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id ERALD-AD VANCE. Via. W.DOWN1E, Publisher. MILUANK, SOUTH DAKOTA .. rf lrcai singers such as the tie Ressskes, Calve, I'lancon. Do Vries. etc., take their dinner at 2 p. in. when they hit going to sing that evening. An h*astern king, the inman up Mus cat, has in his collection a pearl worth $1S5,(KK, weighing 12M» carats. Through It the daylight can lie seen. The city of Sydney, Australia, has imposed a line of $."» upon any person convicted of spitting upon the floor of public buildings or upon the street. Portugal will celebrate next year the 400th anniversary of Vaseo da Camas setting out on his voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to India. At a forthcoming wedding in Port land the groom will promise to love, honor and obey his wife, who is a woman suffragist and made her affi anced agree to this. Princess Yousonpotf's gem is a won derfully beautiful one. Valued at $1S0,UIH, it was tiI'st heard of in 1(£20. when Georgibus of Calais sold it to Philip IV. of Spain. The French government claims the right to appoint all bishops in France. There are no fewer than eight episco pal «ees vacant, in France at the pres ent moment The Japanese begin building their bouses at the top. The roof is first built aud elevated on a skeleton frame. Then it affords shelter to the work men from storms. It is proposed to restore the stone that marks the grave of Dr. Johnson In Westminster abbey. The surface of the present, gravestone is decayed, and the inscription is half obliterated. The suggestion is to be made to the Servian parliament that the bachelor •hall pay double taxes between his thirtieth and tifty-sixth years, while the widower is to bo allowed live years' grace. Richards, the London professional billiard i-Mt, says: "Englishmen will never take to American billiards. At tempts have been made to introduce it time after time, but always without success." Sixteen thousand pounds is the figure that it is approximated the pupa's ari would bring. One of Leo's predeces sors became jKvssessed of it in a man ner which has not been told, and it has descended in a regular cours What has become of the while pearls of the Empress Eugenie, sold at the close of the Franco-Prussian was, lias never been made known. The value of thfse was some $li(,(KK. and they were gathered together in a beautiful neck lace that frequently graced the neck of that unfortunate iue,?n. The jewel casket of the dowager ein prew* of Russian is the most famous in the world from a gem point of view. Hardly second to it is that of the em press of Austria, whose black pearls are noted throughout Europe for their extreme beauty and rarity. The consular returns of exports from Bradford to the United States show that the year has commenced well, the total showing an increase of $50.''..'WO over the corresponding month of last year, and being larger than that of any month in 1«1X» except August. The belief that the shallower parts of the bcrttom of the Eastern Atlantic are parts of a submerged continent once joined to the mainland seems to be growing.** Scientific evidence in sup port of Plato's story of a lost Atlantis has recently multiplied a hundredfold. The other day, when 3 London com pany ent down to Manchester to play* returning in the evening in time for the usual performance in London, the managers insured the company for $10,O!K and the chance of not opening the theater that night for $li,."00. This quaint bit of business was done at Lloyds' for a premium of $25. Cnogress has been petitioned to se lect June 24 as a national holiday in honor of the discovery of the American continent by John and Sebastian Cabot. Those esteemed navigators made a mistake in distinguishing themselves BO near the Fourth of July, and hon orable mention in the geographies is about as much as they can expect. 1TII1 OM THE NEWS, [•VESTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED 101UI. A General Iti-snmc of the Slost l«n» poviant Jli'iT* of tl»e Week, Kvobi all 1'urta of the Globe, Moiled Down and Arranged In Con venient Form for llitpld l'er u*nl by Huhjt I*eoi»te. Washington Tftlk. Aimer T. Longley, for thirty years connected with the agricultural de partment at Washington, recently as chief of the publication division, is dead. He was a native of Wisconsin, was a well known Mason and was 74 years old. Lieut. Ross, formerly of the revenue cutter Corwin, has forwarded fleet season. charges to the secretary of the treasury against Capt. Mungor of a very serious nature. The charges assert that Mlin ger was drunk daring most of the time the was in Bohring sea last People In Print. Rear Admiral Fyffe, U. S. K. retired, died at Omaha. Senor N. Ivopez, Spanish consul at New Orleans, is dead. Gen. Davidson, a prominent resident of New York, is dead. He captained a volunteer regiment of Highlanders dur ing the late war. John Waldron, an actor, forty-three years old. known in dramatic circles as "Paul Allen." died at Bellevuc hospit al, New York, in the alcohol ward. Alanzan Weed, well connected and once wealthy, died suddenly in an Ital ian lodging house in Brooklyn. N. Y. He was a nephew of Thurlow Weed. lien. David Morrison is dead at his home in New York. He was born in (ilasgow in but came to this country at the age of nineteen. Mrs. W. A. Austin, wife of the prin cipal of the Itockton. 111., high school, died at the age of fifty-five years. She was a daughter of the late Dexter Dru rfr of Beloit. Portraits of the German emperor were shown in lxmdon shops after he had sent his cable djspateh to the Boers, marked, "Reduced to lid from 20s." Joseph Jefferson gave one of his char acteristic. talks in New Orleans on Washington's birthday, at an enter tainment for the benefit, of one of the city hospitals. Rev. R. T. Parsliall, well known all over the country as an evangelist, died in Chicago, from the effects of injuries i received in a railroad accident some time ago. Commandant Herbert Booth sa:d that if the American Salvation army separated from the army in England he thought the Canadian army would remain faithful to Ceil. Booth. Pepe Leo XIII. recently gave the fal lowing advice to a. famous Italian preacher. Father Zocclii: "Write arti cles for the n-'wspapeis. People read them who never go to hear a sermon preached." In his talk a? n- cut banquet of the New YoMi .-!ul\ Dl*. Depew sa that, the modern newspaper was a thinking machine for the business man. and that a trood reporter wa»- a csMhde 1 i-a:,. i Post Palmer ,.f 'h'" as:.- has taken the If Uu!!iveji Pratt villa, at J'ark"!' aud I' iievue avenues. Newport, for the coming summer season. It is pre- sumed Mrs. Palmer will take a promi nent part in ihe numerous society tunc tions wh:-h take pln-v in the cnr. i.f the season. CaMnaltieN. TheBryco even supply tac engines whuli 1 block at lVa-t Huron. Mich., burned. Lo.^s $1muhK). Thomas Coulton of Ehvood. Ind., was probably fatally burned while sleeping. The origin of the tire is un known. A fire which broke out in Johannes burg has caused damage amounting to $,'57o,000 to dry goods and other stores, warehouse s, etc. Miss Ida Hedrick, living near Hunts ville. 111., was struck in the eye with a snowball, which pierced the eyelall, destroying the sight. Arthur Droeseher and Miss Anna Schultz, while coasting at Meadville, l*a., collided with an iron fence. Miss Schultz will die. Elihu Iiucker and his sixteen-year old were drowned at Ciyffeside Park. Ivy., while harvesting ice. The father was drowned while trying to rescue the lx.y. The steamer Lnmington which went ashore off Lone Hill life saving sta tion on Long Island has been floated. The extent of the damage she has sus tained cannot be ascertained until an examination in dry dock. Fire broke out in the block occupied by the Binghamtou (N. Y.) House Fur nishing company and spread to the ad joinim.' block occupied by Babeock Ac Stoweil, hardware dealers. Loss $250,- 000. W. W. Wright, an undertaker of Sioux City, Iowa, is in danger of los ing his right arm as a result of a scratch on his middle finger received while embalming the body of a woman. A serious case of blood poisoning en sued. The Grace Presbyterian church in St. Louis was almost completely de stroyed by fire recently because of a short water supply. Chief Swingley explains his reasons for not turning In a second alarm by stating that "there was hardly enough water to IT spomled to the first alarm. As it was a line of hose had to be stretched sev er ll blocks." 1 vil DoiiiK" James MeCauley, ex-city treasurer of Taeoma, Wash., has been convicted of using public money for private gain. Nicholas Claussen, a baker of San Francisco, murdered his wife at the residence of a neighbor, where she had lhd to avoid him. She wa* the mother of three children and very handsome. Joseph A. Brown, ex-ci^v clerk, real estate and insurance agent, a promi nent Odd Fellow. Red Man, and li. A. R., was found dead in his office at Muneie, Ind. He was short in his ac counts and took his own life. Gov. Mclntvre of Colorado has com muted the sentence of A. W. V an Hoil ten. who killed Richard Newell, Jr., chief ongiueeer of the Midland Ter minal railway, at. Cripple Creek, to life imprisonment. Van ilouton was to Ik* hanged this week. Detective William Plunkett lias gone to Denver from Chicago to take back to the latter city Daniel Johnson, who has been arrested there on a charge of haviug embezzled $17,fiOO from his em ployers, Griffiths McDermott. con tractors. The strongly-barred brick and stone building in Cincinnati in which are confined Scott. Jackson and Alonzo Walling, on whom the murder of pret ty Pearl Bryan has been fixed lu\vond reasonable doubt, is daily the scene of the most remarkable levees ever held in a jail in the United States. Men, old and young, women and girls, *f all walks of life and all ages, flock to the cell each day. From Foreign Shore*. American bags for sugar are being driven out of Santo Domingo by Cal cutta bags, which are suiH-rior in qual ity. officials of the Argentine Republic estimate the wheat crop at 6T per cent of that of lSim and add that 400,000 tons are exportaMe. The congress of Honduras has rati fied the treaty of union, which was celebrated in June last, between Hon duras, Salvator and Nicaragua. Agents of the Liberian government are at. work in Oklahoma securing col ored emigrants for that country. Six colored men left for Charleston to take passage and more will follow. The Mexican government, is deport ing American tramps under a clause of the constitution allowing the ex ecutive to send awav pernicious for eigners. officers and sailors will I1*' sem from Italy to take home the Ivombardia, the Italian cruiser now at Rio Jan eiro. whose crew is striekeii with yel low fever. Tie IU. i: Willi.II!-. Alexander i D.. lord bishop of Derry and Raphoe. has been elected lord archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, in su« ee-- on to the Jo U'-V. Hubert SalU u. i Jtvgir, I). i. A large number of (he most promi nent and influential clergymen in the city me, at Toronto and discussed a scheme whereby Armenia i.s iaay be induced to take up homes he Ca nadian Northwest. The immediate elTc". of the attitude of hostility assumed by the Prussian government toward American insur ance companies is a rush of German policy holders to the American consuls in Germany for information concern ing the standing of the companies. News iias been receive d.u Managua, Nicaragua, of the outbreak of a re volt, and the districts north of Lake Managua comprising the departments of the West and North, both of them numerously populated, are in full rev olution and are armed against Presi dent Zalaya. The iron steamer Bermuda, flying the British flag, was boarded .and seized by reveuue officers off Liberty island. New York. A large party of Cuban filibusters was arrested, and much ammunition intended for the in surgents was seized. Among the cap tives was Gen. Gareia's son and sev eral other prominent Cubans. Four bags of gold were seized. Mined In n-oil*. A representative of Russian cotton mills is in St. Louis purchasing cot ton for shipment to Russia. •'Joe" rilman. the well known Chi cago look maker, is critically ill at Hot Springs, Ark. A chess match for the championship of the United States and $750 a side was begun at Philadelphia by the ex pelts. Emil Kemehy of that city and Jackson W. Showalter, the American champion, at the Franklin Press club. Col. i- rastus II. Dyer, president of the Knnawha Oil company, has filed his answer to a $ro,ooo breach of promise suit brought by Mrs. Mary A. Comans of New York. Col. Dyer de nies all of Mrs. Comans' allegations and says he has reason to believe that the plaintiff's husband is living. At Topeka, Kan., railroad employes discovered thai Joseph Love, a Shaw nee county farmer, had, in order to save passenger fare, packed his* three children, aged seven, nine and eleven, in a box for shipment to Guthrie, Oklahoma. Love pleaded poverty and a Strang«i advanced him money to buy tickets. Prof. William C. Russell died at. his residence in Yonkers, N. Y., of par alysis .aged eighty-two. He was born in 1S14 and was the son of W. R. Rus sell, a New York merchant, and Lucy Ellery Charming, sister of Rev. Will iam Ellery Channing. He was gradu ated from Columbia college in 1 S.'i2, and it is believed wan the oldest grad uate of that institution. IX SOUTH DAKOTA. Iiv(«*r'Ktfn.i Item ro» all over tlie Stale. Wheat seeding is in progress in Bon Homme county, the ground there be ing in tine condition to work. The first part of this month Gov. Sheldon will select three new members of the board of regents. Tiie big stone quarries at Sioux Falls which have laid idle for more than a year have start^l up on full timet Martin Vanzeanle, thirteen years old arid living at Kimball, has disap ix ared. lie was punish"! by Ills par ents and ran away. The work of removing the pontoon bridge from the Missouri river at ChamlK-rlaiu has been eompletiil in anticipation of the ice breaking up. A dam-e a» the home of a Gregory county settler broke up in a row in which a score participated. Jesse El lison was stabbed in the abdomen. The extent of his injuries is unknown. Welter is added to the list of cities to have creameries before spring, a cieau'ery company having been or ganized. The capital stock is !j?o.000, half of which lias lieen subscribed. The milk of "Ml cows is pledged. The First National Bank of Mitchell is still in the hands of an examiner, who states that iliere is no cause for alarm that the institution will fail. No excitement prevails ever the fact that the bank has been elos^l a week. Last year Beadle county paid out. for seed wheat, loaned to farmers. $17, ."»i).ori, of which $l(l,7t».'.os has been collected, leaving the count.v short J. N. CKiley. an old-time resident of Clareiunnt. Brown county, has re turned with his wife, glad to get hack io South Dakota, lie picked up his household effeeis last fall and returned his former home in Michigan, lie failed to find a location Milled to his tasies ami decided io return here for ke w be Ue an. i :. hi \i !. a:, ih th .. iff era 11 i •!.". e?. i he ti a-- UVK 1 I bnr\ A. li. I|e Th hi:. tel a in:!• the officers of i ion unsocial ion that eo'npany is concerned ami *o-operate every jH»ssible ".i,. •, is possible will i «i iglas eounty has .achine for pressing- i-- an thistles. A load of -i.o.h-s li'*eit taken to i.ii. rolh mill to serve as i! "hey pi-'Ve eoiivenient in •:i i ue li addii'- !».• pressing i.. !e .uu*hasei and put ill v -ar-ohi sou of, e!''. 0 .angf' d. was a a last evening. a |oy.'crushing -r\ -i... oiis manner. Af 11' A I era VV1NI A runaway accident occurred at Ab erdeen recently in which T. S. Toed and wife were iKidly injured. Both were thrown from the buggy. Mrs. Toed sinking on her head and reeiv ing a serious scalp wound. Mr. Teed bail his left leg broken below the know The couple reside on a farm near West port. A mass meeting of citizens was held at Brookings to organize an immigra tion bureau for that county. A per manent exceuthe committee was ap pointed with power to appoint similar committees in each township. Funds will be raised for the purpose of fur nishing printed matter for distribu tion in the East. Business at the Unibtl States land office at Aberdeen for the month of February shows a dM*ided increase ever the business for the corresjKmd ing month for several years. The rec ords show that already this month over double the amount of business has been transacted than in February, ls5*."i. whde January also shows a fine increase. The indications |w»int to general activity in real estate all over the state. Ma j. M. II. Rowley, register of the Mitchell land office during Cleveland's first administration, and np|»ointed some time ago as receiver of the de funct Black Hills National Bank at Rapid City, has sent his resignation to the controller of the currency. Mr. Rowley owns valuable mining ground in the celebrated Keystone district. I -M. njgroso of $7.- 1MK0K. Because of this loss the board of county commissioners has decided to keep out of the wheat loaning busi ness this season. There is a movement on foot among business men at Aln-nleen to establish n large creamery in that city, with the idea of making it headquarters for the creamery business of this entire sec tion of the country. A cheese factory will also IK* A) painful accident ot horses at the «jrw,t way. The engine (Ue one he was -VSR, collision, winch resuinYf being broken. 111' town is still the cauxp*0f ment. Beth sides havo and more trouble may v«.f Bride is now in Plaiik'iut/^lloto ten,ey Judge Fellows. him the use of flieir of alMMit Jehu "hristo- pher. who m.n. •oiaiety brought him t») Ir. ,\|ille! s oiliee in Laugb'rd. The selectiott of Union in which to hold the Populist, state (invention yives much satisfaction to lopresenta tiveK of ail political iiarties. A public meeting will be held to arrange for earing f«-r the Republican state con vention Mar. and the Populist mention July 14. Twelve or tift«*eu hundred will attend each convention. 'I lie Huron creamery, during the nine months of its existence, has re ceived l.sso.'KiH pounds of milk, from which S2.KT.S jrounds of butter was made and sold, and farmers who pat ronized the concern rweived Jfll,»i41.J)U. The number of cows kept for creamery purposes in this county will 1m- more than doubled the coming summer. (rnIted ell looking up the case damage suit is likely. I,peatal that the Platikinfon tiawJ' a wealthy citizen of Si offered hirn finals is given no cr-dit impossible to save the were overcome by the sme Puckett, the husband and in the country. stamps --broke, Gov Au »le could make other nvnmm), licaded eitizerw think the,, will soon blow over, hut tlJ det'rmined that MeRri^ '.V-stiiuc 'laiix kr thar rci.b,,. TO MBIOT in ,e tempt ror of ai pendent* [K-eparei extroni •it positi hous Koy South Dnkota n I'op.uu, i* aiiW' en over I he Populist, state central', mpathy held their meeting U| ,h run in connection with the creamery. The jury in the Sullivan murder case at Webster failed to agree and have been dismissed. Dr. Sullivan has leen admitted to bail in Mit,), u and 1 Falls. Huron and Ah, n],.,,,)' Individ didates as places fur i,u],ijE„ -sh for convention and, after thirl a mar lots. Huron was selcctwl. n has tl July 14. The idea adopts* const for holding judicial •'ll'i'lUt me in The Ai t» sclect delegates to the nat vention at St. Louis, was al orollS'" and the two conventions^ ,e Pre8U i.tly una the lest ion ill le a s-t that, ostilities salidated. The apportioning gate's was made on ^)i(1 basis: For each fifty vote* the Populist gubernatorial ca[ 1S!4. one delegate that sliould have one dele-ate at! that ea*h unorganized {m stat«- should be entitled toi® in th ment the *ouvention "a 'invention. Such ani will .'i" S,.„„ r-hairnian N S1I1 w|t] state -entral committee wa the Populist tic.ket made at IMMUIS. The jury stood seven for a*quittul to four for a verdict of guilty of criminal operation and one for a verdict of murder. rec, UK verv at the meeting of the Reform j,e lead, sociation. had any endorsenu ress at party at large in the state. 'to consider that the associatioi orm so right or privilege to name a Xrticipt said that, if it appeared in tb vention, it would iu Qopyrig s(|uelched. Mr. Null said tb Madrh very united fading anion" lists to nominate Andy Lecii ion for governor, and he hp) when his name was brought convention he would receive imous nomination. Last nig es were made by Cha:rmau ly. former canilidate f«r con. o the 1 Judge Kennedy. The centra Suited tee endorsed ty Poptdist campaign. •y the oine of o-day, thusias var fort ind to vbich, IVCOj joverur ind to corxi of ignitioi tuflfctlo Tlii' ^'.iU•g .A'• ('l.TNti:: (ion of Sioux Falls, has lie^r. garette 'rusade. league Some »n de( h^ Sp arevent uig up :*ount of bow tinder age. W ho stain froil: t.»• he is :ill his intlueuct v. induce them te member wears a small aur.i !*ate his connection with the counc!l i mainta wKpens* lence o States, i zed b} lie wr Barceh extrem consuls stoning in the done 1 inenda charge fen will li---ar ail violations of the fded^ ,1 .Jit) the charge is provi the )itii ton froif ib mem lis. The .. a two signers, an a "."leh 1« in II. will nili- i I'1"' recent' 11 W tit .- in Word has jus: I ell of a terribh red at Kureka '•ulting in the death -f N Puckett and children. Il.ltti' •'in-e. and the d'struction of deuce and contents, caused plosion of a gasoline stove. The servant, who was breakfast, and an infant ws The fire spread Tliei P«'rr! If i. iacreai ardor day, i action stress day, I time, i ace two ci The have the l»rovi suppr. ly foi repre? so rapidly1 Illitck Hill* iro\ er A Black Hills advice says: V f'n Star mill of 1Im stain|»s. V to the 1 lomestake Mining com!1 started up. On the Hithofl1' the engines in this mill -it_d"! The are n ho we minis Marij the to Si that ly to v nccessitatiiir ting down of the mill. Sino' mill has been thoroughly ,n' new boilers and eiurincs _PUl "ighty stamps added. I'1.'* now has stamps droppin?^ ly, crushing 1,1(M tons of twenty-four hours. 'Hiey st!,|"' with twenty stamps, and t# tinn^ to time, increase their until it has reached ihe^WJ,'' liable information indicate.* have twenty years of It I er w arme dltioi to th avail Will '*Fo •tee fanti equi| will the excii nit been lafic re ibove the SOO-foot vel. llui'KlarN i«t Worl* The Milwaukee depot at I*, entered by burglars The i".' containing all the tickets. ^•1'. off. As the tickets would i"'' unless back-stamped anl burglars also swiped the The money drawer was ouiP^ the'r attention seems to n'ctetl to the freight room. secure«l a box of soap Drowned In the B'B J. S. Hamilton, a Tii iarg «leu nois bus! dom fot« {,n' feed-mill castings. They mission by breaking a wit'11 rear of the office and rai-j11- The burglars also entered cry ami carried away n i,iU shoes and $12 worth of can't" Al den •tre tin! *De ind cite j^( drowned in the river at was on his way to Beloit, visit his daughter, and wa short cut across the river, vvfl into a hide. He leaves a (laughter in Chicago and a Beloit, Iowa.