Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
FOREIGN JOTTINGs.

German government Is q radical meas
ure compared with existing legislation,
and makes several sweeping changes in
| the relations of the saloon to the public.
Under its provisions no license will be
| granted except in cases where there is
need of q saloon, and this need must be
| shown, which is not always easy OF
| demonstration Good moral character
also Is required of the applicant and the
saloon must keep away from the yicin-
| ity of schools and churches. The police
regulations of the law are stringent and
place the saloon under thorough sur
| VIGILANCE. The saloonkeeper is made
responsible for the good order of his
place and will be punished for selling
liquor to minors, to intoxicated persons,
| or those who have been convicted of
drunkenness within three years. The
law also provides for placing common
| drunkards under legal guardianship,
and, when necessary, confining them in
| asylums. Retailers, that is, those who
sell below fifty litres, or fifty quarts, in
round numbers, will not be allowed to
sell in quantities less than half litre,
or one pint. For violation of this law
fines of from 80 to go marks, or in our
| money $3.50 to S14.40, and imprisonment
up to fourteen days are imposed, and in
cases where persons saving life, pre-
venting fire, or attending the health of
others get drunk the heavy fine of 100
marks ($24) or months Imprisonment
is provided.
THE English campaign for the election
of new house of commons has already
practically begun. Candidates may not
be named nor polls opened for months,
or a year, to come. But the men who
are to dispose of candidates are named,
and the books which are to govern the
polling are made up. The registry sys-
tenn in Great Britain differs in some re-
spects from that in vogue in the United
States, for one thing, in that the regis
tering takes place so long before the
voting. 1t is, however, perhaps even
more than here, the first skirmish of the
electoral battle in which very largely
the fate of the whole contest is decided.
On the 1st of August the overseers pub
lished their lists of voters in various
classes. These have been posted at the
doors of churches, public Offices and
elsewhere, so as to give all persons OPP
portunity to inspect them. For three
weeks they were thus displayed, and
during that time claims might be filed
for the insertion of new names or the
removal OF names no longer entitled to
be there. This period of popular scru-
tiny and revision expired on August 81,
and the lists were then turned over to
the registration courts. The latter will
begin their work this week, considering
and investigating carefully all claims
that have been filed, and finally revising
the lists in accordance Herewith. This
task must be completed by October IL.
The rolls of voters thus prepared will
come into force at the beginning Of next
year, and will form the basis of the next
general election.
The Catholic congress which was re-
Gently held in Berlin assumed unex-.
pected Importance. Over thousand
delegates were in attendance. A reso-
luton was adopted declaring that the
time had come to convoke great inter-
national Catholic congress for the con.
sideration of the question of the reStora-
tion of the temporal power of the pope,
and committee was appointed to ar
range for the holding of such a congress.
In discussing the question of the neutral
ground for the place of the meeting of
the proposed congress, Switzerland was
most in favor. Delegates will be sum-
moned from every Catholic community
in the world. The question of the res
toration OF the temporal power of the
pope will be treated, not as an Italian
question, but as one of universal con-
Germ. The congress affirmed the deter
mination of the German Catholics to re-'
main reSolute supporters of the dreibund
and decided to continue the policy OF
DIR. Windthorst in working for a recall
of the Jesuits and for religious instruc-
ton in the primary schools. After con-
siderable discussion it was voted to
favor the state regulation of labor queS-
tions.
A LONDON Ont, woman has been en-
gagged in running Cinnamon over to De-
troit. The plan adopted was to dress
the fellows up in widows weeds and
send them over boldly. One arrest has
been made, and in all probability there
will be further developments.
AT the trades union congress of En-
gland, at Newcastle, after much discus
sion and great deal of opposition by
members, the congress adopted by q
large majority resolution fayoring an
international eight hour law.
N w hOLn ldlAlly VI L dIlS, luuuUcIl ~
six members, have committed suicide.
The father and mother showed the way
by hanging themselves, and the others,
who were adult children, initiated their
parents.
THE Canadian government has de,
cided to refuse the application of syn,
dictate of American and Canadian capt.
talists to slaughter American cattle I'M
bond in Canada for export.
FRENCH scientists claim that the Eitfel
tower causes electrical disturbances
which have killed people and destroyed
much property in and around Paris.
The British labor congress has voted
to raise the age limit of children al,
lowed to work in factories to thirteen
years.
RUMoRs of war continue to fly around
in Europe,
THE NATIONAL GAME.