Thomas County cat., 1890-03-20
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of Hurried Readers.
Tippecanoe, aged ia years. dropped dead
at Philadelphia from dropsy of the heart.
He belonged to the Forepaugh menagerie,
and is the first elephant known to have died
SO suddenly.
E. P. McCabe, the colored candidate fol
governor of Oklahoma, says that he puts NO
faith in the dispatches sent out from Guthrie
and Washington that the whites will forcibly
resist any effort to make Oklahoma negro
state.
Atchison, Kansas, women are striving to
get control of the city school board In the
spring election. Their object is to relieve the
teachers from the burden imposed upon
them by the city superintendent by useless
and impractical rules.
Murat Halstead, the Cincinnati editor, is
exerting his influence to make new black
state out of the Indian territory and Okla
homa.
Three killed ard three badly hurt of the
crew of a work train who were cleaning
railroad cut of sliding rocks. A mass OF
earth slid: down and buried them. This on
the West Virginia Central, west of Cumber-
land, Maryland.
Charles E. Cross, Virginia banker. is
serving seven years sentence for forgery,
and an old black man. who was a slave in
the family, has appealed for the privilege of
becoming his substitute. The black man S
name Is not given, but 1t Is recorded above.
At meeting of the directors of the Jeffer-
son Davis Land company at Jackson, Miss,
5000 of the proceeds of the stock sold was
turned over to the trustee for the benefit of
Mrs. Davis. 1t is thought that twice as much
will be secured.
The majority of the ways and means COM
mittee have switched off from the sugar
question, which has been troubling them for
some time. They have split, SO that it is
likely that they will have to leave it to the
house to decide how the question is to be
treated.
The London Times comments at length
upon the selection of Chicago as the site for
the worlds fair, and says that supremacy,
social and commercial, which New York has
always claimed, is challenged and would
seem to have passed to its young rival in the
west"
The executive board of the Kansas Millers'
association held meeting in Topeka to
bring their complaints before the interstate
commerce commission. They object to paying
and the southern market than the Texas
millers have to pay on Kansas wheat to make
barrel of flour.
Mr.. Peters, of Kansas. who is on the house
committee on appropriations, warns congress
against reckless appropriations at this ses-
sion. He says: We have inherited from the
last administration deficiencies sufficient to
wipe out every dollar of surplus during the
next fiscal year. 1t is idle to advocate a
measure on the ground that We have a
'plethoric treasury upon which to draw.
The facts will not bear out any such state
ment."
All that part of the country lying east and
south of Charleston, Mo-, is almost entirely
submerged, the exceptions being natural and
artificial mounds. upon which farmers and
stock have taken refuge. 1t is raining and
the outlook is discouraging. The levee at
Birds Point, Mo-, opposite Cairo, gave way,
and all movable railway property at that
place was hastily transferred to Charleston,
as was that of the Cotton Belt road, ON
which the trains are abandoned.
Pennsylvania is the bulwark of conserva-
tive Presbyterianism. Without single ex-
ception, the Presbyterians of that state have
declared that the standards of the confess
sion of faith that have stood for more than
200 years shall remain unchanged. The New
opposed to the old standards. Excepting
the Long Island presbytery, the thirteen
presbyteries that have voted on the ques-
ton in that state have pronounced in favor
of revised and modernized confession of
faith.
The special worlds fair committee of con-
gress has completed its bill. 1t provides for
a national commission, composed of two
from each state, nominated by the
governors and appointed by the president,
but an amendment has been added providing
that the commissioners shall be divided
equally between the two political parties.
The government commissioners are to have
control of the operation of the fair, the ap-
pOintment of juries, distribution of awards,
ETC., but the Illinois corporation (Which is
recognized in the bilD is to prepare the site,
construct the building, and retain control of
financial affairs.
The rush into the outlet by thousands of
land seekers who had congregated on the
south line OF Kansas, and in Oklahoma,
awaiting the time when they might go in
and possess the land, which occurred March
IA and 10, was precipitated by a mistake in
the dispatch to the press from Washington,
sent out on the 14th, announcing the passage
by the house of the Oklahoma territory bill.
1t said that the bill declared the Cherokee
outlet public land, subject to homestead en-
try, which it should have so said concerning
the public lands known as No Mans Land.
Ignorance of American geography by the
people OF the eastern cities, even by high Off
cials of the government, is thus again Illus
trated.