The Columbus journal., 1890-12-03

sent 10 jail Tor contempt oil court. ms
so weighed upon the mind Of the judge
that he attempted suicide but only sue
ceeded in putting ont both Of his eyes.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The remains of King William OF HOl-
land will be Inferred at Delft tomorrow.
NEBRAsKA's representatives in con-
gress were all ION deck" at the roll call
Of senate and house last Monday.
The Nebraska City distillery came out
on top in the tustle with the whiskey
trust and will again resume business.
The McChristy boy whom the New
York police believed to he the long lost
Charley Ross, turnes out to be another
disappointment.
SUGAR beets raised in Cass county and
sent to Grand Island for analyzatiOn
were found to contain 14.6 per cent Of
pure sugar.
OwING to Il financial crises in the
Argentine Republic the premium on
gold advanced last week FROM Id to 80,
and closed at the latter figure.
PATRIOTIC republicans are spending
more time in trying to unite all branches
and sections Of the party than in decid-
ing who shall get the nomination in 1892.
The United States supreme court has
declined to interfere with New York
states law substituting electricity for
the gallows in executing the sentense Of
death.
TIE supreme court OF Montana Mon
day affirmed the decision of the lower
court making John A. Davis admins
traitor of the S5,OOO,O 900 estate of the late
A. J. Davis.
TIE stocks of wheat in country elevst-
ors in Minnesota and the two Dakotas
as computed by the Market Record Mon
day aggregated 8,950.OOO, decrease Of
$4,000 bushels.
CAPT. A. A. BoaARDus, the ex cham
pion wing shot of the world. was married
Saturday at Lincoln, ILL.,, to Mrs. Lucy
Heimer. of Philadelphia. This is the
captains second marriage.
INSPECTOR BYRNEs said at New York
Wednesday that one Of his men is at
Boston working on the Charley Ross
mystery. 1t is alleged that the hoy is
an inmate of one Of the Massachusetts
prisons.
IT has been decided by U. $. circuit
Judge that the Minnesota OIeOmar zarine
law, 50 far as it prohibits the sale Of
oleOmargarine in original packages by
the importer in Minnesota is nncOn-
stitutiOnal.
The Universal Power Company. at
Chicago, to manufacture motor cars and
railway appliances, with capital stock
OF $1,OOO,OOO. fled articles of incorpora-
ton with the secretary of state OF Illi-
nois Wednesday.
OSCAR NEEBE, the anarchist. is liable
to be liberated from Joliet. 1t is assert
ed that the man who identified him as
the distributor Of the revenge" circular
has expressed his belief to Gov. Fifer
that he was mistaken.
FROM Superintendent Porter comes
the announcement that the final revision
of the census count places the pOpula-
ton of the United States at sixty-twO
million seven hundred and twenty-five
thousand. two hundred and fifty.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON while out
hunting in Washington county, Miss,
the other day was accidentally shot by
his son, McDufiie Hampton. The shots
struck him in the head, inflicting pain
full but not serious injuries.
A FATAL disease prevails among horses
in certain localities of Tennessee. The
general impression is the disease is caus-
ed by rotten corn. Horses die in several
hours after being effected. The symp-
toms are like those Of blind staggers.
The disaffected reds are said to have
taken to the sand hills. II such is the
case, an old fashioned blizzard would do
more TO solve the problem OF the dis
turbance than all the muskets Of the
army on the ground.
TIE dispatches say that the Messiah
craze among the Indians has extended
across the Canada border, and that the
Canadian reds are coming to join forces
with their red brothers and swsit the
coming of the Indian savior.
TIE financial policy of the alliance
members OF congress from the southern
ststes IVES defined by Mr.. Picrce OF
Tennessee ut Washington the other day.
The sub-tressury plan or something
similar will be advocated to relieve tho
stringency in money.
THE Koch method is 70 be slightly e1-
elusive. Hundreds Of applications Of
physicians for admission to the hospitals |
NJ Rorlin IN sf,,dv tha nafhn6 havA