The state herald., 1891-07-31
NEWS NUGGETS.

The railroads have cut the rates
from Kansas City to Detroit and re.
turn to $14.50. This is for the G. A.
X. encampment.
France has demanded $S,000,000
indemnity from China for property
destroyed by rioters who looted the
houses OF Catholic missionaries.
All OF Deiroit's street railways,
about eighty miles in length. have
been purchased for New York and
Boston syndicate. This ends the
strect-car war.
Circuit Court OF st. Louis has de-
cided that nm express company which
receives goods is responsible for their
delivery to their destination and lia-
BILE for all loss or damage.
Because Philadelphia woman re.
fused to refund fifty cents to little
colored boy to whom she sold goat,
the boy shot her in the breast with n
toy pistol. The woman died.
In Waterloo, Iowa, Mrs. E. II.
Davis was fatally burned by her
clothes igniting from n gasoline
stove. Women and children who as
sisted in extinguishing the flames
were badly burned.
Near Tracy, Tennessee, two boys
were detected burying an Italian
poddler. II is surmised that they
murdered him for his money amount
ing to si7. One OF the boys, named
Sanders, has been arrested.
An important test of grain binding
machines was made Eear Joliet, llli-
nois. 1t was satisfactorily developed
that straw or grass can be used by
the machines for binding grain, This
solves the cheap twine problom.
After n years work the last fire in
the Hill Farm mine in Pennsylvania
has been put out. Search will now be
made for the remains of the thirty
one miners who were imprisoned in
the mine when 1t caught fire June 90,
1890.
The grand jury has found an in
dictment against Charles o. c. Hen
messy, city editor of the New York
DAILY NeDs, charging him with mis-
demeanor for publishing an account
OF the recent electrocution at Sing
Sing.
Four convicts in the New Mexico
peniteDtiary sawed their way out last
week. The escaped men are all hard
characters who have infested the
Mexico border for years, and are be-
lieved to have gone south, intending
to cross the Mexican line.
Commissioner Carter has informed
n correspondent that the fact that
mining claim is held by an estate does
not excuse the administrator from
performing the annual assessment
work (amounting to sl00) which is
required by the statutes.
Four hundred steel workers have
blockaded Carnegie's steel works at
Duquesne, Pennsylvania. They will
not permit non-union men TO enter or
leave the works. The sheritrs force
is unable to disperse the mob of
strikers. Serious trouble is antici-
pated.
Chicago trades and labor assemblies
have resolved TO urge all trades and
labor federations to oppose the re
election OF Samuel Gompers us presi-
dent. He has been in Office eight
years, lives In New York and has lost
touch with the labor movement, so
they declare.
An indianapolis photographer
named David c. Bryant has been ar
rested for blgamy. Fifteen years ago
his attorney informed him he had
been divorced, and he married again.
Now his first wife turns up ana pros
ecutes him. The attorney had de-
ceived Bryant
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has
Issued circular to custom officers. In
which he says that lottery tickets, and
the printed advertisements, etc,
which usually accompany them are
liable TO seizure and coniiscation.
They should be held and treated us
forfeited goods.
Cape Town, South Africa. will
make a display Of diamonds at the
Worlds Fair. The treasurer general
OF that government Is In communiea-
tion with Chief Skin OF the depart
ncnt OF mines and mining. He wants
to know about tho space which will bo
accorded Cape Town.
The first heavy ordnaace twelve
Inch gun, designed for coast defense
and made in the State of New York.
was fired at Sandy Hook for the frs,
time last week with satisfactory re-
suits. With 800 pounds OF powder II
hurled n 2,000-pound shot five miles.
The gun will use iiO pounds OF pow
der and throw n 2,O0O.pound sho,
twelve miles.
Judge White Of the County Cour,
nj fank,on, Dakota. has sustained
the demurrer TO the indictment
against John Becker, charged with
selling liquor contrary TO the prohIbi-
tory law. The decision Ia similar 10
that recently made by Judge plowman
OF the Black Hills. This was II tost
case and the liquor men arc jubllnn,.
In effect, Judge White declares the
prohlbltory law unconstitutional.
A sea captain recently from Chill
suys that when the bombnrdmcnt OF
Plsagua took place 10 March last tho
lirst gun fired on the city was sighted
by former resident OF the place. Ho
aimed for the powder magazine In the
center OF tho city und the projcctllc
struck II. An explosion followed
which killed several hundred people
and blew down buildings nil around
Ships lying near tho shore hud their
mnsts blown nwny by tho violence OF
the explosion.
1t would seem ns II the ChilIan
Congressional party had gotten ,hom.
solves Into very pretty muddle with
the French government. n reports