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the general building. The forestry and mining 

 displays were particularly floe. -More than 200 

 awards were n-eei\ed for cereals, with only a 

 litlle more than -KM samples shown, 40 for min- 

 ing exhibits, and <>> for Hour. Fifty premiums 

 received for draught horses, 48 for cattle, 

 ami 21 for poultry. 



Decision. In July the Supreme Court ren- 

 dered a decision that lias a wide bearing on labor 

 and capital alike. The Northwestern Lumber- 

 men's Association has a rule providing that no 

 members shall sell goods at anv place at prices 

 lower than the retail dealers, The Bohn Manu- 

 facturing Company, one of its members, was ac- 

 cused of violating the rule, and was notified by 

 t he secretary that a circular warning them of the 

 fact would be sent to all the members. The 

 Holm Company secured an injunction restrain- 

 ing the secretary on the ground that such a boy- 

 cott would seriously injure their business. The 

 lower court's order was reversed by the Supreme 

 Court on the ground that the Bohn Company, 

 being a member of the association, should have 

 conformed to its rules. The Supreme Court 

 holds that any one, unless under contract obliga- 

 tion, or unless his employment charges him with 

 some public duty, has a right to refuse to work 

 for or deal with any man or class of men he sees 

 fit, and this right, which one man may exercise 

 singly, any number of men may exercise jointly. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met 

 on Jan. 3, and adjourned on April 19. The Sen- 

 ate had 25 Republicans, 16 Democrats, and 13 

 Populists ; the House, 71 Republicans, 36 Dem- 

 ocrats, 2 Populists, and 5 Democrat- Populists. 



Cushman K. Davis was elected to succeed him- 

 self in the United States Senate, having 87 of 

 the 168 votes cast. Daniel W. Lawler, the Dem- 

 ocratic candidate, had 49, and Sidney M. Owen, 

 the People's party candidate, 23. Other votes 

 were scattering. 



A proposed amendment to the Constitution 

 was voted favorably upon. It will authorize the 

 levy and collection of a tax on inheritances, de- 

 vises, bequests, legacies, and gifts. 



An important act was that providing for 

 building a new Capitol at St. Paul. The cost is 

 not to exceed $2,000,000, and the money is to be 

 raised by a tax of two tenths of a mill a year for 

 ten years. The tax will not be levied for two 

 years to come. 



The State University was placed on a more 

 independent footing by an act providing for a 

 slight increase in its annual maintenance fund 

 by means of a tax of 0-15 of a mill. When the 

 product of this tax shall exceed $125,000 a year 

 the excess is to be covered into the State treasury. 

 It was provided that the question of free text- 

 books may be submitted to the voters of any 

 school district. 



In the interest of the farmers of the State laws 

 were passed making new provisions in regard to 

 inspection of wheat and to grain elevators. It 

 has been charged that for years the farmers have 

 been robbed and defrauded at the country eleva- 

 tors and exposed to the rapacity of middlemen. 

 The new law extends the benefit of State inspec- 

 tion of wheat to all sellers. All elevators are to 

 be treated as public elevators and to be under 

 the supervision and subject to the inspection and 

 regulations of the State Warehouse Commission. 

 VOL. xxxni. 32 A 



Another act in the same interest was one giv- 

 ing to farmer?, the right to erect independent ele- 

 vators on the railroad right of way. Still anoth- 

 er act requires the railroad company to provide 

 side-track facilities at these elevators. 



For the aid of farmers whose crops were de- 

 stroyed by hail or other storms in 1892, $75,000 

 was appropriated for seed grain, as a loan to be 

 repaid from the proceeds of future crops. 



Provision was made for the purchase of a site 

 and erection of a State elevator at Duluth, of a 

 capacity of 2,500,000 bushels, to be managed and 

 operated by the State Warehouse Commission. 



In the interest of labor provision was made for 

 safeguards to all dangerous machinery, placing 

 all manufacturing and other establishments em- 

 ploying large numbers of people under the in- 

 spection of the Bureau of Labor. 



A bill was passed to regulate the selling of rail- 

 road tickets and to check ticket-scalping. 



Measures relating to cities and villages pro- 

 vided that no liquor license should be issued to 

 any one not an actual resident of the State ; that 

 any county, town, incorporated city, or village 

 may vote bonds in aid of improved canals or wa- 

 ter ways, but not in excess of a total indebtedness 

 equal to 5 per cent, of the taxable value of the 

 property within the territory voting upon the 

 proposition ; that all villages incorporated by 

 special acts previous to the general act of 1885 

 shall have the power to vote on the issue of 

 license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. 



A bill was passed for the purchase of land and 

 erection of buildings for the soldiers' home. 



Amendments to laws and statutes increased the 

 number of vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal 

 churches to 9 ; provided for graduating the 

 amount of capital stock necessary to establish 

 banks according to population ; and increased the 

 punishment for pools and trusts, providing that 

 in addition to the punishment bvfine there shall 

 also be imprisonment in the Penitentiary of from 

 one to ten years. 



The State Elevator. The act providing for 

 a State elevator at Duluth, as described under the 

 head " Legislative Session," was brought to test 

 in the courts as to its constitutionality. Action 

 was brought to enjoin the Board of Railway and 

 Warehouse Commissioners from carrying out the 

 provisions of the act, on the ground" that it was 

 in conflict with the Constitution. The lower 

 court decided in favor of the act, but the Su- 

 preme Court reversed the decision. 



MISSISSIPPI, a Southern State, admitted 

 to the Union Dec. 10, 1817; area, 46,810 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 75.448 in 

 1820; 136,621 in 1830: 875,651 in 1840; 606,526 

 in 1850; 79 1.305 in 1860; 827,922 in 1870 ; 1,181,- 

 597 in 1880; and 1,289,600 in 1890. Capital, 

 Jackson. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, John M. 

 Stone, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor. M. M. 

 Evans ; Secretary of State, George M. Govan ; 

 Treasurer, J. J. Evans; Auditor, W. W. Stone; 

 Attorney-General, T. Marshall Miller, who re- 

 signed in January, and was succeeded by Frank 

 Johnston, appointed by the Governor on Jan. 21 ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. R. Pres- 

 ton; Railroad Commissioners, J. P. Sessions, 



