Thomas County cat., 1890-06-19
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The United States Brewers association ia
nghtlng Congressman Turner'S bill to i'm
pose tax on adulterated beer.
The car is scared again over fresh discov.
eiles, or suspicious, of new move against
MS lie. A number of arrests have been
made. 'en
Forty dulegates from the Railway Yard
Ilias.ers assoelatlon met IN convention at
Kansas City. They voted against the con-
solidation of all railroad mems organiza.
tions.
Northwestern train left the track near
nockford. ILL.,, and, two hundred feet farther
on, tipped over on gang of section men.
1he nremen, two section men and some of
passengers were injured.
Mrs. Dell. who is cooking for a graders,
camp near Denver, Colo, claims to be the
daughter of General Lyon, who was killed at
the battle of Wilson's Greek.
FL Paso county, Texas, has had hail foot
deep, with snow on one side and rain on the
other side of the track of the hail storm. The
hrst rain in that county for more than a
year.
Harrison Wagner, aged 50, who left his
nome IN McCoLnelsville, o., twenty-five days
ago, reached HagerstOwn on his way to Bal
tlmore. The old man has trundled a wheel
barrow AIS miles since he left McConnels-
vile.
1he Missouri State convention of Hiber-
mans held Its biennial session at Sedalia.
Resolutions declaring patriotic devotion to
the institutions of the United States were
adopted; also, indOrsing Parnell and de-
nOuncing Balfour.
At the robbery of the mail train near New
Salem, n, D., the mail car was first worked,
and while the train was still in motion the
express messenger locked up his safe, put
out his lights, dropped off the train and
walked back to the station.
The Santa Fe has announced rate of %
cents per cwt. on com from Kansas points to
Texas. This is to compel the Missouri Pa
clflc system to make an agreement on rates.
The latter road had been carrying corn on
so cent rate, secretly made.
Representatives of congregations of the
Church of England met and organized 1.-The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew" the object of
which is to spread religion among young
men. The constitution of the brotherhood
IN the United States was adopted.
Two miles east of New Salem. n. d.. tine
east bound train was held up and robbed of
forty-seven mail pouches and seven regis
tered packages. The case is receiving atten-
ton at Washington. from whence a reward
OF $1,000 was authorized by wire.
z. T. Hudly, an editor of Huron, S. D.,
and chairman of the democratic state GEN.
trail committee, has been shot and killed by
his son, 10 years old. 1t occurred at their
home, over a dispute about the father re-
quiring the son to help lay carpet.
Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, has advised
the old soldiers not to prove up and mort
gage their claims. He said they could raise
Just as much produce if the title remained in
Uncle Sam as they could if they proved up
and had it covered up with mortgages.
Alice Goodale, an English girl, arrived in
New York and on her way to Chicago to be
the lungs, on a Baltimore & Ohio train, and
was taken to hospital in Washington, ID.
c., with no hope of her surviving.
of the Order of Railroad Conductors has
approved the claim of a Chicago * Alton
conductor for s., 500, who was discharged be-
cause he was deaf. Total disability draws
the same amount from this order as does
death.
Pollard Lakin, the ex-county clerk of Lyon
county, Kansas, charged with forgery, IN
altering the census returns, was acquitted IN
a trial before the district court. The jury
rendered verdict of not guilty, the evidence
showing that he was not to blame for the
frauds committed.
The Italian minister to the United States,
and the consul general from that country,
have both been recalled by their home gov
ernment upon charges of fraud, and of be-
ing bribed to wink at the violation of Amer
lean contract labor laws, in connection with
the large immigration of Italians to the
United States.
Judge Caldwell's decision on the original
package cases embraces l 500 words. He
says that the agents have right to sell orig
inal packages of any size, shape or quantity,
and that the state has no right to interfere
by seizure or otherwise. The decision is re-
ported to contain this: that the purchaser has
a right to consume the liquor where and when
he pleases, con the premises or elsewhere.
President Harrison has vetoed a bill to
provide for public building at Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. He says that from pending and
probable legislation, there Is to my mind an
absolute necessity that expenditures for pub
lie buildings should be limited to cases where
the public needs are very evident and very
imperative. 1t is clear that this is not such
case.
The Indictment against J. K. Hudson. of
the Topeka Capital, was quashed by Judge
Caldwell in the United States circuit court
at Leavenworth. In delivering his opinion,
Judge Caldwell said that Judge Foster should
have drawn the checks IN payment of the
printers fees, and that he should have had
full control and oversight of all the accounts
of the court.
The Mexican authorities refuse to allow
American stOckmen to return cattle which
stray into Mexico, and have ordered all
American cattle hereafter found across the
line to be taken and sold. There are many
han Df xr-b, oh,
stray across the long border from the Gulf
of California to the Rio Grande that Will be
confiscated unless the order is revoked.