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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
'CONGRESSIONAL.
IN the Senate on tbe 9th the bill was passed
to amend tbe Inter-State Commerce act, and a
motion to refer to the Committee on Pensions
several vetoed pension bills was adopted. The
proposition to submit to the people of the sev
eral States a constitutional amendment to pro
hibit the liquor traffic in the United States
was favorably reported from the Committee on
Education.... In the House the amendment to
the Tariff bill placing sugar on \h free list
was rejected by a vote of 37 to 108. Another
amendment was offered, which was defeated,
placing all sugar and molasses ou the free ljst.
SENATOR HOAR spoke on the loth in the
Senate in opposition to the fisheries treaty. A
resolution directing the Finance Committee to
report in connection with revenue bills such
measures as it may deem expedient to control
or prohibit all contracts, trusts or combinations
that tend to prevent free and full competition
in trade was adopted. A bill was introduced
to amend the act to punish postal crimes
In the House the debate on the Tariff bill
was resumed, At the evening session nu
merous bills granting rights or way through
Indian reservations to various railroads were
passed.
HE Fortifications and Sea-Coast Defense
bill was considered in the Senate on the 11th,
and a bill was introduced to appropriate 8100,-
000 for the erection of a public building at Bur
lington, la.* Several petitions were presented
from labor organizations praying for the pas
sage of a bill to regulate and restrict immigra
tion. The bill to prohibit the coming of Chi
nese laborers into the United States was
favorably reported In the House a confer
ence on the Land-grant Forfeiture bill was
ordered. The Senate amendment to the Ag
ricultural Appropriation bill appropriating
Sioo.ooo for sorghum-sugar experiments was
agreed to. The Tariff bill was again consid
ered, the wool schedule being reached before
adjournment. At the evening session.a bill to
provide for taking the eleventh census was
passed. i
Aw animated discussion took place in the
Senate on the 12th over a motion made by Sen
ator Hawley to have extra copies printed of
the report made by the Committee on Pensions
on the President's pension vetoes. Senator
George spoke in favor of ratifying the fisher
ies treaty. The bill to pay all the Government
workmen for the excess of work over eight
hours a day since June 25,1868, was discussed.
In tho House a resolution for the appoint
ment of a special committee to investigate al
leged invasions of the Contract Labor law was
discussed. Discussion of the wool schedule of
the Tariff bill occupied the remainder of the
session.
IN the Senate on the 13th bills were passed
to build abridge across the Mississippi river at
Wabasha,, Minn., and to establish a branoh
homo lor soldiers and sailors in Indiana to
cost 5203,000. The fisheries treaty was further
discussed. Adjourned to tbe 16th....In the
House the conference report on the Post-Office
Appropriation bill was submitted, and all the
amendments were agreed to except the one
known as the "subsidy." A long debate fol
lowed but no action was taken, At the even
ing session twenty-four private pension bills
were passed.
DOMESTIC.
DURING the last fiscal year the number of
post-offices established in the United States
was 3,364 number discontinued, 1,643
.number of fourth-class postmasters ap
pointed during the year, 11,852 number of
Presidential postmasters appointed during,
the year, 436. Total number of Presiden-'
tial post offices, 2,503, an increase during
the year of 166.
HE National Department of Agriculture
at Washington reported on the 10th that
tho crop conditions of the country greatly
improved within the past month.
SEVEN-EIGHTHS of the town of Suisun,
Cal., was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, $400,000.
THE large training stable of William Roe,
at Danville, Ky., was burned on the 10th,
and thirty-three head of fine trotters were
consumed.
HE bodies' of a man and woman who had
been murdered were found in the Ohio
river near Louisville, Ky., on the 10th.
ELIAS FRANKLIX, the Kentucky farmer
who slew James Brent because of thelat
ter's intimacy with his wife, committed
suicide on the 10th.
I addition to the previous arrest of six
men accused of conspiracy to commit mur
der and destroy property of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, Chairman
Hoge, of the Grievance Committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
Chairman Murphy, of the Grievance Com
mittee of the Locomotive Firemen's Broth
erhood, were arrested in Chicago on the
10th, accused of being participants in the
same conspiracy.
A ill-feeling existing between the two
families culminated in' Miss Hattie De^
baun, aged eighteen years, being shot and
killed by her aunt, Mrs. Mary Junkins, at
Tecumseh, Ind., on the 10th.
THE New London & Northern Railroad
Company's repair and machine shops at
New London, Conn., were destroyed by fire
on tho 10th. Loss heavy.
A Old Orchard, Me., on the 10th Thomas
Riley, an American, and P. F. Mack, an
Australian, swam five miles for the Amer
ican championship. Riley won by 30 sec
onds in 1 hour and 26 minutes.
EN business houses at Demiftg, N. M.,
were dostroyed by fire on the lOtni,
MRS. ELIZABETH SIMON, of Douglas, W.
T., on the 10th shot and killed William
Dowling, who was attempting to assault
Mrs. Simons' young daughter.
EDWARD A. DEACONS, a vagrant, who
last August murdered Mrs. Ada Stone at
East Rochester, because she refused to
give him food, was hanged at Rochester,
N. Y., on the 10th.
Mr to the 10th over 3,300 bills had been
introduced in the United States Senate
this session. In the two sessions of the
Forty-ninth Congress there were only
3,338, and that was more than the ,Senate
had ever produced in any previous Con
gress. .y
MRS. ROSAXNA DEITER, agfed 9?ixty-two
years, committed suicide on the 10th at
Canton, O., by hanging herself with a
clothes line. Ill health prompted the act.
HE sixteenth annual convention of the
National Association of Union ex-Prison
ers of War has been called to meet at In
djaaapolis September 18.
71H3 weather in the Northwest on the
llih was hot At Minneapolis the ther
mometer marked lOOVat ftart Sullyy 104
nd at Huron, D. T., 103. 1%^?
ARTHUK WHIT E, confideiJtial clerk of
Bnaker Charles M. Kittredge, of Denver,
was missing on the 11th, and was supposed
to nave carried off (10,000.
A PHILADELPHIA company on the 11th
struck what was thought to be the biggest
gras woll in" the world at Oanonsburg, Pa.
STEPHEN FREEMAN (colored), convicted
of criminally assaulting a white woman,
was hanged on the 11th at Wilmington,
N a
A rauvy hail-storm on the 11th near
-tih Manchester, Iud., dama3d all the
Cloys and pelted a number of bogs to
!*.th
I'EAJ: jlanor, Pa., Henry Harlcinson and
Conn N*wman were caught under a falling
iron girder end killed on the 11th.
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THE great rise in the Monongahela river
and other near streams, and the general
freshets throughout the vast territory of
which Pittsburgh is on the border, were
on the 11th almost without parallel in that
portion of the country. The rushing waters
had wiped out property worth probably
over $2,000,000, and there had been loss of
life as welL Millions of feet of lumber,
scores of coal craft, fences, barns and
buildings of every description had been
destroyed, and hundreds of people had
been driven from their homes.
A FIRE on' the 11th at Alpena, Mich.,
originating in a sawdust pile at H. R.
Morse's mill, rendered fifteen hundred
people homeless in a few hours and de
stroyed twQ. hundred houses. Loss, $300,-
ooo.
THE livery stable of H. C. Springer &
Brother, at Buffalo, N. Y., was burned on
the 11th, and two men and twenty horses
perished in the flames.
JOHN ZACHAB, the young Racine (Wis.)
farmer, who abstained from food for fifty
three days, broke his long fast on the 11th
and said he would try to eat and live. The
cause of his attempt to starve himself was
a quarrel with his father.
THE stables of the Wichita (Kan.) City
Railway Company were burned on the 11th,
one man and forty mules perishing in the
flames.
HAMILTON STAPLES (colored) iwas lynched
on the llth near Atlanta, Tex., for assault
ing the seventeen-year old daughter of
Hardy McCoy, a wealthy planter.
MRS. JENNIE WALTON was burned to
death on the llth at Louisville, Ky., by
the explosion of a coal-oil stove. She was
twenty-eight years old, and leaves a hus
band and one child.
THE Governor of Missouri on the 13th
refused to commute the sentence of Hugh
M. Brooks, the murderer of Arthur Preller,
but granted him a respite until August 10.
AT Minneapolis, Minn., the National Pho
tographers' Association on the 12th elected
H. McMichael, of Buffalo, N. Y., Presi
dent.
KELLT, ROPER & RILEY, wholesale gro
cers at Memphis, Tenn., failed on the 12th
for $108,000.
Sxow to the depth of afoot fell on Mount
Washington, N. H., on the 12th.
THE waters that had been sweeping the
valley of the Monongahela and the valleys
of its tributaries for sixty hours were fall
ing into their natural channels on the 12th.
The losses entailed by the flood would not
fall short of $3,000,000, a large proportion
of which fell upon the people of the coun
ties of Monongalia, Marion, Taylor, Har
rison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur and Ran
dolph, in West Virginia, and the counties
of Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland,
Fayette and Greene, in Pennsylvania.
J. B. CHARPENTIEB, a notary public of
New Orleans, La., disappeared on the 12th,
taking with him between $20,000 and $50,-
000 of money belonging to creditors.
IN Chicago on the 12th the temperature
fell from 90 to 68 in five minutes, one of the
most remarkable changes ever known in
that city.
A CYCLONE swept over Eastern New York
and New England on the 12th. The great
est havoc in Massachusetts, was done in
Waltham, Cambridge, Watertown, Ded
ham, Brighton and Winthrop. Between
Pittsfield and Albany, N. Y., a clear path
was swept, three paper mills and many
houses being leveled.
ADVICES of the 12th say that many ves
sels had been driven ashore and sunk on
the Atlantic coast during the recent ter
rific storm.
MR. M. MORRISSEY, a young attorney of
Syracuse, N. Y., disappeared on the 12th,
having, it was said, embezzled $35,000 from
the trUst estate of Mary E. Brinckerhoff.
EIGHT persons were killed and twenty
five injured by a passenger train on the
Virginia Midland railway breaking through
a trestle on the 12th, near Orange Court
House, Va.
THE principal county officers (all col
ored) at Marion, Tenn., were escorted to
trains by white men on the 12th, given
tickets and warned never to return.
CROP reports on the 13th from the North
west gave indications of a good yield and a
prosperous season for the farmers.
G. M. RIDER was hanged on the 13th at
Marshall, Mo., for the murder of P. Tal
lant two years ago.
GREAT suffering was reported on the 13th
as the result of the recent hoods in West
Virginia. Fully five hundred persons were
completely destitute of the necessaries of
life.
MRS. JAMES CBUSAN and her nine-year
old daughter were struck and kUled by a
Pennsylvania railroad train on the 13th at
Latrobe, Pa.
THE examination of the alleged dyna
miters, arrested at the instance of the Bur
lington railroad, was begun in Chicago on
the 13th, and some very startling testimony
was brought out. Witnesses swore that
they sold dynamite to Bowles, and Inform
er Kelly declared that he had seen the
deadly stuff in Chairman Hoge's room at
the hotel.
DCKING the seven days ended on the 13th
there were 150 business failures in the
United States, against 149 the previous
seven days. The total of failures in the
United States from January 1 to date is
553, against 5,389 in 1887.
A RAPID rise of the Wabash to eighteen
feet flooded hundreds of acres of bottom
land near Terre Haute, Ind., on the 13th,
and destroyed over half the corn crop.
THE Orphans' Home at South Wabash,
Ind., was destroyed by fire on the 13th.
The children escaped and the contents of
the building were also saved.
THE National Council of the National Ed
ucational Association met at San Fran
cisco on the 13th, President J. L. Pickard,
of Iowa City, la., presiding.
WILLIAM HALL, a farmer living in Cher
okee Countyy Ala., who had been tried
three times for the killing of his wife
twenty-three years ago, was acquitted on
the 13th.
THE Laflin & Rand powder works at
Cressona, Pa., exploded on the 13th, killing
George Gillman, Charles Reed and Henry
Bernieh.
Miss LENA WETZIG, aged twenty years,
daughter of a -wealthy farmer near Bloom
ington, 111., was thrown against a barb
wire fence on tho 13th, and her entire face
was torn off, with her lower jaw and: tongue,
and left hanging on the fence* $'l
..pM PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE New York State Republican con
vention will be held at Saratoga Springs
August 28.
THE Prohibitionists of the Fourth district
of Michigan on the 10th nominated George
F. Cummings for Congress.
A NATIONAL convention of the American
party, for the nomination of candidates for
President and Vice-President, has been
called to meet at Washington on the 14th of
August
THE following Congressional nomina
tions were made on the llth: Minnesota,
First district, Mark H. Dunnell (Rep.)
Georgia, Fifth district, J. D. Stewart
(Dem.), renominated Missouri, Third dis
trict, A M. Dockery (Dem.), renominated.
THE New York State convention of Re
publican clubs met at Saratoga Springs on
the llth and elected four delegates to at
tend the National convention in Chicago.
The secretary's report showed that there
was 550 Republican clubs in the State,
with an aggregate membership of eighty
thousand.
THE Republican National Committee In
session in New York City on tho llth
elected M. S. Quay, of Pennsylvania, chair
man, and J. B, Fassatt, of New York, sec
retary.
HIRAM SIBLEY, one of the founders of tho
Western Union Telegraph Company and a
well-known capitalist and seedsman died
at Rochester, N. Y., on the 12th^aged
eighty years.
ADVICES of the 12th from Nonquitt,
Mass., say that General Sheridan con
tinued to improve, and was able to sit up
in a chair. Thirty-five days had passed
since an attack of heart failure.
J. T. MOREHEAD was on the 13th nomi
nated for Congress by the Democrats of the
Fifth North Carolina district.
THB resignation of George Y. N. Lathrop,
Minister to Russia, was received at Wash
ington on the 12th. Ill-health was given
as the cause.
CONGRESSMAN RANDALL, of Pennsylvania,
had four hemorrhages on the 13th in Wash
ington, losing sixteen ounces of blood. II
was feared he could not survive another
attack.
THE Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 13th.
THE report that General Sheridan was
able to leave his bed was denied on the.
13th by the General's brother, who said the
sick man was still too weak to raise hi9
head, but that he was gaining slowly.,
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FOREIGN.
DISPATCHES of the 9th say that the inwn
of Berbera, on the Gulf of Aden, bad been
burned, and that forty persons perished.
AN earthquake, shock was felt from
Belleville to Kingston, Ont., 09 he 8th.
Houses were rocked and the people were
greatly frightened.
THE Mexican electoral collages voted on
the 8th, re-electing President Diaz.,?J
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ADVICES of the 10th front Batavia, Java,
say that Bantam insurgents had plun
dered Tielegon and killed the native chiefs
and the European inhabitants. Troops had
been dispatched to quell the revolt.
MR. PARNELL said ?n London on the lOtn
that the home-rule movement would ulti
mately result in the establishment of an
Imperial Parliament in which the colonies
would be represented, each province hav
ing a Legislature for its own local affairs.
THE Knights of Labor of Montreal, Que.,
on tbe llth called a mass-meeting to pro
test against pauper immigration' to Can
ada.
SNOW fell in London on the llth for tho
first time ever known in July, and unsea
sonably cold weather prevailed, in England.
THE Berlin police on the llh arrested
five Socialists for pasting seditious pla
cards over copies of the speech from the
thepne.
HEAVY gales*prevailed on the lith in tho
English channel, and a number of small
vessels were wrecked along the French
coast.
A HEAVY earthquake was felt through
out Greece on the 12th.
A DISPATCH of the 12th from Cape Town,
Africa, says that the Debers coal mine at
Kiinberley had been burned, and that five
hundred persons lost their lives.
GENERAL BOULANGER resigned his seat
in the French Chamber of Deputies on the
13th. %gi
A REPORT reached Paris oh the 12th that
an insurrection had occurred at Port au
Prince, and that the insurgents had burned
five hundred houses, including most of the
public buildings.
THE Italian Chamber of Deputies on the
12th passed a bill giving electoral rights to
every one who is able to read and write
and who pays the minimum taxes.
IN the Italian Chamber of Deputies on
the 13th the question of granting, the ballot
to women was defeated by a harrow ma
jority.
A HURRICANE on the coast of Spanish
Honduras was reported on the 13th to have
destroyed a number of fruit plantations,
creating heavy losses.
GENERAL BOULANGEB and M. Floquet
fought a duel with swords near Paris on
the 13th. The battle was fiercely con
tested, and in the second round Boulanga*
received a thrust in the neck which might
prove fatal. Premier Floquet escaped
with a few scratches.
A FIRE on the 13th at Ripley, Ont., near
ly destroyed the whole business portion oi
the town. Twenty-six buildings were
burned.
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LATER NEWS.
ANOTHER encyclical letter from the Pope
was read in all the Catholic churches of
Dublin om the 15th, condemning the whole
systenai of the plan of campaign and the use
of the boycott as unlawful. j"
A PASSENGER train was wrecked near
Detroit, Mich., on the 14th, and William
Baty, the fireman, was killed, and the
passengers badly shaken up. It was claimed
that a switch had been tampered with, and
a reward of $500 has been offered for the
arrest of the- guilty persons.
A TANK of Naptha at Ludlow, Kyi,"-took
fire and exploded on the 14th, burning fif-'
teen men, four of them fatally. ,',f!i
DISPATCHES from Pittsburg, Pa., on the
14th, state that the ironworkers' strike was
practically at an end, all but about fifty
firms having signed the Amalgamated scale.
It was also romored that the Manufacturers'
Association was about to disband. ?^f*^
DAVID M. PASCOL, ex-treasurer of tbe In
ternational Typographical Union, was ar.
rested at Philadelphia on the 14th, charged
with embezzlement of the funds of the
Union, and was held in $2,500 bail. The
amount of his alleged embezzlement if
$2,239.98. .-.y, *,& i*
A. J. Streeter has Avritten a letter accept
ing the nomination of the Union Labor
party for president.
THE Ohio State Board of Pardons on the
14th refused to make a recommendation ia
the case oi "Blinky" Morgan, the Ravenna
fur robber and one of the murderers, of
Detective Hulligan. Morgan wUl fcaag
Aug.sa .i.,**r-f:. fe ){1
ON the 14th at Seney, Mich., Thomas
Hayes, a hotel proprietor, shot and fatally
wounded George Everett and seriously
wounded McCleary during a quarrel.
THE six men under arrest at Chicago in
connection with the Burlington dynamite
plot were taken before the United, States
Commissioner Hoyne on the 14th, and their
cases continued. One of them, Bowles, was
reported to have made a confession to
the Inspector of Police implicating Chair
man Hoge, Wilson, another of the mien un_
der arrest, was alleged to be a Pinkerton
detective. The cases of Hoge and Murphy
were also continued for one week. ^V.
THE steamer Bellgia arrived at San,
Francisco on the 14th from Hong Kong, and
brought Chinese and Japanese papers con
taining an account of an unprovoked attack
on the crew of the British schooner Nemo,
on April 10, by Aleuts of Copper Island, ofi
the Kamschatka coast. The captain of the
Nemo was seriousl1y wounded, three
Japanese sailors b1"'
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
TIMBER SUITS.,
The Department at Washington Will
Prosecute Minnesota Parties.
Special Timber Agent C. H. Chamber
lain recently stated that during 1886 C. B.
Bucknell, of Sauk Rapids, cut and removed
from township 57 north, range 24 west,
about 250,000 feet of Norway pine saw-logs,
which he sold to the S. C. Hall Lumber
Company, Minneapolis, (now Hall &
Ducey), at $5 per thousand delivered at the
boom at their mill at Minneapolis. The
lands cut from were entered in the name of
Edward Whitmore in 1884, who made proof
in January,1886,which was rejected by rea
son of it being incompleted. Bucknell
claimed he bought the land from Whit
more before cutting, taking the deed
therefor, which he alleged was destroyed
by a cyclone in 1886. Agent Chamberlain
thinks the trespass not willful, and that the
purchase of logs by the Hall LumberCom
pany was made innocently. Under the facts
set forth Acting Secretary of the Interior
Hawkins has directed that the proper
United States Attorney make a careful
inquiry into the case and institute such
proceedings in the matter as the facts will
warrant. Bucknell's proposition of set
tlement was rejected, the amount offered
being only $1.25 per 1,000 and the amount
offered to be settled for but 185,000 feet.
V*,* ST. ANTHONY FALLS.
Minneapolis Authorized to .Repair the
Works for Their Preservation.
Representative Wilson was recently in
structed to report favorably to the House
in Washington the bill authorizing the
city of Minneapolis to repair, alter and re
construct the dyke wall, claims and apron,
constructed for the protection and preser
vation of the falls of St. Anthony. The
amendment provides that Minneapolis
shall keep the works in repair under such
regulations as the Secretary of War may
prescribe. The bill as originally intro
duced empowers the city to determine
what repairs were necessary, etc.
THE PRECIOUS METAL.
Excitement Over Gold Discoveries in the
Northern Part of the State.
A. Pugh, of the St. Paul & Pacific Coal
Company, recently arrived in Duluth from
the Lake of the Woods, on the north line
of the State, and is enthusiastic over the
gold discoveries there. He has brought
back a number of specimens of easy-mill
ing ore in which free gold is easily seen by
the unaided eye. Other specimens taken
from the different parts of the island as
sayed from $160 to 1462 per ton of gold,
with a small percentage of silver. Several
Manitoba men have bought a tract of 750
acres, and value it in its undeveloped state
at a couple of million dollars.
A Blaze in Faribault.
Early the other morning fire destroyed
Leary's livery barn in Faribault and
caused quite heavy damages to the build
ings on the adjoining lots and the stocks
of goods contained in them. Carpenter &
Smith, clothiers, were the heaviest losers,
their loss amounting to over $8,000. T.
Peavey, photograph gallery, lost $5,000
Mortenson & Wachlin, harness-makers,
$800 J. Leary, $2,500. All were well in
sured except Peavey, who had but $1,000.
The fire, it was generally believed, was
caused by fire-works.
Ate Wild Parsnips.
A terrible accident happened on the
prairie east of Lake Benton the other after
noon. County Commissioner Sericker had
two boys aged fifteen and twelve years
each, herding cattle, and a boy named
Gratz came to help them, and visit. The
boys in play dug up wild parsnips and ate
them. The Gratz boy died on the prairie,
and the Sericker boys were under the doc
tor's care and might live through.
End of a Strike.
The strike at the Winona Lumber Com
pany's mill collapsed the other morning,
when all the men went to work except a
dozen of the ringleaders, who were dis
charged. It was feared that the company
might have further trouble,, as a
few declare that they would inaugurate an
other strike soon. The company secured
only five men from outside who are skilled
workmen.
Turned Into a Creamery.
The old brewery property owned by
Peter Beck, of Lake City, has been bought
by J. W. Eppiheimerr of Philadelphia, who
is actively engaged in remodeling the in
terior for a creamery. All the dealers in
butter in Lake City are glad that it is to
be established, as they claim that they are
losing money handling the article. This
will be the means of taking it off their
hands. K,\ Hand-Cars Collide.
While racing with hand-cars at dinner
time- recently, three men belonging to a
construction gang, employed by Langdon
& Co. near Thomson, received broken legs
besides other injuries. Two cars collided
and the men were thrown off. They were
taken, to St. Paul on the afternoon train,
and two carried to- their homes, the-, other
to. St- Joseph's Hospital.
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a A Newspaper Man Slopes,
Ariai C. Harris, one of the best-known
newspaper men in the Northwest, eloped
from Minneapolis a few days ago to South
America with Mrs. E. J. Frederick, a lady
who has for the past two years filled a po
sitionas typewriter for the Minnesota, Ab
stract Company. Harris leaves,a wife and
two children.
jrJ ~s"*, "firs
k&MM *ed Church. $ M$,
Some sneak thief broke into the new
Congregational church at Fersrua Falls
the- other night and stole a very handsome
new Bible which was presented by an
Eastern friend when the- church was dedi
cated a month ago. They also broke out
one of the large stained glass windows.
iy The News Briefly Chronicled.
The Duluth Board of Education has de
cided to issue $50,000 worth of bonds .pay
able in twenty years at six per cent., for
the erection of additional school buildings.
Three members of the firm of Shotwell',
Clerihew & Lotbam,of Minneapolis, which
failed some days ago, Have been arrested
on a warrant sworn out by the cashier of a
bank there, to which the firm is largely in
debted, on a charge of swindling.
Fred Hancock, of Blooming Prairie,
while bathing with several other young
men in the Cedar river recently was
seized with cramp and drowned. He was
twenty-one years old.
The new creamery at Lake Benton, to
the aid of which the citizens subscribed
1800, is now fully started and is turning out
about three hundred pounds of fine butter
daily.
Charles J. Anderson, of Prior township,
was struck by lightning and killed recent
ly while out riding, while S. P. Lindhohy,
sitting on the same seat' in the wagon,
was stunned, but sustained no serious in
jury.
The assessed valuation of real estate in
Faribault as a basis for taxation for the
Popping the question would be just
as light and easy a question as popping
corn if it wasn't for th atonement.
Binghamton Leader.
A tarantula escaped from the bot
tle in which an embryo naturalist was
bringing it away from Ho Springs the
other day, and for an half hour or more
was decidedly the most important pas
senger on & crowded car.
Mr. Gotham"Would you like to
see 'Pygmalion' to-night, Miss. Por
cine P" Miss Porcine (of Cincinnati)
"Yes very much, Mr. Gotham. I
believe in encouraging any thing con
nected with the great hog industry."
Puck.
The maximum cost of feeding a
Chinese passenger from China to San
Francisco is twelve cents a day, but the
Canadian Pacific steamship Abyssina
recently brought over 1,500 Celestials
at an averags cost of 4f cents a day. I
was mostly rice and not much of it.
The oldest house in Indiana, the
old Moore mansion, situated on the
CJticapike, near Four Mile Springs,
was recently torn down. I was built
in 1800, of stone and brick, and for
many years past has had, the reputation
of being haunted.
Scientists are of the Opinion that
the newly discovered cities of Arizona
are those sought by Cortez and the
early Spanish adventurers in their ex
peditions after gold. Th cities are
seven in number, and give evidence of
former civilization and wealth.
A speed trial between the tele
graph and telephone from New York to
Boston was lately undertaken at the
Sun office in New York City. The con
test lasted for ten minutes 330 words
were delivered in Boston, ready for the
printer, by the telegraph, and 346
words by telephone. Bu many of the
telephone words were incorrectly re
ceived. So the telegraph was the win
ner. -5,-
Within the Antartic Circle there
has never been found a flowering plant.
En the Arctic region there are 762 kinds
of flowers fifty of these are confined to
the Arctic region. They are really
Polar flowers. Th colors of these
Polar flowers are not as bright and
varied as our own, most of them being
rhite or yellow, as if borrowing these
hardy hues from their snowy bergs and
golden stars.
Brown (to Dumley who has had
a bout at billiards with Robinson)
"What do you think, Dumley, of Rob
inson's game?" Dumley"He's a
player, but mighty lucky." Brown (a
little later, to Robinson)"What do
you think, Robinson, of Dumley's'
billiards?" Robinson"He plays a fair
?ame, but is one of the luckiest men I
ever saw."Drake's Magazine.
Omaha man"Think law is a use
less relic of barbarismv eh?" Enthu
siastic Socialist"It's worsey ft is a
uurse there should be no law men
lon't need law, and they would get
along much better without it. But I
am in a hurryha ve an engagement to
meet the committee to-night.." 'What
2ommittee "The committee to draft
oath-bound, iron-clad, obey or*die laws
tor govern our Socialistic organiza
tions."Omaha World. ?j(*
In 1742 there flourished i Boston
an original sort of a character Thomas
Fleet, who was a printer and the most
popular auctioneer of his day.. Among
other rare bargains he1
offered at public
3ale was this: A negro woman to be
sold by the printer of this paper the
very best negro woman in this town,
who has had the smallpox and the
measles is as hearty as a shore* as
brisk as a bird, and will work lake a
beaver."1
"Don't be a clam" is* a warning
that meets one very frequently now-a
days. Well why not? What's the
matter with a clam? He's all right. If
he fulfills Ms mission, and makes the
most of himself, wh at more eould be
expected and what more could any per
son do? The clam is as welli born, as
well bred, and as respectable as the
oyster, yet nobody thinks of speaking
disrespectful of the oyster. What has
the clam done that it should be made a
term of derision? Nobody overheard
of a clam getting drunk, lying, cheat
ing at cards* abusing dumb animals,
putting a little dog's eyes out, or doing
any of the thousand things by which
men distinguish themselves from
brutes. The clam is yet to be heard
from. Perhaps he would say, "Don't
be a man."Indianapolis Journal.
X-Wai-Tntilated
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Of all the mean things said by men,
to and about women, commend us to
that crabbed parson who told the sis
ters of his flock that "Christ appeared
first to women after the resurrection,
jest so as the news might spread
faster."
ji!
V-^V'*
Clugston Departed in Hast^cjf
"Matilda," fervently exclaimed the
lovelorn youth, I can no longer en
dure this suspense and uncertainty. I
must know my fate this night. For
months I'fcave carried your image in
my heart. You have been first in my
waking thoughts, last in the reveriea
that have filled my midnight vigils,
and your lovely face has been ever
present in my restless dreams when
sleep has kindly sought to ease the
burden that oppresses me. Yo have
been thethe
"The lode-star of you$:
existence and
the Ultima Thule of all your hopes, Mr.
Clugston," suggested Matilda, observ
ing that the young man hesitated.
"Why, how did you know what I was
going to say?" he demanded in aston
ishxnent*
I got it from Lula Bilderback and
Mary Jane Wheelhouse," replied Ma*
tilda "it's the same thing you said to
them. I can repeat the whole speech,
Mr. Clugston."Chicago Tribune,
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bedrooms wilT pref
vent morning head-aches and Immi
fcude. r.:
A slight raking every few days will
greatly benefit plants in the flower-gar^
den. I is better than watering theni
too frequently. s*
In selecting a few flowers for dooiv-^
yard culture, chose those that bloom a^
different times, so far as to have a sue**,,
cession of blossoms.
That unsightly excrescence comt*
monly called a wart can be removed by "f
touching it several times a day with
castor oil.
remedy.
---Ground oats and shorts, cooked
with one-fifteenth part of flax seed and
fed blood warm in a thin slop, is a
good substitute for cow's milk in weanl
ing pigs.Western Swineherd. *-'r
The flavor of nearly all kinds of
fish is improved by removing the Bkin
from them before they are cooked.
The skin has a disagreeable flavor, as
the fat is between the skin and the
flesh.
Blackberry vines should be well
cultivated after the fruit has been
picked. The old canes should not be
cut out un to late in the fall, but the
new canes, which are to produce next
year's crops, will be greatly benefited
by cultivation.
Orange Cookies.Into two table
spoonfuls of butter rub one large cup
of brown sugar and two quarts oi
flour. Season with a good deal oi
orange peel, well grated, and mix with
enough molasses to roll thin. Cut in
fancy shapes, and bake in quick oven.
A correspondent of the Fruit Re
corder says he has boiled leaves and
stems of tomato plants untO the juice
has been all extracted, and has found
the liquor deadly to caterpillars, lice
and many other enemies of vegetation.
It does not injure the growth) of plant,
and its odor remains for a long time
to disgust insect marauders
As a rule meadows should be cut
reasonably early, not later- than when
the seed begins to form. Early- cutting
aids to thicken up, while allowing the
plants to mature seeds increases the
loss, especially if the weather should
keep hot and dry. Thin, or- vacant
places can be thickened up by raking
or harrowing so as to loosen up the
soil and then sow plenty of good seed,
either in the fall or spring .Western
Plowman.
This is the simplest knowji
Mutton Sausage*.Take1
cold roast mutton from which you can
cut nice slices. Have bread crumbs
seasoned with salt, white pepper, sum
mer savory, a grating of nutmeg and a
pinch of grated lemon peel, and moist
ened with a beaten egg. Pu a small
spoonful of the dressing in each slice
of mutton, roll up neatly and: tie with
a string. Fry in hot butter till a nice,
brown. Serve with or without ai to
mato sauce.
SOME SUMMER CROPS.
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Rap- Grasses and Vegetables That Grow
idly and Mature Early.
Some of the most important" cropf-^
grown are those that are seeded aftei
the summer opens. While certair
plants may require the cooler weathei
of spring, with plenty of time for
growth, any failure of the crops seeded
in the spring does not necessarily cause
a loss of the whole season, as- soma-oi
the most profitable crops grown are
put in as late as July.- iThe sweet po-"?
tato, bean, millet, buckwheat and tur
nip crops are strictly summer crops,
and grow rapidly pnd mature early*
The sweet potato v'-a,nts 'are set out irt^
rows like cabbage, and thi& compels-',
the work to be done rather early in th
season, when the ground is moist,
which renders the plants subject to in-,
jury on cool nights, as they are very,
tender. This desire to get the sweet'
potato plants out early has caused',then:
loss, andat is necessary this season fe*
replanting in many instances. I is
not the early plants that always take-i,
the lead in growth, but those-that start
off under themostfavorableconditions,i^
and late plants, therefore, may prodkee
better than those put out early.. Millet r,*
is one of the most profitable-crops thal^
can be grown,, especially on fields i
not suitable to clover, as it entails
but little labor and produces hay of ex
cellent quality if cut when the seed
flowers appear. Much depends on the
time of cutting and curing the crop.
Hungarian grass, which is doseiy al
lied to millet, can be used as pasture
grass when young, or it may be mowed
at intervals of time allowed for growth
arid cured as hay. Millet and Hunga
rian grass are excellent weed extermi
nators. The seed germinates quickly
and soon takes possession of the ground,
crowding ont the weeds and killing
them in their first stages. Buckwheat
is a summer crop that has long been
known as a special agent for reducing
rough soil and for plowing under as a
green manurial crop. The turnip crop
is one of the most important. Formerly
farmers gave the turnip crop but little'%1
attention owing to the labor required^
for its production, but at the present
day the opening of the rows, seeding,..
covering, and weeding can be donej!
with implements especially adapt
ed for the purpose, and the crop should*
be a leading one on every farm. Tur- 3
nips can be grown in large fields if the^j
ground be properly prepared, and forlb!
winter use, fed to stock either cooked
:AL
or raw, they serve to promote healtbT'^^
and increase the value of the grain
rations by their dietary effect. I has
been shown that. whenever roots are.f-%,
fed to such stock in connection witbr*
other food the combination gives a
greater increase than an exclusive
diet of one kind, and this fact alone,
gives an additional value to the turnips
crop.Philadelphia Record^
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