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R. 0. DUNN, Publisher. Terms:--S.10 pr year in advano*. i'- A Connecticut scorcher went over his handle-bars and broke his neck. Wheelmen will be relieved to hear that his bicycle was a high-grade one and not seriously injured. focussing Queen Victoria's long Stance reign, do not overlook the fact Jiat the Prince of Wales has long been eligible to honorary membership the Waiters' union. The arguments against the use of the bicycle by women are pretty certain to fall to the giound in the presence of the fact that the most ardent cham i pions of the wheel are female physi cians. The young man who was sent to the bridewell for stealing an encyclopaedia may console himself with reflecting that the particular thing he wanted to know about wasn't in that encyclo paedia, anyhow. It never is. I)ohgola has fallen and Queen Vic toria has reigned longer than any oth er British sovereign, and yet Poet Lau reate Austin has not tuned his lyre and sung of either event. When poets are paid a salary they ought to earn it. A French physician is reported to have discovered a sure cure for snake bite. The discovery is, however, not likely to bring about the disuse of a certain old fashioned and popular rem edy. And now the leading bill posters of New York city have formed a paste trust The people should stick to it until that trust is smashed, if they have to employ every billy goat in the country to eat up the sheets pasted on the bill-boaids. The last English dynamite scarce seems to have been due chiefly if not wholly to the creative imagination of Scotland Yard. It is really a pity that the men who might again force Eng land to the front rank as authors of attractive fiction are on the police force. JK The Spanish premier, Senor Ganovas del Castillo, denies that Gen. Weyler is !,_ to be retired from command in Cuba. '.He is satisfying the demand of the ruling classes for blood. Spain will continue to ship the sons of her peas 5 ants to the island. She has buried many armies there for the purpose of perpetuating her miserable rule. A plot is said to have been discovered to overthrow the government of Ni- f- caragua and kill the president, and the 'r Conservatives are accused of having instigated it. The names of political parties south, of us do not sound in harmony with the eternal fitness of things. The prevalence of destructive storms '*ls attributed to the country's loss of ^timber. No doubt that has something to do with it, but possibly the increase is not in the number of storms so much as in the number reported. Not long ago the general public heard of not more than one a hundred. Now not ^one in a hundred escapes the newspa pers. 0? Cultivating literature on a little oat meal may be well enough, but when it comes to perpetuating the fame of au thors by statues, there are certain in ,yfconveniences attending too thin a diet. gw One of the objections made to having a statue of Stevenson erected to him in Edinburgh is that Stevenson was too thin to appear well in a statue. Thin authors will please take notice, and at once lay in a supply of certain foods warranted to produce a pleasing rotundity of form. An Indianian, being jilted, ate three bars of soap. Don't set him down at once as a would-be suicide. He may be a philosopher. He was sick with I love. He wanted to be cured of it. The condition of the stomach has much to do with the degree of love, in very many cases. The Indiana man perhaps knew that the divine emotion -would not trouble a man who had three bars of soap in his stomach. The man may have trouble with his soap, but he'll hardly be able, in the future, to think of the girl without that strong, soapy taste in his mouth. In short, he's cured. And at three bars of soap, it's a dirt cheap cure, too. A romantic story comes from Spain. A female pastry cook in Madrid claims to have recognized her lost husband in a brigadier general Her story is that he was a cobbler when she mar ried him, moie than forty, years ago, and that he left her and enlisted in the army. He has now, she says, taken the name of a former comrade, whose Widow he had married. She has de scribed a number of private marks, which are said to have been discovered on the body of her quondam spouse. No doubt a strawberry mark on his left arm was one of tbsm. If this etory has any moral, it is that from the high rank which this man has at tained, a shoemaker should not air W&SB stick to bis last THE NgWS RESUME. DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- eerrapli ReportsThe Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. The Nation's Capital. The president has appointed H. A. Emery interpreter at the United States consulate at Che Foo, China. The controller has appointed William A. Douglass of Buffalo, N. Y., receiver of the First National Bank of Spring ville, N. Y. The Indian bureau has received a tel egram from Tusgogee, Ind. Ter., where election trouble was feared, saying that the counting of votes is progress tog and that everything is quiet. The president has appointed William H. White of Virginia to be United States attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia to succeed Francis It. Las siter, ho took too active a pait in poli tics. The merchant marine of the United States on June 30, 1896, according to the completed tabulation of the bureau of navigation, comprised 22,028 vessels of 4,703,880 gross tons, a decrease of 830 vessels, but an increase of 68,000 tons over the previous yeai. People in Print. Henry Clay, aged seventy-four, an officer in the Union army during the late war, and a scholar of some celeb rity, died at his home Elkhart, Ind. Col Robert P. Todhunter, one of the oldest and wealthiest breedeis of trot ting horses, is dead at Lexington, Ky. He bred many famous horses. Miss Virginia Fair denies absolutely that she is to many H. Maitland Ker sey of New York. The report of their engagement comes as a rum'or from the Eastern metropolis, with the addi tion that Kersey is now endeavoiing to secure a papal dispensation J. M. Barrie, the well known Scotch novelist, accompanied by his wife, ar rived in New York city on the Campa nia. They will go immediately to Can ada as the guests of Lady Aberdeen. Mr Barrie has come to America for a six-weeks' rest. Casualties Seven persons were killed by a train wreck in Kansas. A welcome rain quenched the fires threatening Nestona, Humboldt and other towns in Northern Michigan. Edna Farson, five years old, fell New York and her teeth cut her tongue almost in two. She bled to death. A freight train on the Burlington road crashed into a passenger tram at Krum, Iowa. Flagman Henry Mahr of Burlington, was crushed to death, but no one else was injured Earnest Archer, aged twenty-four, of LaGrange, Ind., accidentally shot him self while out hunting. He was show ing his companion some marks on a tree with the butt of his gun, when it exploded. A brief telegram received at San Francisco by William Olson, the ves sel owner, contains the announcement that three vessels were lost at the same time, within a short distance of each oth'T, the Gulf of California, near Altata. While superintending the raising of a Democratic flag pole at Morris, 111., Harry T. Baldwin was knocked off the crosstree by the topmast falling upon him. He fell to the ground, a distance of ninety feet, and was instantly killed. Several men started in a skiff recent ly to cross the river from Canton, Mo where they had been attending a polit ical meeting. When about fifty feet from the Illinois side the boat upset and John Reed, George Withrow and John Sims were drowned. Evil Doings. Miss Laura Bendolan cimmitted sui cide at Fremont, Neb. A love affair is thought to have caused the act. Josiah J. White, a New York broker, Is under arrest, charged with breach of trust. Walter M. Castle of San Francisco, whose family is one of the most prom inent in the city, is under arrest in London, charged with shoplifting. George Ward, aged 84, of East Sagi naw, Mich., is missing at New Orleans, and the police fear he has met with foul play. He came to this city to at tend the carnival. The mysterious "Johnson" charged by Alfred Bercham with being the prin cipal in a tobacco smuggling scheme uxco^ered in Detroit on June 2 last, "was arrested by Special Agent O. F. E. i"Wcod and taken to Detroit. rA young woman of Arkoe, Mo., has been arrested for the murder of Mrs. John Baumley near that place recently It is said that she was in love with Mr! Baumley, and'fe supposed to have mur dered the woman out of jealousy and BO that she could marry her husband. The young lady confessed. Two years ago Constable Fred Win xnann Incurred the ill-will of the uni versity students. He heard they intend ed to kill him and went crazy over it To-day he struck his brother John on the head with a stick of stove wood crushing the skull. He has fled and the brother is dying. Asa C. Cutter, a former trusted em ploye of the Hannah & Lay company at Traverse City, Mich., has beetf ar rested, charged with making threats against the life of Perry Hannah, se nior member of the company, and Traverse City's millionaire merchant and founder of the city. Cutter pleaded rot guilty, r*^, Foreign Goralp. Imperial Secretary Li Hung Chang has arrived at Tien Tsin, China. ^||3 Germany ie now agitated by a^rW port that Greece and Roumania have Joined the dreirbr.nd. %-^fi gSMif Henry Bryan Reed, Conservative member of the British parliament for the Eastern division of Bradford, and a well known lecturer on church and political subjects, is dead. The London Chronicle Sftys that 11 learns from a good source that the czar and Lord Salisbury have agreed upon a policy for the ultimate deposi tion of the sultan. Consent has been given i$jr the Chi nese government for the building of a branch of the Silesian railway across North Manchuria with the pre-emption clause giving China the right to pur chase the branch after thirty years. The crisis in Crete is by no means ended. The entire population of the interior of the island is still under arms, and the leaders have announced that they will renew hostilities unless the Turkish garrisons are withdrawn from Crete. A second explosion occurred at Bulu* wayo, Matabeleland, a large powder magazine being destroyed. Five white persons were killed and many serious ly injured. Scores of Kaffirs camping in the vicinity of the powder maga zine were crushed to death by the fly ing fragments of the huge rocks. Miscellaneous. The coal trade is very dull and prices, it is promised, will not advance. The Rock River, 111., conference Las voted against admitting women to the general conference also against in creasing laymen delegates. 'The Tyler Car and Lumber company, one of the largest lumber concerns in Texas, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. William B. Rose has been appointed receiver of the stock of B. L. Price & Co, clothing manufacturers of New York, in proceedings for a dissolution of the firm liabilities, $125,000. The national campaign committee of the gold standard branch of the Dem ocratic party has formally organized in Chicago Chairman Bynum is chairman and John H. Hopkins vice chairman. Matihew W. Bernman, a wealthy cigar manufacturer and club man of Chicago, has been sued for breach of promise by Miss Ida H. Loser, who es timates the damages she is alleged to have sustained at $50,000. Congressman Joseph J. Hart of the Eighth Pennsylvania district, who was renominated by the Democrats, has withdrawn in the interests of harmony. This leaves but two candidates in the field, Laird Barber, Democrat, and Judge Kirkpatrick, Republican. The "campaign of education," so far as the distribution of literature is con cerned, will be finished on Oct. 21. At both Democratic and Republican head quarters in Chicago it is announced that the distribution of literature will practically cease on that date. Wichita, Kan, division of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, one of the largest divisions of the order in Amer ica, met in special session and voted funds to aid the Canadian operators on a strike. The steamer La Bourgogne, which ar rived at New York from Havre, iepoits that Jean Ltebre, a fireman, nra misled by his mates. A thorough oe irch of the ship was made, but no trace of bim could be found. He ipposed to have jumped overboard. Two little girls of C. N. Woortbridge, aged 8 and years, mysteriously dis appeared recently. Diligent search fails to reveal auy trace of the n. The mother is distracted. The whole neigh borhood is interested ind the scaicn is being prosecuted with great vigor. The Missouri Pacific has decided to reduce the rate on grain from Kansas points to Kansas City and the Missouri river so that the sum of the local shall not be more than 1 cent on the 100 pounds above the through rates to Chi cago. A direct descendant of Lord Ludlow of England J\as been diseo-vered in George Rufus Welling, at n^isent the stable manager at Niagara Falls, N. Y., foi W. R. Low es, the famous Canadian horseman whose Guelph stables are known all over the United States and Canada. H. Rademaker & Sons of Grand Rap ids, Mich., have filed trust deeds to Arie Van Bree to secure $20,000 bank creditors and $8,000 material and sup ply agents. The firm is the most ex tensive manufacturers of base ball bats in the world, and has been in business a quarter of a century. William D. Barnes, formerly a mem ber of the firm o* A. S. Barnes & Co., book publishers, who also had an in terest in the American book trust, was a man of wealth and social standing, and had horses and carriages at his command a few years ago. To-day he is unable to pay his tradesmen's bills and is being sued by his butcher. "Accident" Swindlers The extension of electric traction has brought upon the scene a particularly dangerous and offensive swarm of ras cals who prey upon the street railroad companies by bogus claims for personal injuries received in real or imaginary accidents. They are fostered by a tribe of disreputable attorneys, who make a practice of communicating with all persons whom they can. identify as concerned in any street railway mis hap, and often without instructions, issue process against the companies. Some of these legal sharks have a regu lar staff of detectives, who prowl about the depots and termini of the lines on the lookout for cases. False wit nesses ore easily procured, and juries are usually liberal in the matter of damages, the greater portion of which are swallowed up in the attorney's "costs." The evil has become so great that the street railway press is suggest ing the formation of a mutual protec tion society of some kind. It Is pro posed to keep a register of the names of claimants, and Interchange information as to persons who, it Is more tfcan sus pected, make a trade of the business and travel from city to city for the purpose. May Supersede Dancing*. Ballroom cycling is talked about. Should this gain ground what a revolu tion it will bring about in dress I "She wore a wreath of roses the night when first we met," also a knickerbocker suit in white corduroy velvet, trimmed with jeweled passementerie and golden leather boots. A joy indeed to the mother of several daughters will be the cycling ball, as she can take all her girls and see them all wheeling around with the fairest and wealthiest rivals they know, and attracting quite* as much notice, maybe. How immensely preferable to the melancholy dance, with Its limited number of couples and many young wallflowers. Laws and Constitutional Amendments. Synopsis of IiftwsVnd Amendments to the Constitution, proposed by fftb. Iteeislature for submission to ^|the \oterm of Minnesota at the IjpGeneral Election to be held on fBthe 3rd day of November, A D. 1890 At the general eleetlon to be held In the State of Minnesota on the 3rd day of No vember, A lyo, the iollovving ia^ and amendments proposed by the Legislatme of said state at the last session thereof, N wll be submitted for adoption oi lejection, viz I. An act will be submitted to the people of this state for theii approval or rejection at the next general election, entitled "An act relating to the taxation of certain lands owned by lailroad companies in this state, and repealing laws and parts of laws relating to the taxation of the same, and to provide for the submission of this act to the people of this state foi theii approval oi rejection So far as material the act is as follows 'Sec 1 All lands in this state heretofore or heieafter granted by the State of Minne sota or the United States, or the Territory of Minnesofa, to any railroad company shall be assessed ind taxed as othei lands are taxed in this state, except such parts of said lands as are held, used oi occupied for right of way, gravel pltb, sidetiacks, depots and all buildings and structmes which are necessarily used in the actual management and operation of the llilioads of said com panies Provided, That said lailroad companies shall continue to pay taxes into the state tieasury upon theii gioss earnings in the same mannei and in the same amount as now provided by law And that nothing In this act contained shall be construed to re peal said laws except in so fai as the same lelate to the tax upon said lands "Sec 2 Such portion or poitions of any act or acts, geneial or special, of the State oi Teintory of Minnesota heietofoie en acted which provides or attempts to pro vide for any exemption of lands heieby de clared taxable, fiom taxation, oi for any otLei method of taxing said last mentioned lands diffcient fiom the inethoa of taxing other lands in this state, or -which aie in any mannei inconsistent with the pro vis ons of this act aie hereby repealed Sec 3 If this act shall be held to be void so far as it applies to the, lands of any particular lailroad companv in this state, it shall not be ground for declaring it Toid oi Inapplicable to any other company not similaily situated The purpose of this act Is to secure the taxation of unused railroad lands acquired by laihoad companies under federal and state giants II. 1 deem it proper to call attention to the fact that the electors of this state will be called upon to ,ote upon the following prop osition "Shall there be a comeniion to re Vise the state constitution'" III. Attention is also called to the fact that an act will be submitted to the electois of this state at said election providing for the ap piopriation of the income derived fiom the investment of the internal impiove-ment land fund to the load and bridge fund The act provides that such moneys shall be u,"d only for making public roads and building bridges on public roads IV. "An act providing for an amendment to section four (4) of article five (3) of the con stitution of the State of Minnesota, defin ing the authority and duties of the goveinor in relatnn to pardons for criminal offenses and creating a board of pardons Section 4 of article 5 of the constitution of Minnesota now reads as follows "Section 4 The governor shall communi cate by message to each session of the legis lature such information touching the state and condition of the countiy as he may deem expedient He shall be commandei In chief of the militarv and naval forces, and may call out such foices to execute the laws, suppress insurrection and repel In vasion He may require the opinion in wilting, of the piincipal officer in each of i the executive departments, upon any sub ject relating to the duties of their respec tive offices and he shall have power to giant reprieves and pardons, after convic tion, foi offenses against the state, except in cases of impeachment He shall have powei, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint a state librarian and notaries public, and such other officers as mav be provided by law He shall have power to appoint commissioners to take the acknowledgment of deeds, or other instru ments in writing, to be used the state He shall have a negative upon all laws passed by the legislature, under such rules and limitations as are In this constitution presciibed He mav on extraordlnaiy occa sions convene both houses of the legislature. He shall take care that the laws be falth fullv executed, fill any vacancy that may occur in the office of secretary of state, treasurei, auditor, attorney general, and such other state and district offices as may be hereafter created by law, until the next annual election, and until their successors ai chosen and qualified It is proposed to amend the said section bv striking therefrom the following words "And he shall have powei to -giant re piieves and paidons, aftei comiction, for offenses against the state In place of the woids thus proposed to be stiicken out it is proposed to insert the fol low ins words "And he shall have power. In conjunction with the board of pardons, of which the governor shall be ex-offlcio a member, and the othei members of which shall consist of the attoinev general of the State of Min nesota and the chief justice of the supreme court of the State of Minnesota, and whose poweis and duties shall be defined and regu lated bv law, to giant reprieves and par dons, aftei conviction, for offenses against the state The effect of the adoption of the aforesaid proposed amendment will be to deprive the governor of the powei to alone grant par dons and lepiieves, which he now enjoys, and to cieate a board of pardonsgeneral of the'govemoi, the attorn state, in snch manner as may be provided by la^, ainTshair have been pronounced by said court capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship within the state The eflWt of the last above proposed amendment upon a person's right to vote for elective officers in this-state will be 1 To eliminate the present requirement of one year's residence in the United States. 2 To requitemonths a residencewinrequired lp Pea the picen movisloas of constitutionowhiceh enables a peison H" V'1*" icgis.jture shall provide, liidci si cli re stiictions as it deems ruoper toi boaid of fifteen freeholder, who -u ill he and for the past five yeais shall have been qualified \otets theieof, to be appjinl^d l.v the rMs tnct judges of the judnnl stuct In which the city oi vlllaqe .i-.i i-ed \ni 'i Irard shall, within six months ,i'in its c. roint me. 'etuin to the uet ina^ti cf such eitv pi village a 3iu rf MI. charter signed the membe of slid board oi a majoilty theieof Su*Mi .hufcer ciU be submitted to the quililed \oieis of such city oi village at the next etion there atte~ and if fom sevenms of tbe qualified voters -voting at such election si all mtifv the same it shall at the nd Z ihntv thereafter become the churei of such city pr village as a city, md supeisede unj ex istm chnitcr and amendments tl ereof, pro vided that in riMes 'laving jutrol limits now established such fhatter huall require a thieefouitbs majoiity vote of the quali fied voteis voting at suon election to change the patiol limits now establis nd P.efoie any city shall mcoipoiate under this act the legislatme shall presenile by law the geneial limits within winch such charter shall be framed Duplicate certifi cates shall be made setting foith the chat ter propo&ed and its ratification, which bhall ne signed by the chief magistiate of said city oi village, and authenticated by its cor porate seal One of said certincates shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, and the other, after being lecoided in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which such city or village lies shall be deposited among the archives of such city or village, and all coiuts shall take judicial notice thereof Such chatter sp deposited may be amended bv a pioposal therefor made by a board of fifteen fiee holdeis aforesaid, published for at least tniity days in three newspapeis of general circulation In such city or village, and ac cepted by three-fifths of qualifiefd voters of suc0h city oi Milage voting at the next election, and not otherwise, but such chaitei always be hirniony with ?u constitutionthe ^ec tbe State of Minnesota The legislature mav prescribe the duties of the commission relative to submitting amendments of char ter to the votef ofreeholders the rn u?? or consisting and the chief justice of the supieme court The proposed amendment contemplates that its adoption will be followed by the enactment of a suitable law defining and regulating the powers and duties of such board of pardons in granting reprieves and pardons. "An act proposing an amendment to sec tion one (1) of article seven (7) of the con stitution of the State of Minnesota which relates to the elective franchise Section one of article 7 of the constitu tion of Minnesota now leads as follows "Section 1. Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have lesided In the United States one year, and in this state for four months next pre ceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the election district of which he shall at the time have been for ten days a resident, for all officers that now are, or hereafter may be, elective by the people First-Citizens of the United States. SecondPersons of foreign birth, who shall have declared their intention to be come citizens, conformably to the laws of the United States upon the subject ot nat uralization. ThudPersons of mixed white and Indian blood, who have adopted the customs and habits of civilization FourthPersons of Indian blood residing In this state, who have adopted the lan guage, custom and habits of cIvill7ation, after an examination before any district court of the state, in such manner as may be provided by law, and shall have been pronounced by said court capable of enjoy ing the rights of citizenship withih the state The proposed amendment, if adopted, will read as follows* "Section one (1) What persons are en titled to vote: Everv male person of the age of twenty one (21) years or upwards belonging to either of the following classes who has re sided in this state six (6) mouths ne\t pre ceding anv election shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election dlsttlct of which he shall at the time have been for I thiity (30) days a lesldent. for all officers that now aie. or heieafter may be, elective bv the people. FirstCitizens of the United State* who have been such for the period of three (3) months next preceding an^ election I SecondHersous of mixed white and In dlan bloorl. who have adopted the customs and habits of civilization. Till IdPersons of Indian blood residing in till** Ntatef Mho hare adopted the language, custom* and habits of civilization, after an examination before any district coui of the peopleibove l'Pi provided roi shall be permanent, and all the vacan cies bv death, disabilitj to perform duties, resignation or removal from the corporate limits shall be filled by appointment In the same manner as the ongmal boaid was created, and said board shall always conr tain its full complement of members Provided, among othe 1 It shallr be a feature of all such charters i?i sua1 tn S tnings, for a niavor or chief magistiate, and a legislative body of either one or two tiouses, if of two houses, at least one of them Fha'l be elected by geneial vote of the citizens In submitting any such chaiter oi amend ment thereto to the qualified voters of such city or village any alternate section or aitl cle may be presen ted for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to other aiti.'les or sec tions of the charter or any amendment tnereto .A^ trreemafylted provide general la vs le i5.TMF,*ll*2.f this state, Jie^t preceding an election, of six months o^m fol as no 1 ^ti^fsC 3 To lequlie a residence in the election district, next piecediug an election, of thir ty days Instead of ten days as now re quired 4 To require a citizenship of the United fetates of three mouths The constitution r.o^ permits citizens, of the United States to vote regardless of the period of citizen ship, pi vide they possess the requisite Hiiilifi-'atlons lesidencetabove Indicatedthe .-V ofd rthu*' the application lim ls,a S'lK?!?!* 5 0 to cities of over affa ma 2 wh fifteen thousand fifty thousand inhabitants, or to cities of fifty andVnotr 0 citie less than fifteen thousand in ts Inhabitants, or less which shall apply equally to all such cities of either class, and wnich shall be paramount while in force to the provisions relating to the same matter Included in the local charter herein pro vided for But no local charter, provision or ordinance passed thereunder shall super sede anvu general la the state defining unlsin Ernieswoiofmisdemeanors" The effect of the adoption of the last named proposed amendment will be 1 To vest* cities and villages with the right of flaming their own charters, sub ject to limitations imposed by the laws of the state 2 The charter will be framed by a board of fifteen freeholders or a majority thereof 3 The charter wiy thereupon be submit ted to the qualified voteis at the next en suing election, and will require for its rat ification foui sevenths (4-7) of the qualified voters voting at such election 4 If ratified at *uch election the charter will thereupon, after the lapse of thirty days, become the chaiter of such city or village 5 A city will be unable to incorporate under the proposed amendment until tie legislature shall have fiist prescribed by law the general limits within which its charter may be framed A charter once adopted may be amend ed in a manner similar to that prescribed for the framing and adoption of the orig inal 7 The board of freeholders is to be per petual and without limitation of term ex cept that arising from death, disability to perform duties, resignation or removal from the corporate limits of the city or village 8 The charter must provide for a mayor or chief magistrate, and a legislative body of either one or two houses if of two houses, the members of at least one'house shah be elective "by the general vote of the citizens 9 Alternate articles or sections of a pro posed charter may be voted upon that is to say, the voter may vote for one oi the other of two given articles or sections 10 The legislature may classify cities upon the basis of population alone, as fol lows (a) Cities of over 50,000 inhabitants (b) Cities of 50,000 and not less than 15,- 000 inhabitants (c) Cities of 15,000 inhabitants or less 11 When cities have been so classified, the legislature may thereupon pass general laws limited in their application to one or more such classes 12 The general law applicable to any class of cities, will he paiamount to any inconsistent provision found in the charter of any city belonging to such class. VII "An act proposing an amendment to sec tion thirteen (13), article one (l), of the constitution of the State of Minnesota, re lating to taking private property for pub lic use Section 13, of Article 1, of the constitu tion of Minnesota, now reads as follows "Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation there for, fust paid or secuied If the proposed amendment Is adopted, section 13 will then read as follows. "Private property shall not be taken, de stroyed or damaged for public use without just compensation therefor first paid or se cured The amendment will consist of the inser tion into the original section of the follow ing words, viz, "destroyed or damaged for public use.'%*{ T- "An act to amend article eight (8) of the constitution of the State of Minnesota, le latlng to school funds, education and science It is proposed to amend Article 8 of the constitution of the Stkte of Minnesota by adding thereto a section reading as follows: "Sec 6 The peimanent school and uni veislty fund of this state may he Invested in the purchase of bonds of any county, school district, city, town or Tillage of thia state, but no such Investment shall be made until approved by the boaid of commis sioners designated by law to regulate the. th for- vot aftei having declaie his intention *0 become a citizen of the United at tes and befoie becoming a fully i atural Ized citizen theieof In addition to the foregola^ th effect of tfie adoption of such last imposed ai end ment will be to d*puve a lor*.j loin per son of the light to hold an ele tive office in tuis state before becoming a fully naluial Izod citizen of the United States VI "An act proposing an amendment to arti c.e four {4) of the'oom.ri+ntlon of the State of Minnesota allowing cities alteidv iicor porated, and villages desrl'u Income in corporated as cities, to frame Iheir own charters as cities It is proposed to add to irtl four of th" constitution the following st-ciion !sc 36 Any city o' Milage this sta'e n.ay fiame a charter foi its Oxvn gc* em inent as a city consisten with and ssul iect to the laws of this star- follows cent per annum P**9ftnent aehool fundi SS. the lwrtormeni uni?c?rsl.y fund of this state nor shall such loan or investment be made when the Issue of which the same in part would make the entire bonded In debtedness exceed 7 per cent of the na Eessed valuation of the taxable real prop erty of the county, school district cltv town or village issuing such bonds, nor shall such loans or indebtedness be made at a lower rate of Interest than 3 per cent ner annum nor for a shelter period than five (5) years nor foi a longer period than twenty (20) years, and no change of the town, school district, village, city or county lines shall leheve the real property in such town, school district, county, village or city In this state at the time of the issulns of such bonds from any liability for tax tion to pay such bonds The proposed amendment contemplates the investment of the permanent school and university funds of the state, for periods not less than five (5) nor more than twenty (20) yeais, in the bonds of counties, school districts, cit'es, towns and villages Loans cannot be made to such munici palities under such amendment in amounts exceeding seven (J) ner cent of the as sessed valuation of the taxable r..ai nronertv thereof No loan shall bear interest at a rate less than three (3) pei cent. Section 5 of th* same article of the con stitution now provides for the loaning of the permanent school funds of the state counties and school districts, to beas no .efS ceil loai iu ar rh2 r?Pertlegislature, a E I 5~H used pre tne erection or county oi school buildings, and to diaw inteiestlimitet at theotforate of petr amount5 no tH 1 in 0 thre 1 and laws tn 3 cS 1Dshall districts, re- rur^nWarcti^ro collection 3 scn th ceding assessed valuationf of the real es spectively0 countie mad* J5 mad nJi^i 0 Jb OT A IV "An act proposing an amendment to the constitution of the State of Minnesota, to authorize the taxation of the pioperty of sleeping, diawing room and parlor car, and other companies and owneis, in the manner therein pr ded It is prop se to amend Aiticle 0 of the constitution of Minnesota bj aading thereto a section reading, as follows "The legislature may impose, or provide for the imposition of, upon the property within this state, of any and all owners or operators, whethei ccrpoiate oi individual, or otherwise, of any and all sleopm-, parlor and diawing loom car, or any or either of the same, which run in, Into ot through this state, also upon tne property within this state of any and all telegraph and telephone companies, or owners, whose lines are in. or extend in, into or tlnoush this state also upon the property withm this state of all express companies, oi o\ ners or any or either of the same, doing business in this state, also upon the pioperty withm this state of all domestic msuiance companies of this state of any kind, also upon the property within this state of any and all foreign insurance companies doing business in this state of any kind, also upon the, property within this state of all owners or operators of any and all mines or of mineral ores situated in this state, also upon the property within this state of all boom com panies or owners, and of all shipbuilders or owners doing business in this state or having a. port therein, provided, that this aqt shall not apply to property owned by railrcid companies, their lands and other property and upon the property of either or any of such companiegraded or ownerprogres,taxasfethhwitreob as uniform as reasonably may taxes imposendt upon similar propeity in said ?ate,JlL It-il sta earnings thereo within uV?u th ma sive, or both, and In providing for such tax, or in providing for ascertaining the just and true value of such property it shall be competent for the iwithin either or an&ofo thereof this such cases, to impose such tax, upon state, and in either case by taking as the basis of such Imposition the proportionate business, earnings, mileage oi quantity of production or property now or heieafter existing of any such companies, peisons or owners, transacted or existing this state, in relation to the entire business, mileage or quantity of ptoduction or property of such companies, persons or owners as aforesaid, or in such other manner, or by such other method as the legislature may determine, but the proceeds of such taxes upon mining property shall be distributed between the state and the vaiious political subdivisions thereof wherein the same is situated1 itna thse samne proportion the pro- *51?st *e upo real propertas are dis tributed, provided further, that nothing in this act contained shall operate to authorize the assessment, or taxation of land or ordi nary business blocks or property owned by any such corporation, person, firm or com pany except In the manner provided by the ordinary methodseamendmennt of taxatio M. PFP se ot ^e ioan contemplatesofestat th property in this i ta atlo 1 Sleeping, parlor and dining room car companies an a telephone companies. elegra 0 Express companies 4. Foreign and domestic Insurance com* pauies. 5 The owners or operators of mines or mineral ores 6 Boom companies and shipbuilders or owners doing business in this state or having a port therein T^, foregoing provisions nro modified in the following very important respects 1 The amendment will not apply "to property owned by railroad companies, their lands and other property 2 Taxes may be imposed upon the prop erty of the companies above enumerated or upon the earnings thereof within this state, and may be graded or progressive, or both. In providing foer J" st such taxation, or -s thie and true valu of such property shall be competent foi the legislature to Impose such tax upon any and all property thereof within this state, and 4 In either case by taking as the basis or such taxation, the pioportionate busi ness, earnings, mileage or quantity of pro duction or property now or hereafter exist ing of any such companies, persons or own ers, transacted or existing in this state, in relation to thee entire business mileage or quantity osf production or property or 5 such othei manner, oi by such other eSlslature may Qetermin tn m,f th 2In & a 6 The proceeds of taxes upon mining property will be distributed between the state and the various po'itical ^subdivisions thereof wherein the same is slfhated in the same proportion th proceeds taxes uen real propertas aree distributedof 7. The amendment contains a provision to the effect that it shall not operate to au thorize the assessment or taxation of land or ordinary business blocks or property ownedr by any such corporation, flrm person,pro company except in the manner vided by the ordinary mthd= ef nx-ation. W fai'ds, July 1, 1896 Attor*- General. Bridgetown Few people recognize that Chicago to-day possesses more bridges num ber than any other city in America. Collectively they constitute a greater total length in miles than any other system. The extent of a single span of of the swing is greater *naone that of any othebridges bridge Moder icridge construction is embodied and illustrated with a greater variety of perfected mechanical devices in Chica go than is the case in any other city in the world. Standing out like monuments erected to engineering skill, to a people's enter prise and to mechanical perfection, these bridges present a greater variety of admirable features, rnd are evi dences of better workmanship than can be found in the best of all the cities in either the Old or the New World. ChicagOliaTsixljFelglit bridges span ning the- river and its branches at every point where commerce and traf fie demands a passageway. There are^rt thirty-eight systems of viaducts, which/ ^1 bespeak as many safeguards for the *sj people against the dangers of railroadsv transportation. Represented among |s these sixty-eight bridges is to be found 4 every description of swing or draw bridge which the world possesses to-*\| day that is of practical value. They, constitute, within a radius ot a fewi miles a congress of mechanical de vices which captivate the spectator with their perfection and diversity of arrangements.Chicago Inter Ocean. "Jfef- i