staaes, where they can earn the
| highest wages.
Joseph Pulitzer announces in the World
! that owing to the misfortune to his eyesight,
he has withdrawn entirely from the editor
ship of the World. The control OF the paper
| will be vested In an executive board of its
principal editors.
Woman suffrage has been knocked out in
Dakota by a clerical error. 1t Is provided
that the amendment shall be submitted to
the people in accordance with the provisions
of ''Sec. 3" which says nothing upon the
subject. It should have read Sec. l.
As q result of seven fair sized mills not do
ing anything last week, the flour output at
Minneapolis fell off nearly 1900 barrels.
The aggregate product was Isl, 400 barrels
against 17O, $50 barrels the week before, and
168, ,030 barrels for the corresponding time
In 1889.
The census bureau has announced the pop
ulation of Kansas as follows: Hutchison,
S,618: increase, 13S; per cent, 463.51. New
ton, 5,6O2; increase, 3,OU1; per cent. 1883.
Wichita, g, 735; increase 1884: per cent,
$3.50. State of Kansas, !, 1,425, ,4S5; increase,
4277, ,3e9; per cent, 1922.
The announcement that the president was
about to call an extra session of congress was
premature. The subject of an extra session
has been considered by the president and
cabinet, and majority are in favor of it; 1t
is very likely to be called. The main object
In calling congress together is the passage of
q reappOrtionment bill.
Duluth had 2.6i5 inhabitants in 1880. but
now the official returns give the city SO,725
people. The gain is 3O,OSO, and the rate of
growth is over !, ,137 per cent. If Duluth
could only Eeep up that pace for just two
decades the town would indeed be the
''Zenth city of the unsalted seas" and the
biggest city in America.
Judge Foster, Of the United States district
court OF Kansas, is reported as saying that
it would be.very foolish for anyone to open an
original package house in Kansas at this
time, or any time PRIOR to final hearing by
the federal supreme court. The judge re-
CARDS any such q course as hazardous, as the
decision made by Judge Phillips and himself
is not final upon the questions passed upon.
The Kansas house of representatives in
every legislature since Kansas was admitted
as state has contained q majority of farm
ers-some of them very large majorities.
Tho smallest proportion was one legislature
when the number of representatives was
seventy-fve, which contained forty orc farm
ers to thirty-four of all other callings, being
a majority of seven farmers over all the
others.
land of Dillon and O'Br1en. the charge
against them having been brought and their
trial delayed solely for the purpose of pre-
venting their coming to America, they re-
solved to come whether or no. Accordingly
they left in yacht belonging to prominent
member of parliament and made their way
to Havre, whence they sail in French
steamer for New York.
Mr.. Mckinley says, in speaking of the re-
ported MAJ king up of goods on hand since
the tariff bill is in effect, 'if they advance
the price of goods because of advanced duty,
and they will at the same time mark down
prices of goods which have been put on the
free list by the new bill, or where the duties
have been diminished, it will be great boon
to the consumer, for it is fact known to
everyone familiar with the bill that the re-
duty. In spite of what has been said to the
contrary, the bill gives to the people freer
trade than any tariff legislation that has been
put upon our statute books in more than a
century of our existence.
Judge C. G. Foster has rendered deci-
sion, which is endorsed by Judge John j.
Phillips, of Missouri. who sat with Foster in
the case, which again nulli6es all prohibltory
legislation in Kansas. the decision says
that two points are brought before the court;
tional, and second, whether, if valid, the
the present prohibitory laws of Kansas are
now in force. The first question is left un-
decided as the second settles the case in
court; and the court decides that all legisla-
ton on the subject is null and void.