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WESTERN APPEAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
CURRENT COMMENT.--
SENATOR VEST is said to be a great
reaaer of the Bible and knows whole
chapters by heart.
MI/* ,.%h'
JOHN GILBERT, the actor, is seventy*,
seven years of age and has been' oif th6
stage tiftv-niue years. W E
MKS. NELLIE GRAXT S ART-OBIS', say*/
a London journal, will spend the latter
part of the winter with her mother in
New York.
L. Q. ROUNDS, a Michigan school
teacher, has been arrested for unpro
fessional conduct. He was in the habit
of going the rounds of the school twice
everyday and kissing all the young
lady pupils ''just for fun."1
,.j
BISHOP PERKY of Iowa ha.s been in
vited by the Archbishop of Canterbury
to preach. June 22 the annual sermon
before the Venerable Society for Pro
pagating the Gospel in Foreign Paris,
This event will occur in St. Paul's
Cathedral, London. u:/ v^
FIVE thousand persons attended the
ball recently given by President Grevy
the Elysee. There were 75,000 ap
plications for tickets. The Malagasy
Envoys were the great curiosity of the
evening. There was no scramble in the
supper rooms this time, such as oc
curred last vear.
CAPT. LEMON says that the Logan
Fund now amounts to upward of $65,-
000. "We have received cash for our
large subscriptions with one exception,"
he says, "and that is a Montreal man
who put down his name for $1,000,
We expect to hear from him this week
at the furthest."
THE Prince of Wales has just granted
a warrant for anew Masonic lodge to be
called the "Anglo-American.M
The
lodge is formed with a view of afford
ng facilities for American residents in
England meeting their brethern of the
English Grand Lodge under the con
stitutions of the latter body.
MR. WILL HEARST, son of the Cali
fornia millionaire Senator, is to begin
work upon the San Francisco Examiner
March 1. He will take the place of
police-court reporter, and after an
apprenticeship of three years the paper
is to be given to him, with all the money
he may need to make it a successful
journal.
1
GEN. SHERIDAN'S id ea of seacoast
defenses is not to have a chain of so
called impregnable forts, but it is to
purchase the best guns in the market
and build a navy that is a navy. "You
can run half a dozen of largest vessels
of the British navy," he observes, "up
the Rhine, past those great forts that it
has taken 100 years of time and $100,
000,000 to erect" ..=._-,
THERE are thr ee counties in Iowa
where women have been elected aud are
today discharging the duties of County
Recorder. These counties are Madison,
Warren, and Cerro Gordo. There are
also ten counties which have elected
women as County School Superintend
ests. I seems that according to the
Sta te laws women can be elected to any
office except that of legislator.
,(i
THE production of gold during 1886
exceeded that of iirxy previous year
since 1880, and almost equaled the pro-
duction of that jear. This amounted
to $35,000,000in 1886 against $31,800,-
000. The production of silver, as near-
ly as can be ascertained, was $49,895,-
.930. The amount of gold bullion im
port ed into the United States was
$17,947,518 and the exports $27,862,-
637.
Dr BENJAMIN W RICHARDSOII, the
well-known London physician, calls at
tention to the peculiar periodicity of delir
ium tromens in Great Britain. The pres
ence oi the disease, as indicated by the
mortality arising from it, begins to be
prominent in the warm weeks of May,
and attains its maximum in Julythenc
maintaining its place with littlo change
through August, and declining through
September. I reaches its average in
October. There is a slight rise in the
first week of January, the result of hol
iday indulgenc e. Wet, and. clou dy
of the disease. -1
I
ANDREW WHITEi his Forum
article, gives this incident of Von
Ranke, the historian, whose lectures he
istened to: "He had a habit," he says,
"of becoming so absorbed in his subject
as to slip down into his chair, holding
his finger up toward the ceiling, and
then, with his eyes fastened on the tip
of it, go mumbling through a kind of
-hapsody, which most of my German
fellowstudents confessed they could
not understand It was a' comical
sighthalf a dozen students crowding
around his desk listening to the profess
or as priests might listen to the siby
en her tripod, the other students being
scattered through the room in variaus
.sf^ges of discouragement.'*^^' &}&
"I move," said a delegate in a Virginia
convention, "that our chairman take a dose
of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, he is so hoarse
that I-- cannot understand him." That
gentleman ha* a* 4oety$tid this wondw-
HISTO RY O THE WEEK.
IWlmuuH
The cast bound gtlantiq,
flc express ran intom brid
Cal., Sunday JbveningJ
gage, mail ajd^presfjcars
weretotallyconumea7 Ei
an was burned to death: also two Indians
and one tramp. Engineer F. Hogdon is
ncft-expected to live. :E." J.~_Pepp'e, 'mail
agent and J. K. Dickinson were seriously
hurt. Dr. M,J. Chase of Galesburg, HI.,
was bruised about the bead.- Very-little
express, baggage or mail was saved. ^fj^jl
TSvo men aged 5 0 and 60 years were
run oyer.bs.aJiFor.t Kayne passenger, tr.ain,
at North Robinson, near Bucyrus, Ohio, ou
|tibe 26th nit.- Tney were upon- the main
trac-k waiting for a freight to pass so-that
they could rearch depot and did not hoar
he passenger train until it was within 2o
feet of them, when they sank paralyzed on
the track, and the .train, rushing at
60 miles an hour, crushed and man
gled them/causing instant death.
The Indians bring the news to Victo
ria, B\ C.',' that an unknown 'bark'was
wrecked on the we6t coast of Vancouver's
island early this week and of the crew
drowned. A steamer was. .sent to their
relief. The lighthouse keeper' reports
wreckage and luuibereomingashore brand
ed "P. I."
Two tiivmcn upon a'55 foot' ladder
at the Windsor Folding Bed facfeoiy
Chicago, by the breaking of .the ladder
were thrown to the ground and terribly
crushed. They had gone up wilh a hose to
a fourth' story window. The damage bv
flro was ?25,C)0
7 At Londonville,' Ohio" -'March 1, at
the crossing of the Fort Wayne-'road -a
passenger train running forty miles an hour
struck a wagon driven by "the son of a
..wealthy farmer, killing the young man a.
the horses instantly.
Nihe" business buildings burhed*at
Nebraska City, Neb., on the 24fh, with a
loss of S150,0 0, insurance $63:000. Ten fire
men were caught under a failing wall and
one, at least, fa "ally injured.
Mrs. Logan has 'selected the.icenter
of the circle of the norths end of
South Park at. Chicago, for a. burial place
of herself and Gen. Logan and a site for the
monument of Gen. Logan,
The reduction in the public debt du r
ing Febuary will amount to about $2,000,000.
The comparatively .small reduction is at
tributed to the heavy pension payments
during the month.
Sir Alexander Campbell has been ap
pointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario,
vice the Hon. John B. Robinson, whose
term of office has expired.
Mr. G. Morosini,4he tfew York
millionaire, denies that his daughter Vic
toria, is at' a convent iiear Baltimore under
an assumed name.
The Michigan peninsula encountered
a snow storm and gale on the 27th of terrific
intensity, snow drifting 5 and 10 feet deep
stopping all traffic.
a slip on an icy sidewalk in New
York Carl Schurz fell and fractured his
hip and Gen. B. F. Butler dislocated" his
shoulder.
Gov. Wilson, of West'Virginia," has
tendered the United States senatorship of
the state to D. B. Lucas,of Jefferson county.
The legislature of West Virginia ad
journed without electing a United States
Senator and the Governor must appoint one.
Saturday evening by a furious ga le
two steamboats at their dock at Louisville,
K. Y., were torn loose, wrecked and sunki
v-i-
t..,-!- I N THIS .EAST.
Mr s. Roxana Druse, was hung in the
jail yard at Herkimer, N. Y.. at 11:48 a. m.,
Monday Feb. 28, for the murder of her hus
band in 1875. The execution was witnessed
by only twenty-five persons and though the
day was a bitter one and overland trave
tedious in-the extreme the town was
thronged with men, women and children,
who saw nothing and heard but little. Mrs.
Druse slept but little during the last night
and for the most part was calm and cheer
ful in her demeanor,, and during the night
partook of a hearty meal' and wrote' two
letters, with all possible deliberation, adr
dressed to the sheriff, one thanking him for
his uniform kindness, the second giving' her
body to Rev. Gv W. Powell, her spirtual ad
viser, asking that he officiate ather funeral,
if she be permitted a christian burial! Dur
ing Sunday she made a confession to Mr.
Powell, which assumes that her daughter,
undergoing a life sentence, for complicity,
had ho agency.in the deed, andassuming that
the deed was proposed ta her by her brother
in-law Gates, who she says assisted her in
the awful work. All she said however was
inconsistent with the historv or the crime,
andshe expressed no regret at what she
revealed as her part of the deed, showing
only anxiety to relieve her daughter from
the stain of the crime, and declaring that
she had no part in.killing her father or in
disposing of his, body. Mrs. Druse weighed
213 pounds and the surgeons reported that
her neck was not broken, but death ensued
from strangulation and her end was more
merciful than that of her victim1
New Hampshire, -Maine and Ver
mont had the heaviest snow fall of the
season last week. The &now drifted badly
suspending railway travel, and confining
Elew
eople to the limits of their premises. Gales
and the temperature was very cold.
Wm. Busc h, who is under death
sentence for 'murdering his brother some
months ago, escaped from jail at Ridgeway
Pa., by filing the iron bars from the cell
window. A reward of $500 is offered by the
sheriff for his arrest, dead or alive.
O the morning of Aug. 28, 1886,
George Dennis, old man, was found dead
at the house by Rudy, near BaretpUe
Fa., and warrants for the arrest of his mur,
derers, who have just been discovered, were
issued on the24th. i}ir, .*um ,aU
v:, 3\
company other immigrants to this country
in .the capacity of nurSJ seiwajfSL
ia:
SqgktorOSb
panietej
has. conferred wit!
the sub ||&t, and
sion that There exis
guldf
After the
execution the remains were placed in a
casket and taken to Oak Hill cemetery and
depo&ited in the vault, Rev. Mr. Powell pre
siding at a brief service.
Gen. Butler's injuries by his fall at
Philadelphia Saturday are pretty serious and
will confine him to his bed for something
like a month. The dislocation was accom
panied by a rupture of the ligament, caused
by throwing the shoulder bone forward.
Gen. Butler's accident will seriously inter
fere with his professional engagements, and
among other things A\ ill cause a postpone
ment of the somewhat famous boycott case,
which was down for rial at Plymouth the
coming week.
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i WASHINGTON GOSSIP, -t
The Senato has passed the bill
authorizing the Crookston & Southwestern
road to buid a bridge across the Red River
of the North: also the bill to allow the Chic
ago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha across
the Missouri river at Sioux City. A
amendment was added requiring the con
sent of the Indians to the right ot way and
the company shall not aid, advise nor as
sist in any effort looking toward cnanging
or extinguishing the present tehui-e of the
Indians on their land and shall not at*
tempt to secure any further land, conces
sions from the Indians than are granted in
the bill.
The cau6us of Republican senators
nominated Senator Ingalls to be president
of the Senate. There were 28 votes cast, of
which Ingalls got 18, Hoar 8, and 1 each for
Edmundi, and Fry.. Mr. Ingalls was there
upon declared the nominee of theJ
caucus.
The Democrat* of the Senate-without hold
hig.
a ^yinal caucus. determined to
support Senator Har'ris'for**t president if the
Senate^
r* "J o^
1
Attorney General Garland has "gjiven
an opinion that the Chinese restriction 'act1
'not apply to Chinese women who ac-T4ie'consular
.a per-
*tjfl^ that
$of Senators
ho necessity ToT^a
special session of the Senate. He "says he
will call none unless some unforseen contin
gency arises. L. __
THE OLD WORLD.
Distressing details jeantinue to
fron* the1
conif }oe
earthquake stricken'district
Italy works, has visited Bajardo and attended
-the funeral of 2.3-1( victims,^ the .church^eol
lapse, who were buried 'in & trench in the
cemetery. Ho also made arrangements for
n, temporary hospital for the injured. Re
lief committees are. being organized.,
throughout the country, but it is impossible
to supply the numerous-want*. A bill' will
be introduced in parliament for a credit of
?l,G&y 00 for relief parpeses.
Tuesday afternoon: the-.-steamer:.W.
H. Gardner, one of the largest boats plying
on Tdmbigbeo river from Mobile, was
burned threo jniles. below. Gaines
ville. Ala. The boat is a total loss together
with 1(54 bales of cotton. The loss"' of life
was including the. ..wife^ancl^thre^jphit
dren of the clerk. -J\ i.-i
jsreujtfrw|:ti i
At- London Mrs Gladstone presided
over a mooting for the purpose of forming
a Women's Liberal federation. She said
she thought the women of Great Britain
who were anxious to work for the Liberal
cause and the progress of justice, should be
organized and united., ^^fgjjg^g^g^
Kiiig Humbert has" feroltt^O^O
to a tund: for the relief. of the families of
the Italian soldiers killed and permanently
injured in the recent fight with the Abys
siniahs at Sbati^ W^&^SW^^ff&9^m0
Sixty members of tie British house
of commonf will call the attention' of the
the government to the alleged patskihg of
juries in the cases against the Nationalists
of Ireland.
It has transpired that during Wediies
day's earthquake panic at Nice a French
countess gave birth to a child in the public
gardensj where she had gone for safety.
A the Queen of Spain was riding in
her carriage in the streets Of Madrid', March
1. a missile was thrown at her by a man
who immediately disappearedfcw^v S#S?Si
20,000 people fled from Genoa and
15,000 from Nice, and those that remained
slept in the open air for veral -nights after
the earthquake panic.
Adverse rumors coming from the
continent failed to affect the level dullness
of the London stock exchange.
The Queen's jubilee was recelebra
ted all over India by feastings, fetes and
the pardon of prisoners.
The receipts of the National League
in Ireland for the past fortnight amount to
1.50).
Rome dates of the 25th, announced
that Cardinal Jacobini was dying.
ITALIAN EARTHQUAK-E.
A very destructive earthquake visitation
fell upon Nice aud many cities on the gulf
of Genoa, at6 a. m., on the 23rd. Shocks
were felt at Monte Carlo and Monaco, at S
Etienne and Marseilles, in the south oi
France. A Leghorn, Milan, Cannes, Avig
non, Geneva severe shocks were felt, houses
wrecked and people injured and buried in
the ruins. A Savona houses were, wrecked
and eleven persons killed. i
At Niece at the time Of the earth
quake the Italian Riviera was crowded
with American and English tourists and
persons of distinction. The earthquake de
vastated the whole of the Italian RivieraJ
At Noli, on the gulf of Genoa and not far
froni Savona, several houses fell and fif
teen persons were killed. Six were killed
an thirty injured at OnegHa, also on the
of Genoa. A Diano-Marino, near
ineglio, scores of people were killed and
hundreds injured. Fully one-third of the
town was destroyed. A second and severe
shock has Occurred in Genoa, Ravia, Lucca,
Cuneo, Alhizola, Porto. Maurizio, .Oneglia
and Noli. A Savona eight persons were
killed and fifteen others injured. Immense
damage was done to Dropertv.
At Crevo, near Dianb-Marino, 3" 0
persons were killed by being buried hi the
ruins of falling buildings. Railway
traffic is. suspended beyond Savona. The
prisoners in the government jail at Final-
bergOi alarmed by the earthquake, attempt
e'd to escape but were bvercoire by. the
guards. A official dispatch from Cannes
says that no injury was' done to life or
property there, but that a great panic pre
vails. A Genoa ^he: .shock was very vio
lent. The ducal" palace and''many houses
were seriously damaged. There was an
enormous crowd at Carlo Felice theater to
witness a gala performance. The greatest
alarm prevailed when the shock' came: A
Turin the churches suffered severely. In
.the"neighborhood of Doordigera. many
lionses fell killing the inmates.
The Prime o Wales been at
Nid3 for the carnival festivities but the day
before had gone to Cannes. The Queen,
upon new8 of the disaster at once implored
his speedy return to England, in which re
quest high officials joined. The people gen
erally in the stricken district were panic
seized, and at Nice an inmate of the con
vent died from fright. Two sharp shocks
were felt at Corsica audit is reported sev
eral were killed Visitors, fled by every
possible conveyance and troops were called
upon to keep order at the railway offices.
The total loss of life was estimated at 200
and the damage to property almost beyond
'^oiTiTMit.ntirin. .1,
computation
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I CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE, Feb. 24The Sena te asked
a conference on the fisheries retaliation bill
and Messrs. Edmunds, Frye and Morgan
were appointed .on the conference. The
pleuro-pneumonia bill was practically fin
ished. The bill appropriates 1,000,OOJ for
two years, and the President may appoint
commissioners without the necessity ot con
firmation by the Senate.
HOUSE, Feb. 24The motion to pass
the dependent pension bill over the veto
was put before the House, and a long dis
cussion ensued, Messrs. Conger, Iowa, War
ner, Mo., Bayne, Bragg, Wis., Henderson
and Hepburn, Iowa, Warner, Ohio, Morri
son and Springer
taking part. The veto
was sustained, Yeas 175, JNa\s 125 not two
thirds in the affirmative. The bill origin
ally passed 180 to 76.
SENATE, Feb. 25Mr. Ingall s, by a
party vote was elected President pro-tem of
the Senate. The vote stood, Ingalls, Rep.,
39 Harris, Dem.. 26.' The Senate worked
away at the pleuro-pneumonia bill, with
more zeal than wisdom, and then dropped
it in a crude unlnished stage. A evening
session was held and the Pacific railroad
investigation matter vas exhaustively dis
cussed, and finally a substitute was put in
form and passed and a conference- asked,
Messrs Hoar, Evans, and Pugh be ap
pointed for that purpose. g^^
HOUSE, Feb. 25The confer'"" a*re
port on the retaliation bills was agreed to
and Messrs. Bellmont, Rice and Clemeutg
appointed conferrees., The conference re
port on the invalid pension bills was agreed
tp. The Senate bill toestablish agricultural
experimental stations was passed, yeas 152,
nays 12. The nayai appropriation bill was
considered by the committee of .the whole
Mr. Boutelle's motion to strike out the item
of l,00..00 for two timber' dry docks, was
lost. An amendment was "adopted ap
propriating :j&2y0,001 tor repair to the Hart-,
ford, Kearsarge-HTrentonjusts Swarta, Thetis,
Nepsirf, and Enterprise. Bill
Hfc^sh-^Richmond
d*
Page, elected from old Capital"
the'2nd Rhode Island district was sworn I
and took his seat, and will be' a cdmjre'ss
man for seven days.' -.t,
SENATE Feb. 26.The -jaostdffiee
conference committee reported further dis
agreement ori"the*SouthJ
America subsid
and a further conference was ordered,
and diplomatic appropriation
bill was conjthered asftd' wath/some alight
tinkering, cjMled amendments, it' was pass
ed. The AgrieultnraL appropriation bill
passed and the Senate agreed to th& confer
ence' report onth Indian appropriation
bill. The to reimburae the, Freedman's
bank depositors passed, 26 to 6.' I
HOUSE, Feb. 26 I^Ulienaja'l appro
priation bill was%iished by the committee
Of the whole and reported'to the House, and
passed 15l,tp 71.
SENATE^eb 28The vote stood
30 to 22 on the motion by Mr Dawes to re-,
cpnoide^the^tje byh which \the -Edmunds
OraJfaa.Ua, minister, oi pfl0i4^!i&*i^3SS2Sa .SSI
chief being the application 'of the bill to
swme, it was,again passed 32 to 19. .The
Senato passed without amendment or debate
the House bill for a board of arbitration in
case of differences between railroads and
their employes. The House bill also passed
to prevent' the employment of convict or
alien labor uppn public buildings, and .the
employment of convict labor in preparation
for public works. Both bills now go to the
President. The --nomination or James
Monroe Trotter (colored) for Reeorder
of Deeds for the District of Columbia was
received. Trotter was a lieutenant in the
Both Massachusetts colored regiment, was
for 18 years a clerk in the Boston post-office,
he has also been a school teacher and
author of a book, "Music and Musical Peo
ple of the Colored Race." He resides at
Boston, Mass. "r ^*"T
HOUSE, Fe^^Thfffisnb^sMia^
tory bill has failed in conference ahdthedif
ferenee between the houses is too radical to
indicate a possibility of agreement. The
Senate, through Edmunds, declmes to ac
cept the proposition of the House as to rail
roads. The House through Belmont, con
sidered the proposition ofithe Senate to limit
the: retaliation to fish as a very imperfect
measure. Ifanj further conference is had
the Senate ^St call it. The- 'House1
-:SENATE,:Maroh l^The naval ap
propriation bill was referred to the eom
mittee on appropriations. Upon motion of
Mr Morgan the. committee on Indian
affairs were charged with an investigation
of the White, Earth: Indians in Minnesota
and the conduct of Indian agents generally.
The House bill to provide for a term of
court at Duluth was passed. The
Senate devoted 25 minutes
to pension bills and in that time passed 57,
clearing the calendar. The conference re
port on the river and harbor bill was taken
up. As the bill passed the House it appro
priated $7,468,1:00, as it passed the Senate it
appropriated 0,620.0u0, and by the con
ference report it appropriates $9,919,000.
The bill was not finished. S^r^^f'-U^i^
HOUSE, March 1A
HOUSE, March" 2 The motion pre
vailed to pass the retaliatory fisheries bill
as it came from the Senate. The Agricul
tural appropriation bhl passed. The con
ference reports on the sundry civil appro
priation bill and on the Pacific R. R. in
quiry bill were agreed to. The post office
appropriation was ordered to a further con
ference. A number of jomt resolutions for
'printing public documents passe*.
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tWMSt: NORTHWfSSTJKKN NEWS.
A dispat ch from Windom, Minn.,
of Feb. 27, is as follows: This winter has
been one of unparalleled severity, exceeding
any since 1871. Railways were blocked six
times, being opened during a period of
from one to three da\s Friday began
another blockade, the wind shifting sud
denly the snow began drifting. 'By Satur
day night everything had drifted full, the
railroads being under five to twenty feet of
snow. The town is in danger of a fuel
famine, there being only two cars of wood
and coal. Omaha's dead ensine is here.
The train was. snowed in at "Worthington
and a force of men was sent out this morn
ing shoveling the road clear, but is making
slow progress. No train is expected this
week.
It is reported from Mandau, Dak.,
that considerable complaint is made by the
farmers in that region at the freedom that
is given to the Indians to roam over the
country at v/iil. As soon as spring opens
they will be all over the country, stopping
at farm houses, and, although they may bo
really almost harmless, yet they are not
above intimidating women who may be left
alone to take care of the house. I is prob
able that an organized effort will be made
to prevent them from roaming at will
except when escorted by soldiers.
Fe b. 25 at Sioux Falls, Dak., fire
broke eu in the work shop in the prison
yard adjoining the penitentiary. I con
sequence of a strong wind it proved very
obstinate, but was finally extinguished af
ter a loss of about $2,000. The crv that the
penitentiary was on fire created "great ex
citement for a short time. The prisoners
were also very greatly excited but were
kept under control. Ha the prison not
been built of stone everything would have
gone.
The statement of th 6 Chicago,*'St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad for
the year 1886 shows: Gross earnings,
SO, 153,267 increase over tho previous year.
338-157 net earnings, 2,S04,n9i increase
$211,033. The report of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St.- Paul road rfor the same
period shows: Gross earnings, $21,718,403
increase, $305,130 net earnings, $10,158,139:
increase, 257,337- 7
A. S. Crawford, transfer clerk for
the past six years in the United States mail
service, -was arrested at Council Bluffs,,
Iowa, Feb. 25, for taking a registered
letter. was admitted in $2,500 bail to
await the action of the grand jury. I seems
that Crawford has.been suspected for some
time,, but the authorities did not succeed in
detecting'him.'
A the Brairierd. Minn., municipal
election, March 1," Col. C. B. Sleeper was
elected mayor by 500 majority, M.
Lagerquist was elected treasurer W. A.
Fleming municipal judge S. W. Searles-
H. J. Spencer, S. P. Fleming, D. Doran, al
dermen Geo,. Keougb, W W. Hartley, E
GfUen, and A. Mello^, school commissioners.
The musical event that overshadows
all others in the history of St. Paul, Minn.,
was the Patti concert Feb. 28, when the re
ceipts of'the house were $11^60. Eighteen
years ago Patti pa'fa" her visit to St. Paul
with Ole BuU,ngfng'lhen in the hall of the
MayortBice/^jfr Mandan, Dak., who
has kept ah accurate account of the snow
fall^statef'that^aMhuch has fallen as will
&$ ST**!?*****JWRter. Jn the winter of
18b. the ieurcjB. were,1.21 inches the pre-
"viousyearitw*urifi^jpfanineh^' 'r'''
tl Tieput^UniW Stags' Mar^'to'-
&, 7 .-or
ill
kins, of Dubuque, Iowa, arrived at Albert
Lea, ISeJfc-25, and took, in ^cjistody.one^W^P.
Smith.? Smit^r is .accused oJTconstitulltig fK
himself* an, |hterna1t ,revemiefcoilecti&r And
raismetfunds in thalf-wav.
raisingtfunjd in thatf way
own. nH
tke meetingjf tbKS& Paul! City.'ffffT"Sf
4 MafcilA. ^mfca RM, Con- ^SS^
Coun
gressman-elect resigned as Mayor, and the
council unanimously, elected Hon. A
Smith to that position for the unexpired
termt*t. yfr%
From Aberdeen, Pierre, Crookston,
Grand Eotks and other points it was re
ported-the't a blizzard' storin raged on'Feb*
ruary 25, Manv trains were-suspended andL
the blockade was quite general".
Montana legislat'um has.passed! br]fc
prohibiting variety shows and also a Sun
day law, the bills goi.g into effect at once.
The class afflicted by thi.s. legislationrare agi
111 an indignant-,aW-
nn
sat
until 1:10 TuesSay morning, in considera
tion of the legislative appropriation bill,
and had then passed upon about half the
bill.: The prospect,of completing the apr
priatipn bills was considerably brightened
by: the days work.
evrice"was
:c^fer
ordered on the diplomatic and consular bill.
The bill appropriating $2,300,000 for the re
mainder of the current fiscal year and $&,-
600,000 for the next fiscal year for the pay
ment of Mexican pensions was passed. The
conference report on the river and harbor
bill was agreed to, yeas 177, nays 96, and
the bill sent to the Senate. The deficiency
appropriation bill was passed. The legisla
ture appropriation bill was passed under the
supervision of the rule6,yeas 138, navs 44. Mr.
Belmont moved that the House recede from
its amendment to .the Senate retaliatory to
fisheries bill, and the question was pending
when a recess for an evening session was
taken, at which a number of bridge bills
were passed, among them for bridges aero
the Missouri river at Omaha and Kansas
City and across the Mississippi river at
Keokuk, Iowa.
SENATE, March 2The committee
making the Texas investigation
was given
S authority, to ^sit
i
during the recess. The naval ap
propriation bill after some amendment in
regard to steel cruisers was passed without
division. The Pacific railroad inquiry
passed, also the Agricultural appropriation
bill. The bill passed fixing the salary of
Judges of the district courts at $5,000. In
secret session Public Printer Benedict was
confirmed. The committee on the District
of Columbia voted adversely upon the nom
ination of Mr. Trotter for Recorder of Deeds
of the District?''- TP-
known and onoe of the oldest Catholi
priests in the Dnited States, died at Keokuk
Iowa, Feb. 25.
Th Trade Dollar.
The Senate bill for the redemption
and recoinage of the" trade dollar,
which was passed in the house of Rep
resentatives by a vote of 174 to 36 pro
vides that for a period of six months
after its passage trade dollars, if not
defaced, mutilated or stamped shall be re
ceived at their face value for. all dues
to the United States. The coin shall
then be retired from circulation. Du
ring the same period such nnmutilated
coins will also be received at the Treas
ury of the United States in exchange
for a like amount of standard silver
dollars or subsidiary coinage. All the
trade dollars so redeemable must be.re
eoined into standai-d silver dollars or
subsidiary coinage, but such recoinage
shall not be considered as part of the
silver'billion required to be purchased
monthly and coined into standard dol
lars. The bill repeals all laws author
izing the issuance of trade dollars. This
dollar at first was worth more than 100
cents, at the then ruling rate for silver,
and it was for some time the only
silver dollar in circulation. Its coinage
was begun in 1874, and it was demon
etized in,1876, The total qoinage has
been $36,000,000, of which $31,000,000
was at the San Francisco and Carson
mints on the Pacific coast, and the other
$5,000,000, at the Philadelphia mint.
Over $26,000,000 were exported of
which apart came back, and the di
rector of the mint estimates that there
are $7,000,000 in this country.
Cure for Rheumatism. _'
That electric well or pit in Taliaferro
County, Georgia, continues to cure se
vere cases of chronic rheumatism. The
The well is located on the side of a smal
mountain four miles, from the Sharon
Station, on the Georgia Railroad. It
was dug last summer in search for gold.
It is six or eight feet square and about
fourteen feet deep, the bottom being
covered over with loose boards and a
rude carpet. Four -chairs' are at the
bottom for persons to sit in. The own
er has built a small house over the well.
There is nothing like a shock, only a
tingling sensation like that caused by a
very weak current from a galvanic
battery. The sensation is felt wheth
er one touches the walls or not.
Where the Line Was Drawn.
"How did you come here?" asked
the new chaplain. "For killiir me
wife," replied the convict. "And
what,1'
asked the chaplain, "led you to
commit that awful crime?1'
Veal *,r
1
g-rHard..-.V.-v.'.::rr.?:'.t
WHEAT
physicians.
v-sT %~~A tor orr _-"*- Sr
Father Maurice' Howard, widely
"Liquor,"
said, the lifer:V"You drank to excess,
then?" "I was a drunkard."
"You
played cards?" "I gambled." It is
probable that you were dishonest?" "I
was a thief." "Let me see, coptiimed
the parson, were you not a corres
pondent in an English divorce suit?"
"Warden," cried the convict with the
stern dignity of insulted innocence, "I
claim the protection of the penitentiary.
This new gospeler is insultin' of me."
Burdette.
Bogus Treasures.
The Paris Intransigeant states that
the famous treasure of Hue, captured
by Gen. de Courcey in the Imperial
Palace and sent to France, and which
was supposed to be worth 15,000,0001,
turns out on examination to be of no
value at all. The supposed bars of
silver are sinaply lead.
Delicate diseases of either sex, however
induced, speedily and radically cured. Ad
dress, in confidence, Worlds Dispessary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N Y.
.THE MARKETS.".,',
St. Paul, March 3
GRALN
Wheat, No Hard $ 76 76
Wheat, No. 1 Northern...,, 74 (o 75
Wheat, No. 2 Northern...."' 73 73
Corn, No.2.- ,-i a5 36
Oats, No. 2 mixed
Rye No. 2
27 28
Oats, No. 2 white 28
Barley No. 2
29k- 48
Jn 43 ,ii Jl( 1
FlaxSeed 05
Baled Hav, upland 8 00 S 50
Baled Hay, timothy 9 75 (310 50
PROVISIONS-
Flour, patent...*. $4 25 '(S 4 40
Flour, straights 4 15 4 30
Flour, bakrs 40 0 3 60
Butter, creamery 25 27
Butter,dairy ^20 22
Cheese... *o 48J$@ 14
Eggs, fresh 19 30
Potatoes -M50 S5
Dressed Beef, steers *U 3W( 5
DressedHogs -5
75(g
6 00
5 6
LIVE STOCK
Steers ,.$3 00 3 80
Hogs 50 0 (530
Sheep ..w 2 50 4 00
I"5
Minneapolis, March 3 *y^^
WHEAT ii?te"-3rp-- siiV
.viVj-v.... 8 50 4 70
-J- Uulutli, March 3..
-.o.-?** as
rtur
M- o-^^i Of^er that law than the origmal
1 houg this bill was with
hig^ licenstO]Pass law
two others ou the same "subject, tho^suecial'
order for to-day,' the House after a wraf
some length refused to take them up..
Senate "passed the railroad bill whiul
debated nearly all day yesterday, tiiis
morning, with only two negative votes.
Ihe bill allows free passes. There was
a veiy spirited contest the Senate to-day
over the bill transferring the Minneapolis
& St. Cloud land grant to the Daluth, St.
Cloud, Mankato & Southern railroad. The
argument 11 ade was that it. was unconsti
tutional to make the transfer, but the Sen
ate did not see it iri that light and recom
mended tfce bill to pass by a large majority.
Phe House worked very industriously, hold
ing three sessions and, sitting, until nearly
midnight. Among the bills introduced last
night,: was the-general appropriation bill,
which appropriates over $700,000. This pro
vides for the expense of the" State govern
ment for two years in view of- there being
ao Legislative session next year. "The Cap-'
.to removal question continues to furnish
m amusement. Minneapolis started in
with an ofter of ten acres and two mill
ion dollars Duluth followed with an offer
of forty acres and two million and a half
dollars for a building. St. Paul came for
ward with a bill authorizing the issue of
thirty year bonds for three
million dollars to build the capitol
and now comes Sleepy Ey with an ffer
of five hundred acres and five millioa dol
lars, the five million to include* to cover a
one million dollar hotel. There are prob
ably several towns yet to be heard from
and as long as it costs but little to get a
piece of paper on which to make a proposi
tion, it is likely that the offers will run up
several million higher. In the maan time
the wise citizens ot St. Paul
and Minneapolis have appointed
committees, who have held a joint meeting.
and come to the conclusion that "there is no
occasion for removing the capitol after all,
but recommended that the present building
be repaired and the matter ended there for
the present. As that is exactly what the
Legislature had decided to do without any
of this outside advice, it would seem that a
great deal of unnecessary chin music has
been thrust upon the public ear on this sub
ject the out-come of the whole matter being
that twenty or twenty-five thousand
dollars will be used in putting the present
building in a safe condition.
H
76 76^
No. 1 Northern 75 751/difficult
No. 2 Northern. :'73 73x1
FLOUR tf
Patent in sacks $4 30 4 50
Patent in barrels...' 4 30 4
Patent at-New England
points 25 5 35
Patent at N. Y. and Penn.,
points i.-i.i*His:...'..:-:. 5 15 5 25
Bakers....,. 3 40 3 60
Chicago, aiayxh 3.,, ^_
Wheat, cash.... $ ?2^ 5
Corn, cash..: 33%@ 35
Oats, cash ....J.J..... .23 23S
FlaxSeed 1 00 1 05il
MESS PORK:....." ......16 05 lioicT
LIVE STOCK-
Cattle..... $4^01 4 SO
gogs ,....5 50 5 75
*Jheep..,..H...'.
iw..$v.w
N^lHard, May...,.,...,..$ 79^" ~WA
Milwaukee, March 3,,,
WHEAT--
St. Paul,
n^""i^
stioj Bke.BahqtRfs
twas up^the'Stjh-
of a bffl allo^^ig
posed this on the ground that it would be
abused and turn the drug stores into sa
loons, but the bill was recommended, to Senate,
pass. In the House three temperance bills
had 5 been made a special order. One of
them provides fines and penalties for vio
lation of the new high license -law.. That
jaw as it stands is an entire dead letter for
lack of any penalty. I was the design
in passing it to have no entangling
matter connected with it but make it simply
ft high license law and then pass another law
providing for its
enforcementt*Thigoing lawti
yet to be gotten through, and as there are a
SS3
sell liquor on prescriptions of
The temperance people op-
though i. wa.*v.oos,
ltlook
gSS\ $* btii*. gooda many misgivings relative1
ep
order for to-day, the Hous after' a wrangle of SaTmo^ *U- up The SnRS.
Senat passed the railroad bill which was ^p'Si-edt"
ST. PAUL, MIXX., Feb. 25, 1887.
At the sessi of the House this evening,
Mr.. Donnelly from the committee appoint
ed to investigate the charges of bribery sub
mitted his report together with the evi
dence. The report developed, what has al
ready been stated in these letters, that the
accusation grew out of a talk between two
Hennepin county members, Mr. Cloutier
being the party who had told Mr. McArdle
that '$250, could be secured by voting
against one bill and $250, more by voting
for another. The evidence shows that
Cloutier claims that his talk Was merely in
jest and both parties deny that there was
any absolute ihohev offered or ac
cepted. Captain Snyder of the Henne
pin county delegation defended Cloutier
quite warmly, claiming that his reputation
was good and the whole report was laid on
the table, with only a portion of the testi
mony being read. This probably ends the
matter. The general appropriation bill
passed the House as reported from the com
mittee without change and will undoubtedly
go through the Senate in the same manner/
It has been very elaborately considered in
the finance committee of both houses and
consequently but little opportunity is left
for making any change. The bill for
graded license^ in the Senate was moved
along to the order for third reading to-day
and will probably come to a square
vote tomorrow. The Senate remained
session until nearly 7 p. and
cleared its desk of work but the House held
a lengthy evening session and is badly be
hind at that. The House passed the bill
requiring persons desiring to commence
libel suits against newspapers to brin
them within six months after the offensive
publication. A further effort was made in
the Senate to pass the resolutions already
adopted by the Honse, expunging the im
peachment record against Judge Qox but
on the gronnd that it might allow him to
sraw a salary for the unexpired portion of
his term the matter was sen to the,judic
iary committee. Its final passage is pos
sible but the dilatory ork inakes it rather
doubtful. The train and warehouse
committee of the Senate introduced
quite an elaborate bill for the:
grading and
handling of grain and compelling railroads
to furnish ears for its transportion. This is
a bill that was defeated two years ago and
the late hour in which it was presented in
this session indicates that it is probable it
will be defected again. But six days more
ot the session remain and onlv five of them
can be used in passing bills and the conse
quence is that the balk of bills that become
laws will be passed very hastily and a very
large number will be lost entirely for lack
of time when otherwise they miarht be
passed.
As the legislative session draws to a close
each day brings some interesting, feature.
To-day it was the report of Mr{ Donnelly's
committee appointed to investigate the
charges of briber}^. The report was, made
yesterday as already noted and to-day the
friends of Mr. Cloutier insisted onits 'being,
taken up for the purpose ot sitting down on
it and they succeeded. The report reflected
on Mr. Cloutier of Minneapolis severely and
its adoption was strongly urged by Mr.
Donnelly and strongly opposed by Mr. Rog
ers of St. Paul. Some Others" participated
in a minor way but the gentlemen uamed^
were the leaders. The House refused to
adopt the report by 3 yeas to 74 navs. Mr.
Newell of St. Paul, Lucas, of Minneapolis
and Mr. Donnelly maV,e the three. A reso
lution exonerating Mr. Cloutier was then
passed by 75 to 8. This matter occupied
nearly three hours of the session and having
furnished all the sensation necessary for
one day the Honse buckled down to "purely
local" routine work and held an evening
session lasting until 11 o'clock. The Senate
passed to-day by 27 toll the bill for the en
forcement of the high license law. The
Hixon bill, compelling railroads, to furnish
care for freight and also regulating rates
was passed by the Senate after a good deal
Of skirmishing by 2f to, 8. The remainder of
the Senate work,was entirely routine.
*&v*
.ST. PAUL, Feb. 2(5,1887.'^'
S T. PAUL. Minn., Feb. 28,18S7.
As the legislative session draws to a olcse
the rush of business is so great that it is
to report it except a general
way. The majority" of the jpiils are, of
course, of a local character fpr ^Bome, specif
fie town or county, in the Sena te to-day
Senator Keller of Stearns scored a victory
in the passage of his'brli allowing a license
tq sell beer to be granted by county om
missioners for not leas than $2 to., When
the vote was first taken it lacked four of
enough to pass it but while some parliamen
tary questions were, being. considered
Keller flew about In' a lively manner and
hunted up five affirma tive votes sb that the*
record finally stood yeas 25 and, nays 14.
It is doubtful about its
passage through the House but a strong
effort WJtfibp made to secure it. The next
most notable thing in the Senate was'the
passage of Donnelly's freedom market
bill. As it had already.paetedthe Eouse it ^m^S}C
now only needs the Governor's approval to
become a law. There has been a good deal
of contest oyer the bill granting the ultith
&^ Winnipeg road the right, tftJ change ita
line to the south of Leech Lake. The road
has but one yeal* more to- bufhi' ih order to
,socure its land grant but asked to .change
the line to a territory already selected by the
S
*t/*i I
.{Si
SfelV."
Brainerdrattling 6
ar dthati
to the new
wa
&
Northwestern.n***&rSenatoeh^PLspeec
a i opuo*i
tion to the bill and it wasd indefinitely post
poned with only threern votes in its favor
A motion to reconsider only developed eigne
votes in1 its favor and consequently it is
be
,SeQ 1
Buckmansspeeehwas one of the best and
strongest delivered this session au at
tracted a great deal of attention. A sim
ilar bill is pending i the House and may
possibly pass body but after tue vote
throughd th
&ef
abl
a &-
8
Senate. The bill appropriating $50,0 0 to
the State Agricultural society had a na
row escape from defeat-in theh Senate to
pay and has- qmte.a Pever1e gauntlet tOTira
in the House. the agricul
tural -society1-1 found themselves^shortr
ings
build
ot
tei
^Whe1n
ctio
Q,
eri
1I
the St..Paul bnaiMinneapQlis came for
wara and-advaaeefi the amonn't'necessary
and this appropriation is to reimburse citi
zeus ot those cities. Notwithstanding St.
i ou! gave the ground to the State there are
a. good many opposition to reimburse ouer
citizens for,their
iW
expenditure. The Houser*ht
wso overwhelmed that its membergsh could
""^P^tt ibf" Sims K.S heair tb& celebrated n*
sneciai 1
slB f,
tUou
tf Senates being^in better
es
I
in
presentda the Ex
th* celebrate
vocalist-
n: wiiei
S T. PAUL, Minn., March 1.1S87.
Chaos. This describes the condition of
affairs in the Honse. That body is so ab
solutely overwhelmed with business that
membeVlrare fairly dazed and hardly know
where to begin.* There were 2v hills on
general orders this morning and when the
b-ouse closed its session at 11 o'clock to
night there were still 200 bills on general
orders. A effort was made in the after
noon to relievo the general order list by. ap
pointing a committee to select such biiis as
there was no objection to 4ind place, them on
tue calendar lor a third reading and iinai
passage,-thus avoiding debate and the de
lay which occurs in the committee- of the
whole. The committee reported
and selected -something. over
two nundred bills to which there was no
objection. This looked as though there was
going to be. a tremendous sweep and
advancement oofobusinesspbut the result was
a disappointment. Hendrickson of St
Paul, whoe.was interested in a bill that bad
?e
got and moved that
te
his bill be included in the list to be added to
the third reading but an Otter Tail county
member objected. The chair ruled that
where there was a single objection it threw
the bill out. There were four or five bills
which the Otter Tail man was interested
that there had been no objection to and
they were included in the report of
the committee, but Hendrickson, as a
matter of revenge, picked them out
and. they were all rejected from the report
ot the committee. Then another member
arose and wanted to- get some bill included
the advancement and some one else
wanted a bill or two that had been reported
by the committee thrown out and the
result of the whole muddle was thut after
an hours effort to get the advancement"
made the whole subject was laid on the
table and the 293 bills all remained on
general orders. I twas nearly 10 o'clock to
night before that order of business was
reached. The first bills related to freedom
traffic on railroads and interest and
when three of them had been nassed
upon the House was in a frame of mind
to adjourn. About fortv bills were
passed in the House during the afternoon*
and evening. Among them was the Senate
bill offered by Mr. Ives forbidding the sale
Oi. liquor to minors. This had a close call
only having one vote to spare. In the even
ing while the House was engaged in third
reading and passage of bills, the Lee bill
prescribing penalties for violation of the
high license law was reached. There were
sixteen absentees and among them just
enough high license men, or those who had
voted for high license before, to leave the
temperance element in the minoiitv Th
anti-high license, forces were very anxious
to vote nnd the high licens men -fust as
anxious to prevent it. Mr. Pottev of Hous
ton took charge of the matter and began to'
nlhbuster in order to secure time. Motions for
a call of the Ho ise and to call the roll mo
tions to adjourn and motions for various
things with tho c:.ll the roll order each
time followed in quick succesion. Mr Pot
tor asked to have the bill laid aside until
morning as a matter of courtesy and an
nounced his intention, if it was not. to con
tinue his tactics and spend the entire
evening ca'iiag the roll. After an hour
or more had passed in this manner a com
promise was reached by dropping the third
reaaing and passage of bills entirely and
going mt the committee of the whole and'
as a result the evening session accomplished
very little. Scarcely any bills were passed^
and hy that, timo the com
mittee of -the-- whole"
i
wi
and the'
members wero tired and a good many of
them mad and -consequently adjourned as I
have already explained, after three bills had
been considered. One reason for so little
being accomplished in committee of the
whole this evening was because four bills
regmating interest stood at the bead of the
list and the House during tho afternoon
having already passed Mr. Donnelly's inter
est bill, ha opposed the consideration of
these until it was. determined whether the
Senate would accept his bill or hot. Each one'
ot the iour members who had introduced
bills on tho subject were anxious to have
theirs considered and the result was-alaree
amount of talk: with nothing accomplished.
Ihe Senate to-day passed the House biiffor-'
biennial sessions of ninety days and also the
bill appropriating20,000 for repairing the
State capitol. This is the ending
capuoilG
removal boom and the real estate
S
0
SE
eru
-a6ou the streets in mouriiin-e"-ht.of
ih^eftort to locate the new soldiers home
on the Sta te experimental fami'was over
whelmingly defeated in the Senate, onlv
receiving four votes. The bill for a consti
tutional, amendment prohibiting the- sale
and manufacture of liquor could only mus
ter eighteen votes in the Senate but Was
reconsidered and may come up aeaiu. I
is hardly likely to ^ass bitf if it should, will'"'
go to the people for. their
consideration. the House is
*-*to reapportionment bill
but the Senators who will hold two vears
more it there is no reawportioVahcnt and be
legislated out of ofiiqe if. the bill should pass
are against the measure so that it is pretty
certain that no reapportionment bill will
pass this session. Only two more days re
main dining which bills "an b? pas^i imd
tlie probability 10 that four or fh hundix-d
jMU*nowpending will be lost fc,r iUCk of
-i'" For the Glory of God..
"While practicing law a number of
years ago," said Jrtdge Tom-gee, I
had a peculiar \yill ease. An old lady,
who was a slaveholder "dying, be
dueathed her colored man, John, and"'
her dusky maid, Jane, who sustained
to each other the relation of husband
and wifei to the trustees of the church,
fcvbe-used.as fas as. possible for the
'glory of God.' I was curious to know
What course was taken, and upon in
veshgation fouud that, after niedita
tion and prajer, the pious trustees sold
their hying legacy at auction, and with
the proceeds "sent a missionary
ChinaP'-^Vew York Tribune*
!i 'o
i utt f'
Good Lunjjs.
Fatber Taylor one Sunday afternoQiT
was officiating at an infant baptism,
and the church was fiUed with 'a large
audience as'"usual/ 'The tab wa9"
restless during the services, and when
Father Taylor took her in" his arms she *'1
cried only an infants can CT\IU
he
said:,
for crying, but thank the'Lord that'
she hasf
!siich
8,?j?P
JMiiBjmy
'ff
'But tnis'
didn't-in the--least disturb the old*
!il
minister^ for, raising the child in his ****i
jrms whp?ft .all the -people could sce^u
her,,
Don't blame the child
the child
good^ Jnngs,"~e3ttcpr
i-N- H-) Monitor/itJgfr
Paw 1" usually of an
cutting
or-burning
nth
nil
IntenseTvauwtuxa characterl and w,
either constant or~inter^n.*uw!&/ rekeve
U.torture and effect a speedy and 6er-
mueat cure ru^ thoroughly with Salvauon
CHI, the greatest pamcur^, on ai-th. Fnou
& ceata a bottle: ^1.. n"
IW
Nothing is so fearful as a bad conscience
r'C
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