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WASHBURN LEADER
IIy John Sattkklund.
WAfrHBON, X. DAKOTA
"Tile nir:it youth iiil restaurant. fre
quenters of this country lubricate their
'cakes with 20,000,000 gallons of mOlaS-
KCS.
It Is estimated that every American
drinks a pint of water a day, which
makes the daily consumption 8,125,000
gallons.
The estimated number of coal miners
employed in the districts of Northum
berland, Durham, South Wales and
Scotland is 250.000.
There is certainly one good thing
about the hard times—they call out gen
erous deeds which restore the wavering
faith of such as doubted the innate
goodness of the human heart.
San Francisco is to have another
cross-country railroad for Wall street
to play with. The Call announces that
ground will be broken within 00 days.
The projectors will be broken later on.
The arts of collecting provisions, stor
ing and preserving food, domesticating
and managing flocks, and capturing
slaves, are quite as well understood by
animals and insects as by man in the
earlier stages of his civilization.
Two men broke into the jail at
Stoutsville, Kan., and robbed the only
occupant, a "prominent citizen" who
had been locked up to "sleep it off."
They will come luck a few nights
hence and cart off the county seat.
The Western Pacific is a great place
for Islands that emerge from waves
unexpectedly and as suddenly disap
pear. Sometimes they come up and
stay, but more often they Vve an ex
istence merely temporary.
A New York court lias decided that
piano-torture is not a nuisance and that
a person addicted to the piano habit
may torment the instrument and the
neighborhood from 7 a. m. to 11:59 p.
m., if said piano-baiter so elect. The
ways of the court are past finding out.
Viailant the miscreant who threw
the bomb into the French chamber of
deputies, says he deserves to be guil
lotined, and will meet his fate bravely.
All the world will agree that he de
serves his fate, and the sooner it is
meted out to him the better.
Two famous Parisian prisons will
shortly cease to exist. They arc the
Roquette, near Pere Lachaise ceme
tery, and the Prison of Ste. Pelagic,
with Its sorrowful souvenirs of the
reign of terror. The government in
tends to build a large prison in their
8tend.
Burglars broke into one of the Chi
cago public schools the other night and
carried off everything movable, includ
ing a contribution box containing a
few pennies for the unemployed of the
city. They were scarcely entitled to
the mite box, for they were certainly
employed, although badly.
Experiments just made at. Munich
have demonstrated the fact that, bulletsi'
discharged from a rifle in the usual
way can be rendered vehicles of in
fection, carrying microbes and infect
ing whatever they ..strike. A new "ter
ror is thus added to warfare, and it'is
to be hoped that bullets purposely In
fected with germs of cholera, typus,
etc., will be tabooed by civilized na
tions as instruments of warfare, just
in the same manner as explosive bul
lets.
It is not extremely inteiesting to
the public to be told day after day that
conferences are going on between rail
road nagers and employes in regard
to the differences between them, but
it would be very entertaining to the
hundreds of trainmen on their runs
to know just what is being said and
done in the way of an adjustment.
Could they have the traffic situation
placed before them as fully as'it islic
fore their committees they might
thange their views In regard to sched
ules and wages.
Minister Willis is reported to have
been agreeably surprised with .the de
velopment of civilization he found at
Honolulu. He says the people there arc
as intelligent, well educated, and pos
sessed of as many graces as those of
any community of similar importance
in the United States. He need not
have been astonished if he had kept
himself informed of the progress of
events on the islands during the days
when the natives enjoyed a huge bar
becue over the corpses of Capt. Cook
and his rather tough crew.
It is no disgrace to Mayor-elect Hop
kins of Chicago that he began life as a
lumber-shover. There is every evidence
that he did that work well—so well as
to earn promotion, and his rapid rise iii
the industrial and business world shows
that he has the stalwart elements of
true American manhood well developed
in bis nature. A man who has risen so
rapidly through big own energy will
make a good official, and it fs safe to
say that be will not*be regardless of
tbe interests of the laboring classes,
from wboae ranks he sprang.
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THE WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
HYENTS OF THIS PAST WEEK 11
A
CONDENSED FORM.
The I.nt-*t anil Mont Important Xcw«
of th* World. Culled From tlio
Toleanipli kteporta of the P»«»»
Ariociulloilli.
WuvliillKton Goanlp.
I'nder the Wilson bill, it is estimated,
the customs revenues will decrease
$05,407,900 next year.
Populist members of the house will
urge the adoption of a graduated tax
upon big estates.
"Broad" Mo A boo of Chicago is in the
field to renew his light for the office of
public printer.
The Columbian memorial for interna
tior.al arbitration, signed by representa
tives of forty nations, was received by
Secretary Gresliam.
Tli.» secretary of the interior has de
cided an Ashland, Wis., land case
against Col. Knight, Senator Vilas' busi
ness partner.
The crank who has written threaten
ing letters to Vice President Stevenson
and other prominent men in Washing
ton is found. His name Is Donjon,
and lie denies that he is an anarchist.
People In Print.
J. B. Payne, a well known Texas poli
tician, killed himself at Waco.
Henry W. Paine, the eminent lawyer,
died at his residence in Cambridge,
Mass. He was .S3 years old.
Chauncey H. Andrews, the million
aire railroad, coal and iron operator,
died at Youngstown, Ohio, after a long
sickness.
Reports that Gen. Banks had wan
dered from Waltham, Mass., while sick
develops the fact that the hero's intel
lest is clouded.
Prince Pedro has arrived in Paris
on liis way to visit his parent?. Count
and Countess d'Ku at their villa. The
prince's visit has no political object.
Assistant Secretary of State Uhl has
removed his family to Washington from
Grand Rapids, Mich., and has taken
quarters for the winter in Admiral
English's house.
Zola lias written an open letter to the
directors of the Russian newspapers,
strongly appealing to them to take steps
to bring about a literary convention
between Russia and France.
In a speech at the banquet of the
Cattlemen's~association, at Kansas City,
Mayor Cowherd declared that "the
world to-day is governed .by meat-eat
ing races," and that the cattlemen were
therefore in control of its destinies.
Chauncey H. Andrews, multi-million
aire and foremost business man in
Northeastern Ohio, died at Youngstown,
Ohio. He has built four railioads and
established several large inn concerns
during his active career. He was one
of the first partners in the Standard
Oil company, and was widely known as
a financier and industrial organizer.
The Misses Anna Bell and Ethel
Hood, twin daughters of the late Gen.
John Bell Hood, of the Confederate
army, are spending the winter ui Balti
more. They are the eldest of tne three
sets of twin daughters of Gen. Hood,
and are the adopted daughters of their
great uncle by marriage, John Morris
of Westchester, Pa. They are bright
and attractive young Southern girls.
IJ it fortnuiite Kvent*.
Valuable horses are Burned to death
on a Pennsylvania stock farm.
The city opera house at Port Huron,
Mich., burned. Ixiss, $34,000.
lvichard Kittenreiner, an electric light
lineman, was killed by a falling pole
at St. Louis.
Jacob Berwick, a Crown Point, Ind.,
farm hand, was killed by a freight
train. He was intoxicated.
Stricken with paralysis, Mrs. Daub
ljer of Elizabeth, N. J., fell on a kitch
en range and was terribly burned.
*rhe Woodstock, Ont., opera nouse
buttled. An adjoining warehouse was
badly damaged, l'lie loss is $30,000.
At Dennison, Ohio, Frank Maxwell
and Edward Fletcher, employes of the
rittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis rail
road, were killed by a shifting train.
In a rush of coal in the Reading com
pany's East Bear Ridge colliery at Ma
lianoy Plane, Pa., Michael Leary was
killed.
While skating on the river at Wa
pello, Iowa, Sprague Isett, nine years
old, went through an air hole and was
drowned.
Joseph Phillips, aged sixty years, a
wealthy farmer, was killed at a Cleve
land & Pittsburg railroad crossing near
Steubenville, Ohio, by an express train.
At the Florence colliery, Smithville,
Pa., John Mallis was killed and Thomas
Kowan fatally injured by a premature
explosion of a blast.
The Hanging Rock Stove Foundry at
Ironton, O., was burned to the ground.
One thousand stoves and 500 patterns
and all buildings connected with the
fojudry were destroyed. Loss $00,000.
A terrible accident dbcurred at the
American Tin Plate factory at Elwood
Ind., caused by a crane falling among
the workmen in the hot roll depart
ment. The injured are: Lewis Lorsen
son, knee crushed, necessitating ampu
tation. Jack Jones, head, arms and
face terribly injured. Ed Hannon, in
ternally injured and skull fractured.
Sins and Sinner*.
Eight bandits rob a Missouri Pacific
train in Indian Territory.
Miss Amy Howard, who appropriated
goods from a Rockford, 111., store, has
been sent to a sanitarium.
Three prominent citizens of a Penn
sylvania% town are arrested, charged
with burglary.
Wildwood, Fla., has a race war.
Several negroes have been killed and
the governor lias ordered nut troops.
A man is arrested in Chicago on the
«harge of kidnapping a wealthy iron
manufacturer of Pittsburg.
Martin Finn, a farmer, was waylaid
:ind murdered while going home from
Falmouth, Ky.
Geoi-ge Astloy, of Springfield, Mo.,
was shut and killed at Wichita by John
Keefe, a farmer, who surrendered.
Charles Collibs wanted for murder
»nd robbery, was arrested *&t Freejtort,
Pa.
Eight convicted whitecaps at Jaok
b-jn. Miss., were oardoned br Qdr.
'A:v5-:.' ^•V 'S'
Stone, who urged them to become good
citizens.
Israel McLisli, a prominent Choctaw,
W)is shot and fatally wounded by three
assassins near White Chimney Moun
tain. I. T.
Sloan Allen, a negro, was lynched
for murder at Holmes County, Miss.,
and was tortured with tire to make him
confess.
John Ilandley, of Tecumseh, Mich.,
who was several times tried for arson,
has been arrested for tlying to hang
his wife and children.
Officers and tramps had a battle
near Hartford City. Ind. One on each
side was wounded and live outcasts
were arrested.
John Camp, a revenue officer at Dai
ton, Ga., was shot, while attempting to
arrest a'recently liberated inmate of
the asylum.
Indictments against Doctors House
and Ferguson for illegally dissecting
Mind Reader Bishop's body were dis
missed in New York.
Will Hooks, a young man of excellent
family, was found dead in a Chinese
opium joint at Paris, Tex. l-.ee Tie was
awes
ted.
In a business quarrel at Paducah,
Ky., Abe Livingston, merchant, shot
and fatally wounded Ad Elliott, a St.
Louis traveling man.
V. L. Arlington, ex-treasurer of
Douglas County, Ore., was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary for
larceny of public funds.
Jeff Crawford, a negro, was com
mitted to jail at Yorkville, S. C., foi
the alleged murder of W. II. Blackburn,
a white man.
During a drunken tight in a saloon at
Gloucester, O., Jacob Harris, an inno
cent bystander, was killed and two
other men seriously shot.
Tn a street duel at Lawrenceburg.
Ivy.-, Joe Brown shot and killed Polk
Moffett. The trouble arose over the ar
rest of Moffet's son at church.
Eight men attempted to rob a Mo
bile & Ohio train near St. Louis.
The messenger refused to open the
safe.
Falling to sleep under the mother su
perior's bed in a New York Episcopal
Academy, a would-be-tliief was arrest
ed.
Verdicts are rendered in the trials
of the alleged smugglers of Chinamen
at Portland, O. Three defendants are
convicted, seventeen discharged and
disagreement results in the case of two
others.
The dead body of Lawyer Herbert
W. Edmunds was found by a searching
party in the woods back of the Mount
Vernon Hotel. Cape May. Deatu pro
bably resulted from an overdose of
morphine and exposure.
From ForelKK Sliore».
Australasian cannibals capture and
eat the crew of an American schooner.
Five whites and nineteen Mexicans
have been killed in the race war near
Cherrillos, Mexico.
Replying to an address of the Sacred
College Pope Leo pronounced for uni
versal peace. His health is improved.
The Mexican revolution is suppressed
after the loss of over six hundred gov
ernment soldiers and the killing of two
hundred revolutionists and their wives
and children.
The Perseveranza.of Milan, says tliat
Pope XIII. is inclined to accede to the
appeal of the Jesuits to allow the Ro
man Catholic citizens of Italy to par
ticlpate in political elections.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Times says that rumors are current ill
regard to Prince Bismarck's health.
The Vossische Zeitung says that Prince
Bismarck is completely restored to
health.
The preliminary examination'of Au
guste Vaillant.tlie anarchist who threw
an explosive bomb into the chainbei
of deputies recently, injuring a largo
number of people, was concluded.
Vaillant will be tried at the assizes to
be held Jan. 5
A Belgrade advice says: The elec
tions which have just been held have
been attended in several places with
serious -rioting and bloodshed. At
Schabalz twenty-four of the opposition
were wounded. The Liberals charge
the Radicals w-lth terrorizing the elec
tions.
In London, in Paris and in Berlin
Italian bonds have been depressed
owing to rumors that, several large
Italian banks are unable to carry over
their holdings. It is reported, however,
that Italy is negotiating a loan of 600,
000,000 lire in Germany. In this city
Italy's reported new loan is not be
lieved to be in course of negotiation in
Germany or elsewhere.
A dispatch to the London Telegraph
from Paris says it is asserted that the
Bayard, which has just been repaired
at a cost of 500,000 francs for replacing
the Triomphante as a flagship in the
French squadron in the far east, has
been detained at Toulon, the experts
declaring that she was unable to stand
the voyage. M. Lockrey, the corres
pondent adds, declares that the Hoche,
Marceau and Neptune are also top
heavy.
Otherwise.
Receivers are appointed for the At
chison, Topeka & Santa Fe roads
John P. Hopkins i$ Inaugurated may
or of Chicago.
Indiana.temperance
''W^p^^-''E^
workers propose
to begin a crusade to force saloons out
of residence sections.
Intense dissatisfaction over Vorld'a
fair awards is felt by the foreign com
mlssionei's.
Silas Stuart, dealer in diamonds,
watches and jewelry at New York,
made an assignment.
There' are 100 cases of grippe at
Weatherly, Pa., a town of 3,000 inha
bitants.
Sioux City, la., complains that the
rains have broken up the ice, and that
the ice crop is endangered.
Leadville's big smelter is to start
and all the idle men in that section of
Colorado will be given Work.
Richard McGovern, a Tacoma, Wash,
character, had *7,000 in gold takes
from bis room at a hotel.
M*« Lizzie Everett, of Lebanon,
Ala., bas awakened from a sTx-day
sleep. The case puzzles doctors.
Dynamite was found under a saloon
at Oaaian, Ind., where ft -is supposed
to have been- irtnced by 'taoeased vil
lagers. J, ,,
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HIS. DEATH A SUDDEN ONE
JIDiE
IIEWH'IT, OF SOl'rif DAKO
TA'S SII'RKM1: COIItT, DEAD.
Heart Failure Culinen
IIIN
for llurlnl.
Death Af­
ter- Slli(iit Remains
'I'llk Mi to
IIINllIneNM—1Tlie
l.ute Home at Clark
Cl.-:rk, S. D., Jan. 2.—The remains of
Judge J. E. Bennott, accompai.ied by
Mi sens, old soldiers and state officials,
arrived here List evening. The fu.ioral
will occur to-morrow.
Hr.ron, S. D., Jan. 2.—Gov. Sheldon
will appoint a succ'-isor to Judge Bennett.
There are already many candidates in the
field.
Wool Growers* Will Meet.
Canonshurg, Pa.. Jan. 2.—The annual
meeting of the National Delaine Merino
Sheep Bleeders' association will be held
in tlie opera house in this place Jan. 17,
1804. In connection with the meeting it
is proposed to have a wool gro\vers' eon
veition to discuss the duty of wool
growers in view of the present depressed
cendition of the wool growing industry.
Judge William Lawrence, president of the
National Wool Growers' association, Maj.
Pickler, member of congress from North
Dakota, and otlier speakers are expected.
The wool growers of Washington and ad
joining counties will also be present.
Deadly Cro**iiiir.
Montgomery, Minn., .Tan. 2.—Joseph
Dedina -rtis instantly killed, and Joseph
Scl'.leiss badly injured while crossing the
track by the "Dutchman" while the lat
ter was running through this town. Both
liirses were killed and the sleigh badly
used up. Dr. McKeon and Father Wilid
ish were both in the sleigh, but saved
themselves by jumping. The party was
on the way to visit the dying wife and
child of Joseph Scliieiss. None of tlie
party heard or saw the -train until it was
upon them.
Death to Seven.
Valparaiso, Ind., Jan. 2.—The pumping
station of the Indiana Natural Gas com
pany pipe line at- East Chicago was blown
up, and will probably result in the death
of. at least seven persons. While work
men were in the station a break in the
pipe was being repaired and the escaping
gas took lire from a lantern which was
knocked over, and in a moment an ex
plosion took place which tore the iron
building to pieces and threw the work
men in every direction.
Talk of Lynching.
Watertown, S. D., Jan. 2.—Jerry E.
Kelly, a prominent business man and
early settler, was shot and killed instant
ly last niglit by James Dempsey Itedding
ton. The trouble arose over a claim on
the Sisseton reservation about which they
have been in litigation for some time.
Rcddington is now in jail awaiting trial.
Sentiment is strongly against him, and
there was strong talk of lynching last
night. Kelly leaves a family of several
children in poor circumstances.
XecillcH* Gxpuaure.
Quincy, Minn., Jan. 2.—An epidemic of
malignant diphtheria has broken out in
the township of Elba, in Winona county,
just east of this place. .-A man named
elcli has lost two children and many
new cases are daily reported. Great
indignation was caused by the public
funeral of the Welch children. Many of
those who attended have been stricken
with the disease.' The board of health
has adopted vigorous measures for the
siri prcssion of the scourge.
Justice of Savaarea.
Cape Town, Jan. 2.—A terrible punish
n.ent, according to report, has been in
flicted upon a woman in Pondeland who
was accused of causing the death of her
child by witchcraft. The woman was
bcu-nd to a stake planted in an ant hill,
her body, stripped of clothing, was
smeared from-head to foot with greaqe..
The ants, attracted by the grease,
swarmed all over the unfortunate
crc-ature and eventually devoured her.
Wnutedln WuhlniitoD.
Baltimore, Jan. 2.—Sheriff Matthews
of Tacoma has reached this city with
requisition papers on Gov. Browfl for
Samuel H. Hart and Frank A. Dinsmore,
recently president and cashier respective
ly of the State Bank of Buckley, Wash.
Hart is charged with the embezzlement
of $80,000 and Dinsmore with embez
zling $500.
Talking Strike.
Lowell, Mass., Jail. 2.—A 10 per cent
reduction was announced yesterday in
the Lowell Manufacturing company, af
fecting. 2,000 employes. The woolen
weavers of this city ,are greatly excited
over the carpet mills' cut down of 10
per cent, as they fear it may occur in
other mills. Carpet mill weavers are talk
ing strike. ,v.
Bail for McKane.
New York, Jan. 2.—Justice of -the
Peace Newton and E. Sutherland of
Gist esend, with John Y. McKane, were
arrested on- an order issued by Justice
Cullen. There are, eleven indictments
against McKane, and two each against'
the others. McKane was released on a.
bale bond of |30,X)00.
Imported Man to Trot.
London, Jan. 2.—Tbe trotting mare
Silver Queen bas been sold to an Ameri
can for 1,000 guineas, and has sailed for
Chicago on board the steamer British
Princess. It is intended -to enter her in
a great raoe during February.,
GOES TO Dlt. PRICE.'
World's Fair Jury Decide* In HI*
Favor.
Chicago, Jan. l.-On the analysisi and
recommendation of Dr. Wiley.
United States government chemist at
Washington, and greatest living
ity on food products, the worlds
Jury to-day gave the highest award to
Dr. Price's Cream
Baking
strength, purity
ureine: court. of ^^'^^wHey «jwted the alum
suddenly of penomy. vr. ...
some.
Powder for
and
Pierre, S. D., Jan. 2.—.T. U. Bennett,
presiding judge of the supreme court, of
South Dakota, died very suddenly of pcwij- Tju" -nvirld's fair
heart failure in this dry Saturday even- gjg* Considered tl.em unwhole
nig. He .spent Christmas at home in
Clark county. At that time he was taken
sick, but recovered and returned to this
city Friday night. He was taken sick
Saturday, lint his condition was not
thought dangerous until a short time be
fore death. The ren:itins left Pierre yes
terday morning by a special train, which
will run to his home in Clark county,
where the funeral will take place. The
deceased has been one of the judges of
tli supreme court since statehood. His
term of four years would have expired at
noon to-day, and at that time he would
liave been sworn in on a new term of six
years, to which he v.«s elected last fall.
Jin'go Bennett was one of the most prom
inent men in the state. He was a Kuigh's
Turi-'lnr and Knight of Pythias, basi'les
being a member -jf -•iiinerons other fi-:
tcri.ilit-s. The remains were accompa
nied to C!a?k county by slate otiici lis,
Masons and other prominent citizens.
excellence, fhis
The Market*.
Chicago, Jan. 2.—May wheat closed at
G0 7-8c December corn, 34 7-Sc Decem
ber oats, 28 l-2c.
Minneapolis, Jan. 2. May
opened at 01 l-4c, closing at 01 o-4c,
cash sold at 001-4a00 l-2c No. 1 North
ern, 58 3-4a59c.
St. Paul, Jan. 2.—Hogs strong: quality
good for the hulk. Yards cleared early
to packers. Cattle—Theve was a fair de
mand for butcher cattle and good de
mand for stockers and feeders.
Chicago, Jau.
2.—Cattle—Prices
nom­
inal at $5a5.50 for good 1o extra native
steers $4.25a4.t)5 for others. Hogs
Rough heavy, .$5:15.10 packers and
mixed, $5.20a5.30: prime heavy anl
butchers', $5.35a5.45 prime liglit, ?5.'i5a
5.40.
Took French Leave.
Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 2. Joseph
Rice, a convict sent up from St. Louis
fo four years, yesterday morning reached
the conclusion that he would turn ovjr
the proverbial new leaf. To attain the
desired start he scaled the great peni
tentiary walls some time between 4.and
(J o'clock and forsook his associates with
out a pang of regret. The authorities Jiro
searching fot_ him, but with little pros
pect of success.
The Case of Wimliln|»-ton Peck.
Alexandria, Minn., Jan. 2.—Informa
tion of insanity was to-day filed in the
probata *c#iiit against Washington Peck
of Miltona. He lids three times at
tempted suicide, once by taking aconite,
once by chloroform and yesterday he
tried to shoot himself with a shotgun,
but was prevented by his son. This
makes the eleventh case during the year
for this county, nine of whom have been
committed.
G. A. It. at Luvcrne.
Luierne, Minn., .Tin. 2.—The next en
campment of the Southern Minnesota G.
A. association will be hold at Luverne.
It is the intention'of the Grand Army
men and citizens of Rock county to make
the coming encampment one of the most
interesting in the history of the associa
tion.
Fire at Grand Fork*.
Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 2.—Fire dam
aged O. Rystad's jewelry stock to the
amount of $1,500, with insurance of
$
1,100 Larry Downey, furniture, foOO,
with no insurance Burton Bros., meat
market, $200 with no insurance B. L.
G'ibert, loss on building, $000, covered
by insurance.
Killed HI* Bride.
Media, Pa., Jan. 2.—Swithin C. Short
lidge, principal of the famous Media
Academy for Boys, while out promenad
ing with his wife, who was"a bride of
only a month, shot and instantly killed
her'. For three,weeks Prof.. Shortlidg-e'
.has been confined to his home with the
grip.
Snililraly Cnllcil Hence.
Albert Lea, Minn., Ian. 2.—Halvor Kit
telson, an, old settler of the town of Man
e-tester. died very suddenly. He was
al.cut fifty-five years old and a brother
or ex-State Treasurer Charles Kittelson
of Minneapolis. Heart disease is believed
to have been the cause.
Itlcw Out the fill*.
Sioux :Falls, S. D., Jan. 2.—Andrew G.
Yttredal, eighteen years old, of Jasper,'
Minn., v£-as. found in a room iii Hotel
Windsor in an unconscious condition. He,
had blown out the gas. He was- on his
way to Canton, S. I)., to attend school.
He will probably die.
\cwPoHtiiiiiHter.
Black River Falls, AVis., Jan. 2.—The
postofiiee here was to-ilay formally turned
over to John H. Lewis, the new Demo
cratic postmaster, as it was the close of
Mr. Torkeison's term. Lewis buys all the
fixtures and has appointed Ed Oderbolz
as deputy.
A Biindit'N Wife Ini|tllcnteil.
Fresno, Cal., Jan. 2.—Mrs. Evans has
been held in the sum of .^M.OOO for com
plicity in releasing her husband, Train
Robber Evans. Her brother, George
Byrd, will furnish bonds There are no
tidings from the sheriff's posse.
Sultan Ga^c* the Press.
London, Jan. 2.—A Vienna dispatdi
to the Times refers to the new press
law in Constantinople as designed to
prevent the appearance even of the most
insignificant facts in foreign newspapers
if they are disagreeable to the sultan
Mabel Gouxule Insane.
Hir ekley, Minn., Jan. 2.—Mabel Gou
z«le, an inmate of a bouse of ill -fame in
the outskirts of town, wrs examined -by
Dcctors Crowan and Stepbaii, and Judge
Vecnhoven sent her to St. Peter lis in
stne.
Wolf Hunt In Iowa.
Algona, Iowa, Jan. 2.—Kossuth county
farmers have arranged for a big wolf
hunt to come off so:)n. There are eno jgh
wol\es in that section to seriously da lin
age the sheep industry.
The Mime* Th.wiim at Rest
ImIriiiI.
Ltke City, Minn., Jnn. 2 —Misses ,Etta
and Alice Thompson of Minneapolis spent
the holiday season at Rest Island, where
they entertained a number of visitors
fiem various points.
A WI*connln l'luineer Deud.
Baldwin,Wis., Jm. 2.-Jolin Thaver,
aged eighty-five years, died at his home
in Hammond Saturday of la grippe. De
ceased was one of the earliest pioueers
of Wisconsin.
A Paper All to Himself.
Adrian, Minn.- Jan. 2.—John King, lu
pin-chasing Mr. Bebb's interest in the
paper, has become. soh» owner of the
Adrian Democrat.
Fnrnltarri Men
AmI(i.
Si
Park Rapids, Mini).. Jan, 2.—W
Jones & Co., furniture dealers, assigned
to B. F. Wright. Liabilities, .'j!l«'00- as
sets, $1,000.
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\EW YEAR'S RECEPTION
A BRILLIANT EVENT AT THE PRES
IDENT'S MAKSIOST.
Annual
Reception
of the President
and the Popular HomUos of the
White House—Xortlnvcfctcrners in
WnxhliiKt on Oliterve the Day.
Washington. Jan. 2. Year's
opened bright and dear, with lpore snap
•ind crispne-ss in the thr-n during the
holiday week. *The day was more ob
seived here than in the other cities
throughout the ''onntr**, aud, while the
custom of keeping opi-n house is falling
int desuetude with the mo3t fashionable
i-et, official society observes the custom,
and in many homes pSrties were made up
to receive callers. These receptions,
however, do not begin till "ftcr neon,
and the event in tbe- mori ing and early
afternoon was the presidential rectption
at the White House. The executive
mansion had been made specially attract
ive for,the occasion.
The arrangements for the reception
were interrupted about 10 o'clock by an
untoward incident, which fortunately oe
cuned at an hour when it could not mar
the reception. A miid-mt i»nc-red woman,
evidently of unbalanced mind, arrived
errly at the house with the announce
ment that she wr.s there to take posses
sion. She as politely shown through
the lower floors by Capt. Dexter the
chief usher, and then quietly escor od
away by a policeman.
Piomptly at 11 o'clock the Marine
i.i ml, located in the outer corridor of the
marsion, struck up "Hail to the Chief,"
which was the signal for the opening nf
the reception. Another moment and the
presidential party appeared at the middle
landing from their private apartments
above the reception room. First Came
Capt. Wilson and Capt" Pitcher, U. S.
A., in full uniform. Then followed Pres
ident Cleveland with Mrs. Cleveland on
his arm. The president wore his con
ventional garb of black, with Prince Al
bert coat. There v.as a boutonniere in
his lapel. Mrs. Cleveland smiled and
Itowed to those in the double rows which
lined the hallways leading to the recep
tion room. It was her first public appear
ance since the birth of little Esther, and
necks were craned to catch'A glimpse of
the popular mistress of tlie White House.
Her hair was braided up and' back in
the simple manner remembered -in her'
early pictures. Her high-necked gown
was almost entirely free from jewels,
and the jeweled comb in her hair was
the only noticeable ornament to her .it
tire.- Following the presidential couple
came Vice PrcsWc-n't and Mrs: Steven:
sen, Secretary and Mrs. Gresham, Secre
tary and Mrs. i.arlisle, Secretary and
Mrs. Lamont. the attorney general and
Mrs. Olney, the postmaster general and
Mrs. Bissell, Secretary and Mrs. Her
bert, Secretary and Mrs. Smith and Miss
Sn ilh, and Secretary and Mrs. Morton.
Once inside the receiving rom„. Mrs.
Cleveland quickly drew 'off her' lony
gloves in order to continue a custom iii
which she is almost alone of .giving the,
New Year's, greeting with bare hands.
She leaned her left arm on the Back of
a divan and with the tight received the
guests. Mr. Cleveland was first at the
door through which the callers came
He grasped
..the hand, of each one, siuil
ing and giving a "Happy New Year's,"
a*d then dex-trously moving the callersr
.on to Mrs. Cleveland and the line of
cabinet ladies, who' extended across th-t
Blue Roam to the exit dcor on the other
side.
At Senator Davis' home Mrs. Davis.
Mrs. W. W. Johnson of St. Paul, Miss
Cora Brown of Biooiniiigtou, Minn., and
Mrs. Roche of W-aslington- kept open
bouse. Senators aud cabinet officers and
ireiubcrs of the foroign legations e.imu
and went in rapid succession. The Min
nesota delegation, including Congressman
Keifer and Cot.gressman Fletcher, called
during the day. Senator and. Mrs.-Wash
burn have not returned from 'their trip
to Cuba, and will not be back lifilil-the
middle of this -week. At Congressman
M. N. Johnson's' home on Capitol Hill
Mrs. Johnson, assisted by a number of..
young ladies, received
:iuring
the '0a .\,
Mrs. John A.' Pickler and Mrs. W. ,Y. ,.:
Lucas of South Dakota received a.lj tix
use of- Congressman: Pickler.
Something Wrong
Omaha. Jan. 2.—In an editorial (reply
ing. to a correspondent's inquiry the Bee
says: "From the best information at
our command the complaint as regards
the heavy deposits of state funds in Oma
ha banks is groundless. Quite the con-'
trary is true. The leading bankers-of
Omaha assert that they have not been
favored. We are, however, convincqd' that
the state finances are in a very .d^plo^a
ble condition.. More than a- mott'h .ago
the representative of the Bpe at the state
capital apprised us that startling dis
closures might be 'expected 'any day. rel
ative to the estate treasury^ "'Auditor
Moore had a computation tlmfr- the
amoiint of general funds warrants out
standing exceeds $1,000,000. There is
said, to be a discrepancy of ovei" $220,000
between the auditor's bocks and those of
the treasurer."
Grave* Were Robbed.
Omaha, Jail. 2.—Two corpses fbund''in
.a box last nig|it at the..-Pacific/ Express
company's office, have been identified as
the bodies of a woimin arid a' man who
were buried in -Forest' Lawn cemetery
here .the past week. -The graves had
been robbed by unknown parties. The
box in which the bodies were found was.
addressed to John Robinson, Iowa City,
Iowa. It is believed they were intended.-'
-for the medical college connected witli
State university.- No trace, has
been discovered of the man who took^thv
bodies-to the express office. Theiiumes
of the. dead, are Mrs C. A. IX 'Brown,
wife of a well known Omaha business
man, who was buried Thursday, and M.
W. A. McWhinnery, an pld soldier who
died at the county hou^e, and was buried
Tuesday. -, "v
Fiffht With Robber*.
Sedolia, Mo., Jan. 2.—Ward Wickiine,
a young farmer, had. a bloody encounter"''
with two desperate highwaymen, three:
iies west of this city last night. Wick
line was walking from Sedalia home,
when the two men sprang in front of *j'
him and, covering him with revolvers,
commanded him to throw up, his hands.
He did-so, but one contained a gun and'
he commenced shooting. The highway-.
nien returned the fire. Wickiine received
a ball through the left arm,' but kept 6n
shooting until a bsJl through bis thigh
knocked him down. The robbers then
went through his poeketri and secured
considerable sum of money.
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