Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-28
TELKGRAPHIC JOTTINcs.

The Cherokee strip has been cleared of
boomers.
The president has approved the act to pre-
vent the introduction of contagious diseases
from one state to another.
Fire in the woods yesterday afternoon be-
tween Carver and the South Meadows road
in Massachusetts, destroyed over two hun
dred acres of standing timber.
The conservatives in the lower house Of
the Prussian diet will present congratula-
tory address to Prince Bismarck on bis sew
enty-fifth Birthday, which occurs on April 1.
The United States man-of-war Iroquois,
which met with an accident to her machinery
while on her way to Samoa last December
and put into Port Townsend three weeks
ago, has arrived in San Francisco.
The Iowa house yesterday morning passed
without opposition the bill to compel all
railroads in the state to make joint through
rates with their connections. The act also
provides against discrimination in favor of
cities.
Lyman T. White, a prominent druggist
and chairman of the Prohibition club of
Eaton Rapids. Mich, was convicted in the
United States district court Wednesday of
selling liquor without paying the special
tax.
Henry W. Hersey, for twenty-five years
city treasurer of Portland, Me-, died yestsr-
day morning, aged sixty-nine. He was chief
clerk in the Atlantic and st. Lawrence Rail-
way company's Office for twenty years pre-
vious to 1868.
Representative Bland of Missouri and ].
R. Williams of Illinois, members of the
house committee on coinage, weights and
measures, yesterday submitted to the house
minority report in opposition to the VIM
dom silver bill.
Eight loaded freight cars of q train of thir-
teen bound east from Keene. N. H., were
derailed near Pemberton's, west of there,
yesterday afternoon, three going over an en-
| bankment. A broken wheel was the cause.
| No one was hurt.
Arthur D. Halliday, son of Rev. S. B.
Halliday of Brooklyn, N. T., late assistant
pastor of Plymouth church, died yesterday
of paresis in the Bloomingdale insane asylum
He formerly conducted we'll known wine
shop near Wall street.
There has been q renewal of disorders al
| the St. Petersburg university. On Monday
and yesterday there we're riotous demonstra
| tions by tho students which wero suppressed
There has also been further rioting at tn.
Chsrkof and Kazan university.
The English syndicate that is endeavorinf
to buy up all the cracker bakeries is trying
to induce Broas of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, ant
8. Staples of Kingston, N. Y, to acoede t.
Its terms. These are said to be the only CON
Germs of tho kind In the state who now holt
out and are controlled by Americans.
E. b. Brook, retired officer of the United
States army, died at his home in Detroi
Wednesday of heart disease. He was chic
clerk of the pay division in the war depart
ment during tho war and became a commits
stoned paymaster in 1862. He retired from
the service in 1882. He was seventy-tw,
years old and leaves widow and four chill
| dren.
The senate committee on Indian affairs au
thorized MI. Dawessto report his bill to ament
the allotment in severalty act. The bill pro
vides that in addition to the land required t,
be allotted under the original act, eight.
acres shall be allotted to any married Indial
woman or woman living in married life unde
laws or customs of the tribe.