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The De Smet Leader.
PUBLISHED SATURDAYS
BY THE
Leader Publishing Co.
BROWN <fc SHERWOOD, Editors.
TEH MS:
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A late writer Hays, one of the mos
effective ways of making the farm home
happy is to rake off the mortgage. This
is doubtless true, but abetter way is
never to let a mortgage get on it, save
in a case of dire necessity. How some
people can spend their whole lives in a
mortgaged home, passescomprehension
liint year 525,000,000,01)0 gallons of
jager beer were made in the United
States, on an average of about fourteen
gallons to each inhabitant. A beer mug
usually contains half a pint, wo aie told,
so that the amount of malt liquors man
ufactured last|year was divided up into
4,200,000,000 drinks, which at five cents
adrink would amount to $210,000,L30.
Beci has been termed a German nation
al beverage, but these statistics show
that it is fast becomingi an American
beverage.
A law f«*r the encouragement of large
'families has been proposed in France,
and considering the growing tendency to
ward celibacy in that country there is a
good deal of sense in it. The law pro
vides that every head of a family who
has more than four children shall be en
titled to a reduction of fifteen per cent,
on his annual taxes, and to an addition
al reduction of five per cent, for each
child in excess of live. In case the
father does not pay taxes in excess of
100 francs a year he shall he entitled to a
premium of 200 francs for his fifth child,
300 francs for his sixth, 100 for the sev
enth, and so on.
t en. Beauregard m represented assay
ing there is a steady diminution in the
number of negroes in those parts of the
Booth that have come under his observa
tions. (ten. Beauregard’s view is not
borne out by the census. In 1800 there
we.e 4,441,000 negroes in the United
Rates; in 1870, 4,880,000; in 1880, 0,580,-
000. The increase from 1800 to 1870 was
440,'000; and from 1870 to 1880 it was 1,-
700,000, the rate for the last decade hav
ing been 35 per cent. The entire popu
lation of the country increased not quite
40 per cent.in this last decade; so that
the negroes show n larger percentage </
increase than the most of the population
•hows. This’indieates pretty clearly that
•the negroes arc holding their own.
lowa has recently been the scene ot
several lynchings of murderers and out
aws, ami the general verdict is that
hey richly deserved their fate, but that
death should have foliowod such crimes
as were committed by them in “duo
course of law*' rather than at the bands
of the outraged people, lint tins law
having f. Vied there was no other meth
od of administering justice. The l)es
Moines Register has some remarks on
this business w hich are of general appli
cation. “Human life has been cheap
ened in lowa, and nearly as much by
lenient courts as by murderous men,
until the people feel that by Judge
Lynch alone may its value amt security
be enhanced and murder discouraged-
For twenty years not a murderer has
been banged in Iowa! A reliable and
intelligent gentleman w ho has paid spe
cial attention to this subject, says that
two hundred or more persons have l»een
murdered in lowa in these twenty years
in which not a single murderer has been
banged, and a very few sent to the pen
itentiary for life. The number of mur
derers lie gives is high—wo think too
high—but we may readily believe i
when this one county contributes four
teen of the number, and we do not
know but five or six more. What a
comment on the efficiency and the
faithfulness of the lowa courts in this
With courts so faithful, with able law
yers ready to lend their ability to iimr
derers, not only to gain for them a light
punishment, but to turn them loose to
goon killing, and w ith murder trialshav
ing no result but to impose enormous
costs ami acquit the murderers, what
wonder is there that Judge Lynch is ap
pealed to?”
Referring to the recent army scandals
arising from too much poker, the New
York Times sarcastically says: “What
must he done at West Point is to place
the department of poker in the charge of
a professor who thoroughly understands
the modern game, and who will teach it
at least as well as it is taught in any oth
er institution. Such a man as ex-Mmis
ter Schenck, could his services Im* ob
tained, would soon place West Point
abreast of the age in poker. Doubtless,
the West Point cadets are well educated
in many branches of mathematics, but
they must be so educated in poker that
there will be an end of scandals caused
by incom|H*tant poker players on the
part of army otlicers. It is disgraceful
that a West Point graduate should be
unable to hold his own against a civilian,
and should thus be tempted to employ
o poker government funds intrusted to
a for other purposes. Let him be a
thorough master of the game—one who
knows just when to coine in and when
to stay in, who has the whole science of
drawing at his fingers’ ends, and for
w hom no jack pot lias the slightest ter
rors, and we can once more feel proud
of West Point.
The police at Boston are looking for John
L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist, who is
charged with a serious assault on his wife.
They have hunted high and low for him for
the last two days without success. Thurs
day night he wound up an extensive spree
by going home in a decidedly ugly frame
of mind. He began to abuse his wile, and
beooming angry at her remonstrances, pro
ceeded to main'aih his reputation by souar
ing off and knocking her out in one round.
Sullivan is on prohatiun now for a similar
otfeme and it is more likely that it will go
hard with him if he is ever brought Into
court again.
Gov.-elect Hale of New Hampshire
has gone down to Boston harbor and paid
175,000 for forty acres of land at Point
Shirley, intending to erect a summer
resilience for his own use there.
The De Smet Leader.
VOLUME I*
PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.
Postmasters commissioned: lowa, George
F. Kchaad, Lakeside; Wisconsin, Margaret
Hart, Gardner; Minnesota, Daniel Peterson-
Crow Lake. A new postofilce was estab,
fished at Praha, Dak. Postmasters who
desire to leave their jnist-s hereafter for rec
reation or other purposes will have to un
dergo considerable personal inconvenience
to accomplish such a result. They will tie
granted leave of absence by the post office
department, provided their surities are no
tified urn] approve the; anting of the leave.
Besides, they will be required to leave their
offices in charge of comjieteut and sworn
assistants.
Washington S|**cial: In an interview
this morning with Chi Young, secretary of
the Chinese legation at Washington, he
stated that there was no doubt if France
should refuse to recognize the sovereign pro
tectorate of China over its dependency of
Anam, hostilities would be inevitable —that
while the cause of the quarrel was strictly
between the Anaiuese and the French, China
could not afford to permit any interference
of France, even if countenanced by ttie king
of Anam, the vassal of China, and would in
terjMjse at all hazards.
There is a scheme on foot to induce con
gress to authorize and bear the expense of
the preparation and publication of an of
ficial history of the United States, covering
the |>eriod between 1789 and I*B9. The
promoters of this scheme are evidently at
work to secure the aid and co-operation of
historical societies and kindred «>r> au
izations with a view to using the influence
thus obtained with senators and represen
tatives next winter.
The Major Wasson prosecution has been
emasculated by the payment of the full
amount of the deficit. The major prior to
his arraingnment drew a check for the full
shortage on the First National bank, Gal
veston, and the same was tendered to Chief
Paymaster Terrell in satisfaction. The
check was forwarded to Galveston, and
notification of payment has been received.
The effect of the settlement is variously es
timated, but the friends of the accused tiope
for acquittal.
11A l LKO A 1) li UMIt LINUS.
The annual meeting of the Chicago, Ht.
Paul, Minneapolis *fc Omaha stockholders
was held Saturday at Hudson, Wis. The
meeting was purely a business one, and
nothing outside of regular routine work was
done. At the meeting 214,980 shares—l33,-
109 common, and 81,777 preferred—were
represented, and participated in t':e vote of
directors which resulted in the selection of
the following gentlemen: Marvin Hughitt,
Albert Keip, Augustus Schell, J. C. Sjtooner,
H. McK. Twonihley, W. K. Vanderbilt, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, W. D. Washburn, M. L.
Sykes, Pbiletus Sawyer, K. P. Flower, David
Dows and A. H. Wilder. OftheseMr. Keip
and the Messrs. Vanderbilt were elected for
three yeais, Mes-rs. Schell and
Sykes for two years, and
Messrs. Hughitt and Spooner for one year.
The others held over from the previous
election. In addition to the election of di
rectors the regular quarterly division of Ijf
j»er cent, on preferred stock was declared,
payable July 20. The books will be closed
June .'Jo and opened again July 24. Subse
quently a meeting of the directors was held,
ami the following gentlemen were chosen as
officers: President, Marvin Hughitt; vice
president and treasurer, M. L. Sykes; secre
tary, C. W. Porter. S. O. Howe was also
elected assistant trastirer, with headquarters
at New York. Executive committee: Mes
srs. Hughitt, Keip Schell, B|*ooner and W.
K. and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Northern Pacific earnings the fourth wpivV
of May increased $22,900, Omaha, $8»000
ami Manitoba decreased $91,090. The re
l>ort <>f the Milwaukee A St. Paul railway
tor May shows an increase in earnings over
the corrcsjHHiding month of lad year of
$409,098. The increase from Jan. 1 to June
1, 188.'!. is $1,114,293. The increase in earn
ings is 15 j»er cent, while the increase of
mileage is only 8 per cent.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES .
The Lake Minnetonka Navigation com
piny, become the po-sessor and owner o
the tine fleet of steam boats that navigate
the waters of the bake Beautiful. The
Minnetonka steamboat company sold to the
new coloration the belle of Minnetonka,
and diaries A. Zimmerman sold to the
same concern the steamers Lotus, Hattie
M*y, Minnea|K>)is and Saucy Kate. The
officers of the Lake Minnetonka Navigation
company arc as follows: President, P. S.
Davidson of La Crosse; general manager,
Charles A. Zimmerman; secretary and treas
ur» r, William Secomne. The Belle of Min
netonka has been completely overhauled
and refitted. Her tex as has been converted
into an o|*en navillion and her cabin has
been extended forty feet, so as to form a
magnificent ladies' parlor. The splendid
boat can now safely carry and accommodate
2,500 passengers. Capt. Charley Sencerhox
is to command the Moating palace this sum
mer. The present that the
Belleof Minnetonka is now the finest speci*
men of naval architecture to be found any
where on western waters.
The Freeman’s Journal, the leading Cath
olic newspaper of America, declares the
recent encyclical to Irish bishops was not
issued by the pope, as many have thought,
hut by the propaganda. It also gives dif
ferent translation from that given by the
londcu Times, which changes materially
the phraseology and purport of the let»e\
The difference is caused, it is claimed, by
translating it according to scholastic I*atin,
W4JIV-H AO 41 ... ...1< f.M.tu 4 C w.u.i, M.lu
by translating it according to ecclesiastical
Latin, which is followed by Mr. McMasters.
The main jioint of difference is that where
the London Times makes it ap|>ear an anti-
Irish-document, that of Mr. McMasters, the
editor of the Frveman’s Journal, shows how
Cardinal Simeoni, prefect of tlie prop
aganda, holds that the right of the Irish
people to struggle for liberty is an impre
scriptible onv.
One of those unfortunate consummations,
so apt to follow a marriage in haste, is to
be recorded in St. Paul. In IM7l> Miss
Catherine P. Mann, daughter of Walter
Marm, one of St. Paul’s most resected citi.
zons, met, while visiting White Bear lake,
one James J. Burns, alias Burgin. Burns
was a fascinating sort of fellow, and the
acquaintance soon resulted in an attach
ment lietween the parties, who were wedded.
The young husband seems to he destitute of
ttie qualities his wife attributed to him, and
after nearly four yuirs of wedded life, dur
ing which the relations of the pair have
been anything tint pleasant, Mrs. Burns has
been inq>e!led to sue for a divorce on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treatment.
The American medical association in ses
sion at Cleveland adopted a resolution pe
titioning State legislatures to enact more
stringent laws regarding the sale of deadly
poisons. A resolutions was adopted advo
cating the establishment of schools to train
nurses for the sick. A resolution offered
by Hr. Hollock of St. l/ouis, to revise the
code of ethics, created a sensation, and was
hurriedly lan’ed for the year.
DE SMET, KINGSBURY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE IG, 1888.
The Congregational Aim ricati Home Mis
sionary union met at Syracuse, N. Y., this
year. The cash receipts for the year were
$37,100: missionaries employed, 1,150; Sun
day school ami Bible class scholars, 109,-
038; churches ami stations statedly supplied
2,059; the year's resources were $398,810; to
tal expenditures and liabilities $358,912.
Kev. Dr. Woolsey of New Hhvcmi was
chosen president.
In the IT. S. court at Winona a verdict of
S4OO wes rendered against James Flynn for
cutting timber on government land, Joseph
Walsh, indicted for perjury in pre-emption
in the Duluth land district, pleaded not
guilty, and was held in SSOO to the next
remain and dance in the evening, which is
c.ntrary to the rules of the church.
Bish<]|> Elder of Cincinnati has directed
that no Catholic entertainment shall be
given in any hall or garden whose proprie
tor is unwilling to close the place up lie
fore dark. The regulation is intended to
remove the temptation to the young to
term. Charles Pelleter and Stephen Pen
nington have been indicted for the same of
fense as above.
Capt. Olson of the Norwegian bank, Inga,
hasurrived in New York, and says that on
the 14th of February, when eighty miles
northwest of Kugano, a violent earthquake
was encountered, during which the water
foamed and rose to a considerable height,
going up in nearly straight columns, ami
broke with great force over the vessel’s
decks.
A suit will be brought at Nashville,
Tenn., in a day or two against the estate of
Thomas O’Connor, iuvolving SIOI,OOO, the
alleged profit of joint specula ion between
O’Connor and Ex-Treasurer Polk in Tenn
essee bonds. The state sues to cover the
defaulting treasurer’s share of the profits.
Thedirectors of the Baptist Theological
seminary of Chicago have just received $40,-
000 from John I). Rockfeller of Cleveland,
Ohio, toward their desired endowment fund
of a quarter of a million.
More than 1,0(H) members of the Dickin
son family from all parts of the Union are
expected to be present at the Dickinson
family reunion ut Amherst, Mass., on Aug.
8 and 9.
James Baker wants SIOO,OOO of the gold
dust of the Methodist Book concern, and
he is going to the bedrock of the law after
it.
The Spanish law prohibiting the landing
of free negroes except on the payment of
SI,OOO has been repealed.
Competition with convict labor has com
pelled several New York foundries to re
duce wages 10 i>er cent.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
John Bittner, Jr., fifteen years old, is on
trial at Riverside, Ohio, for arson being
charged with burning the Debus Cooperage
works in April, 18H2, entailing a loss of
SIOO,OOO. Two witnesses testified that the
hoy told them he set the place on fire; that
he made three attempts before and two
since, that his object was to get a rest. He
was employed in the factory.
Dr. Vawter, of Cambridge, 111., the lead
ing dentist of the place, was tied up to a
lamp jKjst ami whipped with a black snake
in Hoi toes Tilson’s hands, on suspicion of
having attempted an outrage on Sirs. Til
son. Vawter has witnesses to prove that
he was innocent. Tilson says there are six
other married men in the town that deserve
the same thing.
Frank Taylor, who was arrested a few
weeks ago for selling blankets from a gov
ernment steamer at Wabasha, pleaded guil
tv when arraigned in the Hutted States dis
trict court at Winona ibis week, and was
fined $ pin. In default of payment lie was
committed to jail for thirty days.
Adelaide Smith brought suit under the
the civil damages act in Brooklyn against
Patrick Demysy and Cornelius Clark, liquor
dealers, for selling liquor to her husband
and causing him to be a drunkard. The
jury gave her a veidict for $2,500.
Charles Hickling, charged with burning
the house of George Ogsbnry of Hnderw’ood,
a station on the Black Hills road, has been
held under SI,OOO bail to answer Indore the
grand jury.
Clarence Boyd, the young artist shot by
his brother-in-law, Hr. Barnes, in Louis
ville on Wednesday, died Friday. Barnes
was arrested and gave additional bonds of
SI,OOO,
H. Matheaen, bookkeejier for A. Nelson
of Rochester, Minn., was found to be short
in his accounts S2OO. He lias fled to Chica
go. Collaterals made good the default.
W. C. Moore of Victor, N. Y., who em
Ite.v.led $1 .‘IO,OOO from a bank there, has been
found near Atlanta, lowa.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
William E. Chandler is in Concord, ow
ing to the serious illness of his mother. He
thus answered an interogatory: “I refer
to a statement I have hertofore made,
which is that 1 am not, and under no cir
cumstances shod 1 be, a candidate as sena
tor at that session. Regarding the question
of two elections I am positive in the belief
that it will he illegal to choose more than
one senator at this time.”
(ieu. Grant could not l>e induced the
other day, to buy the famously good fried
chicken sold by the negro women at Chan
cellorsville, Va. He gave one of them a
dime, but refused the chicken. When told
after the train pulled out that she had been
talking to Gen. Grant, she saiu: “I thunk
he a was a great soiueitody % tant til >» ilit
fust man who evah paid to' a chicken leg
an’ didn’t eat it.”
The wife of I. H. De Wolfe, principal of
Minnesota academy, of Owatonna, died at
Yarmouth, N. 8., Satutday, June 2. Mrs.
He Wolfe had been removed to Boston for
treatment, but the skilled physicians de
cided that her case was hopeless, and stie
was removed back to Yarmouth, the home
of her childhood.
Albert C. Ives, late of the New York
Times, sailed on the City of Rome recently
to take |>art in the conduct of a new Amer
ican daily pajier. the Hispatch, to lie estab
lished in Paris July 31, by L. H. Chamber
lain, until recently private secretary to
James Gordon Bennett.
FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.
A stormy debate arose iu the house of
commons ou a motion to recommit the
Ix>rd Wolseley and Baron Alcesier annuity
bills, for the purpose of commuting the
proposed |iensious for lumpsums ol money.
Sir Wilfred Lawson (Radical) and Lord
Randolph Churchill (conservative) opt»osed
the motion. The latter alleged that lpquiry
into the Egyptian war was first neces
sary. The original war, he said, was dis
graceful. not glorious. As the government's
pup|iet, the kht-dive was the real author of
the massacres at Alexandria. Sir Stafford
Northcote (conservative) supported the gov
ernment. The op|Misition to the grants he
characterized as shabby. In the present
rai ing of a question as to the policy of the
war, he declined to be led by Churchill, and
he hn|«d the house would not be inducts!
by the noble lord to accept a ]*ositior. de
grading to its honor. Gladstone declaied
that Churchill’s allegation, in regard to the
khedive, was entirely at variance with all
evidence. Churchill promised to give
proofs of his statements, if the government
would grant a proper inquiry.
Next to t lie passage of the land and ar.
rears act, the most important victory gained
by the Irish parliamentary party is the ac
ceptance by the government of the labor
ers’ dwellings bill which was read a second
time without op|H)sition last week. If
passed in anything like the shape proposed
by its authors, it will create a revolution in
the iife'and condition of the most misera
ble portion of tlie population of Ireland. It
confers compulsory |>owers on local au
thorities, and provides for the erection of
suitable houses with varum plats for agri
cultural laborers. Uarliament having ac
cepted the principle, will be compelled to
carry the bill into effect in one way or an
other.
St. Petersburg (’able: By command of the
c/.ar a letter has been sent to Minister Hunt
asking him to convey the thanks of the
czar to President Arthur for the courtesy
shown in s(»ecially according Hunt to repre
sent (he United Srates at the coronation,
and also to express his majesty's gratifica
tion at Admiral Kaldwiu being sent on
board the frigate to attend the grand sol
emnity. M. De (tiers concludes by saying
it has been particularly agreeibleto his ma
jesty to see th ! s mau of consideration from
a nation “united to Russia by bonds of tra
ditiona 1 friendship.’’
A pamphlet h*s been distributed through
out St. Petersburg in which is rtproduced
the programme for self-government claimed
by the moderate party. The Journal de St.
Petersburg says: “None but a strong gov
ernment in which the • emperor shall
hold the t>ower, and hi:i subjects mec|
him with loving confidence, can ever
advance toward the solution of tiffs
greatest of pro denis. Such a government
only can deal wit i the work of organizing
Che country, and it dare not shrink from
grant 1 ng freedom to the j»eople.”
The Spaniards and Unbans, alarmed and
jealous over the treaty of commerce between
the United States and Mexico, are now dis
posed to make large concessions, esjsscially
in sugar, molasses and coffee. If the Anier
can congress showed the slightest disposi
tion to decrease the duty on Cuban imports,
Spain, it is said, would yield to a treaty of
commerce in deference to public opinion in
her colonies in favor of closer trade rela
tions with America.
A brilliant review took place reetitly on
the Petroffsky plain of 55,000 troops. The
emperor and empress left at 9 this afternoon
for Peterlioff. The outcome of the corona
tion will, it is thought in well informed cir
cles, be the adoption of conservative meas
ures at home and a pacific policy abroad.
Sulietnin Daoud and Mahmoud Sorni, ac
cused of setting fire to Alexandria at the
time of the British bombardment, have been
found guilty andsentenced to death. Eigh
teen officers found guilty of complicity in
the sams crime have been sentenced to vari
ous terms of penal servitude.
Gladstone’s statement in the house of
commons in regard to the c s TUtnstances of
Errington’s visits to Rome has given great
satisfaction to the Vatican. Errington is
about to leave Rome for England. He will
be given a private audience by the |>oi>e be
fore lie goes.
Table dispatch from London: (fen.
Hicks has just gained s great victory in the
Soudan over s,<h 0 Arabs, killing 500. The
Arabs light bravely as sa'red knights, but
their spears are useless against shells and
cannon. Gen. Hick’s loss was two killed.
War pr eparations on a great scale are l>e
ing made in China. Three corps of troops
are in readiness, and (lie Chinese fleet is
under orders to sail for Tonquin. The An
nmites have beheaded Father Bechet, a
Catholic missionary.
It is declared that the riots at St. Peters
burg. during the coronation were merely
drunken excesses of the lower classes, which
are openly licensed on such occasions.
The celebrated case of Miss Chafley to
annul her marriage, during the carnival
last winter, with a bogus I xml Canty re, is
on trial at Montreal.
The governor general ot Cuba having re
jKirted favorably concerning the state of the
island, over 1(H» exiles will be allowed to re
turn there shortly.
Count Tolstoi, minister of the interior,
lias been instructed to draft a law giving
greater liberty in charge of domiciles.
THE CASUALTY RECORD.
A storm at Albany, Wednesday, caused
damage estimated at $50,000. Houses were
undermined, cellars flooded, streets torn up
etc. Lightning struck several places. A
large derrick on the new capital, and the
flair staff on the Deiavan house were shiv
ered. No j»erson was injured. Weed, Par
son A Co., printers, sutler damages to the
extent of SIO,OOO by the flooding of their
cellar. The presses were damaged and a
large amount of pai>er ruined.
At Milwaukee the addition to the North
western Marine elevator, owned by Mari
gold Bros, ii Kershaw, burst under the
pressure of 150,000 bushels of No. 2 wheat.
The walls fell owing to the settling of the
foundations, and atmut 2,0n0 bushels slid
into the river. Seven tramps were seen doz
ing in its shadow a few minutes liefore the
crash and it is believed they were buried
under the ruin.
A braketuan named 0» Villard, in jump
ing on a moving train at Redwood siding,
broke an arm and hotn Knee caps, ihe
conductor of the prising train thought him
a tramp ami refused to stop and pick him
up, ami he lay live hours on the ground.
Both legs may have to be amputated.
By the explosion of twenty-five tons of
vulcauizer in the Ansonia rubber works,
College Point. Ding Island, Engineer Jack
son, Andrew Hoppe and William Kelley
were killed and two other workmen were
fatally hurt.
Ohio ltcpubltcan Ticket.
The state republican convention of Ohio
was largely attended at Columbus on the
(ith. The committe *on credentials retri
ed all delegations full and no contest.
When the name of Senator Sherman was
announced as permanent chairman the con
vention burst into wild enthusiasm and
long continued applause. He returned
thanks for the renewed honor from the re
publicans of Ohio.
The convention proceeded to the nomina
tion of a state ticket, Hon. Ben Butter
worth presentii g the name of J. B. Foraker,
Cincinnati, for governor. J. M. Dalzell of
fered the name of Sherman, and the con
vention again became wild and could only
he q ieted by Sherman rapping for order
vigorously. Then lie stated that he had not
lieen insensible to the preference of a large
number of delegates, hut he would say
frankly and firmly that he could not lie a
candidate. He rotild not surrender his du
ties in the senate in justice to the |ieople ot
Ohio and country. Aside from this he could
not accept a notmualion without feelings of
personal dishonor. Judge Foraker was then
nominated by acclamation unanimously.
Foraker appeared later and made a speech
of thanks, pledging his best efforts to the
cause and outlining tho importance of the
campaign.
The ticket was completed as follows:
Lieutenant governo , William Grove of
Cleveland; supreme j’ lge( long term), W. H.
Upson of Akron incumbent; supreme judge
(vacancy and long term). John N. Doyle of
Toledo, incuiiff>eiit—both by acclamation;
clerk supreme court, Dwight Crowell of
Ashtabula county, incumbent, by acclama
tion: attorney general, N. B. Earnhardt
of Miami county; auditor, Gen. Ogilvie of
Clark county; treasurer, John U. Brown of
Jefferson; commissioner of schools; 1). F.
Dewolfe of Toledo; member board of works,
Weltz of Wilmington.
The platform, after the usual encomiums
on the republican party, favored the main
tenance of a protective tariff; said that the
wood tariff should be revised; favoretl a
national bureau of laoor statistics; approv
ed the liquor amendments and the taxation
of the liquor traffic; endorsed President
Arthur; favored the repeal of the law limit
ing the time in which applications for pen
sions under the arrears of pension act shall
be made, etc., etc.
Horrible Method of Murder.
In the lajith Tredgar Iron Works at Chat
anoga, Tenn., on Friday last a difficulty
ccurred between two employes, Lafayette
Browder and William Thomas, in which
Browder tried to murder his antagonist by
burning him to death on a red hot iron slab
that was being prepared for converting into
nails. When taken from the slab Thomas
presented a sickening sight. From his
nead to his heels he was a mass of blister,
tffs hack amt legs being almost roasted to
crisp. The witnesses on the trial testified that
ttie appearance of tlie unfortunate man was
most horrible ami that a number of persons
were compelled to leave the presence of the
body to escape fainting. It was with dif
ficulty that Browder could be dragged off
the poor fellow, and he seemed dete* mined
to mast him alive. The muscles of the
shoulders and the tendons of the legs are
frightfully burned, and should the wretched
tnan recover, which is doubtful, lie will
hardly be aide fo work at bis trade. Thomas’
criei were heartrending, and Ids efforts
to escape tfie clutches of his tormentor well
told the agony he was suffering.
Ancient Order of United Workmen.
At the convention in Buffalo, the indent
Order of United Workmen debated at great
length and voted down a proposition of
lievi of Minnesota, to amend the constitu
tion to the effect that a suspended member
may pay his assessment to the financier of
the lodge to which he belongs, and such
action shall be equivalent to reinstatement.
A pro|M>sition to adjust and reduce the num
ber of representatives to the supreme lodge
was rejected. A proposition to send notices
of siis|>ension to subordinate lodge officers
for failure to make monthly returns was
referred to a committee. In the afternoon
the election of officers was proceeded with,
resulting as follows: Supreme At. W. M.
Fish, California; supreme foreman Milton
E. Beebe; supr, me receiver, 8. 8. Davis,
Pennsylvania, re-elected; supreme overseer,
W. G. Morris, Illinois; supreme watchman,
William 1L Graham, Iowa; supreme guide,
T. H. Presnell, Minnesota; supreme trustee,
B. Eccles, Jr., Missouri; examining physi
cian, Dr. W. C. Richards, Bt. Lome, re-elec
ted.
COMMERCIAL.
KT. PACK
Wheat—Them was no demand to speak of and
the market was dull. If anybody wanted to specu
late. they would bo inclined to sell short, but the
trouble would be to find purchasers, as there is no
trading spirit abroad Receipts and shipments
fair, hut not representing fresh transactions.
No. if hard was lower tn bids. Quotations arc weak
at the following: No. 1 hard, sl.l2 hj bid; July.
$1 15 naked; No. 2 hard. $1.07; No. 2, $1.02
both bi<is
Corn— Dull, and nothing doing. No bids. Tho
following were asking prices: No. 2,54 c, spot;
July, 55c; No. 3. .*lc; rejected, Die.
OATS—This gram was us dull us the others.
Nothing done beyond the making of quotations.
There was no real demand. No. 2 mixed, 38c bid,
39c asked; June, 39c asked; July, 40< asked;
year, 32c bid. 34c asked: No. 2 white, 39c bid,
•t(tc asked; No. 3 white, 38c bid, 39c asked; re
jected, 37c asked.
RYE— No. 2,52 c bid.
Daiu.ky Dull and unchanged. Prices uotuiual:
No. 2,09 c; extra No. 3,50 c; No. 3,49 c.
MILLHTUEPS Ground feed steady at $1H.80«21
asked, the Utter for kiln-dried. Kales: 1 car. $19.50.
Bran. $8 asked for sacked. Corn meal, coarse,
$18; bolted. outgoing, sl. KVA 1.40 per 100 lbs.
Dai.ki> Hat -Demand active, but for choice
only; that is m light supply. Wild. $9 bid;
timothy, sll asked.
MINNEAPOLIS.
Flour—With tho prevalent dullness and lower
prices at the seaboard, no improvement caa be ex
pected hero; shipments continue lartto and rates
■re Unchanged. Tho beat grades are quoted at
•7'«7.50 in C hicago, Local quotations: Patents,
*6.75-i7: straights, #5.7500 10; clears, ♦5.250
5 50; low grades; ♦2.2503.50
MIM.BTUFF—Another tumble at Chicago de
pressed tho market here for bran and shorts.
Quotations: llrati, ♦606.50 in bulk; ♦B<«sm 5o
sacked. Fine shorts, ♦8.5009: coarse, #8 <«8 .50;
mixed feed 1^10<«2), according to quality. Coarse
corn meal about $1 per ton below the price of
mixed feed.
WHEAT The market continues firm and steadt
Hah s of No. 1 hard were at $1.13%, with bids at
that ttguro for more and offerings free, #1.14. Quo
tations are as follows: No. 1 lurd spot, 1. ld^; seller
Juno, ♦ 1.14%: sellar July, *1.17; seller the year.
#1.10: No. 2 hard, fil.lo; No. 1 Northern, ifl.lo:
No 2 Northern, DH.OS: No. 3 Northern, #1.03:
Millers’ association prices are; No. 1 hard,
♦1.13; No. 2 hard, #I.OS; No 1 regular, #1.06:
No. 2 regular, #1.03; No. 3 regular 98c.
COHN—Holders art'flrm and bullish. Hales were
at 52c for No, 2 spot: 55c for seller August, and die
for coudeiuned. Quotations are: No. 2 spot, .T2c;
seller July, 53c; seller August, 55c; condemned,
49(8 51c. 7
Oath Continue weak, but arc not quotably
lower, at 3hc for/No. 2 mixed; white, ioc; re
jected, 36037 c by sample.
Miian acker Market—Flour, quiet and unchang
ed. Wheat, weaker; No. 2, ♦1.08; June, #l.oh;
July, 011*4; August, ♦1.12 m; Septeailier,
Corn, tnwn i, No. 2, i.v.«, 52 %c.
Oa*s. lower; No. 2, 39-Vc: white, 40 %c. Itye,
lower; No. I, 01c; No. 2,59 c. Harley, steady;
No. 2. 49'4c. Provisions, lower: mess pork, ♦18.55
cash and June: ♦! 8.05 July. Lard, prime steam,
♦ 11.55 cash and June; #11.65 July. Freight*—
Wheat to Ruffalo, neglected and nominal at 2\c.
llutter, dull. Cheese, lower Kgg>, weak, he
celpts—Flour, 11.576 bhls; wheat, 59,300 l*u;
barley, 12,17.1 bu. Shipment*—Flour, 18.042
bbls; wheal, 29,400 bu; barley, 2,080 bu.
Chicago Market.- Flour, dull and unchanged
Regular wheat iu fair demand; wheal unsettled
and generally lower; ♦1.09% June; #1.11%0
1.1 IV July; #1.13%01.13*. August; #1 14%
September; #1.15% October; ♦1.09 4$ year; No.
*2 Chicago spring. ♦1.0944; No. 3 Chicago spring,
93%c: No. 2 red winter, ♦1.12%. Corn, fair de
mand at lower rates; 55 55*40 cash and June;
500.50 *«c July: 56 : W156 %<• August; 56 Vt 56 45c
Hep'ember; 50%c year. Oats, weaker; 39%5*
39\,cra*h; 39\*; June; 39 : V July: 3i%c Au
gust; 31 1 4c September; 30%cy«‘ar. Rye, dull at
61V'. Flax seed, quiet at #143 ><143%. Pork,
demand active, unsi«ttl«Hl und lower; ♦18.400
18.50 rash; #18.40 «* 18.45 Juno; ♦18.454
18.47% July; #18.57%!*!* 00 August: #1*.07%
01*. 70 September; $1 6.40016. 4 5 year. Lard,
Irregularaud fairly active: 911.821)911.55 cash
and June: ♦11.55411.57% Juiy; ♦10.854
10.87% August: ♦10.67%010.70 September:
#9.8509.87% year. Bulk meats, lu fair demand
and lower; sliuOldc**. #7.50: abort ribs, ♦9.70;
do clear. ♦10.15. I r, steady and unchanged.
Egg*, quiet and v .. iged. Whisky, steady aud
um hanged. Fr< —Corn to liuffalo. 2 %c.
Call- Vv heat iu go<x. demand, declined j mc for June,
August and September. Corn, fairly active, shade
higher, advauced Sc for July August and Septem
t>er. Oats, irregular and fairly active, advanced
%c August; declined % September. Pork active
but lower; declined 2%cJnly; lo»- lower August
and Septendwir. Lard active but lower; declined
2%<’ June; 5c lower August aud September.
Receipt* Flour, 9.000 bbl; wheat, 59,000 bu;
corn. 327,000 bu; oats, 216,000 bu; rre, 23,000
bu; barley, 16,000 bu. Shipments—Flour, 8,000
bbl; wheat, 3,300 bu; corn, 537,000 bu; oata,
160,000 bu; rye, 45,000 bu; barley, 6.500 bu.
NUMBER 20.
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
THE DAKOTA CAPITOL.
\l<x*ii'lcr llai'lifMi ami Gov, Ortlway ltaucli
ririwwl with tlm Mlmmaota Structure—
Work to 4'oiiiuieiico at Ouco.
Alexander Hughes, Cloorge A. Matthows ami
John I‘. Holding, of tbo Dakota cubital removal
sointmsMou, were all in St, l’aul yesterday.
They fell iii with each other at the Merchant*
hotol, which gave them tho opportunity of
talking over future plane and prospects. The
mooting, however, wan without prcarrango
uient Tho commissioners havo wont out no
ticew to architects, inviting them to furnish
plane and specifications, accompanied by esti
mate*, uot to exceed $300,000, for a brick
capital building, to bo ereetod upou atone
foundation". The building imut bo suited
for tho State oxecutivo oflicea and thoassem
blv of tho two houses of tho legislature, and
must bo designed an tho main or central part
of a largo building. Tho commissioners re
serve the right to reject any and all bids, and
will pay only for tmeh plans and specification!!
as aro accepted. The bids will Ik) receivod up
to noon on tho sth of July. CapL. Hughes, as
chairman of tho building commit toe, occupied
a portion of his time yowtorday visiting various
St. Paul architects, and gutting an expression
of their views upon capitoi architecture. Ho
also visited tho Minnesota capitoi in com
pany with (iov. Ordway, who happened to
he in town, and with the latter was shown over
the building by (rov. Hubbard. Capt. Hughes
cxpri Hsed himself vorv much pleased with tho
capitoi, in conversation with a reporter, ami
■'aid that he was especially struck with the con
venient arrangement of the offices and rooms.
A building somewhat similar in its internal ar
rangement, at least, bo thought would bo suit
aide for Dakota He was surprised that a
structure of such substantial build, and well
furnished, could havo boon obtained for tho
amount of money expended, and hoped
Dakota might lie as fortunate in that direction
as Minnesota had been. Cupt. Hughes stated
further that tho commission intended to lose
no time. Tho grounds would ho platted and
laid out as soon as a suitable person had boon
found for tho work, it being tho intention of
tbo commission to employ only a first-class
landscape engineer, (treat pains would bo
taken, bo said, to make tbo grounds attractive
and beautiful, and it was proposed to some ex
tent to pattern them alter the national capitoi
grounds at Washington. Still, uoHlefluite ar
rangements had boon made in that matter.
( apt. Hughes left on tho 4:15 p. in. train for
Yauktou, hut Messrs. Holding and Matthews
remained in town over night. The latter is
going to Chicago fur tho purpose of engaging
tho services of a first-class engineer to lay out
the Dakota capitoi grounds, and while thoro
will look over tho laying out of l’ullmau.
oov. ORDWAY ELUCIDATES.
The portly form of Dakota’s governor hold
down a chair at the Merchants yesterday, and
be w as ready and willing to express himself as
heartily agreeing with Commissioner Hughes
in his estimate of the Minnesota capitoi. Ho
thought such a building could not bo built in
Washington for leas than $1,000,(KM), and will
always remain a monument to tho good judg
ment ami economy of those who superintended
its construction. He favors a capitoi much
like Minnesota’s for Dakota, and said positively
that that tho building must be done this year or
as m arly so as possible. Ho took Alexander
Mitchell and others of tho Milwaukee road
around Histnarck while tho railway party were
there, ami tbo magnates expressed themselves
as highly pleased with the location and sur
rounding*. Mr. Mitciioll suid frankly bosbould
havo liked to havo had tho town named after
him chosen as the capital site, and would Lava
done anything honorable to secure such a de
cision, lint bo soon recognized the fact that
Mitchell lies too far to tho south. Manager
Merrill told (lov. UrJway be was satisfied and
further that if bo was to build a road there be
wautod to know it and omuineuco right otT.
Tho governor says thoro is not the slightest
reason to doubt that tbo Milwaukee will be in
Hisniarck before winter sets in. His idea ia
that tbo Southern Minnesota, known as the
nuddlo division, will Im built northwest to La
beau. or near there, ou the Missouri rivor, and
tbo Hastings A Dakota divisiou extended west
to Lebeau, the two joining thence north
to Hisniarck, distant about 150
miloa from Lobcau. He says if
the Milwaukee and the Northwestern roads had
Joined on any ono town in Southern Dakota,
that would have heeu selected as tbo capital,
hut they each bad pots ou thoir ow;t linos ami
did not even given tho commission their moral
support. The governor is strongly impressed
with belief in the future commercial greatness
of Hisniarck, and thinks the bonus to tho Ter
ritory, if properly handled, will amount to half
a million dollars.
The Turtle Mountain (.audit.
Anting ContmiHeionor of Indian Affairs E. 1*
Sit yens hai addressed » letter Pi George If.
Alvord of South llend, Iml, relative to settlor*
on the Turtle Mountain reservation. Dak. lie
says:
It was not tho intention of the secretary of the
Interior in recommending the establishment of the
raid reservation to Interfere with settlors who had
located upon or improved any of the lands em
braced within its limits. Theroforo any person
who was an actual settler upon any of tho said
lauds, and made improvements thereon prior
to tho date of the executive order
creating the reservation. Doc. 21, 1882. will
not bo disturbed In his poaaeaMfon by
reason of tho withdrawal of said lands for Indian
purposes. It U the Intention of tho department to
extend the public surveys over that section of coun
try as soon as possible, tn order to establish the In
dians in permanent homes in homesteads and Assist
them in agricultural pursuits, as contemplated by
the recent action of congress, approved March
1, 1883. When they have all been secured
Individual allotments or homesteads, the residue
of land embraced within the territory withdrawn
by executive ord«r will undoubtedly bo restored to
the public domain. Now if tho settlers in whose
interests you write were bona ttdo settlers on the
reservation, aud had made valuable improvement#
there before the same was set apart.it strikes me
the pro;>er course fer theiuto pursue would be to re
main in possession, which they are permitted to do,
and when the lauds have been surveyed and made
subject to eutry proceed in the usual way to acquire
title. It mutt l>e understood, however, that new set
tlements will not be permitted within the reserva
tion. uor will persons who may have gone there
since the date of withdrawal Le suffered to remain.
The claims of such persons will receive no recog
nition whatsoever when the time cornea to allot It
to the Indians.
Dakota Railroad Talk.
A Chicago dispatch Hays there is
considerable turmoil at the headquar
ters of the Chicago & Northwestern com
pany and the Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt.
Paul company in regard to the matter of
extending their lines to Bismarck, the
new capital of Dakota. Both of these
companies at present enjoy amicable re
lations with the Northern Pacific, and
naturally desire to retain them. Build
ing their lines to Bismarck would result
in tapping the Northern Pacific at a
point 400 miles west of its eastern ter
minus at Minneapolis and Bt. Paul.
Naturally, the Northern Pacific desires,
and will desire, to have the longest pos
sible haul of its trafiic, both eastltou nd
and westbound, and the Northern Pacific
company would be very likely to re
gard the Bismarck extension
of the Northwestern aud th 9
Milwaukee roads as a trespass
upon its particular field, and a threat
at its business. The board of directors
of the Milwaukee company are now in
Dakota considering this question, and
the executive committee of the North
western company are also wrestling with
the problem. Both companies believe
they will be compelled by legitimate
business considerations to extend their
southern Dakota line through to Bis
marck, if for no other reason than to
give southern Dakota access to their
new capital, without the necessity of
traveling 1000 miles round by way of
Minneapolis and Bt. Paul, Bat they
wish to accomplish this without provok
ing an open rupture with the Northern
Pacific folks.
Dakota Wheat Lands.
Washington Republican: It is a noticeable
fact that abont nix in every ten of the entri«e
of public lands thia yoar have boon made in the
Territory of Dakota. Reports from that part
of the country indicate that within anothef
yoar vary nearly all of the agricultural lande
east of the Missouri river will have been
taken up by actual eettlera. The reaeone
for this general tendency toward the Dakota
country are not generally understood. In
spito of cliruatio disadvantages which make
some parte of tbo Territory disagreeable as
places of residence, the Territory is irre
cistibly attractive to thoso who waut the beet
aud most reliable fields for grain growing.
Iho soil is a rich loam many feet in depth,
lyiug upon a bod of bard clay, which is
almost waterproof. During the wiutor the
weather is a constant variation from frost to
thaw, ao that by spring the soil ia filled with e
moisture so abundant that wheat will grow
slid flourish upou it independent of rainfall
Such a thing as a wheat failure has never boon
known in tiiat part of the country, though
frequently since settlement began the sum
mers have been excessively hot and dry. The
yield mnrovor la always large, and most of
tho farmers after a few seasons have so far
prospered that they have been able to hold
their grain for a high market. These things
havo served to draw tbo bulk of immigration
that way in a ratio that is increasing so fast
that within a very few months only the low
grounds atul barren spots, which are few, will
remain unsettled. Then will come tho cutting
up of those vast farms which a few years
ago astonished the world by thoir' ex
tent and thoir extraordinary productiveness.
Those farms served their purpose in adver
tising the Territory whilo yet it was young.
Their owners will scarco be able to resist the
opportunities that must shortly bo offered
them to sell at prices which will yield them
fabulous profits. Tho next report of the gen
eral laud office will show that more than two
thirds of all the sales to actual settlers on the
public domain this spring and summer have
been in tho wheat lands of Dakota.
Ifukota Territorial News.
James Haynes, government statisti
cian in Dakota, writes 8. W. Tallmadge,
of Milwaukee, concerning tlio crops as
follows: “All small grain is making
splendid progress. Spring wheat is
looking very good. There is a healthy
color and it is vigorous and making good
stools. Tho reports, embracing forty
nine counties, on the present condition
e-e all above tho average, except one,
wnich places it atos per cent, on account
of lateness. The acreage is largely in
creased over last year; also in the ex
clusive region. Tho acrenge for the Ter
ritory is 1,006,(XX), an increase over last
year of 4<) per cent, and the condition, as
compared with last year, is 115 per cent.
I<ast year’s average for the Territory was
seventeen bushels.” According to the
above decidedly flattering official state
ment, Dakota will this season produce
a wheat crop aggregating 20,000,000 bush
els.
The Bismark Tribune, speaking of its
early struggles says: The Tribune, which
now publishes a morning ami evening
edition with full associated press reports
less than ten years ago was printed on a
quarter medium Gordon jobl»er, and
frequently on brown paper. At one
time to keep from distress it borrowed
$250 from Jack Champlin, who did not
keep the most chaste kind of an estab
lishment, giving a mortgage on property
worth fifteen hundred dollars, paying
lOper cent, per month interest. It
borrowed for montlis at five per cent,
per month, and for years at two and
three per cent, per month, and its pub
lishers sacrificed one piece of real estate
after another that to-day would bring
one hundred thousand dollars, for the
sake of keeping the Tribune alive.
Chamberlain is to have a system of
water works and the people there figure
that the improvement will increase the
value of property many times its cost.
It is claimed that in the Mitchell land
district alone 20,000 acres have been ob
tained by fraud.
Hand county projioscs to raise 100,000
bushels of wheat this year.
The virgin sod is being turned over at
the rate of 600 acres per day in Hanson
county.
Hisniarck, had another boom last week
occasioned by a visit from tho big Mil
waukee railroad officials.
The chief engineer of the Winona &
St. I‘oter road says the buildings of the
new division terininusjat Tracy are being
vigorously prosecuted. The round house
will have stalls for thirty engines, and
the machine shop and blacksmith build
ing are to bel2oo feet long and 80 wide.
Two coal storage houses, each 260x26,
with a capacity of 3,200 tons, are also to
be constructed.
A call has been issued for a constitu
ional convention for Bouth Dakota, on
the 10th of this month, at Huron. The
measure, as a rule, is favorably com
mented upon by the [wipers, though at
first it wus regarded with not a little
suspicion.
Bismarck's capitol park is to be mod
eled after that around the capitol at
Washington.
Architects can bid on the Dakota capi
tol building up to noon July 5.
Near Parker 11. Vanepps, went down
a well to finish digging and fainted. His
father-in-law, Henry Shenkle, started
down to help him. When nearly at the
lx>ttom he too, fainted, and fell from the
bucket, striking his head on a pick axe.
Before farther help came he ;was dead.
Vanepps was taken from the well in an
insensible condition, but is considered
out of danger.
Gov. Ordway has applied for an ex
ension of time on the lease of the houso
he occupies in Yankton, the extension
to run through the indefinite period
“several months.’' J. T. Sargent, of the
Herald, has recently purchased the res
idence occupied by tne governor and
wants to move into*it, bat it appears
that bis excellency is not yet ready to
depart.
Lincoln's Little Coon Story.
“President Lincoln was very much
puzzled," said one of his personal frienda
the other day, “when President Jeffer
son Davis was captured. He said to me
that his situation reminded him of a story
he’d heard on a circuit inlllinois. It was
about a small boy and his coon. His
mother did not like the coon, but it was
the pride of his heart
“You must kill it,’ said his moiher,
with some warmth one morning.
“Oh, mother!" he said, bursting into
tears. ... ..
“Well, then, she said, touched by hie
tears, “yon must take it out and low it
I can’t have it under my feet all the
♦ime.” .
“So, sad at heart, the boy led the poor
coon out on the road by e long string.
He walked half a mile, end then wt
down on e roedaide log end began to
the matter, sonny?” mkl a
stranger riding by.
“I don’t know what to do, M blubbered
the small boy, “with my coon."
“What’s the trouble?" asked the
stranger.
“Why,” sobbed the boy. “I don’t want
to kill him. and me won’t let me bring
him home.
“Now,’ said Lincoln,’ “I’m juat like
that small boy. 1 don’t want to kill him,
and ma won’t let me bring him home.
—[Philadelphia Record.
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