The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-27

HAzEI GREEN. XIV:
FRIDAY, Nov. ~, 1891,
BRIEF EDITORIALS AND NEWS NOTES.
MANY counties In Kansas have had
no rain since July, and the drought has
delayed blowing 70 that the winter wheat
is far below the average of last year.
JASON b. Brown, Congressman from
the Third Indiana District, thinks ROGER
q. MILLS, the Texas Congressman and
author Of the Mills Bill, will be elected
Speaker of the Fifty.second Congress.
CHICAGO Socialists Endorsed letter
read by THOMAS G. MORGAN Sunday
declaring that hereafter there should not
be any connection between their crowd
and the Anarchists.
FoRTY.FIvE families of farmers from
the German border of Russia, number.
ing about $50 persons, arrived in New
York Sunday en- route to South Dakota
to form settlement.
FIVE Italians, ranging in age from 20
TO 30 years, have been arrested at Jack
son, Tenn. They had four pistols and
three razors, and are supposed TO belong
to the New Orleans Malta.
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KANSAS was visited by severe snow
storm Saturday night. Snow was three
inches deep on level, and badly drifted
by a blizzard blowing at the time. West
from Atchison the storm extended 100
miles.
The Methodist General Missionary
Committee, in session at Cleveland, o.,
last week, voted $4,000 for the purchase
and improvement of missionary proper
tys The total sum of money for the dis
posal Of which the committee voted is
81, 222 900.
THE Postmaster General is said to be
putting the finishing touches on his an
nual report to Congress, and he will
doubtless explain how the increased de
ficiency in postal revenue, which amounts
to over 81, 100000 was incurred in i'm
proving the mail service.
ABOUT 400 Postal Clerks met at Kan
sas City, Mo-, last week and effected an
organization to be known as the National
Railway Clerks Association, the object
OF which is to secure the passage Of bill
through Congress increasing the pay of
the clerks and providing pensions for
them.
THE Central Labor Union, of Nash
vile, Tenn, last week adopted resolu-
tions condemning the lawlessness in East
Tennessee, but pledges itself to do all
within its power 70 right the wrongs of
the free miners in lawful way. The
Union will appeal to the Legislature for
aid In the matter.
Col. w. o. BRADLEY, who Is now in
Washington to attend the meeting of
the Republican National Committee,
gives it as his opinion that President
HARRISON will be renominated and re-
elected. Col. BRADLEY favors Cincin.
natl as the place for the Republican Ma.
tional Convention.
The Supreme Council of the Farmers
Alliance have adjourned, to meet next
year in Atlanta, Ga. Harrisburg, Pa,
or San Francisco. The Council refused
to give the Reform Press Association any
kind of Endorsement, and ON this account
IL. w. AVER, Private Secretary to Pres
ident Polk, resigned.
RETURNS from the Second Tennessee
Congressional District are not all in, but
HoUK, Republican, is elected by about
$500 majority over WILLIAMS, Demo
crlt. The district has always been
strongly Republican, and in the Presi-
dental election HARRISON carried It by
$4,000. So II appears that the Democrats
have made handsome gain.
ALVIN DAVIS, an employe of the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, was run over by
freight train at the coal chute, at Paris,
Ky, Saturday at midnight, and died
Sunday morning from his injuries. His
left leg was cut off and left arm crushed.