Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-18
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Arrangements are now complete for the
| estaollshment OF telephone communication
| between London and Paris, and the line is
expected to be in operation within few
| days.
| An association of Iowa brewers and liquor
dealers. at Council Bluffs. Iowa, have re-
tanned Chicago attorneys to look after their
| interests In connection with testing the val
ldlty OF the Wilson substitute for the original
package law.
The crew OF the steamship State of Georgia
deserted the vessel at London Just as she was
ABOUT to sail for New York. The cause of
thelr action was that the baker employed on
poafo was non union man, and request
TOR his discharge had been refused.
The census Office has announced the count
| OF the population of Denver, Col, Ion, SO;
| increase, Il,041.
The German Methodist conference for the
territory OF Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consln and Ohio met at Indianapolis, Bishop
James Fitzgerald presiding. One hundred
| and thirty ministers, representing 1900
communicates, attended the meeting.
Baron Won Strauss, an Austrian nobleman.
died OF starvation in a cave in the Moran
mountains of Washington. He was we'll
dressed but penniless, and when last seen
allve he gave away an elegant empty purse
at a farm house, and said that he was going
into the mountains to starve.
The New York World declares that there
are Is, GOO children in New York unable to
secure accommodation at the public schools.
Apparently it has not occurred to New York
ers to use the other buildings temporarily
until additional school structures can be
erected.
General A. Med. McCook, having been
transferred from the department with head
quarters at Fort Leavenworth to the depart
ment with headquarters at Los Angeles,
CAL, has gone there; his family going east TO
remain until he arranges for them in the
new location.
tThe constitutional convention in Ken
lucky will endeavor to modernize the instrl-
ment of 1852. which recognizes the right to
property in slaves and limits the suffrage to
'free white male citizens" With slavery
take front seat.
Cyrus W. Field has a hennery with 1900
chickens in it at his country estate in Ards
ley on the Hudson, and cultivates an acre of
sunfowers, the seeds of which are to be fed
to them. His flock yields over 1900 dozen
eggs yearly. Besides the chickens he has
about GOO ducks.
The Maryland law school, at Baltimore,
has excluded colored students. Last year
two colored students graduated with high
honors. The regents decided upon the ex-
clusion of colored men on account of the
objection of white students to compete with
them.
The design selected for the Grant monu-
ment in New York is one which is susceptible
of much expensive elaboration, but which
l. Al
the architect himself remarked to the COM
mittee: sit can be built on the installment
plan"
A committee was appointed by the yellow
pine manufacturers convention at st. Louis
to consider the shipping weights of lumber.
The committee on prices presented their
report, which favors an advance in prices of
from IS cents to 81 thousand on the diff
ferent grades.
A resolution is before the lower house of
congress which declares that the killing of
General Barrundia on the steamer Acapulco,
by the authorities OF Guatemala, while on
board an American ship, and while under
the protection of the flag of the United States,
demands an immediate investigation.
The interests of the Pullman and West
inghouse corporations are to be Joined by
consolidation. The companies at present
will not erect factory, as they do not need
it. each having its own plant aud attending
to its own branch of business, one at Pull
man. H.. and the other at Pittsburg, Pa.
1t is officially announced that the st.
joseph & Grand Island company will erect
an elevator in Elwood, Kansas, opposite st.
Joseph, with capacity of Loco, 600 bushels
The Grand Island brings into this point
daily from 100 to $50 cars of grain from
various shipping points in kansas and Ne
braska.
There vet remain two contested election
cases of members of the house of representa-
tives. Both contestants are black men. The
republicans are endeavoring to secure
quorum IN order to reach the cases before
adjournment: while the opposition are using |
every possible obstruction to prevent action |
upon them.
A notorious burglar, who had just been
convicted for the second time and sentenced |
to fifteen years in the penitentiary, escaped |
from Jail at Dresden, Tenn, through the |
ZANE hole which he made when escaping |
from that Jail two years ago. The county |
court has been intending to have that hole
bricked up for some time.
savings bank, died suddenly at his residence,
aged 20. He appeared to be in his usual
health on the previous day. He was men,
Der of the Forty-third congress. In 1850 he
was republican elector, and in 1880 was
one OF the 800 supporters of General Grant
in the republican national convention.
Advices from Rome indicate that the pope
is not pleased with Cardinal Manning's latest
utterances on the labor question. His holi-
ness is said to have expressed the opinion
that the cardinal was being led by personal
sympathy to endorse labor programmes
which are not entirely in harmony with the
settled attitude of the church on such ques-
lions.