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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
NOTES O THE TIMES.
HE fruit-peddlpr never Tesortif t(f
egal measures.
THEBE are said to be 80,000 blind
people in England.
PASTEUR has been made a Baron by
the Emperor of Austria.
FIFTY thousand elephants a year go
to make our piano keys.
A NEW bridge across the Tiber in
Rome is to be named in honor of Gari
baldi.
HE French war balloon is made in
four sections, so that a bullet may go
through it without dropping it.
HE London postmen have petitioned
the Postmaster-General to be called
"letter-carriers."
LOKD SALISBURY is the only member
of the British Cabinet who has grown
fatter. He has gained four pounds.
ADELINA PATTI has been engaged to
sing for Mapleson, at 917 per ni^ht,
twice a week foi six months, each
night paid in advance.
DR. JOHN H. DOUGLASS, who was
Gen. Grant's physician until his death,
has lost his practice through continued
ill-health and is in straitened circum
stances.
To Book-Worm: You enquire for the
author of the saying, It is the unex
pected that happens." His name is
Wiggins on the Grampian HillsNew
York Tribune.
GEN. W. W. AVERILL, of cavalry
fame claims the invention of the asphalt
pavement with which Washington
streets are laid and has taken legal
measures to establish his claim.
HE baby King of Spain is said to be
a real jolly little chap. He enjoys being
shown to the public and blows kisses
from his chubby little hands to every
one who pleases him.
Miss KATE F. KIMBALL, whose name
is a household word among the 100,000
members of the Chautauqua circles, in
her capacity as secretary of the univer
sity, is still a young woman in her
twenties.
FIELD MARSHAL ARCHDUKE OHNhas
been suspended from the German army
No reason is given. The suspension has
caused great surprise, the Archduke be
ing considered one ot the ablest Gen
erals in the army,
AN Eastern paper has this item:
Col. Jack Haverlyhas formulated plans
for a new theatre at St. Paul which is
to cost from $300,000 to $400,000, and
MillionaireRyan will put up the money.
But Mr Ryan says he has never been
spoken to on the subject, and would
not invest a dollar in any theatre.
CHANG YEN HOON, Chinese Miuister
at Washington, was a spectator of she
great demonstration at Philadelphia.
He is a man of medium hight and port
ly figure. He was dressed in a rich
silken robe and wore Chinese shoes.
On the front of his turban gleamed a
great diamond pin. He smoked a cig
arette calmly and gazed in a dignified
and rather disdainful way on the as
sembled crowd.
MRS. GEN. GRANT, the New York
World says, has been quietly making
arrangements to dispose of her house
on Sixty-sixth street. It is a valuable
property, but she wishes to have its
value in some form where she can divide
it among her sons and give them the
benefit of it. One of her projects in
this direction was to exchange the
property for three less valuable ones,
which her sons might occupy.
HE origin of the "thirteen" super
stition appears to be evident enough.
There were thirteen present at the Last
Supper of our Lord, and popular imag
ination thence derived the framework
of the belief which has come down, cer
tainly from the Middle Ages, and prob
ably from a much earlier period. No
doubt the popular belief in the unlucki
ness of Friday may be traced to a simi
lar source, the crucifixion having been
supposed to take place that day of the
week, and the day being regarded as
overshadowed and ill-fated forever
more.New York Tribune. "-1
THE Empress Augusta, at the recent
military review in Germany, wore a
white mantle edged with magenta, in
exact harmony with the tunics of her
magnificent troopers, and on their ap
pioach her Majesty r,ose up in her car
riage, with the supported her staff, and
thus remained until the five ponderous
squadrons had defiled before her, evok
ing loud plaudits from the spectators.
The gallant old Emperor, seeing how
his now rather infirm wife was engaged,
descended from his carriage, and step
ping up to her side kissed her hand in
recognition of the efficiency of her regi
meat and her devotion to it, |11
kllSTOKY O THE WEEK.
At Chicago, a long string of wagons
and cars were moving along Clark street
when a man started to cross the street
through a gap in the line between a truck
and an express wagon. A "car in frontpf
the latter vehicle stopped at the corner and
the expressman was obliged to pull
u/ ^~wMcr^8\Trp
suddenry,"l^r "ae
caught the unfortunate fellow on one side
of the head and atJth same.jnsiantlh a
potex a the4atttefctiaek- him-en-the^ettierr
and he was killed standing upright before
the eyes of thousand
His headWas craEea"15~T5ke~a ^he
truck driver hastily pulled back, and the
limp body of the unfortunate man tumbled
to the ground.
A daring outrage from the~-Tower
Rio Grande country, is reported via Corpus
Christl, Texas. On the 13th of September,
Juan Barrera, a rich ranchman, while a
short distance from his home, situated
between Las Tederalis and La Gozalina,
was surrounded by five desperadoes and
robbed of $200. He was then taken across
the river into Mexico and there closely
guarded. Barrera's captors compelled him
to write to his family, notifying them that
unless they immediately raised and paid to
an individual named by the letter the sumof
15,000 by Sept 18 he would be shot. Upon
receipt of the letter, Barrera's son promptly
paid the sum demanded.
A dispatch from Chatanooga, Tenn.,
says, seventy-five of the ninety counties in
the state gave 17,750 majority against the
prohibition amendment. The twenty unre-
Sgures.counties
orted will not alter much these
The Prohibitionists concede their
defeat by about 15,000 majority. The pres
ident of the State Liquor Dealers' associa
tion has official and unofficial returns srom
all but twenty counties in the state. Es
timating these twenty counties, he figures
outanet majority against the amendment
of 29,345. __.,
A special from Muskegon, Mich.,
says the residence of Frank A. Hewd, was
partially destroyed by fire about 10 o'clock
at night during the absence of Mrs. Howd,
who was at a temperance meeting. Three
children, Walter, Cora and Osborne, aged
eleven months, three and five years re
spectively, were suffocated. It is supposed
that a lamp which had been left burning,
exploded and set fire to the house. Neigh
bors discovered the blaze, but went to turn
an alarm before entering the house not
knowing that the children were there.
In a fight in Matagorda county,
Texas, between a large mob of negroes and
a posse of whites under command of Capt.
Bates, four negroes were killed, including
Burton Hawkins, one of the leaders. It is
not known how many were wounded. The
whites lost two horses. The trouble arose
over the death of Jerry Massena, a colored
constable, who started out to arrest a white
planter named. Sanborn.
in the penitentiary _.. at
At Baton Kouge, La., a motion in
arrest of judgment in the case of "William w^ ^eu u
A. Strong, ex-secretary of the state, con- TS* a^i* .?1?
victed of embezzlement of state funds, was YJ^eU
overruled by Judge Burgess and. Stron S:t6r.plhotel
._ Juag .tsurges
The officers of the Grand lodge of
Odd-Fellows arrived at Los Angelos, Cali
fornia, and were entertained by officials
and citizens. The next annual session of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge is to be held
among the Angeles.
A passenger train on the Iron
Mountain railway ran into a freight train
standing on a side track near" Walnut
Ridge, Mo. Both locomotives were
wrecked, but nobody was injured.
A man named Bunch, from Illinois,
lost his life in the burning of the steamer T.
B. Sims, near Memphis, Tennessee. The
boat and cargo were a total loss.
IN THJB JSAST.
The New York Democratic State
Convention was held at Saratoga on the
28th and put in nomination the following
ticket: Secretary of State, Frederick Cook
State Treasurer, Lawrence J. Fitzgerald
Comptroller, Edward Wemple (all re
nommations) Attorney General, Charles E.
Tabor State Engineer and Surveyor,
John Bogert. Gov. Dorsheimer reported
the platform, which pledges to the President
the strong, unwavering confidence and
Bupport of the Democracy of New York
Resolutions in the memory of Samuel J.
Tilden, Horatio Seymour, Hendricks, Mc
Clellan and Hancock were adopted. A
resolution endorsing the administration of
the treasury under Manning was also
passed amid cheers. The planks relating to
the civil service, the canal and the liquor
traffic were received with great applause.
The plank relating to the workingmen was
well received. The indorsement of Gov.
Hill and President Cleveland was greeted
with tremendous applause, continued for
several minutes, though that in regard to
the president was the most tumultuous.
The platform was unanimously adopted.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
held their State Convention at Boston, on
the 28th. For Governor, Oliver Ames, was
renominated for Lieut. Gov. J. Q. A.
Brackett for Sec. of State, H. B. Price:
for State Treasurer, A. W. Beard for Aud
itor, Chas. R. Ladd for Attorney General,
A. J. Waterman. The platform declares
for a protective tariff, for liberal appropria
tions for the reconstruction of the navy,
for internal improvements and for proper
national aid to education also pensions for
disabled soldiers and sailors to meet fur
ther the question of a treasury surplus such
a reduction on internal revenue taxation,
as the exigences of the case may require:
condemns the Democratic administration
for its methods of appointments, demands
cessation of cumpulsory silver coinage,
calls on congress to revise the sugar tariff
and to make improvement upon the cus
toms laws, especially in regard to under
valuations favors the submission to a vote
of the people of a prohibitory amendment
to the constitution. The rest of the plat
form deals with state matters.
Temple, London, preached in
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1 atBrooklyn, Y., fell or jumped An old man ofsixty, named John Kinsilla
Her husband owns a large cotton planta
tion near Aiken.
Michael Davitt, one of Mr. Parnell
chief lieutenants, has arrived in New York.
Mr. Davitt doubtless expects to find the
prosecution of Irish home rule agitation in
America a trifle more comfortable than it
might be hi his native isle under Mr. Bal
four's coercion law.
THffl! PRESIDENT'S JOURNEY.
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caught the unfortunate fellow on one side the 30th, pursuing their journey through
of the head and atJthe same.auslantlheL Maryland and Pennsylvania. A imnH
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wMmntAiu *o twr. ud llvTr the hote parlors after which the nart
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$4,250, which amount was orderee to be
restored to the state.
Something of a riot occurred at
Detroit. Mich. Twenty-six street car
conductors and drivers were discharged
tor being in a combination to rob the com
pany of fares. The gang got intoxicated
and attack conductors and drivers who
had taken their places, cut horses loose and
overturned cars. The police had to settle
the trouble.
Jacob Bupp, of Wood's Run, Alle
gheny Co. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburg, has
written to Sheriff Mattson, of Chicago, for
the contract for making the ropes with
which to hang the condemned anarchists.
Mr. Bupp has made the ropes used in every
execution in that county since 1840, and
nearly every one that had been used in the
state.
An express train, while running at
thirty-five miles an hour, ran into a buggy
crossing the track at Morgan's station,
near Columbus, Ohio, the occupants, TWO
aged ladies, being instantly killed. They
were Mrs. Susan Bell, a widow residing in
the neighborhood, and her sister-in-law,
Mis. H.W. Henderson, of Salem, Iowa.
At Millersburg, Ohio, Rev. Henry
Clemens, Methodist preacher, committed
suicide in a horrible manner. He placed
the muzzle of a shot gun in his mouth and
discharged it with his foot, blowing off the
entire top of his head. Temporary insan
ity was the cause.
program President
lhed was passed on the
of tbeobservation car, thePresident greatly
enjeyinff the view of the country thus
obtained, which was new to him. At all
ltations whether stops were made or not,
crowds of people welcomed and cheered the
train, President and Mrs. Cleveland
acknowledging the same with bows and
smiles and hand shaking where the
opportunity offered. It was indeed a day
ovations, to be continued while the journey
The President continued his^burney
reaching Indianapolis, Ind., and proceeding
from the train to the State house at 11 a. m.
Saturday. The President and Mrs. Cleve
land were in a carriage with Ex-Senator
McDonald, attended by the Governor's
Guard, various Clubs and ^societies, the
whole making a very pretty pageant,
some 25,000 people participating. At the
State house Gov. Gray eloquently intro
duced the President who responded in fe
licitious terms. After the speeches the
citizens passed through the rotunda in files
of three. At 1:30 the President and party
called upon Mrs. Hendricks, where an el
ganyt lunch was Ae hour late
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Proceedeprovided. to th residencr
of Senator McDonald, where Mrs.
McDonald had provided a lunch
and invited a party of sixty to sit
down with the distinguished guests. At
Terre Haute the President was received by
Senator Voorhees and Ex-Secretary Thomp
son and followed by a great multitude pro
ceeded to the Normal school building where
a platform had been erected and: Mr.
Thompson introduced the President who
spoke a few moments. Thepeople were on
fire with enthusiasm. At Greencastle, Ind., a
long train load of returning Grand Army
men stood upon a siding, the passengers in
which crowded its platforms and windows
and waved and shouted their salutes. At
11.45 p. m., the train reached East St. Louis,
and was met by the Mayor of St. Louis and
citizens committee, where the party took
carriages and were driven to the resi
dence of Mayor Francis to remain until
Monday.The fine of the drive was brilliantly
illuminated, including transparencies of
Cleveland, Grant and Lincoln. On Sunday
the President and Mrs. Cleveland attended
the Washington Presbyterian church, Rev.
Dr. J. H. Brookes, pastor, who preached
from the text Romans VTH, 31, "If thy God
be with thee who shall be against thee."
The afternoon and evening of the day
were spent privately, as at home. Monday
morning President and Mrs. Cleveland
were driven to the Fair grounds, and it
being children's day 3,000 of them sang as
they entered. Mrs. Cleveland was given a
reception at Mrs. Mary Scanlan's and the
President at the Merchants Exchange
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President and Mrs. Cleveland com
pleted their stay at St. Louis and left for
Chicago Tuesday evening, having witnessed
the Veiled Prophet ceremonies and held
receptions attended by an aggregate oi
over 50,000 people. From the beginning to
the end of their stay the weather was de
lightful and nothing occurred to interrupt
the harmony and pleasure of the event The
party reached Chicago at 9:05 a. m., Wed
nesday.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The public debt reduction for
September was $14,247,969.
At Washington City, D. the
annual report of the inspector of buildings
shows an increase of $2,000,000 improve
ments in that city over last year. The
number of buildings erected is 4,746. In
the past eight years 30 school buildings
have been erected.
The President has granted a pardon
in the case of William Brooks, James Fitz
gerald, Thomas Jackson, William Hender
son John Palmer, Reuben Goins and George
Horner, who were convicted in the United
States court for the Western district of
Arkansas last August of manslaughter, and
whose sentence was suspended. The pardon
is granted on the ground that the convicts
had reason to apprehend bodily harm from
the-men whom they killed.
Washington Special: The residence
chosen by Congressman MacDonald is
situated about a mile and a half from the
capitol. Consequently the Judge will have
to do a great deal of walking, except in
wet weather, when he will have to use the
line of street cars which pass by on a
neighboring street. The house is plainly
but comfortably furnished. It is neither
too stylish for a modest man, nor too
rugged for the reception of welcome guests
from home.
President Angell of the University
of Michigan and Hon. Wm. L. Putnam of
Maine have been requested by President
Cleveland to assist Secretary Bayard in the
fisheries arbitrat on. Mr. Putnam, for the
last twelve years has been of counsel for
the government in treaty cases and Pres.
Angell was one of the commissioners by
whom the last treaty with China was ne
gotiated. Pres. Angell is a Republican and
Mr. Putnam a Democrat. It is thought
Mr. Chamberlin will reach this country so
that the negotiators may meet Washing
ton about the middle of November.
Acting Attorney General Jenks has
instructed United States Attorney General
Galvin at Boston to take an appeal to the
United States supreme court from the de
cision of the federal court in Boston die
missing the government suits against the
Bell Telephone company.
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In July, 1885, M. B. Kimball, of Salt
Lakesuffered a loss of $1,500 by a raid of
Cheynne and Arapahoe Indians. Nov. 5 of
that year he made a claim on the govern
ment for that amount, which claim is now
before the secretary of the interior for con
sideration. The commissioner of Indian
affairs reports the present residence of the
claimant unknown, andthe witnesses of the
affair are dead. The claim is unquestionably
a good one, but unless Kimball or some
heirs can be found it must be disallowed. In
the fight that took placeKimball wasshot by
an arrow 30 miles east of Fort Halleck, and
the arrowhead remained in his body 18
days.%
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Commissioner Coleman says the
reports continue favorable in regard to the
success of the sorghum sugar industry, both
at Sort Scott and Rio Grande, the sugar
Improving in quality and quantity as the
work continues, and that there seems to be
no doubt that a genuine success has been
achieved by the new process. He says
letters are pouring in from all parts of the
country asking for full information
regard to cost of machinery, etc., andmaximum
there is every prospect of a great sorghum
boom another year which will revolutionize
the sugar industry, and in a few years
emancipate our nation from foreign nations
for sugar supply.
A (j&Sg i THE OLD VOBLD,
Mr. *Blaine and family are at Paris.
At the expense of the National
league 500 tenants at Kingston have applied
Key. Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City to the courts to have their rents fixed un
__ rial* tfiA nmtiiinn svf +lugovernment'. 1. nA 4 mr_
derthee provisiona th*e lan*d^ act Mr.ern
Gladstone writes that it is difficult to over-
rate th effecat tHa the Ic
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quittalof theMitchelstownpolice wMjwo-
"Not here but risen." The evening sermon, duce Ireland. He declares that if Ene-
wasfrom a.cte? x.*6. Dr. Parker a lishmenoapproved such^acquittal
good impression on the congregations, the case before them, they wouldbe^m-
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the equamade of Mr worthy the libertiefs which they enjoupo^n
Beecher in oratory. It is uncertain whether oujuy
the church will extend a to him.
A number of emergency"wj menwere
attempting to seize some cattle near Ark-
Ir!""*S. resistedo?pose?Sa^
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Lord Tennyson's health is^better
now than it has been for months.
atumnsoTA's HONOK.
ThalSfA. Jfc encampment did an exceed
ingly wise thing in electing Judge John P.
Rea, of Minneapolis^ Commander-in-chief
for the ensuingyear, on the first ballot, by
the following vote: Gen. Sloeuml53: Gov
Anthony 60 Gen.Grierl8 J. P. Rea 294
Gens. Sherman and Warner had each one
votf. Nelson Cole of Missouri was elected
Senior^Vice-Commander, John C. Lmahan,
New Hampshire, Junior Vice-Commander,
Gen. Lawrence Donahue, Surgeon General,
Rev. Edward Anderson, Chaplain-in
chief.
Comrade Vandervoot submitted an
amendment to the report of the committee
on resolutions embodying censure upon the
President for the veto of the dependent
pension bill, and after discussion the
amendment was defeated and the report
of the committee adopted by the vote of
318 to 173. The committee on the Logan
monument reported! recommending that a
fund be provided Ipr the erection of an
equestrian statute ft Washington. Gov.
Alger, of Michigan, subscribed $1,000 to the
fund, and Gen. Lennon, of New York,
another. The officers of the encampment
were then installed, and the 21st annual
encampment ot the Grand Army of the
Republic was at end.
Commander-in-chief Ba was born in
Low Oxford township, Chester county, Pa.,
October 13, 1840. In 18d0 he went to Piqua,
Ohio, and taught school in 1801 enlisted as
a private in the 4th, Ohio infantry, serving
3 years and 10 months, passing from private
to first lieutenant and captain, and major
by brevett, being with his regiment in the
battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Stone river,
Chicamauga, Mission Ridge, and from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. At the age of 25
he entered Wesleyan College at Delaware,
Ohio, graduating in 1867 was adnjitted to
the bar at Lancaster, Pa., and
began practice. President Grant, in
1869, appointed him collector of internal
revenue of the 9th Pa., district, where he
served until 1873, when the office was abol
ished. In 1875 he settled at Minneapolis and
was editor-in.chief of the Tribune until
1877, since which time he has adherred to
his profession, serving two terms as pro
bate judge and in 1886 being elected with
out opposition district Court Judge. In
18^9 he was married to Miss Emma Gould
of Ohio. He has always been an active Grand
Army man, a member ot Geo. N. Morgan
post and served as commander of Minneso
ta State department, also as Semor-Vice
Commander-m Chief of the National de
partment.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The Minnesota W. C. T. U., at the
close of a valuable session at Mankato,
elected the following state officers: Presi
dent Mrs. H. A. Hobart Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. N. K. Hayward Treasurer,
Miss A. M. Henderson. legates were
elected to the national convention to be
held in Nashville, Tenn. Seven delegates
and one at large, besides the same number
of alternates, were chosen as follows. Dele
gates, President Mrs. H. A. Hobart, of Red
Wing, and Secretary, Mrs. E. Wright, ex
offieio, Mrs Payne, of Winnebago City
Miss A. M. Henderson, of Minneapolis Mrs.
F. Ntal of Minneapolis Mrs. Wfilets, of
Motley Mrs C. H. Davidson, of Austin
Mrs. C, S. Winchell, of Minneapolis Miss
Hoibrook, of St. Paul, and Mrs. Dr. Craw
ford, of Luverne, at large. Alternates:
Mrs. N. L. Clare, of Northfield: Mrs. C. A.
Knox, of Red Wing, Mrs. Dr Roberts, of
Owatonna Mrs Gallmger of Minneapolis
Mrs. C. H. Smith, of Minneapolis Mrs.
K. Hayward, of St. Cloud Mrs. B. G. Rey
nolds, of Winnebago City Mrs. A. Sub
lette, of Minneapolis Miss Laythe, of
Duluth. Invitations were received from
Red Wing and Bramerd asking the W.
T. U. to hold their next annual convention
at these places, and the invitation of Red
Wing was accepted.
Oscar C. Voorhies, a lawver of Hu
ron. Dakota, has been sentenced at St. Paul
to 34 months in the Minnesota penitentiary.
Voorhies came to St. Panl in February last,
and representing himself as R. C. Voorhies,
a property owner of Huron, Dak., mort
gaged certain lands belonging to R. C.
voorhies to Grave". & Vinton, receiving
therefor $1,0J0. R. C. Voorhies is a brother
of Oscar. The fraud was not detected until
early in April, and the criminal was arrest
ed at Huron, where he was practicing law.
He was brought to St. Paul and lodged in
jait and when his trial came off in July last
the jury returned a verdict against him.
Motion for anew trial was at once entered
and a stay of proceedings granted. The
motion was finally argued and taken under
advisement. Both the prisoner and his at
torney appeared confident that the plea
would be granted, and the adverse decision
was a shock to Voorhies, who paled per
ceptibly when the sentence was pronounced.
The charge is a serious one, and many at
torneys are of the opinion that the sentence
is alight one. Voorhies is well connected,
young, and considered an attorney of no
mean ability. He has a young wife living
in Michigan.
The Signal Service Observer at St.
Paul, Minn., in his monthly review, makes
statements that are generally applicable to
the State: The normal September temper
ature for St. Paul is 59 degrees the mean
of last month was 58 regrees. It was cold
er than the corresponding month in 1874,
'7?, '78,1881, '82, '84, '85 and 18S6 it had no
margin over that in 1861, '72 and 1880, but
was warmer than any of the rest from 1870
to now. The warmest September since
then was in 1877, and the coolest 1873,
the means being 64 degrees and 54 degrees,
respectively. The normal precipitation for
the month in question is 3.35 inches 4.35
inches of rain fell last month, the Septem
ber of 1872, '74, 1881 and 1884 were wetter
than it, but either of the rest since 1870 was
dryer, the wettest one was in 1881, and the
dryest in 1882, the rainfall being 9.95 inches
and 0 27 inch respectively. The prevailing
winds blew from the southeast the total
wind movement was 3,908 miles. There
was a "gale" on the 5th and 13th, then the
wmd blew at the rate of 25 miles an hour
from southeast and west. There were
seven clear days, 13 fair and 10 cloudy ones,
1.0 of an inch or more of rain fell. The
temperature was b3.2 and the
minimum 33.&. There was a light frost,
the first of the season, on the mornmg of
the 23d, it was the first since May 16, and
was not fatal to vegetation.
A dispatch says that Clark county,
Dak., is seeing her most prosperous year'
since her organization. The wheat and
corn crop is immense. Wagon loads of
grain are Btanding in the streets of Clark
because the elevators are filled to then* ut
most capacity and the shippers are unable
to procure cars. Two new lines of railway
have been built this year through the east
and southern parts of the county,
greatly enhancing the value of farm lands
and affording better markets for gram.
Large quantities of stock have been shipped
into this region during Jhe past two months
from Wisconsin and Iowa, owing to the
fine pasturage which the native grasses
afford Hundreds of tons of hay has been
cut this year for shipment to the Eastern
states. Two passenger trains now stop at
Clark for dinner. A valuable acre tract
belongingn to the Northwestern Railway
been purchased b40D. Wayn
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of Clark consideration, $200 per acre.
James Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop of Baltimore was accorded a
stately welcome St. Paul, when
je onthe~29that and became the guese
l oi^P
a
Iwl *nd' In addition to residents
of St. Paul there were many of the Catholic
clergy and laity %|he State*m L^^
do him honor. In^R^vening^thd citywas
brilliantly illuminated as a token to the
distinguished gust withm its gates. At
the Banquet at the Hotel Ryan Bishop
Ireland presided and the tables were filled
with courtly and representative citizens.
An address was delivered by Judge Wm.
L. Kelly which was eloquently responded to
by the Cardinal Bishop Ireland, Swator
Davia, Lt. Gov. RicerHon. W. P. Murray,
President Northrup and other gentlemen
participated in the rich intellectuality of the
occasion
The fund for Miss Mary SylvSfer
at Minneapolis, amounts to $1,286.75, and
at her request Judge Lochren has appointed
Dr. Kilvington, A. J. Blethen and Piatt B.
Walker, trustees of the fund and they have
accepted the trust. She is only 19 years of
age, and is by no means out of danger from
her injuries. The doctors believe that there
is great danger of her never being able to
use her right limb again. Should she re
cover, however, her desire is to spend a
year or two at school, fitting herself for
some business occupation. The trustees
appointed will see to it that the best possible
results are obtained for Miss Sylvester from
the money donated.
Nish Vitidage, a miner in the Tower,
Minn., mines and two daughters lost their
lives by the burning of the house in the
night. When the father awoke his sleeping
room was filled with smoke to suffocation.
He hastily aroused his wife who made her
escape with a little child. Going to the
room where his two daughters, aged eight
and eleven years, were sleeping, he tossed
one of them through the window, as he
supposed, but in real'ty the child was
thrown against the wall and remained in
the room to meet her death. The father
left the house with the other girl who was
dead before he reached the open air. The
climax of the tragedy was the death of the
father himself.
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell of Milwau
kee has gone to California, to reside there
permanently, it is said. Unpleasantness
has occurred, it is reported between Mrs.
Mitchell and her son in reg rdto the settle
ment of the vast property left by Mr.
Mitchell. The abandonment and proposed
sale of the homestead on Grand avenue by
John L. Mitchell has decided his mother, it
is said, to leave that city. Mrs. Mitchell
did not receive, as stated $200,000 for her
life tenure of the homestead, but is to get
from her son John L. Mitchell $20,000 a year
as long asshe lives as a consideration so far
as concerns this portion of her dead hus
band's estate.
Rather a singular thing, in legal practice,
occurred on the Milwaukee bound tram be
tween Fennimore and Montfort, Wis. It
was the opening day of the Iowa county,
Wis., circuit court, Judge George Clement
son presidmg, and the train was crowded
with lawyers, witnesses and jurors going to
the county seat at Dodgeville. Among the
passengers were Judges Clementson and
Evans. Their purpose was to argue at
Dodgeville a motion that had been set for a
hearing chambers at Lancaster, but
which had|beenpostponed.The accomodating
judge listened to the argument of the coun
sel, and before Montfort was reached gave
the decision in the case, which was adverse
to the motion.
The annual session of the general
assembly Knights of Labor began at
Minneapolis, Minn., on the 3rd, about 250
delegates then being present. General
Master Workman Powderly is in attend
ance, and two factions appear in the con
vention, one supporting and one opposing
him. Most of sessions of the assembly are
secret. An open session was held and
Mayor Ames delivered an address of
welcome to the city, which was responded
toby W. L. Griffith of Chicago short ad
dresses were also made by Ralph Beaumont
and C. H. Carlton. The sessions are held
in the Washington rink which is handsome
ly decorated.
At Metz, M. Schnaeble, Jr., who
was arrested on the 20th ult,, by the
German authorities for crossing the frontier
and affixing a treasonable placard, bearing
the tri-colors upon a tree near the roadway,
has been sentenced to three weeks' im
prisonment and a fine of 20 marks. The
youth expressed sorrow for his action.
The court said it considered Sehnaebele, at
the time he committed the offense, was
conscious that it was of a punishable
nature, but admitted that his age (16),
should be considered in extenuation, and
decreed that the time he has already spent
in prison should be credited against his
sentence.
Rufus A. Simmons, for 30 yearc a
resident of Hastings, Minn., suicided by
hanging himself in his barn. He leaves a
wife, four daughters and one son. His age
was 57 years. He left two lettersone to
his boy Walter, giving him parental advice,
and wishing him good-bye, and the other
to his son-in-law, F. W. Oliver, requesting
him to settle up his estate, returning thanks
for kind acts and giving orders in regard to
his burial. Financial perplexities caused
the act, the culminating incident being a
sheriff's levy upon his personal property
at the suit of aNorwalk, Ohio, creditor.
The National Reserve Life Insurance
Company, of Sioux City, Iowa, has ceased
to do business, The business, what there is
of it, has been turned over to the Mutual
Benefit Company, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
The company was organized several years
ago by J. H. Snoke, but has never been a
success. The membership was small and
the running expenses large. Of late ih^re
has been considerable dissatisfaction among
the members at the way things were going,
and finally the affairs were wound up and
operations ceased.
A book agent from Chicago, named
W. L. Smith tried to commit suicide at the
Washington house, Fargo, Dak. He paid a
man 25 cents to hang him. They went to
the barn, found a rope, and when about
ready to commit the deed, his assistant re
turned to the bar for a drink and did not
return. Smith then went to his room,
secured a dose of morphine and placed it
in some whisky. Before he could drink it
the proprietor of the hotel broke into his
room and took it away. Smith was
arrested.
The first report of E. Nagle, receiver
for the bankrupt, cattle firm of Swarz Bros,
was filed with Chief Justice McGinnis, at
Cheyene, Wyo. It places the resources of
the firm and its individual members at
$898,860, with liabilities at $808,999. Re
sources over liabilities, $89,860. The per
sonal property of the firm, consisting of
horses, wagons and furniture, is not includ
ed in the receiver's report. It is now
thought that if forced sales of the resources
are not made, that the creditors of the firm
will be paid in full.
At Deer Lodge, Mont., John A. Mil
ler, shot his wife dead and then himself.
Mrs. Miller was doing general housework at
the Scott house, where she had been for
twelve days. Miller was a drinking and
gambling man. whom she had supported to
a great extent for years by doing washing,
and a month ago she felt compelled to
separate from him, and had gone to work
as stated. He was very drunk the night
before and made threats that he would do
as he subsequently did, but it was believed
to be whisky talk.
Fire destroyed the A. J. Sawyer el
evator at Wheatland, Dak. The fire start
ed in the coupola at 12:30, and one hour
later the builiing fell in. Thirty thousand
bushels of wheat burned. The Northern
Pacific depot and the Presbyterian church
and parsonage all had close calls, and were
only saved by the heroic efforts of the
bucket brigade. There was little or no
wind at the time. This alone saved the
whole town from destruction. Insurance
not known. J. M. Delanee, Sawyer's agent,
received quite a severe burn on the arm.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has ren
dered a decision in the case of Dayton vs.
Dayton involving a quarter section of land
now within the town limits of Aberdeen,
Dak. The decision affirms that of Commis
sioner Sparks, and holds that the contest of
each of the Daytons was speculative and
not initiated in good faith. The secretary
directs that the land be held in reservation
for sixty days in order that the city of
Aberdeen may present an application to
enter the land under the townsitelaw.
Commander-in-chief G. A. R., Judge
John P. Rea, upon his return home to Min
neapolis was given a most handsome recep
tion, a procession of 3,000 largely G. A. R,
men, escorting him to the Exposition build
ing, whereMayor Ames led In thespeech-
Henderslm, "judge
taj Fish and Dr.
7 H. David
son, of St. Paul. It was a very happy and
altogether eloquent occasion. fW^
A few days since, in the township of
Maplewood, Minn., Louis Rasmusson met
with a horrible accident while at work
with a threshing crew. In stepping from a
stack he encountered a pointed stake, which
ran through hie body on one side, entering
in front below the waist, passing upward
and protruding from the back of the
shoulder. Dr. Rose, of Pelican Rapids, has
been attending him and reports that the
vital parts having escaped injury, the
patient, strange to say, is likely to recover.
Murphy, Maj. Drake~and.Col.
At Green Bay, Wis., the wife of
Wenze Schwartz gave herself up to the
golice,lsaying
she had killed her husband,
he had struck Schwartz a blow on top of
the head with an ax, making a bad wound.
The result is doubtful. Schwartz has
abused his wife for some time, and it is
claimed that her mind has become un
balanced. His wife claims that he tried to
poison her. An application has been made
for her commitment to an asylum.
Four miles from Worthington, Minn.
one freight train ran into the rear of a for
ward one, destroying the caboose and sev
eral cars of the forward train, setting them
on fire and burning them up. The wood
work of the engine was also burned. One
car of lumber besides the caboose was en
tirely burned. Th3 accident was caused by
the engineer of the rear tram not being able
to see through the smoke caused by the
burning grass on the prairie.
It is reported from Fort Assinaboine,
Mont, that Privates William Cosgrove and
James Burke, of Company B., Twentieth
infantry, who have been camp at Sweet
Grass Hills since last Spring, 'became
involved in a quarrel, which resulted in
Burk*s being hit on the head with a stone in
the hands of Cosgrove and being seriously
wounded. His skull was fractured and
brain lacerated. It is said that Burke can
not recover.
Simmon Fersonnius, an old and
respected citizen of Tenhassen township,
Martin county, Minn., came to Fairmont
Thursday to attend the county fair,
bringing with him some farm products for
exhibition. He went to the secretary's
office to purchase tags for his exhibits, and
while waiting for the secretary to write
out his tags he suddenly threw up his hands
and without uttering a word fell dead.
At Mandan, Dak., an unsuccessful
attempt was made to kill Supt. Greene, of
the Missouri division, Northern Pacific
railway. A man named Kelly had been
working for the road as brakeman and
claimed 70 cents more than had been paid.
He pulled a Winchester, fired and just
missed Greene's head. The bullet went
through a window casing. Kelly was
arrested.
During a heavy thunder storm that
passed over Franconia village, Minn., Mag
nus Oleson, who was standing in the door
way of his residence, was struck and in
stantly killed by hghtning. Oleson was a
Swede about thirty-five years old, and has
resided at Franconia for the past fifteen
years. He leaves a young wife, having
been married but eighteen months.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis., Betsey
Johnson, a domestic in the employ of B. F.
Millard, was asphyxiated her dead body
being found in the mornmg. The gas jet
was found partially closed. The deceased
was aged about twenty-six and was from
Hixton, Jackson county, Wis The coroner's
jury returned a verdict of death caused by
suffocation by gas.
The 3-masted schooner City of Green
Bay went ashore near South Haven, Mich.,
the sea coming over her in such violence as
soon to break her up, and she fell apart
with seven souls aboard, only one of whom
a seamen named A. T. Slater of St. Joseph,
was saved. Capt. Castello, her command
er, and the other five of his crew of six men
were drowned.
S. S. Cook, brother of ex-Congress
man Cook, of Eagle Grove, Iowa, was
struck by the pilot of the Rock Island about
four miles from Newton and instantly
killed. Deceased was a lawyer by pro
fession about 35 years old and was active
in securing the Newton extension of the
Central Iowa railway. He leaves a family.
Mason City, Iowa, has had a satur
nalie of incendiary fires, the same break
ing out in different places at the same time
and calling out the firemen three and four
times a day. The large stock barn of Vol
ney Giddings was burned with a large
amount of hay and gram. One alleged
incendiary has been arrested.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Judge Given
granted a change of venue to Boone county
in the cases of J. Reed Hurlbut and Joseph
Row, indicted on charges of killing Con
stable Logan last winter while attempting
to make a liquor seizure and arrest. The
plea was that justice could not be obtained
in Polk county.
A strange freak of nature is reported
in East Dubuque, Iowa. A child was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Bohn without eyes. The
place where the eyes should be is covered
by a smooth skin and a surgical operation
revealed no indications whatever of an op
tical formation. The child is otherwise
perfect.
John Kelly, who attempted to rape
the seven-year-old daughter of A. F.
Wright, at Cumberland, Wis., June 18,1887,
has been sentenced to the state prison at
Waupun for a term of eight years, the last
day of each year to be passed in solitude.
The full penalty fixed by law is ten years.
A preliminary examination was held
at St. Paul in the caseo against Hal Raid for
his assault on Miss Comson and he
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ran
a
tr-
3ur in
th
heIlMaud
*8,ooobail. Mies Comson gave her testi
mony in a clear, touching manner, and
bevond cross-examination the defense did
nothing.
At Hastings. Minn,, a son of William
Sondermann, aged 12 years, drove to the
freight depot with a load of brick, when
the axis broke, letting the box to the
ground. He was hurled under the wheel,
getting both bones of his left leg brokenjust
below the knee. His recovery is doubtful
At Minneapolis, Lou Murray, the
brute who assaulted Miss Mary Sylvester,
was granted a change of venne to Wright
county and the trial set for December 5th
by Judges Lochern and Young before
whom the case was argued. He was con
tinued in jail, bail being fixed at $5,000.
At Duluth, Minn., F. Rust,
recently discharged by Panton's
& Watson's dry goods house from
the position of bookkeeper, got on a
big drunk and wound up by taking an over
dose of morphin-, probably 35grains. Med
ical aid brought him to his senses, but he
finally died.
There are now 407 prisoners in the
Minnesota penitentiary. Aleck Hogan a
colored convict, died there last Sunday of
consumption. Ole DahL an unfortunate
convict who has suffered from an injury to
his leg many years, will suffer amputation
of the same in a few days.
At Stillwater, Minn., the health
officers report for September shows that
there were sixte deaths during the
month. During September for the past
three years the number of deaths were as
follows: In 1884,16 1885,19 1886, 13.
Co. D., of St. Paul has issued a chal
lenge of $2,500, to whoever may be the vic
tors in the infantry drill at the Chicago
encampment, the contest to take place at
St Paul, within four or six weeks after the
close of the Chicago encampment.
$^AtDes Moines, Iowa, Judge*Given
na8 decided that registered pharmacists are
not subject to criminal prosecution for vio
lation of the liquor law. They must be
proceeded against in civil action to revoke
their pharmacy permits.
Sergt. Ralph Teeple, of Company
K., 5th., Inft., U. S. A Fort Lotten, Dak.,
committed suicide at a West 7th street
hotel, S Paul, Minn., by catting an ar-
tery in his arm and bleeding to death. He
had been in St -Paul, on furlong about
twenty days, and passed his time with wine
and women, until in a naif crazed period of
despondency he ended his life. He was
young unmarried and a good soldier.
News has just been received of a
serious accident on the "Soo" road near
Gladstone. Awork train in backing down
struck a cow and derailed the train. The
conductor and a brakeman were killed, and
several others injured.
Wm. Welch, a well known lawyer of
Minneapolis has been arraigned on eight in
dictments, for making libelous publications
concerning Postmaster General Vilas, re
lating to insurance and other transactions
at Madison, Wis.
Senator Sabin delivered the annual
address at the Five county fair at St. Cloud,
Minn., to an audience of 5,000 people who
indicated extreme pleasure at the remarks
made by their distinguished fellow citizen.
In a quarrel at Beef Slough, Wis., a
laborer named Olson drew a knife, and was
met by his antagonist with a pike hole, the
Eeadt
oin of which was buried Olson's fore
He died. The homicide is at large.
While out hunting ducks Peter Red
elhofer, of Potosi, Iowa, -pulled his gun
through a barbed wire fence. It went off,
the charge lodging in his abdomen, with
fatal results.
At Ada, Minn., W. A.'Osborne, run
ning a threshing machine, had his arm
caught inlthe belt and pulled out by the
socket at the elbow. It is not likely that he
will live.
President Strong of Northfield, Minn.,
college has gone east, contemplating an ab
sence of several weeks, quite a portion of
his time to be spent at Boston, Mass and
vicinity.
Burglars entered the store of Weston
& Chamberlin, at Rock Falls, Wis., robbed
the money drawer of $20 and stole cloth
ing to the amount of $75.
The wagon shop of J. G. Ballard
and its contents were entirely destroyed by
fire at Detroit, Minn. The total I03S is about
$2,500, partly insured.
Co. I., of St. Peter and Co! of
Duluth, M. N. G., are at Chicago, attend
ing the International drill.
Odd Things.
A rooster that will crow when com
manded to do so by its owner amuses
Carpentersville, Warren County, N. J.
One of the rare productions of Jack
son County, Michigan, is a white
rattlesnake with seven rattles. It be
longs to Richard Crouch, and is quite
tame.
When you see a man look at his
watch and put it back into his pocket,
ask him the time, and in nine cases
out of ten he cannot tell you till he has
looked at it again.
Gun-flints are still manufactured in
England to a considerable extent.
These gun-flints are exported to Africa
and disposed of to the natives of the
interior by barter.
"Bully, if True," is the headline
which the editor of a paper in Crete,
Neb., prints over the announcement
that the pastor of the Congregational
Church will not preach for a month.
During the recent dry weather in
Mount Pleasant, Wis., the hub of a
heavy wagon struck a gate-post, and
the friction was so great that it set fire
to the post. The gate was burned up,
and also the grass for several yards in
the locality.
During the last summer the night
watchman and the clerk of a hotel at
Sugar Hill, in the White Mountains,
were both divinity students, and the
scrub-girl had been for five years teach
er in a public school, and speaks French
and Latin.
Forgot Himself.
There was once a Judge noted for the
mildness of his manners and the gentle
ness of his reproofs to the lawyers, who
sometimes addressed each other in lan
guage which could not be passed by
without notice from the court.
One day two lawyers who were plead
ing a case passed beyond the stage of
bantering, and began to call each other
names. One of them said:
"The attorney on the otherside is,
may it please your Honor, not only the
ugliest but the stupidest lawyer in the
country."
"You forgot yourself, Mr. Smith
you forgot yourself!" said the Judge,
rapping gently with his gavel.-Youth's
Companion.
Horace Allen, the grand nephew o*
Ethan Allen and a man 83 years old
has just arrived in Albany from his
home in Delaware, O. This does not
seem to be an extraordinary fact until
one understands that he made the
journey of 675 miles on foot and push
ng a wheelbarrow.
THE MARKETS.
St. Paul, Oct. 1.
GRAIN
Wheat, No Hard $ 70 71
Wheat, No. 1 Northern. 69 (A 69
Wheat, No. 2Northern.... -J64 65
Corn,No.2 b8^ 40
Oats, No. 2 mixed 24 ^5
Oats, No. 2 white
Flour, patent $4 25 4 40
Flour straights 4 15 4 30
Flour.bakers 340 @60
Butter, creamery 22 24
Butter, dairy 16 20
Sheese
u ,^UH@ 13
Eggs, fresh u%a \$u
Potatoes new, 45 (g 50'*
DressedBeef, steers 3^5
Hams
Veal 5 6
LIVE STOCK
Steers .$2 55 2 95
Hogs 4 .10 4 40
Sheep 2 55 3 00
Minneapolis, Oct. 1.
WHEAT
No.lHard $ 71
yf i
7
3
2 6 fi 2 7
BarleyNo. 2 *59 gg
Rye No. 2 40 40
Flaxseed P5- 98
Baled Hay, upland 8 50 9 0J
Baled Hay. timothy 12 50 (&14 00
PROVISIONS-
W n*s
No.l Northern 69 69W
No. 2 Northern 63 (d 4
FLOUR-
Patent in sacks $4 30 4 10
Patent in barrels 4 25 (84
Patent at New England
points 95 5 50
Patent at N. Y. and Penn., 40
points 4 90 5 30
Bakers 8 40 @3 5j
Chicago, Oct. l.
GRAIN-
Wheat, cash ?1# 71&
Corn, cash 4%m 42r
Oats, cash 26 Soil
FlaxSeed 105 & 05}?
MESSPORK 1300 Oo
LIVE STOCK
Cattle ti 00 @4 65
Hogs 4 60 @45
Sheep 3 10(8 3 70
I 4 Milwaukee, Oct. 1.
WHEAT. No. 1, Hard, Cash........... 70 7D#
Dotath, OetUl.
WIUSAT" safe weysauj.
