The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1891-04-24
NEWS NUGGETS.

Tho Pennsylvania house has passed
an Australian ballot bill.
| President Harrison and party rested
Mt Galveston over Sunday.
A colored man was admitted TO the
bar at Savannah tho other day.
An Ohio young man turned green
from tho effects OF cigarette smoking.
The wife Of Col. Haliord, the Pros
ident's private secretary, died few
days ago.
GMr. Blaine's last letter to tho Italian
prime minister, is praised by men OF
all parties.
There are AS towns In the United
States having u population OF over
5000 each.
Mr.. Washburne received q plurality
OF 800 In tho recent mayoralty contest
in Chicago.
| Work has begun on a now palm
house at Lincoln Park, Chicago, to
cost sos,
Tho election OF Hemstcad WASH
burne ms mayor Of Chicago is conceded
by the Democrats.
The Presidents receiving most en-
thusiastic receptions from Southern
cities he is visiting.
A party of railroad magnates, in
Guiding Vanderbilt and Depow are
travelling in the West.
The Edgar Thompson steel works
OF Carnegie Il Co. have resumed work,
employing 1000 men.
The bill prohibiting the wearing OF
tights by women has ut last been
killed by the Minnesota legislature.
A French engineer reports that it
will take about five years to complete
the Panama canal, and cost about
$3.50, OOO,OOO
George w. Howell, lumber NOR
chant OF Atchison, Kansas, has been
arrested for violating the Interstate
commerce law.
The city election at Albany. N. Y.
resulted in victory for the Demo-
Gratis. The Republicans elected three
out OF seventeen supervisors.
A band Of Cheyenne River Indians,
encampcd on Wounded Knee Gre ok,
near Pine Ridge, are making trouble
for the white settlers In that vicinity.
Miss Anna Dickinson Is after the
people who procured her incarceration
in an insane asylum. She has instruct
ed her lawyers to ..ilay them alive"
John r. Piper. prominent physi-
elan OF Wheeling, w. Va. and Taylor
Foreman, superintendent Of the county
farm, have been arrested for grave
robbing.
The Winner Investment Company
OF Kansas City have made an assign
ment. 1t was considered one OF the
staunchest firms In the west The
liabilities are over 81 100000.
The steamer Oregon. from Liver
pool, landed 800 immigrants ut Hall
fax. All are bound for the North.
western States and landed there to
avoid the new immigration laws.
State Senator Bassett, on the floor
OF the New York legislature. charged
that $4,000 blood money was cx-
torted monthly by tho police OF New
York city for the liquor interests OF
that city.
kaweah colony 10 Tulare County,
California, has come to grief. 1t was
organized on the Bcllamy plan, but
the leaders are said to have used the
colony only rs u means Of cnriching
themselves.
Tho executors OF the will OF the
late Prince Napoleon have formally
asked tho French governments per-
mission TO Inter his remains ut
Ajaccio. the capital OF Corsica. where
Napoleon | was born.
The grca. strike OF the cotton
spinners mt the Clark's o. N. +.
Thread Company. OF Kcnrncy. N. j.,
has ended. 1t has lasted nearly hve
months. The contest has been settled
by arbitration and compromise.
A gift has been made TO the Roman
Catholic university Mt Washington by
the Rev. James Mcmahon, the rector
OF st. Andrews church. City Hall
place, New York, Of real estate and
Is estimated TO be worth nj least fl,-
GOO, 900.
a cable dispatch tells us that q
considerable number OF Sicilians are
Mt Naples bound for America. There
is some reason to believe that they are
members OF the Malta society coming
over here TO avengc the death OF the
men recently killed at New Orleans.
Lieutenant Tottcn. OF the military
department, OF Yale college. has been
wrestling with the figures given by
Daniel and other prophets and sup.
posed 10 have some bearing on the
date Of the end OF the world. lie
makes It that the final wind up will
come 10 1899.
The census office has issued bullc.
tin giving the population OF cities
containing 5000 inhnbitaats or more.
The total urban population In 1890
was Is. 236.670. or 2g.l2 per cent. OF
the total population. In 1850 the
urban population was ii.3is.5i7. or
22.57 por cent. OF tho whole.
Monday the laborcrs engaged In
grading jackson park. Chicago, In
preparation OF the Worlds Fair, do
cldcd 10 demand Increase In wages,
ti.50 20 sl.75 per day. The demand
was made by committee this morn.
Ing and tho contractors declined TO
nccedo TO II. Tho order TO strike
was then given. About 800 mon GU,
Of 800 employed struck this afternoon.
There has been no disturbances.
Adviccs from South Afr lea sny tina,
tho Portuguese. In addition TO SELLING
the British stnmer Agnes. have seized
the malls In transit through Mnshonn.
land and excluded tho British from