banter Wfchtn fun. BESTOR & MACLEOD, Publishers. WARNER, DAKOTA. New York City it threatened with a prolonged Beige of typhoid fever, as it is spreading rapidly. Defective sewer aye is probably Its promoters. In the United States there are seventy lie railroads which report an average in earnings during August of S per cent, over the earnings of the corresponding month in 1882. This is significant from the fact that the August railroad earnings of 1882 gave a total of 10 per cent, increase over those of 1881, 23 per cent. o\er those of 1880, and 81 per cent, over those of 1579. Thus for the four years the increase of August earnings has been 30 per rent. It was also asserted that diphtheria was increasing slightly hut steadily in the North Atlantic and eastern cities; It is about equally prevalent in this countrv and in Germany, and much more so in these countries than in Great ‘Britain. Typhoid fever caused 3.7 per cent, of all deaths; malaria!.fevers 2.2; scarlet fever 1.5; pneumonia 3. 4; mea sles 0.2 and whooping cough 18 per cent. The mortality in the English cities con tinues unusuaiiv slow. The coining report of the sen »te com mittee appointed at the last session to investigate the agreement made by the Sioux commission promises to add an entertaining chapter to the lengthy history of Indian affairs. The commit tee find that the Indians were,in nearly every case, coerced into signing the agreement, and that they strongly ob ject to giving up their land. After care fully examining the whole matter, a unanimous report has been decided on, recommending that, the agreement in question he not ratified. The trial of O’Donnell, the slayer of Ca rey, is likely to be a notable one, for length at least. The fact of a criminal being tried at a place as far from the scene of his crime is an unusual one, except in the cases of mutineers an 4 murderer **t sea. Those who sympa thize with O'Donnell and the number is a large one, are trying to secure the ser vices of Charles Russell, M. P., to take charge of the defense. They are san guine of acquittal if only eminent coun sel can be obtained. It is doubtfu if O’Donnell can escape. Astronomers have apparently estab lished the fact that the Brooks comet, so called, now approaching the earth is identical with the comet ot 1812. The Ual»/vw «•»!) Ua !#*••*<#*»*• 1884. In 1812 it was computed that its return would be about September 3, 1884 or within eight months of what proves to be the actual time. When it is considered that this orbit is based upon observations made seventy years ago, which were neither numerous nor widely distributed at the time, its ac curacy is remarkable. The period of the comet is seventy-one years, four months and ten days. » writer in the London Journal of Science dwells upon the advantages af forded in Germany to technical education and asserts that Chemnitz has already undermined the glove trade of Notting ham, and that in the opinion of many m the hoisery interests of the same town are being slowly undermined. The in habitants of Chemnitz cannot compare either mentally or physically with those llof the English manufacturing centre, but they have far superior eductional ad ■ vantages. In Boon there is quite an En glish town springing up, inhabited al most entirely by English families who reside there for the purpose of giving their children a practical education. Offical inquiry has now apparently well established that one hundred thous and lives were lost by the recent earth quake and volcanic eruptions in Java, History does not record an equally cal amitous convulsion of nature. The earthquake of Lisbon on November 1, 1755, caused the death of thirty thous and persons; and the great earthquake I that occurred in Sicily in 1693 killed just double that number. Another formid able earthquake was that of Jtiobamba in 1797, which swallowed up fully forty thousand human beings, and the mor gH tality resulting from the two shocks in Calabria in 1873 was exceedingly great though there seems some doubt about the exact figures. The most foimidable volcanic eruptions alone, mentioned in history, as beyond all doubt the great eruption of Vesivius described by Plinv, which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii under the layers of ashes and covered them for centuries. |Tbe fact that the volcano and the eaith quafce combined to heap ruin upon the unfortunate people of Java, explains the exceptional mortality caused by the recent terrible visitations, which in de structive force and intensity may be to the violent cataclysms that labored the surface of this plan- HB&b prehistoric times. PITH OF THE NEWS. EVENTS IN IVASUINGTON . The following are recent postoffice: changes: Postmasters commissioned: lowa iver Johnson, Lake Center; Gibson Dor othy, Albany. Dakota: Donald McDon. aid, Grand Forks. Postoffices established. Dakota: Willian. sport, Em mens county: Wisconsin: Crivita, Marinette county Post-office names changed— lowa. Fvelanu Grove, Mahaska count . Post-office name an .1 sight changed—Wisconsin, Sechlerville. Jackson county, two and a halt miles west to Cur-an. Mail messenger service estab- fished —Iowa; Cherokee, Cherokee coun-y; front Illinois Central railroad, eighty-four rods, as often as required. Montana: He lena, Lewis and Clarke county; from North ern Pacific railroad, route 26,001, one and three-rourths miles, as of eu as required. Star service changes—Minnesota: I’ayt.es ville to Atwa er, from Oct. 1; curtail service, to begin at New London, omitting I’aynes ville and decrease distance fifteen miles The adjustment of salaries of postmasters of presidential classes has just been com pleted by the postoflice department, and salaries as adjusted on the Ist inst The readjustment affects the salaries of 2,176 postmasters. Forty-four offices have been added to the presidential list and twenty-five presidential offices have been reduced to the fourth class, leaving the number of presidential posiotfices on Oct. 1,2, 175 with salaries amounting to $3,750,- 000. Every part oi the country :s included in the readjustment. The second comptroller of the treasury, in passing upon the pay accounts of cer tain officers were dismissed from the army and subsequently restored, has decided that these officers are not legally in the service. This decisio* will apply to quite a number of army officers on both the active and retired lists, who had been dismissed and subsequently reinstated at different times bv Pres’dent Johnson and Hayes. The following are recent postoffioe changes: Postoffices established —lowa, Ross, Audubon county; Minnesota, Fableen, Kandiyohi county; Nebraska, Pella, Lan caster county; Wisconsin, Bark Lake, Washington county. Postotfices discon t;nued—Pak -ta. Sidney, Cass county. Post office name and site changed—Wisconsin, Chandler, Washburn com.ty, two miles southwest Spooner. The secretary of the navy has approved the action of the court martial in the cases of Commander F. R. Smith and Lieut Daniel W. IXivis, both of whom were con victed of gross violations of fhe naval regu ’itions, and sentenced to dismissal from tne service. Samuel W. Melton, United S'aies district attorney for South Carolina, is said to have sent Lis resignation to Washington. XEJVS OF THE RAILROADS. Parties have been in Helena for the past few daysjlooking over the situation and resources, with a view of constructing a railroad from that point to Fort Benton. It is started that the bulk of the stork for the enterprise has been already taken by parties representing large corporations, the names of which are not given to the public The road will be of standarl guage, and whether the line runs by the Oite of the Mountains or through the Prickly Pear valley, it will touch the Great F*fi* nt the Missouri. Commissioner Orman has Issued a 'cir cular to the effect that the rates quoted on North western Traffic association emigrants’ movables tariff No. 5, dated March 20, will expire by limitation Sept. 30. From Oct 1 the rates on car-load shipments will be ad vanced $lO per car above the rates named in the tariff referred to. For the present there will be no alteration in the rates on less than car-lead shipments. A revised tariff, quoting increased rates, will be primed and issued in a few days. The Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka were torn, and face, neck and hands severe |l\ lacerated by tlie ferocious bird l her fighting for over fifteen minutes, Mrs Phil lips dispatched the thief with a blow from ! an oak cart stake. The b-rd measure** I wi'.h his wings outspread, from tip to tip, • six feet four inches. It is the first case on record where a hen hawk wis ever known to battle with a human being-* The Polish congregation at Nautieoke Pa., are trying to depose their priest Father Granins. Recently 600 member petitioned Bishop O’tiara to remove him and on the 30th ult , he was met at the church door by an excited congregation, who refused to permit him to enter ior the celebratio : of high mass. Th y charge him with financial mis management. The opera of M rtha at Mankato, Minn., recently, was a hot one, Miss Abbott was stung once by waspi during the evening, compelling her once to leave the stage, and once during the evening some part of the scenery cuight tire which was promptly extinguished without an alarm. John P. Howard of Burlington, Vf., an nounees a purpose of giving a new build ing for tlie medical depa~tuiert of the uni v» rsity, and using the old building 'or a gvimnasit-'iu This will make over $460,- 000 that Howard has given the university ami city in ten years. The widow of President Fillmore petitions a Buffalo court to apjMiint a new admin istrator of her husband’s estate. iir. Gor man, the executor, lost SIOO,OOO of her securities, am! spent $25,090 of money be longing to the estate trying to recover them. Rand, McNally A Co., the Chicago print ers, made a con ract with the Lumberman newspaper to print no pamphlets in the in terest of the lumber trade for other parties. The firm has been enjoined from its intend ed violation. The Chicago Medical society held a special meeting a few days ago to listen to an address or modem operative surgery from Sir William Mac Cormack, senior surgeon of St. Thomas’ hospital in Lon don, Two R ; ce’s Point men claim to have dis covered silver ore in richly-paving quanti ties, somewhere on the hillside near that part of Dnlutn. They refus° to tell where the vein is located until they secure title to the property. The Hermosillo, Mex., authorities abso lutely refuse any information about yellow fever at that place, or state the number of deaths that have taken place. The lever is believed to be on the increase. The post-graduate department of Yale college will take up this year the study of railroads and their growth, shipping and in ternational trade, stocss, and the effect of speculation on the money market. A anil, haa hn«tu. A !►>««* U— l -—— o - 0 by stockholders of the New York Morning Journal, to have a receiver appointed. If, is claimed be sold to himself $50,000 of stock, worih par, at 10 cents. A piece f apparently solid glass which a Greenpoint, N. Y., man kept as an orna ment exp'oded recently to the alarm of his guests and the detriment of the bric-a-brac on his mantelpiece. The Concord grape crop along the Hud son is one-naif larger than ever. Extra boits and iraink* are run to freight it to New York. Tne price is 2 cents a p >und to the wholesaler. Among recent seizures of baggage at the Nsw York custom house were the trum-s of Rowell Smith, business manager of the Century, and of a cousin ol Mr. A>hmead- Bartlett Coutts. Choice grapes are selling in California at S4O per ton. An acre of fair land there will produce six tons, while fifteen to twenty tons per acre is not an unusual crop. The turnkey of the St. Louis jail was di rected to discharge an alleged burglar. By error he let out the wrong man, who had to be hunted up and rearrested. A suit to interpret the will or the late Em ily Grace Nathan, widow of the murdered York banker of that name, is pending in the supreme court. The New York newsdealers are combining to keep the prices of papers up They pledge themselves to charge more than the published prices. Colored people in New York have organ ized a club and will build a bouse rivaling that of the Union league. Rufus Hatch is their banker. A fox hunt is to come off at Cote Brilli ante race track, St. Louis, Saturday. The Humane society wants to stop it. 1 ’ About 1,000 emigrants arrived in St. Paul, Minn., on the 26th to be distributed over and Dakota. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Mueller of Ohio, sues the Cleveland Leader for $60,000 damages for being called a usurer. f, 1|;1 The aggregate taxable value of the Cin cinnati banks, as fixed by the state auditor, is $8,045,382. Thirteen hundred lunatics in Ward's Is land asylum, New York, had a picnic the other day.. The estimated expense of the Russian army for 1884 is 7,000,000 roubles in excess of 1883 A postal car has been put on between- Crookston and Devil’s Lake. Philadelphia shipped twelve locomotives toßnuil th. 22d. A Philadelphia justice of the peace keeps gambling house. CHIMES AND CRIMINALS. Two crooks hailing under the titles of Dr Thompson and Prof. Stephens, have been swindling the gullible farmers* in the vicinity of Racine, Wis., during the pas week, with a cyclone preventive. The so called preventive is simply a lightning rod attachment which can be connected with any rod, and, in f»cL l ®. nothing but a lightning attractor, having instead of one point, a dozen or more. Strange as it may seem, many farmers were foolish enough to purchase the preventive at $2- each. The coroner’s jury in fcbe Rose Ambler case at Btrarford,Conn., have rendered their v-rd etas follow-; We find that the said R w-Ambler came to her death by being choked to death at the hands of some per son or persons to the jury unknown, but from William Lewis’ connection with her iti the p-st, and from bis testimony, and from h’s conduct since her death, and from the . vidence, we ttiink *sußpicio:a points toward him. At a dance at Devil’s Lake on the 26th inst., a tree fight occurred, pistols and knives being Jreely tow* EuiLiMjlt Orr, as sistant postmaster, who w T as standing in the street, received a ball from a 44-caliber revolver, penetrating his cheek and neck, and lodging in his breast. The ball was extracted and the wound pronounced not f »tal Seve-al were seriously cut and in juied. Too much whisky caused the row. Her elO'h-B At the Meagher countv, Mont., term of the district court the following persons were sentenced: J. J. Bowles, murder, seven years in the territorial pri-onat Deer Lodge. John Lynch, grand larceny, two years ill the territorial prison and SI,OOO tine, to st-ml committed until paid. Henry Lee, a Chinaman, murder; sentenced io be hung February 5 1884. Ahortethief giving his name as James Hanley was captured near Hastings, lowa, recently, and tak**n to Carson City loi ex amination. Conclusive evidence shows him to he one of the gang that has been op* ruling extensively thereabouts this fall. A vigilance committee was torm-'d, and fears are e itertaiwed for the safety of the prisoner. Phillip Connors, twenty years of age, a hard citizen of Osbkosn, Wis., imperson ated an officer at M vlison on the 10th inst, pretended to arresc a druHken man, took from bis person S2O and (tiers skipped. He was a'terward arrested, ami JuOge Braley, upon conviction sentenced him to stale prison for tou" years. Manager L, Degive, of the Opera house. Atlanta. has been arrested at the instiga tion of W t). Moore, a colored man, who was elected from the Opera house last winter for insisting upon sitting among white pe- ple. Degive is to be or.?;;ecuied under the civil rights law. At Mount Pleasant, Utah, a few nights ago Pritchett wis murdered while asleep at his residence. Parties gained an entrance and held a pistol so close as to burn his face with p *wder. PritJiwt 1 was a Gentile, hut it is not known whether he hail difficulty whh the Mormons or not. John C. Carroll, for two years preceding March clerk in the bureau or arrears, New York; has been arrested on the charge of forgery. He is alleged to have appropri ated $15,00G. George Wallace, (colored) was hanged at Savanna, Ga., on the 28th inst., for the uiurt er of a sailor named Jansen. He ad dressed »he crowd and protested his inno cence. On the morning c f the Ist inst. the cloth ing store ol Risentball Bros., Minneapolis, Minn., was robbed ot nearly all the over coats in the establishment and a number of dress suits. The loss was about $3,000. RECORD OF CASUALTIES. Thomas Bear, of Winslow township, Jeff erson county. Pa., went out hunting a few days ago. He not having returned a search was made for him. His headless body was found in the woods, three miles from his home. His hean of his (Bradiaugh’s) rights. The Nation accuses the British govern ment and American legation in London of foul play toward O’Donnell, in the hope that he may ’mplicate tiie iriends of Par nell in the conspiracy to murder Carey, the informer. The pope recently gave audience to 5,000 Italian priests He expressed gratification at their presence, as evincing the i don ex isting between the clergy and the Holv See. It is reported at Simla, India, that the Ghilzea have engaged with 8,000 Afghanis tan tro ps and routed them. The Ameer has sent reinforcements from Cahul. Croatianmembers of the reichrath declare they will not take their spats in that body until a constitutional administration of gov ernment is reinstated in Croatia. I)om Pedro has given Prof. Lacerda $20,- 000 for his discovery of perniangate of po tassium, hypodermically injected, as an an tidote for the bite of 'he cobra. A dispatch from Hong K *>ng reports a renewal of disorders at Canto" arising from popular dissatisfaction with *,he light sentence of Tidewaiter Lozan. Rev. Seguin of St. Cunegonde, Ont., has been called upon ~y the bishop to explain regarding the rebuke to the Irish Catholic from his pulpit recently. Thomas Burt, member of the British house of commons for the borough of Mor peth. is making a tour of the United States and Canada. It is reported that Suit-man Pasha, recent ly rppointed governor of East Soudan, has been murdered by Arabs. Batons has rejoined his wife, nee Nellie Grant, at his father’ef couutry seat near Southampton. Three diplomas have been awarded Amer ican exhibitors at the electrical exhidition at Vienna. A man by the name of Waltz has been arrested in Winnipeg on the charge of for gery. PERSONAL MENTION. Richard K. Fox, owner of the Police Ga zette, is but thirty-fivs years old, and has an income of $200,0>0 a year. He started ten years ago with a cash capital ot $lO. Mrs. Caroline Barrett, wife of J. E. Bar rett master of tne Howard Grammar school, Cambridge, Mass , committed suicide a her home, recently by taking poison. Giejr, iur pru'ttisiouai fat WOmSH Ot New York, whose weight issl9 counts was msrri-d recently to Moses, the cigaretteskel: eton. The wedding was a big time. A telegram from Rhasla, Cal., announces the deatn at that place of S. S. Montague, chief engineer of the Central Pacific rail way, aged forty-six. Gen. Fairchild has given a portrait of I)e Soto, which he bought in Spain, to the Wisconsin State Historical society. Charles B. Pettingi 11, a prominent Cleve land politician is dead. He was a revenue collector undei Hayes. A Japanese prince has arrived at Quebec, to join her majesty’s ship, Northampton as a midshipman. A Tei-rtble Accident., A fright ul steam threshing machine ac cident occurred on the 2Gih inat., eight mills eontn of Oeakis, Minn. It appears that the pump was net working satisli clo nly and the engine was stopped for a few . ■; minutes. The men were gathered aiound • iie engine when the explosion occurred. The billed are: Albert Gariock, £auk Cen ter; Peter Billeleaux, Leslie; Matnew Joyce,, Orange. The dangerously wounded are as follows: Frank Ives sc dp wound, side scalded, wound in loot; amputation perforin*d. Charles Ives, fraotured skull,H tcal< ed face and br> ast, left arm dial cared: not expected to live. The slightly wounded are: Mike Riley,Bam. PorteT,Chester Gilbert. All are scalded and bruised. Gilbert .vaa blown thiity feet from the engine. Albert Gariock was thrown nearly 300 feet and Billedeanx n»arly 160 feet from the engine. Both bodits when picked ap, were liters’ly .-tripped of clothing, and the fl*sh and akin .9 scalded off. Tb*y were parched fail of holes from the flying pieces ot iron. Math ew Jo\ce and Frank aid Charles Ives were thrown down a few feet in front of the riigine. The engine was blown 160 feet directly over the top ot the separator and wheat stacks. •• For Sale.” A Detroiter who advertised a horse last week noted down the objections of all who called t took at the animal, and some of them are here given: “Too large.” “ Too small.” * “Too old.” “Not old enough.” “Too lively.” “Rather too sleepy.” “ Object to the white hind feet.” “Would take her if she had more white feet.” “Don’t like her color.” “Color is just right, but she is too fat.” “Weighs too much.” “Don’t weigh enough.” “Hasa bad eye” “Eyes all right, but ears too small.” “ Yes, handsome ears, but the nose spoils her.” “Legs all stocked up.” “Legs all right, but feet bad.” If Khakespeare had said that no man knew what he wanted in a horse there would bo none to dispute it.—Detroit Free Press.