New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-16
SITE NEUS AND TIEUS

The village treasury OF Wh,estonc IS utterly with
out funds and the officials asked to work with
out pay for the next three months They say mat
they viii not do a.
Syracuse has abolished boxing matches.
There is talk Of municipal investigation IN Bling
hamton The local politicians laugh II; the idea. but
The Herald Of that city declares there are about
1900 Of the leading thinkers who think differently
something will be done. II adds, and that IL the
Immediate future
Jewett they have "A Mayor who Will compare favor
ably with Colonel Strong He has declared In favor
Of a business administration OF the city govern
ment.
THE Watertown Times. opposes the propos'"
to expend $4,000 in improving the Erie 'h"'n-
plain and Oswego canals but believes II enurey
proper that the people should be allowed 10 vote
upon the question. So long the tonnage Oh "''
Erie Canal is less now than 1t was In 1872 IL sees "o
reason for Increasing the plant on SHRINKING
business" so long there is not business enough =,
at present tax their facilities unduly, WHY, !.
asks Increase the facilities further particularly az
less required Of them The ship canal. 1t hoiA u
"A dream Of the future but can never be made aVa,
can soil around Niagara Falls. II sAip canal Is
ever constructed. II must be the work OF the Fe'-
eral Government
The example set BY a San Francisco paper
lately In having an edition printed By women IL
about to be followed by THE Syracuse Post. when
has rendered the use Of Its entire plant to ,ns IA
tatves, to prepare and publish one issue OF ,he
paper The entire receipts VIII be gwen 10 '"c
Womans and Chldrcns Hospital.
Lockport is in a fever 0, excitement in conse-
quence OF "A report thnt wealthy foreigners desire
an option on the two canal charters held there, ana
also upon lands necessary for the construction OF
either one OF them
4 Utica paper boosted that Oneida County ~ the
only one IN the United States having tollgnte'
This Is grievous error. a. every Adirondack TOUR
ist, who has paid tribute to the crippled veteran
who keeps the gate the old plank ROAD rom
Wcstport to Elizabethtown Will AT once deciire,
no pent-up Utica We, confines these grim relics Oh
highway antiquity.
A strong effort will be made at the spring election
In New-Rochelle To elect an excise commissioner
who Will be opposed to indscriminatc licensing OF
beer shops and liquor stores. There are twenty
drinking places now and this the friends of moh.
Grafton hold 10 be enough TO quench the thhS' VI
tOwnsfok and visitors.
The loud complaint OF the English papers against
the slaughter OF birds by naturasis. fanciers ana
hunters Of pumagc for millners IL echoed by many
writers In the state press. Measures OF restraint
are strongly advocated \ bill for this purpose may
Sc introduced a; Albany before the Legislature d."
tOufn'.
20. lfocs at shi! o. selling iOg ~ ceAta
bushei at charlottetown Prince Edward Island.
and 4 writer In Of the Long Island papers tells
the farmers OF Suffolk County that this Will be what
they will get for their crop when the united STATES
abolishes the tariff and enters into open compeu-
ton with the markets Of the world
The AdirondAcks. over which the railroads ana
State offcials are now eon<nding. 10 describes 10