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I i JPrinitetott ttntait. R. 0. DUNN, Publisher. Terms'2 00 per year in advance. A GATJIFOWNLV preacher recently startled his congregation by saying: "I hnvo forgotten wry notes and shall have to tru^t to Providence, but this evening I will come better prepared." HE duke of Portland has a necktie for every hour of the day, and he never wears his gloves twice. His hosier's bill is about $12,000 a year. The duke of Fife spends about the Bame amount. IF Hawaii does not slip into the Union somehow, it will probably drop sugar raising and take to coffee, as it cannot get the sugar bounty. Per haps it is not known there that an artificial coffee bean is now made cheaper than the regular article. ITSDIANS in Hindostan are paid $ 2 a month for common labor. There are IndianB in South Dakota who get much bigger pay without doing any work, besides education and about all they want. Still the Dakota Indian is not specially happy. FATHFU MCGLYNN has come to the surface again long enough to reject the terms of peace offered by the pope and to declare that he will not recant and does not care to be forgiven. Father McGlynn's courage is magnifi cent, but his discretion is open to crit icism. IN Russia the cropping of hair on the part of women is considered a dis grace In view of this, some idea can be obtained of the straits to which the peasants are driven when the young women have in many instances permitted their heads to be shorn, sell me their hair to procure food. HE German government keeps its eye steadily on the army nothing seems too good for it. It has recent ly made a contract with a Philadel phia firm for 10 0 tons of aluminum for army uniforms, canteens, etc. It is a lighter material and does not need polishing. Bu it brings fruit to our basket. W. R. HEARST, the San Francisco editor whose \yacht is making him more famous than his newspaper, is a young man of twenty-five with an .ex- tremely English appearance, parbicu larly as respects his.clothes. His for tune, left him by his father, is estim ated at from $10^000,000 to $15,000, 000. HE king of Wuertemburg finds that he needs "$400,000 per annum more than Ins present/stipend to-make him comfortable. The people don appreciate the demand, but unless they want to give out the job to the lowest bidder will have to yield up the coin. He i a gay youth and the things that a king must ihave come high. CATEKI GAKZ has more lives than a cat and more vim and vigor than a quart of bald hornets. Hav ing been killed several times sinGe ihe invaded Mexico and excelled mobody knows how often, be is still fighting the government And making end of trouble. Gaterino should achieve greatness in de time if lifts .luck does not peter out. PRESIDENT AVDREW D. WHITE f Cornell University presented a propo sition at the closing session of the National Civil Service Reform League in Buffalo for the league to offer $1,- 000 annually in prizes for ibhe foest essays on civil service reform by -col lege students, offering himself to give $250. The proposal was referred .to the Executive committee. ACCORDING to Gambrinns, the o^ga/m of the Austrian brewers, the civilized world drank. 51,834,000,000 gallons of beer in 1890, an increase of about 12 per cent over she consumption of the year before. The number of men in the civili7ed world who were per manently ortemporarily unci vilizedjby this enormous absorption of matt liquor is not stated. A CO-OPERATIVE home for young women students has been started in Boston with accommodations for abowt one hundred and fifty, the prices ranging from $1.50 to $ 8 50 a week. Most of the rooms are in suites, and the arrangements for table board are separate The inten tion is to make it self-supporting, And if any sttudent remains there a year she will become a partner *n the scheme and have a share of the revenue. Entertainments of various degree* of importance are to be pro vided. ABOUND THE GLOBE. ^A A Record of the Week's Happenings That are Now Part of the World's History. rho More Important foroign and Domestic Events Arranged for Rapid Reading. WASHINGTON. The president left Washington recently lor Bengies, Md., where he will Bpend two or three days in duck hunting. The controller of the currency has au thorized the First National Bank of Flatte ville, Wis., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. Hon. Albert G. 'Porter, (United States minister to Italy, denies that his visit to Washington is in connection with the Ma fia affair in New Orleans. UWDKB a decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, political assess ments in government buildings will, it is thought, be completely stopped. THE minister of Denmark has informed the secretary of state that C. F. Solberg, vice consul of Denmark at Milwaukee, has been recalled, and he theretore asked that the exequator issued to him by the United States government be withdrawn. THK Latin-American department of the World's Columbian Exposition has been in formed by Capt. Rodger*, a United States commissioner to Brazil, that the Corcoyady Railway Company ofRiode Janeiro pro poses making an exhibit of their railways miniature at the Chicago.exposition. PERSONAL MENTION. RKV. ZACARIAH EDDY, the well known Congregationalist, died at Detroit, Mich., aged seyenty-six years. GEORGE W. CHILDB DREXEL,theson of the Philadelphia banker, was wedded to Miss Mary Streteh Irick,daughter of Mrs.Charles Keen, at Vincetown, N. J. A ~eoN has been born to Mr. and Mrs, John Jacob Astor, Jr. it will bear the now famous name John Jacob. Thet in fant belongs to the fifth generation which has borne that name in America and will in herit $150,000,000. UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. SEVER VL large retaihestablishments in St. Louis are burned, the loss being $1,000,000. JOHN RINDELL, & SON'S planing mill was destroyed by fire at Newark, N. Y., Lose $100,000. A FIRE in the Virginian office at Nor folk, Va. destroysd the stock and material of the office as well as most of the files. THE loss by the fire in Griggs, Cooper & Co.'s and Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co.'s wholesale houses is placed $750,000 and the insurance $125,000 less. THE whaling schooner Nioollene, Capt. Herndon,has arrived at San Francisco,after an absence of over two years in the Arctic ocean. The ship has several times been re ported as lost. to a collision between a freight and pass enger train near Cadillao, Mich., Fireman Pickel and Brakemen Howard were killed, Engineer James Smith was fatally injured and a large amount of rolling stock des stroyed. No passengers were injured. A PAST freight train ofperishuMe goods ran into a runaway freight near Burgetts town, iPa., on the Pan Handle road, and 28 cars were totally demolished. The ears took fire and an unknown brakeman was burned_ up with the wreck Engineer Whitesides and Fireman MoFarland .jump ed and were seriously hurt. The loss is esti mated at $150,000 A COLLISION occurred at Bards Siding, near Jersey Shore, on the Philadelphia Erie railroad between two passenger trains, by which Engineer Christopher Ray, of Harrisburg, lost a leg, and three ladies be longing to the Irish Visitors Dramantic Company, Miss May Nugent, Miss Kate Rooney and Helena Murray, were also in jured. A TORNADO in the Argentine Republie wipes out a town and kills forty people. FIRE destroyed several tenement houses Broooklyn recently. A number of peo ple were rescued from death by the heroic tiremen Wild rumors wene circulated of whole families being lost in the fire, but the rumor proved groundless. The loss is saot great. FOREIGN FLASHES. EX-KING lffiiL*.N has signed* renuncia tion of all hie legal and constitutional rights in Servda. THE Republicans were badly defeated in municipal elections in Spain. Last year they swept everything before them. THE Victorian parliament has provided for a loan of 1,000,000, which sum will be used in constructing productive works. Rio JANEIRO is in a state of seige, the city being in the hands of Dictator Fonseca's troops. THE situation in Samoa is strained At King Malietoa's request the iaipule had agreed to issue a proclamatibn declaring lliat Mataafa is a rebel. THE Russian Ministry of finance is con temiplating a proposal for monopoly by the government-of the production of spirits and tobacco. THE Garza iiwiasie-n of Mexico is assum ing a more serioaas phase. The Mexican authorities say .they have had a fight with hum which he was defeated, bat could neither capture 'ham nor any of his men. THE North German Lloyd steamer Eider, Ca,pct. Bauer, which left New York Nov. 7, bound for Bremen, has not yet arrived at Soflnthanipton, her port of call in England, and sotme of those having friends on board of her Are becoming anxious. COICTNSEI., for Louis Clovering Bonaparte pmesewted a petition in London in the high court ot justice asking that Rosalie Bona parte Oloviss' petition for divorce be dis missed with costs. Justice Jeune refused to grant the application. THE Conservative Association of Rother hite, on* of the suburbs of London, held a public greeting at which Sir Edward Clarke, the solicitor general, intimated that the government would appeal to the country next November. IN the German reichstag a bill was pre sented by the government nulifying that article of the constitution relative to the immunities enjoyed by the members of the reichstag whenever the adjournment of that body extends over a period exceeding 30 days. A TRftRiBLE tornado passed over the province of'Sante Fe, thirty miles Rosario, causing greatv destructionfrotm property and loss of life. The town of Arroyo Seoa was entirely destroyed. The number ot deaths is reported to be forty and of wounded thirty. THE Grand Duke Alexis and the duke of Leuchtenberg have paid a visit of several days to the Due De Chartres at Chantily, France. It is supposed their object fe to show that the czar's family maintains so cial relations with the royal house ^f France. r THE St. Petersburg Novotsi declare* that the financial crisis In Berlin has developed ia political crisis that the war paity baa gained the upper hand and that th0 pru dent Bismoroklan policy has been forgotten in the frantic desire to strike Russia in the moment of weakness. PRINCE GKOROE of Wales is seriously with enterio fover at Marlboro house, London. Ho was seized chill a fow dayB With a and camo from Snndringham. accompanied by "his Tho i'over developed rapidly but according to the latest bulletin the prince's condition ar present is favorable. THERE can be no longer any doubt that Catoiino Garza has opened tho revolution ary ball in Mexico in earnest. As stated the Mexican troops had a brush with the revolutionists that day near Guerrero, and was reported that Garza's foroes wore rout ed. A dispatch was received here stating that Garza made an attack on Guerrero recently and was only driven off after stub born resistance on the port of the Mexican garrison. lather., THE WICKED WORLD. KATE DAVIS is indicted on the charge of murdering Bam Blackstone. HI trial of 0. W. Brandborg^ charged with murder, is begun at Fergus Falls. THERE is a prospect for the recovery of Capt. Hattie Smith, of the Salvation Army, who was shot by Nellie Biedler in Omaha. JOHN H. OBR, a gass blower of Jeftnnet te. Pa., died from the effects of injuries re ceived at the hands of four Italians recent iy. AT Durango, Colo., Maggie Montgomery stabbed John Gross in the heart. Gross died instantly. He was to have been mar ried, and this caused Maggie's jealousy. This is her second victim. B. WKILKR, postmaster at Glasgow, Mo., was compelled by three robbers, at the point of revolvers, to turn over all val uables in his possession, amounting to $3,000. The robbers escaped. SHERIFF HARRIMAN arrived at Blair, Neb., with Arthur Sloan who killed his stepfather near Fontanelle, Neb., in October. Sloan was captured near Slater, Iowa, where he was working on a farm. THE papers in the case of Maj. Charles B. Throckmorton, second artillery, charged with duplicating pay accounts, have been reviewed at the war department and for warded to Gen. Howard who will order court martial to try the officer. THE RAILROADS. THE Indiana, Illinois fc Iowa has peti tioned the court at Ottawa, 111., for an in junction restraining the Santa Fe from vio lating the agreement entered into between the two companies by which the Three I's was to receive 10 per cent of the through rate from the Missouri river to Kankakee. THE sheriff levied on all the property of the Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit, and the Lancing & Northern railroads, includ ing right of way. franchise, and everything else in sight. The levy was made on the suit of Mcfiae & Lally, the contractors, who have an unsatisfied judgment against the companies for $65,000. THE National Transportion association, comprised of the boards of trade and other commercial bodies of the United States, de cided at its meeting in Chicago to apply to the interstate commerce commission for an order compelling the railroads to adopt a simpler form of bill of leading. If the com mission does not act promptly congress will be petitioned to the same end. THE lines in the Central Traffic associa tion have agreed that for the Christmas and New Year holidays an excur sion rateo one and onethird of the lowest local fare for the round trip may be made to apply locally. Tickets will be sold only on Bee. 24, 25 and 31, and Jan. 1, good only on date of sale going, and return as late as Jan. 4. SPORTING MATTERS. THE Law and Order League of Camden, N. J., has taken up the cudgel against the Gloucester race-track, and if the place is not closed within forty-eight hours a force of men will be sent theresufficient to arrest all attaches of the track. "Billy" Thomp son, the proprietor of the track, declares that he will not close until Nov. 28 and thus the matter stands. LABOR CIRCLES. THE strike of London carpenters, which has been on for six months, has been set tled by arbitration. AT Pittsburg, Pa. the employes of the nail department of Oliver & Roberts' wire works were notified of a 20 per cent reduc tion in wages. The men are not organized and will accept the reduction. A KUMBEB of the striking compositors of Breslau have been sentenced to pay various penalties for breach of contract in stopping work. The magistrates of several towns have given notice that strikers menacing non-strikers or visiting their houses will be punished with the utmost severity of the law. THE general grievance committee of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America is In session in St. Louis. It is "given out that no business of im portance is before the committee, the meet ing bein^ only for the purpose ot "organiza tion, which takes place every year alter the national convention. MISCELLANEOUS. CHICAGO is seriously threatened with a soft coal famine. THE St. Paul chamber of commerce adopts a report favoring a celebration in the form ot a winter carnival. JUDGE CASK appointed W. Rand re ceiver of the McCosh Iron and Steel Com pany of Burlington, Iowa, in compliance with application of trustees. THE Chicago grain blockade has caused a big blockade on the Iowa and Western roads. Thirteen hundred cars of grain are siAe-tracked in Iowa. SIXTEEN heirs of Charles Durkee, at one time governor of Utah, have begun suit in the United States circuit court at Chicago to recover over $500,000 of Durkee's estate. AT Greenwood, Miss., S. H. Bellinger, wholesale merchant and cotton factor, was attached by M. Levy & Son, of New Or leans, for $27,000. Liabilities, $40,000 as sets, $55,000. THE Choctaw council has passed an act, which will have the effect of making ne groes from the states, who seek a promised land, go to some other country besides that nation. AT Pittsburg, Pa., there is a bitter fight in the congregation of the Grant Street Syn agogue over a movement to discontinue the orthodox custom of separating the sex es during services. THK great Mormon church choir, 300 strong, which takes**part in the services at the Temple in Salt Lake City, will visit Chicago -during the WenrWs Fair and com pete tor the first prize in the Eisteddfod. THE Wholesale Saddlery Association of America elected the following officers: Ow en Galright, JT.. president B. W. Camp bell, vice-president J. B. Denver, secre tary J. J. Krech, treasurer. THE skeleton ofa large man encased in copper armor, is unearBhed near Chilli the king of the mound builders and buried six hundred years ago. THMQRTHWEST, Summary of the Important Events ,v of the Week in the Northwest- ern States. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota News in a Nutshell, MINNESOTA cothe. Ohio. He is supposed to have been the left shoulder by an unknown man on the Great Northern train going south from The village hall and jail at Carlton were totally destroyed by fire. Burglars secured $400 at the store of D. 0. Young & Co, at Aitkin. Gov. Merriam issues a Thanksgiving proclamation. The free delivery system will be put in effect Jan. 1st at Faribault. Wood and Redding of Lake City, who were indicted for violation of the Sunday law, were acquitted. The drug store of W. B. White in Lake City has been closed by the sheriff on exe cutions for debt. The public schools at Pelican Rapids have been temporarily closed on account of an pidemicof maglfnant diphtheria. B. B. Hughes, of New York city has leased the Fleck Hotel at Austin, and will enlarge and refit it. There aro 35 cases of scarlet fever in Moorhead and several of the schools have been closed. Mrs. Bryan, of Luverne, has come into possession of real estate in Chicago valued at $200,000. William Bonness, aged 52, was instantly killed on his farm at Ashley, by a runaway team. "Dolly" Mason, 4years old, was accident ally shot by his 6-year-old brother at Min nesota. Fred Beer, Jr., of St. Bonifacius, shot himself accidentally and it is feared fatally while hunting. TheSchlitz Brewing Company has let contracts for the erection of buildings at Winona to cost $35,000. The office of the Park & Nelson Lumber Company at Brasington burned. Valuable papers were destroyed. By the explosion of a threshing engine at St. Hilaire, the owner, Mr. Ames and the engineer were fatally injured. Winona has subscribed $15,000 toward a radiator manufacturing plant proposed to be erected there by Eastern capitaliats. In the newspaper libel case of Senator Frank A. Day vs. H. M. Blaisdell, at Fair mount, a verdict for Day for $500 damages was rendered. A car famine in Fairbault is prevailing. The elevators are all nearly full, and the grain dealers will have to stop buying if cars are not soon produced forshipping. Among the people of Northfield there is some opposition to the assessment of $1,100 for Rice county made by the World's Fair commissioner, but probably the majority favor raising that amount. The auditor's report shows that forty wolf bounties were paid at Red Wing dur ing the year ended Nov. 15, amounting to $182. During the previous year $240 was paid for sixty wolves. A. P. Swcnstrom of St. Paul, assisted by Mr. Baldwin of Redwing,instituted a Royal chapter of the Order of the Bastern Star at Chatneld with ninety-two charter mem bers. W. H. Patten & Co. have commenced putting in the wires for the electric light plant for Le Sueur, and it is expected to have the city lighted by electricity by the middle of December. A meeting of the board of trade was held at Winthrop and 20 citizens signed a joint note of $150, Winthrop's share of Sibley county's apportionment of $700 for the World's Fair. A Duluth & Winnipeg engine and ca boose, while backing up to Carlton from Cloquet, ran into a handcar containing six persons, one of whom, Mrs. Christine Le beck, was killed. Mrs. Nellie B. Luce, wife of W. S. Luce, of Minneapolis, who was taking special in struction at the school for the blkid at Fari bault, died from an overdose of laudanum taken accidentally. The jury in the case of Miss Emma Bone steel against H. A. Pearson, a prominent business man of Duluth, to recover $30,000 damages for alleged slander, returned a ver dict for the defendant. The case of The Cannon River Manufac turers' Association vs. L. Z. Rogers, ot Waterville, has at last come to an end. The amount involved is somewhat over $6,000. The verdict was for defendant Roggers. The grand jury at Lake City, failed to find an indictment on charges made by a committee of the Lake City alliance against H. J. O'Neil and McMichael for an alleged combination to control the price of grain in this market. A wreck occurred ov the Midland rail road near Hammond, Eight cars were ditched and twenty hogs and several cattle killed. All the train hands escaped un injured. The accident was caused by a broken axle. Analyses of sugar beets raised at Hed Wing which were made at the state experi mental farm show them to contain about S24 pounds of sugar to the ton of beets, and the sugar shows a purity of over 85 per cent on the scale of 100. Alfred Davy, who was indicted by the grand jury at Wabasha, pleaded guilty be fdre Judge Start to selling liquor without a license at Plainview. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costsand to imprison ment for thirty days in jail. The Sauk Center Brewing company's plant burned. Loss, $15,000. A large quantity of malt and many barrels of beer ere destroyed. The building was owned by the Bohmer estate of Melrose, and man aged by F, E. Minnette. There was no in uran ce. The board of education, of Moorhead, on the suggestion of Dr. Kuerte, of the board shtrtly afterwards. of health, closed the city schools on ac count of carlet fever. There are thirty five families in the city afflicted with the disease. The high and grammar schools will Jnot be closed. A peculiar and fatal accident occurred near Pine City, An Indian shot and wounded a buck deer, and was about to cut histhroat when the animal struck the Indian in the eye with his large autlers thereby stunning him. In endeavoring to escape the deer injured him so that recov ery is impossible. Jack Keefe, the pugilist was stabbed in mil Pipestone. The pair got into a row over a game of cards and the stranger drew a knife and stabbed Keefe, cutting an ugly gash about four Inches deep and two long. He was brought to Pipestone for surgical attendance. The wound may prove fatal. Lucius Ames, Injured in the boiler ex plosion, at Red Lake Falls is entirely out of danger. He was Btanding on the rear plat form before tho combustion, and was scald ed and lacerated so that it was thought he could not live, and his recovery is almost a miracle. Parts of the boiler and engine flew seventy-five feet, and the whole thing Was entirely demolished. NORTH DAKOTA. The safe In the Milwaukee freight depot at Fargo, was broken open by burglars, who secured 20 cents for their trouble. A stock company has been organized and incorporated at Forman for the erec tion of a flouring mill. The capital Btock is $15,000, divided into shares of $50 each. The North Dakota board of World's Fair managers meet at Grand Forks to consider plans for the state building and other im portant business. The Fargo Daily Forum appeared for the first time the other evening. It is edited by Maj. Edwards and H. C. Plumley, formerly of the Argus. The Forum will be published for the present at the Moor head News office. The post mortem and inquest on the re mains of Jos. Bachwa, at Wahpeton, sup posed to have been murdered shows the immediate cause of death to be pleurisy. There was no question but he had been knocked down and jumped upon, but doc tors would not certify that this caused his death. No arrests have been made. Senator and Mrs. Casey have gone to Washington. They will "travel leisurely, making a brief stay at Minneapolis to visit Mrs. Casey's brother, and another at De troit, Mich., where their daughter is at school, Senator Casey intimated that he had some prospective legislations in mind but declined to outline at present. E. C. D. Skortridge, president of the North Dakota State Farmers' Alliance, said from personal observation and reliable in formation he is convinced that 25 per cent of the crop in the state is not threshed. The winter has set in and unthreshed wheat will have to wait till spring. He visits the terminal points to examine the workings of the elevator system and says in all prob ability the Alliance will have a paid agent here to handle next year's crop. SOUTH DAKOTA. An incendiary fire destroyed a barn and its contents belonging to W. H. Waters at Mullen, Levi's jewelry stole as Huron, was burg larized of $800 worth of jewelry and $50 in cash. Mrs. Francis Holly, who wrote a history of Dakota, has decided to sue the Vermil lion Republican for libel. The liyery stable at Yankton, owned by Mayor Powers of that city, burned, and twenty-six horses with it The South Dakota Educational associa tion will hold an adjourned meeting in Mitchell Dec. 29, 30 and 31. The Salem water works were damaged by fire. Loss, $800 or $1,000. It caught from an overheated stove used to keep the stand-pipe from freezing. Gov. Mellette has appointed Andrew N. Vancamp, of Highmore county, judge of Hyde county, in the place of Jacob Thaght, removed. He has also appointed J. J. Bat terson county judge of Roberts county, Vice T, H. Countryman, resigned. Two or three private parties have pur chased artesian well outfits and the county is negotiating for an outfit or two more, so that the prospect is good for the sinking of several wells in this vicinity during the coming year. Edward Carter of New York is at Mitch ell to take steps towards locating a branch store of the National Co-operative union in Mitchell. He has options on stocks in forty-one South Dakota towns, and says the scheme will work revolution in trade. A report from Elk Point says: In the official investigation of the reeords of this County it is found that an ex-justice of the peaceis short iu his accounts nearly $2,000. He was a Republican. The deficit was hushed up at the time. More cases of this kind are expected to be found. A train load of fat cattle were shipped from Blunt recently, to St. Paul and Chicago. Twelve cars of sheep were load ed at this station in one day recently. Hughes county is becoming noted for its cattle and sheep industry. Samuel Bowman, the deputy commis sioner of school lands, is in Watertown looking after the filings on the public lands in the Watertown district. He has selected eighteen thousand acres, which takes in all the lands open to settlement with the ex ception of four thousand acres. John Miller, the German who is noted for his glass-eating propensities, is reported dying at his home in Hughes county, near Canning. The report is that he indulged in a few lamp chimneys, beer bottles, etc, a few days ago, and within a very short time was in great agony, and the doctors in attendance declare there is no hope of his recovery. WISCONSIN. The M. E. Church at Florence will erect a new church building to cost $2,000. Mrs. Jane Jennings, an old resident of Green County, died at her home in Mow roe. The body ofa 4-months-old child was found beneath a heap of stable refuse at Su perior. The case is being investigated by the authorities. The Board of Public Works, at Sheboy gan, has issued an order that the channel in the draw of the Eight Street bridge shall be dredged to a depth of fifteen feet. The suit of Joseph Stringham vs. the Northern Pacific RailroadCompanyat Osh- kDsh, has been settled by the railroad com pany paying the plaintiff $5,000. Joseph Hickey, a young man living on a farm near Port Washington, was so badly injured in a runaway accident that lie died The Green County Board of supervisors passed a measure appropriating $100 for use in connection with the state's appropriation for the World's Fair, In the circuit court, at Madison, the ynTy in the case of Mrs. Slaughter against the town of Middletoiiaction for damages by reason of an alleged defective highway disagreed. Mayor Jackson I. Ca^e hasbeen elected treasurer of the new hotel company at Ra cine, and R, T. Robinson secretary. Work will be commenced on the structure in the *.prin. The new well at the blast furnace in Ashland lias been completed. It is 3,095 feet, over half a mile in depth, and is thf deepest well in the Northwest. The borini cost $14,000. A farmer living at North Cape was held up by three masked men near Franksvill* and robbed. The highwaymen are sup posed to be those who robbed the train recently at Western Union Junction. The York Iron company of Black Rivetf Falls, since starting up last January, have manufactured about 25.000 tons of iron with a sixty-ton luraace. This is considered re markable work. A human leg, supposed to be that of a woman, was found among the bones re cently shipped to the glue works at Port Washington to be ground into bone meal for fertilizers. Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. DeHaven, of Ra cine charged with keeping disreputabl* houses forfeited bonds amounting to $8,. 000 by not appearing in the circuit court when their cases were called. While working at the Highlands mine near Dodgeville, John Leschske got caught in the machinery and had both his arm* and legs broken and his Bkull fractured. He died shortly afterwards, A man named Sherrer, employed in the Brown Lime Works at Harrison, across Lake Winnebago from Neenah, was in stantly killed by a heavy plank, which fe and struck him in the abdomen. In a row between William Miller and Fritz Keeper, at Florence, the latter was severely injured about the head, and the former was stabbed in the thigh. Keepe has sworn out a warrant tor Miller charg ing him with assault. A deer ran upon the track of the Lak Shore & Western Railroad near Nome, and looking at the train became so bewil dered as to be run down and disabled so that the engineer killed it with his pocket knife. Will Feig. of Eau Claire, who was sen tenced to the Waukesha reform school by Judge Larson, having pleaded guilty to shooting his sweetheart, Miss Annie Lenz, was taken to that institution recently. H is less than eighteen years of age. An oil lamp fell from the ceiling of th Opera House at Brodhead, setting fire tc the scenery and damaging a number of cos tumes. Laudius Taylor was severely burn ed about the body in an endeavor to extin guish the flames. The damage is about $200. IOWA. Gov. Boies has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $300 for the recovery the body of Peter Larson, who is supposed to have been murdered. C. B. Hansen a dry goods dealer of Clin ton, made an assignment lor the benefit o: his creditors. Liabilities about $4,000 with assets equal or nearly so. Theodore Lensing, of North Washington, was killed while blasting boulders on W. Waddei's farm. 10 miles east of Charlei City. His brother Joseph's thigh was also broken. A dispatch received at Cedar Falls states that the free delivery system has been all lowed that city. Three letter carriers wil be appointed, one of whom is to be mount ed to carry mail to the State Normal School, about a mile from the city. An extensive land deal has just been con summated by which 1,987 acres of land in Butler county was deeded to J. C. Lusch, of Ackley, Iowa. The tract is known aa the Central Stock Farm and is situated neai Allison. The price paid was $31 per acre. The McCosh Iron and Steel Company^ol Burlington, have filed an objection to th appointment of C. W. Rand as receiver in the company, charging that he is unfamil iar with the business, extremely partisan to the plaintiff and has used his position as temporary receiver to unnecessarily depre cate and discredit the trust property. The second annual state convention of the Epworth league ot Iowa convened in Waterloo. Between two and three hundred delegates, representing the four hundred leagues in Iowa, were in attendance. Bishop Fitzgerald of Minneapolis delivered an ad dress before the convention. in the Lii'ted Estates court Des Moines the demurrer in the case of the United States vs. John C. Newton and M. Ox ford was overruled and the case will now go to trial. Newton is the president of the Des Moines & Kansas City railway and he and Oxford were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government by overloading the mails during the weighing time when the government determined the compensation for the year. HER ADVICE WA S GOOD. The Rev. Mr. Stuart Obeyed His Mother and Thereby Saved His Life. My father died before I reached my twentieth year, and since my mar riage my mother hab made her home with me. Tw summers ago I set my heart ongoing to Europe, A friend in Atlanta gave me the money and I arranged with three yonng men for the trip. I told my mother and she said "George, I don't want you to go.', I thought I could persuade her out ol it, so went on with my arrangment. The week I was to start she earn* to my room and said "What aie you doing?" I said, "I am getting things ready to go to Europe,'' Sh said, "I told you I did not want yo to go, and now I say you can't go. am getting to old and nervous tx stand the strain of your taking suet a 1^." I went down tovra and told the boys, 'Tm out the brightest hope of my life has set." They said, "Ain't you free and manried?" I said yes, but I would not strike out across the ocean ngainst my mother's wishes for anything. I'd expect to go to the bottom. About that time I got a a Invitation from Brother Jones to go with him to Canada. I Tvas glad S an opportunity to be away when the boys started for Europe. At the sup per table at Buffalo on our return Mr, Jones got New York World, and in it was an account of a terrible wreck in Virginia, and in the list J the killed and burned werethe name* of John Hardwick, WilHe Steed and Willie Marshal, the "young men with whom I would have gone to Europe. When I reached home'my mothertook me in her arms as if to gather me from the dead, and I said, 'Mother I hav never gone wrong when I followed yonrdvice,"{Mr, Stuart's sermon reported in Wilmington K, Star.} .*i 8