Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Municipal Matters. [ARTICLE]

Municipal Matters.

A negro barbers* union has been formed at Louisville, Ky. ' St. Paul has a new one-cent independent afternoon daily paper. Portland, Ore., will have a bench show. The city has 2,222 licensed dogs. New York has the largest local telephone exchange system in the world. New Orleans islo have a new historical museum under the auspices of the Louisiana Historical Society. The police department at Astoria, Ore., has been self-sustaining for three years. The cost" of maintenance is $6,000 annually. ' A Cleveland authorities expect to complete during the year a tunnel bringing water to the city from a point five miles Out in Lake Erie. One of the specifications of the contracts made by Greater New York for its charitable institutions is that all the meat shall be killed and dressed in New York State. This year 2,853,000 pounds will be used. , , Two Indian bucks and a squaw were killed by drinking wood alcohol, which had been sold to them by mistake, at Butte, Mont.