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I I* /f^'WDOL P. GABBED, Publisher. fray, DAKOTA. pibere are laws against using pro language by telephone in all fc|8fc»tes except Connecticut. ^^—•——m New Orleans baa a teachers' benev olent association with a good bank account. Its investment is now a question with its members. A three-year old Maine boy, while ididnf iJotBhill two or three weeks •§o, ran into a barbed wire fence and cot UM corners oi hie mouth fully two indies on each side. .A, candidate for Alderman in Cin cinnati promised a certain petty office to ^fifty-six different men, and wheu •teettd, gave it to his brother, the fifty-aerenth.' A scientific journal says that there fa no properly recorded instance of a railroad locomotive ever attaining a speed greater than eighty miles an hour, and that higher speeds are mythical.- tbi Indians cn the San Carlos res ervation In Arizona are extrav agant Ijriond of sweets. Sometimes in one store a barrel of sugar will be sold in a day in quantities of 5 and 10 cents' worth, just enough to serve the Indi an tor candy. Willie Pullman, a Nashville lad went oat upon a raft the other day to drown a cat in a break in its surface* While thrusting the animal under wa" ter, its claws fastened upon his sleeve, and losing his balance, the boy fell under the logs and was drowned along with bis four-footed victim. A man who left Louisville fifteen, years ago, in the flush of manhood and prosperity, came back the other day a miserable, broken-down tramp —yet even in this guise retribution overtook him, as he was fatally snot the first night—it is supposed on ac count of a woman, whom in the past Jbe had compromise3. A tornado that left bugs all over the face of the earth is the latest wonder from the solid south. It came near Ninety-six in South Carolina, and the "varmints" were of unknown species —black, pointed, roush-coated—yet evidently not prepared to be hurled through space at cyclone rates, as they were dead soon after touching the ground. Public parks are recommended as a preventitlve of anarchy. A speaker in Philadelphia traced the connection {between a certain class of virtues and open spaces. Riotous uprisings never find their source in that part of the population dwelling within the vicini ty of parks, since Anarchists frequent thickly crowded quarters, the alleys and densely populated courts. An enterprising Dartmouth fresh tan, with a taste for electric expei uents, tapped the wires of the West em Union Telegraph Company recent ly and connected them with an in strument in his room. It was quite a so.urce of amusemeut to him to sit quietly at home and learn all that Was going On in the outer world, but the company finally discovered the scheme and now things look far from promising for the young scientist. A man was found dead on the top of a Liverpool tramway car not long ago. Nothing was found on him to lead to his identification, but lie had with him a couple of carrier pigeons. To one of these was attached a piece Of paper with the words, "Come to the detective office at once," and the bird was set at liberty. In half an boor a man arrived at the detective office and stated that the deceased was his father, and had been very aick. He had gone out for exercise and to fly the pigeons. Editor Willard Cobb, of Lockport, (ells this story of Roscoe Conkling's remarkable memory: In the fall of 1866 Mr. Conkling came home to Utica to make a speech upon the ex citing issues of the hour, and the Her ald wanted to report it in full but couldn't do it unless the orator would gVe it a copy of the speech in ad vance. This he did on the afternoon 16 day When he was to speak, and in the evening he delivered the speech /almost word for word as furnished in ^advance, although the effort was to •very appearance extempore. It made ^upward of eleven solid columns of the Utica Herald. -•h- -m Several days ago Lee Mackey was plowing on the farm of C. S. Maxwell. aear Buffalo Village, Pa., when he ^Stopped to dig away the sod about a %tump. As he pulled back the first flap of grass he was surprised to find underneath it a flat stone, which evi. dently hand't got there by accident. Mackey proceeded to investigate, and was still moro astonished to find that under the stone was a pot of shining gold coin to the value of nearly $3,000. Mackey resigned his job the next day and left for his home in Greene county to enjoy the fruits of his good fortune. The money is sup posed to have been hidden by Robert Dryden, who many years ago occupi ed a cabin hear by and was somewhat of a xniser. ^^•o^-.c&«L&iiw«si<rali!3sS£Hsi£i^ DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. Crover Cleveland and Allen C. Thurman the Standard Bear ers of the Party. Condensed Proceedings of the Three Days' Proceedings at the St. Louis Convention. Tbe democratic national convention met at St. Louis according to announce ment on June 5, preceeded by two or three days excitement aDtl wrangling over pre liminary proceeding. Senator Barnum ol Connecticut, chair man o! the democratic national commit tee, called the convention to order. Bishop J. C. Cranberry o! St. Louie then opened the proceedings of the convention with prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer Mr. Bar num arose and said: Gentlemen of the- Convention: By the un animous vote ol tin-national committee,the chair has been directed to present to this convention as the list or temporary officers tbe following.which the secretary will read: I'OH.U!'/ OI L"' J:K6. Mr. Prince then read the list as follows: Stephen M. White oi California, for chairman [applause}: temporary secre tary, Frederick O. Prince of Jlassachu sett«. Assistant secretaries, Alfred Oren dorff of iilirioK W. h. Scott of Virginia, T. J-". Barrett of .St. Louis, Leopold Starufcs of Alabama, O. M. Hall of Minnesota. John Triplett of George. L. E. Kowiey Michigan, Oliver Newell o! Colorado, T. J. Tingle of Missouri, T. L. Merrill ol Nebraska. Beading secre taries, Hon. Thomas Pettit, house of representatives. Assistant read* ing clerks, Michael T. Barrett of New Jersey. T. O. Walker of Iowa, K. H. Henry of Mississippi, John \V. Kern of Indi ana. j. P. Carre of Missouri, F. L». Sawyer of Ohio, William P. Bentley of Missouri. Official st en ojrapher, Kdward B. Dickin son of New York. Eergeant-at-arms, Rich ard J. Bright. Chief doorkeeper, iJaniel Ab»-1 St. Louis. The convention unanimously adopted the list read by Mr. Prince. THE COMMITTEES. Among the members of the committee re elected were these: Minnesota—Chairman, P. B. Winston secretary, K. C. Stringer, resoiutioLS, Therefore, be it Resolved, That. a copy of sVM thiB preamble and resolution be transmitted as represented to the national Democratic convention which is to assemble at bt Louis on the 5:h day of June, 1888, for such recognition thereof and such action thereon as the said convention may see lit to take concerning the same. It was referred to the committee on resolu tions without debate. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. The chairman announced that the secre tary would read a petition for the considera tion of the convention. The paper proved to be a request from the woman's conven tion recently held in Washington, stating that two of its members had been appointed to make a short talk to the convention on behalf of the women of America This re quest was accompanied by* ptomjje that if it were granted by the convention tljs representation of the woman's organisation would only occupr the attention of the coo rention for ten minutes. The communica tion was signed by Virginia Miner and E. Merriweather. J. J. O'Donofaue of New fork moved that the women be hsard and it vas agreed to. Mrs. Merriweather then addressed the con rention as follows: Gentlemen of the Democratic convention: Time and again have the womeu ot mis country appeared before your legislative bodies and your great political conventions asking that the practice of this government oe made to conform to it* principles. The basic principle, the very foundations stones on which this government rest*, are equal rights. yet now here in all this broad land io equal rights prevail? On the one side we have a i»rivileged, a governing class an the other Mtie subjected, a governed siar.s. One half of the people of this so-called renubliu yet live iu precisely the same polit ical bondage our fore mothers lived in under the monarcmi of England, before"the colonies rebelled and seceded from the British empire. Our forefathers called themselves slaves be cause of such oppressions, if it were slavery for them, how is it nut slavery for us? I have been aenuted by the Missouri Woman's Suffrage society to come before you and ask you to recognize these Just principles, and to pledge your party to right these great wrongs by procuring such an amendment to the constitution as will ive to woman equai civil and political rights with meD, in eluding toe right preservative of all rights— the right of suffrage. The Bepublican party claims and wears a crown of glory for giving freedom to four millions of negro slaves. How much more fflonous a crown will that oartv win and wear that shall achieve the freedom of the educated Cnristun women of this country? You may have the opportunity to become the champion o( freedom for the whole, in stead of half the people. A declaration so noble, so grand, coming from this great body of Democratic men, will send a thrill through humanity's gieat heart, such a* it never felt since time beffan, and will carry the memory of this convention to the very end of time itself. Mrs. Merriweather then read a series of resolutions on woman's rights, which she would like to see adopted by the conven tion. Considerable disorder prevailed during the delivery of Mrs. Merriwenther's re marks, and the chair was obliged to re mind the delegates oi their discourtesy. THE NOMINATION OF Ct.KVKI.ANO. Dani?l Dougherty, of New York, presented the name of Grover Cleveland as the can didate of the democratic party for presi dent. arid his elo|iU.|it spei-cli produced HIiich applause, as also did the speech of Mr.-.McKeiizie of Kentucky, who seconded Dougherty's motion. II. D. I). .Twigzs of Georgia alio second ed Mr. Cleveland's nomination, as did al so delegates from other atates. Mr. Mc Kenzie of Kentucky then moved to sus pend the rules and to nominate Grover Cleveland for president by acclamation, which motion prevailed. And after a mo tion t« take a recess until night had been voted down, the convention amid great •onfusinn adjourned until next day. m'- rnxrem or CSBKOWMX. E. C. Stringer credentials, D. W. Mayo: or ganization, T. T. Hudson committeeman, M. Poran. Wisconsin—Chairman, 0. M. Woodard secretary, T. F. Frawk-y resolutions, W. II. Seamen credentials, S. V. Dickinson organization, W. Lameroux committee man, J. L. Mitchell. Jowa—Chairman, W. H. M. Pusey sec-, retary, A. F. Morrison resolutions, F. W. Lehmann credentials. S. S. Caruthers or ganization, L. L. Ainswortb committee man, -I. J. Hii-hardson. Dakota was relegated to the rear until the contest between the Day and Church factions were settled by the committee on credential*, which eventually upheld Church and pulverized Day. SOMK UliSOI.t TIO.NS. Mr. T. J. Campbell of New York sent up to the desk, so that it might be read, along preamble and resolutions, prepared by himeelf and signed by a large number of prominent Democrats, as follows. Whereas. We believe that the safety and continuity of republican institutions oil this continent imperatively demands the recog nition and enforcement of ttie Monro doc trine in all its length and breadth that ter ritorial acquisition or aggrandizement iu this quarter of the world bv loreiirn and monarchical powers should not only be dis countenanced. but should be discouraged and prohibited by every means in our power that it is our duty as well as our interest to establish and maintain the most friendly diplomatic end commercial relations with our sister republic, Mexico, with Cen tral and South America, to extend to them such moral aid and sympathy as they may need to protect themselves from ucrigiiteous encroachments of European powers upon their territory, or officious interference in their internal governmental affairs and further, if necessary to maintain the suprem acy of the Monroe doctrine on this conti nent, we should be prepared to make and enforce the demands against whatever power may undertake to evade or disregard it Grover Cleveland, tweutjr-steoad presi dent of the United States, was bora fn Cald well. Eme*, county, Sew Jersey, March 18. 1837. When three years of age his father, a Presbyterian minlBter.moved toFeyeMeville, Onondaga county, X. V., where^ young Gro- Crover Cleveland. rer received some schooling, his studies be •og frequently interrupted by thi necessity of often resorting to more remunerative work, such as clerking in store, teaching, farming, etc. The death at his father, which occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, left the youth to rely entirely upon his own resource!, and he accordingly set ent for New York citv to accept the position of under tescber in an asylum for the blind. In August^ 1855, he secured a place in the office of £oi?eie. Bowen & Bodgers, Buffalo, N- Y., where he read law, and, in 1859, was admitted to the bar. In 1663 Grover Cleveland was appointed district attorney for the county of Erie, which event msrked his first entrance into political life. InJ18C9 he was elected sheriff of the same county, bavin? previously been defeated for the district-attorneyfhip by the Bepublican candidate. Lyman K. Bass. In 1881 he was elected mayor of Buffalo on a combination Democratic "and reform ticket. When a successor vrss to be elected to Gov. A. B. Cornell the Democrats nominated Giover Cleveland. Owing to an im placable aud tatal division between the two leading factions of the Re publican pcrty in the State of New York, he was elected over Secretary Folger by the surprising majoritT of 132,000. In view of this impetus Lnven to his political fortunes tie was in 1884 nominated for president against James O. Blaine, and on March 4, 1885, inaugurated president of the United States. President Cleveland married in the White House rm the second day of June, 188U. Frances Folsom. daugnter of bis de ceased friend and partner, Oscar Folsoin. of the Buffalo bar. Except the wite of Madi son. Mrs. Cleveland is ttie youngett of the many mistresses of the White House, having been born in Buffalo. N. Y., in 16U4. TlilEM.lN KOlt VICE PRESIDENT. As was known on the third day of the convention Allen Thurman, of Ohio, was nominated for vice President, with scarce ly any opposition at all, Gray and Black having received a few complimentary votes. Alien G. Thurman was born at Lynchburg, V.L, Nov. 13, 1813, He removed to Oiiio iu 1819. and received an academic education and studied law under his uncle, William Allen, then senator, and afterward governor of Ohio, and with Noah H. Swayne, after ward a justice of the United States supreme court While he studied law young Thur man also cave much of his time to land sur veying. In 1844 he was sent to congress by the Democrats. During his service in that positiun Mr. Thurman advocated and voted for the "Wilmot proviso," and opposed the repeal of the Missouri compromise. After one term in congress be returned to his pro fession, declining a renomination. He re mained at the bar in growing practice until 1831. wheu he was elected W&J&J' to the supreme bench of Ohio. From December, 1854, to February, 1856, he served as chief justice, and on the x pirationof his term refused a renomination. In 1867 Mr. Thurman was nominated for governor by the Democrats, and, although defeated, he reduced the Bepublican ma jority from 42,000 to about 3,000, and se cured a msjority in the legislature for the Democrats. In 1868 he was elected to the senate to succeed Benjamin F. Wade. From the first he took a leading position in that bodr, being recognized as the leader of the Democratic minority. He was made a mem ber of the committee on judiciary, and on the accession of his party to power he was made chairman of that committee, and also elected president pro-teinpore of the senate. In 187!I Ohio was carried by the Republi cans by 40,000 majority, but Senator Tour man took charge of the Democratic forces during the following campaign and again secured a majority in the lejfis ature which gave bim a t-eat in tile senate for an other term. In 1870 he was a candidate at the national Democratic convention, :r wnuid probably have secured the nomin tiou but for a division in tbeO'iio delegation. He was again a candidate i:i 1880. but was defeated He was appointed by President Garfield a representative of the American government In the international congress which met in 1881 at Paris, hi nee then Mr. Thurman has remained in private life, al though urged to become acandidate for gov ernor, except ttiat he acted as a delegate to the national convention in 1884. He was also governmeut counsel in the recent suit* against the Bell Telephone company. TILL- I'l.ATKOItM. The resolutions were read by the clerk aE follows: The Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, re news the pledge of its fidelity to Democratic faith and reaffirms the platform adopted bv its representatives in the convention of 1884 and ehdorses the views expressed ,by Presi dent Cleveland in his last annual message to ungress as the correct interpretation of that cplatforin upon the question of rarifl reduc tion and also endorses the efforts of our Democratic representatives in congress to secure a reduction oi excessive taxation. Chief among its principles of partv raith are the uia'ntenauce of an indissoluble union of free and indestructible states, now about to eu:»r upon its Kecond centurv of unexampled pro ri -KS and renown, devoted to a plan ot government regulated by a written constitution strictly specifying every granted power and expressly reserv ing to the states or people the entire un granted residue of power the encourage ment oi a jealous popular vigilance, directed to all who have been chosen for brief -rius to enact and execute the laws, and are cbarirea with the duty of preserving peace equality and estabitsning justice. The Democratic party welcome an exact ing scrutiny of the administration of the ex ecutive power, which, four vears ago wa* committed to Its trust in the election of Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, but it challenges the most searching inquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion the pledges which thm invited the aft rapes of the people. During a mos critical period of our financial affairs re EUltlng from overtaxation, the anomalous v.j+i.v esmswedU ies. »sr the afleeHee el wlee aad uiusunstlse oesne, not only averted* diKUfter, but greatly promoted tbe prosperity of the people. It has reversed tbe Improvident and no wise policy of tiie CeoubUean tartv touch ing the public domain, and has reclaimed from corporations and syndicKtss alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred millions of acrt:s ui valuable la?d to be sacrediv heid as homesteads for our citizens. While carefully grarding the interest in the principles of justice and equity, it has paid out more for pensions and bonnties to the soldiers and bailors of the republic than was ever paid Before during an equal period. It hus adopted, and consistently pursued a firm and prudent fereign policy, preserving peace with all nations, while scrupulously maintaining all the rights and interests of our own government sad people at home •nd abroad. The exclusion from our shores of Chinese laborers has bees effectually secured under the provision ol a treaty, the operation of which has been postponed by the action of a Bepublican majority in the senate. Honest reform in the civil service has been inaugurated and maintained by Presioent Cleveland, and he has brought'the public service to the highest standard of efficiency, not only by rule and precept, but by the ex ample of his own untiring and unselfish ad ministration of public affairs. In every branch and department of the government under Democratic control, the right® and the welfare of all the people have been guarded and defended every public interest, bae been protected, and the equality of all our citizens before the law, without regard to race or color, has been steadfastlv maintained. Upon its record thus exhibited, and upou the pledge of a continuance to the people of the benefits of democracy, it asks a renewal ot popular trust by the election of a chief magistrate who has been faithful, able and prudent. It invokes in addition to that trust the transfer also to the Democracv of the entire legislative power. The Republican party, controlling the sen ate and resisting in both houses of congress a reformation of unjust acd unequal tax laws, which have outlasted the necessities of wsr and are now undermining the abundance of a long peace, deny to the peonle equality before the law. and the fairness and the justice which are their right. Then the err of American labor for abetter share in the rewards of industry is stiffed with false pre tenses, enterprise is fettered and bound down to home markets, capital is discour aged with doubt, and unequal, uniust laws can neither be properly amended or re pealed. The Democratic party will continue, with ail the power conli led to it. the struggle to reform these law*, in accordance with the pledges of its last platform, endorsed at the ballot box bv l:.•= suffrages of tbe people. Of all the indus!i ous freemen of our land, the immense majority, including every tiller of the soil, gain no advantage from ex cessive tax laws, but the price of near everything they bay is increased bv the favoritism of an unequal system of tax legis lation. All unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. It is repugnant to the creed of Democracy that by sucn taxation the cost of the uecis" fcaries of life should be unjustifiably in creased to all our people. Juaged bv Demo cratic principles, the interests of the people are betrayed wheu, by unnecessary taxation, trusts aud combinations are permitted to exist, which, while unduly enricuinjr the few that combine, rob the body of ou' citizens by dejjriving them of the brnetits of natural competition. Every democratic rule of trovernmemal action i« violated, vhen, through unnecessary taxation, a vast sum of lUGH-y. far beyond the needs oi an economi cal administration is drawn from the people ami the channels qf trade and accumulated as a demoralizinsr turpiu-i in t:i«j national treasury. 'i'ne money nov iy.riL' idle in the federal treamry. resultinz fr .m siinerfiuous taxmioi), amounts to in re than £1^5,000, (tlio, aud the surplus collected i« reaching lie sum of more tUan $(10,000,000 annually. Uebauched by this immense temptation, tbe remedy of the Republican party is to meet and exhaust by extravagant appropriations and expenses, whether constitutional or not, the accumulation of extravagant taxation. The Demecratic policy is to euiorce frugal ity in public expense and abolish unneces sary taxation. Our established domestic industries and enterprises should not, and need not, be en dangered by the reduction and correction of tbe burdens of taxation. On the contrary, a fair and careful revision of our tax law's, with due allowance for the difference be tween the wages of American and foreign labor, must promote and encourage every branch of such industries by giving them as surance of an extended market and steady and continuous operations. Iu the interests of American labor, which should in no event be neglected, the revision of our tax laws contemplated by tbe Democratic party should promote the advantage of such labor by cheapening tbe cost of necessaries of life in the home of every working man. and at tbe same time securing to him steady and remunerative employment. Upon this question of tariff reform, so closely concerning every phase of our na tional life,and upon every question involved In the problem of good government, the Democratic party submiut its principles and professions to the intelligent suffrages of the American people. THE EEPOET ADOPTED. Mr. Watterson then moved the previous question, and the report was adopted. He then said: The platform committee has anproved the report, and request to be passed without dis cussion three resolutions. The first of these will be presented by the Hon. W. Scott ol Pennsylvania, and is as follows: Besolved, That this convention hereby en dorses and recommends the early passase ol the bill for the reduction of the revenue now pending in the house of representatives The previous question was ordered and the resolution adopted. Frederick Lamon ol Calafornla then presented the following, which was also adopted: Besolved, That a just and liberal policj should be pursued in reference to the terri tories that the right of self-government if Inherent in the people, and guaranteed un der tbe constitution that the Territories ci Washington. Dakota, Montana and New Mex ico are by virtue of population and develop ment entitled to admission into tbe Union at states, and we unqualifiedly condemn the course of the Republican party in refusing statehood and self-government to their peo ple Murder and Suicide*. The wife of George Herkimer of Eau Clairr, Wis., proprietor of a knit goods factory, left her husband aud went to Fairchild, a village thirty miles Irom Kau Claire, t«U ing her baby vi Ml', her. She claimed lur liut-lii!iu! nut provide for lier and the clii.d. and 6he took refuge with her sister, Mrs. Thompson of Fairchild. Herkimer, who remained at Kau Claire was observed to be in an excited condition. He left on the noon train for FairchiM. Ar riving there, he went to Thompson's house and insisted on t-eemg Mrs. Herkimer, who finally consented to talk with Herki mer iu the" kitchen. No sooner had the kitchen door been closed than Herkimer pulled a revolver, shot, his wife in the breast, and immediately shot hiui aelf in the right temple. The occupants of the house rushed into the kitchen and found Herkimer stone dead and Mrs. Her kimer lying on the floor in a pool of blood. £he is still alive. Herkimer hud said be fore lie left here that his wife's departure would drive him to desperation. He is believed to have been insane for some time. Mrs. Herkimer's parents, Mr. and M-«. Saiuuel Lee of Nottingham, England, had just come to Ameri:a and were at the Thompson resi dence when the shooting occurred. Mr. Lee at first refused Herkimer admittance, Viut was overuled by the other. Herkimer was a middle-aged man, his wife several years younger than be. Mrs. Herkimer may recover. There is much excitement all through Sussex county, N. J., over the bursting of the pipe line of the Standard Oil company. The lands of Henry 8a mm is. inV Vernon township, ure ruined. Tbe oil has spread over acres of rich farm land and great damage had been done to growing crops. The soil is saturated and rendered useless by reason of being poisoned by the crude oil. Large quantities of oil have flowed into the streams and tbe fish are dying by hundreds. The fish commissioners are do. ing all in their power to avert the disaster that threatens the fith interests. Some maliciously disposed persons set fire to the oil and tbe Naekill river bridge was nearly destroyed. Tbs farmers will insti tute suits lor damages against the Stan* dard Oil company. V«v. •*.* Tibbette Caee.' The case o! The State sow on trial at Chippewa Falls, Wis., vs. L. J. Xewaldand Abe Goidenbery, or better known as the Sadie Tibbetts case, one that has made a considerable sensation here. Mrs. Tibbetts told her story in a" straightfor ward and clear manner at the preliminary examination, which was not held until some weeks alter the commission of the crime. On the evening of its occurrence she was going to the depot at about 7 o'clock in the evening to take the train to Eau Claire. While passing along one of tbe main business streets she was accosted by an unknown man. and before she could pass she «ss seized from behind, her cries smothered and dragged up stairs. Being locked into a room, she was repeatedly assaulted by four men, only one o! whom she has identified. In the morning she was allowed to go, and when tbe proprietor of the store came he found ber standing at tbe door nearly frozen. Going into the store to get warm, she told her story aud was advised to go to tbe police station and repeat it tbere. A friend of the assailants, and a former Bherifi, was among the suspected, but he emphatically denied tbe charge, but eaid that he paid the woman $150 as hush money in behalf of hip friends. Public interest in the afiair subsided, but it was renewed when it was learned that a few weeks ago Mrs. Tibbetts and her husband were detained in jail as witnesses. From tbe story told by the Tibbetts It appears that Newall persuaded them to come to Chippewa Falls, for the purpose of effect ing a settlement, and getting them out o! the country before the trial came on. They were paid §000 and given a draft of $1,000, but instead of buying the draft property Newald signed his own name, and giving th«tn this started a man with them So Portland, Or. A few days after their arrival they asked the hotel keeper to accompany them to the bank to identify thein. He did so, but as soon as the draft was peesented it was seen that it was worthless and explained to them. On returning to the hotel they told the whole story of the crime and how they bad been tricked. The landlord at once telegraphed District Attorney Wall that the Tibbetts wete there, asking what he should do with them. The district attor ney had to his great surprise found that the Tibbetts had lelt the country and was doing all in his power to trace them, but when this piece of news came be tried to keep it secret, but in some way the alleged assailants heard of it, and when the Tibbetts were on their way back they were watchinz the Omaha depot to intercept them. But Mr. Wall knowing this telegraphed them to come from St. Paul by another ror.d, and thus landed tbem safely in jail. Mrs. Tib betts, the victim of the assault, is a frail, delicate woman, aud about the size of a twelve-year-old girl. She is only about nineteen year* of age and was married last September. The defense will try to break down her character, which is their chief argument. A Voting Machine. Mr. John W. Rhines, has invented a no table machine for recording votes, very simple in its construction, which is an ab solute prevention of fraud either in voting or in counting the votes. By simply press ing a button the voter registers his vote for any andidate he chooses foranvofllce but he can vote but once for anj" one of fice. Any ritternpt to repeat his vote is in fallibly recorded and detected. Moreover, the number of votes cast for each candi date is registered by machinery as soon as cast—so that the result is recorded as Eoon as the polls are closed. If the ma chine shail prove as perfect in its opera tion as it seems to be in its design it is the best guarantee for the purity of the ballot which has been devised. Judge Gresham, sitting at Madison, ren dc-red a decision in the case of the United States vs. .James Ptinson which is liable to have important bearing upon Superior Wis. It was an action brought to cancel patents to some i.twO acres of land upon the ground tiuit they were procured through fraud. Tiie bill in equity on the part of the government stated that Stin son hired a number of Swedes to pre-empt these lands for him. Vie having paid them from $50 $150 for their services. Stinsr.n demurred the bill, but Judge Gresham overrule:! the demurrer, and Stinson will have to admit or deny under oath. The lands are all unoccupied, having been held purely for speculation, and are worth $1. 000,000. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston celebrated its2o0thanuivergary of this organization with a parade review by the governor in Iront ol the state house. There were divine services in new Oltl South church, a banquet in Fanettil hall, and a drum head election on the common. Among its guests were a deputation from the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of London and Gen. Middleton ol Canada. A crowd of roughs stoned a picnic of the Royal Irish society at Belfast. A number of band men were injured. The police arrested some of the assailants. The affair causes quite a sensation. John Orvsley, wife and four children, of Windsor, Mo., are likely to die from poi son administered in coffee by a colored servant. The woman said she was forced to poison the coffee by other negroeB whose names she gave. The United States officers have succeed ed in capturing Fred Fowler and William Ferguson, two members of a band of counterfeiters, who have been working near Chatanooga, Tenn., for over two months. They have circulated $15,500 in counterfeit coin. Gov. Hill of Xew York, signed the bill abolishing hanging for all niurdePs com mitted after Jan, 1, 1SS!'. and substiutinc death by electricity therefor. The bill provides that the prisoner sentenced to death shall be immediately conveyed to one of the state prisons and there kept in solitary confinement until the day of the execution. Customs officers at Niagara Falls made a seizure of $250 worth of jewelry, the property of S. Davis of Des Moines, Iowa, who was en route for Toronto, for under valuation and having more goods than were actually shown on the invoice. At Beau voir Mississippi Jeff Davis cele brated his 80th birthday. Mr. Davis is in better health than he has been for Bome time. He is greatly interested in current events, political and social, aud is particu larly concerned in the outcome of the St. Louis convention. Among the passenger who arrived at San Francisco on the Oceanic was C.-ipt. Reed, of the steamer San I'abio, which was lost off the China coast. The captain at tributed the striking on the rock to the changing current. He thinks 50 Chinese pirates were killed in the explosion follow ing tbe firing of the vessel. Rev. Dr. Pridgem of Athens, Ga., preach ed his own funeral sermon some dpvs ago and now has commenced an action to contest his own will. He has quarreled with his wife and wishes to disinherit her. L. D. Kewcomb is the assignee of C. W. Fitch, who has been doing an extensive clothing business at Faribault, Minn., and who made an assignment. The assets are estimated at $10,000. while it is thought the liabilities will reach $15,000. A cave-in occurred in the St. Lawrence copper mine, near Butte, Montana, when all the men but four had come to the sur face. Men were at once put at work dig ging through the cave-in in an endeavor to rescue the entombed men, two of whom could be heard distinctly by hammering on the boot wall. Those missing are Pat Murphy, Con Harrington and two men who had just gone to work. The cave commenced on tbe 500 foot level nnd |i00 feet in length. The mine is one of the largest niineB in Butte and employes COO men. Xo ore can be hoisted for some time and it will stop the production of 1,200 tons of copper ore per day. Thelajest nays that the rescuing party are within 12 feet of the entombed men and only two are alive. Peter F. Quinn, alias Frank Gilmore, was arrested at St. Louis by Detective Erskine, who has been following him for —. Managed t«: liavc Mlbetxted $12,000from O. G. DieUnf^n, prominent contractor, ol Pittaliurif. Pa., while employed na confidential clerk. The fugitive had teen tracsd to California, where the detective lost him nnd abandon ed the search. Quinn was recognized among the early convention arrivals, and was shadowed until Mr. Dickinson appear ed in reply to a telegram and ind~ntified his late clem, who was arrested and sent back to Pittsburgh, without the formality of a requisition. Among the passengers on board a steam er just arrived in New York. Jamec Gor don Bennett, Prince Roland Bonaparte, ol Washington, and M.' Blondin, who be came famous in 1850 by crossing Niagara falls on a tight rope. Tbe Kennett trial at La Crosse closed suddenly. The judge's chargeoecupied ten minutes and was commended by all in court as a model ol clearness and impar tiality. The jury retired at 4:08 o'clock and entered the court room again at 5:20 with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in tbe indictment. The prisoner's countenance showed no change, except that tbe eyelids dropped heavily for an instant. At Keith's ranch, near Whitman. Neb., a man named Sheldon was shot dead in cold blood by Fred Robinson, a noted des perado, thus settling an old feud. Kach had threatened to shoot tbe other on sight. Robinson, who made no attempt to escape, and was one of the principal as sistants at the funeral of Sheldon. No at. tempt has been made to arrest Robinson. The emperor of Germany after signing the quinquennial bill prolonging tbe term of the Prussian parliament, has with drawn his signature. Bismarck and the ministry, at tbeir sitting, resolved to re sign unless the bill was signed and publish ed. H. W. Robinson, publisher of a sheet known as the Colfax Iowa Sensation, was convicted in the United States court of sending obscene matter through the maile. He was fined $100, but tbe fine was sus pended on the payment of $10 and costs. A 30-foot yacht was launched at Wil mington, Del., for E. 0. Winer, of San Francisco, in which be proposes to sail from the coast of,Maine to Aspinwall, and after portage across the isthmus to re sume bis journey up tbe coast to San Francisco. Tbe vessel is on a new princi ple. which, it is thought, will revolutionize ship building. This principle, or system, consists in ballasting with water, taken through permanent holeB in the bottom and acting upon oil in metal ballasting chambers. It is claimed that such a ves sel can neither be upset nor sunk. Two disastrous tree occurred at Helena, Montana, in the very thickest populated portion of the business section, entailing the death of one unfortunate man, de struction to thirty-four head of valuable horses acd loss of over $40,000. Great consternation prevails among a large number of families at Eau Claire, Wis., over the deatb of sixteen cows pois oned by parties unknown, with Paris s:recn mixed with salt. A dozen more are poisoned. The cows were herded on a common. So regular mails have been received at Deadwoo.'l for nearly a week, and for four clays the telegraph wires have been down, rendering communication with the out ride worli impossible. A waterspont or cloudburst caused great destruction of property along the Elkhoru line between Oelrichs and Chadion. The dry creeks and gulches were suddenly filled to river flowing n-ith water and"several bridges were carried awav. Five miles of the rail way track were submerged, and owing to 1 he looseness of the soil large sections oi the road be.l were washed out. Bishop Hare of Sioux Falls will spend several days among the Indif-ns in the Sioux reservation. He took with him llev. Luke Walker, a full-blood Indian and they will visit all the settlements along White river for the purpose of fully inform ing the Indians as to the provisions of the bill opening the Sioux reservation. In July Herbert Welch of Philadelphia, secre tary the Indian Flights association, will comeoutand remain until thucomn-.ission, soon to be appointed by the president, has procured the signatures of the Indians. It is the purpose of these gentlemen to as assist in getting the treaty ratified. There is no doubt but the great tract of land will be declared open for settlers during the early fall. George Rounds, son of ex-Government Printer Rounds, eloped from Omaha to Council Bluffs with Uussie Tremaine, the daughter of a wealthy wholesale meat dealer, and "they were married." Oppo sition on the part of the young lady's parents led to the elcpement. A recon ciliation followed. Rev. C. H. Bohn,rector ofchrists church, lankton, I). T., left his home in a fit of temporary aberation, going to Soux City and the east. He left no word with hi/ wife or friends, and fears of fatal accident or foul play were prevalent before the manner of his going was ascertained. He had some money on his person, but was dressed in very old clothing and had ex pressed no intention of leaving the citv. He was of a nervous nature, and although people had previously supposed him flighty in his inind, there were never any fears of complete derangement. He leaves a wife r.rnl one child, a poorly completed dwell ing house, some money and other proper- Jacob Truax,oi Eau Claire, Wis., who ac com panied Robert Fulton on the second trip of his steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson in 1 So", reached the age of 100 yearn lately. Mr. Truax was oorn in Steu ben county, X. Y.,was a wagon-maker in Albany eighty years ago. and after follow ing that occupation many years in New York, came to Kaii Clair* about ten years ago and has since lived there with his son Peter Truax, a wealthy lumberman. The venerable gentleman is in very good health and in the attainment of his great age,has had but two habits to contend with the past seventy-live years or more—the use of tobacco, and voting the democratic ticket since that party was organized. He wijl apparently live several years, and re. tains a lively interest in current events. Arrangements are about completed for the Waseca assembly, "The Minnesota Chatauqua." A magnificent array of lec turers. including such men as Dr. Talmaee, Jahti De Writt, Miller, Wallace, Bruce, A. A- right, A. H. Gilet. W. L- Davidson, Leon H. Vincent, Dr. D. J. Burrell, John Williamson and a score beside: Mine. Ab bie arrington. one of the greatest Ameri can singers concerts by the Owatonuaclub by the pupils of the Minnesota School for the lilind, and many like specialties. Dr. Talmage will be the orator on the national holiday. II. C. Jennings,of St. Paul,is the secretary. A fire occurred in Hull, opposite Otta wa. Canada, destroying between 300 and 400 houses and rendering over twentv-tive hundred persons homeless. The fire broke out in the city hall situateJ in the center of a populous portion ol the city, and a raging wind served to spread the llames with remarkable rapidity. The6re brigade was on the spot almost immediately, but the fire appliances were miserably insuffici ent, and the building was soon a mass of flames and the wind hurled tbe burning emoers eastward across the square into a long block of wooden houses, which took fire at once. The tire then swept every thing before it until it literally burnt itself out about half a mile from where it start ed. Hundreds of families camped in the open air without shelter of any kind. A sensational occurrence took place in Butte, Montana. United States Marshall rank Dyer of Utah has been in Butte for several days past. The object of his visit was unknown until he arrested a man named John C. O'Brien, which is not his true name, for killing a Mormon in Utah sixteen years ago. It seems that O'Brien told the story of his crime to a friend in Philipsburg some time ago. and it gradu* ally leaked out. O'Brien is a man about sixty years of age, and has figured promi nently as the discoverer of the famous Kittle O'Brien mine. He has been pros pecting near Woodville lor some time and came to town when the marsha-ll recognis ed him and served a warrant o! arrest. Alter the warrent was read, he said: That is all right. I know all about it. I did it in self-defense." The establishing of By an Bros.* mammoth pork-packing boose in Sioux Falls, which has been on tbe ta pis for some time, is now an assured fact, a bonus of $30,000 bavins been raised among the citizens. The firm has purchased a large piece of ground j-" in the northern portion of the city for a site._ and $150,000 worth of build inau will go up this summer. This will be the largest establishment of any I character in Dakota. While workmen were digging a trench for a gas main at Grove falls they unearthed two quite well preser ved, though rude coffins, containing human skeletons. Xot a little cur iosity was created until Billy Budgy and some of tiie other early settlers remembered that some fifteen years ago an unknown man who fro/.e to death and a stage driver were buried in that neighborhood, the former be ing buried with his boots on, which were in a good state oi preservation, and served to identify the bones as being those of the unfortunate stranz er who froze to death in a strange land. A prominent Yankton contractor says that all the mechanics in Yank ton will find plenty of work to keep them busy if the weather will permit. The Press says that Sioux Falls has over $1,000,000 that is waiting for clear weather soil can be put into new business blocks, dwellings %nd manufactories. The farmers in the vicinity ol Dell Rapids report the gophers more plen tiful than ever before known in the country. One farmer killed 210 in two days in his corn field and yet no difference was perceptible. The big farmers in the Red River val ley claim that it only costs 23 cents to raise a bushel of wheat. The local underwriters of Rapid City have asked the various compan ies doing business through agents there to send representatives for the purpose of establishing a new rate for the city. It is thought that the char acter of the structures and facilities for extinguishing fires warrant such a course. Joseph Ryan, bound over to tbe dis trict court a short time since on the charge of threatening to kill Joseph Bonn, was surrendered to the author ities at Fargo by his bondsmen to day and placed in jail. His bonds men deemed it unsafe to act longer as surities owing to his propensity for scrimmase1*. The Rapid City Journal says that there is au ab'.tR'lant uiip'y o! ma terial in that vicinity for thr niak'.nc of drain pipes and tiles, and if the In dustry were once established there is little reason to question the state ment that an extensive trade through out the Hills would soon spring up. In digging a well near Theodore, Ed- A. munds county, the other day, a mon' ste'r tooth was found also petrifac tion of a part of the human body and a petrified bone handle of a knife. The latter was made tlje same as those of to-day, and through the center was a streak ot iron-rust, show ing plainly that it was a knife. A twelve-year old son of Borjoj Olson, who lives seven miles south of Canter, was killed by falling off a horse and being dragged for some dis tance. He and his brother, who are both blind, were out in the field work ing and when a thunder storm came up they attempted to ride home. The horses became frightened and the older boy fell between them apd was caught in the harness, being dragged some distance before he was killed. There is talk of reviving the chain gang on'a grand scale at Sioux Falls as a solution of the bum problem. Watertown has joined the endless army ot towns which are howling be cause stock is allowed to run at large. The Jerauld County Fair associa tion wants 500 original mottoes con tributed by the young folks of the county to he used in making np the county display at the territorial fair. E. A. Chase, of Yankton college, is about to receive the reward of much study aud skill as ati inventor. A patent right for an improved fence wire fastener is soon to be issued to him, and out of the patent he exDects to derive pecuniary benefit. A 12-year-old boy recently tried to work a slick beggar scheme on iio citizens of Flandrau. represented that his father was in an insane asy lum and that his mother had recently •lied, and that he wanted money enough to get to Aberdeen. The s»nr shall discovered that he had dtviish pals and the outfit was speedily fired out of town. The Methodist ministers of the ftiouv Falls district have resolved to protest in advance against any at tempt to re-open the question of loca tion of the university so long as they are assured that the city of Mitchell is doing its best for the wellfare of the institution. George Diggle, who is reported tc have committed suicide at Easther ville, Iowa, formerly resided at Red field. He was engaged in the barbei business, and was a sober and re spected citizen. Both he and his wife are well known at Redfield. The postmaster of Carbonate campi in the Black Hills mining district, has caused considerable of a sensation up there by going on an extended spree. Nothing is known of his accounts, save that he has made no reports ol money order business for three months. Fargo has one or two breweries ir active operation, but cannot sell tc residents. Citizens who want kegs de livered to their houses order by tele phone from the sales depot across the river, and beer wagons are driven from the brewery over one bridge and back over the other to deliver to resi dents. Brule county threatens to astonish the world in tbe agricultural line this season. IS