Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — Municipal Matters. [ARTICLE]

Municipal Matters.

A negro barbers’ union has been formed at Louisville', Ky. St. Paul has a new onc-cent independent afternoon daily paper. Portland, Ore., will have qjibnch show. The city lias 2,222 licensed dogs. New York has the. largest local telephone exchange system in the world. New Orleans is to have a new historical museum under the auspices of the Louisiana Historical Society. The police department at Astorin, Ore., has been self-sustaining for three years. The cost of maintenance is SO,OOO annually. ■ Cleveland authorities-expect to complete during the year a tunnel bringing water to the city from a point five miler out in .Lake Erie. Oi>o of the specifications of the contracts made by Greater New .York, for its charitable institutions is thrtt all the meat shall be killed and dressed Tn New York State. This year 2,353,000 pounds will be used. Two Indian bucks and a squaw were killed by drinking wood alcohol, which had been sold to them by ifJatake, at Butte, Mont,