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WAHPETON, NORTHDAKOTA.
PHILADELPHIA surgeon is report
ed to have "dissected and mounted
the complete nervous system of a
human being." But was it the male
drifemale nervous system?
'.iSteu. DYREKFOKTH says there no
tanker can be a doubt that his rain
producing scheme is a success. If this
is true the general should lose no time
in inventing a rain-brake. A cloud
burst in Rensselaer county, New York,
did $100,000 damage.
THERE is a story afloat that a St.
Petersburg bear, whose master had
plied with whisky, made a meal of said
mfster by way of bacchanalian diver
fcion. The foolish man should have
-known that beer is the proper drink
for Bruin.
Honduras the government owns
the saloons, and drinkers who reach
home so late that they have to feel
all over the door for the keyhole can
conscientiously declare to their ques
tioning wives that they have been at
tending to public business.
I RUSSIA and Germany are setting an
excellent example in deputing compe
tent officials to accompany the
World's Fair envoys back to America
to arrange for space for the exhibits
of their respective Governments. It
only remains for the other European
Governments to follow their example.
IF the stories both filthy and horrible
now in circulation about the royal
family of Austria are true, that the
empress should show signs of insanity
is not surprising. Nothing more re
volting has been made public since the
days of Nero and Commodus.
IF Emin Pasha is wise he will pre
serve a masterly silence nowadays.
He should remember that he was "res
cued" once from the identical spot
where he now is if he boasts too
loudly some other brave lecturer may
swoop down upon him.
I THE railroads are short of cars, the
great grain elevators are running to
their utmost capacity, and everything
that has sail or steam power and ton
nage sufficient to carry a cargo of grain
to Europe is under charter. It is a
glorious year for Uncle Samuel and all
his people.
HENRY COOS, tailor, of Norwioh,
Conn., is only a little
fellow, but he will
not need to make himself an overcoat
this winter. He has only to wrap his
eighty-six-inch long beard around
him like a Scotch scarf and fasten it
behind with a hair-pin.
THE Canadian papers are disap
pointed because the census returns
show their conservative "dominion to
have less than 5,000,000 people. They
are wondering how they can stop the
emigration of their people to the
United States. Better chances at
home might have some influence to
ward stopping the outgoing tendency.
A PORTSMOUTH, N. H., hen recently
laid an egg which, on being opened,
disclosed a 10-cent piece. This is the
first fruits of the silver agitation
among agriculturists. If a hen can
lay 10-cent pieces there is no reason
why a cow should not be set to coin
ing trade dollars or yielding silver
bricks.
WHAT is regarded as the most im
portant paper read before the British
association this year was one pre
pared by Dr. Strahan on the subject of
instinctive criminality. He endorses
the American system of giving crimi
nals an indefinite sentence in an in
dustrial home, instead of in a pris
on.
®NEWS comes from the South that the
bouse at Appomattox, Va., in which
General Lee surrendered to General
Grant has been sold for $10,000. The
parties purchasing, it is said, are rep
resentatives of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and it is reported that
that organization intends to hold an
encampment at the historic spot, as
several hundred acres of land in the
vicinity have been purchased by the
same parties that bought the house.
A REMARKABLE instance of a dog's
sagacity has just been reported from
Indiana. A large English setter was
"making a point" at a fish that was
chasing minnows in the shallow water
of a lake near a small boat pier. A
bystander told the dog to "hie in,"
and in he jumped his head went down
in the water and he threw a large fish
high in the air. It fell in the water,
when he caught it again and brought
it to shore. It was a bass, and tipped
the beam at two and a half pounds.
Tax bar maids of Berlin have start
ed an organ, the Herzblatt. It offers
dpportunities for literary work and
for ibe disclosure of cases of ill-treat*
amt.' The subscribers form a mater*
-lUit »ir society to help needy members,
and to appeal to the
if necessary. Whoever is un-
p»ne pabiishra, and, if he is
tbepublication
foUibritiM of his
Flashed by the Wires of the Telegraph
Condensed and Classified for
Convenience of Headers.
Washington, Foreign, Accidental, Per
Criminal and Other
News of Importance.
WASHINGTON.
IMMIGRANT COMMISSIONER OWEN has di
rected that C. Revel, imported by David
Myers of Pittsburg, N. D., from Paris.
France, be returned to France, as he came
to this country under contract.
GAIT. TOZIF.R, commanding the revenue
steamer Wolcott, reported to navy depart
ment by telegraph from Port Townsend,
Wash., that lie found two Chinese subjects
secreted on the steamer George W. Starr
from Victoria, B.C., to Port Angell, Wash.
He will deliver the steamer and Chinese to
the collector of customs at Port Townsend.
CAFT. AKDEBSOX, of the Gth cavalry, the
acting superintendent of the Yellowstone
National Park, lias submitted to the secre
tary of the interior his report for the last
fiscal year. He says lie never seen so many
fish as there are now in that region, and
buffalo and other wild auimals are on the
increase. Roads are in good condition, and
little damage lias been done by fire.
PEOPLE IN PRINT.
J. B. PETTO jr. of Charleston, W. Va., has
received from Mrs. Senator Palmer the ap
pointment of secretary to the ladies' board
of managers.
JUDGE O. W. SCIIOFIEM ofWarren, Pa.,
exmember of congress, once register of the
treasury and later judge of the court of
appeals died of heart disease. His uge was
seventy-four years.
MRS. JULIA FILLMORB HARRIS, tlie last
survivor of the family of eight brothers
and sisters, one of whom was President
Millard Fillmore, died recently in San
Francisco. She was born in 1812 and went
to California in 1872 from Minnesota.
PitoF. W. S. CHAI'I.IX, professor of
engineering in Harvard since 1885, has
been elected chancellor of Washington
University of St. Louis. Previous to his
Harvard professorship. Prof. Chaplin held
many important positions, chief among
which was the professorship of civil en
gineering in the Imperial University of
Japan.
MRS. ANNIE BESAXT, referring to her
assertion that she had recieved messages
similar to those which Madame Blavatsky
received, writes that she only desired to
clear Mine. Ulavatsky's memory of the
charge of fraud, it having been said that
Mme. Blavatsky herself wrote the letters
which sho claimed to have received.
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.
IN a collision in the Detroit river the
steam barge Jenks was sunk, and the wife
of the captain and the engineer and the
fireman were killed.
AT Chicago a butcher who was trying to
hang aside of beef on a hook, slipped and
was impaled on the hook, which pierced
his heart. He died instantly.
JAMES PATTON jumped from the third
story of a Johnstown, Pa., building that
was on fire and received fatal injuries. His
little boy was burned to death.
AT Oswego, X. Y., a balloon which was
being inflated suddenly rose. George Wood
was caught in the ropes and carried up
about seventy feet, when he fell, head
downward, and was killed.
THE steamer Dun Slurry of Belfast,
which sailed from New York for Antwerp
with a cargo of grain, sank about eight
hundred miles east of Xew York on the
morning of the 29th ult. She had a crew
of twenty-eight men. Eight of the crew
are lost.
Jos. J. and Fred Whalen attempted to
pass through the rapids at the suspension
bridge in a canoe recently. They were
caught at the pit and their craft was upset.
Charles Hamni went to their assistance and
Fred was taken out alive, but his brother
was carried down by the whirlpool.
AT Willows, Cal., fire started in the Wil
lows hotel from the explosion of a lamp,
destroyed that building together with the
Union hotel, the Crawford house, Hocliei
lner & Co.'s large general merchandise
store, express and telegraph offices and a
number of other places. The losses aggre-.
gate $150,000. Losers partly insured.
AT Peekskill, N. Y., a carriage contain
ing four persons was struck by a train.
Miss Travis, 20 years old, of Amowalk, was
killed, while her brother George had both
legs so badly crushed that amputation was
necessary, and it is feared that he cannot
recover. The other two occupants of the
carriage escaped with slight injuries.
AT Statesville, N. C., the jury in the Bos
ton bridge disaster case brought in a ver
dict attributing the wreck to a loose rail
from
which the spikes had been removed
by unknown persons. The jury also cen
sures the railroad company for running
trains over the bridge, the superstruct ure of
which they lound defective, at a high rate
ofspeed.
WICKEDNESSES.
AT Chattanooga, Tenn., Chris McNam
ara, a gambler, shot and killed Reese Fowl
er, proprietor of a gaming establishment.
The men had a dispute over a game of
cards, but there is said to be a woman in
the case. McNaniara escaped.
THE Lowell, Mass., police are satisfied
that David Belanger, the dry goods mer
chant who was found dead in his store
was murdered. The head had been almost
severed from the body.
To the $37,000 shortage in Cashier Till
man's accounts with the defunct Falls City
Bank, of Louisville, Ky., is to be added
S15,000 in bonds, a trust put in bis hands
for the widow and daughter of R. B. Alex
ander, who preceded Tillman as cashier.
NEAR Doolittle Mills, Perry county. Ind.,
John Snyder, a constable, was fatally shot
by Henry Enlow, while Snyder was trying
to arrest him on a charge of watermelon
stealing. Saul Snyder, tlie constable's
brother, was also shot, but will probably
recover.
HERBERT P. SMITH, president of the Lud
wig Ore Mining and dressing Company of
West Virginia, was held in $2,000 bail in
New York, charged by Robert W. Taylor,
aNew York lawyer and stockholder in the
company, with misappropriating $2,000.
AT Chattanooga Tenh., Chris McNamara
a gambler, shot and killed Reese Fowler,
proprietor of the gaming establishment
over 838 Market street. The murderer es
caped. The men had a dispute over a game
of cards but there is said to be a woman in
the case.
AT Hanover, N. H., a town meeting rati
fied the action of the selectmen in offering
a reward for the capture of Frank Almy,
the murderer. A letter was read from Mrs.
Warden authorizing the division among
those who endangered their lives on the
day of Alroy's capture, of any portion of
the reward that may legally belong to
her.
FOREIGN.
JAKES W. PORCH, ex-United States con
sul-general of Mexico, has assurances from
that government of certain concessions
which will enable him to establish a steam
ship line between Philadelphia and Vera
Cruz.
Ava.
23 the steamer Coliama carried
away to Costa Rica six prominent Nicara
guans sent into exile by President Harcsss,
who accused them of plotting against hint.
The exiles include ex-President yauala and
several members of the senate.
A LADY in St. Catherine Out., whose
retoivaa
reside
in
England aeqrMM
horn*
stating that Birch all'* widow was quietly
married at a place called Bed Bank there,
within six weak* after her arrival home
from Canada.
THE French government has received a
dispatch announcing that Fourneau's expe
dition to explore the valley of Zangha Bay
en, Central Soudan and the French Congo
was attacked by natives, with the result
that sixteen were killed and thirty-one. in
cluding Fourneau himself, were wounded.
THE Quebec government closed its testi
mony in the railroad scandal now being ih
vestigated^by the senate railroad commit
tee. The public accounts committee heard
evidence of witnesses who claim to have
paid Mr. Senecal, late superintendent of the
government printing bureau "commis
sion," money ranging from $27 to $2,000.
RAILROADS.
THE Milwaukee has been selected as the
official route by the grand lodge of Odd
Fellows, which will meet in St. Louis Sept,
21.
THE many rumors which have oflate
been current in regard to the consolidation
between the Chesapeake & Qhio and the
Ohio «fc Mississippi are prouounced without
foundation.
THE bottom figures in the war on west
bound lake and rail freights was reached
Tuesday in a special commodity tariff of 25
cents on dry goods (first class) from Boston
and Milwaukee, putin effect
railroad and Anchor
to Chicago
by the Fiicliburg
line.
A DEFINITE understanding has been
readied by tlie Illinois Central and Michi
gan Central people as to the plans for the
new passenger station which the two
companies will build in Chicago. The
building is to cost about $500,000 and will
not be the elaborate structure that was at
one time contemplated.
SPORTS.
HANI, AN and Gaudaur have agreed to row
a match race at Hamilton, Ont., on the 10th
inst., for $1,000 a side.
JIM WILLIAMS, of Salt Lake, defeated
George Morrison for the heavy weight
championship of Utah in a light at Ogden.
HEHZiaand
Mahan of Wichita, Kan., of
fer to match Shea the Kansas heavy-weight
champion, against Jake Kilrain, George
Godfrey, Ed. Smith or Jem Corbet for
$1,000 to $2,500 «*ide.
JAMES CORBETTJ' the pugilist arrived in
Boston and said: "Mitchell's acceptance of
my challenge looks genuine, and is a wel
come feature of this fighting debate. Iam
ready to fight him as soon as he is ready
and at any place he may select."
President Phelps of the American associ
ation, has denied the report that Milwau
kee will be dropped from the association
circuit at the end of the season. "Milwau
kee was given a permaneut franchise," said
he, "and is in the association to stay, not
withstanding all reports to the contrary."
PETER MAHEB, the champion of Ireland,
has issued a challenge to fight Ted Pritch
ard for £200 and the championship of Eng
land. Maher is the pugilist who made such
quick work of Gus Lambert, the Canadian
heavy-weight. Should I'ritchard notagree
to fight, Maiier will come to America to
try his fortune in the prize ring with Am
erican pugilists.
AMONG THE TOILERS.
THE employes of the Sunbury Lumber
Company at Sunbury, Pa., wentonastrike.
Each employee had received a letter noti
fying him that his wage* had been reduced
from one to four cents per hour.
EMPLOYES in the American Ax and Tool
company's works at Johnsonville, N. Y.,
East Douglass, Mass., Beaver Falls, Pa.,
Cleveland, Ohio, and Mill Hall, Pa„ have
struck as a result of the company's efforts
to discourage tlie growth of labor unions.
AT Fall River, Mass., the Cotton Manu
facturers' Association voted to reduce
wages. The reduction is expected to go
into effect Oct. 5. although the amount is
not generally understood even bv the
nianniacturers, but it is believed that it will
average 10 per cent.
THE union cabinetmakers of Chicago
have gone on a strike for eight hours as a
day's work. The employers say that this
is a dull season, aud that they can afford to
let their shops lie idle for a time. The men
seem sanguine of success. They number
about a housand,
GENERAL.
A SUPPOSED dead woman near Long Prai
rie, Minn., comes to life just before the
funeral.
A WHEAT field in Ramsey county, N. D.,
yields fifty bushels to the acre—the largest
yield of the year.
WILLIAM K. CALVERT, lumber merchant
of Altoona, Pa., assigned. The liabilities
and assets have not yet been ascertained.
THE popular fund for a steamboat line
from Chattanooga to St Louis was com
pleted, when the fund reached $107,125.
A GERMAN syndicate has purchased a
large body of land in Washington county,
Ala., and will establish an extensive Ger
man colony.
REPORTS from the greater portion of Ala
bama indicate a full corn crop, but a cut
ting off of cotton of at least 25 per cent.
Rust has been the destroying element.
A COMMITTEE from the American Sabbath
Union are in Chicago to request that the
World's Fair be closed on Sundays. Gen.
O. 0. Howard, Dr. Patton and others are
members of the committee.
NEW Calvert Hall, in Baltimore, was ded
icated to the cause of Christian education
by Cardinal Gibbons, assisted by a long
line of priests and brothers of the 'Christian
schools.
Louis F. CURBILLE, of Bogota, Columbia,
is arranging a series of excursions from
Columbia and other countries on the coast
of Central and South America to Chicago
during the World's Fair.
THE scheme to establish colonies of
German immigrants in the Southern
states, which is backed up by a German
syndicate which was mentioned some time
ago, is about to be realized.
THE reservation occupied by the five
tribes under the jurisdiction of the Sac
and Fox agency, is rapidly filling up with
"boomers" in anticipation of the opening
settlement of these lands.
JUDGE LATHROP, of the supreme court of
Massachusetts, has decided that under the
Australian ballot law where votes are not.
challenged their legality cannot afterwards
be a subject of inquiry.
KHEDIVB PET, a Jersey cow owned by
Charles H. Smith, ofGreenville, Mass., gave
birth to four healthy, living calves, two
males and two females, at his "Idlewild"
plantation, two miles from that city.
TYPHOID fever has become epidemic in
Negaunee, Mich. There are now over 50
cases, four deaths and people coming down
with the disease at the rate of five or six a
day. The epidemic is directly owing to
the filthy water.
AT Williamsport, Pa., an assignment
has been made by the Demorest Sewing
Machine Co.. Hugh McDonald being
named as assignee. Amount of liabilities
not given but a judgment' of $55,(KM is
held by a banker of New York.
THE Arkansas World's Fair committee
has adopted a resolution requesting Maj.
John D. Adams and Hon. Lagatte Gregg,
World's Fair commissioners, to locate
grounds at Chicago on which to erect build
ings for the display of Arkansas resources.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Westinghonse Air Brake Company
was held at Wilntferding, Pa. The attend
ance was small. The gross earnings for the
year were $1,004,179.26, operating expenses,
•3,308,383.28, leaving net earnings of il,605.
785.98, »n increase or $400,000 over the pre
ceding year. George WwtingbotiM. Jr..
was re-elected president vioe-president,
Robert Pitcaim. ,/
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A Summary of the Important* Events
of the Week in the Northwest-1
ern States.
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Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell,
M1NNESQTA
Michael Marwitz, an old man, suicided
at Dodge Center by'hanging.
The Duluth Tribune has a $35,000 libel
suit, brought by A. H. Truax & Co.
The first Scandinavian grand lodge in
America was organized at Minneapolis.
The new hospital building of the Norwe
gian Lutheran Deaconesses, at Minneapolis,
was dedicated.
Andrew Carlson fell from the Linton ele
vator at Minneapolis, sustaining injuries
that proved fatal.
Marie Fergstad and Gustav G. Kindseth,
teller at the Scandia Bank at Minneapolis,
were married.
Minnesotas' World's Fair commissioners
declare $50,000 to be too small for a good
exhibit, and Col. Reeves threatens to
resign.
Miss May Pierce, daughter of ex-Senator
G. A. Pierce, and Rev. Robert Inglis, of
Crawfordsville, Ind., were married at Min
neapolis.
John Maguren, who has been on trial at
St. Cloud for rape committed a short time
ago at Melrose, was bound over to the De
cember term of court.
Six prisoners escaped from the jail at
Crookston the other night. Complicity of
the other prisoners enabled the escape to be
concealed 36 hours.
The contract for building the new city
hospital building at Stillwater was let to
Swen Berglund for $5,728.
F. J. McComber, son of the well-known
mining man and explorer, of Duluth,
attempted suicide by shooting at Tower
while intoxicated.
Misses Marian H. Seeley, Edna K.
Smith and Alice A. Gorman graduated
from the training school for nurses of St.
Anthony's Hospital at Minneapolis.
W. McCullough sustained a broken leg
and other injuries while riding down in an
elevator at the Albion building at St. Paul.
The fastenings of the elevator broke and it
fell twenty feet.
The Swedish Publishing Company which
issues the Svenska Folkets Tidning at
Minneapolis, has been sued for $10,000
damage for an alleged libelous statement
regarding Gus Holm, a book dealer.
Ground has been broken for the founda
tion for the new county court house at
Slayton. Lock & McLeod of Minneapolis
are the builders. It is to be completed by
Jnly l, 1891.
C. M. George of St. Paul has leased the
opera house at Redwing for one year from
Sept. 8.1891, and will operate it in connec
tion with the Mankato house, leased by his
brother, in-a new theatrical circuit.
Thirty acres of uncut wheat belonging to
the Grandin and E. J. Clark farms near
Georgetown were burned by an accidental
fire. A separator burned and the fire ran
through the stubble.
The two sections of a freight train on the
Eastern Minnesota collided near Princeton
»nd four men severely injured. They were:
Conductor Young, Brakeman Cardie, Colin
Campbell, and James Baker, of Milaca.
J. W. Jennison, a brakeman, has brought
a claim against tlie city of Winona for $1,000
While on top of a freight car on the Wi
nona & St. Peter track he had been knock
ed down by an electric light wire.
An unknown man threw himself in front
of a short line train at Hazel wood near
Dulutli and was horribly mangled. He
was apparently 30 years old, roughly dress
ed and barefooted.
By the accidental discharge of a gun a
a young man named.Williams, was fatally
injured at Sleepy Eye. His neck, face and
left ear were blown in bad shape. He was
one of a party of hunters from Baraboo,
Wis.
The Clinton Bridge and Iron company o:
Clinton Iowa was awarded the coutract to
erect anew steel low truss bridge. Sixty
two feet span, across the Vermillion river
(t Hastings.
John Moran and Thomas Lyste were ar
*ested at Moorhead for robbing the fur
nishing store of C. W. Freeman, in this
city recently. Apart of the stolen proper
ty was found in their possession. Both
were held to the grand jury.
The new mill at Waseca owned by Ev
erett, Aughenbaugh & Co., and which, to
gether with the elevator and flour attached,
cost $75,000, is now in readiness for busi
ness. The mill is a remarkably fine struc
ture, and is a material improvement and
benefit to the city.
The Austin Canning and Preserving com
pany has commenced putting up its sea
son's product. A large quantity of corn
will be put up, but tomatoes are so badly
cut by the frosts that the supply of the lat
ter will be limited. The company packed
200,000 cans of goods last year.
August Kairo, a German living in Wood
land Park in Moorhead, shot William Stilt
on, a boy 18 years old. Stilton had been
stopping with Kairo at the latter's house
while Kairo was somewhat under the influ
ence of liquor. The shooting occurred
without any apparent cause. The bullet
entered the boy's head in front of the right
ear, and the doctors have thus far failed to
locate its position. The wound is not con
sidered dangerous. Kairo lias been held to
await the action of the grand jury.
NORTH DAKOTA.
John Birkholtz, of Grand Forks, bought
the Bank of Ardock, capital $20,000.
Henry H. Stone, postmaster at Hunter,
resigned in favor of Oscar C. Robin
son.
The bank of East Grand Forks reorgan
ized with $50,000 capital president, Capt.
Griggs, vice president, W. Budge, aud
casliier, E. R. Jacobi.
George Medoed's general store at Wah
petou was burgalized. Quite an amount of
cutlery, hats and caps were taken.
The examination at Bismarck of J. S.Swen
son, the blind pig proprietor, resulted in the
case being bound over to the district court
in bonds of $1,000, which njere furnished.
The Northern Pacific station at Grafton,
was entered by burglars. An over
coat, the contents of the money-drawer,
consisting of a quarter, and the coupon
ticket case were taken.
A eon of Joseph Wurzer, near Bingham
ton, was accidentally killed by a loaded
gun which some member of the family had
hung on the wall. It was accidentally
knocked down, the charge, a heavy one,
tearing his back open and killing him in
stantly.
A Wahpeton special says: The vield of
wheat is considerably above the estimates.
Tlie smallest yield reported in this county
is 20 bushels, the largert 35, the average
about 24. Frosts have done no damageto
small grains. They were in shock before
the first frost. Corn aud tender vegetables
were killed by the ftost.
Hon. T. M. Elliot of Lisbon .discharged
one of ljis harvest hands. The man went
off to a distanee and set fire to the prairie
•p thattbe wind would canryitto lfjr.'
onlysufeoeededInputttaigtiouti
burnedover 200 acres of prairie.
Extradition. proceedings against Patrick
Bonett at Grand Forks wanted at Winni
peg for larcenftr of ft,200 worth of jewelry,
were continued,. attorneys being in doubt
as to whether grand larceny ia extraditable.
Assistant Secretary of state Horton wires
that the state departmentknows nothing
of the case, as tne authorities at Ottawa
have never applied for extradition.
O. M. Towner, manager of a St. Paul syn
dicate, formerly manager of the Elk Val
ley farm, Larimore, has purchased 25,000
acres of land that has been considered
worthless in a slough lying east of the Red
River, opposite the northern part of Walsh
county. They intend to drain this tract
this fall, and are getting steam plows manu
factured at Racine^ Wis., to break the en
tire lot to put into crop. They will build a
malt house and use the whole product of
the extensive farm
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Jerry Atkins* residence at Michell, was
burglarized. Jewelry and money were
taken.
The Milwaukee stockyards and the Hunt
ing & Co., elevator burned at Tyndall,
Loss $6,000. Incendiarism is suspected.
Rev. W. J.Cady, of Chicago, has accepted
a call to the Congregational Church of
Anoka.
The postoffice of Granite Falls was burg
larized recently and $500 in stamps and $400
in money was carried away. No clue to
the criminals has been obtained.
J. A. Ross, who was short several hun
dred dollars in his accounts as township
treasurer in Kingsbury county, was jailed
here in default of $1,000 bail.
The teachers' institute at Anoka, con
ducted by W. F. Rocheleau, of Moorhead,
and E. R. Shephard, of Minneapolis, is be
ing largely attended by the teachers of the
county.
C. E. Havens, founder and for seven
years editor of the Woonsocket Times, died
at Huron, aged thirty-nine. He was book
keeper in the Huronite office the past two
years, and was well kuown in St, Paul and
Minneapolis.
Harry Sanders, a Y. M. C. A. young
man keeping books for Bcggs Feriis at
Sioux Falls, confessed to having em
bezzled liis employers' funds. The short
age may reach $1,000. He was arrested.
The land officials at Pierre, decided
in favor of a homesteader named Jen
nings in the suit for the possession of valu
able quarry land near that place brought
by the Allison Addition Townsite Com
pany.
O. I Converse, who represented Jerauld
County, in the last legislature, sui
cided at Crow Lake, by hanging, in
consequence of financial embarrassment
and ill-health.
A young man named Coleman, while
driving with a young lady near Mitchell,
pulled a shot-gun out of the buggy,
and the trigger catching under the seat the
gun was discharged, taking two of Cole
man's fingers off.
The first state convention of the South
Dakota Y. M. C. A. will be held at Mitch
ell. A feature will be the report of James
Garrie on the progress of thesociety among
the Sioux Indians, who have fourteen as
sociations.
Hutchins fc Davidson, who made the
two artesian wells at Letcher, have taken a
contract to sink a 6-incli well for the city of
Mitchell and are moving their machinery
from here to commence work. When that
one is finished they will put down a 3-inch
well for E. R. Locke, on his farm two miles
from Woonsocket.
Gtorge F. Rhodes, a large cattlc owner
in the vicinity of Blunt, was arrested by
United States Marshal A. S. Guthrie,
charged with selling government cattle
belonging to Crow Creek agency. Mr.
Rhodes asserts his inuocence and says he
will have no trouble in proving himself
wrongfully charged.
Minnesota
WISCONSIN.
Mineral Point's big fair is in full blast.
Charles Durr went to the state prison for
two years for burglary, at Racine.
Superior will construct six new school
houses at a total of $134,000.
Tlie electric railway connecting Hurley
and Iron wood will be in operation soon.
Rock County has seventy-six cases to try
at the next term of the circuit court.
Mrs. Cora Bell Graves, who was arrested
at Eau Claire on the charge of adultery, has
been acquitted!
The hearing of the petition for a guardian
for Dr. Cody will be heard at Watertown,
September 29.
The new artesiai) well at Oconto yields
700,000 gallons of pure cold water every
twenty-four hours.
Janesville's $10,000 worth 5 per cent,
bridge bonds were taken by the Rock Coun
ty National Bank.
Sparta business men have incorporated
an improvement association for the pur
pose of systematically booming the town.
The First Presbyterian Church Society,
of Eau Claire, has awarded a contract to
build anew stone church to cost $14,000.
O. R. Reilly is under arrest at Black Riv
er Falls on the charge of attempting to
criminally assault Miss Lilly Ayers, of that
city.
Jonathan Ellis, of Port Dover, Canada,
has purchased the Janesville woolen mills,
and the wheels so long idle are again in
motion.
IOWA,
Word has been received saying that black
frost has damaged the corn in Lyon county.
A special from Emmetsburg says that a
recent frost has damaged corn consider
ably.
Several county justices of the peace are
placed in a very bad light since the arrest
of J. T. Brown for obtaining bounty on
artificial wolfs scalps.
The annual reunion of the veteran sol
diers and sailor* of the late war of Jo Dav
iess county was lieid at East Dubuque re
cently. A very large crowd was in attend
ance.
Billy Crandalli Olof Harris and Billy
Ryan, professional safe blowers, were ar
rested for the burglary of the Leeds post
office robbery. Several hundred dollars
worth Of stamps were found in their pos
session.
A young German, by the name of Peton,
living a mile from New Hampton set fire
to his father's and brother's barns. Both
were consumed, with several hundred
bushels of grain and five or six head of
horses.
The disease among cattle which has been
raging with such frightful fatality among
herds in Palo Alto county, has spread into
Emmet county and large numbers in Petti
john's herd have died. The symptoms are
similar to rabies.
The great street car deal by which the
State Electric Company, of Clinton, pro
posed to become possessors of the Joyce
street car lines of Lyon is off. Joyce's
terms were too high, so it threw the' sale.
Such is the report.
J. B.Morin & Co.'s creamery at Van*
horn, was destroyed by fire. 'Much of the
machinery was saved. The amoimt of
lossfnd causepf the fire ate not kneiwn.
This is tbe second creamery low
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Houses of Europeans and Catholic
Misaionaiy Buildings Burned by
-^Natives in Ichang.
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Europeans Attacked and the British
Consulate Destroyed in Another
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Chinese City.
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SRANO HAI, Sept. 5.—Grave troubles are
reported from Ichang, on the Yang Tse
Kiang. The houses oi the Europeans have
been burned to the ground by the natives
likewise the church, school and orphanage
of the Sisters have been destroyed. The
French minister is expected in Pekin now,
and it is believed he will take severe and
emphaUc measures to secure a complete in
demnity.
The British consulate at Vepang has been
destroyed by a mob which attacked the
Europeans last Tuesday. The French gun
boat Aspic has leit Kiu Kiang for the scene
of the disorders, Her commander received
stringent instructions to act decisively.
no TROUBLE AT BOKO KOKO.
SAN FBAHCIECO, Sept. .—O. H. Simons,
American consul at Hong Kong, arrived in
this city by the steamer Gaelic yesterday.
Mr. Simons stated that nothing in the
Bhape of a war scare existed in either Hong
Kong or Yokohama when he left.
"I had a talk with Admiral Belkuap," said
Mr. Simons,-"aud I understood from bim that
the placing of the Charlestown on the Asiatic
station was due to the urgent letters and tele
grams be had forwarded to Washington tobavea
rcspeetable-looklng flagship sent out as soon as
poasible. The only war ships we have there are
the Monocacv. the Paios aud the Alliance, aud
our Asiatic fleet suffers lu comparison with
those of other nations. I gathered from the ad
miral that the presence of the Charleston was
desired more to add eclat to our fleet than for
auy thing else ]ust at present.
"I have witnessed no outbreak against the
European and American residents. With Eng
glish aud American gunboats at band this would
be practically impossible, and although the
population of Hong Kong is largely Chluese, the
latter are very tractable in our city. I have
heard of no recent riots against the missionaries
or other foreigners hi China since the outbreak
in June, and the prompt actiou of the native
government in commanding protection for the
white residents bad a wholesome effect on the
mobs. The natives are undoubtedly restless,
however, and there may be trouble at any time.
The Hecret society of Koa Lo, wbicb has been
the cause of the disquietude, is manipulated by
very shrewd aud well educated men who kuow
how to incite tlie coolie element to deeds of vio
lence. It is even believed that some of the
mandarins are among the leaders of the society,
whose ulterior objects,.although not positively
known, are believed to be the destruction of the
present Chinese government, the overthrow of
the Tartar dynasty and the banisbmeut of all
foreign residents. The leaders play upon the
superstition aud ignorance of the natives, and
there is no sajriug wheu the prevent restlessuets
may develop into another outbreak."
POPE LEO ILL
The Aged Pontiff's Condition Snch as to
Alarm Bis Phjrslclaas.
ROME, Sept. 5.—The announcement is
made to-day by the Capitan Fracassa that
the pope was Wednesday last attacked by
acute visceral derangement. The phy
sicians insist that absolute rest is impera
tively demanded in his case. The condi
tion of the pope is admitted to be such as to
cause much uneasiness in the minds of his
medical attendants.
While there is no one in Rome to-dav
who knows the facts with regard to the
actual physical condition of Leo XIII., or,
knowing them, will nqt divulge, there is
no mistaking the strengui of the impression
which has taken hold of the people of the
city, and, indeed, of well informed Quirinai
officials, that the situation is grave in tlie
extreme. It is hinted that the persistent
and insistent agitation oi the papal succes
sion which lias recently occupied so much
of the attention oi tne clergy, statesmen
and polemical writers of Europe, coming,
as it did, in full force immediately after the
disability of the pope on July 16, is strong
evidence in favor of the theory that those
hierarchy
other head.
XEARIXG A CLIMAX.
Indications That a Revolution Will Soon
Convulse the Black Republic.
NEW YORK, Sept 5. The Norwegian
steamer Alert arrived here to-day from
Port de Pais and Cape Haytien, both of
which ports she left Aug. 27. and reported
that a climax in Hayti's disturbed affairs
wculd undoubtedly be readied very soon.
News of the return to the Haytien cape
of the exiles from Kingston was being in
dustriously circulated in the other large
cities of the republic^ and the iorts guarding
the approaches to the cities were being
strongly garrisoned, especially at Port au
Prince, and orders were issued'by President
Hippolyte that it the exiles returned
.to the
city and made a successful attack on the
palace the guns were to be turned on the
city. The palace is strongly guarded.
oo stroug is the belief that a revolution
will soon break out in Hayti that many of
the foreign residents have moved out of
Port au Prince and are sending their fam
ilies away. Oil the Alert's departure Presi
dent Hippolyte's family was leaving Port
au Prince for Cape Hayiien.
From what is learned of the insurrection
ists they are still at Kingston, Jamaica, act
ively preparing, it is said, to leave that
place to make a descent on the Haytian
capital.
A CHAIR FACTOitY IN fiUINS.
lames Wipe Out One ot St. Cloud's In
fant Industries.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., Special Telegram, Sept.
5.—Fire irom some unkuowh source broke
out this evening in the Linscott chair
factory, located in the extreme western
part of the city. On account of the in
flammable nature of the contents nothing
could be done to save the factory, and it is
a heap of ruins.
The building, which was of bricki was
owned by a syndicate and cost $7,000 and
was insured for $1,000. The loss on ma
chinery is $12,000 and materials $2,000 in
surance, $1,000.
Linscott removed here from Fairhavea
about a year ago and had received a bonus
of $2,000 from the city, but this will un
doubtedly be repaid, as the mill had not
been running the stipulated time.
Generous Country People.
CAPS MAY, Sept. 5.—President Harrison,
accompanied by George W. Boyd and Mr.
McKee, went out for a day's rail-bird shoot
ing on the Maurice river meadows to-day.
The villagers soon learned of the presi
dents arrival and the entire population al
niost came ont to see him and give him an
informal reception. They fairiy filled his
car with watfi melons, canlelopes, peaches
and other fruits as fine as was ever grown
In South Jersey. The nomen carried flow
ers to linn in proiusion, and the president
delighted with the attentions showered
on hiiu by the generous country folk, ^ss
The Dardanelles Affair.
CONSTANTINOPLE Special— It ia semi
officially announced that Turkey's agree
ment with Russia arising ont of the Mos
cow incident permits Tenete of the Black
aea volunteer fleet carrying convicts guard
ed by soldiers bound to the Pacific to ,paa|
tbroogh the Dardanelles on the Russian
embaaty advising the porte and obtaining,
his consent Vend* carrying diachuged
•oldlera returning home wanned will be
•allowed to
pass-through
the Dardanelles on
a satisfactory declaration by tha ooinmand
esvofeaeh vessel T^iaagreeoMnt'docenot
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Nomrm.iv Minn.. Special,
The passage of Wolfs comet through the
Pleiades will be obssirved to-day and to
morrow by the astronomers at Qoodseil
observatory, and the proper records taken.
The occurrence has already been coin*
mentcdon by a large number of learned
people as an interesting astronomical«vea^
it being the first chance astronomers have
had for years to observe the difference be.
tween the light of comets and the light ot
stars. This passage will give them an ex
cellent opportunity to do so, fits the comet
occults three or lour stars in that cluster
during its passage.
Wolf's comet was first seen or discovered!
in 1881 by Dr. Wolf of Zurich, and shprtly
after two Harvard college professors
mapped out its orbit, showing that it
would again be visible three days this year
Sept. 3,1
and S. It will probably be seen
a.ter those dates, but its passage will then
be simply through space, aud will noto
cult auy more stars. Tne results will proL
ably be of particular interest only to aa^
trouomers, but will aid in showing what
materials comets are composed oi. Therl
are thrown irom the sun, ot course, and thus
must possess only such materials as the sun
is composed of.
One peculiar thing about this comet ia
that its tail is turned away from the sun,
contrary to the usual custom of comets, for,
being thrown from that body, their nu
cleus, or heads, would naturally be turned
away from it. This comet, however, ia
pointed in just the opposite way, a phe
nomenon which has not yet Been ex
plained.
This morning at 5 o'clock it made the
transit of the first star in the Pleiadea
group, Asterope, the time, "central, being,
about 5 a. m. To-morrow at 4 p. in. it will
rUn over Pleione. The comet cannot ba
seen with the naked eye, but its,,motion
will be rapid aud give observers a good
chance to lollow it through the sky. :f
BAGGED AN OUTLAW.
A 8even.Tlme Murderer Killed bjr alloy
of Seventeen.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 5.—Harmon
Murray, the notorious outlaw who has de
tied the authorities for nearly a year and
terrorized a large section of country, was
killed to-day by Hardy Early, a colored
lad ot seventeen. The killing occurred in a
swamp near Archer, Fla.
Murray called on Early, early this morn
ing end ordered him to go with him to
Archer, where be said he was going to kill
some Crackers and then leave the county.
Early did not want to go and said he had
no gun,but Murray took hini to the letter's
brother's honse and made bim give him a
double-barreled shotgun.
The two then started toward Archer, hav-
Murray to lead Murray took the lead and
at once Early poured the contents of the
gun into the back of Murray's head, killing
him instantly.
Early then notified the people at Archer,
and a crowd went out to the spot and
brought the corpse to town aud aiterward
sent it to Jaucsville. The excitement there
was intense, as several of Murray's crimes
have occurred in that vicinity. Early was
the hero of the hour. He will get $1,500 in
rewards.
Murray has killed seven men within the
past lew months, and was as tearless as ha
was bloodthirsty. ,:
CONDITION OF TRADK. •.•Nfr'
An Enormous Crop Improving Business
In All Sections.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says:
Business improves in all sections. In the
West the crop layout of danger aud JB enormoui
—undoubtedly the largest evergrowu—and mov
ing with unusual rapidity. The corn crop has
been saved and is very laifce in most of the sur
plus producing states, and even within the rang*
of recent frosts appears to have been in part
beyond injury.
The monetary situation is also decidedly clear
er. Foreign needs appear less urgent, and the
danger oi successful resistance to American de
mands for gold is diminished. The removal of
tbe German probibition of American pork im
ports promises a largely iucreaeed demand for
important products andaconsiderable addition
to merchandise exports for the yean
At Minneapolis tne jobbing trade is very good.
Wheat receipts being double last year's, and
lumber advanced 91 by the association, and at
St. faui trade steadily increases with assure
anceof unprecedented crops. At Milwaukee trade
gains, though unusually slow collections pinch
some ol the jobbers. At the West no com
plaints of stringency are noted, though moner
is firmer at Chicago.
Speculative transactions have been more
active, aud wheat has declined 4 cents on
sales of 4,000,000 bushels oil account Ot enor
mous receipts at the West, which have been at
tne rate of l,B50,0u0 bushels daily tor the weec
thUB
far. Exports for tbe current week have
been about ten times those of last
year, though the movement of flour doea
not correspondingly increase. Corn declined
cents before
thb
reports of frost, and oats 1%
cents. Cotton has advanced notably mora
than half a cent during the week on sales of
930,000 bales at New York, and the market Is
likely to be uncertain for some tfme to come.
Oats have falleu cents and coffee of a cent«
but no fall is seen in pork products, which may
be strengthened by tlie new German decree.
The business lailures occurrlug throughout
the country during the past »eveu days number
217 as compared with 22U
luBt
week. For tne
corresponding week of last year the figures were
•08.
DODGED THE ISSUE.
Xortli Dakota's Attornev General Refers
the Inspection Law to tlie^&imrts.
GRAND FOBKS, N. I)., Special Telfegl
Sept. 5.—It is positively a fact that the :i
torney general has dodged the issue of giw'i!|
ing an opinion on the constitutionality
tit "J
the elevator laws, and merely refers the"
question to the courts. Chiei Inspector
Wineiuan goes to Fargo Saturday morning
to assume his duties. J..
The commissioners have made important^
modifications in the warehouse rules.
Grain may be inspected in the night as well
as in the day. time. The inspectoia-j
will not attempt to break car seals, but in *r
case tbe conductor refuses, will report the
conductor and the number of the car to the
chiet inspector. The rule requiring ele- •,
vators to pay within 4 cents of Duluth and
Minneapolis prices is repealed. These are
all backdowns.
Tbe impression is general that the com
missioners do not believe the inspection
law and the law declaring all warehouses
public are constitutional. The attorney
general, Commissioner Walsh and Inspect
or Wineman were in conlerence to-night,
leased an Elevator. ?•.
Li SUBCB, Minn., Special, Sept. ft.r
Pbehler & Co,, grain commission met*
chants of Minneapolis, have taken charge
of Patten & Co.'s elevator here, having
rented it for a year.
Professors and Teaelievs Cliosen,
REDFIELD, S. D., Special Telegram, Sept.
5.—At a meeting of the Redfield college
trustees to-day Rev. R. H. Davis of Noith
donway, N. H., was elected to the presi
ency to fill the vacancy caused by tbe
resignation of Rev. D. Beaton. Prof. J.
T. Arnold of Grinncil was selected to fill
the chair of mathematics, Miss Hyde: of
Cornell university, to the chair of natural
sciences and Miss L. A. Geary of Chicam
principal of the Dakota Conservatory of
Music, The college Opens 8ept. 16 with
prospect of a large increase in the attend
ance from all parts of the stats.
Hade false Beturas.
WASHIWGTOK, Special Telegram,?
The postoffice department lias received
notice from Inspector Cbilda that John
Guthrie, postmaster at Aurora, Steele cola,
ty. Minn., has been arrested for making
false returns of the business .of the offlee.
It is quite likely that- a ancosssor o*
tie will be appointed In a few days,
will Bold Bsniitt'
Gatxn Foaxs, N. D., Special Tel—.
Sept. ,4.—In the district court to-dsy Jfe
Templeton, after heating tba evidence
tbe. case agalng BmeMt Wanted o»}
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