The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-12-15
TIE HICKMAN COURIER.
HICKMA KY,
FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1898.

JOHN CADwALADER, Of Phila
delphia, has been named for Am
hassador to Italy, in place o.
j. j. Van Allen declined.
THE house joint resolution ap'
propriated $50. 900 to enforce the
registration feature of the Geary
Chinese act was the first measure
to pass both houses Of congress
this session.
The Louisiana state lottery com.
pany. the gigantic swindling cor.
pOration which has swallowed up
millions OF dollars in this country
is winding up its business ut New
Orleans preparatory to removing
TO Honduras.
IT il estimated that the number
of unemployed in Chicago lie near.
~ $4,000. Their suffering has
become so great that the Illinois
Conference of Charities has APP
pointed a committee Of one hund.
red citizens to proceed at once in
the endeavOr to raise q charity
fund Of $1,000, 900.
HUGH MULHoLLAND, who was
tried and convicted for robbiug
the mails while postmaster at Pa
ducab, but who was pardoned by
President Harrison, Ia now accns.
ed OF utteriDg forged checks in
this city. He has gone East, his
relatives say, to take n business
posltiOn.-Courier Journal.
The women of Colorado can
now WELD the ballot as we'll as
the men. In q recent election out
there the voting privilege was
awarded them by majority Of
over 5000 votes aud the Govern.
or has issued his proclamation
investing them with the right to
vote at all the elections in the
State.
THE reason why farmers are
leaving the bleak Northwest for
the South are thus set forth by
the Shreveport Times: "The mar.
row profits Of the products of the
Northwest, this year have caused
a tide of immigration to flow
Southwark. Hero diversified
farming is profitable, and raisiug
stock and hogs much less expen.
sive and easier. Here capital is
not absorbed in the struggle for
exisetnce, while intelligent indus.
try IL smilingly welcomed by pro.
life aud fertile nature, with n TEN.
perate and healthful climate.
Thither the population Of the
Northwest is tn!ning.'
IT is believed that the sentiment
in favor of an income tax is grow
ing rapidly in the national house.
The solid delegations from Mis-
souri, and Georgia have signed and
sent formal petition to ways
and means committee asking that
the tax be incorporated in the new
revenue bill. Many prominent
members favor the individual tax
ing of incomes rather than levying
a tax on corporations. The idea
which has obtained for the past
day or two, that no increase will he
made in the tax on whisky leads to
the belief that the committee will
take the other horn of the diem
ma and put the tax on incomes.
The suit Of the Common wealth
OF Kentucky against the Louisville
and Nashville and the Chesapeake
and Ohio and Southwestern rail.
ways to prevent the proposed
consolidation was filed IN the JEFF.
fersOn County Circuit Court Mon.
day by the Hon. Frank Parsons
and Humphrey & Davie, attorneys
of the plaintiff. After describing
in detail the various properties
OF the two companies ii asks an
immediate order of INDUCTION, zen
joining and restraining" the de.
fendents from the cOnsummation
Ut the deal, on the ground that 1t is
directly in violation Of Kentucky's
Constitution. The petition states
that the success Of the proposed
consolidation will 'irreparably in.
jure the Commonwealth of Ken.
lucky and the people and will
be destructive Of the public good"
The department of agriculture
has been called upon to aid the
farmers of the northwest in exter.
minating what is knows AS the
Russian thistle, which was intro.
duced into South Dakota seven.
teen years ago in some imported
Russian flax.seed. No efforts
were made to kill out the pest, and,
taking kindly TO the soil, ii speed.
lily Overran South Dakota, having
established itself by 1891 over
territory roughly estimated at &c..
600 square miles. 1t recognizes
no state lines, however, and is rap.
idly spreading over the surround.
Ing states, so that, the frantic
farmers of the northwest say,
1t threatens the whole country,
from Canada to the Gulfof Mexico.
Last year the estimated damage to
crops from the pest was over So.
100000, and this year it is feared
the damage will amount to twice
that much. 1t is evidently a seri.
Gus condition with which the West.
ern States and the agricultural
department have TO deal.