News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-10-04
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OJduHFus OOnn-, man lOSb a M
ger while explaining the danger Of
putting a finger near the gear wheel
of his steam launch.
Gov. Flower of New York undoubt-
edly takes the prize as the pardoning
executive. The list of those who have
been the recipients of executive elem
ency at his hands within two years
includes no less than thirteen murder
ers and about 200convicts convicted
of minor offenses.
Two cargoes of Russian barley are
on their way to this country, and
owing to the reduced duties in the
new tariff bill the grain will be read
lily sOld-in fact, have been contract
ed for, displacing just so much Amer
lean barley. But beer will not be
cheaper. The brewers alone are the
gamers, and the farmers can figure
out how much they profit by free
wool and lower duties on all their
products.
The Indian bureau at Washington
is causing Indian children to attend
the public schools in localities where
they reside. About 700 of these chill
dren are now in the schools, and it is
expected that the number will exceed
1000 by the close of the year. The
public schools will educate the In
dams like the white American youth,
and make good citizens of them.
Arkansas is a temperance State.
1t carried over so counties out of
total of rs for no license at the re-
cent election. The aggregate vote
throughout the State has since been
counted, and the result is: No license
1885 license, 1852; majority
against license, 1898. The South
keeps up a steady march toward So
briefly on election days, but the joint
keeper and moonshiner continue to
flourish.
A woman living in Columbus. Ohio,
has filed a suit for divorce against
her husband on very extraordinary
grounds. The man has the contract
from the city to remove carcasses of
dead animals found on the streets.
His wife asserts in her petition that
after hauling these detestable cargoes
he eats his meals without washing
his hands. She thinks that in conse-
quence of this he is too filthy to live
with, and wants an absolute decree.
The Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity is located in the Santa Clara
Valley, 33 miles from San Francisco
and three miles from the bay of San
Francisco, across which the Lick OBJ
servatory on the summit of Mount
Hamilton (4300 feet above sea leveD
is visible. The buildings are in Span
ish style of architecture and con-
structed mainly of sandstone, of a
soft rich buff color, harmonizing with
lovely landscape tints of the valley.
Mayor Pingree's potato patch
scheme, by which several hundred
acres of unimproved property in the
suburbs of Detroit, Mich, Were last
summer planted with potatoes, the
crop from which it was hoped would
help feed the poor and unemployed
during the coming winter, is an as
sured success. The crop will yield
$4,000 bushels. So successful has
been the project that there is talk of
making it permanent and putting
the work in charge of a regular city
department.
A Panama dispatch says: News has
been received from Costa Rca of an
anarchist attempt to assassinate
President Inglesias. During the mill
tary review in San Jose an anarchist,
Micanor Araya, fired five shots at the
president. Inglesias escaped on horse
back. Araya was arrested and would
have been killed by the police if the
crowd had notintprfered. His accom-
plices, Juan B. Jimenez, Francisco
Aguirae, Jose ZeledOn, Andres Cespe-
DIES and 20 Others, were also arrested.
Dynamite was found in the house
where Jimenez lived. There were also
seized many documents which gave
evidence of widespread conspiracy.
The abrogation of the reciprocity
arrangement between the United
States and Cuba and Porto Rico,
brought about by the passage of the
tariff bill, works a hardship to the
people of those islands, as we'll as to
the American exporters. The Span
ish government has put back the
high protective schedule on the great
articles of Importation from the
United States, raising the duty on
flour from 81 per one hundred kilos
to $4. 70, corn from 20 cents to So 95,
jerked beef from $500 to $40. A
specimen raise is on lard, which under
reciprocity was free, and which here
after will pay $40 per one hundred
kilos. The loss of so much American
trade is a high price to pay for pla-
eating the sugar trust.