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ST. PAUL* MINNESOTA*
NOTES OF. THE XIMES.
-SOME paper unearthed "the fact that
ex-President Hayes owned a building in
Onaha which was used as a saloon. This
led to so much comment, most of it of
the burlesque order, that last week the
ex-president sold the propeiiy
/^:tl famous
$*X.
3&t a
large sacrifice^! ifs yj^
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t 7*Jt
who made the
"what are we here for'
at the Chicago'eonvention in 1880'has
been removed from the collectorship of
the Fourth internal revenue district in
ft Texas. The 100,000 majority for Cleve
land in Texas evidently snowed Mr.
Flannigan under until 1888,' at least.
%H!, "&A EW years ago English sparrows
were considered a great luxury and
New York City imported them for her
parks. In Pennyslvania they have now
"f"% became so numerous and such a nuisance
that at a fair being held at Morristown
V a premium is offered for the greatest
display of English sparrow heads strung
on. a wire. *^^m^
RiEii claims that he cannot be tried
for treason because he is a citizen of
the United States and a citizen of the
U. S. cannot commit treason against
another country. When our own re
bellion was concluded the treatment ac
corded to the rebels demonstrated that
it was pretty hard for a citizen of this
country to commit treason any way.
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THIS is the season of the year when
people begin to hunt around for some
^uncomfortable place which calls itself
a summer resort and charges high
prices for very poor meals. Some
people are beginning to find out that
'there's noplace like home" for a sum
mer resort though few are willing to
admit it because the fashion runs in the
other direction. &*&
HE rapid departure of greatness was
illustrated by the sale, of ex-Presi
dent Arthur's horses in Wash
ington a few days ago. The animals
went begging at $150 to $200. If they
had been put pn the market when Ar
thur had paiironage at his disposal,
$1,000 a head would have been a low
figure ad flie sale would have been
attended Wttsh or hlgfr-toned peo
ple instead of a few li^ry stable men
.M,
*f HE so'called "faith cure*' received
a severe shock in a Pennsylvania qity
last week. A man who Was Supposed
Jo.be in the last stages of consumption,
and utterly unable to move about, es
sayed the "faith cure" and to the sur
prise of every one was able to go around'
the next day and labor with others, cit
ing his case as an instance of the effi
cacy of prayer and urging others to
follow his example. His apparent re
storation created quite a sensation,
but the second day thereafter he died.
Instead -of being cured by prayer it
seemed to have so wrought him up with
excitement as to give him supernatural
strength for a little time and then the
reaction killed him at once.
MR. JOHK M. KEELY, the Phila
delpbian who has been laboring for ten
years to demonstrate that he has dis
covered perpetual motion, now styles
his invention the "Interetheric Lib
erator." Ke gave an exhibition a few
days ago before a party of prominent
gentlemen and seems to have aston
ished them with his invention. They
passed a resolution -declaring it to be
wonderful but declining to give away
the secret. If Keely lives 40 or 50
years longer, he may have time to
develop his scheme. So far, he has
always been just about to attain the
.unattainable but IT, (if we can so desig
nate his invention) remained unattain
able still.
THE detectiV'esasiafl^fest^reat'surprise
that no postmteter has before discover
ed theneatplan adopted byHibbs of
Lewiston^fedaho*, for- swindling the
government. Hibbs has only been
postmaster a little over a year but he
has eclipsed the oldest heads in the
business. His plan was to send a bank
at some distant point a money order,
using a fictitious name, telling the bank
to collect it and he would call soon
for the money. Then he would advise
the postoffice at the place that the
money order had been sent to the
bank,by such a person^igning his letter
of advice as post master, at Lewistom
After a time he would write the bank
the fictitious name saying he could
not call as expected and asking a draft
to be sent to some postoffice, naming,
as a rule, some office where the mail
passed through Lewi&ton. Lewiston
being a distributing office Hibbs would,
gather in the letters and open them
4 and secure the drafts. He is supposed
have secured 50,000, and, now* that
Tjbjs plan of swindling has been invented,
would not be surprising if some other
|$stem of paying money orders would
ftave to be devised to prevent a "repe
tition of the trick. Hibbs is evidently a
*H? enius in bis wy
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
Secretary Bayard on his^ "Western trip
visitedKansasCity, Mo. and Lawrence Kan
sag, after delivering the address at the Mis
souri University. At Kansas City he said:
Our country is safe, no matter which roty
wiiisandthereisnot a sectionnot ahoflNp
this broad landthat cannot count on Wk
government as its sincere friend and agent.
He said his visit was simply with a vieV of
visiting some of the western educational*
institutions and witnessing for himself the
progress^and development of the country.
Cap*. White in charge of the railway
mail service in the West has secured a
change in tfce carving of the mails from
Chicago to Omaha, taking them away from
the Northwestern and giving them to the
Milwaukee & St. Paul road! As the result,
Postmaster General Vilas will probably
take Capt. White's commission away and
change it over to some other man.
Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire has
failed with liabilities- in the neighborhood
of a million and assets quite light. He has
lost heavily in mining and railroad enter
prises. Senator Blair and Frank M. Jones
are heavy 'endorsers on his paper and a
number of Boston banks come in for hand
some losses. He spent $50,000 to be elected
Governor.
The National Board of Charities and
Corrections^ in Washington elected W. H.
Nef df Ohio, president D. C. Bell of
Minnesota first vice President add H. H.
Hart of Minnesota chief secretary.
The annual meeting of the Chicago &
Northwestern road was held at Chicago on
the^bj-anda quarterly dividend of l^on
the common stock, and 3 per cent, on the
preferred was declared.
The bursting of a water spout near
Logas, Mexico caused a loss of 200 lives at
Pueblo. Great destruction and loss of life
also occurred at Guanogusto.
Mayor Harrison has ordered the police to
close the gambling houses in Chicago and
gamblers have hastened to comply in ad
vance of the police.
The insane asylum at Williamsburg, Va:,
burned on the 8th. There were 200 female
patients but only one was burned to death.
The loss is $140,000.
There is a defalcation of $60 000. in the
sub-troasury of New Orleans, Aufdemarte*
the redemption clerk is the culprit.
Lewis Clark, commanding the U. S.
Steamer Alliance at Key West, died on
ship board on the 6th.
The Indians continue to perpetrate mur
ders and outrages in New Mexico.
Hr PERSONAL.
Thewife of HoraceWhite died,at Elberon,
Nft J., on the 7th. Mr. White was at one
time editor of the Chicago Tribune and
during the Villard regime prompinently
connected with the Northern Pacific.
Gen. Brogg of Wisconsin has returned
heme from Washington. Just "before he
left he secured the appointment of eight
fourth class postmasters in Dodge, Wash
ington and Fond du lac counties. fff
Sam Randall is sick again with the gout.'
HeTias left Washington for Philadelphia
and says he vull devote the summer to
recovering hi| h&tfth ajad*-nTake no more
effort to disteribj$ patronage.
v, ^^\W^uip tbjufamoas opera ginger* is_
engaged to be married to Br. Raymond
Palmer, a prominent physician of London.
Gen. Bowman of Missouri was buried
with military honers at Kansas City, on
Sunday. '&&"?*
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REdENT APPOINTMENTS.
P. Marsh has been appointed U. S.
Marshal for the northern district of Illinois.
He is Sheriff of Ogle county, ands lives at
Oregon, HI. There was a very bitter fight
among the Chicago politioans for the place,
ex-chief of police McGarigle being supported
by Mayor Harrison's friends and Marsh by
Col. Morrison.
The following appointments"were made
on the 8th: Robert S. Kelly, United States
marshal for Montana O. C. Hals, receiver
of public moneys, La Crosse P. H. Wiser
and George R. Warner, receiver and
register, respectively, at Tracy, Minn.
Charles Cleveland, a nephew of the
president was an applicant for the position
of collector of internal revenue at Cleveland
Ohio, but the President refused to appoint
him on account of the relationship. John
H. Parley received the place.
Herbert Foot Beecher, a nephew of
Henry Ward Beecher has been appointed
collector of customs fori- ^Oregon and
Washington Territory.
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Gen. W. S. Rosecrans has been appointed
uegister of the treasury, vice B. N. Bruce
resigned.
THE REBELLION I N MANITOBA.
The following telegram to Lieut. Gov.
Atkins was received at Winnipeg on the
6th. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Quinney, Mr. CamJ
eron and two half-breeds who have been,
prisoners with Big Bear, throughfthe assist
ance of a friendly Indian escaped and are
Gen.~Strange's -camp,.iweiva miles
fromhere/ You will be delighted to hear*
that Mr. Quinney informs me that none off'
the women havesuffered any indignities and
of any sort Or kind as we imagined would
be the case. Gen. Strange's force has come
in contact with Big Bear and his braves,
who were in a very strong position, and
after a slight engagement, in which three
of his men were wounded, and finding the
country impassable, he withdrew a few
miles away and camped. Yesterday whila
I was on my way to Fort Pitt, I received
information from Gen. Strange that Big
Bear's band has broken up virtually into
two parties and as he has- still the McLean
family and several other prisoners, lam
going to follow both, trails with all my
mounted men. and hope to catch him yet.-
[Signed],^jL FBED MIDDLETON.
A Benton, Montana^ paper publishes an
interview with Gabriel Dumont in which
he blames Lawrence Clark for precipitating
therebellion. He says he only had twenty
six men at DuckXake, four of whom were
killedIsadore Dumont, Augustine La
Franberse, Joseph Mentoy and John BajH
tiste.~,~Three
of his relatives, a brother,
cousin and nephew, say Crozier fired first.
Gabriel got severe scalp ,wound in this
fight. At Fish Creek his forces were forty
seven men With these he successfully
Stood off Middleton with his ,600. Four
half-breeds were killed in this fight. At
Batoche they ran out of ammunition for
their Winchesters, or could have gained
the victory there. Riel was in none of the
courage, and that not a single man,was
killed by Middleton's cannon or Gatling.
They.shot tpo high. He has a poor opinion
of Middleton's men as fighters. W^^^i
Capt. Steele with seventy moultJjdpcfcce
had a hrush with Big Bear at Two Lakes,
fifty miles southeast of Fort Pitt on the6th.
He drove the Indians across a creek but did
not have force enough to follow them. He
saw no prisoners, but senj an interpreter
with a flag of truce to offer to stop fighting
if the Indians would release the prisoners.
They fired on the flag of truce but?the in
terpreter got near enough to make the offer
and the Indians replied "we intend to clean'
MM TH E OLD WORLD.
No progress has been made during the
past week in allaying the dissensions in the
British cabinet. The government is on the
verge of disruption. Mr. Chamberlain, am
bitious to become an English premier, and
Sir Charles Dilke, radical, still stubbornly
refuse to assent to Gladstone's announced
policy of renewal of the Irish crimes act
It is true that the "grand old man'-Retreat
ed from his original position on this ques
tion far enough to admit that the govern
ment now was only to renew the l^nodi
fled, but the rebels in the cabinet insist tha*
thereexists in Irelandto-day no reason and
^no prospect -of any reason for renewal in
any form. While neither Mr Chamberlain
nor Sir Charles Dilke has personally' stated
inpublicthat he will resignfrom the cabinet
if the premier persists in his renewaugolicy,
itis generally understood, though thejy-have
not actually threatened to do so, and it is
not believed that the modified poliey an
nounced yesterday has in any way altered
thethreat. jfigg
The Pall Mall da*ftte saysr W^ are
glad to be able to state upon the high
est authority that the-ioilg^MtBdffig^ue^'
tion of difference between England and
Russia concerning the northwest frontier
has been finally and satisfactorily settled.
A definite agreement has been arrived at
on all questions of principle. The commis
sioners will forthwith commence to mark
precisely the delimitation^ They are noT
on the spot. The Penjdeh incident will be
referred to the king of Denmark, who has
informally agreed to aceeptf the office of
arbiter. The arbitration will be rigidly
confined to the interpretation of the sacred
covenant of March 16,
A terrible accident occurred on a Russian
railway fromKosloff to Rostoff, on the
river Don. A bar of iron was placed across
the track by robbers, and the first train
which came along was thrown from Jhe
track and demolished. The number' of
killed and wounded was seventy/ The
robbers, who were waiting for ifie sniashup,
.plundered the. .train. "The wounded and
other survivors were completely terrorized
and could make no resistance.
Princess Lidi Dolgorouki^ daughter of the
late czar's morganatic widow, has caused
quite a social
vsenSatioti in Berlin by ap-
pearing as a public perfOrmer on the violin,
in gardens,* concerts and exhibitions/ Her
conduct has disgusted her ferinilf and
society friends. The princes? is.an im
mense oaid and' she never,ffails to draw
crowded houses.' W^E
The slander case of Charles W. Adams
against Lord Coleridgelias been comprom
ised. The compromise or setflejnjanik^gc.
flnicflg fha.ii IWMU outoxiafeu auuu/gftre toMr.
Adams 6,000 on the occabion of the mar
riage of Mr Adams to Mildrid, daughter of
Lord Coleridge.
Herr Interbach, a prominent journalist of
Berlin, died, it was supposed, of hemorrhage
of a diseased lung. Just as he was about to
be buried, it was found that he had been
killed in a fight in a restaurant. The mur
derer is unknown. The matter causes a
sensation.
'Dispatches from Rome state that the
Catholic bishops of Erie, Nebraska "and
Dakota, have^left the city for home. Bish
op Richter of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
the Bishop of Cleveland have arrived at
Rome, and been received by the pope.
The Gladstone ministry has suffered a
serious defeat. The effort tcplace England
on a war footing by increasing the tax on
beer and spirits was voted down by 265, to
252. It is probable the Gladstone mutiny
will reign. h$$
Richard Lesclede, Hugo's private secreta
ry, is aboutto publish a volume of Hugo's
table talk. It will take fifteen years to pub
lish all his works, plays and correspondence
lefcinMSS. .djC
The death rate in In^r*Valencia cholera is
doubled. (The people are fleeing from the
infested districts. Notwithstanding any
statement to the contrary it is absolutely
certain that there is genuine cholera in
Madrid.
Three hundred houses and fifty shops
and three mosques, in the steamboat quar
terofthe city, were destroy^dJ^y^fiwrroBr 'd_E-U Fratt,
Sunday. One person was {killed and many
were injured.
,-The Turkish government has sent 1,700
troops to Salonica on account of the
threateninrgo attitude of Russia on the
ntie
Bel S
iu
The French man-of-war Renard, with a
prew of ninety-two souls, Is believed to
have foundered in the Red sea
NORTHWESTERN NEWS,
The GrandRoyal Arch chapter of Masons
for Dakota, met atFargo thisweek and elect
edthe following officers for theensuing year:
William Blatt, Yankton, M. E, grand high
priest PeteyPioton, Fargo, R. E. deputy
grand highpriest T.F. Hanley, Sioux Falls,
R. E. grand king Sol Starr, Deadwood,
R.E. grand scribe O. N. Russell, Canton,
R.-E. grand treasurer Thomas J. Wilder,
Casselton, R. E. grand secretary S. G. Dip^
dyke, Watertown, E grand chaplain Matjt
Steoupe,, Aberdeen, E. grand cap^
tain of host H. M. Wheeler Grand
Forks, eminent gland principal sojourner
John Davidson, Bismarck, eminent grand
royal arch captain R. M.Hubbard,HuronJ
eminent grand master of third vaiF, Charles
V. Vandusen,' Jamestown, eminent grand
master of second vail William E. Jones,
"Valley City, eminent grand master of Stst
vail George Davenport, Sioux Falls, 'em-
inent grand guard, The Gran*Lodged the
territory followed with their eleventh an
nual meeting at tfite same place.
Something over a year ago the Chicago,
St. Paul 8c Omaha company brought a
heavy suit against H. EL Porter of Chicago,1
and R. P. Flower and David Dows of New^
York. The charge was that they .bad is
sued to themselves whihi directors 'of th
road, 6,980 shares of preferred Btock,
which they gave no consideration. The^
suit was to recover the value of the shares
and the dividend Which had" been paid.for
four and a quarter years. Senator Spooner
of Wisconsin, was attorney for the road
at the time, and rather than prosecute his
old friends heresigned his attorneyship.
Messrs. Porter, Flower,and Dows have now
made, a satisfactory explanation of the
transaction, and at the annual meeting of
the company, at Hudson Wis., onjfche 6th
the suit was ordered withdrawn/I'?-
Delegates from all of the principle banks
in Dakota have held a convention at Aber
deen, and organized a bankers association
for the'territory, with thefollowing officers
Mr. Diggs of Millbank, president Wade of
Gary, vice-president gteere of Pierre,
secretary and as members of the legisla
tive committee, Anderson of St. Lawrence
chairman Gannon of Ellendale, Judd of
Canton, Sweet of Farg- Fairchild of Bis
marck, Hutton of Grand Forks, besides an
executive committee of eight. After) de
ciding upon a schedule of charges for ex
change, machine andsight drafts, collection
of deeds, fire and hail insurance notes, etc.,
the association adjourned to convene on
Wednesday, June 16, at Huron.
A cold wave struck Minnesota on the 7th
and the mercury fell 35 degrees" in three
hours. Rain and hail fell in many places,
notably in the southern part of the fetate,
Owatonna especially suffering from the
storm. Every street lamp in the city was
broken by hail, and the churches and near
ly every building in the city suffered some
damage. Still farther south the storm was
even more severe. At New Albin*a two
stOry frame schoolhouse costing $4,000 and
an elevator was destroyed. Brownsdale in
Houston county, also suffered severe, dam
age and several towns in Dodge county
-makeTSimilar reports.
Rev. Mr Woodford whose exploits at
Valley City havegained him much noto
riety^ claimed, by his friends.to be insane
A wealthy gentleman from Michigan,
named Fryant appeared upon the scene and
uponthe bail being reduced to $1500, prompt
gave it and then, to avoid other arrests
Fryant, Woodford and his attorney Hentig
took teams and drove rapidly to
Moorhead from whence they took
the train to St. Pual and the
e&st^ Ineffectual efforts were made
to serve warrnats during the flight. fHI
The Minnesota Commandery of the Loyal
Legion was organized in St. Paul on the
5th. Gen. Hancock is the commander-in
chief of the order but was not present. He
sent a letter of regret and similar letters
were read fromGen. Grant, the commander
in New York "and from R. B. Hayes the
commander-, in Ohio/ 5 The Minnesota
organization elected Gen. John B. Sanborn,
commander Gen. Hubbard vice command
er Albert Schoffer, Treasurer and Geo.
Q. White, Secretaries
The annual meetffgsof the St Paul &
Sioux City and Omaha roads, were held on
the iJth, the former at St. Paul, and the
latter at Hudson, Wis. The only change
made Was in the Omaha directory, A. H.
Wilder retiring and James H. Howe taking
his place Marvin Hughitt of Chicago,
was elected president of both roads, and E.
F.JDrake vice-president of the St. Paul &
Sioux City, and L. Sykes vice-president
of the Omaha
have been holding their annual session at
Fargo. They elected the following officers.
William Blatt of Yankton, G. M.
Wheelhrof Grand Forks, D. XJ. M. J. A.
Braden of Aberdeen, S. W. Samuel Ray of
Lead City, J. W. Charles E. Boyden of
Watertown, S. T. Charles T. McCoy of
Aberdeen, G. S. Bismarck was selected as
the place for holding the next communica
tion.
President Cleveland has decided that
honest settlers now located on the Winne
bago reservation in Dakota can remain
until congress can meet and adjust the
matter. The revocation of Arthur's order
was because the president thought a
lot of land sharks had induced Secretary
Teller to throw the land open for specula
tion instead of settlement.
The suspicion that N. B. Harwood, form
erly of St. Paul and Minneapolis, had com
mitted suicide seems to have been entirely
dispelled, as investigation showed he was
killed by being thrown from his horse.
Ona of the insurance companies which
had $100,000 on his life, has already paid
over the money to his widow who resides
at Atlanta, Georgia. f21111 i
The annual sale of blooded horses took
place at Commodore Kittson's stables St.
Paul, on the 10th. Forty-nine head were
sold bringing $9,340 an average of about
$180. The lowest price paid was $70 and
highest $475. The animals belonged to
Commodore Kittson, A. DeGraff, G. W.
Sherwood, W. L. McGrath, Isaac Staples
Tjhe commencement exercises at Hamline
University, St. Paul occurred on the 11th.
The alumni met the day previous and elect
ed the following officers. PresidentF. W.
Hoyt of Red Wing. Vice PresidentL. J.
Dobner of Lake City. SecretaryL. A.
Hancock of Red Wing. ^TreasurerB. B.
Herbert of Red Wing
The Minnesota encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been in session
at St. Peter this week. Gov. Hubbard was
present and delivered an address. A ban
quet and reunion of the Ninth Minnesota
took place on the 11th, Judge Severance of
Mankato being the orator of the day.
F. B. Larabee, county attorney of Clay
county, Minn,, has sued the Minneapolis
Tribune for libel, laying damages at $10,000.
The Tribune correspondent at Moorhead,
accused Larabee of failing to properly
prosecute Bergquist who is accused'of in-
cendiarism.^^^4
The Minnesota Saengerbund and Saenger
est closed its annual meeting at St. Pant on
the 7th. The next meeting of the Saenger-
buncLwillbe at New Ulm,andthenext Saen
gerfest will be held at Minneapolis. The
lame of both is to be fixed by the executive
committee.
The construction of a sewer in Minne
apolis by means of a tunnel into the river
hasicreated apprehension that the volume
of water from tbeTiver may tenter the
tunnel and undermine the falls. 'Work on
the sewer has been suspended in con
sequence. ^te
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Paul next year.
full. The larger creditors receive President
Butterfield's notes divided in thirty, sixty
and ninety days. This has restored, con
fidence and the bank will resume business.
Th6 new line which the St. Paul & North
ern Pacifie road is bmlding between St. Mr. Childers, chancellor of the
Paul and Minneapolis, runs through one
corner of the State University grounds.
The regents of the University have institu
ted suit to prevent the use of the property.
The annual meeting of the Milwaukee &
St. PauIR. R. company was held onthe 10th
andthe entire old board of directors elected,
except the filling of the vacancy occasioned
by the death of S S. Merrill with the name
of Phil Armour of Chicago.
The secretary of the interior has sent the
claim of O. W. Streaton for sen ices in tak
ing the census of Dakota twenty years ago
to the attorney general to settle certain law
questions regarding it. Streaton is very
hopeful-as to the result.
Prof. Charles Northrop the new president
of the State University was duly installed
on the 10th Gen.. H. Sibley, president
of the board of regents handed over the
keys. Prof Northrop is 50 years old and
a graduate of Yale. S|j|
Daniel B. Vermilye of St. Paul .who ac
cused his wife ofundue intimacy with Gen.
Myers, but finally asked for a divorce on
the ground of desertion^has been-deniedthe
divorce because the desertion has not con
tinued three years.
The annual meeting of the Wisconsin,
Minnesota & Dakota railroad company
elected the following officers: President,
Charles F. Hatch Vice-president, T- E.
Clark Secretary, S. Leavitt treasurer, J.
Gaskell.
Pierre, Mitchell, Yankton, Redfleld and
Huron, D. T., all report heavy wind and
rain storms -on the 6th, which almost
reached cyclonic proportions. At Pierre
the storm was accompanied by haU.^
During a storm at Fergus Falls, Minn,
lightning struckthe Bismarck house, going
through the feather pillow on the bed where
Nels Eden was sleeping and passing down
the spinal column. Elden will die. |p^
The Vindicator is the name ofa newHemo
cratic weekly paper started in St. Paul last
week. The colored men also started a
weekly paper at St. Paul last week which
they call the Western Appeal.^
Ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis who for
a year and a half has'been publishing a
lively weekly pape,r-in'that city styled the
News Letter,iias suspended ifcbecauseit did
fiotpay. t^lh^ &3&K
C. Hobart olalmS-to have securaJTa
lease of the Yellow Stone Park and hotel
from the receiver. Mr Hobart originated
the park scheme and built the hotel: ^f-i%
Lorenzo Jackson of Warsaw, Rice county
Minnesota, fpmerly treasurer of the county,
committed suicide a few days ago by
drowning himself Straight river.
Mr. Patow's vinegar factory and feed
mill at St Peters.Mian was destroyed by
fire on the 6th, causing, a loss of $12,000
There was no insurance^
The bondsmen of the treasurer of
Kandiyohi county have made up the sum
of ^8,000 which was recently stolen from
the treasurer's safe
The national
which has jnst^
Victory, a small town on the Wisconsin
side of the river about 40 miles below La
Crosse, was nearly destroyed by a cyclone
on Sunday. f^ff.-'j 1?^*
A. J. Swellentfafehf'cTlrl in tne*money
order department of the Minneapolis
postoffice has been arrested for embez
zlement. fgg| 8FF^&#&.*
The executive committee of the State
Horticultural Society has decided to hold
the summer meeting at MUmesota Jun,e 34
and 25. fgf
John and Hattie Dilly were found guilty
of manslaughter at Ellendale, D. T., and
sentenced to seven year's in prison at Sioux
Falls.
Budd Taylor of the Yankton Herald, has
been appointed Surveyor General of
Dakota.
Gov. Hubbard has appointed James T.
Hale municipal judge at Duluth, Minn.
OFFICIAL CROP SfSTIMATB^^'S
The June report of the department
of agriculture shows the conditon of
winter wheat lower than ever before in
June. The general percentage has de
clined from 70 in May to 62. The aver
ages of the principal states are: New
York, 91 Pennsylvania, 67 Ohio, 56
Michigan, 94 Indiana, 60 Illinois, 40
Missouri, 52 Kansas, 56 California, 58.
In some states there has been a
greater loss of area than was
anticipated in previous reports,
The average yield will evidently oe
less than 16 bushels per acre. The prob
able product of winter wheat states,
according to these returns, is reduced
to about 307,000,000 busheS, but none
of territories, are included in the winter
wheat area. The report of spring
wheat is more favorable. The disposi
tion last autumn to reduce its breadth
on account of low price was checked by
the loss of winter wheat area, and later
by the British-Russian war rumors.
Substantially the Same area has been
seeded_as last year, about 11.000,000 in
Northern New England, Wiseonsin,^Min
nesota,Iowa,Nebraska and all therother
territories. The per centage of last
year's area is 95 in Wisconsin,99 in Min
nesota,^ in Iowa,98 in Nebraska and
103 in Dakota. The condition of spring
wheat is 97 and indicates a crop of
about one hundred and fifty-three mill
ion bushels. The average for Wiscon
sin is" 8 Minnesota, 94 Iowa, 100
Nebraska, 102 Dakota, 101. Thepres
enfrreport, therefore, indicates a-wheat
crop of 360,000,000 bushels, 23,000,000
bushels smaller thanv'that of 1891.
The general condition of rye is/83.
The area of barley is nearly the/same
as in,1884, and the average of'condi-
tion is 8& The
creased 4per*oc
condition is 94.^
in July, Twit
an increa
mor
v^GI*AJSTON DEFEATED
S^ig
The Attempt to Vote a Tax on Beer and
Spirits Squelched.
London, June 8.In the commons
ex
chequer, announced that the govern
ment had decided not to refund to the
taxpayers the amount of the increased
duty on spouts paid over and above the
extra shilling per gallon, finally de*
cided on because consumers had been
charged higher rates after the announ
cement of the original increase. The* 1F
government would, however, Mr. Child- g|pv
ers added, cause an inquiry to b& made \j&%
to ascertain if there existed grcunis^ltlf
sufficient ready to modify this deeision^jK
Mr. Childers had no sooner done exj^&f"
plaining the government's reason for |J^
not at present refunding the *tex, than *&*
the Hon. Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, ^tf
Conservative, rose quickly and asked ^"w
why it was that a Liberal government^ 4 i
which ought to be economical, had tc
resort to extreme forms of taxation in
order to m.eet an extraordinary expen-
^H'
1 NECESSITY OF"LIFE
than beer and spirits, and concluded
by moving that the proposed^ increased
duty on beer and spirits w3*ftfoCTte?|Vlal(r
in the absence of a corresponding addi
tion to the duties on wine. Mr. John
K. Cross, under secretary for India,
spoke for the government in answer to
a number of questions concerning attack
reported to have been made on the
government by Gen. Sir Peter Lumsden.
Mr. Cross assured the house that Sir
Peter, since his arrival in London, disa
vowed any intention to attack tho
gbvernment, and did not consider him
self responsible for the ill-reportedggL
utterances attributed to him by journa
lists inclined to misrepresent him. MrJ%T
Childers moved the second reading o#f
the budget, and in his supporting*
speech explained that of the totaling
crease in the beer and spirits duties'
England pays seven-ninths, Scotland
one-ninth and Ireland one-ninth.
Charles Dilke supported the btt$
He said that tea was already
enough. A further tax on wines
not be very productive and woi
INJURE COLONIAL TKA1
Sir Stafford Northcote andi
ing spoken Mr. Gladstone ari
ply. He thought that the opposite
were creating a precedent, which th,n
would regret when they came into pOwerL
again. The previous reductions ol wine
duties had a beneficial effect mprevent-
ing adultetationannually. and increasingwoultradesdethtI
m^S.mimon^
conference on charities
TT.! caariues most impolitic to increase the wino rtntv
^edits annual meet- ._..]. ~._i_ HIJIIM
^-.X^li
mqmitas in
i th^average of
be reported
98 Indicate
f"
diture of l0,000,000i{rf This question 4aSL
was greeted with cheSr? from the TorT-*=f$L
benches. Sir Michael went on and de **K
nounced the increased duty on spirits,' 3
He said the receipts from spirits were 3
already increasing, and he thought that
a small increase of duty tax would have
been wiser and more profitable, The
government should have revised the_
duty on wine,
becaug*i a
"Sr
A
beg
compeUeutofaSTY'
money in view for impending dan
ger to the empire, a danger which hef
was unable to say had passed away.
The opposition cavilled at the mode of
raising the money without suggesting
an alternative. Tea would require an
aditional tax ol 3 pence per pound to
promise the same amount, thas raising
the duty 75 per cent, on iuPmnocent
beverage. The government hajdto
choose .between alcoholic liquors and
tea and sugar. He would accept
the issue of the vote as one of life or
death, and did not envy the Tories
who, if they gained a victory would"%,
have to bear the consequences. Mr.dl
GladstonV remarks were received with ft
PROLONGED CHEERS.
The government was defeated in thegfs
second reading, the budget beings
rejected 265 tQ 252. When the result A
was announced Lord Randolph Church-If
ill and Mr. Parnell jumped upon their
benches and enthusiastically waved
their hats and the cheering was
renewed. The Parnellites and all the
Conservatives voted with the majority
The majority included Sir Michael
Brewer and several Irish Liberalise. I
Although strong whips had been issued, I
many government supporters were
absent. Following is another accountf
of the scenes in the house of commons i
after the discussion: 1
When the result of the division was
announced Gladstone, who had been
leaning forward in his chair and cyn-*n
ically smiling, started, turned pale and^
clutched his hands nervously together.
The house immediately became a babel]
of confusion, members yelling, stamp
ing and waving hats, neckties and hand-'
kerchiefs. A tremulous cheer came"
from the.galleries and Speaker Peel
vainly-howled for order. The Parnell
ites pointed at Gladstone and yelled
"That is the price of coercion.'
"Down with Buckshot Forster." "Re
member Miles Joyce." Mr. Gladstone
arose to move an adjournment, buttf
stood in his place full a minute before
he could be heard. Tremendous ex
citement w,asjeaused by the announce-'
ment of the result of the division, aul
Gladstone immediately adjourned the
house. It is confidently rumored that
Gladstone will visit the queen to-mor
row and tender his resignation.
5
m~*
As the result of the above vote Glad
stone announced on the 9th that the gj
cabinet had tendered their resignations ji
to the Queen. The crisis was so unex
pected and, it is claimed, so damaging,
th*atr it is thought the Queen Amay re
fuse to accept the resignations until
after a new election. It is reported
that the victorious party will present
the Marquis of Salisbury as their leader
and that he will succeed Gladstone as
prime minister with Sfr Michael Hicks
Beach, chancellor of the "exchequer and
leader in the house of commons Sir
Stafford Northcote go to the house xA
lords, lord president of the
Lord Randolph Churchill,
be. of state for India Coi.
Stanlej, secretary of state
