Thomas County cat., 1890-06-05
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for theConven,ancs
OF Hurried Readers,

Bishop James O'Connor, of the Catholic
diocese OF Omaha, is dead, aged 60 years.
The revision committee on Presbyterian
creed are allowed to publish their conclusions
as early as March or April next, not waiting
to report at the next general assembly.
A convention from the brotherhoods OF
railroad engineers, fremen, conductors,
switchmen and trainmen, in session at In
dianapOlis, adopted a scheme for federation
of all these organizations.
The house committee on commerce has
agreed to favorably report the bill providing
that no state shall be restricted in its power
to prohibit or restrain the sale or tranSporta
ton of oleOmargarine.
The senate committee on the tariff have
decided to work as two subcommittee; one
comprised of republican members who will
agree upon bill, the other, of democrats, to
point out and formulate their ideas in mi
nority report.
A convention of state railroad commission
ers in session at Washington, D. c., adopted
a resolution declaring that the public inter-
ests will best be served by the adoption of a
classification which shall be uniform for our
whole country.
The trial of Dr. Justin's dynamite can
non, at Perryville, N. Y, resulted in the gun,
which weighed 23,5OO pounds, bursting into
a thousand pieces. There was a large crowd
of spectators and reporters, but no one was
hurt, although many narrow escapes are re-
lated.
Nine of the members elected to the fifty
first congress have died. Ten others have
lost their seats to contestants. The nine dead
members have been succeeded by new cleo
tions: SO there are now nineteen sitting men,
bers who have taken their seats since con-
gress convened.
The president has directed the war depart
ment to take prompt and effective measures
to protect the settlers and to capture and
bring to punishment any hostile Indians
who have been concerned in killing our citi-
zens. This was in connection with the late
Apache butchery in Arizona.
Wooster, Ohio, has had bad cyclone.
Entire orchards and strips of oak timber
were blown down or twisted to the ground.
Many houses barns and outbuildings were
unroofed or blown down. The hail stones
were so large and fell with such force as to
be driven through roofs covered with oak
shingles.
Prince Bismarck has gloomy forebodings
for Germany and Europe. He says the young
emperor cannot understand the spirit OF the
great laws of the centuries. Germany" the
prince says, ''is at the present time undergo
have mitigated or checked, but which he has
prepared and accelerated"
The house committee on commerce has
recommended favorable report to be made
on the bill amending the interstate COM
merce law SO as to permit the railroad COM
panies to give reduced rate to veterans at
tending the national encampments, with an
amendment extending the same privileges to
veterans of the confederate army.
At Lucas, Ohio, lightning struck block
and set fire to it. In removing goods from
hardware store twenty-five pounds of dyna-
injuring many. The report of the explosion
was heard five miles distant, and the shock
was SO great that nearly all windows in the
village were broken. Rain finally put the
fire out.
Here's pretty state of things in South
Dakota. The state law regulating marriages
does not go into effect until June 6, and there
is some doubt as to whether the territorial
law is still operative. So the ministers and
justices of the peace decline to perform mar
riage ceremonies, and weddings must be de-
ferred or else ante-naptial trips must be TAX
en- to other states.
Paris. Texas. special says Judge Theo-
dOre BOtkin, of western Kansas, made
speech in Paris, in which he insulted every
body, he being drunk. About 200 Kansans,
who were at Paris attending the Hugoton
murder trial, at once adopted a resolution,
and caused it to be published, condemning
Botkin and hoping that the responsibility of
his act would not be charged up against
Kansas, nor beyond the individual offender.
The superintendent of the census has is
sued an order to all census supervisors,
when in case citizens refuse to answer the
questions put to them by enumerators, to
enter in the proper column the words "re-
fused to answer" The order concludes: No
further steps will be necessary on the part of
the supervisors or enumerator, and all legal
will be instituted by the WASH
lngton office through the department of JUS
ice.
Conservative members of congress are be-
ginning to feel little uneasy about the way
the appropriation bills are piling up this ses-
sion. The amount of appropriations on bills
already passed and pending, point to an
aggregate that will exceed government reve-
nues by many millions during the coming
fiscal year. The estimated revenues for the
year amount to $3.50, 100000, while apprOpri-
atoms already passed with such as seem as
likely to be passed will amount to more than
500, 100000.
The tariff bill, as passed by the house, takes
he life out of the treaty between the United
States and Hawaii. The United States
agreed to admit the products of the cane
ields of the Sandwich Islands into the ports
# the United States free of duty. In return
or this exclusive control of the Pacific coast
ugar markets the Hawaiian king agreed that
certain products and manufactures of the
United States should be admitted free of
luty into his domlnlons. Further than this,
,e ceded to the United States valuable is
and for coalinC station.