Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-17
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| Colts, Kansas, suffered the loss of several
buildings by fire.
The senate committee on the worlds fair
is delaying action until the proposed guar
| antee fund, to be raised by Chicago, Is so
| placed as to be absolute security against
| failure.
The Ascending treasurer of the state of
Louisiana turns up as mining Spectator IN
| Honduras, where he enjoys the personal
friendship and society of the president OF
that country.
| The members of the International Ameri-
| can conference will leave Washington on the
| proposed southern tour Friday, April IL at
| II a. M, and will return to Washington May
10. at 2 p. IN.
recent description of ex-President Cleve
| land SAYS that the fat of his neck lies over the
| collar of his shirt and coat in three heavy
| folds.
Francis w. Berks, the defaulting cashier OF
| the Santa Fe road at Ell PasO, Tex, has been
| caught at Salina, Kansas, after three
months chase all over the Pacific states.
E.B. Purcell. president of the Manhattan
bank, which has assigned, is making legal
fight against the British Land and Mortgage
| company of America, the cause of his trouble.
/ Boys employed in the Pittsburg. Pa, glass
works have struck TO. raise of 50 cents a
week. They get from So to SIS week. Their
strike stops all work, as the men employed
are dependent upon their help.
Admirers of the late General Sterling Price,
of Missouri, who not long ago subscribed
$4,000 to erect monument in honor of that
confederate, have just discovered that their
money has been squandered by the custodi-
ans of the fund.
The passengers of the "City of Paris have
made up a purse of 5000 for the gallant
captain and sailors who saved the vessel and
all ON board by rowing 10 miles IN a small
boat for aid while the vessel foated helplessly
on the open sea.
Rev. Thomas Ciefton and wife. of Wichita,
returning from church found their 1-year-Old
daughter hanging in hammock dead. The
servant girl states she left the child playing
on a bed beside which was a hammock twenty
minutes before the horrible discovery.
A meeting of representative workmen as
sembled at Berne. Switzerland, composed of
247 delegates, representing 10000 workmen.
Resolutions were adopted favoring the form
alton of trades unions and sick and accident
insurance funds, and calling for amendments
to the factory laws.
AS if to divert popular opinion from the
unsettled state of affairs at st. Petersburg,
the NONOe tllstt uiOfc dtlcutlou
he paid by the government to affairs in
Afghanistan, and asks the government to
beware of British intrigues, which it believes
are already in progress.
Confederate decoration day was duly OBJ
served in the south. At New Orleans, beside
other decorations at the Army of Northern
Virginia tomb, where the body of jefferson
Davis is inferred, the confederates placed a
magnificent presidential chair of yellow i'm
mortelles inscribed ITO our chief"
The Duluth board of trade, which has
handled Il, 00O, 600 bushels of wheat of the
last crop, voted to instruct the Western Union
and American telegraph companies not to
furnish the Chicago board with Duluth quo
tations until the Chicago board consents to
furnish the Duluth board with Chicago quo
tatiOns.
select audience in New York, consisting
of about $50 gentlemen, listened to an ad-
dress by William E. Gladstone, 'the grand
old man." though he was across the Atlantic.
The address had been spoken to phOno-
graph, and was repeated, in his natural voice.
by turning the crank of another instrument
into which it was placed.
A report to Secretary Nobl, upon the bust
ness of his Office, General Gium, commits
sioner of pensions, says that he Will be able
10y the last of May to cause the examination
of every claim pending in the office on the
LIST day of January last, have every claim al
lowed that is completed, and call for more
evidence in those not completed.
Information from private sources is to the
effect that the car still remains in a terrible
nervous condition, while the czarina is threat
ened with insanity. She is Frustrated with
series of fits of violent vomiting, and she
fears that she may be poisoned in her food.
No account of her wretched condition is al
lowed to find its way to the preSS
The secretary of war has transmitted to
the house a report of Captain Marshall, of
the corps of eng neers, on the location of the
Illinois and Mississippi canal, in compliance
with the river and harbor act of August, 1888.
Captain Marshall reports that the detailed
estimates for the construction of the canal
will not differ materially from the estimate
of about six and one half millions already
made.
The Chicago strike is costing the men be-
tween $35, 600 and $4,000 week, but say
they are prepared for an all summer seige.
They have large accommodations in their treas
ury, and they say that when this money is
exhausted they can fall back on the national
council. Back of the national council is the
Federation of Labor, comprising nearly a
million men. They claim that they are sup
ported in their strike by every labor organ
iZation in the United States.