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The Advance. A. P. MILLER, Publisher. WORTEINGTON, MINNESOTA. Pennsylvania has slidden down In (he list o! roilroad states during the present year from the third place to the fifth. Business failures in Canada last year were just about twice as numer* ou8. in proportion to the population, as they tvere in the United States. Chemists have just determined by careful experiment that a man can barely taste 3-l,000ths of a grm. of sugar 1-1,000th ot a grm. of salt and 5 10,000,000ths of a grm. ot strych nine. Chicago is determined not to take any chances on titled foreigners. They put a real Venezuelan count in jail out there on suspicion of being an anarch ist,and now he wants $50,000 dam ages. for. Pulitzer, of the New York World, is suffering with acuta inflam mation of the eyes, and is confine^! to a darkened room. One of his eyes is almost useless, and now the other has given way. Colonel George P. Bissell, of Hart ford, Conn., who spent last summer in Japan, says the most remarkable feature of that country, lies in the fact that its language contains no pro* fune or blasphemous woids. A Baltimore publication gives sta tistics of the industrial progress of the Southern S&ites the present year. It shows that $250,298,000 of "capi tal has been invested in Southern pro ductive industries in 1887, beina al most double the amount of 1886. Jacob T. Wainwright, a well-known metallurgical engineer of Pittsburg,has for four years believed that natural gas could be utilized in the furnace cu polas for ordinary castings, such as light cast-iron pipe and plumber's supplies, which require great heat in the smelting process. Mr. Wainwright has succeeded in demonstrating the succeEs of his principle in the actual manufacture of the articles named. General Greeley, the Chief of the United States Signal Service, freely acknowledges, in his recent official re port to the Secretary of War, that its weather forecasts havenearly as often proved wrong as right during the past year. "Old Probabilities," (Gen. My ers) ,hadmuch better luck than Greeley, though his guesses are far out of the way. There has not been much real progress in weather predictions sines the beginning. In a single year American defaulters have escaped to Canada, carrying* with them a good portion of the nearly §4.000,000 which they have stolen some plan should be devised for bringing those thieves to justice. Under the present extradition treaty with Great Britain, they are safe in Canada, and Canada should be as much interested as the United States in preventing her Soil from a safe asylum for criminals. becoming The interstate-commerce commis sion has rendered along opinion on the question whether express compa nies are subject to the interstate law. The conclusion.is that all such com panies should be included within tbe commission's jurisdiction, but as the law stands now it effects only those express .companies which are branches of railroad companies. The matter is therefore referred to congress, and an effort will no doubt be made to secure such amendments of the law as shall inclntf all express companies within its provisions. Senator Hoar has proposed an amendment to the constitution mak ing the term of the president and of congress begin with the' thirtfcth day of April, instead of the fourth of March. The same amendment was proposed by Mr. Hoar in the last con gress, and was promptly passed by the senate. The house would doubt less have passed it too, if the press of other business at the close of the short session had not prevented. The purpose is to change the time of the president's inauguration, which is an outdoor ceremony, to a time when the season is more ad vanced and the weather is likely to be more genial than can be expected ear ly in March. But a more important advantage to be gained by the change is the extenti on of the short session by nearly two months. The next president elected will have quite a large list of important mili tary appointments to make. Owing to the progress of time and the conse quent aging of officers, the next presi dential term will see the retirement of three general officers and all the gener al staff officers but two, under the law retiring officers 64 years old. This will necessitate more important mili tary appointments than a president has ever had to make in the time of peace. Under the law Major General Terry and Brigadiers General Stanley and Gibbon step out, and the general staff officers following suit are Briga dier General Hdlabird, Quartermas ter General Brigadier General Benet, Chief of Ordnance Brigadier General Rochester, Paymaster General Briga dier General Macfeely, Commissary General of Subsistence Brigadier General Moore, Surgeon General, and Brigadier General Drum,. Adjutant Geueral. The only general officers, chiefs of staffs, remaining are Judge Advocate General Swaim, oh half pay, and General Greely, Chief of the Signal Service. General Baird, In spector General, and General Duano, Chie! of Engineers, retire before Mr. Cleveland's term expire*. PITI OF THE HEWS. News from Washington. The puMie debt fdnetd, in round nam oera, 914.584.000 In December. Delegate Gilford of Dakota introdaoae all his bills la the house In a lamp. The eolnnce at the mints daring Decern' ber. 1887. WM $5,762,666, of which *2, 785,200 were standard dollars. Naval circles have been thrown into a state of consternation by reports from Cfcl ilornla relative to the discovery of grave defects in the steel intended to be used in the construction of the cruiser Charleston now being builtln that state. Washington 8pecial: The new senator from West Virginia, Mr. Paulkaer.* is the youngist man in the body, being six months the junior ot his colleague, Mr. Kenna. and nine months TOUDger than Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin, fie will be forty years old in March. Postmasters commissioned: Dakota: Virgil, H. J. Warren. Minnesota: North field. J. E. Kennedy 8t. Paul, W. Lee Maple Bay. E. M. Halleckson. Wisconsin: Brown Deer, F. O. Millbrath Rochester, W. E. Hoyt St. Nathans, J. 8. Chase Stockholm. O. F. Hibbard. Fourth class postmasters appointed—Dakota: Dales burg, J. C. Westourg. Iowa: Reeles, Em ma £. Reel. The appointment of a successor to ex* Land Commissioner 8parks is a frequent subject of conversation among.men haying business with the land office. Very many express the hope that Acting Commission wr Stockslager will receive the appoint ment, as he has shown a. disposition to push business since he has had charge, and there is already a great difference in the way the general land office is run. The following pensions have been granted: Wisconsin: L. Dunkark, Nowtonburg G. Hamilton, Milwaukee J. Harting, Qickeyville B. Norman, Coleman A. 8teb bins, Melrose \V. Hawke, Platteville W. Styer, Weston M. Duquette, Piairiedu Chien T. H. Asbury, Victoria N. Devor* eaux, Waukesha: I. C. Bertrand, Sparta. Dakota: W. G. Kinney, Huron. Minneso ta A. F. McDonald, Minneapolis G. B. Stiles, Fulda K. Knudtson, Norcross J. A. Ammundsen, Wild Rice. The second controller has delivered a decision in the case of Gen. John C. Fre mont, who was lieutenant colonel in the Mexican war. Fremont was tried and sentenced to be dismissed. The president approved the sentence, remitted the pen alty and ordered the officer to report tor duty. Fremont tendered his resignation on the ground that he was not conscious of having done anything which merited the sentence, ft is concluded that Fre mont is entitled to the three months'extra pay for Mexican war service. Items About People. Judge Franklin Beebe died at his home in Minneapolis. Post Quartermaster Sergeant David Lawson of Fort Meade, Dak., died at that post on the 29th ult. Freeinont Cole was elected speaker of the New York assembly and Henry R. Low president of the senate. Rev. 0. T. Gilford, a promiuent Baptist clergyman of Boston, is the latest convert to Henry George's doctrine. D. M. Babcock, the inventor of the fire extinguisher, died recently in the Pan Francisco poorhouse. He once had an in come of $120,000 a year. Gov. A. 6. Swineford and wife arrived at St. Paul from Sitka, Alaska. They are en route to Washington and the East on a purely pleasure trip. Gen. Fremont has written a letter to the Bcdondo Beach company accepting the gift of a lot at Seaside, Cal., where he ex pects, to reside hereafter. Traffic Manager Hannaford, of the Northern Pacific has so fnr improved since his attack ol apoplexy that he left with his family in the Northern Pacific car Glacier for a prolonged absenco aftor health and Htrength. He goes first to the Hot Springs where he will take a trip through Texas, Mexico and California, returning home by \ho Mouut Shasta route about April. Crimes and Criminals* Slecht, the Wausau, Wis., murderer, is iaved from lynching only by a strong guard. At Rochester, N. Y., assistant Cashier William 9mith of the German-American bank, is $9,000 short in his accounts and has'absconded. George Williams, a (bartender, makes an unsuccessful*attempt to commit suicide in St. Paul, owing to his being out of a "job" on account of high license. At Herkimer, N. Y., Marcus W. Rosbach, cashier of the Herkimer National bank, left Dec. 13 and has not returned. His prolonged absence led to an investigation of his accounts, which showed a shortage of $34,300, which be lost in speculation in stocks. Dr. Edward Bert, his wife, seventeen year-old daughter and servants were chloroformed while asleep in their elegant home on Vernon avenue, Chicago, and un aware untill they woke with aching heads that the house had been ransacked from top to bottom by burglars. Tim Barrett is found guilty of murder in Minneapolis for the killing of Tollefson, the street car driver, and it is murder in the first degree, whereof the penalty is death. The noted criminal lawyer Erwin's wit and eloquence did not confuse the jurors to any extent. In less than three hours they appeared in court with their death-dealing verdict. John Mack, alias Johnson, a colored gambler from Richmond, Ind., being worsted in a quarrel over a game of "scraps" in a State street saloon, remark ed carelessly before leaving the place that he would kill some one. Aftei+swallowing a glass of whiakv at the bar Mack pulled his revolver, and taking deliberate aim at an inoffensive spectator, Frank Ball col ored, put a bullet through his heart. A bloody affray occurred at Jefferson barracks, Mo. Seven negro soldiers got drunk and outragedn white woman. The officer ot the day ordered a company of white soldiers to arrest the negroes. A company of negro soldiers proposed to Eut rovent the arrest. They were disarmed, without their arms went to the rescue of the sevon ravishers. They resisted the attempts of the white soldiers to arrest them, and the result was a fierce hand-to band fight.. The negroes were defeated. Foreign News Nuggets. Daniel Wilson, ex-President Grevy'g son in-law, will hereafter reside in Scotland. Theodore Tilton lives in a remote quar ter ol Paris andiately dresses very shab bily. Preparations for the opening of the Man itoba legislature on the 12th are being made. The session will be a lively one. Thomas Sexton, raember.of parliament and lord-may.or elect of Dublin, who hUs been suffering from an attack of. typhoid fever, has had a relapse, and is again in a dangerous condition. A papal- encyclical to the Bavarian bishops urges abetter enforcement of the concordat. It says: The church has ob served her pledges while the state has neg lected its pledges. It is necessary to guard the religious education of youth. Secular schools are a danger to the state itself. The. encyclical precedes demands by the papal nuncio for the extension of th» rights ot priests to regulate schools. Ottawa 8pecial: The recent decision of the intornal rovenne commission at Wash ington that every bank in the United States, whether etate or national, is liable to a tax of 10 per cent on the amount ot Canadian bank notes it uses for circula tion, or ia paid out by it, has attracted some attention here. American silver brought into.Canada, under the Canadian law as it stands, is liable to a duty of 20 Grmore cent, and this provision may posMbly rigidly enforced in the future than it has been in the past. Ths pops on. the 3d granted an interview to Engenie Veuillot, the distinguished French writer^ and his son. After speak* Ing in high ptaise of their efforts in ths Catholic cause, his holiness expressed re* gret at the present sad position of Franoe, but said he was confident that she would rise again to her old place In Christendom and exercise unbounded influence in the world. The pops then referred to the state of Europe. He lamented the revo lutionary spirit fermenting in many states, ana, said hs was prepar* Ing two encyclicals dealing with socialism, ths license of the press and the gfeat power of universal suffrage, which hs considers terribly menacing. He also in tended, he said, to define certain points upon which good Catholics have confussd and dangerous ideas. The land and Irish questions are believed to be the subjects to which be alluded. Tllf pope glvfi ths jabi- lee gift money to St. Peter's treasury to be expended in propagandism. The artistic ar* tides will be placed in the museum ot ths •atican and ths objects of worihip in ths vwtiy of St. Fatfrs. All the rest will be given to the hospitals. The Record of assusltlss. An east-bound freight was wrecked about two miles west of 8t. Cloud. Fourteen cars were ditched, and two ears demolishsd. The steamer William Porter was burn sd at ths mouth of the 8alt river, twenty eight miles below Louisville, Ky. Ths ves* ssl and cargo was rained at 925.000. A broken joint in a. gas pipe nearly {n troves ths death of a house full of tenants New York. Xven the watchman is over come, but .Is awaksnsd accidentally in ths nick ot time. At Lima, Ohio, as C. P. Collins, flrsman on an engine on the Atlantic railroad, was .nnder his sngine cleaning the .firebox, the engineer, not knowing he was there, start ed the engine and cut Collins' body in two. A, fatal eollisi.on occurred on. the Cana dian Pacific at Stewart Station between two freight trains. It is reported that the engineers and firemen of both trains have been killed and others injured. Railroad officials are very reticent, and it is impos sible to get details. At Barnesvilie, an explosion of a kero sene lamp in the stors of George Weaver, on Broadway, ^resulted the total de struction ol the stors and contents damage about $1,000. The Times office, with presses and nearly everything ot the household furniture, were also destroyed loss about $1,500. Insurance, in both cases unknown. Immanuel Presbyterian church, one of the finest sacred edifices in Milwaukee, was to tally destroyed by fire. Nothing but the bare stone walls are left. Loss $100,000 insurancs $85,000. The building was erected in 1873 at a cost of $200,000. The organ was valued at $13,000. The loss, Fs case the walls are found to be in good condition, will not exceed $75,000, but it the walls have to come down the loss will amount to from $75,000 to $80, 000,more than the inside.' The risk was held by eighteen companies. Miscellaneous News Notes. The Iowa registration law is decided un constitutional. The effects of the late storm upon the railway trains are gradually disappearing. J.I. Case, owner of Jay-Eye-See and Phallas, has received and refused an offer from Louisville parties ot $40,000 for Phallas. Tracklayers of the two countries met on the international bridM at the Soo. The Americans went ahead and made the first crossing. At Duluth, the failure is announced of B. E. Silbert, proprietor of the Model res taurant. His liabilities are between $3, 000 and $4,000, and his assets merely nominal. Ernst Hoempel, a German employed in the construction of the ice palace at St. Paul, fell from the northeast ^corner ot tho structure to the ground, a distance ot six ty-five feet, and died. The owneis of ths Pacific railroads late ly investigated are willing, it is said, to have the government loreclose the mortgages, having made all that thoy are able to out of the roads. At a meeting of the business men of Lake City ah &Moci&tian wm formed to bo known as the Lnke City Improvement and Realty company. Articles of incorpora tion havaJtoen drawn. The capital stock is $10,000. The sole object is to promote the material prosperity of Lake C3ty. At Newark, N. J., the shoemakers' trades union, numbering several hundred mem bers, decided to withdraw from the Knights ot Labor. The reason assigned is the bad management on the part ot the national and local leaders. In compliance with the law passed at the last legislature the Bank of Spring Valley has changed its name to "Strong, Farmer & Edwards, Bankers," with W. H. Strong, B, F. Farmer and F. V. Ed wards as partners. City Collector Onahan of Chicago, in a letter to the mayor and city council re garding the operation in Chicago of the nigh license system, says that while it has not greatly reduced the number of saloons, it certainly prevented an overwhelming in crease. The American Association lor the Ad vancement of Science at its last meeting adopted unanimously a resolution recom mending to congress that steps be taken for the preservation of some ol the re markable archaeological curiosities of the West, and it is probable that the subject will be laid before the proper committees of congress during the present session. The principal glass factories throughout ths country are practically closed, and the 15,000 persons employed in them are Idle. The trouble originated in the fact that while the East for a certain amount of money, the employer would prouuee on ly 100 dosen of a stated article, in the West, for ths sams amount of money, 125 doien of the same article were produoed. The wholesale dry goods firm of Auer bach. Finch & Van Slyck of St Paul Is no more. Its successor is that ot Finch, Van Slyck & Co., Mr. Auerbach retiring from active interest in the business, though his capital will remain, and he, with N. W. Kitson, will be special partners. The new firm will consist of George R. Finch, W. H. Van Slyck, E. A. Young and C. J. McCon ville. Mr. Young has been a partner for several years, and Mr. McConville has been at the head of the staple department. General Order No. 4 was issued from the national headquarters of the G. A. R. at Minneapolis. The order includes the ap pointment of assistants, one from each de- Bedges, irtment, to the inspector general, Ira M. Haverstraw, N. Y., and requires a general inspection during January and Feburary. K. H. Bran ton of Minneapolis has been selected as inspector for the de partment of Minnesota, Earl M. Rogers of Viroqua for the department of Wisconsin, and G. O. Eaton for the department of Montana. Since smallpox has been declared epi demic in San Francisco and the pest house filled with overa hundred cases, impro vised hospitals have been erected in thepu fo lic. paries, in ths plasa, and in Clay and Kear ney streets a tent has been put np to accom modate patients unable to receive admis sion to the reviving hospital. Dr. O'Don nell, ex-coroner of San Francisco, a noted sand lot orator, recently addressed a large crowd denouncing the action of the city authorities in putting up the tent as an outrage. He then swore out warrants tor the arrest of Mayor Pond and the health commissioner, Dr. Gale, who were shortly afterward taken into custody, the charge being the maintenance of a public nui sance. The officials were released on bail. Death off Cen. E. B. Alexander. Gen. E. B. Alexander of St. Paul, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Col. G. ¥. Lieber,* Washington, D. C., aged eighty-six. Gen. Edmund B. Alexander was born in Virginia in 1820. He entered West Point military academy Oct 6,1818, being ap pointed from Kentucky. He went to Mexico and served with dis tinction throughout the entire Mexican war. April 18, 1847, he was breveted major for gallant and meritorious con duct at the battle of Csrro Gordo, Mexico, and again Aug. 20, 1847, he was breveted lieutenant eolonrl at ths battles of Con treras and Guerubusco, Mexico. He was present at nearly all the important bat tles during the war, including the assault and capture of the City of Mexico. At the breaking out of the civil war he was appointed provost martial general, superintendent the volunteer recruiting service,and chief mastering and recruiting officer tor the stats of Missouri, with head quarters at 8t. Louis. October 18,1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general for his excellent work in recruiting the-armies of ths United States, and was assigned to the Tenth infantry at Fort' Stalling as com mander of the regiment, a position hs held until February, 1869, when he was placed on the retired list, afttr over 45 years of active service. Qriant'e Rlverelde Monument. Adolph L. Singer, ex-presidont of the bosrd of Aldermen of New York,' and a member of the sub-committse on designs ot ths Grant general committee, said rs cently: The main trouble is that every^ body leaves ths work for somebody else to do. One trouble wss an indefiniteness of the amount to be raised and another was a difference of opinion among the members of the Committee as to whether they should advertise for plans, without a specified cost, before collecting the amount expected or should advertise now upon an estimated expenditure. The fund now, it all outside moneys were, collected, would reaeh $180,000. It is sarning interest at ths rate of $8,000 psr year, and the total •*P»B*s ol the committee are not over $500 a year* FIFTIETH C0H6HESS." SENATE. Upon ths assembling of the ssnats aits* ths holiday recess. Senator BhsrmSA made a speech more carefully -prepared than is his custom,, every word orit ha* ing been reduced to writing. It is to ht considered in many respects as ths plat form ofapresidsntalcandidate. Hswasfol. lowed by Senators Voorhees and TsUsr. osvsral recess nominations were sent to tbs senate, including those ol the interstate commissioners and Eugene 8emple as gov ernor of Washington Territory. Senator Davis ottered In the ssaats a memorial from the St. Paul chamber of commerce, praying for the establishment of more collection districts for ths Stats ot Minnesota and various other memorials and petitions. aousa. V' Among Minnesota privats bills Intro duced in the house were ths following: •.Si.*/- ""ting a pension to Mary Monti: to.F. w. Travis, for xervloes rendered In ttowsr with the Florida Indians: to Frederick Btcbler to Albert Achley: $12 per month to L. W-Hucklln, for services In the Sfonx outbreak: to Ell St. Cyr: to Tliomsa Weekly to rembve the charge ot desertion against the name ot A. H. Tobey a bill for the relief ol Minnesota mounted rangers. The latter bill provides that all persons who served a full time of year or more shall receive $100 those who served six months or any time less than a year, $66, and those who served less than six months $33.33. He also introduced a bill to sliow Charles A. Buffee, late agent at White Earth agency, $1,350, being the difference between the par as agent of the White Earth sgency alone and- agent of consolidated Leech Lake, Bed Lake and White Earth sgenolea The sgenoy consolidated March 21. 1879, and Buffee servet from that time to Sept, 30, 1881 at the old salary. PBK8KKTKD BY KB. XKLSOK. By Mr. Nelson: To remove the oharge ot desertion from the record of AJvin Milligan: granting a pension to I- P. Johnson erantlug Increase of pension to •ota Bowe granting a pension to Joseph Hilllorou to Jacob Meibels: to Morgan Johuioa to refer the claim of B. 1L Beaulleu to the oonrt of olsims for the relief of citizens engaged In the Sloux Indian war in 1802: for the relief of O. A. Lounsberry granting a pension to the widow and children of Abner St. Cyr for the re lief of Hartwell Silver. Mr. Nelson also introduoed his bill placing lumber, coal and sugar on the free list his bill of last session for the improvement of the condition of the Bed Lake Indians for a public building and term of court at Duluth, and the railroad bills whioh have already been mentioned. Mr. L!.nd introduoed a bill placing books and pamphlets on the free list and a bill to amend the interstate commerce law. His amendment to the fourth section provides: It shall also be unlawful for any common car rier, subject to the provisions of this act, to charge or receive anv greater compensation per ton per mile for the contemporaneous transpor tation ot the same class of freight for a shorter than for a longer distanco over the same line in the ume general direction or from- the origin point of or to the same point of arrival but this shall not be constiued as authorizing any com mon carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, to chsrge a higher rate per ton per mile for a longer than a shorter distance. WISCONSIN AND IOWA Senator Spooner presented the petition of the board of supervisors of St Croix county, praying oertain legislation defining and con struing the granting and indemnity clauses of the act of May 5, 1864, granting land to Wisconsin to aid in the construction of tail roads. Mr. Spooner introduoed a bill to-day providing for the establishment of a port of entry at Superior, Wis Mr. Gear of Iowa to day introduced the following bills in the house: Authorizing the construction of a railroad, wagon and foot bridge across the Missippl river at or near Burlimrton, Iowa: appropriating $80,495 for completing tho work of improVin* the Des Moines rapids in the Mississippi, and $16,250 for completing the dry dock al Des Moines rapids in the Mississippi, and that the $25,000 appropriated for the completion of a pier at the outer wall of the Des Moines rapids canal may be used to construct a floating boom connecting the wall with the upper draw rest of the bridge of Keokuk. PAKOTA. Delegate Gilford of Dakota introduced two bills for the admission of North and South Dakota, already printed in the Pio NEKB FBESB bills allowing the Duluth A Manitoba road right of way through the Fort Pembina military reservation throwing open to settlement abandoned and useless military reservations providing forafbm mission to negotiate with the 8isseton and Wahpeton Sloux Indians for a modification of present treatffes and agreements grant ing section 10, near Bapid City, to that town granting certain sections of land near Grand Forks to the North Dakota university, and granting the Yankton A Missouri Valley railroad right of way through the Yankton Indian reservation. Gilford also introduced a bill providing for the opening ofthe Great Sioux reservation. It is practically the old Dawes bill with the tribal patent clause stricken out He also offered bills granting the Du luth, Watertown A Pacific road the right to build a.bridge- across the Missouri river at somo available point in Charles Mix county, Dak. to establish two new land districts with the land officers at Pierre and Cham berlain contingent upon the opening of the Great Sioux reservation granting aseotion of land to Aurora county. Dak., for the es tablishment of a reform school, and provid ing for an Inquiry into the losses sustained by settlers who bad been deprived of their rights on the Crow creek and Winnebago reservations by the summary closing of the reservations by order of President Cleve land. SENATE. Mr. Mitchell in the senate called up tho joint resolution directing the selection of a site for a navy yard on the coast north of ths forty-second parallel of north latitude iri Oregon, .Washington and Alaska. Mr. Mitchell-spoke in favor of the resolution. Mr. Dolph said: Puget sound possesses all the advantages that can be found for a first-class naval station. We cannot afford to allow foreign conquests and ac quisitions to be carried to our very doors. If we do we shall abdicate the position which our power, influence, wealth and territorial location entitle us to maintain among the nations of the earth. The resolution was referred to the com mittee on naval affairs. 8enator Reagan made a speech in opposition to the Blair educational bill, which came up in the sen ate. It was not to the purposes ol the bill but to Hs methods that he was opposed. Mr. Plumb offered an amendment to the second section, providing that the money shall be distributed among the states and territories In proportion to their popula tion according to the census or 1880. No action was taken on the bill. Among the nominations sent to the sen ate recently were the following: Postmasters: T. B. Conn, Kilbourn City, Wis. N. J. Benson, Torah, Minn. Thoinas Hall. Preston, Minn. H. L. Atchison, Chatfield, Minn.: Henry Silkker vett, Orange City, Iowa F. A. Winchell, Kingaley, Iowa L. J. Foulton, Cassel -ton. Dak. C. E. Dudley, Maryaville, Mont. Register of land offices: Gilbert W. Car rington, Ashland, Wis. Henry Cornelius, Menasha, Wis. W. M. Blanding, St.- Croix Falls, Wis. William Porter, Des Moines, Iowa J. R. Whiteside. Dead wood, Dak. William Colville, Duluth, Minn. James Creely, Redwood Falls, Minn. J. M. Adams, Spokane Falls, Wash.* Indian agents: J. D. Jenkins of Iowa, 8isseton. Agency, Dak. R. D. Gwydlr of Kentuckey. Colville Agency, Wash. HOUSE. The speaker announced ths standing committees ot the house. The president sent to congress a commu nication from the secretary ot the Interior submitting the draft of a bill "to provide for the protection of the Round Valley In dian reservation" in California. Following is a comparative showing of ths way Minnesota fared in ths present congress compared with the Forty-ninth: Fiftieth Congress—Rice, appropriations and expenditures in the war department McDonald, merchant marine and fisheries and public lands Wilson, commerce and coinage, weights and measures Llnd, post, offices Nelson, Indian affairs. Forty-ninth Congress—Strait, publie lands and education White, agriculture and mines and mining Nelson, Indian affairs Gilfilan, patents' and revision of the-laws Wakefield, postotfices. All the Minnesotians seemed satisfied ovsr the appointments, and spoke as though thsy hud gotten all that they could expect. Both Houses adjourned for several days to allow ths committees to get in working order. In the ssnats tions adopted Mr. Sabin presented lesolu* by the Farmers' Alliance of Washington County, Minn., asking lor legislation and the snforcsmsnt of the law to bring about certain reforms. They de-. mand the: reduction of railroad rates and control by ths government of. telegraph lines, favor ths Improvement of all leasibls waterways, demand ths re daction of the pnblle debt, ths use as mon ey of both .tifcecions metals, that the silver dollar be of the sams valusasagolddollar that taxes shall be reduced on the neces sariss of lite, and protest against reduc tion ot tax upon whiskey and tobacco, etc. .Senator oabin presented resolutions adopted by the city of Duluth, requesting an appropriation of money sufficient to re-, imburse the city lor its expenditure in the construction of a ship canal across Minne- {alse resident Senator Sabln also prssentSd tiers Of St. sota Point. a petition^ from the letter can Paul asking f6MncMasedeompenaation. He alto presented a petition from citizens ol Minnesota protesting against the addition of Utah as a State. Senator Davis pre sented a petition from the ex-prisoners ol war of Minnesota asking for pensions. The Blair educational bill came up, Mr, Kest opposed the bill. If he was called upon, hs said, to frame a title for it, ht would call it "An act to erect a monument to the memory of Alexander Hamilton, and to encourage mendicancy in thi Southern states." To sccept money under the terms of the bill would be to surrender all that made state*'authority respectable. He conclud rd: If this bill becomes a law it will be by Southern votes in this senate and in the other house of congress. But there is one place of refuge still left in the^constitution, the brave and honeet man who is now of the republic. Unless he is to the principles of his whole life and of the great .party which elected him he will interpose his executive veto in the path of this most abominable arid un democratic measure. The senate took up the resolution offer ed by Mr. Brown for the repeal of the in ternal revenue system to be an outrageous system of espionage^ injustice and wrong that ought to have,been abolished long ago. Senator 8herman introduced a bill to }unds rovids for the investment of certain in the treasury. It [directs the secretary of,the treasury from time to time to invest not exceeding 80 per cent ot the fund held in the treasury tor the redemption of notes of national banks "failed," 'in liquidation'* and "re ducing circulation," Vy the purchase-in open market of any bonds of the United States bearing interests. On motion of Mr. Spooner the senate passed a bill ap propriating $1,100,000 for a government building at Milwaukee. HOUSE. Congressman Llnd offered the following resolution, which was sent to the commit tee on public lands: Whereas, Congress, by an act entitled An act making an additional grant ol land to the state of Minnesota, etc., ap proved July 4,1886," made a grant of land to said state for the benefit of the Hastings & Dakota. By Mr. Lind to allow one day's pay and allowances for every 20 miles traveled by discharged commission ed officers of tlie^rebellion who bad served three years continuously during the war. Mr. McDonald introduced a bill provid ing for the repeal of so much of. Section 4093,Revised Statutes, as provides that no claim of a state militiaman for pension on account of disability from injuries received in battle with rebels or Indians while tem porarily rendering servic9shail be valid un less presented to a successful issue prior to July 4, 1874. Mr. McDonald al so introduced a bill providing that anv bona fide resident of the United State's who may have or who hereafter enlist in the army shall be considered from the time of such enlistment a citizen of the United States. Mr. Peel of Arkansas in troduced a bill in the house to open to settlement a portion ol the Sioux reserva tion in Dakota. Suicide by Dynamite. The death of the Anarchist, Lingg, by means of a detonator exploded in his mouth, is not the first self-murder 6f its kind. In 1876 a native of Al sace put a dynamite cartridge in to his mouth and fired it, with the result ol blowing his head and the upper part of hia body to pieces. In June, the same year, at Wicham Market,in Suf folk a woman named Solomon, the wile of an oil merchant, purchased a quantity of gunpowder, and, havina made a circle of it and placed hersefl in the midst, she fired the powder. The experiment was unsuccessful on ly slight injuries were inflicted on the woman. Thereupon she put a quanti ty of powder into a pail, placed her self over the bucket and applied ths match. On this occasion her injuries were more severe but for her purpose the explosion was again a failure and so she finished herself with a knife, At Nitshill, in Scotland, in October oi the same year a miner named Duncan obtained some dynamite and blasting fuse and went into the street, where he placed the dynamite on the ground, leaned over it ancj lighted the fuse. At this moment some boys, attracted by his unusual attitude, came toward him. MKeep back," shouted Duncan, "for the love of God, or you will be blown into eter nity!" The boys stood aloof in a few moments there was a loud explosion, and Duncan was blown to atoms. In September, 1881, a miner at Runcorn filled his mouth with gunpowder, light edit with a match, and succeeded in blowing the top of his head off. A more elaborate application of ex plosives to the purposes of suicide and murder combined was also record ed in 1883. At Dunedin, New Zea land, a clerk named Stephenson, who had been separated from his wile, met her the street and exploded a dy namite cartridge close to her head, his own head being placed at the same moment very near to hers. Both were almost completely blown off. But the most remarkable case occur red on the west coast of Africa. The King of Falaha being attacked by a Mahomedon force and finding resist ance impossible, assembled his family and principal officers, and after ad dressing them and intimating his de termination never to accept Mahom edanism, and inviting those who did not agree with him to go away, he ap- Ser lied alight to a quantity of gun-pow collected for the purpose, and blfew the palace and all who Were in it to pieces.—St. James,s Gazette. Christmas Story Boiled Down. Alta California. It was Christmas eve. Streets—brilliantly lit strop windows —toys—gay crowds—snow on the ground—everybody out—Christmas. Jane Allalone wandered all alone —crowd—sweety sad face, wistful eyes. Five years before James Goody goody—Christmas eve—betrothed to Jane—sailed away—India—ship lost —never heard of—foundered on the coast of Africa. Jane held on to hope, and her sew ing machine—never would marry— pined away, etc. AVilliam Baby body—rich, corrupt, dissipated—mortgage on Jane's moth er's house—also on woodshed—fore closure. Away villain! Rather poverty, crusts, etc. Turned out of doors—homeless! Down by the dark river—Pier No. 8 —about to make the fatal plunge. But just then the ship, with Capt. James W. Goodygoody, which had not been lost at all, came sailing up to the dock, loaded to the water's edge with china, silk dresses and tea. Capt. Goodycoody saw Jane strug gling, in the water. He fished her out with a boat hook, and hauled her on board his own good craft. ... "My Jane!" "My James!" The cook dried her at the galley stove, and although soaked with salt water, she looked as fresh as a daisy. In fact, Jane was a daisy, and don't you forget it. They were married on Christmas. COMmESSIOIIAL COMMITTEES. Tte Speaker Finally Annodnees Committees in the Boose of Hepresentatiyes. the The Work of the Speaker Being Con sidered, as a General lhing Quite Satisfactory. Following is the full list of oommittees, the first-named member ot each being chairman: Ways and Means—Mills, Tex.: McMillan. Vena: Breckenrldg&Arlc.: Breckenridgc, Ky. Turner, Ga. Wilson, W. Va Soott, Pa. Bvnam, Ind. Keller. Ps.: Browne, Ind. Seed, Me. Mo Klnlejr. O. Burrows, Mtcb. Appropriations—Randall, Pa. Forney, Ala Bnrnes, Ma: Foran. O.: Sayers,Tex:Clements, Ga Felix Campbell. N. Y.: Gay, LB. Bice, Minn: Cannons, 111. Ryan, Kan. Bniterworth, O.: Long, Mass. McComas, Md.: D. B. Hender son, la. Judiciary-Culbertson, Te*.: Collins, Mass. Seney.O. Oates, Ala: Rod tiers, Ark. Glover, Mo.: Henderson, N. C. Bnckale w. Pa Stewart, Ga.: £. B. Taylor, O.: Parker, N. Y. Stewart, Vt. Caswell, Wis. Adatns, III.: Fuller. Ia. Banking and Currency—Wilkin s, O. Snyder, «. Vh. Howard, Ind.: Dorian, 8. C.: Hutton. Mo. Bacon, N. Y.: Landes, III.: McKenney, N. H. Dingley, Me. Brnmtn, Pa. Woodbnrn. Nev.: Whiting. Mass. Wilbur, N. Y. CoinaKe. Weights and Measures—Bland, Mp. Norwood, Ga. Hemphill, S. C. Tracey, N. Y. Wilson, Minn.: Wilkinson, La. Martin, Tex.: Hall, Tex.: Hall, Pa.: Pavson, HI.: Kean, N. Y.: Vandevor, Cal. Belden, N. Y. Wickbam, Ohio Toole, Mont. Cominerce-^Clardey, Mo. Crisp, Ga.:Tarsney, Mleb. Rayoor, Md.: A. R. Anderson. Iowa: Lo gan. La. Wilson, Minn. Bryoe, N. Y. Pbelan. Tenn. O'Neill, Pa. Dnntiam. 111.: Davis, Mass. J. Anderson, Kan. Davenport, N. Y. Browne, Riveis and Harbors—Blancbard. La: Jones, Ala: Stewart. Tex.: Catching*, Mo.: Wise, Va. Snyder. W. Va: Gibson. Md. Fisher, Mich. Thompson, Cal. Henderson, HL Baine, Pa Grosvenor, Ohio: Nutting, N. Y. Stephenson. Wis. Cosrffwell, Masa Merchant Marine and Fisheries—Dunn, Ark. McMillan, Tenn.: Morse. Mass. Sprinter, 111. Hatch, Ma: Breckcnridge. Ky. CnmmlnKS, N. Y. MacDonaid. Minn.: iMngiey, Me.: Hopkins. HI. Felton, Cal.: Farquhar, N. Y. Clarke, Wia Agriculture Hatch. Mo.: Davidson, Ala Stahlnecker, N. Y.: Morgan, Miss. Glass, Tenn. Burnett, Mass. McClaininy. N. C. Biggs, Cal. Wbiting, Mich.: Funstou, Kan.: Hires, N. J. Laird, Neb.: Conger, Ia Pugsley, O. Patton, Pa. Dubois, Idaho. Foreign Affairs—Belmont, N. Y. McCreary, Ky. Norwood, Ga: C. E. Hooker. Miss. °Russell, Mass,: Ravuor, Md.: Chipman. Mich. Cathran, S. 0. Ketcbam, N. Y. Phelps. N. J. Hitt, LI. Rockwell, Mass. Morrow, Cai. Military Affairs—Townshend, 111. Tillman, S. C. Hooker. Miss.: Maish, Pa.: Spinola, N.Y. Ford, Mich. Robertson, La. Yoder, O. Steele, Ind Laird, Neb. Cutcheon, Mich. Gear, Ia.: Fitch, N. Y. Carey, Wyo. Naval Affairs—Herbert, Ala. Wise, Va Mc Adoo ,N. J. Whitthorne, Tenn. Rusk, Md. Cockran, N. Y-: Elliott, 8. C.: Abbott, Tex. Harmer, Pa. Thomas, III Goff, V/.Va Bou telle. Me. Haydeu, Mass. Postoffices and Post Roads—Blount,Ga: Dock ery. Mo. Mernman, N. Y. Ermentrcut, Pa Euloo, Tenn. Anderson. 111. Anderson, Miss. Montgomery, Ky. Rowland, N. C. Bingham, Pa Guenther,Wia Peters, Kan. Allen, Masa: WLite, N. Y. Lind, Minn. Caine, Utah. Public Lands—Holman, Ind. Laffoon. Ky. Stone, Mo. McRae, Ark. Wheeler, Ala Wash in to S to a is a so I Jackson, Pa. Herman, Ore. McKenna, Cal. Erastus J. Turner, Kan. Voorhees, Wash. J. L. Macdonald, Minn. Indian Affairs—Peele. Ark.: Allen. Miss. Sblvely. Ind. Perry. 8. C.: Hudd, Wis.: Mc Snane. Neb. Cobb, Ala.: Hare, Tex. Perkins, Kan.: Nelson, Minn. Lafoliecte, Wis. Darling ton, Pa. Alien, Mich. Gilford. Dak. Terrir-ories—Springer, IlL Barnes, Ga Cox, N. Y. Elliott, S. 0. Hayes, Iowa Kilgore, Tex. Mansur, Mo. Ford. Mich. Struble, Iowa Bai ter, N. Y.: Dorsey, Neb. Symes, Colo. Warner. Mo. Joseph, N. Mex. Railways and Canals—Davidson, Fla: McRae, Ark. Stone, Ky. Pidcock. N. J. Hayes, Ia Bryco. N. Y. Cobb, Ala. Carlton, Ga Plumb. Ill, Wilber, N. Y. McCormick, Pa Gaines, Va: Russell, Conn. PaoifloRiilroads—Onthaite. O.: Crain, Tex. Richardson, Tenn. Barnes, Ga Collins, Mass.: Caruth, Ky. Tracy, N. Y. Granger, Conn. Weber, N. Y. Holmes. Ia. Damsel), Pa Hovey, Ind. Mason, 111. _Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi luver—Catchings, Miss. GLASB, Tenn. Tarsley, Mich. Lawler, IlL: Montgomery, Ky. Walker, Mo.:.Robertson, La: Hall, Pa. Whiting, Mass. Morrill, Kan. Grant, Vt.: Scull. Pa Education—Candler. Ga.: Mahoney, N. Y. Crain, Tex. Carcth, Ky. Bnckalew, Pa Lane, HI. Cobb, Ala Pennington, Del.: O'DonnelL Mich.: J. D. Taylor.Ohio Russell, Conn. Bel den, N. Y.: White, Ind. Labor—O'Neill, Mo. Tarsney, Micb. Felix, Campbell, N. Y. Davidson, Ala Compton. Md. Candler, Ga: French, Conn. Burnett. Masa Buchanan, N. J. Bound. Pa Plumb, IlL Nichols, N. C. Houghen. Wis. Pensions—Bliss, N. Y.: Hutton. Ma Dough erty, Fla. Henderson, N. C. Barrv, Miss. Bank head, Ala Carlton, Ga.: Russell, Mms.:Struble, Ia Butler, Teon. Findley, Ky. IBulL Penn. Delano, N. Y. Manufactures—Bacoa, N. Y. Breckinridge, Ark.: Wilson. W. Va Bynum, Ind. McKinney, N. H.: Grimes, Ga. He-man, Ore. Bunnell, Pa: Hopkins, N. Y. Cronse. Ohio: Smith, Wla Mines and Mining—O'Ferrall, Va Foran, Ohio Candler, Ga Neal, Tenn.: Greenman, N. Y. Waiting. Mich. Lyucb, Pa, Biggs, CaL Woodbnrn, Nev. McCnllouzh. Pa. Gest, His. Flood, N. Y.: Nichols, N. C. Smith. Aria Pubtio Buildings and Grounds—Dibble, 8. C. T. D. Johnston, N. C. Sowden, Pa.: Neal, Tenn. Newton, La McSbane, Neb. Bankhead, Ala. Hogg, W. Va: Mil liken. Me. Wade, Mo. Lehl baek. N. J. Kennedy, Ohio Post, Ilia Militia—McAdoo. N. J. Forney, Ala Sowden, Pa 8eney. Oalo: Gibson, Md. Blancbard, La. Stewart, Tex: Spinola, N. Y. Lehlback, N. J. Wade, Mo. Owen. Ind. Vandever, CaL Mc Cormick, Pa Patents—Weaver, Iowa Tillman, S. C. Cowlea N. C.: Grimes, Ga.: Greenman, N. Y. Lane, III. Martin, Tex Vance, Conn. West, N. Y. Os borne, Pa. Smith, Wis. Thomas, Ky.: Arnold, B. I. Invalid Pensions—Matson, Ind. Pidcock, N. J.: Chipman, Mich Yoder, O.: Lane, IlL Lynch, Pa. French, Conn. Walker, Mo. Thompson, Cal. Morrill, Kas, Sawyer, N. Y. Guilingcr, N. H. Spooner, O.: Hurler, Ky. Claims Lanhaui, Tex Dougherty, Fla.: Shaw, Md. T. J. Campbell, N. Y.: Taulbee, Ky.: Simmons, N. C. Frenc", Conn. Lynch, Pa. Mansur, Mo. Baker, Hi. McCullough, Pa. Cheadle^Ind. Kerr, Iowa Bowden, Va Laid- War Claims—Stone, Kv.: Bliss, N. Y. Law ler, Ilia Stockdale, Miss. Granger, Conn. O'Nea'l,^ Ind. Pennington, Del. Wilkinson, La Hetetand, Pa. 'lhomas. Wis. Grouse, O. Gaines, Va, Brower, N. C. Private Land OluimR—McCreary, Ky. Weaver, Ii. Glover, Mo. Perry, S. C.: Severs, Tex. Washington, Tenn. Cockran, N. Y. Latham, N. C.: Dorsey, Neb.: Thomas, Wla Bowen, Va Wick ham, O. Gest, III. Smith, Ariz. District of Columbia—Hemphill, S. C. J. E. Campbell, O. Compton, Md. Heard, Mo. Ma honoy, N. Y. Latham, N. C.: Lee, Va Vance, Conn. Rowell, IlL Grout, Vt. Atkinson, Pa Romeia, O.: Brewer, Mich. Revision of the Laws—Oates, Ala. Turner, Ga Townshend, HI. Burnes, Ma: Matsou, Ind. Dibble,8. C.: Lanb»m, Tex. Hogg W. Va: Finley, Kv. Brewer, Mich. Yardtey, Ta Boothman, Ohio Butler, Tenn. Expenditures in the Stale Deportment—Morse, Mass. Belmont, N. Y.: Stewart, Ga. Lee, Va Atkins n, Pa. Bower. N. C. Kerr, Iowa. Expenditures in tho Treasury Department— Wheeler, Ala.: Culberson, Tex.: Simmons. N. C. Hall, Pa. Farquhar, N. Y. Gallingcr. N. H. Bowden, Va. Expenditures in the War Department—Laf foon, Ky.: Jones, Ala. Wilkins, Ohio Rice, Minn. ^Vainer, Mo. Arnold, R. I.: Delano. N. Y. Expenditures in the Navy Department—Scott, Pa: Herbert, Ala Morgan, Miss. Roneis,Ohlo: Sawyer. N. Y. Maffett. Pa. Expenditures in tho Pos(office Department— Dockery, Mo. Cowles, N. C. Merriman, N. Y. Anderson, Miss. Brown, Ohio Post, 111. Mot fett, N. Y. Expenditures in tho Interior Department— Hudd, Wis. Bliss. N. Y. O'Neill, Mo. Wash ington. Tenn. Brumm, Pa. West, N. Y. Brown, Va. Expenditures in the Department of Justice— Cowlea N. C.: Forney, Ala Hutton, Mo, Greenman, N. Y.. Thompsou, Ohio: Sherman, N. Y,: Hopkins, Va Expenditures on Pnbllc Buildings—T. J. CampbeJ, N. Y. Doughorty, Fla. Barry, Miss. Walker. Mo. Miliiken, Me. Yaidley, Pa. Yost, Va Accounts—Sbaw, Md. Sowden, Pa Hays, Iowa: Grimes, Ga Lee, Va O'Don nell. Mich. Bound, Pa: Flood, N. Y.: Boothman. Ohio. Library—Stahlnecker, N. Y. Davidson. Fla. Gay, La. O'Neill, Pa. Owen, Ind. Enrolled Bills Fisher, Mich.: Enloe, Tenn. Carlton, Ga. Kilgore, Tex. Holmes, Ia. Ken nedy, Ohio. _Printlng—Richardson, Tenn. Gibson, Md.: Hiestand, Pa. Reform in the Civil Service—Clements, Ga. Dargan, 8. C. Stone,Mo. Bryce, N. Y. Rusk, Md.: Phelan, Tenn. Abbott. Tex. Anderson, La. Bayne, Pa Hopkins, IlL Spooner, R. I. Fitch, N- Y. Tliomas, Ky. The Election of President and Vice President— Ermentrout, Pa Crain, Tex. Peel, Ark. Cum mlnga N. Y.: Lagan, La Lawler, 1*1.: Cothran, S. 0. Rowland, N. C. Baker. IlL Osborne, Pa Brown, Ohio: Baker, N. Y.: Kean, N. Y. Eleventh Census—Cox, N.' Y. Blonnt, Chi.: Holman, Ind.: Clardy,Ma Seney, Oblo Taul bee, Ky. Perry,-8. C. Newton, La: McKenna CaL /. D. Taylor,Ohio Hopkins, Va Maffett, Pa. Sherman, N. Y. _Indian Depredation Claims—Whitthorn, Tenn Dnnn, Ark. Howard, Ind. Allen, Miss. 6hlv ley,Ind. Hare. Tex.: Bigga CaL: Buchanan, N. J. Symee, Cola: Bunn, Pa Brown, Va Hopkins. N. Y. Williams, Ohio. Ventilation and Acoustics Landea Ind.: Compton, Md.: Davidson, Ala Vance, Conn. White. Ind. Haugen, Wis. Williams, Ohio. Alcoholic liiqusr Traffic —J. E. Campbell, Ohio Blend, Ma Merriam, N. Y. McBae, Ark. Anderson. III. McClammy. N. C. Hnnter, Ky.: Cbeadle,Did. Moffett, N. Y. Yoat, Va Ail Palmyra, Neb., Tom Buttsfield, a yonng farmer, was arrested and charged with murdering his father and mother. On Dec. 24 he brought home some whisky which, it is claimed, was poisoned by him and given to hia parents. The father died suddenly and soon after the mother also died. The motive for the crime is un known, unless for the purpose ot securing ths property. Buttsfield was married, to aa estimable young lady a tew days ago, UIMESOTA NEWS. GOV. McOlLL QN MICH LICENSE. He Explains the Provisions and Probable Effect of the High Li cense Law In Letter to a New York Paper. McGill ler, asking for information regarding ths effects of the high license law in Minnesota: •St. Paul, Jan. 6, 1888.—Owing to the time at which licenses were leaned the law did not go ioto effect in this ci(j until Jan. 1, and in consequence of ths delay in pre paring for the law here, saloonkeepers were granted until about Feb. 1, prox., in which to comply with its requirements, so that it will be impossible at thin time to state any concise facts regarding results in St-. Paul. With a very few excep tione tho law throughout the state is in force, and, generally stated, there has been a reduction in the number of saloons ot over 1,600. Whift the effects of the law with regard to the dlmunition of drunkenness must na turally be of a more or less speculative de nomination, still there are many facts which fairly warrant an inference that there i* much less than before the law went into operation. As evidence of this I quote you the opinion ot Blshoplreland, together with some of his personal obser vations in the southern half of the state, known as the parish of St. Paul: "In Winona," said the bishop, "there is a very large Polish population, perhaps eight hundred families, mainly composed bf mill hands, and formerly there was a good deal of intemperance among them. Thore is now but one saloon in Winona in* etead of ten, and the bank deposits of the Polish people are unusually large. Cal edonia, Houston county, was formerly composed of a large drinking population. Now there are but four saloons where there wero formerly fifteen. In many of tho smaller places drunkenness has disappeared altogether. Kil kenny, formerly a constant source ol dis order, is now one of the quietest villages in the .state. All classe* of people arc pleased—Germans, Polanders and French —all through the country. If there was a popular vote to-day as to high license in Minnesota the majority would be over whelmingly in its favor. It is the solution ol the temperance question its benefits are already appreciated by the people, and it would be impossible to change the high license law of Minnesota to-day. Tbe financial feature of the Minnesota law is one of its many admirable features." It is doubtful if any one in the state is better able to judge of the general effect of this law with respect to drunkenness than Bishop Ireland, and I have therelore quot ed him at some length. What the opera tion of this law may lie in St. Paul, it is, of course, ditiicult to say but the number of npplications already made is misleading as to the number of licenses that will be taken out, from the fact that time yet re mains for tho saloonkeepers to determine whether or not they will continue to sell under the new law. It is not probable that there will be more than 350 licenses taken out in this city, where hereto fore there have been 750 saloons. Very truly, yours. A. R. MCGILU News is received of S. H. Baker, the Min neapolis defaulter, from bis home in Cana da. Mrs. Sabin gives a brilliant reception at Washington. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail way company will build the finest hotel at Minnotonka in excelsior this spring. At the annual meeting of the Duluth, Fergus Falls & Southern railroad the fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Jacob Austin of Fergus Falls vice president, C. E. Gray of St. Louis treasurer, E. E. Corhus of Otter Tail county secretary, James A. Brown, Otter Tail county. Pensions granted to citizens of Minnesota J.P.Wilson, St. Cloud D. S. Estabrook, Minneapolis J. McKnight, Crow Wiug^ J. Hand, Morristown A. A. Mudge, Blue Earth City A. W. Clark, Dassel J. Pat terson, Dassel W. W. Giilett, Hector W. F. Smith, Oakdale P. O. Fiskuin, alias P. Ohleson, Pelican Lake J. H. Bonesteel, Spring Valley L. Cantleberry, Otto J. Bitzer, Wacouta I. Ballard, Waseca J. Earley, Jr. Fountain. President Washburn, General Manager Underwood and Engineer Rich, of the Soo road, are now at Sault Ste. Marie confer ring with Sir Donald Smith and other officials of the Canadian Pacific road in re gard to th6 operation of regular through truins from Minneapolis to the seaboard. At St. Peter Operator Obland, of the Omaha depot, surprised three men who had broken into the depot. They got out but left their tools. They had just com menced drilling the safe. The operator no tified the police, who followed them up und caught five of the gang at Kasota. He also received S150 of stolen property. They gave their names as Frank Spencer. Daniel Clark, M. Connelly James Ryan and John Bailey. The lirst regular flour shipment over the newly opened Soo road was made on tlis 5th, and was a novelty in its way. The so-called Hour train was really made up of five distinct freight'trains, and .will travel thirty minutes apart between Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie, where they will be transferred to the Canadian Pacific and carried to tide water, at Montreal. The transfer of the Northwestern Car company's property to the Minnesota Thresher company is completed at Still water. The price at which Referee Willis ton, who was present at the transfer, knocked down the property to the Thresh er company was $1,105,000.75. Of that amount $100,000, in accordance with an order of court, accompanied the bid §440, C00 cash was paid into court by the Thresher company $23,700 collected by Receiver Brown was applied on payment of the purchase price and bonds were giv en to secure payment of tho balance. Tim Barrett's senlence was suspended at Minneapolis uutil Jan. 12. The new science hall at Hamline Uni versity near St. Paul was formally dedica ted recentiy. Science hall is the finest of all tlie Hamline buildings, being construct ed^ of red brick, is three stories in height, 96x58 feet ground dimensions, with a one si ory wing, 02x45, which is devoted to a laboratory. The structure cost over ?30, 000, and was presented to the president of the university freo from debt. The two main floors are divided into eight class rooms, and the basement is being fitted for a gymnasium. The university is free from debt and has a largo and growing en dowment fund. The daughter of Mrs. Erickson.the wom an murdered near Rush City,is said to have been outraged by a Minneapolis man. „When arrested Heinaman admitted the act, but denied that he used force to ac complish it. The Mankato board of trade has elected the folowing directors for the ensuing year: John A. Williard, John N. Hall, J1 C.Wise, J. ('. Noe, John Klein, J. Washburn. G. E. Brett, G. T. Barr, W. Farr, W. It. Geddes, M. G. Willard, J3. Tuttle, H. P. Christen sen, F. G. Ileinze, E. M. Pope, M. O. Sundt, W. B. Walker. S. F. Barney, H. P. Jensen, James Shoemaker. At NorthOeld the college begins the new term prosperously, counting among its many blessings a new legacy of $14,000, bequeathed by the late David Whitcomb of Worcester, Mass., to be used for tho as sistance of indigent students. Of this amount (5,000 is payable now, and the remainder within five years. The Rice County Union Agricultural so ciety has elected the following officers: W. G. Sawyer, president E. Spear, vice presi dent C. H. Pierce, secretary B. F. Wood man. treasurer ,T. J. Alexander, Joel P. Heatwole and A. W. Riddell, delegates to the annual meeting of the state society. The old English custom of holding Twelfth Night Frolics was observed in 8t. Paul by members ot St. Paul and Christ churches. The examining board granted a commis sion to H. 1*. Sweet as captain ot the First Minnesota battery,-vice Captain Shay, dis missed. Captain 8weef standing was 95. At St. Paul, postmaster William Lee took formal possession of his office Friday morning Oth inst., and ex-postmaster David Day took final leave. The employes ol the postoftice assembled in the large room occupied as the postmaster's office, and presented Dr. Day with a handsome French clock. George Abresch, twenty-one years old, and a resident of Oakdale. was held by Judge Nethaway at Stillwater in $1,000 to appear at the next term of the district court to answer the charges of seduction under the promise of mnrriage. Tlie com plainant. Miss Tillie Otto, is twenty.two years of age, and lives in St. Paul. Tlie defendant admits the criminal intimacy, but dfnies the promise of marriage, THE ANNUAL DEATH Familiar Namee That the WorM Onoe Knew-Solentlsts, Hsrosa. Sold lore, Poets end Rulers- Tbe necrology of tbe vast bt found to indnde unusually prominent namee in every department of lifs. Tin year 1887 has been peculiarl^jad in tbe loea oi atxong men in Hterature and tbe sciences. The list follows:.» January 2. Bishop Horatfo^Pdtter. January 8. Brev. Brig. Geo. Thom as Duncan. January 0. .William Ballentipa. Efr lisb jurist. January 10. John Boach. January 11. £ord Iddeeleigh. January 14. Henry B. Stanton. January 16. Jen. W„ B. Hasen.— Prof. Edward Olney, mathematician, January 18. Pro! E. L. Tooniane. January 28. Cardinal Caxenat of Lyons.-^Sir Joseph Whitwortik in* V6DtOf* January 24. Gen. Charlee P. Stone. January 28. Commodore P.) CL Johnson. February 8. Charles Wenl* com poser. February 0. Mrs., Henry Wood, February 13. Bishop Wm. Mafxer Green of Mississippi. February 14. Philip Bourke Mara ton, poet. February 28. Cardinal JaoobmL March 4. Mother Angslia of the Sis ters of the Holy Cross.—Ei*8ioator James Mackin March 5. Charlee J. Peterson au thor. March 8. Henry Ward Beeeher.— Capt. Jatnes B. Eads. March 10. William R. Travers. March 15. Eben Pills bury, Maine politician. .. March 24. .Eliza Wethersby, actress. March 29. Dr. Bay Palmer, poet and clergyman. March 31. John G. 8axe, poet. April 4. Catherine L. Wolfe. April 6. Gen. Thomas W. Conway. April 12. Bishop Albert Lee ot Del aware. April 19. Earl of Longford.—Ex Congressman Archibald J. Weaver.— President Alexander Mitchell of tbe CL M. & St. P. R. R. April 20. Lieut. John W. Danen bower, explorer. May 5. W. C. De Pauw, philan thropist. May 6. May 9. James Grant, novelist. Samuel Cousins, R. A.* en- graver. May 14. Justice W. B. Woods. May 22. Col. Richard West, Ken* tucky horseman. May 24. Dr. Thomas F. Rooches ter, Buffalo. May 26. Lewis B. Lent, showman. logician. June 4. Wheeler. Ben: Perley POore. Thomas Spencer Baynes, May 29. June 1. E»Vice President Wm. A. June 6. Ex-Chief Justice Mercer. Pennsylvania. June 8. Prof. Hermann, prestidigi tator. June 9. Major John H. Ewing, un cle of Jame9 G. Blaine.—Editor C. D. Keep of the Wall Street News. June 11. Bishop Stevens of Penn sylvania. June 15. Sinclair Tousey, publish er. June 16. President Hitchcock of Union theological seminary. June 17. Mark Hopkins. July 2. Judge Luke P. Poland of Vermont. July 4. Ex-Governor Anson P. Morrill of Maine. July 5. Edward Lamb, comedian. July 14. Herr Alfred Krupp, gun founder. July 15. Vice President, A. 0. Hill New York stock exchange. July 18. R. M. T. Hunter, confed erate secretary of stg-te. July 19. Mrs. Thomas Scott, Phil adelphia society leader. July 20. Miss Jennie Collins, work ing girls' friend. July 25. President John Taylor, Mormon. July 28. Frederick Nelson, New York society man. July 29. Agostino Depretis, diplo mat. August 9. Henry Hastings, Boston, merchant. August 10. John M. Gay, son of Aenry Clay. August 18. phrenologist. Prof. O. S. Fowler, August 19. Alvan Clark, telescope maker.—Spencer Fullertou Baird, scientist.—George Brinsky, Cleveland's substitute. August 22. Aaron J. Vanderpoel, jurist. August 31. Camp meeting John Al len of Maine, agen 92. September 2. Bishop Wm. L. Har ris. September 4. Mrs. J. B. Vincent, actress. September 13. Capt. Mike Cregan. September 14. Ex-Governor Luke P. Blackburn, Kentucky Lady Bras sey, author. September 17. Col. Joseph Cilley, New Hampshire, oldest ex-senator. September 21. Gen. Wm. Preston, Kentucky. October 3. Mile. Aimee, actress. October 6. Ex-Governor Wm. B. Washburne. October 8. 'Maurice Strakosch. October 11. Thomes C. Manning, United States minister to Mexico.— George Fordham, English jockey. October 12. Mrs. Craik (Dinah Ma ria Mulock), authoress. October 22. Ex-Minister Elihu -B. Washburne. November 17. Baker Pasha (Col. Valentine Baker), English army. November 19. Miss Emma Lazarus, poetess. December 5. Lord Lyons, ex-British minister to the United States. December 18. S. P. Rounds, ex-pub lic printer. December 24. Daniel Manning. mtm Howltobe Healthy. In a recent lecture at Indianoplis, Ben Hogan, the reformed pugilist, said: "I have seeu thousands of young men apparently on the verge of the grays grow strong by following this daily routine: When you get up in the morning rub yourself with a rough towel until the blood is in cir culation, and then take a cold bath. Never take a cold bath without getting the blood in circulation, for i£ is dangerous. After the bath rub the fle9li for three-quarters of an hour. Then take a ctip of tea and eat some toast, and start out for a half-hour's walk. Don't plod slowly along the streets, but walk as rapidly as your legs will carry you. When you re turn you are ready for breakfast. Eat rice, mutton chops and to^st, and drink tea. II you area business man you are ready for business. Old Men's Wives. Ben Butler resently said: "As an old man, I am a little interested in old men marrying. It is a question whether I may pick'out a wife to take care of me and my property, or whether my children should be allow ed to do it for me. I may want to select a wife to take care of my prop erty who may have more children.- It is a matter that concerns all old men. Too frequently children say to their fathers: 'Father* you must not mar ry again, but if you do, the wile whom you select must be one of our ctiom,'