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The great West., 1890-05-09
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8. s. Floyd & Co.'S Bucket Shop
Concerns Forced to Quit Busi-


Concerns Forced to Quit Busi-
ness.
CHICAGO, Special The bucket shop system
of s. s. Floyd & Co., with headquarters in
this citv, has ceased to vex the soul of Presi-
dent Baker, of the board of trade. The con-
Germ is now in process of being wound up.
The stoppage of grain quotations and the
rise in wheat and stocks were too powerful
a combination to contend against The
system embraces agencies through the en-
tire South and West, covering every impor-
tant center. Exactly how the business
stands Mr.. Floyd is at present very busy
trying to find out. He says the losses to his
customers he hopes will be small, but his
own have been enormous. A Louisville,
KY, dispatch announces the suspension OF
Charles Jeffers, the Louisville correspond
ent of Floyd & Co., as result of the Chi,
cago failure.
The great West., 1890-05-09
MISCELLANEOUS,

It is charged that the Westi nghouse
company secured the passage ofthe bill alb ol
ishing capital punishment. in the New York
assembly, by bribery.
At Lincoln, Neb.. the largaclothing estab'
Iishment of George w. Simmons was closed
by the sheriff. Liabilities, $115. 900; assets
$75 900.
The new one-ccnt daily paper, the Evening
Graphic, has appeared in New York. The
editors and publishers are Western journal
lists. 1t is Republican.
Several Cinnamon who attemped to get in
to the United States from Mexico became
lost on the desert in Lower California and
had a terrible experience, One OF them died
from thirst and exposure.
Congress has passed the bill granting to
the Little Falls, Mile Lacs & Lake Superior
right of way through the Mile Lacs reserva.
tion in Minnesota. The president is author
lied to fix the compensation to be paid to the
Indians for the land.
Girard assembly, Knights of Labor, o1
Powderly Ala. has withdrawn from the or
der. They claim thatsth executive board o1
the K. OF L. is corrupt, and used the most
dishonorable means to drive out of the order
oil honest workers.
In the McCalla trial at New York Lieut..
1ngersoll testified that he never heard the
articles of war read aboard the Enterprise
The Walker episode was the most remark.
able one he ever witnessed in his twenty-eix
years experience in the navy. Commander
McCalla with his own hands threw bucket
fulls Of water in Walkers face and struck him
with his sword while the man was gagged,
kneelng, with hands tied behind his back.
Walker has begun civil suit against the
commander for SIS 900 damages.
The federal irrigation committee at Huron,
s. D., examined the artesian well that fur
nishes water to the city, and which has an
estimated flow of ], $50 gallons per minute.
The examination Of the well on the Day
Harrison farm indicated flow of 600 gal
Ions per minute, with 120 pounds pressure
to the square inch. The fire department
gave an exhibition of the power of the city
well for fire purposes, throwing an inch and
half stream into the air. The com mmission
pronounces the well the grandest yet exam,
ined by them.
The great West., 1890-05-09
THE MARKETS.
The Latest Quotations from West
ern Markets.

Inc Latest Quotations from West
ern Markets.
CHICAGO.
wHEAr-No. 2, Spring, 931z@94c.; No
Spring 75@S3c.: No. red. 931a@94c
CoRN-No. 2, 32Nc.
OATs-No. 2. Csc.
RYE-No. 2, 49hc.
BARLEY-No. 2, 55@57c.
FLAX SEED-$1.48 48@14 4Shc.
BurrER-Elgin creamery 23h@24c.; West
ern creamery 20@22c.
Eaes-Quist at lie
WaEAr-No. hard, SIC; No. 1 Northe ern
85006c.; No. northern; G2e.
CoRN-No. 3, Sic.
oArs-No. 2mixed, 24c.; No. 2~hits, 251sc
No. 8, 2411c.
BAal1y-No: 2. 5oo55c.; No. 5. 4o@45e.
RYE-No. 2, SIC.
GRouso FEEp-No. 1, s13@13.25.
BRAN-Bulk, $40.
HA1-Upland prairie, $3.50; No. l, se.75;
timothy. $3.50.
Eoos-Fresh. $3 15@3.30.
BurTER-Extra creamery, 15@16c.; dairy
15@1Sc.; roll and print, S@12c.
WHEAr-No. hard, 9Oc; No. 1 Northern
691ac: No. 2 Northern, 85@S6c.
FLoun-Patents, sacks to local dealers,
&5@5. 20: patents to ship, sacks, car lots,
$4,000. 20; in barrels, s. .65@4 95; baker
here. $3@3.60; superfne, $1.70@2.5O; red
dog sacks: $1.1O@1.25 red dog barrels,
$1.2501.5O.
CoRx-Fair mixed, 3O1x031he.
OArs-No. 2. 25@2511c.
BARLEY-29@35c.
HAY-Upland prairie. $6.@7.25.
BUTTER Fair to fancy creamery, 10017c.
per 1b; dairies, medium to fancy, 7ol5c
grease and packing stock. 2@3c.
WHEAr-No. spring. 65W0se No J
Northern, 9O@91c.
CoRx-No.3, 32G32xc
OATs-No. 2 whits. 27Na
RYE-No. /, 5O05Ohc.
BARLEy-No. 2, 44e.
Eaos-Fresh, 1Ohc.
BuTrER-Dairy, 13@14e.
CHEEsE-Cheddars. 9N@1Oc.
The great West., 1890-05-09
THEIR SKULLS CRUSHED.

A Mother and Daughter Found Mur-
dered In Their Beds,
BALTIMORE, Special. Mrs. Sarah Blanev .
widow, aged seventy-seven wears and 30
daughter Carolina were found mnrderaa ~, =,
their beds to-day. Their skulls had haa-, -
crusned with blunt instrument William
Blaney, grandson Of the old ,.a, -.
been arrested, and the police ara hard Aat a.
work ferreting out the facts of the c.se -
ROBBERY is supposed to have been the mo
The great West., 1890-05-09
LAID IN HIS GRAVE.
The Remains Of DR.. Comm Placed =,
Their Last Resting Place.

Their Last Resting Place.
CHICAGO, Special.-The formal interment.
ceremonies over the remains of DR.. Cronin
were held at Calvary cemetery to-day. The
assemblage gathered closely about the
grave as the few brief words IF tha .a-,,;o,
were spoken by Father Muldoon and Father
Toomey. Planks were laid ON the sand be-
side the opening. and after the RELIGIONS
services were over those present passed bv
in double file. viewing the casket as it rested
above the stone receptacle prepared ior its
M maj resting place. When all had gazed at
closing the tomb, which was then sealed M
The great West., 1890-05-09

was examined and remanded. He 10 treated
as q first-class prisoner. He ls charged with
melting murder. pillage and arson and re.
volt in the army. Soldiers revealed the sedi.
tious pamphlets which led to his arrest.
MARQUIS de Mores il wellknown in the North.
west. having been stockman in Dakota fo1
sovpra1 vpara
The great West., 1890-05-09
FOREIGN FLASHES,

It is reported from San Antonio, Tex, that
a Chicago syndicate has purchased all the
street railroads in that city, the purchases
amounting to $1,5OO,OOO.
A revolution has broke out in Paraguay.
Several persons have been killed and many
wounded. Telegraph communication is in.
terrupted, and the details that have been re.
ceived are meager.
The American silver bill is closely watched
in Germany. Some newspapers give a list o1
the American securities which are dealt in in
Europe, making indistctions in the currency
in which interest on capital is payable.
1t is said that Gen. Boulanger will return
to France from the Island ofJersey, and that
he will demand another trial. The paper al
SO says that the general will notify President
Carnot of the place in France where he in
tends to land. Gen. Boulanger's friends
have insisted upon the generals return to
France. They threaten that if he does not
return they will abandon his cause.
There is app arently good authority for the
statement that the governments OF the United
States and Great Britain are now further
apart on their negotiations in regard to the
question as to whether or not Behring sea ie
a closed sea than they have been at any time
since negotiations were begun. The United
States maintains that it is closed sea. and
was made SO by the treaty of 1925, while the
British government contends that treaty
does not at all cover the case.
The prince and princess OF Wales: the duke
and duchess of Edinbure, the duke of Cam.
bridge, the duke and duchess of Teck. Prince
and Princess Hohenlohe, the duke of Fi:e, the
duke of Argyle, the Com te dc Paris and a
brilliant assemblage of ofleaders of all classes
were in attendance at the reception given to
Henry NJ. Stanley by the Royal Geographic.
al society in Albert hall at London. tri.
umphal procession headed by the prince ot
Wales and the other royalties led Stanley and
his colleagues into the hall which was packed.
masse and applauded the explorer.
The great West., 1890-05-09
ASUALTIES.

CASOAkllE0s
Annie and Bessie Parlick, two young Bohe-
mian girls employed as servants in Chicago
boarding house. were found dead in their
beds, having been sufocated by escaping gas.
At Omaha, by the explosion of a can of
gasoline, N B. brakes tailor shop was bad
" damaged and the proprietor burned to
death. Forty girls were cut of from escnpe
and nearly lost their lives. None were in
jured.
s. S, Shoun, a ranchman, living in the in
terror of the late Sioux reservation arrived
at Pierre and reports he lost so head of cat
tie by a recent big prairie fire and barely es.
capped with his and his family's lives. Sever
al Indians have been arrested and are being
brought in for starting the fires. Other cat
tlemen lost heavily.
A hurricane struck Willspoint, Texas, and
every house in town is more orless damaged
Two persons were killed outright and several
injured. The Methodist church and public
building were dem molished while other church
es were blown off their foundations. num-
Der of st ores and residences were blown own.
The hurricane also visited Mesquote Thorn
ton, farrell, and other points, doing great
damage.
Marengo, little town twenty miles dis
tant from Ashland, Mo-, was the scene of
three singul ar fatalities. Anton Foraker was
chopping at the base OF tall pine tree. As
it toppled and tell to the ca rth his two boys
aged five and seven respectively, ran directly
under it and were crushed to death. A
little dwelling occupied by Ole Hanson
was found to be ablaze. The father rushed
in through the burning door and grabbed up
the cradle, in which he supposed his six
months old child was living. He got outside
again, but was very badly burned. But the
cradle was empty. The babe had been burn
ed to death in the house.
The great West., 1890-05-09
EPITOME OF NEWS.
A Choice Collection of the
Latest News Greatly
Condensed.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Inspector Byrnes OF New York, says he did
not apologize to Mrs. Martin, formerly Vic
toria Woodruff. when she called on him. but
he told her and her husband that he was
responsible for the statements he had made
and that he was ready to be sued at any
time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

Please, Mr.. Herald, don't give YOUR
self any uneasiness about the Tran
script; we own our building and can
pay cash for printing presses at the
same time.-Boston Transcript.
Was the virihty of the Transcript
ever more strikingly displayed than in
the sentence quoted above? There is
no Nancyism in that crushing retort,
but only superb masculine strength.
awe own our own building, and can
pay cash for printing presses at the
same time" The charming creature we
presume, means to insinuate that the
Herald does not own its building and
cannotp pay cash for printing presses at
the same time. We'll, the present Hei aid
company does not own the building
that was bull out of the profits of the
Herald newspaper, but it hires it at sat
isfactory rent for term of year., with
privilege of renewal, and it never was
contemplate enough 10 try to humbug
the public into thinking otherwise.
AS for the rest, the Herald is promptly
meeting all its bills upon presentation,
and putting by such tidy sum besides
that it is quite within the range of
probability that it may, in the not dis
tant future, invest its surplus in the
granite pile that adorns the cor
ner of Milk and Washington streets,
sending to the junk dealer for old iron
the press now used to print the mann
moth edition of that strikingly original
and creative sheet known throughout
the civilized and uncivilized world as
"The Transcript of DISQUALIFICATION
Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

Decrease of Populatfan in France.

The decrease of the population in
France is to be easily accounted for.
Younger French sons never dream of
emigrating or going in for sheep walks
or diamond fields, and the number of
daughters must be limited because a
dowry must be provided for them
unless they are to Gull the dreary joys
of forced spinsterhood or become
Sisters of Charity. The colonial policy
of France is a tremendous business
on paper, and a certain number of
functionaries do certainly take the Mes
sageries for Tonquin and other places.
There is no want of outlets for enter
prising young men. Tunis, Algeria,
and the far Orient are all open to them.
In Australia there are seven indepen-
dent Parliaments and teeming popu-
lation.
In Algeria there are more Maltese,
Italians, and other foreigners than
there are Frenchmen. At home the
statistics are almost terrifying. In
some departments the actual decrease
since the last census amounts to sew
eral thousands, whilst the main truth
is that there would have been a pro-
portionate decrease all over France,
had not the population been increased
by Belgians, Italians and that hybrid
Teuton population which is anything
from Swiss to Austrian. A decreas-
ing population destroys national indi-
vlduality, and places race in an infe-
rior position. The remedy for such
a state of things is big problem, be-
cause the population cannot be in
creased by act of Parliament.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
A Gigantic Doll Show.

A doll show on gigantic and some
what original plan, which has beer Or
ganized in aid of the new Hospital for
Women in London, will be opened on
April 90. The different sections allow
of great variety in doll-dressing.
Ladies in the dress of the period
morning, evening, bridal, or Court !;
gentlemen dolls ditto, little girl dolls,
and babies in long and semi-long
clothes, dolls in the garb of professors,
priests, official robes, in State, pariia-
mentary, civic and legal, academic,
scholastic, masonic, dolls in naval,
military, postal, or police uniform,
dolls in costumes of the pantomime,
sirens of the ballet, dolls in working
dress of all kinds, artisan, domestic
service, or trade, are to be included in
the various classes. A special section
will be formed by dolls, ladies and
gentlemen, in sporting dress, hunting,
shooting, fishing, golf, tennis and
boating garb.
Others again will represent heroes,
heroines of history, fiction, the drama,
a special class being assigned to char
acters of nursery romance. For
celebrities of to-day" double prize
is offered, and selection of dolls in
grotesque, suggestive or emblematic
dress of any kind offers wide field to
the fanciful. A special nurses section
will comprise dolls dressed as patients
and nurses, and others are exclusively
limited to children and pupils of board,
charity and industrial schools. For
the best doll of all prize of $25 is
offered
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

bring in Federal election bill. Squads
of them conferred at the clock at the
main entrance, and black files stretched
over the gallery like divergent rays.
The ladies' galleries flank the reporters
gallery above the Speakers desk.
They were crowded to suffocation.
Each doorway was banked with spec
tators, and men were standing on
chairs in corridors trying to peer over
the heads of those in front of them.
The executive gallery was thrown
open to distinguished strangers. The
galleries reserved for the families of
members indicated the intensity of the
excitement. Ladies were seated upon
the steps, in the aisles, and every nook
and corner were filled with spectators.
They remained there breathless with
interest for six hours. Some of the
representatives sent sandwiches to their
families, which were distributed among
their acquaintance. The spectators
cheered and applauded in consonance
with their political sentiments, and
were only restrained by an implied
threat from the Speaker to clear the
galleries if the applause did not cease,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

As soon as it becomes cheaper to
generate electrical power than to gem
crate steam power, the reign of steam
will be practically ended.
Whether the economy of the electric
locomotive will compare favorably
with that of the steam locomotive, is
not settled. The speed attainable on
an electric railway would probably far
exceed that now reached on any steam
road. One hundred miles per hour ID
not without the range of reasonable
possibility. Whether still greater veI4
ocity is practicable will probably de-
pend upon means of reducing the air
resistance to the moving vehicles. Ii
certainly would be a curious outcome
of the electrical railway, if in time we
should come to speak of the lines of a
railway car in much the same way as
we now do of the lines of fast yacht!
Two new systems for quick despatch
have lately been proposed in this coun-
try. One includes long, narrow car
of small cross-sectional area, running on
an elevated track, and claimed to be
capable of making speed of two miles
per minute. The other employs a
series of electromagnetic coils, inclos-
ing the elevated track at intervals,
through which coils the small car is
successfully drawn by the action of the
current entering the several coils in
turn. 1t is not impossible that we may
be able to project mail and express
matter throughout the country at the
rate of two or three hundred miles an
hour, either on elevated structures or
through subterranean pipes; or that
some day the mails may be sent across
the Atlantic by the aid of electric
motors traversing tubes laid on the
ocean bed.-The Forum.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
A Diplomatic Young Man.

A very pretty girl of about twenty
years entered an elevated car the other
day accompanied bya solid-looking
old gentleman, evidently her father.
A tall, pleasant-faced young fell
low followed them in and took a
seat opposite them. He began to reau
paper, but every few minutes his
eyes left the page andhe looked steadi-
ly at the girl, though not obtrusively.
Her eyes met his several times, and
pretty soon she became nervous. She
fidgeted about little, and then whis-
pered something to h-r father. The
old gentleman also had been reading.
He put down his paper, and, looking
at the young man, said, severely
"What do you mean, sir, by staring
at my daughter?'
The young man looked perplexed
for an instant, then he replied, calmly
and distinctly: at is the inherent
right OF every man to honestly admire
beautiful woman when he has the
opportunity" and he raised his hat.
A Pleased expression came over the
glrrs face and she blushed prettily.
The old gentleman looked Modified,
too, and rather proud. They all left
the train at downtown station, and
as they separated the young man bow
ed, the father also bowed, and the girl
gave her admlrer a sunny smile.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Newspapers In Germany.

DR.. Bamberger contributes a most
interesting article in the shape of a
paper on the German Press. Its foible,
he says, is omniscience, especially in
all that relates to foreign countries.
Greater stores of historical and geo.
graphical knowledge lie hidden in Ger
man editorial crania than are to be
found in England and France togeth-
er. So greatly is DR.. Bamberger i'm
pressed with this Unborn facility for
apprehendlng the conditions and pc
culiarities of other nations that he
is almost disposed to see in it provi-
a new Holy Roman Empire over all
the world. The Reptile fund, he says,
amounts to $685. year, but Rep
tile fund notwithstanding, German
journalists, even of the financial genus,
are less corrupt than their brethren
elsewhere.
Journalism in Germany, however,
labours under many drawbacks. First,
there is the excessive localism, due to
the law of regional limits; secondly,
the thirst for liquid rooted in the Ger
man organism contends with the thirst
for information, and his coppers go in
beer, not in papers; thirdly, there is
the severity of the law against the
Press.
Not very long ago a court of law
decided that writer could be refused
admittance to theatre subventioned
by the public money, although he had
paid for his ticket, because he had
criticised the actors so sharply that he
had spoilt the pleasure of the public
in the performance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

The Senate bill providing for refunding the
direct tax will be reported favorably to the
House.
A bill for the payment of the French spoil
alton claims will be fayOrably reported to the
House.
The banquet given to Andrew Carnegie at
the White House by the President and cabi-
net is said to have been the finest affair of
the kind ever given In Washington.
Washington people want to hold "Three
Americas" Exposition in 1892 to commence
rate the discovery of America by Columbus,
the celebration to include the building of a
memorial bridge across the Potomac, the
erection Of statue to the memory of Column
bus, and the enlargement of the present Ma
tional Museum into q ''Three Americas,
Museum.
Bids have been opened by the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury for one hydraulic
direct-acting mail lift, including pump, tank,
piping, platform, screen work, ETC., for the
post Office building at Augusta, Me. The
bidders were: A. ID. Ward, Augusta, $2345; ;
7 W. Cogan 60. S2310 aud $3.50; Whit
ella Machine Company, SI475 and S91CO.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Swiss Labor Conference.

The Swiss Government has issued
the programme which is to form the
basis of the labors and inquiries of the
labor conference. 1t includes the fol-
lowing points:
1. In what degree, if at all, should
the State restrict Sunday work?
2. What is the minimum age below
which the employment of children in
factories should be prohibited
8. What should be fixed as a maxi
mum days work for work men or
women under full age?
4. Should the hours of compulsory
attendance at school which are now re-
quired by law be counted as part of a
days work for juvenile workers.
5. Should the maximum length of
days work for juveniles vary ac-
cording to the ages; and during what
hours should the working time be
fixed?
6. What restrictions are necessary
in the employment of women and
children in unhealthy and dangerous
occupation?
Z. Should the State permit the en-
ployment of women and children in
occupations carried on at night time?
8. How can the State best put into
effect and enforce the labor regulations
it makes?
Finally, the programme submits to
the conference that proposition for
periodical labor conferences, which
will become an established institution
if this conference approves thu idea.