Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-02-09
GENERA. NEWS.
Condensed News Notes Prepared for
Busy Readers.

Oinclals 2aVe decided to issue bonds
to the amount of 500, ,0OO, 900.
BY recent analysis it has been dis
covered that sulphuric acid and potash
are used in the adulteration of coffee.
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown,
niece of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
first president of the general feder-
alton OF woman's clubs, died Tuesday.
Reports from Chicago and points
south show that they are experiencing
the coolest weather known since 1873.
At Springfield, ILL.,, the thermometer
registered II deg. below zero which
means more suffering to the people Of
that locality than 30 deg. below does
to the inhabitants OF South Dakota.
In former years the railway earn
ings OF the country increased at the
rate Of about $4,000, year, but in
1898 they declined $30,OOO,0O0 and in
1894 about $3.50, 900, 900, or a total loss
for the two years of a 100000, 900.
The efforts of the roads to cut their
expense account to lit the shrunken
income are understandable.
Ira B. Tillottson, who for the last
fifteen years, has been in the saloon
business has been attending revival
services at Valparaiso, Ind, during
the past two weeks and on Tuesday
closed his business and will follow the
ministry. Tillottson is about IS years
of age and we'll educated. He read
medicine when young man, but
drifted into the saloon business.
Unlike Francis Murphy, he is prac-
tically a poor man and will travel with
and assist Rev. r. l.. Jones in his
evangelical work.
The government prison of New
Mexico contains 300 prisoners. A
recent discovery was made showing
that a large tunnel was being dug
by the inmates and that within very
short time the whole number would
have been liberated. The prisoners
had been pretending to attend night
school, but In reality they were work
ing regular shiftson the tunnel which
had branch connections with every
ward in the mammoth building. The
work had been going on about two
years and the skill Of the engineering
plan is said to be astonishingly per-
feet.
A dispatch from Washington to the
St. Louis Globe be-Democrat claims that
European landlords own immense
tracts of land in this country and the
states most effected by this ownership
are: Iowa one-third, Illinois one-half,
Kansas nearly one-half, Colorado one
fourth, New Mexico one-half, Texas
one fourth, Arizona one-third. Other
states have smaller portions which are
owned by the foreign landlords in
Guiding Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Ne
vada, Utah, California, Wyoming,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin and
Florida. A western association has
been formed to resist the oppression
of the landlord system, says the dis
patch.
Congressman Tom Reed has formu-
lated a bill on finance which he will
introduce as a substitute to the ad-
ministration bill. Two of the clauses
which he has submitted to his col
leagues for approval are appended
hereto: The first proposes to restrict
the law of 1875, which authorizes the
secretary of the treasury to issue
bonds to redeem greenbacks, to 3 per
cent bonds. The second section auth
orizes the secretary Of the treasury,
when there Is a deficit, to issue GER
tiflcates Of Indebtedness to pay cur
rent expenses, the certificates being
in sums of $25, $50 and 800, and any
multiples thereof, bearing interest at
per cent and payable in coin.
The European economists are alarm
ed at the prospect that the United
States, the greatest sugar country in
the world, and always relied upon to
absorb the surplus European product,
will at no distant date produce all its
own sugar. Among other things is
shown that the crop of beet sugar last
year exceeded by 100000 tons the pro-
ducts of the preceding years. The