The state herald., 1892-03-04
Telegraphic Brcvitlcs.

The Trans Mississippi Congress was
in session ut New Orleans last week
The national convention of the new
Peoples party will be held at Omaha on July
4th.
Governor Boyd has removed the
Omaha fire and police board, but they will
fight the action In the courts.
a great many gambling houses are
being run in Chicago despite the pretended
efforts OF the authorities to stop them.
The jury which has been trying
samuel of Poscn'' at San francisco have
disagreed and Curtis will have new trial.
Two little colored girls were locked
in their home at Mariana, Arkansas. and the
house catching fire they were burned to
death
1t is said that Mr.. Deacon, who mur-
dered his wlfc's paramour at Cannes may not
gct OH easily as public sentiment Is In favor of
his victim.
The Bengal chamber of commerce
at Calcutta has adopted resolutions favoring
an international agreement for the free coin
age Of silver.
The residence of Stephen b. Elkins
sold 10 Tho Tammany saehem, Edward Rear.
ney, for s6a,50o.
a shipment of 20,0i0 pounds of
California Tin from the Tcmascal mines In
San Bcrnardino county was made to New
York last week Value, 1890.
An influential negro has started n
movement among the eolorcd population Of
Nashville, Tennessee, TO form n colony and
cmigraic 10 Oklahoma next fall.
The fircmen on the San Antonio &
Aransas Pass railroad complain that they are
being superseded 10y new men aud another
strike Is among the possibilities,
The editor of the Vienna Volks.
presse has been put In jail for collecting and
distributing food to the thousands OF unem-
ployed worklngmen In the city.
i. +. Keencr of Denver, has paid
over $4,000 Of the debts Of his son, {. &.
kecner, Of the firm Of Kccncr n Pike, that
failed recently nj McredosIa, Ill.
The Schmidt local option bill was
defeated In the Iowa Senate by vote Of IS
yeas To % nays, the number necessary To make
constitutional majority being 20.
One hundred and fifty thousand
bushels Of corn has been received at Torrcn.
Mexico, from the United States for ,llstrIbu.
iion among the half-famished people Of the
state Of Durango.
Professor William McAdams, while
digging for relies near the Monks Mound ln
St Clair county, Illinois, found a bundle OF
fossllIkcd pumpkin seed, grain, car,henwarc,
cite, which he sAys have been there nearly g.
600 years.
AS the rcsul, Of the riot in Berlin
on the a5,h there was great excitement there
the neat day, and the police found great ,ilf.
heul,y In supprcsslng the socialists. The
Kaiser attended by only three men rode
through the streets and was checrcd by the
people
Mr.. Blaine has written for publica.
tlon long letter In which he explains his side
OF the divorce ease In which his son has fig.
urci. lie defends his wife against tho
charges made by Marie NcvIns Blaine, and
ininaics tha, the latter bcgulicd James q.
Blaine, Jr., into marrying her.
February reports from Southern
Minnesota indicate thnt the winter wlea, crup
will he almost total failure. Many acll.
appear brown aud dead, owing 10 tho llrht
SNOW and constant violent changes In tcmpcra.
turc. Al least 20 per cent. Of the grain from
Winona county westward will be ploycl up
aud spring wheat sowb.
The Northern Pacific Office nt Crook.
tion, Mlnn., was robbed OF $500 express
package Friday morning. The theft wa. No,
discovered un,li Saturday aud has lust been
made public, The thief also took two Tickets
for Southern California, via Portland. 4. II.
Denton. the night operator, l. mlssiag and
suspicion points 10 him ns the guilty man.
James Sturgeon, the brother Of the
lntc Charles spurgron, In. Professionally n..
tumrd the duties Of pastor of the Mciropoll.
tan tabernacle. Mr.. ficrson Il the mos,
popular candidate for the pastorntc, hut Ia n
Presbyterian, and the trus, deed requires IN.
election Of baptist Mr., pcr.on will con.
ilnuc To occupy the pulpit, aud will probably
formally Join the liaptlats, aud become pastor.
Frank Z. Bairis, farm hand who
disappeared from vihccnncs, Indiana. has
been found confined IN n boS-car on lonely
.idc',rnck In Lawrence county, ou the Ohio
y Mississippi railroad, lie had cfcpl into
the bos-car and Nas locked up and sldc.iraol,.
cd In M oui-of.ihc.wny place, whctu he lay
Tor eight days without food, wni.r or ilrr.
He was almost famishci mud his feet were
frozen 40 badly that he could not stand.
II is estimated that 5000 shocmak.
era, 5000 carpenters, Loo metal workers,
1000 stone workers and . 800 skilled inhorpfs
are M, Of work In Vienna. ks an alleged 10.
suit Of the Mckinley law 1900 people were
thrown out Of employment