Abilene weekly reflector., 1899-03-30
The BEEF INQUIRY.
The Court Goes to New York 10 Ex.
anime Gov. Roosevelt.
IANY NEGRO FAMILIES STRANDED.
ChamDagne Trust Forming-Teieuhons .
Companies to Fight the Bell Con-.
psny-Fiint GLASS Combine Perfected
-Arkansaa Anti Cigarette Blii.

-Arkansas Anti Cigarette Bill.
Is Chicago, March 90. The members o
:, the government court of inquiry fin
0 ished their labors In Chicago yester
! day and left for New York in the even
ing The testimony of Gov Theodore
; Roosevelt will there be received, after
! which the court will proceed to Gov
ernor's island. The evidence brought
forth yesterday was largely cumula.
tive in It's character, consisting mainly
OF criticisms Of the canned beef and
refrigerated beef from soldiers who
ate it and watched its effects in Cuba
and Porto Rico. David Fleischman. a
bellboy in the Hotel Morrison, told of
a visit to the st0ckyards in the COM
pany OF an unknown man whose pur.
pose he supposed to be an experiment
in the matter Of preserving beef by
chemical treatment W. Clark Mar.
shall, the provision specialist whose
testimony was expected to be sensa.
tional, threw no additional light on the
question, his evidence being princi.
pally the expression OF the opinion
that canned beef as now put on the
market is totally unfit for human food.
MANY NEGRO FAMILIES STRANDED.
New York, March 23. The u col.
ored families, numbering lO4 persons
in all, who are stranded In JERSEY
City, after having come from the west
to go to Liberia, as is alleged, under a
contract with the International Migra.
ton society, were notified yesterday
by the Central railroad Of New Jersey
that they would have to leave the
railroad cars In which they have re.
mained since their arrival in Jersey
City. 1t Is claimed that the lnterna-
tional Migration society promised to
send these people to Liberia, and that
1t has failed to carry out the promise.
Most Of them are destitute and their
condition is pitiable.
A CHAMPAGNE TRUST FORMING.
New York, March 23 1T is reported
on Wall street that the principal
champagne importing houses in the
United States have about completed a
new combination 10 control all the
popular brands. The new company
will be capitalized at $50, 900, 900, half Of
which will be preferred and half COM
mon stock. A large part OF the stock
(perhaps half or more), it is said, will
be taken by wine interests In Europe.
The plan, 1t Is said. has been com.
pleted with the exception OF minor de-
tails and the prospectus is to be issued
within few days
TO FIGHT THE BELL COMPANY.
Chicago, March 93.-Independent
telephone manufacturing interests
iave organized to fight the Bell com.
oany with trust Of their own. Alta
secret session yesterday afternoon the
ways were creased for the launching
II $1,000, 900 combine. W. Il. Blaine.
president of the Victor Telephone {
Manufacturing company, of this city,
in charge as promoter-in.ch chief 1t
$ represented that options are in
land or in prospect for 30 per cent of
he factories producing independent" ,
.pparatus }
FLINT GLASS COMBINE PERFECTED.
Pittsburgh, Pa March 80. The pro- !
'osed flint glass tableware combina. q
ion has practically been formed and !
vii soon be ready for business. Yes.
erday 9S per cent OF the manufac.
nrers had given options on their
lants and there are only tw) firms II
hat have so far refused to enter, but
is expected they will be in line in a r
hort time. The lamp combination is II
lso assured. =,
ARKANSAS ANTtCIGARETrE BILL. ;r
Little Rock, Ark, March 49, A bill :,
rohibiting the manufacture, importa. ei
on, sale or giving away of cigare ties
cigarette paper to any person whom.
'ever, adult or minor, under penalty :,
not less than $500 nor more than M
!, 000 passal the housa hv 4, ., al