Thomas County cat., 1890-08-28
LATEST NEWS.
9 Condensed for the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.

sAS0AA AVt SIl0OO0V00I00C0
Of Hurried Readers.
"a special train of eleven coaches came e
St. Joseph, Mo-. from Boston. Mas. BRING
ing Sons OF Veterans to attend Their ninth
annual encampment.
=, At Ashbury Park, n. J., few nights AGO.
tne t1efmomeser registered 50 degrees. A
cool land breeze prevailed all day. driving
most OF the people from the beach. The
..Aes wenI 20 the balls wrapped IN furs, their
escorts wearing heavy overcoats.
New York grain gamblers run wheat up 4
Genus . ousnei August 19. The trading was
wld ana exciting and the wheat trade was
full of rumors of damage to the crops both
here and abroad. The bulls were confident
OF their position and now predict $1.5O q
bushel for this crop.
Nothing is more certain under ENGLISH
law than that every penny of DAMAGE done
TO property by strikers or rioters can be re-
the city. --'
=, Ine last government crop bulletin for
| Mamtooa says the average wheat yield will
oe IWenIy,nve bushels per acre, with a total
| OF O.UUUU bushels. Harvesting is half
over and the weather is magnificent.
| secretary Noble has instructed the COM
missioner OF pensions to make special and
tnus eApeolte all claims for pensions by par
nes now living in Oklahoma. This action ia
taken to relieve, as far as possible, the desti-
tute condition of many claimants in that
| territory.
John Burns, the most trusted leader of
the laoorers in London, said in a recent
speech that should the British ship owners,
as they threaten, organize a force after the
pattern OF the American ''Pinkertons" the
lockers" would raise the hair of these hired
assassin in less than twenty -four hours.
George NJ. Pullman offers to give the
amount OF ground needed for the worlds
fair near Pullman. and, furthermore, to
take up the S5.0OO,0O0 in bonds which are to
be sold by the city. Mr.. Pullman also pro-
poses to dedicate the grounds To the public
Tor park purposes after the fair is over.
The conferees on the land grant forfeiture
oil have practically reached an agreement.
lhe terms OF the agreement are generally
upon the principle of the bill as it passed the
mouse, namely. an absolute forfeiture of all
lands opposite to and co-terminous with that
portion OF any aided railroad not now CON-
pleted.
Vice President Webb, of the Central Hud-
son, asks the Associated Press to deny the
published dispatch that he expressed indiffer-
ence as to whether the firemen in our employ
went out on a strike or not. and that alleged
that had plenty of men to fill their places.
He says there Is not a word of truth IN the
statement.
Mason, Texas, has suffered from a cyclone.
Trees, fodder and fences were carried into
the next county. Some houses were demol-
ished, but there was no loss of life. Many
cattle were killed. The Episcopal church
was struck by lightning. The cyclone was
followed by rain which fell in sheets for
twelve hours.
The silk culturist from Philadelphia, Mag |
gie j. Palmer, who succeeded SO well in Sc |
curing considerable sums of money from |
would-be silk growers at Wichita and Medi- |
cine Lodge, underwent preliminary examin- |
alton and was bound over to the district |
court in the sum of $1,000 bonds, which she
was unable to furnish,
The labor leaders assembled at Terre
Haute, Ind, as well as Mr.. Powderly, III
New York, put much emphasis upon their QUO
tations from President Depew, of the Central
railroad; in which he has expressed himself
of organized labor. They seem to hope that
Depew will call off Vice President Webb.
Superintendent Porter Is rushing the count
l
new appOrtionment. The present basis of
representation is one member for every 49,
600 or fraction thereof, and the rev appor-
tionment will raise it to about 1SO, 600. This
will increase the membership of the house
about twenty-five. making a fetal list of rep
reSentatives of 355.
French fishermen's villages. on the shore
of New Foundland, and a few mining villages
also, are now the scenes of awful things.
Dying by hundreds with the black plague,
with dead bodies lying without burial. These
people were on the verge of starvation; caused
by the destruction of their fishing boats and
fishing gear, with British guns, under the
British flag.
States troops at Kingfisher has made per-
sonal investigation of the condition of the
colored settlers in the Black Jack country,
north of the Cimarron river. He says their
condition has been exaggerated, and he did
not find a single case of absolute destitution.
Many of them arc we'll fixed. All of them
have log houses, small crops. pigs and chick
ems.
California is forty years old this year and
deputations from the California Pioneers
and the ''Native Sons of the Golden West"
have presented an invitation to President
Harrison to participate in the celebration of
the fortieth anniversary of the admission of
The state into the union. The invitation was
on a handsome plate of solid gold.
which contained in relief in enamel and gold
he coat of arms of the state, surrounded
With the emblems of the two societies.
Already the terrible disease known as
famine fever" (words which call up such
inister memories in all old enough to re-
member 1870 has made its appearance in
Ireland, in the Barouy of Clonakilly, which
s composed of rough coast land between
kinsale and Skibbereen. One death has oc-
.urred, and numerous prostrations caused
" eating diseased potatoes. Of the 5000
,eople in this district. nearly one-half will