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'WAHPETON, NORTH DAKOTA,
IN
the pookets of clothing discarded
by a burglar in Indiana were found a
translation of Caesar's Commentaries
and a problem in algebra.
BISMARCK says he won't attend the
Beichstag unless it is imperatively
necessary., No doubt "the man o..
blood and iron" will soon find it im
peratively necessary for him to be
there.
THOSE who entertain a doubt as to
the steadiness of the purposes of old
Sol will feel reassured by Prof.
Keeler's statement that the sun will
warm and light the world for 10,000,
000 years.
A BOSTON paper says that in that
city five generations of a family gather
ed about the Thanksgiving table. No
other occasion makes the Yankee
come so near robbing the grave to
meet the cradle.
BUTTOX-HOI.E electric lamps, it is
said, are being tried as a part of the
outfit of conductors on London omni
buses, the current being furnished by
a pocket battery. The circuit is closed
and alight produced only when nec
essary to examine tickets.
A CONTEST between a fat man and a
lean one to see which could sit longest
on the sharp edge of a rail has termi
nated in favor of the bony contestant
after a severe trial. The rail should
have been stpod on end to make a
real test of endurance.
BANKER BEAI„S, of Kansas City, has
come to his senses and will prosecute
the abductors of his child. Assuming
that the persons arrested are guilty
of the crime, Mr. Beals himself would
be a criminal if, by his silence they
should escape punishment.
AT the recent maneuvres of the
French army in Champagne the Service
de Sante employedaportablehospital
invented by M. Espit allier,
a command
ant of engineers. The barrack in ques
tion measured 10 metres by 5 meters
inside, and could receive twenty beds.
A MAX seventy years of age recently
drove seven nails three inches long in
to his head at Vienna. At last accounts
he was still alive, but suffering consid
erable pain and inconvenience. A per
formance of that kind would have
destroyed an ordinary coal hod, but
simply proves in this case how few
brains a man needs to live in that city.
MALCOLM W. FORD, a champion
amateur athlete of New York, has
been disinherited by his sire for devot
ing his time to the cultivation of mus
cle. The young man loses a large share
of $1,500,000. Had he made his
brow bulge instead of his biceps, he
would never have made an error of
that magnitude.
HARD feelings exist between Nova
Scotia and New Foundland on ac
count of the bait act. The blue noses
want the dominion government to
try retaliation, but Minister Tupper
hesitates on the ground that it might
be a good deal easier to grab than to
let go, as Newfoundland is a bit of a
badger when it comes to fighting.
THE Chinese highbinders of San
Francisco seem to have seriously set
about the business of killing one an
other off. The police of the town dis
play commendable astuteness or
praise-worthy stupidity in professing
their utter inability to discover any
of the assassins. A war of extermi
nation among highbinders is just the
thing.
THE story that theCzar declined to
visit Emperor Wilhelm at Berlin be
cause he had neard that an attempt
wasto be made on his
life onthe way
was apure invention. The Czar never
fora moment entertained the idea of go
ingto Berlin. He dislikes the young Ger
man Kaiser exceedingly and takes no
pains to conceal the fact.
MANY persons look upon Brazil as
a small affair and think a revolution
there could be easily encompassed. It
is true that the population is
compar
atively small, being only about 12,
000,000 all told, but in territory it is
about equal to the whole ot Europe,
or about 200,000 square miles larger
than the United States. Brazil has
few railroads and poor telegraph ser
vice, so that it sometimes takes
months to communicate with remote
States or provinces.
MB. ALBERT EDLEMAVN, a polish in
ventor oilers A scheme to manufacture
(coal which he pronounces superior in
iM results to either bituminous or
anthracite coal, to which the world
»ksclaims
ibMn so long accustomed to look
chief supply of fori.
ipBnn
Mir.
Edel-
for hla invention that it
aable him to maniifacture his
"'i&ltitl&mccmt' at otOf
one dollar per
jMttae the svooedjH cheapness
of being
THENEWSSUMMARY
The Latest Xcws of the World Con
densed and Arranged in Conven
ient Form,
Washington, Fersonal, Foreign, Crim
inal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
THE CAPITAL
The public debt decreased $545,002 in No
vember.
Postmaster General Wanamakcr's annual
report is made public.
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEHECKEK sub
mits his annual report to the secretary of
•the treasury.
It was rumored at the treasury depart
ment that the Bank of England had decid
ed to issue silver notes to the amount of
£1,000,000.
Sir Julian Paunccfote and the representa
tives of the British East Indian colonies,
liad another conference with Mr. Foster at
the state department in regard to negotiat
ing a reciprocity against the colonies.
SECRETARY FOSTER continues to improve
slowly, but does not gain strength as rapid
ly as his friends expected. He will go to
some point in the South for a few days' re
cuperation before resuming his olliciai
duties at the treasury department.
PERSONAL.
A West Virginia man dies at the age ot
159 years.
Mr. Gladstone hasn't cut down a tree lor
a whole year.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, American min
ister to the court of St. James, lias gone on
a brief visit to Koine.
Mis Murfce (Charles Egbert Craddock) is
said to have married one of her typical
Tennessee mountaineers.
Ex-Speaker Reed expresses himself as
firmly convinced that Mr. Mills will be
chosen speaker of the house.
Geti. E. Kirby Smith leaves his university
chair in the Tennessee mountains to mix
now and then with his old friends at Nash
ville.
Justice Bradley, of the United States su
preme court, has established a prize in Ro
man law at Rutgers college, of which he is
a graduate.
George AV. McKee, major of ordnance,
United States army, who has been in com
mand of the Frank lb nl arsenal lor about a
year, died of heart disease.
The illness of Gen. Butler is very serious,
and the gravest doubts of his recovery arc
entertained by those in a position to know
most about his condition, who assert that
he will never again be able to leave his
house.
It is said that the late Lord Lytton was a
devoted spiritualist that he believed he
had communications with Joan of Arc,
Balzac and NapQleon, and that he com
plained that he was always baffled in try
ing to have access to the spirit of his father.
CASUALTIES.
MANY hundred tons of coal are destroyed
by tire in a dock at Duluth.
Five men are blown to atoms and sever
al buildings wrecked by a dynamite explo
sion in New York.
A BRIG is reported lost on the Pacific
ocean with 2X9 men on board, including 270
Gilbert islanders.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa., Thomas Williams,
John l'ugh and Evan Price, miners, were
fatally burned by an explosion of gas in
the colliery of the Kingston Coal Company.
While putting up joists in a four-story
building at Cincinnati, Win. Trusser, Her
man Schmidt and Herman Elkhorn were
dangerously bruised by falling timbers.
Mrs. Edward Lyon was burneel to death
in New York city, her clot lies taking lire
while she was standing near a stove trying
to thaw out a frozen water pail.
The crew of the schooner Goodall of Port
Huron, consisting of Capt. Gex four men
and one womau have landed at Bayfield,
Out., after experiencing much suffering, all
being badly frost bitten. They abandoned
the Goodall, taking to an open boat.
THE wife and two children of J. A.
McKenzie of Minneapolis are victims of
the recent railroad accident at Toledo.
The children are dead, Mrs. McKenzie is
expected to die, and it is feared that the
grief will drive her husband insane.
SINS AND SINNERS.
An Oregon editor is murdered by a rail
road section boss, who promptly kills him
self.
Several fire bugs arearrested in St. Paul
charged with burning buildings to obtain
the insurance money.
John George Roth, the insane German
who attempted to kill Dr. John Hall in
New York recently, has been placed under
$5,000 bail for examination.
J. H. Stine, editor of the Whiteson, Ore
gon, Advance, was shot and killed by N.
0. Cook, a railroad section boss. Cook 'then
blev his own brains out.
Thirty suits of clothes, averaging in
value $50 each, made by a prominent Mon
treal tailor, were seized in Troy a few days
ago.
Harry Smith, who is wanted at Topeka,
Kan., charged with sending obscene lit
erature, through the mails, was arrested at
Trinidad. Col.
Near Tranquility, Ohio, an aged couple,
Isaac Simmons and wife, were bound and
robbed of $3,000, their savings for years.
Three men committed the robbery.
Charles Bissow, the fellow who outraged
a little girl in Indianapolis, for which an
attempt was made to lynch him, has been
sentenced to twenty-one years in the peni
tentiary.
John C. Eno, ex-president of the Fifth
National bank, who has been a fugitive
from New York justice in Canada for sever
al years, has arranged his affairs, and will
be able to return to New York in a short
time.
In Lo ndon recently R. C. Palmer, who
is charged on his own confession with
stealing a number of mail bags at Clark
Neb., was remanded to await the action oi
the American officials.
M. K. Cohen committed suicide in Mil
waukee by taking MI overdose of mor
phine. He leaves a wife, Lizzie Cohen of
Albany, N. Y., who had entered suit for a
divorce. In a letter he gives this as the
cause for his action.
Marthin C. Bartliel and Martin H.
Barthel, father and son, two employes of
the Concertia Publishing Company, of St.
Louis, are short in their accounts. On be
ing charged with embezzlement the former
broke down and admitted his guilt, turn
ing over $50,000 in real estate to cover the
shortage.
FOREION NUCOET8.
Earl Russell is sued for divorce on the
ground of cruelty.
Chinese government troops are worsted
in a battle with the insurgents.
Chinese rebels massacre 900 Christians.
general massacre of foreign residents is
apprehended.
The final services over the remains of
Lord Lytton, the British ambassador. to
France was held at the lamily residence,
Ken worth Park, Stevenage, Hertofordshire.
A locomotive engineer in Switzerland,
enraged by discharge from service, sends
elf a locomotive wits throttle fide open,
eanstajt the death of. several people.
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-fbr Waterfociclty, Iretand.^Mld. He haa
it jMtft fiame* /only
Watertortf ehf ii
vate individuals in several of the states to
bring in corn, beans, meal and other kinds
of food to sell at reduced prices to the poor,
who are suffering for something to eat.
The Paris Figaro has been fined 500
francs for raising a subscription to pay the
fine of the Archbishop.
The Welsh tin plate manufacturers have
reconsidered their recent resolution to re
strict the output by shutting down their
works for parts of this and next month,
and will continue their works as usual.
"The newspapers of Eastern Germany
con
tain frequent complaints of outrages by
Russian soldiers on tiie frontier. The Rus
sinus in Garrison near the border of East
Russia appear to be a peculiarly lawless
set.
The three Atlantic provinces of Canada
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island, are considering the advis
ability of combining their interests and
forming one province. About $500,000 a
year would be saved by the consolidation
of the three governments.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
The Canadian Pacific will build a doublt
track from Winnipeg to Lake Superior.
The October .statement of the Santa Fe
shows gross earnings $4,534,390, an increase
of $290,858 net earnings, $1,776,156, an in
crease of $201,927.
Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha
directors have declared a semi-annual divi
dend of 3 per cent. This is an increase of 1
per cent, making 5 per cent on the stock for
one year.
The report has been practically confirmed
that D. J. Roberts, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Erie in Chicago, is to be
made general pnsscneer agent of the Erie
system, succeeding W. C. Rinearson, whose
resignation takes effect Dec. 15.
SPORTING TRIFLES.
Silver King's sahiry Irom New York wiU
be $3,two and not $5,000, as reported.
Fuller and Stivetts are wanted by John
Ward (or the Brooklyn team next
season.
It is said thatDalilen signed with the Mil
waukee long before the championship seas
on was over.
Manager Powers of the New York League
club has signed Hugh Jennings and
Harry Taylor of the Louisville*.
Ollie Jicard has already scoured a berth
for next season, and will return to Denver
as captain or manager.
Jim O'Rourke decided not to wait for
Mil trie's proposed Now York club, and
signed with the New York League club.
It cost Tew, the James^pwn, N. Y., bank
er, $5,000 to get experience as a base ball
magnate last year. It comes high, but
must be had.
With Corkliill, Hanlon and Swartwood,
the Pittsburg club will haye a better out
lield to commence the season of 1892 than
year ago.
The twelve-club circuit schcme is grow
ing in popularity. Ball players and mag
nates alike favor it. Those who are filing
objects to the plan have axes to grind.
The football gameat Washington between
the Columbia Athletic club and the
Princeton college team resulted in a vic
tory for the Princetons by a score of 29 to
0.
THE TOILERS.
More trouble arises among the Tennessee
miners, whites making a murderous attack
upon blacks.
The Seottdale coke workers have formed
a new association in opposition to the
United Mine Workers Association. Lively
times are looked for.
The strike of miners in the Pas de Calias
district of France, involving 40,000 men, is
over. The men have agreed to return to
work pending arbitration of the matter 111
dispute.
The employers have given notice to the
miners in Wales that their present con
tracts will cease at the end of this month
and if work is to be continued beyond that
time a material reduction in wages will
have to take place.
OTHERWISE.
SOUTH DAKOTA'S wheat blockade is bein^
rapidly removed.
A movement is now on foot to secure the
Democratic convention for Indianapolis.
Pennsylvania oil production lor Novem
ber shows a considerable tailing off.
The wives of Sitting Bull make an affi
davit which presents the killing of that
chief in a new light.
The First National Bank of Demariscot
ta, Me., which closed its doors on account
of the suspension of the Maverick Bank of
Boston, has resumed business.
The governor has appointed James M.
Wells of Kootenai county, as World's Fail
commissioner for Idaho, vice Delaniar re
signed.
At Philadelphia judgments aggregating
nearly $40,000 were entered against the
firm of Turner & ^toyt, dry goods deal
ers.
The New York Democratic state commit
tee met, and William Sheenan was elected
to succeed Herman Oelrichs, resigned, as a
member of the national Democratic com
mittee.
The light rainfall of the past four seasons
has caused an unusually low stage of watei
in all of the chain of great lakes. Lake
Michigan is lower than ever before re
corded.
Ninety-seven per cent of the creditors ol
the Chicago branch of S. V. White & Co., ol
New York, who failed several months ago,
have accepted the firm's proposition to set
tle 50 cento 011 the dollar.
The Potters' Association of the United
States have decided to hold the national con
vention of the association in Chicago in the
second week of January. It is proposed to
make an elaborate display at the World's
Fair.
The treasurer of Allen count}', Ohio, has
filed a suit against United States Senator
Calvin S. Birce for $17,850 delinquent taxes.
The senator has constantly refused to pay
taxes there during the last few years, alleg
ing that he had 110 residence there.
The executive committee of the national
conference of charities and corrections,
which meets next year at Denver, met in
Chicago recently. It was decided to hold
the convention from June 27 to July 3,1892,
to be followed by a Fourth of July celebra
tion on the top of.Pike's Peak,
The Illinois Farmers' Alliance elected
these officers: President, Milton George,
Chicago vice-president,. A. S. Brewer,
Tampico secretary and treasurer, K. A.
Keyser, Canton. Delegates to the national
Alliance: Milton George, Chicago A. E.
Bronson, Northville.
Members of the governing board of the
International League of Press Clubs held a
special meeting ut the Imperial Hotel, New
York, to complete arrangements for the
next annual convention of the league,
which will be held in San Francisco on
Jan. 14.
The association of military surgeons, na
tional guard of the United States, is to hold
its next convention in St. Louis April 19,
20 and 21, 1892. Committees have been ar
ranged and matters are fairly under way
for someof the most brilliantentertainments
ever given by St. Lonis Society.
The Christian Alliance met at Chicago.
The session was devoted to introductory
addresses by Rev. S. F. Wishard, president
of the Northwestern branch of the Alliance,
Rev. A. B. Simpson, of New York City,
fienee,
iresident of the International Christian Al
and others.
At a meeting of creditor* of Lonis Adler,
manufacturer if cloak* at Chicago, held at
the office of'Blnmenthal A Hirsch, 820
Broadway, Hew York, statement wee
presented showing liabilities $£1811, of
which $43,600 was seemed to theBenk of
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important Events
of tho Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA
O. M. Taylor, a ftirniture dealer at
Buffalo, assigned with liabilities of $2,500.
Martin Cooney, a brakeman on the
Omaha Road, was killed by the cars at St.
Paul.
John Roe, a wiper at the North-Western
machine shops at Winona, was crushed to
death under an engine.
Jacob Steinbauer, a boot and shoe mer
chant of Winona, failed, with liabilities of
$6,000 and assets $4,000.
The safe in the hardware store of C. A.
Bernliard, at St. Paul, was cracked and
$75 taken.
John Linquist, a Norwegian farmer living
at Home City, committed suicide in a fit
of despondency.
Congressman Hall and family of Bed
Wing have left for Washington, to remain
during the session of congress.
Andrew G. Ellestad, living northwest of
Mabel, poisoned himself. He was aged
about 60.
The Howe Lumber Company, of Tower,
has bought the mill, stock and stump
age of the John Owens Company for $30,
000.
Wm. Bolton has bought the Shaw House
at* Hubbard, and will run it in connection
with the Hubbard & Menahga 'Bus
Line.
Oil and after December 1, the Duluth &
Winnipeg Railway will run trains irom
Duluth to Deer River, making the latter
point the terminus.
ALe Sueur special soys: Thershers who
have returned from Grand Forks county
and Devils Lake report the grain there as
only half threshed.
The case of J. Whitney, charged with be
ing an accessory to the murder of Shields,
some two years ago was dismissed at Little
Falls.
Commissioner Lamphere, of the state
world's fair board, completed raising Clay
county's quota of the extra $100,000 to be
raised. Clay county's quota was $600.
A. J. Arlinger, postmaster and banker ot
Arlington, has been found to be short in
his accounts $6,000. He is in jail at Hen
derson, awaiting the action of the grand
jury.
At a meeting of the Prairie Lodge of Odd
Fellows, at Winona, M. L. Mertes a blind
man was presented with a purse of $856.10,
contributed by lodges throughout the state.
The grand jury of Mankato brought in
an indictment against Albert Annis, charg
ing him with committing an outrage on the
person of Mrs. Ida Gilmore on the night of
Sept. 4.
Ludwig's Hotel, a well-known resort in
Winona has changed hands, the proprietor,
ex-Mayor John Ludwig, leasing it for five
years to John Stellwagen, who takes pos
session immediately. Mr. Ludwig will re
main in Winona for the present.
The body of James Edward, a lumber
man, was brought to Grand Forks. He was
found dead near the camp of the Clark
claim, in whose employ he was, and is sup
posed to have chilled to death while intox
icated.
A11 inventory of the stock of Jacob
Steenbauer, the boot and shoe dealer of
Winona who assigned recently, shows the
assets to be $6,742.70 and the liabilities to
be 6,293.56. All creditors will be paid in
full.
Schuyler Drew, an old resident of Minne
sota City, was instantly killed the other
evening. He was over sixty years old, and
had gone to the barn to put hay down for
stock. He fell through the hay hole and
was instantly killed.
A war oi extermination against the wolves
in the western part of Northfield has Re
cently been waged by some hunters for
sport and others for sterner reasons, and
there are but few of the animals left to
ravage the farmers' flocks of sheep this
winter.
There is a great activity in form lands in
Freeborn County now and the price was
never so good. John G. Godly has sold
sixty-five acres from his arni, three miles
from Albert Lea, for $35 per acre. There
are no buildings on the land and this is
considered a good price.
A dwelling on the Rochester road, two
miles Irom Lake City, which belonged to
Hon. George C. Stout of this city, and was
occupied by Frank Hayhurst and family,
was destroyed by fire recently in conse
quence of a defective flue. The contents
were saved. Loss, $800 insured for $500.
A young man named Jack Galvin, who
has been working among the different
farmers at Delhi, eight miles from Redwood
Falls eloped with Nora Steele, the seven
teen-year-old daughter of Robert Steele."
The girl's relatives gave chase, but when
overtaken tbe couple had already been
made man and wife.
The German-American National bank
was opened for business at Little Falls,
with H. Thorsen as president, J. D.
Anderson cashier and 8. A. Siverts as
teller. The new bank succeeds the Mor
rison County bank and occupies the same
building. Among the stockholders and
directors are several ot tbe leading business
men of the city.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Dr. W. E. Adams has been appointed
pension examiner at Hot Springs.
OleS. Nelson, of Webster, hasbcenhddto
the United States grand jpry for violating
the liquor law.
A man named Jones was lynched at Cher
ry Creek, for stealing cattle. He is said to
have been from Springfield,
L. I. Jeffries and John Sutherland of
Pierre, have been appointed delegates to
the Missouri River improvement conven
tion at Kansas City.
The state board of pardons has refused to
recommend the commutation of sentence
of Lehman of Custer county. He will hang
January 5. Jackson of Meade county was
recommended for pardon.
W. I. Slater, of Mitchell, has just been ar
rested for stealing a pair of moles from E.
O. Hoover, also of that place. Slater took
the niulea before a satisfactory arrangement
was made in a trade involving the mules
W. W. Godard is starting a morning daily
at Sioux Falls for the Democrats of the
state. The Independents will also starts
daily at Sioux Falls. Then the Prohibi
tionists feel that they must be represented
In the daily field for the coming campaign.
John Treber, Deadwood's city council
man, arrested recently in Germany as a de
serter of the German army twenty yean
ago, on his visit to his native home, haa
been sentenced to imprisonment, in a Gas
man, prison for six months. Mr. Treber ia
qnitewell to do, worth about 100,000. and
it was'thought that be would escape with a
fine.
The anivsntty glec
dub, and
ofPMCGaUe,c*jbemusU
grammes for a tour of the state to he made
during the holiday vacation. They will'
take in Sioux Falls, Huron, Pierre, Aber
deen, Watertown and possibly one or two
towns in the Hills.
Colonel W. W. Watte, chairman of the
Blunt council, is in correspondence with
Melbourne and other "rain makers" and it
is proposed to call a joint mass meeting of
Hughes and Sully county farmers to act in
unison with Hyde and Hand counties in
this very important matter. The mass
meeting for Hughes and Sully counties will
probably be held about the 15th of Decem
ber.
NORTH DAKOTA.
Charles Maukin was found guilty before
the district court atGrand Forks of attempt
ing to shoot with intent to kill J. Riley
was found guilty of assault with intent to
commit robbery.
A large number of leading Odd Fellows
in the state assembled at Jamestown and
organized the Unity encampinentof James
town degree. The work was terminated in
a banquet to the visitors. A class of 25 was
organized.,
Alex Stern has purchased fifty feet of
land adjoining the present opera house at
Fargo for $10,000 and proposes to add to
the present hall in the spring and make as
convenient and commodious an opera
house as it is possible to find in the North
west. This is greatly needed.
Judge Lauder closed tho November term
of the district court at Ellendale. Herbert
I. Cole, charged with seducing Anna Sidell
und promise of marriage, was found
guilty, and sentenced to nine months in
the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $100.
The parties are highly connected in this
county and in Detroit.
Col. Wilbur F. Steele is at present en
gaged at Steele in defending his rights
under a timber culture entry made several
years ago upon the northwest quarter of
section 20, township 139, range 73, which
tract of land adjoins the city of Steele on
the southwest, and which is contested on
the ground that it does not now contain
the number of trees required by law, and
that the time within which Mr. Steele
could have applied to make final proof and
perfect his entry to this tract has expired.
WISCONSIN.
All the mills on the river at Marinette
have shut down for the season.
Thieves entered the Daniel's Sisters'
millinery store at Beloit and secured $30 in
cash.
Louis Anderson, a teamster at Sheboy
gan was kicked by a horse. His right arm
was broken and liis face badly cut.
Gottfried Burke, of Green Bay, was sent
to the insane asylum on the petition of
Henry Miller, of that place.
Joseph Werner, an engineer cf Chippewa
Falls was terribly burned by escaping steam
from theexhaust pipe. He will recover.
G. Beck was run over at La Crosse by a
Milwaukee switch engine and killed almost
instantly. He was a river man.
Gov. Peck has appointed John M.
Smethurst first lieutenant and Earnest F.
Shafer second lieutenant of Co. F., First
Regiment located at Ft. Atkinson.
The total cut of the 12 lumber mills on
Chaquomegon bay, Ashland, Washburn and
Bayfield for the season is 231,000,000 feet,
as compared with 230,000,000 feet last year.
Executions were issued at Appleton on
judgment notes and levy made on tnestock
of Leopold Jacobs for $13,775.27. Total lia
bilities unknown.
The World's Fair commissioners have ac
cepted from W. R. Sutherland, ol Ashland,
mammoth cork pine log which will be a
prominent feature of Wisconsin's exhibit
at the World's Fair.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington has approved the selection of
the First National Bank of Chicago as re
serve agent for the First National Bank ol
Platteville.
The creditors of Sherman Murphy,
Ashland, are very anxious about his
whereabouts. He left that place about two
weeks ago owing bills to the amount of
$1,500.
Anthony Comstock of New York, the
agent of the Society for the Suppression of
Vice, confiscated $1,000 worth of books and
photographs found in the possession of C.
N.Caspar, an antiquarian bookseller of
Milwaukee. Caspar was arrested.
A south bound train on the Wisconsin
Central ran into the rear of another freight
train, which had stopped at the Shore
railroad crossing at Medina Junction. An
engine and several freight cars were wreck
ed, and Ole Anderson of Ogdensbnrg, who
was in charge of a car of potatoes, was kill.
The accident was caused by a fog.
ed.
IOWA.
James McNamara, alias Red Mike, in now
in jail at Keokuk, charged with rape on Ef
fie Bell Ashton, aged 11.
Joe Hansell, of Marion, fell down a cellar
way at Cedar Rapids while in an intoxi
cated condition and was probably fatally
inj tired.
ALe Mars special says: M. G. Mills,
Democratic representative-elect from this
district, has sent in his resignation on ac
count of ill health. A special election will
be called.
A. 8. Birdsall, aged 24, was recently
swindled oat of $500 by a Chicago C"g,
who claimed to be the "Chicago Theatrical
Company." He put up the cash and
took a worthless mortgage as security.
Alonozo Burlincr, of McGregor, day
ton county, attempted to cross the ice from
McGregor to the island and is. believed
to have been drowned. His cap was found
on the ice. He was about 50 years old and
leavea a family.
Harrison West, the veteran ferryman,
who rows passengers across the Mississippi
river between Montrose and Nauv'oo, froze
his hands and face in making a crossing
during the recent cold snap. He fought
the ice for over two hours, and his hands
and face are horribly frozen.
Mrs. Elias Henry, of Burlington, had a
narrow escape from death recently. She
had entered a store, and while
some pnrchases it was discovered that her
dress was in flames. Prompt action of the
employes saved the lady's life, although
she was slightly burned. How her dress
caught fire is a mystery.
Ameetingof the coal miners of Iowa
called by President Scott, was held at
Otiumwa. As a large number of the
miners'
organisations appointed delegates the meet
ing was very large. Among the many
questions discussed was an advance ofrates.
The operators in some place* are
ing 50 cents per ton, and the miners think
they are entitled to a share of It.
It is announced definitely that arrange
ments have been closed and a contract
signed, between the Union Stock Yards
company at Sioux City and the Cudahy
Packing company, by which tbe latter will
pat np one oftbe largest packing house* in
the country at this point. Thqr will tem
porarily operate the Booge bouse here un
til the new one is built. This will
fbnr large bouses at this point
The first accident on thenewqonrthouMt
Dubuque now building, ,oocurred to
Wm. Hanlejr, while wheeling barrow of
toon tUxtorJD ftet below, and witfc varii
MAY RESULT IN WAR
v%5'
Beporte of a Lively Battle Between
British Forces and Tribesmen
in India.
Sepoys Who Claimed to Have Been
Under the Protection of .Russia
Killed.
LONDON, Dec. 12.—Official dispatclics re
ceived here this evening irom Calcutta state
that there has been fighting between the
British forces and the tribesmen in the vi
cinity of Gilgit, near the Pamir frontier,
and not far from the new boundary line
recently claimed by Russia. The tribes
men claim to be under Russian protection
and most serious events may result from
this clash of arms.
At Gilgit there is a British agency gar
risoned by some Kaslimires and Indian
ghoorkhas and a battery of artillery. Ac
cording to the latest advices received .rom
thn Iront, the tribesmen of Hunsca and
Nagar, two towns on the river Indus and
almost opposite to each other, have for
some time been threatening the chalt i'ort,
held by a detachment of Ituhsmircs.
This caused Col. Durand, the British
agent at Gilgit, to make an advance upon
the Clialt lort for the purpose of relieving
the garrison. This advance of the British
troops was made early uuring the present
month, for on No'v. 29 Col,. Durand wired
the commander-in-chief that he should
move upon the enemy on Dec. 2, nnless he
was previously attacked by the tribesmen,
who were reported to be assembling in large
numbers and to have been instigated in
their action by Russian agents. Col. Du
ratul also telegraphed the same day that he
feared that a serious conflict was inevitable,
although he had done everything possible
to prevent it.
The Nilthunza river flows a few miles
from the lort threatened by the lndo-Rus
siati tribesmen.
Other dispatches just received here from
Calcutta announce that Fort Chalt was
captured Dec. 2, and that seven Sepoys were
killed and twenty-six wounded. Col. Du
rand a id Capt. Aylincr and Lieut. Babcock
were seriously wounded. Several other of
ficers, including Lieot. Gorton and others,
wore slightly wounded. The British of
ficers and Sepoys aiso captured nine pris
oners, the remainder of the rebel tribesmen
fleeing, leaving a number of dead inside
and outside the fort.
MAY CAUSE A WAR.
The news pf this engagement is not quite
clear on one point—that of what became of
the original Kashmire garrison of tbe fort.
It is presumed, however, that the rebel
tribesmen captured the fort previous to the
arrival ol the British troops and that it has
now been retaken.
Reports of a conflict on the Pamir fron
tier reached this city in time for them to
spread to the clubs and theaters. The re
sult was a leeling of considerable excite
ment, and there were many old Indian of
ficers who gravely shook their heads upon
hearing the uews, saying tiiat it was the
most serious that bad come irom India for
many a day. The younger officers naturally
were elated, and were loud in their expres
sions of hope that the long-expected war
with Russia was to come at last, and that
the Biitish lion and the Russian bear were
to engage in the long-anticipated struggle
for supremacy in the East and for tbe pos
session of India, the richest prize in the
East. The excitement increased rapidly, and
the general^ opinion Is, at midnight, about
the clubs and such places, that war with
Russia is looming up on the horizon in
India. In any case, it Is certain that tbe
whole Pamir question will now be raised
in deadly earnest.
A constant exchange of dispatches is going
011 between high officials here. Some oftbe
officials of the India office, who are appar
ently going to pass the night in that build
ing, reinse to lurnish any other inlorma
tion to inquirers than' that already given
above.
One officcb' of high rank, who has recently
returned from India, was more communi
cative, and said there could be no doubt
that the affairs oh the frontier of the Pamir
district had reached a most delicate and
dangerous stage. The claims made by Rus
sia, he said, mutt be greatly modified be
fore even a basis for negotiations can be es
tablished between tbe three nations con
cerned—Ru»ia^ChinaandGreat Britain.
Two 8iek Men.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Secretary Foster
continues to improve. He is growing
stronger daily, and sat up this morning for
the first time since his relapse.
Congressman Miilsis confined to hisroom
at Willards' by a severe cold. During the
excitement over the speakership contest
Mr. Mills exposed himself and breathed the
vitiated air ot his crowded headquarters at
the Metropolitan hotel and ut the house of
representatives. This brougjit on the cold
from which he is now suffering.
Mr. Mills was so much improved to-night
that he le:t his room at Wiliard's hotel and
came down into the lobby, where be spent
some time chatting with iriend..
Tir»rt or Being Territorial.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Dec. 12.—
£eicgates Suiitli.of Arizona and Joseph of
New Mexico have enabling acts for the ad
mission of their territories. They went to
see Senator Piatt, chairman of the senate
committee on territories, to ascertain what
chance there was lor tbeir -bills in tbe sen
ate, and met with but very little encourage
ment. Senator Piatt said that it was not
expected that any more states should be ad
mitted at the present time.
Cava Bonds to Appear.
MANKATO, Minn., Special, Dec. 12.—
Michael W. Kelty was arraigned this morn
ing to plead to the charge of forgery in tbe
third degree, but was placed, under $500
bonds to appear on Dec. 14.
A Silooikuptr Rliot.
REIV LODGK,' Mont., Special Telegram,
Dec. 12.—Jerry Twohig, a saloonkeeper,
was shot and instantly killed by Jack Rice,
a miner and prospector, two bullets passing
through liira, one going through both arms.
Rice escaped to the bad lands. Apotseare
scouring the hlLs after hint. Should he he
caught lynch law will probably prevail.
Martial law In Braall.
Rut
JAKBIBO,
Dec. 12.—Disagreements
have arisen between the government and
Senhor Por ells, governor of tbe State ol Rio
Janeiro. The differences are so radical that
the government has requested Gov. Por
teila to resign. This request the governor
has declined to accede to. It is now ex
pected that tbe governor will ajtpoint a
military governor ot the state and that mar
tial law will be proclaimed. There is much
uneasiness in financial «lrcl«a here, grow
ng out of the p^nic which prevailed on the
bourse yesterday.
.-..itihtW
Two Infant* Ol* |y Fir*.
Liiu, 0., Special—Mrs, GO. Xitta, wait
to a neighbor's home, leaving her two chil.
ditto hove alone. They were both mtb
eld^ lHilyyonly thtee yean. Daring
01
The children were not nscaed natU one of
leath and the other a*
badly that it died in a short time.
Sr.PiMBSBOBO, Special—A oansns ofthe
vessels comprising the RntsiM navy has
"J*?.
m»de.
Itehowa that tip navy forces
oonslsfaofWjestiiM^tbc first
COS DBS
S ED TELEGRAMS.
Tbe sensational reports regarding Mrs. Cleve
land's health are untrue. She is nOer said tq
have never enjoyed better health ill her lite.,
John A. Logan, Jr., is critically ill at Yonngfe.
town. Ohio. Recently he was attacked with la
grippe, followed by the formation ol an absess
near the base ot the brain in the right side.
The net cold holdines of the treasury depart
ment are $131,125.5*7, an increase ol about
92.01)0,00(1 since the first ot the month, and an
increase of nearly $14,000,000 since June last.
Richard G. Dove, the oldest employee in the
government service in Washington, died then
yesterday, lie was a clerk in th« treasury de
partinent, aud was appointed in 1829 during
President Jackson's administration.
T. L. Kim'oaU, oi the Union Pacific, and Hen
ry Gibson, an Omaha business man, are the
Western ag.-nts of a Xew York syndicate which
has decided to erect a system of beet sugar fac
tories throughout Nebraska aud adjacent states.
The injunction suit brought by Robert Lind
b!om to restrain the Chicago board of trade
from expelling him as a member for sending
market quotations to tbe St. Louis merchants'
exchange has been dismissed on a stipulation
signed by both parties.
AN INSURANCE POOL.
Agents of Insnranoe Companies Doing
Business in Iowa Combine.
DES MOINES, Dec. 12—Representatives of
all the leading American and foreign in
surance companies doing business in Iowa
have been in session in Des Moines for the
past three davs.
The work lias been carefully guarded, but
it was learned to-night iroiu unquestion
able authority that a compact was entered
iuto that is in direct violation of tho Iowa
law prohibiting pools, t.-usts and combina
tions. This compact establishes a schedule
of rates fpr the state, a plan of writing
risks, an. agreement to do an exclusive cash
business and to reduce agents' commissions
from 20 to lii per cent. These insurance
men were somewhat disturbed by the pres
ence in the city ot quite a number
of members ot the incoming state legisla
ture who were here selecting quarters lor
tho winter and who talked strongly of
overhauling the Iowa insurance law. mak
ing it still more stringent against rite
agreement and in favor ot a valuation pol
icy law, af.er the plan of the Wisconsin
statute. It is also probable that this'new
law will create the office of insurance com
missioner, and thus separate the insurance
business oi the state irom the business of
tlie.state auditor's office.
Dlnastroui Storms.
LOSDON, DCC. 12.—Tbe recent gales ^ND
heavy waves have undermined and weak
ened the ancient walls by which a great
part of the city of Chester is en
closed, that portion of the structure
having subsided. The gale has swept
many districts in Ireland, causing much
damage to property and flooding a number
of rivers. The gale continues. The re
ports which are being redeived bring many
stories of wreck and disaster. Along the
coasts the small cralt, Ashing boats and
vessels engaged in the coastwise trade are
the principalsufferers.
Will Fight tlia Came.
MANKATO, Minn., Special, Dec. 12.—The
Moline-Millburn Standard Company of
Minneapolis has levied on the stock ot ma
chinery held by Ed J. P. Staede, manager
lor C. T. Taylor, on account ot a note! for
$6,000, drawn by Staede. Mr. Taylor claims
the property, and has caused papers to be
served on the sheriff to relinquish the
goods. At a late hour this afternoon tbe
company have tiled bonds to the amount of
$10,TOO, and will light tbe ease to the end.
Blockade Canting Heavy Losses.
WINNIPEG, Dec. 12.—The wheat blockade
is embarrassing grain dealers here consid
erably. They arc losing heavily, being un
able to get their shipments forward to fill
their contracts. The members ot the grain
exchange fully discussed tbe situation at a
meeting this morning. It was stated that
unless the railroads came to tbeir rescue at
once they would have to lower the price of
grain in tae county 10 cents a bushel.
A Lire* Funeral Prucaaslon.
MOOKHEAD, Minn., Special Telegram,
Dec. 12.—The funeral of Mayor Hansen
took place this afcernoou from the Presby
terian church. The procession to the ceitf^
etery was many blocks long, aud included
the nre department, the policv lorce, city
councils of Moorhcad ana Fargo and ihe
Union band. It 'was the largest luneral
here for several years. Ail the etoresdoMd.
during the services.
DlphtherlaXMAei^L
WHEATLAND, Minn., Speaal,~ D||
Diphtheria is epidemic here. Seven
have already resulted from it. One family
has lost three—all they had another thiies^
which were all burial together. AU dlWll
the same day. School is stopped. There,:
are four more families down with it. The?/,
seem to be affected as much in the heid as
in the throat. The doctors here cannot do
anything for it, and it is still spreading.
The Witneisen Given a Bide.
GARY, S. D., Special Telgr*in, Dec. 12.^
special train leaves here to-night to conv„
witnesses to Sioux Falls for iusurance cotUr
panies in the Enos insurance cases. Th*® .?.
cases were taken from this county on.
change of venne, this bring the third trial.
It lias already cott the companies perhaps
$2,500 and Deuel county $3,000. 'Witnesses
areata premium, which is evident by the
special train. .jsts
The Elrldearmiiu Win Missing
DunrQCE, Iowa, Dec. 12. —Fred BoolL~
and Miss S:ella Thomas were to h^married
at Waukon to-day. but when thetimecome
for the ceremony the bridegroom had mys
teriously disappeared. No one knows
where he has gone. His father is a banker
at Waukon ami the prominence of the par
ties has ihadc the alfair decidedly sense- ,. ,t
tionai.
Great Scarcity of Fuel.
MiLLta, S. D„ Special, Dec. 12.—There ia
a.scarcity of fuel in this section, the deal-,
ers being unable to keep a supply oh hand,
which has already caused considerable in
convenience ana a great deal of anxiety
among those who are short on coal. The
warm weather, however, is helping won
derlull? so far as immediate need orniel is
concerned. The snow has all disappe
with prospects of a continued warm apell.^
All VHVOV' Waterworks.,.
GBANITE FALLS, Minn., Spedsl Telegram, 3
Dec. 12.—At the election held in this ^laeef
to-day to vote $12,000 in bonds for ibr eleo-*
trie light an«f waterworks plantslQff votes
werevca»t, all in lavor bonds to dtawf'
per cent interest. Work will he 1
menced at once. The city wiilvQwn
operate its own plant.
it
Got Ahtad of Other
7
the house took 'fire.
TClttee.-^^^
CHICAGO, Special Telegram, De^
1^. Winston, mayor of Minnea|
made a flying visit between
Is en route from Washlngtyn.
"It tbe CMcsgo Democrats trill
said, jr"I think have ever prospect
tbe convention for
8t.
Paul^ Ataa:
stole a march on tbe other dtiMinao
talk with the executive oomnitti
preliminary meeting. I believe
lo them will bring about tbe
tbe full oommittee Soeetloe. it we 1
Paul eanaot win, we abaft work to
convention lor aoiae other Western city.1
A Jealoue Fi*nd. ,.,
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Spedst—A fatal ataWW
bing affray occurred at Bngland, Ark., sX
last night. Sibe Martlii irid Jlnf Reeves
attended a dance at thatnlaoe.' Bo|h werf,
enamored of a young lady In attenda
and a qnarrel arose be.twe0i):ttte
P*t*ily Bum*4r
MAITOWVIUS, Ira,, Speeigl—Mrs. Jtmfcv
fo*ent, of Uroolttyi.,