Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
LATEST NEWS.
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of Hurried Readers.

frost injured small fruits and garden
vegetables, late last week, in south central
Missouri.
Great anxiety is felt in financial circles in
the City of Mexico respecting the action
which the United States congress will take
on the silver bill.
c. NJ. Whitaker and ]. NJ. Stubbs were
crushed to death by falling rock in granite
quarry near Monravia, California, a small
town eighteen miles east of Los Angeles.
The bluff surrounding the river front of
Fort Worth. Texas, is sinking, caused by the
floods undermining the bluff by washing out
sand. Much damage is done and more ex-
pected.
The Louisville Derby was won by Kansas
City horse, ''Riley' by name.
The remains of General Garfield are said
to have been kept in Cleveland safe deposit
vault.
An o der has been issued suspending the
admission of students to the Russian agricul-
tural academy, at Moscow, until 1893. The
order is due to the recent disorders among
the students.
The general convention of the Order of
Railway Conductors, in session at Rochester,
n. Y, decided by very decisive vote to
eliminate from its constitution the clause
prohibiting strikes.
The management of the Chicago fair now
expect to sell enough stock so as to preclude
the necessity to issue bonds. If this can be
assured the stock will be taken, as bonds
would have to come ahead of stock in receiv-
ing the benefits.
Fifteen two-story business houses of the
village of Elliottville, N. Y, have been de-
stroyed by fire. There was no fire depart
ment and assistance was gwen them from
Salamanca and Bradford. The loss is about
$4,000.
In the Ontario house of commons Sir John
Macdonald said that he hoped to make
definite statement in the house soon respect
ing the Atlantic and Behring sea question.
In the meantime negotiations were proceed
ing smoothly.
Captain H. c. Hawkins, chief revenue Off
Ger, with a posse of twenty men, left Mid
dlesborOugh, ky., to capture Illicit stills in
the Cumberland mountains, and they have
failed to return. 1t is feared that they have
met with foul play from the moonshiners.
The Wyandotte Indians own a burial
ground in Kansas City, Kansas, which the
city wants to have put to other uses. The
Indians are willing to remove the graves,
and Senator Plumb has inaugurated legisla-
The Understandings congressional
investigating committee has concluded its
work in Arkansas and gone back to Wash
ington. The majority of the committee will
report in favor of unseating Breckenridge. |
He may then be elected and returned to the
house.
John W. Clarke, the Waubaunsee county
cattle man who was convicted of obtaining
$1,000 from the Stock Yards bank by means |
OF false representations, was sentenced to one |
years imprisonment in the penitentiary by
Judge Miller, of the WyandOtte county dis |
trlct court.
The tariff measure now before the house of |
representatives is almost certain to have !
full republican vote in its favor, on its final |!
passage. The sugar interest, it was thought, |
might prevent this. but it is now believed |
that even those who opposed the bill on ac-
count of its sugar schedule, will vote for it.
Judge Caldwell, of the United States cir |
cult court, sitting at Des MoineS, Iowa, has |
reversed the findings of the master in chan
eery, in the case between T. c. Henry, of !
Denver, Col, and the Travellers Insurance |
company, of Hartford, Connecticut. This |
loses to Henry everything he claimed.
Fifty conductors and brakemen, employed |
in the yards of the Valley railway, in Cleve- |
land. Ohio, have struck for a raise in wages. |
The strike has made it impossible to bring |
through freight trains into Cleveland on that !
road or take them out, and only passenger |
trains are running.
News comes from Canea and Crete that |
the Musselmen are at their old work of |
slaughtering Christians. The latter defend |
themselves as best they can, and in villages |
where they are strong they make reprisals |
on the Turks. The government is again in |
a state of chaos.
Congressman Peters, of Kansas, has Sc
cured leave of absence on account of sick |
ness. He has been confined to his room for |
several days with slight attack of malaria. |
He is a member of the appropriations COM |
mittee, and his labors upon this committee |
have brought on his illness.
George W. Crane & Co.. of Topeka, print
ers and blank book publishers, have ma e an
assignment. Their liabilities are $4,000. |
Mr.. Crane claims that his assets are much |
more; that collections have been bad and |
the company has been carrying heavy load
since the establishment was destroyed by fire
over a year ago. Judge A. B. Quinton was
appointed temporary assignee.