Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Conyenienca
Of Hurled Readers.

~OIA0OsAS00 lOE Stl0NOIlv0nI0nC0
OF Hurled Readers.
Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the house of
representatives, has been nominated in the
First Maine district for reelection.
The opposition leaders in the Spanish con-
bills.
The Reformed Presbyterian synod, in ses-
sion in New York, have taken strong action
against secret societies, the Masonic order in
| particular. Rev. d. H. Coulter. of Winches-
ter, Kansas, was elected moderator.
Lord Derby states that the losses of Eng
hsh land owners have been 81, Ass, SOC, 600 and
| ne estimates the losses of tenants at $780,
oOO,OO. Hundreds of thousands of acres
have gone out of cultivation within ten years.
The death is announced of Vicomte De-
gontant- Biron, the French statesman.
''The appointment of negroes as supervis-
ors of the census in the southern states" says
the st. Louis Republic, sis pure cussedness.
1t ls bad for the negroes, bad for the census
and bad for the country"
The general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church, at Buffalo, N. Y, adopted
the report of the committee on reform, in
GLIDING a request that the president incor-
porate in his thanksgiving proclamation a
proper recognition of Jesus Christ as supreme
ruler of the nation.
North Dakota is getting very much rain.
The grain crop Is so small that it is believed
that no damage has been done, but garden
truck is, in many places, ruined. Strawberry
plants, which are Just blossoming, are cut
all to pieces. Slight damage to buildings by
wind is reported in several places.
Work has commenced at Corpus Christi,
Texas, to open up new channel through
Mustang island; which will cost only $25,-
GOO, and can be completed in four months.
This, it is claimed, will make one sufficient
and permanent deep water harbor. The is
land is state property.
The republican members of the senate
except the democratic members of the COM
mittee, who dropped in one at time, re-
naming only little while. The changes
that were made from the hoase bill are said
to be comparatively small.
An order has been received at Fort Leav
enwOrth from the war department which viz
tually amnesties all deserters from the United
States army excepting those confined in the
military prison there. 1t is believed that
this is the elimination of the agitation which
has been going on for some months.
A letter from the car, written in reply to
one from the queen of of Denmark, is pub
Gshed. In his letter the car promises a
strict inquiry into Siberian scandals and SAYS
he will punish heavily excuses of severity on
the part of officials. Lastly, he promises to
instruct his ministers to draft measures of
amehoratiOn.
The Italian minister to the United States,
and the consul general from that country,
hove both hcov, la1 lx-t ta.~
eminent upon charges of fraud, and of be-
ing bribed to wink at the violation of Amer
lean contract labor laws, in connection with
the large immigration of Italians to the
United States.
At Milwaukee a telephone wire fell over a
trolly wire of the electric street railway and
Immediately there was trouble in blue
streaks. In the telephone Office, one of the
switch boards was burned out and number
of the girls Frustrated. The damage to the
telephone company was quite heavy, and the
telephone service of the city seriously Grip
pied.
The Alabama republican convention adopt
ed platform endorsing the administration
of President Harrison and declaring in favor
of protective tariff. An increase in the
coinage of silver is advocated and the COM
pound lard' bill is denounced as an injury
to the producer of cotton seed. more lib
eral system of education is favored and the
passage of national election law requested.
In letter on the farm produce warehouse
bill, Senator Carlisle criticises that measure
severely. He asserts that its effect would
prove unfair to many farmers. and would
benefit only the few. In discussing the
measure he makes long argument for tariff
reform, finding in that more substantial re-
lief for the farmer. In conclusion, he opposes
the bill on the ground of its unwarranted
governmental paternalism.
The Kansas board of railroad assessors have
completed the compilation of the assessment
of the railroads for 1880. The totals are:
Total milage, 1890. s,162.4
1883. .............- o,'U.oU
Increase 1904
Total valuation, 1890. ..... So ,S63, 557.56
Total valuation, 1889. ...... 57,5l3, 452.5S
increase. ............... oJO.Ioo.'o
The attorney general has given his opinion,
at the request of the secretary of the interior,
that the act of October 2, 1888, approprat-
ing 100000 for investigating irrigation OF
the arid region, virtually reserves from set
Element and entry all the arid regions OF the
west: and that the department must refuse
such entry. The secretary suggests that II
congress does not fully concur In this 1T
should take the business in hand at once and
so modify it as it may deem the public in
terests require.
And now comes positive assertion that
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