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"ft* tm. HEaniY^ '•«,w *1 1h *•{1 $5cjUJ Its ilk 3# He Mates His Adyentures in the Dark Continent in a letter to a Friend. V$:%- The Hardships Which the Great Explorer Had to s? LOKDO*, Special.—Mr. Huston, of Samp son, Lowe & Co., haa received a letter from Henry M. Stanley, dated South End Vic toriaNyania, Sept S, from which the fol lowing extracts are taken: Stanley goes on to recount the arrange ments made by him to meet Brain and, after describing how he hunted up the miss ing'rear column, continues: I have already told you that the rear col umn was in a deplorable state that out of the 102 members remaining I doubted whether fifty would live to reach the lake but having collected a large number of canoes, the goods and sick men were transported in these vessels in such a smooth •and expeditious manner that there were re markably few casualties in the remnant of the rear column. But wild natives, having repeatedly defeated the Ugarrowwa's raiders and by this discovered tne extent of their own strength, gave considerable trouble and inflicted considerable loss among our best men, which had always to bear the brunt of the fighting ana the fhtigue of paddling. However, we had no reason to be dissatisfied with the time we had made. When progress by river became too tedious and difficult, an order to cast off canoes was given. This was four days' Journey above the TTgarrowwas station, or about three hundred miles above Bana laya, we decided that, as the south bonk of the Itura river Was pretty well known tons, it would be best to tiy the north bank, although we should have to traverse for some days the despoiled lands which had been a common center for the TTgarrowwas raide and Kilongalani were about one hundred miles from Grass- bands of iers. We which opened up a prospect of future of beef veal and mutton and a pleas ing varietv of vegetables, as well as oil and butterfor cooking. IN THE DREADED WILDERNESS. "On Oct. 30, having cast off the canoes, the land inarch began in earnest, and we two days later discovered a large planta tion in charge of waris. The people flung themselves on the plantations to make as lane provision as possible for the dreaded' wilderness ahead. The most enterprising always secured a fair share, and twelve hours Idler would be furnished with a week's provision of plantation flour. The feeble and indolent reveled for the time be ing in an abundance of roasted fruit, but al ways neglected providing for the future, and thus became victims to famine after moving from this place. Ten days passed before we leached another plantation, during which we lost more men than we had lost between Banalya and Ugarrowwas. Smollpox broke out among the Manyema, and the mortality waa terrible. Our Bannbaris es caped the pest, however, owing to the vaccination thev had undergone on board the Madura. We were now about for days' march above the confluence ftlie Ihura and Ituri rivers, and within about a mile from.Ishuru. As there was no possi bility of crossing this violent tributary of tne Ituri or Arunmwimi, we had to follow its right bank until a crossing could be discovered. Four days later we stumcled across the principal village of the district, called Andikum. It was sur rounded by the finest plantation of bananas and plantins we had yet seen, which all the Mayemas' habit of SPOLIATION AND DESTOUCTION has been unable to destroy. There our people, after severe starvation during four teen days, gorged themselves to such excess b&that it contributed greatly to lesson J^our numbers. Every twentieth individ ual suffered from some complaint which entirely incapaciated him for duty, the Ihuru river was about four miles south southeast from this place, flowing from east northeast. It was about sixty yards broad and deep, owing to heavy rains. From Andikumu sixty day's march brought us to another flourishing settle ment called Indeman, situated about four hours' march from a river supposed to be the Ihuru. Here I was considerably non-plnssed by a grievous discrepancy between native accounts and my own observations.- The natives called it the Ihuru river, and my instruments and chronometer made it very evident it could not be the Ihuru. We knew finally. After capturing soine daris we discovered it was the right branch of the Ihuru, called the Dui river this agreeing with my own views. We searched and found a place where we could build abridge across. Bon ny and our Zanzibar! chief threw themselves into the work, and in a few hours the Dui river was bridged. We passed from Inde man into a district entirely unvisited by Mayema. t-i CHANGED ROUTES. Here the writer describes daily conflicts With the Wambutti dwarfs, which we found very numerous in this region. The Warn buttis clung to the northeast route, which Stanley wanted to take. Accordingly he went southeast and followed elephant tracks. He says: 1 But on Dec. 9 we were compelled to halt for lood in the middle of a vast forest at a spot indicated by my chart to be not more than two orthree miles from Ituri river, where many of our people had been. While sided at Fort Bodio I sent 150 back to a settlement that was fifteen miles brck on the route we had come, while many Manyema followers also under follow them. I quote from my jour nal part of what I wrote on Dec. 14, the •J", i* took to sixth day of the absence of the foragers: "Six days have transpired since our forag ers left us. For the first four days the time passed rapidly, I might say almost pleasantly, being occupied in recalculating lyn ^my observations from Ugarrowwa to Lake Albert down to date, owing to a few dis crepancies here and there, which my sec ,v ,'Jona and third visit and duplicate and trip licate observations enabled me to correct, "f My obbnpation then ended I was left to ,*?t wonder why the large band of foragers did 5hot return. On the fifth day, having dis ss 'tributed all the stock of flour in camp, and gfM-having FT KILLXD THE ONLY GOAT Pl we possessed. I was also compelled to open theofficess' provision boxes and take a pound pot orbutter with tuo cupfuls of my v. flour to make an imitation gruel, there be ing nothing else save tea, coffee, sugar and pot of sago in the boxes. In the afternoon a boy died, and the condition of a majority of tne rest was most disheartening. Some 1/could not stand, falling down in the effort to do so. These constant sights acted on my nerves until I began to feel not only moral but physical sympathy, as thojigh the weakness was contagious. Before night a mahdi carrier died. The last of our So malia gave signs of collapse, and the few Sou danese with us were scarcely able to move. When the morning of the sixth day dawned i^ic made broth with the usual pot of but ter, an abundance of water, a pot of con denseb milk and a cupful! of flour for thirty people. The chiefs and Bonny were called to a council. At my suggesting wa" reverse to the forages of such '•.% nature as to exclude our men from re with news of the disaster, they were her unable to comprehend such a Jbility. They believe it .possible that 190 men were searching for food, ^Without which they would return. They "'"'were asked to' consider the supposi fftton that they were five days searching •VJaod, without which they would not return. "Thejtwere then asked to consider the sup- TMMttfon that they were five five days search fag food and then had lost the road, per fidW kn or, having NO WHITE LEADEE, jib iad nattered to loot goats and had entirely itten their starving friends and broth the camp. What would be the state 'jSftfca 130 people five days hence? Bonn jwEuTlwot f* Ff to stay with ten men in the camp ded ten day's food for each person, I would set out to search for the men. Food to make a light of gruel for ten men Tor Waa not difficult to procure, but and feeble remaining must starve 1 art with food fortune, and aooord- illlfefe fagfr* "tone of buttermilk, flour and biscuits were preyared and han&ed overto thS!^ffi0.i Pny' „ilny»e*fternoon of ~rAyv^nth day, we mustered everybody, be sides the garrison of the camp, ten men. Sf^{« jf 8U*Kn|erecl fourteen to their doom. Kibbobora, an- o^er chief, abandoned his brother, and M'ifSfe.Maneya chief, left one of his ,, awacheery tone, was never heavier I told the forty-three hunger-bitten people that I **8,8°% bMk to hunt for the missing men. We traveled nine miles that after noon, having passed several dead people on the road, and early on the eighth day of their absence from camp, we MET THEM MABCHINO in an easy fashion, but when we were met the pace was altered, so that in twenty-six M, Sg st"**tipn camp we were back with a cheery abundance around iSnf "d porridge, boiling baifiraas, boiUngpJantainjL roasting meat and sim mering soup. This had been my nearest appproach to absolute starvation In all my African experience. Altogether twenty-one persons succumbed in this dreadfhl ounp. On Dec. 17 the Ihuru river was reached & ®0UMt *nd having a presentiment that the garrison of Fort Bodo were stil where I left them, the Ihuru was crossed the next day, and for -the two following days we steered through the forest regard ??. P^hs. We had the good fortune to stake the western angle of the Fort Bodo Slantations on the 20th, and found my presentiment was true. Iieut. ot^rs and the garrison were still at Fort Bodo, 51 souls remaining out of SO. Not a word had been heard of Emin or of Jephson during the seven months of my absence. Knowing the lat ter to bean energetic man, we were left to conjecture what detained Jephson, even if affairs of his province had detained Emin. on Dec. 23, the united expedition continued the march eastward, and as we had now to work by relays, owing to the fifty extra loads, we did not reach the Ituri feny, which was our last camp in the forest re jan(| unflj Jephson and not permit me to dawdle on on the road. MAKING DOCBLE TRIPS in this manner, so, selecting a rich planta tion and a good camping site eaat of the Ituru river, I left Stairs in command with 124 people, including Parke and Nelson, and on Jan. 11 continued my march east ward. The people of the plains, fearing a "ihf repetition of the liing of cember, 1887, flocked "to "the camp red as we advanced and formally tendei their submission, agreeing to the contribu tions and supplies. The blood of brother hood was made, the exchange of gifts was made, and a firm friendship established. The huts of our camp were 'constiucted by natives, and food, itael and water were brought to the expedition as soon as a halting place was decided on. We heard no news of white men on Lake Albert from the plain peo people until the 16th at a place called 6a viras. Messengers from Kavalli came with a packet of letters, with one letter written on three several dates, with several days' interval between, from Jephson, and two notes from Emin, confirming the news in Jephgon's letter. You can but imagine the intense surprise I felt while reading the let ten by giving you extracts from them in Sephson's own words. Jephson, in bis letter from Duffle, dated Nov. 7,1888, continued: When the pasha and I were on our way to Regaf two men—one an officer, Abdul Vaal Effendi, and the other a clerk—went about and told the people they had seen you, and that you were only an adventurer and had not come from Egypt: that the let ters you brought from tne khedive and Lubar were forgeries that it was untrue Khartoum had fallen, and that the pasha and you had made a plot to take them, their wives and children out of. the country and hand them over as slaves to the English. Such words in an ignorant, fanatical country like this acted like fire among the people, aud the result— was a general rebellion, and we were made prisoners. The rebels then collected the of ficers from the different stations and held a large meeting here to determine what measures they should take, and all those who did not join the movement were so in sulted and abused that they were obliged for their own safety to acquiesce in what was done. The pasNh was deposed, and those officers suspected of being friendly to him were removed from their posts and those friendly to the rebels were put in their places. It was decided to take the pasha as a prisoner to Regaf, and some of the worst rebels were even for putting him in irons, but the officers were afraid to put the plans into execution, as the soldiers said they never were to permit any one to lay a hand on him. Plans were laid TO ENTBAP yon when you returned and strip you of all you had. Things were in this condition wnen. we were startled by the news that the Mahdi's people had arrived at Lado with three steamers and nine Sandals and Nug gers and had established themselves on tne site of the old station. Omar Sail, their general, sent up three peacock dervishes with a letter to the pasha, demanding the instant surrender of the country. The rebels of course, seized them and put them into Says rison, and decided on war. After a few the Mahdists attacked and captured Regaf, killing five officers and numbers of soldiers and taking many women and chil dren prisoners and all the stores and ammunition in the station were lost. The result of this was a general stampede of the people from the stations of Biddons, Kirri and Muggi, who fled with their women and children to La bore, abandoning almost everything. At Kirn the ammunition was abandoned and was seized by natives. The pasha reckons that the Mahdis number 1,S00. The officers and a large number of soldiers have re turned to Muggi and intend to make a stand against the Mahdists. Our position here is extremely unpleasant, for since the rebellion all is cnaos and conftision. There is no head, and half a dozen conflicting or ders are given every day and no one obeys. The rebels, of course are unable to control the soldiers. The Barish have joined the Mahdists. If they come down here with a rush nothing can save us. The officers are all frightened at what has taken place and ar# anxiously awaiting your arrival, and desire to leave the country with you, for they are now really persuaded that KHASIOUM HAS FALLEN, and that you have come from the khedive. We are like rats in a trap. They will nei ther let us act nor retire and? fear, unless %on come very soon, you will be too late, and our fate will be like that of the rest of the garrisons of the Soudan. Had this re bellion not happened, the pasha C9uld have kept the Madhists in check some time, but now he is powerless to act. I would sug gest, on your arrival at Kavallis, that you write a letter in Arabic to Shukri Aga, chief of the Mswa nation, telling him of your arrival, and telling him you wish to see the pasha and myself. Write also to the pasha or myselfj telling us what number of men you have with you. It would perhaps be better to write to nw, as a letter to him might be confiscated. Neither the pasha nor myself think there is the slightest dan ger now of any attempt to capture you, for the people are now fully persuaded that you have come from Egypt, and they look to you to get them out of their difficulties. Still, it would be well for you to make your camp strong. If we are not able to get out of tne country, please remember me to my friends, etc. THE PASBA LIBERATED. A postscript, dated Nov. 21, says: Shortly after 1 had written you, the sol diers were led by their officers to attempt to retake Regaf, but the Mahdists defended it and killed six officers and a large number of soldiers. Among the officers killed were some of the pasha's worst enemies. The soldieis in all the stations were so panic stricken and angry at what had happened that they declared they would not attempt to flght unless the pasna was set at liberty So the rebel officers were obliged to free him and sent him to W&delal, where he is free to do as he pleases, but at present he has not resumed authority in the country. He is, I believe, by no means anxious to do so. We hope in a few days to be at Tanguru station, on the lake, two days by steamer from Nsaba, and I trust when we hear of your arrival that the pasha himself will lie able to come down with me to see you. We hear that the Mahdists sent steamers down to Khar toum fbr reinforcements. If so, they can not be up here for another six weeks. If they come up here with reinforcements it will be all up with us, for the soldiers will new stand against them and it will be a re walk-over. Every one hi anxl looking for your arrival, for the oomln_ the Mahdists has completely cowed them. We may just manage to get out if you do not come later than the end of December, but it is entirely impossible to foresee what will happen. SENT FOB REINFORCEMENTS. Jephson in a second postscript dated Dec. 18, says: Moi I sew Tanguru rounded Duffle station and besieged it for four days. The soldiers,' of whom there were about GOO, managed to repulse them and they retired to Regaf, their headquar ters. As they have sent down to Khartoum for reinforcements they doubtless will at tack again when strengthened. In our flight from Wadelal the officers requested me to destroy our boats and the advanoes. 1 therefore broke them up.: Duffle if being renovated as fast as possible. The pasha is unable to move hand or foot, as there is still a very strong party against him, and officers no longer in immediate fear of the Mahdists. Do not on any account come down to us at my former camp on the lake near Kavallis island, but make your camp 8enda as soon as we bear of your come to you. I will not dia, you that you will have adi: A NOVEL SCHEME. The Congressmen from the New Statea Work up a Great Advertising Scheme. WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, —The congressmen from the four new states and Idaho at a meeting to-day developed a novel scheme in the way of working for their respective states, and they at once be gin to put it in practical shape. They pro pose to advertise the states from which they hail, with their resources, both natural and. acquired. It was agreed to hire a building, fit it up comfortably and establish it as a Northwestern headquarters, with the latoh string always out. They are willing to put up $200 a month to do this. They propose to bang out a sign bearing the words: "Northwestern Headquarters." The build ing will have tables for writing, files of the newspapers, some comfortable chairs to lounge in and a grate fire on chilly even ings. The congressmen will ask the boards of trade in their respective states to send, express prepaid, samples of articles showing the resources the states, TO BE PLACED ON EXHIBITION at the headquarters. Maps of the recently admitted territories, with frill information concerning it, will be on hand for distribu tion, for it is the prime object to give all possible information. Another object is to entertain Northwesterneis, and the new members propose to set an example to the rest of the world of genuine hospitality. "We will have a man in our employ whose business it will be to act as a guide in the city to all who come from our states," Con gressman Hansbrough said, in speaking of the enterprise. "Another man will be on duty at the rooms who is familiar with the Northwest, and who can answer any ques tions that strangers may ask." They will also see that a stock of public documents is on band, and in every way possible will try to make it a congenial home for all Northwestern men. If made as complete as the originators hope it will be backed by senators and congressmen from the four new states, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming.. The building will be chosen within three or four blocks from the White House, to be centrally located. An agent was given a description of the kind of a house wanted this afternoon, with instructions to have it ready by the last of this week if possible. BRAZILIANS ADMITTED. Credentlala of the New Republic's International Delegates Aooepted. WASHINGTON, Special—In the Pan-Amer ican congress to-day a favorable report from the committee on credentials of the Brazil ian delegation led to some discussion. Dr. Nin of Uruguay wanted to, know whether the credentials emanated from the emperor or from the new government of Brazil. Del egate Hurtado of Colombia questioned the propriety of making this inquiiy at the present time but Dr. Nin insisted that he could not vote intelligently on the question of approving the report of the committee without this information. Senor Romero, chairman of the committee, then stated that the credentials originally came from the emperor, but subsequently, and after the change of government in Brazil, had been indorsed by the new government, and the delegates had been fully empowered to act for tne provisional government. This ex planation seemed satisfactory to all dele gates, and the report was adopted unani mously. The congress then proceeded to the election of secretaries. F. G. Pierra and H. Ransom Whitehouse were nominated by the foreign and home delegates respective ly, and were elected to these positions. Mr. Whitehouse is a citizen of New York, and is at present secretary of legation at the City of Mexico. Mr. Pierra is also from New York, and is connected with the Spanish American Commercial union in that city. Mr. Powderly says that inhis opinion aome form of consolidation between the Knights, of Labor and the Farmer's alliance will be occomplished at an early date: The Knights favor it heartily and he haa good reason to think that the alliance is very favorably dis posed toward the scheme. Bev. M. Little of Elizabethton, Tean., shot and fatally wounded DanislHyder, awslt known young man of that pipes for betray* lag the minister's daughter. Jkit&iSi tWift* 1 se facts from cult and dan- will be deperate. STANLEY'S ANSWEB. Recalling Emin's indecision when I left him whether to quit Wadelai, Stanley con tinues, be wise, be quick and'waste no time. Bring Buiza and your own Soudanese with you. I have read your letters half a dozen times over, but fail to grasp the situation thoroughly because, in some important de tails, one letter contradicts the other. In one you say the pasha is a close prisoner, while you are allowed a certain amourt of liberty ID the other you say you will come to me as soon as you hear of our arrival here, and "I truAt," you say, "that the pa sha will be able to accompany me." Being prisoners, 1 fail to see how you could leave Tanguru at all. All this is not very clear to us, who are fresh from the bush. If the pasha can come, send a courier on your ar rival at our old camp on the lake below here to announce the fact, and I will send a strong detachment to escort him up to the plateau, even to cany him if he needs it. I feel too exhausted after my 1,300 miles of travel since I parted from you last May to go down to the lake again. The pasha must have some pity for me. Don't be alarmed or uneasy on our account. Nothing hostile can approach us within twelve miles with out my knowing it. I am in the thick est of A FRIENDLY POPULATION, and if I sound a war note, within four hours I can have 2,000 warriors to assist me to re pel any force disposed to violence, and if it is to be a war, why, then I am ready for the cunningest Arab alive. I have read your letters naif a dpzen times, and my opinion of you varies with each reading. Some times I fancy you are half Mahdist or Arabist and then Eminist. I shall be wiser when I see vou. Now, don't you be per verse, but obey and let my order to you be as a frontlet between the eyes, and all, with God's gracious help, will end well. I want to help the pasha somehow but he must also help me and credit me. On Jan. 161 received this batch of letters, two notes from the pasha himself confirming the above. But not a word from either Jephson or the pasha indicating the pasha's purpose did he still waver, or was he at last resolved with any other man than the pasha or Gordon. One would imagine th«it being a prisoner, and a fierce enemy hourly expecting to give the coup mortal, he would gladly embrace the first chance to escape from the country given up by his government, but there was no hint in these letters what course the pasha would follow these few hinta of mine, however, will throw some light on my postscript, which here follows, and of my state of mind after reading these letters. IN THE NORTHWEST A Summary of the Important Events of theWeek in the Northwestern States. MINNESOTA. 8t. Paul has just completed extensions that will double the water supply of the city. Arthur Pratt, aged 17, ia mysteriously •faalng from Anoka. Heaiy Berth art, of Minneolo, has been committed to the Rochester Insane asylum. Jassse O'Keilly, aged 55, is mysteriously missing from his home near Bed Wing. Subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. Parnsll are being taken np ia St. Paul. The Chippewa commission has been sac coasfUl ia securing the signaturee of all the Indians on ths Cloquet reservation. While temporarily insane Alioe Coon, a Viola school teacher, committed suicide by taking a dose of rough on rats. The nsw Humbolt school building, one ot the finest school edifices in St. Paul, was completely wrecked by fire. An unknown man was run over by the ears and mangled beyond recognition in the de pot yards at Minneapolis. Survsyers are at work locating the route of the Little Falls, Mille Lacs and Superior railway. The young son of Theodore Anderson, of Battle Lake, accidentally shot himself and died shortly afterward. At Worthington E. H. Lambertson was sentenced te six months in Stillwater for stealing wheat, and Frank Tyrell to four months for forgery. Acting Secretary Batchelder,of the treasury, appointed Sam Lowenstein of St Paul to be ganger for the revenne district of Minnesota, with headquarters at St. Paul. Dr. 8taple, of the state board of health, has ordered the Miorhead board of health officers to take charge of the diptheria epidemic at Georgetown, ithaving got beyond thecontrol of the local board. Clifton Holden, who was found guilty of the murder of Frank Dodge, was brought Into court at Redwood Falls andhis sentence suspended until January 6, 1800, pending the action of the supreme court. Jacob Schrieber, the young man who mur dered his uncle at Moorhead some time ago, was taksn to the government insane asylum at Washington, D. C., being a deserter from the United States army. Frank Landees, one of the cleverest forgers in the country, who escaped from Stillwater in 1887, has been captured in Bavaria. He bad only served three months of his twenty four years' sentence when he escaped. A reward of 9100 was offered for informa tion leading to the finding of James Reily, who disappeared two weeks since from Red Wing. There is a growing fear that he is the victim of foul play. Stephen Newell, aged fourteen years, son of Justice Newell, was run over by the cars at Hastings. He fell between the tender 'of the switeh engine and a box car, the wheels of the latter passing over him. He died in an hour. A convict named Fred Douglas attempted to escape from Stillwater by concealing him self in a box car that was being run out of the prison yard. He managed to get as far as the railroad yards when he was discovered by a brakeman and taken back to the prison. Botleff iiunde, of Wanamongo, was found dead under his wagon box on the road be tween that town and Lumbrota. His feath apparently resulted from a runaway. He Atill held the lines in his hands, and the horses were standing quietly beside his body. W. H. Adamson, a notorious usurer of Minneapolis, was found guilty of forgery in that city. During the trial it developed that his method was to charge 10 per cent, inter est, payable twelve times a year, or 120 per cent, on money loaned. He will be sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Jack Jardlne, sixty years old, was killed by the switch engine in the yard of the Northern Pacific railway at Detroit. The coroner's jury dscided that deceassd fell on the track while under the influeoce of liquor andthattbecrewof the switch engine was blameless, as the engine was running at slow speed, the bell ringing and nothing was seen of Jardlne until the engine had passed over him. Martin Anderson, a well-to-do farmer liv ing about ten miles from Rush City in Fish lake town, made an. unsuccessful attempt to murder his wife, but shot himself dead nith a Winchester. He had been drinking hard lately, and it is supposed was suffering with the tremens at this time. His wife attempted to go to one of the neighbors, when he op posed her, a tussel ensued, in which a sister and son of the wife took part, assisting the latter to keep the crazy man from doing bodily harm, He pounded them until they got away and ran toward house near by, when the assailant fired two or three shots at the retreating wife, who fortunately es caped unhurt. Within an hour a party of men returned to the house and found Ander son dead, having killed himself. Miss Minnie Brown of Maine township Otter Tail county has a strong desire for elopement. Although too young to be married in Minnesota she eloped last spring with a young man and came to Fergus Falls. In order to get away she started in the even ing and walked to Fergus iu the night, a distance of fifteen miles. Her father missed her early in the morning, came to town and, finding the couple at tho American house,, gave the would-be husband the severest kind of a pounding and took the girl home, warn ing the young man never to come around there again. .He profited by his experience and kept away, but John Aldrich, another young man, determined to try his luck. He was warned to keep a way, but, taking ad vantage of Mr. Brown's absence Friday, he drove to Maine and got the girl and took the train for Whapeton, where it is impassible to get married without a license. NORTH DAKOTA. John Fox was found dead in bed at the McCle!lan house in Grand Forks. Plymouth church, at Grand .Forks, waa damaged $5u0 worth by fire. A large bull buffalo was seen about five miles from Bismarck. It was probably a stray one from some small herd in Canada or the foot-hills. The young man giving his name as A. S. Mason, arrested at Fargo for forgery, has made a confession saying that his right name is A. H. Ferreo. The Hitchcock artesian well has been leas ed to the parties who have built the fiae roll er mill there, for fifty years at the nominal rent of fl a year. In North Dakota it is estimated that con siderably over halt the wheat has been mar keted, and the farmers' loss of faith in high er pricee is rapidly depleting the remaining surplus. A young man named Collet, agent of the Northern Pacific at Arthur, who claimed that he was robbed of 92,500 of the company's money some time ago, haa confessed that bis story was a "fake" and that he appropriated the money for his own use. Fourteen prisoners, convicted during the present term of court at Grand Forks, were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment by Judge Templeton. Four convicted of grand larceny were sent up for five years each to the Bismarck penitentiary. At Grand Forke the grand jury flnishrd its deliberations and found nearly seventy ia dfctnenta. Many city saloonkeepers an ia- I ^.-vV -(...-..•'i.\i\'i Jravy.'• 'VS^:. dieted, for having gambling apparatus ia their possession. A few pleaded guilty to the indictment and wen fined 9300. The argument in the case of Henry Melton, the Fargo postofflce clerk accused of robbhrg the office, and to avoid suspicion shooting himself in the arm, claiming it to be the work of robbers, has been bound over to the United States grand jury in the sum of 91, 000. General Manager Todd, of the Thompeon Houston Electric Company of St. Paul, waa at Grand Forks recently with a view of in troducing an clectric strset railway here next spring. 8even eitisens have already offered their signatures for a thousand dol lars each aa a bonus. In reply to a letter sent out by Secretary Holmee, of the Fargo board of trade, to the county commissioners in regard to reports of dsstitation, the report* were denied by the commissioners of Traill, Well's and Walsh countiea, who say that thoss counties are perfectly able to take care af all cases of actu al want. Although Dakota is dividsd and two states admitted, yet the line ot division bsyond the Missouri is not establishsd. Technically Dakota is not divided, and the President did right in admitting them as twins. Not only ars they twins, but nntil the seventh parallel is surveyed across the Sioux reservation they are Siamese twine. A funny incident occurred at Grand Forks. Widow Thompson, who has bsen a county charge, made a complaint to the commis sioners, that a Mr. Koss had inveigled her into signing away a 25-foot lot that be longed to her. The commission had Koss arrested, and he seeing no avenue of escape, offered to marry the widow. The latter is entertaining the proposition. C. M. Corliss, ths newly-elected chief justice of the supreme court of North Dakota, was a little over four years ago a member of the bar of Duchess county, N. Y. He is nearly six feet tall, broad shoulders and angular, and has a profusion of curly, black hair. He is only 31 years old, and enjoys the distinc tion of being the youngest chief justiee in the history of ths English-speaking people, and possibly in ths history of the world. The records of the eupreme court of the territory of Dakota, with the exception of a toW papers, are in the possession of the late clerk of the surreme court, who holdathat they are the property of the United Statea, and, therefore, could not be included in the division between the states of North and South Dakota Mr Young is of ths opinion that ths records of the United States supreme court are under the department of justice, and is now awaiting an order for their dis posal. Knute Olson, a farmer living seven miles from Grand Forks, attempted to kill his wife with a butcher knife. He made a number of frightful, though probably not fatal wounds, one gash in the face extending to the chin, cutting entirely through the flesh. Olson's six-year-old daughter saved her mother's lifs by clinging to his arm until his wife could get the knifeaway from him. She jumped through a window and made her way to a neighbor's, a quarter of a mile away, after great difficul ty and in a fainting condition, It appears that Olson has been partially deranged for sometime. He was subsequently adjudged insane and taken to the asylum at James town. SOUTH DAKOTA. Ths farmers of Minnehaha county an con tributing liberally to their suffering neigh bors in Miner county. Four soldiers left Fort Meade under com mitment to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Desertion and larceny oc casionod'sertftude. Miss Tart, of White Bear, Minn., says Dr. Romans, of Tankton, has been trifling with her affections and will sue him for breach of promise. Water sells at 40 cents a barrel at New castle, anew town in the Hills. However, things are somewhat evened up by the pres ence of eighteen saloons, A Rapid City mart wants 91"» damages from ths Northwestern Railroad company for the loss of his cat. In escaping from a dog the cat ran under a moving train and lost its life. Sturgis is evidently "laid out" for a large city. Aside from the original town, which contained about 250 acres, there are now sixteen additions, varying from twenty to 100 acres each. It Is asserted that the water in Lake Kam psska rose a loot during the month of Oc tober, which is considered curious owing to the fact that no rain had fallen since Sep tember 1 and no streams run into the lake. While on a "toot" in Sturgis the other day a miner, evidently fearing someone would go through him for his money, made the mat ter as hard as possible by chewing up and swallowing a 910 and a 920 bill. While'Mrs. Richard Swift, of Alexandria, was wringing clothes the other day her little daughter, unobserved, managed to get her Angers mixed up in the cogs of the wringer, taking two of them off. The whereabouts of Sam Gahiielson. who disappeared from Yankton about two months 'ago is still a mystery. The sheriff und friends of the missing man have. with drawn the rewards offered for his discovery. Barney Hoyt, a farmer living south of Ab erdeen, was thrown from a load of hay while on his way to that city and seriously injured internally. He lay by the roadside several hours until a passing neighbor picked' him up and took him to town, where he was ad mitted to the hospital. Jim Patterson, a shepherd having charge of a large flock of sheep six miles, from Sturgis, wanted to go to town to seethe boys, and having no way to secure the sheep in his absence, decided to take them with him. He arrived in Sturgis the other day with the whole flock, and after having a good: time rounded them up and diove them back to' his ranch. The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader is responsi ble for the story that there is a young man living ten miles north of Hartford who is gradually fading away.. Ten weeks, ago he was attacked with a numbness of the- body resembling paralysis. At the time of the attack he weighed 190 pounds and' was 5 fset 9 inches in statue. When weighed and measured the other day it was found that he was "short" Ave inchee in height,, and hod decreased sixty-five pounds in weight. The following little fish stoiy-is from the Madison Sentinel, and for the lateness of the season averages up pretty well: C. L. Alex ander has on exhibition at his store a very perfect little specimen of the finny tribe pre sented him by his friend Willard Lauglia, It came forth from a 100-foot artestian well twenty miles southwest of Howards This well, it is said, flows with a wonderful' force and throws out small fish freely during the epring and summer. WISCONSIN. Gardiner Morrison, a La Crosse County farmer, was killed by the carsnear Onalaska. Mrs. 1L. J. McElroy, of Eau Claire, was stricken by paralysis while at a reception. Her reewwy is doubtful. Fred Berg, who killed Nancy Ryan at Tom ah in 1878, has been pardoned by tha Governor. Representative fanners of the town of Cly maa, Dodge County, are co-operating to build a grain elevator. F. L. Bowke, of Centralia, has failed. Tha llabUHfeo ars 98,000, while thestock ofgooda 4a valued at about 910.0 JO. WBL Zimmerman and Chris. Zweiger, sec tion hands on the St. Paul road, wen sevsre ly inured while loading rails at Ripon. It devriopsa that William Peridaa, :CTip ^*1 Thorpe, died of heart disease instead of not* son, ae reported. William Hartel was seriously, aud probab ly fatally, cat by an ax during a quarrel with his brother, Max, at Wausau. Max fled. Louis Molteft, the boy who escaped from the industrial school at Waukeeha, last Sep tember, has been captured at Racine. J. Cohen, a jewelry salesman, bad his sam ple ease stolen at Shore's Camp, near Wash burn. It contained 91,000 worth of jewelry. It is said that Frank Valley, who was sup posed to have burned to death in a barn fire near Chippewa Falls, is alive and is living at Dntuth. John Wood, who was sentenced to one year the penitentiary for a burglary com mitted at Poynette, has been pardoned by Gov. Hoard, The children of John Johns, a wealthy farmer living near Darlington, attempted to' have him adjudged insane, but failed, a jury declaring hint to be of sound mind. A Milwaukee paper print* a story to the effect that a Jew in the Cream- city is suppos ed to have sold hie wife for 91, 500. The plan to kidnap the woman was fiistrated. Jamee Sanders, of Sister Bay, haa disap peared and is supposed to have committed suicide. He was suffering from an incurable disease, and part of hie clothing has been found in the water. Sparks from a locomotive' set fire to a hay-stack on the farm of Mr. Peterson, six miles south of Racine. Nine shacks were burned, containing thirty tons of hay. The railroad company will be asked to make good the loss. Employment agencies at St. Paul and Minneapolis are sending men into- the woods in the northern part of the state. Lumber, men have all the help they need, and the men from Minnesota are left without work and inmany instances without money. A burglar went single-handed through four rooms in the Colby house at Ashland, but sscured only 922. When he got into a room'occupied by a Chicago drummer the latter yelled at the top of his voice and the burglar fled. Rasmus Hansen, a fanner, on his way to his home in the town of Draminec was robbed bytwo' highwaymen in the auburbe. One held the horses whils ths other went through Hansen's pockets and got a few dollars and a watch. No arrests. Ths second trial of the assault and battery case instituted by Chas. H. Noyes against F. W. Barker, principal of the Florence schools., who was charged with having too severely chastised the complainant's 11-year old son, Clayton Noyes, held before a jury, resulted in a verdict of acquittal. The Door County supervisors refused to ex tend the time on the bonds issued in favor of the Midland Railway Company. They were on deposit at Grsen Bay to be turned over, to the company on the completion of its line, which was to be on or about November 19. 1889. The Griffin Rifles, of Eau Clair, have or ganized an armory company with the fol lowing menbers as officers: President, J. T. Barber vice-president, Gen. Grlffen secreta ry, Lieut J. Horan treasurer, Elmer E. Stan-, ton directors the same, with the addition of Capt. McMaster. IOWA. John Thompson, formerly of Dnbuquw_ had theee ribs broken and wae otherwise seriously injured while attempting to board a moving street car in New York.recently 'Frank P. Toll, an employe of the American Express company at Clinton, skipped out with 9500 of the company's money, which hehad taken from express packages. At Traer last wsek two of Dr. R. M. Par son's children died of diphtheria. His three other children are now attacked with the disease and not expected to live. At a "business carnival" at Wall Lake re-, cently a woman appeared among the mas queraders in a suit of butcher's working clothes and carried a baaner decorated with, bologna sausages. Last week Dr. Sitzer, of Sac City, removed apiece of bone from the head of a soldier from Fonda which had remained there ever' since the battle of Antietam, where he had' received a wound in the skull. Fred 8. Hwbolt, a Burlington brakeman, fell twenty feet into the water from a- train while crossing Prairie creek near Cedar Rap. ids. With the exceptiou of an ugly cut on his head he escaped injury. The authorities of Sac City are looking for George Lewis, who disappeared from his farm near that city not long ago with hiswife'a youngest sister and leaving numerous cred itors. A1 Weaver, a switchman in tho Central yards at Marshalltown, while- coupling cars had, his right hand eaught between the bumpers and crushed so badly as to render amputation necessary. Miss Kate Ryan, a Clinton school teacher, punished little Alvina Thiesen with a ruler so severely that the child has bsen confined to her bed for over a wsek with nervousness and fright.. Mrs. Kis Kadden, aged 70 years, who re moved from Bellevue to southern Colorado, abont a. year ago, was caught in the recent blizzard while on her way home from a neighbor's and frozen to death. Capt. Will Pattee, of Bremer county, tho last living official of the old. democratic re gime in.Iowa, called on Gov.-Elect Boies at his home in Waterloo. Capt. Pattee held, the position of state auditor fram 1851 to 1854. The little 2-year-old son of Mrs. Jennie Anderson, of Marshalltown, got hold ot a can of powdered lye and before discovered hadeaten a mouthful of it,, with probably fataieffeet. Krebs Bros., of Cedar Rapids, have been awarded the contract to build the Tama county*eoldiers' monument. It will- be a combination of white bronze and granite, and will cost 94,000. D. E. Gleason. a Council Bluffs coal dealer wants Geo. H. Champ to give him 940,000— 920,000 for libel and 920,000 for slandsr. Alleged that Champ said Gleason. waa swindling his patrons by giving them short weight. A.. A. Noys, of Steamboat Rock, has just shipped 300 hsad of cattle—eighteen carloads —direct to Liverpool, Eng. This stock had been fed for fifteen months and average 1,500 each, all in prime condition. Over a thous and head will be shipped from Iowa Falls next wsek. Owing to the recent trouble at Des Moines college, brought about by the Teeter mar riage, the male students have formed a brotherhood, the purported object of whidi is to stick togethsr in the marriage business. The girls, it is stated, have also formed an organization or sisterhood, with the same object, and ft is feared by the faculty that when the two organizations come together in joint session there will be adecided decrease in the enrollment of the college—unless the rule prohibiting matrimony is materially modified.. The DeMoines Register contains a stery about a man named Stelson, of that eity, digging np a treasure box while at work on a cellar beneath a rented house occupied by him. The box is supposed to contain treas ure baried during the war, and which, owing to the death of the owner, has remained un diaturbed since that time. A peculiar cir cumstence in the story is the mysterious dis appearance of Stelsoa shortly after tho alleged discovery of the box. He leaves a wife and nine little 8telsons, who bear testi mony to the fact that he ia a material man and waa not manufactured by the Register's "ssnsation" reporter. The explanation giv en ia that Stelson has skipped while under tha impression that he would have to give np the treasure to the owner af the property on whteh it waa. diacovetd. •.. Livii.y mmmk pay only *0 a yaar UcSS5^^ In futura tray tmop Si will bt equippod wtth»auwlii£i Buffalo haa a oommaroial pi flm name and sty la ia "Irish The centennial at Philadelphia had 9,857,028 visitors and tha Paris tioh 85^000,000. Thera are now lM girls at tha Harmf Annex, but only ten of then aretaldaclB tegular course, The literature of Greeoe now taC meager, but Athena iasoen t» have a illustrated paper. A Wheeling youth waa engaged to girla at the same tlmt All found It and now h» isn't engaged ataUL Wiat electricity waaknownlaie cai time* te proved by the tA that No* first made tha ark light on Mount Ararat A citizen of Wellaville,- O., nowatventy four yeara old,, boasts that he hdk ttnt paid a cent to-a lawyer, doctor or ministeK At Bethel, Me ,, a large bear attacked ft cow, but the latter fought with all her might and main,, and finally draw bratft oft. Partridges are- so numerous' is the quentiy invade the business streets of thai town. William M. Balrd, an ex-speaker of thft New Jersey legislature, is now earning MA honest living by driving ahorse oar in New York. In Chester, Pa., a little girl took flowers and waa arrested and fined laroeny. At times juktice seems to be ovi active. Edward Atkinson intimates that 80 per cent of the- food consumed in the States is wasted because it is imp* cooked. The demand for Russian sable haa area! quite an interest in that lustrous and coat fur, which is worn somewhat extensive! this season. An Ohio editor apologlzM for la^n«sa. of his paper by saying: "Wa $era uitbla to give proper attention to Work owing tQ our wives' illness." The Argentine government edits agent in Paris to offer emigration to the Jews w&o afe being pelled from Russia. A woman In Wadley, Ga., has become grandmother at the age of thirty. SI married when only fourteen, attd daughter did likewlet At a California fair a Phunas counj man ate forty-three eggs tat Qlaus Spreckles, the sugar moved most of hiaperwhal pi. San Prknclsco, and will mato henceforth at Philadelphia. ,1 One famous hotel In Washington aa nounces ltaelf aa hiving four iron safe% plenty of fire-escapes and being the head quarters of army and navy Offioers. Russell Sage, who waa tali and thin in hia youth, haa grown, taller and thwnef elnce. Hia enemies say that his leg4 look like two umbrellas, rolled and coverfttf. Last week It took a California oouft lesa than twenty-four hours to catch a thief, find him guilty and lodge him in the peni tentiary to serve out a ten-yqar sentenqp. A Pennsylvanian who left Blrd-ln-fianjl (that state) sixty years ago in poverty has died in California, leaving 91,000,000 of property to hia relatlveaat the old Several thousand Jews who have tt8en expelled from Russia and have taken temporary refuge in England intefid to out as colonists to the. Argentine Republio. Stepniak, the giant Nihilist of Russia, is oomlng to America. He is under- un and dare not return to his native oountry. Bus ale has the habit of exiling her brightest men. Vice-President Morton estimates tl his gross receipts from the leases in Shoreman,. his new. apartment house Washington, will amount to at- least 000 a year. the sunorintendencitof Baron von Sofi&idt of Munich. The Atohison Globe is correct "to tha best of our knowledge and belief: "Whra a yirl falls in love she stops saying her prayers, but after she is married she begins them again." Mrs. Phin P. Bixby, widow of one of New Hampshire's distinguished, soldiers, died recently, and in her trill there is ft legacy of |2,000 for this support of tha family horse. One of the remarkable things said to be in Utah ia a mountain near Salt Lake City completely covered by oyster ahells. This mountain ia nearly 0,O(w. flat above t&e level of the sea. People who have the ague-and an trou bled- with that indefinable thing called malaria are in luck. Then-has been a big drop in the price of quinine. It is selling A. London at 14 pence per ounces. Emperor William haa prohibited the uw of the word cigar on account of Its French origin. In future the fragrant weed fs to be known in Germany by the excruciating-, ly Teutonic word of '*GlUnmatengeL" It is curious how big words begin to make their way against the littl» Words. Wfrfo. longer go to bed, we "retire we no long er live anyplace, we "reside" there apd we no longer stay in axooo, we "occupy^ it Room-mates quarreled in Salem, If. J_ and one drew all the bed-clothes away from the other. The other then dropped his hand, carelessly on tne one's nose, and there foli lowed a ault In court over the broken* mmo ber. A biographer of David Bennett Hill recalls the fact that the bachelor governor was never fond of the girla. Ho-haa tt. ways avoided their society, and ho-has been known to walk- around a block to .avafr meeting one. It is not generally known thai: there are i& existence some very spirited balladft by Lord Macaulay, which, in accordance with the author'a wiah, have never been publish ed. The best of them relates theatofy ot Bosworth field. The average woman, says- tha South Haven News, walks further a week than a drover, stands on her feefe mora than a blacksmitb, she defies tho- laws of bealt]} more than an Indian, and then wanders wh£ she isn't well like other folks. The French authorities, undertook to em play a German specialist to check tha soread of cholera in Tonquln, but tha French medicos preferred the disease to the German doctor and recorded aa vigorous a protest that his appointment was canceled. The grading of tresh firuit before It 'packed or aent to the cannery from orchard* and vineyarda in tha far West ia dooa cheaply and aueceasfnUy by several rival machines. Raiaina are atemmed and ftafc ed by machinery. Almoada are hulled by awry useful and oheap eohtrlvanee in ua# In moat of the orahaids. The parers, Har are and various kinds o(kBivaansad|M nearly «Uot the PaoUtaeeaat to its shtfper. Tl next morning for an apjletizer he partook nine boxes of sardines, Mr. John Tenniel is 70 ya been making plctofres fr '"Flinch" for ty year*. He llvtifc wMk his sister, a&d is tUl, milUary-leotring nan. "•SB Queen Olga, of Greece, to partloul fond of American literature. Shd constant reader of the nr^pt] magazines and newspapers.