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IOWER COUNTY TMSCRIPf.
WASHBURN & GORDON, Publishers.
.AUSTIN", MENIT.
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
ONE hundred and four bagpipers
-serenaded Mr. 'Andrews Carnegie at 5
ro'elock in the morning at the Glea«xf
Kilgraston.
MISS BOILLEAU, the grand-daughter
•of 3?hos. H. Benton, was recently mar­
ked at Pisa to Capt. Vidal, of the
French army.
THE Empress of Japan will visit this
•country in October. :It will be the first
'time that.a l'eigning dady of that land
ihas visited ihe outside iwolid.
PRINCE .FERDINAND, whom the mis­
guided Bulgarians c&ose for their
leader, wear-s a bracelet .on either arm
And parts his Jiair in theaniddle.
COLONEL BIJUNT, General Sheridan's
aide, bas a handsome income from his
manual on rifle practice, as an edition
Is req.uixed every year for the .army.
SIB WALTER RALEIGH'S house at
Brixton Rise is shortly to be sold by
auction. It is a fine Elizabethan build­
ing, Standing in a well timbered park.
MCLAUGHLIN, the wealthy jockey,
it having a successful season. He if
said to be worth $150,000, well invested,
and makes from $15,000 to $20,000 a
year.
A WELLESLEY college girl asked Mrs.
Bernhardt: "What do you mean by
'comme il faut.'" The talented shadow
replied: "Eet is what you call him, ze
propair capair."
1 M. SECRETON, a copper manufacturer
of Paris, owns twenty pictures by
jMeissonier. One of them—Napoleon
Reviewing a Corps of French Cavalry
•—-cost $76,000.
*^2^ ^1* LANGSTON, one of the
leading colored men of the country,
advocates the nomination by the
Democrats of Gov. Fitzhugh Lee of
iVirginia for Yice-President.
STLVANTJS COBB wrote .108 serial
stories for the New York Ledger. They
were all published during his lifetime,
and we need have no fears of a post­
mortem deluge from his pent
YAN PHON LEE and his wife, who
iWere driven away from Narragansett
Pier bj fhs impudent curiosity of the
public, have gone to West Point, after
a few days' rest in New Have-n,
PR" F. LOVE,the Phiadelphian
wboTias for several years been surgeon
dentist to the Khedive of Egypt,
just beeri decorated by his highness with
the officers' stai1 of the Imperial Order
of the Medjidieh.
ACCORDING to an old custom George
W. Childs is acting during this summer
as sexton at the little Episcopal church
at Elberon, Jf. J. He seats visitors
who have no pews of their own, and
also passes the contribution box.
NACHES, Head Chief of the Piute In­
dians in Nevada, has turned his toma­
hawk into a hoe and settled down to
farming. He has a fine crop of wheat,
oats, and barley, "half a mile long and
all the same wide, and he no go hungry
nex^winter."
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THE Duke of Marlborough, it is re­
ported in London, thinks of settling
down with a new wife of his own, in­
stead of flirting any more with those of
other men. The plucky lady who is
supposed to have accepted his Grace's
hand and heart is a Boston girl.
FRANK IYES, aged 20, while sitting
with a party of young friends at a win­
dow in the third story of the Teachout
Building at Des MoineS Sunday, play­
fully threatened to fall backward to
scare the girls present. Finally he said:
"Now I am going sure," lost his bal­
ance, fell through an awning to, the
pavement, and broke his neck. He
died instantly.,
DR. J.H. HEPBURN of Reimersburg,
Pa. has in his possession a table which
was once the property of .William
Penn. It is of solid walnut and has
two folding leaves. It is oval hi shape.
'There are two drawers,'one in each
end. The table is four feetand -seven
inches long and five feet wide when the
leaves are r^isejd. ,i5 It is very heavy
and solidly built, with no attempt at
ornamentation. An offer of $500 WaS
refused for it.
s.
HISTORY OF THE WEEK,
Dr. E.-Standiford died July 26, at
Louisvillty Kj. He had been in poor health
for abou1»t]iree months, and was seriously
ill for a week before his marriage to Miss
Laura Soott, at PacTucah, a little over twp
weeks ago. He would not have a physician,
however, not thinking his condition serious
enough, and it was not until Friday that
Drs. Crand all and Roberta were called upon
to attend him. Dr. Standiford was an act
ive candidate for the United (States senate
to succeed Mr. Beck. He was ex-president
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
president of the Jeffersonville, Madison &
Indianapolis Bridge Company, a director of
the Farmer's and Drover's bank, and one of
the wealthiest men in the state. He was
three times married, leaving seven children
of his first and second marriages. His age
was 56 years.
San Francisco telegram 26th: The
Pacific mail steamier City of Rio de Janeiro
arrived last night,' bringing Hong Kong ad­
vices to July 11 and Yokohama news of
July 9. By the 106S of the steamer Sir John
Laurence in the Bay of Bengal 800 were
lost, mainly pilgrims of the best families in
^Bengal. from the:21st to the 26th of May a
cyclone raged in the Bay of Bengal with
^disastrous results to shipping, and attended
with great loss of lile. The storm was the
severest experienced in that quarter since
1866, judging from the reports of vessels
which weathered it. The passengers on
board the Sir John Laurence numbered 750,
the officers and crew .numbering fifty. The
passengers were mainly women gc
pilgrimage to the famous temple
nath, .at Puni. There is ^scarcely
fainily iu Calcutta which does not bemoan
the loss,of a relative by the disaster.
Gen. .J. M- Comly, editor and pro­
prietor 4Stf the Toledo, Ohio, Commercial,
died in that city July 86, of tang and heart
trouble. He was a native of Perry cOunty,
Ohio, was bred a practical printer and af­
terward adopted the law entered the
army in President Hayes' regiment, the 23d
Ohio rose to be colonel, and was breveted
brigadier-general for gallant services in the
A*i®r the war he became editor of
the Ohio State Journal, at Columbus, and
achieved fame as a forcible and intellectual
writer. He was postmaster at Columbus
from 1672 to 1878. In 1877 he was appointed
minister to the Sandwich Islands, serving
five years. In 1888 he purchased the Com­
mercial, of that city, which he has since con­
ducted. He leaves two sons and one
daughter. His age was 55 years.
John Taylor who succeeded Brigham
Young, as President of the Mormon church
died at Salt Lake City oil the 25th. TTP was
bom in England, Nov. 1, 1808. In 1882 he
emigrated to Canada, and in 1S37-8 joined
the Mormons at Kirtland, Ohio, and has
since followed their fortunes, taking a lead­
ing partjin all thei affairs and was one of he
earliest and firmest adherents of polygamy.
He became the head of the church in 1877
and had been in hiding since July 1, 18S5,
and had not been seen public thereafter.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Say
ublishes a detailed report showing that
Gould has discovered that employes of
his in Texas and Arkansas and on the Mis­
souri Pacific, have been making a good
thing out of tie contracts and other supplies,
turned them in to Gould at 88 cents. The
number of ties thus handled is said to be
ten millions, and the scheme has been
worked ior Jbree years,
July 27th, Joseph Neave, a farmer,
living eight miles from Falmouth, Ky., was
murdered by his son John. Mr. Neave had
gone to his farm, upon which his son is liv­
ing, to get his share of the crop of wheat.
The son, for some cause, ordered him not to
drive to the barn. The old gentleman kept
on whereupon the son fired and killed his
father. He then took shelter in his house
and defied arrest. A mob to lynch him is
organizing.
Arrangements are being made by
Supt. Hart, of the Minnesota state board of
corrections and charities, to secure a full
attendance from Minnesota to the four­
teenth national conference of charities and
C»rrecti0i)S Fblch is to meet at Omaha dur­
ing the week t)e^nninK on Aug, 25 next
The programme has just been received,
ftnd among those who will read papers is
Supt. J. J. Dow, of the state asylum ror the
blind at Faribault.
Col. D. 11. Anthony, editor of the
Leavenworth Times, Kansas, was assaulted
on the street by Councilman W. H. Bond,
who struck him several blows with a cow­
hide. Col. Anthony has been waging an
active fight in favor of the strict enforce­
ment of the prohibitory law, and he
attributes this affair to the culmination of
the rage of the enemies he has made by the
fight.
Ex-Warden McGargiele of the Cook
county hospital, convicted of defrauding the
county, escaped from Sheriff Matson Satur­
day evening at Chicago. He was taken out
of jail for an interview with the county at­
torney Grinneltand was taken to his own
house being granted an opportunity to
take a bath, he made his escape instead,
and is supposed to have started for Canada.
Two half drunken men dozing in
Heffen's bakery at Chicago, about two
o'clock on the morning of the 29th, let a pot
of grease boil over on the stove, setting the
building on fire. Families living on the
upper floors were unable to all get out and
a dozen lives were lost from fire and smoke,
several being small childan. One fireman
died from inhaling smoker
The Mayor of Chicago has appointed
a committee of 200, composed of represen­
tative men ot all Chicago interests, societies,
ehibs, etc., as a committee of invitation to
President Cleveland and the same to act as
committee of reception when the President
and his party visit that city.
Ten days or two weeks ago a brutal
assault was committed in Surrey county,
Va., by Reuben Cole (colored) upon Mrs.
Richard Savage. Cole was arrested and
jailed at Petersburg and a band of 50 men
overpowered the guard and jailor and took
Cole out and hanged, him.
A Bertram, Texas, special of the
28th says that while a party of men were en­
gaged in pitching dollars in the rear of G.
W. Phinney's store, lightning struck and
killed M. B. Sinclair ana G. A. Phinney and
Dr. Hay
ward w$re severely shocked.
"Sopton," a, six acre village,' within
the limits of Cincinnati, Ohio, burned July
29, destroying small houses, old barns &c.
and 50 cows. Loss $100,000, and but little
insurance.
•A widow living near Toledo, Ohio,
shot and killed a farmer neighbor at 8
o'clock Sunday morning as he was trying
to get into the house through a window.
The June earnings of the. Union
Pacific road, now just about figured out,
show a pet increase of (300,000 compared
with the same period last year.
Seven persops were drowned by the
sinking of the schooner barge Perry in
Lake, Erie during a gale Saturday night.
IK THE KABTi''/
Van Heyst, the Holland
banker whose wife eloped with Jules Van
Doren, a linen manufacturer arrived at New
York oh the 25th., in search of his wife.
Mirs. Van Heyst and Van Doren arrived on
the l&h inst., bringing with them Van
Heyst's ttoee^year-old daughter and $0,000
florins, which Mrs. Van Heyst cribbed 4rom
her husbands store. The husband left for
Eaaton, Pa.,where the guilty pair are de­
tained peadinghabea* corpus proceedings.
The following is/.published at $ew
Yorkr liberals sueih excitement (tiling
tobacco dealers and manufacturers at the
present time as has not been known for
years, and prices for leaf tobacco have ad­
vanced from 50 to 100 per cent during July
and the end is not yet. Manufacturers
have been sending up their prices in re­
sponse to the demands made Upon them by
the controllers*of the leaf supply.
At Jersey City, N.J., on Wednes­
day, Charles Reed, the Chicago lawyer and
counsel for Guiteau, Garfield's assassin was
forbidden to again enter Ruch's Hotel,
where he has been in the habit of taking his
meals. This action was taken at the in­
stance of the head waiter, who alleged that
he had caueht Reed in an attempt to rob
the money drawer.
A great rain fell at Lake Pleasant,
Mass., and Vicinity, on Sunday and the
water in Lake Pleasant, rose two feot higher
than ever before. There was arise of ten
feet in the Connecticut river in less than
two hours. Bridges on the Fitchburg R. R.,
were carried away and the bridges on the
carriage roads washed out for miles around.
AtPhiladelphia an .explosion of ammo­
nia occurred Saturday night in the refrig­
erating department of the Borgner &
Engles brewery, which resulted in serious
injury to five men and alight injuries to
eight others.
At New York City, on the 25th., a
building in West Thirteenth street, occu-
Eied
by Fleitchmann's Vienna bakery, was
^uned with forty-eight horses. Loss, #30,-
At a meeting of the Massachusetts
Republican state central committee it was
voted to hold the state convention in Bos­
ton, Sept. 28 next.
RAINS IX THE EAST.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., June 26.—The rain
storms here were the most destructive ever
experienced. The track of the Erie road
for 1,000 feet has been washed into the
Susquehanna river at Bad Rock, four miles
west of here, impeding traffic. The Jeffer­
son branch is abandoned on account of
land slides. Bridges have been' washed
away and highway and roads destroyed.
Several houses were carried down the
creeks.
AUGUSTA, Me., July 26.—There were
several bad washouts on the line of the
Maine Central railroad between Vassalboro
and Winslow, one being 60 feet long and 15
deep. No trains have passed there since
yesterday afternoon Four trains were
stalled here this morniug and 250 travelers
are at the hotels.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
Friends of Mrs. Gen. Hancock are
urging that she be appointed postmaster at
W asliington, D. C.
St. Louis special 23rd: The delega­
tion of leading citizens of this city, nnH
from various counties of the state, appointed
to invite President and Mrs. Cleveland to
visit St. Louis in October, left for Washing­
ton to-night in a special train via the Ohio
& Mississippi railway. The delegation is
headed by Mayor Francis and numbered
seventy-two persons.
The St. Louis committee of invita­
tion, numbering about one hundred, called
upon the President at the White House on
Monday, and were most cordially receTVedi
President Cleveland accepting the invita
tion to visit St. Louis early in October, the
exact date to be fixed in the future. The
President is to visit Atlanta in Octdber and
will soon announce his dates.
Gen. McRee Dunn, late advocate gen­
eral United States army, died July 22, from
the effects of the severe heat. He was at
his country Place, DunnLoring, some fifteen
miles from Washington in Virginia where
he together with Dr. Loring, late commis­
sioner of agriculture*, purchased a large
tract Cf land upon which Ultimately a sub*
urb to'wii is to be located. Gen. Dunu
usually spent the summer in the North, bnt
be endeavored to remain in this climate
this year thinking that on the high plateau
in Virginia where his suburban home was
he would escape the heat of the city.
A Washington dispatch says of the
Judges of the Supreme Court, that they are
at present scattered far and wide. Chief
Justice Waite is in Ohio, where he attended,
the Findlay gas weill celebration and found
eight empty wallets in his pocket when he
returned home, which had been placed there
by pickpockets. Justice Blatchford is in
New York. Stanley Matthews is in Ohio
attending his sick wife. Justice Miller is at
Rock Island fishing. Justice Gray is here
planning the building of anew house. Jus­
tice Harlan is also here interested in some
real estate speculations, and Justice Field
is in California doing his best to make Mrs.
Langtry an American citizen.
Four invitations were placed before
President Cleveland on Wednesday for
visits, when he maltes his October trip.
First came Kansas City bearing an invita­
tion signed by 21,000 persons, presented by
a delegation of a hundred ladies and gen­
tlemen this invitation was accepted, to
take place between Oct. 1 and 15. A dele­
gation from Lynchburg, Va., headed by
Jenator Daniel, called on the President ana
invited him to attend the state fair to be
held at Lynchburg in October next. The
President promised to consider the invita­
tion and said he would give them a decided
answer at a later day. Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Memphis, Tenn., through the Chamber
of Commerce of one and Merchants Ex­
change of the other, also presented invita­
tions.
TOLEDO CONVENTION".
The Ohio State nominating convention
of the Republican party was in session
Wednesday and Thursday at Toledo, the
first day being devoted to temporary or­
ganization. The matter of formulating an
endowment to bind the party in Ohio to
John Sherman for the Presidential nomina­
tion in 1888, was the theme ofciefly discussed,
and came before the oonvenuon as soon aa
the temporary organization was perfected,
with Hon. Dan. Ryan of Portsmouth, tem­
porary chairman and A. J. Donaldson of
Columbus, temporary secretary. Gen.
Keifer adroitly secured the' adoption of a
motion that all resolutions be referred to
the committee without debate, disappoint­
ing the Sherman men who had hoped for an
early opportunity to do some talking.
Congressman Charley Grosvener offered the
resolution which Mr.
adopted, viz:
'CM
Sherman deeired
Recognizing, as the Republicans of Ohio
always have, the gifted and tried statesmen
of the Republican party of other states, loy­
al and unfaltering in their devotion to the
success of the organization in 1888 under
whatever standard-bearer the Republican
national convention may elect, they have
just pride in the record and career of John
Sherman as a member of the Republican
party, and aB a statesman of fidelity, large
experience and great ability. His career
as a statesman begun' with the birth of the
Republican party. He has grown and de­
veloped with the growth of the organiza­
tion. His genius and patriotism are
and believing that *U0
office of president would be wise and judi­
cious, we respectfully present his nattid to
to the people of the United States as a can­
didate ana announce our hearty and cor­
dial support of him for that office.
Resolutions frpig Eaaiiltoa mi fiT-8
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counties favoring Sherman were also read.
ffilLmi.iff* JkwWoKnm
presented the following, as the anti-Bher
man voice
Resolved, That we heteby pledge the unit*
ed and enthusiastic support of the Repub
licans of Ohio to the nominee of the next
National Republican convention, and! in
this connection, we oall the attention of the
Republicans of Ohio to the eminent services
and splendid career of Hon. John Sherman-
Among the membership of- the com
**"ttee on resolutions were Ex-Gov. Foster,
Ex-Minister John A. Bingham, Major Mc
Kinley of the Canton district and Col. E. B.
Taylor from Garfield's old district. The
committee was understood to stand 16 to 6
for Sherman. Adjourned to 10 a.
Thursday.
THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
The first business of the convention to­
day was the reports of committees and that
on resolutions was the only one of interest
Ex-Gov. Foster read
THE PLATFORM
ft favors a protective tariff denounces
the Democratic platform or a tariff for rev­
enue only "views with alarm" unrestricted
immigration from foreign lands demands a
fair ballot and honest count in all the
states declares that the war is over asks
duties on wool and liberal pensions for sol­
diers condemns Cleveland and indorses
Foraker desires Congress to conduct the
Congressional elections expresses sym­
pathy for home rule in Ireland demands
hat Congress pass and the President ap­
prove a dependent pension bill points with
to the Dow liquor law ana concludes
with the Grosvenor resolution endorsing
Mr. Sherman (given above.) The platform,
as read, was adopted without any com­
ment. Mr Sherman having loen named for
permanent chairman, presided during the
remainder of the convention.
MB. SHERMAN SPEAKS.
I thank you with all my heart for the
high compliment of presiding over this dis­
tinguished assemblage. I think the Repub
licans of Ohio in this respect, have been
partial to me, and I am called on this oc­
casion to preside because I attended the
first Republican convention of Ohio, where
the Republican party was born, and I have
watched and wondered and followed its
splendid history and its magnificent pro­
gress from that day to this. And now I
congratulate you upon the fact that the
il— if your work has already been
people of Ohio. All you have
to do is to record and announce the results
of their decisions. In every district in Ohio
a voice comes to us from the unanimous ,-wo
dorsement than he, and he deserves it, be-
iobm session, saying:
'./a,
lded
for.
-__,n§es unprc
I tell you with all frankness that I think
mftrfe of yooy unanimous praise this day
uttered than I do of the office of president
of the United States. I would rather feel
that I stood before you now, at this period
of my life, man ana boy living always in
Ohk—that now, at this late period, the Re
lublicans of Ohio, for whose welfare I have
levoted so much of my life, are willing to
say this much for me. I know that this
resolution is of no importance unless the
voters of the districts of Ohio and of the
Union shall, of their own free choice, elect
delegates who will agree with you in your
opinion. I recognize the distinct rule and
right of every district to speak its own voice.
Gov. FORAKER'S RENOMIXATION.
Dr. Graydon nominated Gov. Foraker
for a second term in a ten-minute speech.
There was much cheering, and the motion
was carried by acclamation amid a whirl­
wind of cheers. It did not take the con­
vention long to complete the state ticket,
and the convention adjourned at 3:30. The
complete ticket is as follows:
Governor, J. B. Foraker (renominated)
lieutenant governor, Capt. W. C. Lvon
supreme judge (long term), William T.
Spear supreme judge (short term), F. J.
Dickman (renominated) auditor, F. W.
Poe treasurer, J. C. Brown attorney
general, D. E. Watson member board of
public works, C. A. Flickinger.
THE BLAINE MEN.
TOLEDA, O., July 28. The abandonment at
the last moment by the friends of Mr.
Blaine of their intended opposition of the
endorsement of Senator Sherman by to­
day's convention was due to the interfer­
ence of some of Blaine's lieutenants in
the east. This can be stated upon the beet
authority. After the committee on plat­
form had finally decided last night to re­
port the Grosvenor resolutions, aisp&tches
were received from the east by the chief
leader of the anti-Sherman element, saying
that opposition on the floor of the conven­
tion would be ill-advised, and calculated to
do more harm than gOod to Blaine's inter­
ests. Thereupon it was decided to let the
question go by default. The eastern ad­
visers, it is said, were Messrs. Boutelle and
Milliken.
THE OLD WORLD.
Ninety-four members of the Paris
police foree handed to their superior
7th.
homes by unknown persons. The police
department has ordered an inquiry.
During the voyage of the steamship
City of Chicago which sailed from New
York for Liverpool July 9, a saloon passen
ger named Daniel Conroy, keeper of a livery
stable
in New York, dropped dead iu the
saloon without giving previous signs of ail­
ment.
Only two-thirdsof the new Panama
canal loan, it transpires, has been
building
treasure
upon the
Bub-
soribed. M. de LessepS, in an interview on
the subject today, saia the amount sub­
scribed would ''suffice for the present."
At midnight, on the 25th, an attempt
was made to surprise and attack
containing
lal commisBon to formulate anew eon
stitutioa,
KORTJUWJSSTEKNNEWS.
Minneapolis, kinn., was the theatre
of two extensive Aires on the 26th. The first
wiaa in the 4-story Warner block, on
Nicollet avenue, occupied by a number of
tenants, including stores, offices, the Ameri
•can District Telegraph and a bakery, in an
apartment of which fire broke out at 9 a.
m'
The total damage sustained by the ten­
ants is 880,000, and to the building 16,000, ail
fully insured. During, the progress of the
fire nine fireman were Injured, by the falling
of chimneys upon a group of tnat number
while at work, the men sustaining various
bruises, scalp wounds and broken ribs, but
no fatal hurt. At nine o'clock in the even
ing fire broke out in, the Dorillus Morrison
block on Washington avenue, occupied on
the first floor by the Big Boston clothing
ponse and the second and other floors by
the-Franklin Bazar. For a time the fire was
J^Jpontroiiabie and burned down from the
7th to the third-floor where it was stopped.
On either side of the Morrison block were
the Morse building and National Hotel, both
of which were damaged by fire and water.
}8 estimated from $200,-
a
total
insurance of
about $192,000. The firemen worked well
ana baa 21 streams of water playing upon
the burning premises at the same time and
hour and a half had it under control
and by midnight it was entirely subdued.
The ship A. G. Ropes sailed for
Tohahama on July 26 with 50,000 packages
of tea consigned to the Northern Pacific at
Tacoms. This is the largest singlo cargo
which ever left Yokahama and makes
about 4,250,000 pounds of tea. This
is four-fifths as much as all the tea
handled by the Canadian Pacific last year,
and more than came over the Northern
Pacific the whole of last season. The
cargo will make about 175 car loads, and is
shipped to St. Paul, Chicago, New York
and Canadian cities, a veiv large quantity
heing for P. H. Kelly Mercantile company
of St. Paul, Minn.
Col. Tyner, adjutant general of
Dakota, has located the encampment of the
Dakota National Guard in Huron, to be held
from the 1st to the 8th of September.
Cooked rations will be issued, and a tar­
get range established with prizes to the best
marksmen. Before the encampment all the
troops will be armed with the best Spring­
field rifle, and the territory will also have
two new brass field pieces, both of which
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mouths of the Republicans of Ohio for the win
renomination of Gov. Joseph B. Foraker.
No man was ever presented as a candidate CHICAGO, July 28.—Information re
with more hearty, generous and frank en-
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here
cause hei has fairly earned this nomination freight rates in the through business
at your hands. He has prevented the Demo between Chicago and St. Paul will be
cratic president of the United States from slashed by the new line of the Minnesota
suirendering to the Confederates the flags & Northern, which will be epen Monday,
and banners which they lost in the Rebel- The reductions will average from 80 or 40
lion. In this he has touched the patriotic P®r cent, all tound. The officials of the
heart of the whole country, and therefore we °ld lines say they will meet any cut made,
take pride in this endorsement of him by i,.,
our unanimous renomination as good Re- Milwaukee special: John Burnham,
publicans and true friends to the cause. an old and widelv known
He commended the work of the legisla- w^T1„uf u"" citizen, was
ture at the last session s&vin&r* bought honi6 Sunday from Grand Rapids
The Union soldiers on Jlmn'ctoTrara- n.^ ba«y injured While in bed in
a Grand Rapids hotel he dreamt that he was
onboard a steamer which bad taken fire.
The Union soldier is on almost every page
of the volume, of work they did, the record
of the faithtulness due to him, and of the
gratitude and obligations of a patriotic
eople for his sacrifices and his services,
fhey were also watchful for the rights of
labor and of the laboring men, who, after
aH, is the foundation of eur structure, and xuuruiue ww
whose reasonable demands ought always to *owa brought home some corn meal* As it
be beard and always to be heeded. You was a little late his wife concluded she
tried a Democratic legislature a little while wouldn't bake bread for supper and told
ago, and I hope God will keep you from ever him to give ths chickens a feed out of it.
trying it again. It was a legislature tainted He did so and the following morning he
with fraud, and it was blackened by elec- gathered up forty-three deaa ffMAnm it
tion crimes.
with its ordinary e:
Aiuormauon re-
to-day leaves no doubt that
citizen
was
He jumped from his bed and out of the
window. He fell on a projecting roof which
broke his fall, but he was badly injured.
John Stuart, of Fourmile township,
is aot known what was in the meal, but* the
matter will be looked into.
The committee appointed by the G.
A. R. of Wisconsin to select a site for th®
new home, to be known as the Wisconsin
Veterans' home, have selected the one of­
fered by the people of Waupaca. She
property chosen is at the chain of laftBs
three miles west of Waupaca, and is known
as Greenwood Park. Possession will be
given Sept. 1.
ST. PETER, July 26—The first new
wheat was marketed yesterday. It graded
No. 1 northern, good quality. It came
from the sand prairie. The yield was
about 14 bushels to the acre. The weather
is very dry and corn is suffering from want
of rain. Potatoes will also be a light
crop.
A street car driver was shot dead at
11:30 p. m., Tuesday at the Lake street
turntable, Minneapolis, as he was about to
turn in his car for the night. His cash box,
supposea to contain $20,00 was stolen. The
murdered man was struck by two shots and
was found dead on the platform of his car.
H. A. Jewett and Seymour Hollister
of Oshkosh, Wis., have contracted for a
tract of land near Sault Ste. Marie contain­
ing 75,000,000 feet of pine, for which they will
pay $150,000. The money is to be furnished
by Senator Sawyer. The pine is to be
sawed and shipped to Canadian points.
It is reported that William Mcintosh
of Huron, Dak., who has been master me­
chanic of that division of the Northwestern
for nearly seven years, has been appointed
master mechanic of all the Northwestern
lines west of Winona to the Missouri, with
headquarters at Winona, Minn.
The committee appointed to elaborate
.. a critical condition.
a scheme for the establishment of a
Catholic university in America will hold a
conference on Aug. 5 to decide as to the Rhea, at the close of the performance ten
location of the new institution. dered a reception to the Duluth Press club,
Dubuque, la., despatch 26th: A
party of several persons from Hazel Green,
Wis., arrived to-day to camp out a few
weeks on the banks of the Mississippi river
a few miles south of Galena,' at a point
known as the junction. This afternoon
Walter Hobbie, Clint Thomas and John
H. Thomas, members of the party, went in
bathing in a dangerous hole kuown as the
whirlpool, and were drowned. The bodies
were not recovered up to a late hour.
The Bulgarian regents have pro,
claimed amnesty to Bulgarian offenders graved.
£g°thiltw^^^ Forman station, on the Minneapolis
acts. & Pacific, twenty-three miles west of Led
It is affirmed W *rin6e Ferdinand ISSJSfSS
has finally decided to come. to Bulgaria at class, is 81 cents from St, Paul or Minne
an early date. ." apolis.
tearly
The Servian cabinet h$3 appointed a
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At Milwaukee, Wis., Monday even­
ing William Schmidt, better known as "Bil­
ly Smith," in former years a travelng sales­
man for Marshall, Field & Co., committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head. For
the last two years he has been in the insan
asylum. Since his release ho lived from the
earnings of his mother, who keeps a mil­
linery store.
The municipal officials of St Paul
and Minneapolis) together with the Cham­
ber of Commerce and Board of Trade of
those cities are formulating an Invitation
to President and Mrs. Cleveland to visit
them vfhen they come westward next
October.
At noon on the 25th, H. C. Wood­
ward, age 28, unmarried, a painter at work
upon the Exposition building, Minneapolis,
by the giving way of the scaffolding fell the
distance of 24 feet, striding upon Eis head
and being instantly killed.
At Clinton Iowa, Wallace Phillips,
At Duluth, Monday evening, Mile.
Th? railroad bridge" ftf.
Minn., of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap­
olis and Omaha line, took fire Tuesday
afternoon and was damaged so that no
trains could pass for two.days.
The elevator at Auburn, Dak., wa»
struck jjjjr lightning on the 29th and burned
with 2$000 bushels of wheat Loss on
elevator $7,000, Insurance $6,000
on wheat $il,000.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., July 26 At a
meeting of the city board of equalization
N. P. Clark's assessment was increased,
oro $60,000. His total assessment is nearly
Dan O'Brien and Frank Schafer,
illustrious highwaymen who have been
pretty lively in the Twin Cities, have been
run down and captured at St. Paul, Minn.
Henry Strobenvs saw mill at Le
claire Iowa, burned. Loss, $10,000 insur­
ance, $800. The fire is believed to be the
work of an incendiary
David City, Neb., suffered from &
cyclone on the 29th, one man being
and several injured and a half dozen buildp
ings wrecked.
Mason City, Ta., was taken in by the
path of a wind storm on the 29th, and many
buildings unroofed and weak structures
blown down.
Mitchell, Castlewood,, Big Stone City
and other points in Dakota suffered con
thee27thy
fr°m lightnin£
during a storm on
The elevator at Seney, la., was
struck by lightning on the £9th, one man
being killed and two others badly Bhncked.
The $1,000 saloon keepers have in­
creased to 196 at Minneapolis. Over one
hundred have gone out on business.
Sell's Circus brought a good many
thieves to Winona, Minn., and several
houses were robbed.
At Crookston, Minn., 23rd, burglars
entered the postofSce and stole $32 in
stamps and money.
The Lake House, Black River Falls,
Wis., burned on the 23rd loss $11,000, insu­
rance $7,500.
James B. Lazar, of Omaha, has been
national bank examiner for
A stock company, with $8,000 is
building an elevator at Dell Rapids, Dak.
Lightning killed a carpenter at work
on a house at Dell Rapids, Dak.
MINNESOTA'S INVITATION.
The following was telegraphed from 8\
Paul, July 28:
To the President of the Unitad States:
The citizens of St. Paul and Minnpap^
and of the entire state of Minnesota, have
learned with much pleasure that you con
template a visit to the West the coming
fall. We desire most earnestly to present
to you and Mrs. Cleveland an invitation to
extend your trip to our cities, and to assure
you of a welcome which will be in taping
with the great development of this section
of our country, and to inform you that a del­
egation has been appointed to visit Wash­
ington and tender a more formal invitation,
hereafter.
A. R. MCGELL, Governor.
P. H. KELLY, Member National Com.
R. A. SMITH, Mayor of St. PanL
A. A. AM
Kg,
Mayor of Minneapolis.
JHE PRESIDENT'S EEPLT.
Hon. A. R. McGill, governor of Minne­
sota Hon. P. H. Kelly, R. A. Smith, mayor
of St. Paul, and A. A. Ames, mayor of
Minneapolis—Dear Sirs: I thank you for the
cordiality and heartiness manifested in
your dispatch and promise to consider
your invitation with an earnest desire
to accept the same, but may I suggest that
no delegation be sent here during this try­
ing weather to emphasizes your wishes.
Flour, patent $4 25
Flour, straights.... 4 15
Flour, takers 3 4®
Butter, creamery IS
Butter! dairy 12
QiMn. 12
Eggs, fresh 12Jf
Potatoes new 60
Dressed Beef, steers
Hams.... 9
Veal.......*.« 5
LIVESTOCK—
Steers....................50
Hogs....' 4 00
Sheep 3 25
I
will determine the question speedily and to
your satisfaction. Yours etc.,
GBOVEB CLEYELAJTD.
FILXMORJE COUNTY FIGURES.
The county auditor has compiled the fol­
lowing statistics as to the average of the
various cereals in Fillmore county, Minn^
the present year: Wheat, 84,037 acres oats,
62,066 corn, 40,938: barley, 30,681 rye, 458
buckwheat 5 potatoes, 1,172 beans, 69
sugar cane, 59 cultivated hay, 39,501 flay,
W 1» .ng AAVWWW WW* WW WWOWf IVfWWA VV««*|
1,183 larley, 1,891 rye, 14, potatoes, 45
hay, 1,233 total, 6,974. The assessor's re­
turns show the following as the amouat of
personal property in the town and city of
Spring Valley: $174,768. Total for Fillmore
county, $2,213,825.
THE MARKETS.
St. Past July 30.
GRAIN—
Wheat, No.
1 Hard $13
Wheat,No. 1 Northern.... 71
Wheat, No. S Northern....
Corn, No. 2
Oats, No. 2 Mixed
Oats, No.3 White..
Barley, No. 8....
Rye, No. 2. &
Fkx Seed ...$ 95
Baled Hay, uplaud 5 00
Bated Hay, timbthy 9 00
PROVISIONS—
3 00
5 00
840
Minneapolis July 30
WHEAT-
NO. I Hard. ....$ 71
No. 1 Northern 70
No. 2 Northern 69
FLOUR—
Patent in sacks $4 20
Patent in barrels 4 45
Patent at New England
points. 4 95
Patent at .N. T. and Penn.,
4 9 0
Bakers 40
4 4 0
4 40
@510
«5 10
S S
Oblosge, July 30.
GRAIN—
Wheat, oash
Corn oash 38'
Oats, cash 24,
FlaxSeedjOash.. 07
MEI^PORK... —...15 00
LIVE STOCK—
Cattle i.y.....
i..
*.......
.$3,10
00
8 1 0 5 5
Milwaukee, July 30.
WHEAT.—
No. 1, Hard, Cash.... 69 6*%
Dnluth, July 30,
WHEAT— 'jT'sS
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