The state herald., 1891-02-27
NEWS NUGGETS


structive DIRE last Sunday.
Great loss OF property has been
caused by floods in Arizona.
The Missouri Pacific round house at
Kansas City was burned the other day.
John d. Knox & Co., Topeka bank
ers, have assigned. Liabilities. $780,.
600.
lgnatius Donnelly has sued two OF
the st. Paul papers for 100000 each
for libel.
The grip has appeared ut Leghorn
with alarming severity. The hospi-
tails are crowded.
1t has again been finally" decided
to place all the Worlds Fair buildings
together in Jackson Park.
A bill has been introduced In the
Senate grantinga pension OF 1880 IL
year to the widow Of Admiral Porter.
Professor Alexander Winchell,
probably the most learned geoogist
in the United States, died Thursday.
A Lincoln County (Tenn.) Baptist
minister has been arrested for running
an Illicit distillery In his smokehouse.
Application has been made for a
receiver for the Hansard Publishing
Company, OF London. A $4,000, 900
creditor is the petitioner.
New York breweries which were
left out OF the combination Of Novem-
Der. 1886, have formed rival pool
with capital q ~, 100000
A Russian commission has been APP
pointed to assist farmers by credit ad-
vances where they are injured by pro-
hibitive duties on farm machinery.
Inquiries at the Vatican show the
pope's letter to Cardinal Gibbons on
the question Of school education In
the United States will be OF pacific
nature.
1t is said that Bismarck shipped
four boxes filed with important doc
uments to London in view OF the pos
sibility OF being prosecuted for his
alleged utterances upon public af-
fairs.
While coasting at Burlington, Vt,
Thursday evening, Mrs. John FenniiI
was killed. Mrs. Lizzie Wyne received
u broken jaw and three others were
injured.
No one need suffer much through
sympathy for Senator Ingalls, down
fall. The senator will not exactly
starve. Ii transpires that he has
f3oO,OOO slowed away against the
rainy day.
The Standard Oil company has
bought 10000 acres in Green county.
West Virginia, and in Monongahela
aud Marion counties, in Pennsylvania
The property contains oil and gas,
and the price paid was f7iO.ooo.
Five miners have been rescued from
Pennsylvania coal niue after having
been eutombcd eighteen days. Their
friends had long sidcc given up ali
hope, and their return TO them alive
was as II they had come from the
dead.
just as Master Workman Powderly
concluded u speech at Topeka. Kas..
Monday night. he fell PROSTATE in his
chair from AN attack OF heart disease.
He recovered. however, In about five
minutes and was able to walk 10 his
hotel.
In speech at Longford the other
day, MIR. Parnell said: III do not wish
you to come In contact with British
eayoucts, but should ever ash you
to take the risk without constitution
! also will take the risk by your
side as your leader"
The Kansas Senate has passed, by u
vote OF % to 1, the fees and salaries
bill. The bill makes reduction OF
about % per cent. In salaries OF county
officers. The bill has already passed
the House and now goes to the COVER
nor FOR his signature.
Secretary Mohler Of the Kansas
State board OF agriculture has received
exceedingly encouraging reports OF
the condition OF winter wheat In fact.
he says tina, II looks much better now
than II has at any season Tor several
years. The weather has been favor.
able.
In bulletin issued by the census
ofiice. II is stated that the center OF
population OF this country ON June /.
1890. was In Southern Indiana. near
oreensburg. and twenty miles east OF
Columbus. Ten years ago |, was
eight miles west by south OF Cincin.
natl.
Tho Union Investment Company of
Kansas City has assigned for the ben.
ell, OF Its creditors TO +. L. Parker.
lis president W. A. Burker and b. b.
smalley. The liabilities OF the com.
pnny are about $1,000. 900, and It's
assets, according 10 Mr.. Parker. are
equal.
An immense rock. weighing at
lens: 9cr pCanSs, FOL from Duquesnc
heights, opposite Pittsburg, and
crashed Into the passenger coach OF
The Washington express on the Pan
Handle road. instantly killing one
passenger and seriously injuring
three Others.
Prince Bismarck has declined the
ofer OF the town OF Hamburg TO nom.
inn'e him for the Reichstag. Tho
prince In refusing TO accept this Offer,
said he wis forced TO decline on the
ground Of personal and domestic cir.
eumsiances, when would prevent n
conscientious performance OF the
duties which would fall TO his lot n
he accepted.