Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1891-01-01
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Governor Shoup. of Idaho, who has been
elected United States senator. has resigned
and Lieutenant Governor Willis has been
sworn in as governor.
The Minneapolis mill ground stronger last
week. Tho aggregate output tor the week
was 135, SIS barrels, against ia, 900 the week
before, and 10, SO the same week last year.
Colonies are being formed to invade the
Cherokee strip, and hundreds OF families are
IN camp near the state line; many OF them
Along the creeks and ravines of the coveted
country.
The Moniteur Beige, an Official paper OF
Belgium, announces that in consequence OF
the Intervention of United States Minister
Terrell, the quarantine on American cattle
has been reduced to five days.
Congress has passed the public building
bill for Kansas City, No., giving S1,OO,OOC
for it.
Senator Ingalls, requested and was granted
e two weeks leave of absence from duty In
the senate. He visits Kansas.
At Sandy Hill, n. Y, Deacon John Pock
hngton, the originator of the Pocslington
grape, was recently buried from the Baptist
church, OF which he was a deacon.
The federal grand jury in indianapolis
failed to return an Indictment against Attor-
ney General Miller on the charge that he had
used franked envelope in his private cor
respOndence. The evidence did not bear out
the charge.
A gale along the Pacific coast, with tn,
mercury 10 below: with railroad trains block
AIDED with snow drifts.
Among the numerous reports of fatal acct
dents these days there seems to be an increase
OF the number of people killed by passenger
elevators.
There is dead lock between the tNo
houses of congress over the urgent deficiency
bill. 1t is over An item added by the senate
to make the senate clerks annual instead OF
session employees. To this the house refuses
TO agree.
The president has vetoed bill for the cree
ton for a public building at Bar Harbor,
Me. The bill called for an appropriation of
$4,000. The veto was on the ground that
the public needs of the community do no.
Justify the expenditure.
Jewish woman at st. Petersburg, whose
house was about to be sold by the authorities
TO meet the fine imposed by reason OF her
sons avoidance of consumption, IN her de
spsir lay down in the kitchen fire and allowed
herself to be burned to death.
Two Detroit physicians have been expert
meuting about as long as mas DIR. Koch with
q cure for consumption. Their success, like
his, Is still problem, yet their attachments
have been fully equal to his. They work
from different basic idea from that OF DIR.
Koch.
The Presbyterian churches of Canada and
the general conference of the Methodist
church of Canada have taken action IN the
line of petitioning the house of commons for
law prohibiting the manufacture of all
.coholic liquors for beverage purposes IN
Canada.
At Minneapolis The average daily output of
-four has been decreased and the total pro-
duction next week will be somewhat smaller.
The flour market is without much life, espe-
cially In the domestic trade. Liberal sales
have been made for export, but ut pretty
low prices.
The county superintendentS of schools in
Arkansas have held their first meeting.
resolution was adopted fixing the third week
in June, Septembt. December and March
of each year for teachers examinations.
Heretofore there has been no system about
examinations.
A dispatch from Washington warns the
Cherokee strip boomers to get out and keep
out. 1t is positive that no one viii be per-
mitted to make settlement there until nego-
tiations for the purchase of the land are
completed and are ratified by congress; and
it is not likely that the present congress will
act even though the commissioners and the
Cherokees reach an agreement in a short
time.
Fairfield, Texas, is the scene of intense ex-
element over the scourge of spotted fever,
or, perhaps, meningitis. Nearly all the stores
are closed and business almost entirely sus-
pended. The disease is so fatal and dreaded
that the people are closing their dwellings
and leaving. Eight or ten deaths have &C.
CURED withiL the past two days and quite
number are now sick.
The house committee on Pacific railroads
ordered a favorable report on senate bill
to enlarge the duties of the commissioner of
railroads SO that he shall keep the accounts
of the Pacific railroads and other bonded
lines. The committee adopted a resolution
the committee ON rules to give
the committee separate day for considera-
ton of all the Pacific railroad measures.
Frank A. Aldrich, of Stafford. Kansas,
who was sentenced in Pennsylvania to seven
years in prison, has, after serving two years,
been pardoned, through the unceasing efforts
of his wife, who has expended the two years
time and quite a fortune in her work for his
release. The state board of pardons have
evidence that Aldrich was in Kansas when |
the crime was committed in Pennsylvania.
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