The state herald., 1890-05-16
BY TELEGRAPH.
Railroad rates are going lower.

been discovered In ireland.
Lee White, the desperate, has been
captured again and is In jail.
Since January 1, 1890. 944 railroads
have ;,een commenced or incorporated.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation is In session at Nashville, Tenn.
/ During high wind n part OF the
roof Of the Missouri State house was blown
Of.
The government has just completed
dry dock at Brooklyn costing million
dollars.
Geo. W. Crane, OF Topeka, who runs
the largest printing establishment west Of
Chicago, has assigned.
A Paris dispatch says that Minister
Reeds last ball was very brilliant affair,
attended by 1000 guests.
The city council Mt Spokane Falls,
Washington, recently expelled one Of ita
members for attempted bribery.
The young daughter OF Kansas
farmer recently filed three tramps with
bird shot when they tried TO clean out the
ranch.
A Minnesota mail thief who pleaded
|dnsanity and was sent to an asylum has
concluded that he prefers to be sane and
stand trial.
The musical world has been startled
by tho announcement that Gilbert and
Sullivan, the famous operate collabora-
teurs, had definitely parted.
The temperance question is attract
Ing great deal Of attention In the English
parliament, and there seems to be strong
sentiment In favor Of restriction.
The tariff debate opened in the
House Wednesday. Mr.. Mckinley led in
the discussion, and MIR. Mills followed,
severely criticising the bill and ridiculine
the Republicans.
The Louisiana Lottery Company are
said to have cleared sl3, 900, 900 last year.
They are making strenuous efforts to Sc
cure renewal Of their charter by the
Louisiana legislature.
Superintendent Porter OF the census
says that enumerators must not receive
payments from city or county authorities.
He fears that they may be tempted to aid
some western .'booms."
A sensation has been caused in Rus
sia by the discovery OF large and sys
tematic theft Of bombs and shells from the
magazines ut Sebastopol. Numerous en-
ployes have been arrested.
Grave peculations have been dis
covered in the customs department OF the
Argentine Republic. The revenue lost
by the Government by embczzlements is
estimated at slO,oOo,Oo annually.
Advices received from Senegal are
to the effect that the Scnegalese king has
been murdered by his subjects. He tried
10 impose upon them European ideas
which he imbibed ut the Paris exhibition.
Stanley in an interview regarding
German movements in Africa said that he
was wearied by En2land's apathy and
pliancy in regard to operations by the
Germans, and that II England continued
inactive, the Germans would secure para
mount influence In Africa.
Bismarck has been so busy in re-
ceivins and weighing aattcring offers from
nearly every publishing house in the civi
lizcd world TO put his memoirs in book form
that he has had little time for anything
else. Not u magazine but has made him
princeiy offers for an article from his pen.
As freight train on the Santa Fe
road was crossing a bridge near yelling.
ton, Kansas, the engine exploded, and
Engineer Mack was scaldcd to death and
the fireman fatally injured. The force OF
the explosion destroyed the bridge and
sixteen cars of cattle were precipitatcd
into the creek.
A report has reached Oklahoma
City OF battle between two opposing
forces Of cowboys In Little River country
twenty five miles south. Thc difficulty IL
reported TO have arisen over different con
structions of tho "hcrdr law. Five men
are reported killed, three fatally injured,
aud four slightly wounded.
One hundred and twenty-five per-
sons have been arrested on the charge OF
plundering vessels stranded near Hcla, d
town on the Baltic nineteen miles north
cast Of Dantzic. The trial has Just ended
md resulted In the conviction of seventy,
one persons. who were each sentenced "a
one weeks imprisonment
Premier Crispi. in II confidential
note to King Humbcrt on the MAJ. DAY
demonstrations, states that sixty foreign
agitators were expelled from Italy, 5Oc
Italians who were distributing revolution
ary pamphlets were arrested, 5000 sus
poets were punished or warned and a0 sol
diers possessing manifcstoes were pun
ishcd.
The arrival OF the first car load OF
pigs allowed TO enter Saxony, through cs
pecial permission OF Chancellor Capriyl
was made quite fcto by tho pork hungr,
citizens at Dresden. The car was ro-
ccivcd Ut tho station by officials and the
pigs were driven TO tho slaughter house
In gaily decorated wagons, escorted b,
thousands Of citizens.
Attorney General Watson OF Ohio
has brought suit 70 tako from the Stand.
ard OIL Company It's charter. for u viola.
tion Of tho laws In variou. ways. Tn,
petition refcrs 10 tho general State law,
against monopolics, and cites facts I,
show that tho Standard on Company had
forfeited its right by going Into tho Stand
ard OIL Trust Of Nc. York.
Fort Worth's Spring Palace wn,
opeucd last Saturday. Ex-Governor Adam,
OF Colorado was tho orator OF the occasion
and 1900 people were in attendance. Tn,
palace presents picture Of surpassins
beauty within and without. II is designed
10 show tho world what Texas really A.
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