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BY MARSHALL McCLURE.
TAMESTOWN, DAKOTA.
Cleveland, O., now claims a popula­
tion of 210,000, and is increasing rap­
idly. The rapid growth of the leading
western cities is one of the wonders of
the present age.
Three thousand colored people have
left the southern states for the extreme
west, and as many more will shortly
follow. They go, they say, because
.they are offered regular wages as farm
hands, and are becoming impoverished
iin the south by high rents and small
margins.
More snow has been seen in England
this winter than for a great number of
years. In the Moreland. districts of
the North the
snowdrifts have been so
deep that in some instances they have
been tunneled and solitary houses
have, with difficulty, been supplied
with the necessaries of life.
Senator Miller of California is slow­
ly passing away. While nothing to
cause special alarm has happened, his
friends feel satisfied that he cannot
recover, and that it is only a matter
of a little time when he must succumb
to the inroads which disease is mak­
ing upon his system. It is feared that
lie will not live until the close of the
present session of Congress.
The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks writes
to the Boston Advertiser: "I should
be very sorry to have said to the Har­
vard students, as I find myself report­
ed to have said, thac 'no manly man
can continue in the Christian ministry
unless he is supported in a manner
worthy of his needs and his tastes.'
Will you allow me to disown a state­
ment so unworthy of my profession
and so contrary to my convictions?"
At a banquet in Cincinnati, given to
the members of the National Editori­
al Association, a notable feature, says
the Times, was the large number of
glasses filled with wine, which remain­
ed untouched. On inquiry it was in
varibly found, that these filled glasses
stood near the plate of an editor who
hailed from some Southern State. Of
the twenty-one delegates from Texas
it is stated that all but two were
total-abstinence men.
One of the greatest railroad move­
ments ever known will take place on
the first day of June, when the gauge
of the Southern roads will be changed
to a size to correspond with the North­
ern or standard gauge. It has been
decided that Monday, May 31, and
Tuesday, June 1, be set apart for the
work. The standard railway gauge in
the Southern States is five feet, three
and half inches more than the com­
promise gauge in use all over the rest
of the continent.
Statistics regarding the origin of
fires in this country show that incen­
diarism is by far the most important
of the causes which lead to the im­
mense waste of our national wealth
that now takes place eash year. This
contemptible crime is said to have
caused 30 per cent, of the fires which
occurred in 1884. Other leading
causes enumerated are defective flues,
matches, explosions of lamps, spon­
taneous combustion, stoves and stove­
pipes, ashes, gas jets, fireworks, fur­
naces and explosions of varnish, vola­
tile oils, etc.
Hall's Journal of Health calls atten­
tion to the fact that this is the season
forpneumonia. Anything that lowers
the vitality of the system is conducive
to the
disease, and should be carefully
avoided. Overwork, either physical
or mental, has much to do with it,
and this explains why so many busi­
ness men and brain workers fall vic­
tims to it. Sudden changes of the
weather and draughts of all kinds are
to be guarded against. In a word, live
temperately, dress warmly, avoid all
imprudences, and pneumonia will keep
«way from you.
It is now believed that the Hennepin
canal bill has friends enough in ihe
house to insure its passage. Some
members from the eastern states fa­
vor it, but it has scarcely any friends
in the eastern press. The canal pro­
posed is in the main an enlargement
of an existing canal which connects
tne lakes at Chicago with the Missis­
sippi through the Illinois river. To
widen and deepen it so as to make it
navigable for the craft which use the
upper Mississippi would require, it is
estimated, between eight and nine mill­
ion dollars. The advantages of a
continuous water way between the
great river and the lakes are apparent.
Sergeant Cole, the Uniteu States Sig
^nal Service officer in Boston, read a
paper on "The Cold Waves of the
United 8tates," in that city recently,
in which he said the term "cold wave"
means a sadden sinking of the tem­
perature below the normal. He said
the observation of such waves has
*been carried on to a great extent by
the Government. It takes on an
average fifty-three hoars for a cold
wave to journey from Helena, M. T.,
to Boston, and the average rate o!
•peed is about thirty seven miles ar
hour. He said that the cold wav?
notices of the Signal Service Bureau
have been of great value to frnit and
product dealers of different cities.
ms-
Condensed General News.
At the request of the Episcopal bishops
of Ireland, Lord Plunket, archbishop of
Dublin and primate of Ireland, lias con­
vened the synod for the 23d inst., to obtain
nn expression of opinion of the church on
the political situation in Ireland.
Charles Russell, attorney general, went
to Buckingham palace to be knighted. After
waiting an hour he received word from the
queen that she was fatigued by the duties
of the drawing room which she had been
holding, and must postpone the ceremony.
Russell withdrew from tne palace in indig­
nation, and says he will refuse knighthood.
It is believed that the queen was irritated
by his pronounced home rule views.
There were 227 failures in the United
States reported to Brudstreet's during the
week ending Oth, against 20S the preceding
week, and 222, 221, 208 and 172 in the
corresponding weeks of 1885, 1884, 1883
and 1S82 respectively. About 75 percent,
were those of small traders whose capital
was less than $5,000.
The Cuyahoga Paper company at Cuya­
hoga Falls, Ohio, lias made an assignment.
J. A. Beauvais of Montreal, dealer in
clothing, has assigned liabilities, 843,000.
Thomas Christie and Horat io King, clerks
in the First National bank of Bradford,
I'a., have been arrested on a charge of em­
bezzling $00,000 from that institution,
most of which was lost in oil speculation.
King had charge of the
industrial accounts,
and Christie the coi rospondenceand remit­
tances.
A fire in the gas house of the Augusta,
Ga., factory resulted in slight loss. A fall­
ing wall buried nine men, instantly killing
Councilman M. E. Hill, the owner of the
factory. Master Machinist W. C. Allan
died nu hour afterward, and John Edwards
will die.
The light house on Sand Point, Escanaba,
Mich., was burned. Mrs. Mary G. Terry,
the light keeper, perished in the flames.
John M. Whaling, formerly of St. Paul
and Milwaukee, charged with obtaining
$5,000 worth of bonds from Mrs. Stannard
of Washington on false pretenses, waived
examination and the case goes to the
grand
jury. Whaling says he has a written con­
tract with Mrs. Stannard which he has thus
far fulfilled.
J. B. Belohrodsky, the brewer, who was
arrested at San Antonio, Tex., on a re­
quisition issued by the governor ot Illinois,
charging him with embezzlement at Chicago
in 1SS1, has been released on a proclama­
tion of Gov. Ireland, who revoked his ex­
tradition on the ground that it had been
uuproperly used as a mean.s of collecting
an alleged debt.
Clarence Gray, alias Isham Collins, who
murdered II. H. Scott, while attempting to
rob the latter's store at Paradise, on
Christmas, 1884, was hanged at Winnemuc
ca, Nev.
A professed exhorter named Mungall
recently began a series of meetings in the
Indian Territory. He was quartered at
the house of an Indian citizen and slept in
a room with several other members of the
family. During the night Mungall made an
assault upon a young orphan girl in the
room, but before he could execute his pur­
pose he was discovered and taken prisoner.
The next day a party of neighbors took
him out for a trial and returned without
him, saying he had "escaped."
William Secor, who was president of the
Bank of Agusta, Ga., which failed in Janu­
ary, 1885, and who was extradited in
December last, forfeited his $10,000 bonds.
The trial of James T. Holland at New
York, for killing Tom Davis, the confidence
man, ended a few days ago. The case went
to the jury at 7:30, and it was after 9
o'clock when the judge returned to the
court room and received the jury's verdict
of "not guilty." Holland grasped the
hand of each juryman with warmth, and,
after receiving an ovation from the people
present, walked out a free man. He will
return to Texas in a few days. The jury
agreed to a verdict of acquittal within ten
minutes after retiring.
Henry Laboucliere' Radical, moved in the
house of commons that the house resolve
that the hereditory chamber of legislation
is inconsistent with the principles of repre­
sentative government The motion was
rejected—202 to 166., L,aboucherc and the
Parrrellites voted witli the minority.
Many Liberals abstained from voting.
The majority consisted mainly of Conserv­
atives and promiment members of the
government. The Parnellites received the
announcement of the result with loud
cheers. O'Connor exclaimed. "The writ­
ing on the wall."
A laboring man in the gallery of the Par­
is bourse threw a bottle containing an ex­
plosive liquid down among the brokers on
the floor, and with his revolver fired three
times in the same direction, shouting
"Vive l'anarchie!" The bottle did not ex­
plode. One of the bullets slightly wounded
a man. The disturber was arrested. The
name of the prisoner is Petrovich. He
said helong intended to blowup the bourse.
He failed to mix the explosives properly,
so he decided to use a revolver. He is be­
lieved to be insane.
Poundmaker and other braves were
liberated from the penitentiary at Stony
Mountain N. W. Ter. They will go west to
their homes in charge of Ilev. Father La
combe.
Marshall McClure has disposed of the
Jamestown Daily Alert to Frank Tucker
of Jamestown and W. R. Kellogg.
Mrs. Gen. Hancock has removed to the
house of Lieut. Eugene Griffin, on Govern­
or's Island, who, besides having been her
husband's aide, is connected with her by
marriage. No preparations have been
made as yet for her to leave the island.
The funeral of Mrs. Rich, who was killed
at St. Paul by her husband, took place at
Cobleskill, N. Y., on Saturday the 6th inst.
Gen. Sherman, in a letter to a St. Louis
lady who asked a contribution for a chari­
table purpose, says lje leaves St. Louis
chiefly because he is taxed to death and
can't stand it.
B. Swankin, a wife-beater in Manchester,
Ind., is stripped and cruelly beaten by a
mob, and driven from the place.
The Western Union pays $140,000 back
taxes due the state of New York.
The light house on Sand Point, Escana­
ba, is burned, together with Mrs. Mary G.
Terry, the keeper.
Queen Victoria has been persuaded to
modify her determination to remain in re­
tirement. She has promised to be present
at the laying of the corner st ine of the new
college of physicians, and driving of the
first pile of the new (.'owes bridge and the
opening of the colonial exhibition. Her
majesty, however, decisively declined to
hold court at Buckingham palace, even for
a short period in the spring.
Frank Flood an American claimins to be
the heir and ducendant of the celebrated
Henry Flood, has brought suit at Kilken
ney to dispossess William Flood of the
property known as the Kilkenney estates.
Henry has also instituted suit to recover
from William $500,000, the profit realized
during the twenty-seven years the estates
have been in his possession.
Eau Haire lumbermen predict averylate
logdrive on account of heavy snow and ic?.
The Northern Pacific reduces the mini­
mum freight rate, and issues a special east
bound live stock tariff.
Hank Keefe is released from jail in Minne­
apolis, no proof accruing that he murder­
ed McLean near Em Claire.
Justice Meech if Chicago files his declara­
tion in his libel suit against Rev. Dr. Kitt
ridge, Presbyterian clergyman.
Secretary Lamnr recommends legal ac­
tion to recover $*52,300 due the govern­
ment from the Uniou and Central Pacific.
Special telegrams to Bradstreet's the
past week reveal further improvement in
sooie lines at cities where gains have been
noted within a few weeks. This is more
conspicuous at Chicago, Kansas City, Bos­
ton, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The
features are of the same character as those
previously noted.
The Addison Tinsley tobacco manufact­
ory at Louisiana, Mo was burned. It
employed 150 hands. Loss, $60,000 in­
surance $45,000.
On Rock creek, Umatilla connty, Oregon,
Henry Moore wad shot and killed by John
Warner. Both men were ranchers and
•beep owners.
The postmaster general has appointed
Muj. E. C. McClureof South Carolina n« ap­
pointment clerk of the postoflice depart­
ment vice James Crownley, resigned.
W. IT. Appleton of New Hampshire, prin­
cipal examiner in the patent oflice in the
division of textiles, has resigned.
A good deal is being said in diplomatic
circles about the purposes of Perry Bel
inorit, chairman of the house committee on
foreign affairs, in pushing his bill limiting
tho exaction of fees or the levy of taxes for
the consular verification of invoices. The
consul general's fees at Paris during last
year aggregated $51,176, while he is al­
lowed a salary of $5,000 a year and clerks
and other expenses. The consul general at
London collected over $50,000 in fees last
year and he is allowed $0,000 and clerks,
etc.
The appointment by the president of a
colored man from Albany to bo recorderof
deeds in the District of Columbia in place
of Fred Douglass has caused the Democrats
of that district to howl with indignation.
The house committee on the judiciary
resolved to report the Lowell bankruptcy
bill to the house on the 18th inst. with
amendments.
There will be some delay before Mr. Ed­
munds takes up Marshal Campbell's case
in the senate judiciary committee. The
fact is that everything is
.going slowly now­
adays in the matter tf confirmations, and
Minnesota, as the president once said, is a
long way off. The status of the Campbell
case is that the charges have been filed and
nothing more. Mr. Edmunds has notified
the plaintiffs to send on their proofs as soon
as possible. What will be proved is wholly
a matter of conj ecture.
During the trial of John S. Dyde, junior
partner of the firm of Eckersdorff it Co., for
forgery, in Montreal, Col. Dyde, the father
of the accused, fell dead in the witness box.
John B. Gough's will has been filed. The
widow is made executrix, with power to
revoke any bequests which are to relatives
and missionary societies.
Col. E. H. McPherson, agraduate ofWest
Point and a well-known Indian fighter,
committed suicide at Evansville, Ind.
Salem, the second oldest city in Massa­
chusetts, will celebrate the 250th anniver­
sary of her incorporation on July 5.
The following fourth-class postmasters
were appointed: Dakota—Arthur, Cass
county, S. W. Hall Lodi, Clay county, S.
J. Douthet. Minnesota—Victoria, Carver
county, W. R. Hoag. Postmasters Com­
missioned—Dakota: Aden, A. J. Williams
Caledonia, E. N. Falk. Minnesota: Lam­
bert ville, William Opd.vke Belcher, T. W.
Brown Fairhaven, J. H. Biller Fertile, 0.
Kankel Freeport, J. Poschen Lexington,
William Berrisrord New Munich, J.But
weiler. Wisconsin: East Delavan, G. W.
Fryer. Postoflices Established—Dakota:
Moline, Faulk county, Sarah Hillman
Morris, Eddy county, T. P. Morris.
The river and harbor committee voted
appropriations for the Red Iiiver of the
North, Grand Marais and Duluth.
The senate calls
for the records of the ad­
ministration of Morton, surveyor of the
Port of San Francisco, who damned civil
service reform.
C. R. McKenney, of the Lake City Senti­
nel, on his late visit to Washington bore a
petition signed by the mayor, councilmen
and a majority of the businessmen of Lake
City, addressed to the Minnesota delega­
tion in con,' ess, setting forth the urgent
necessity of a harbor ol refuge in Lake
Pepin at this point, and he insufficiency
of the appropriation already made for
that purpose, and requesting them to la­
bor for an increase of such appropriation.
Last year Chicago insurance agents re­
ceived about $3,000,000 in premiums, and
paid out $2,564,000 iti losses.
Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow is a self
announced candidate to succeed Senator
Mitchell.
Parson Downs has sued the Boston Post
for $20,000 for alleged criminal libel.
Thomas Christie and II. King, clerks in
the First National Bank at Bradford, Pa.,
are arrested for embezzling $60,000 of the
institution's cash.
Tho committee on public buildings take
no action on the proposition to limit the
cost of the Minneapolis building to $650,
000.
The following postmasters were appoint­
ed in Minnesota: Buras—C. E. Casper,
vice Hare, resigned Pottsdam—F. Peter
ick, vice Engleby, resigned Thiel—Mauton
H. Ilampe, vice llall, resigned.
W. Helena Randall of St. Peter asks that
a patent bo
issued to her for a half section
of land subject to entry, at Redwood Falls,
without the payment of fees.
H. S. Allen, one of the oldest settlers in
tho Northwest, died at his home in Chip­
pewa Falls of inflammation of the bladder,
after a brief illness, at the age of eighty
years.
The bodie3 of M. Colman and Wilson
Patten, two well known citizens of Seattle,
Wash., were recovered from Lake Washing­
ton. They were assassinated on the night
of Feb. 7 by some unknown persons. Col­
man was foreman of the grand jury that
indicted a number of men for participation
in tho recent Seattle riot, and also those
who shot and killed several Chinamen at
the Newcastle coal mines.
The passens* rate from San Francisco
to Chicago is to $20.
The organization of the Northwestern
Base Ball league is completed at Eau
Claire.
Schumacher's oatmeal mills in Akron.
Ohio, are damaged about $1,000,000 by
fire insurance light.
Gov. Knott of Kentucky orders state
troops to Pulaski county to extinguish an
armed uprising of miners against convict
labor in the mines.
E. H. Graham Dewey, principal witness
in the Maxwell-Preller murder case in St.
Louis, turns up in Dubuque with a shady
record.
The evangelist, Sam Jones,receives severe
criticism from Chicago clericals and club
men lor his reckless utterances.
The American hotel in Boston loses a
wing by fire. Loss, $65,000 insured.
Judge McC'onnell, at Wahpeton, Dak.,
sentences the remaining parties to the Dill
murder to the penitentiary.
Arthur Mackaye gets a divorce from
Maud Miller, Joaquin's daughter.
J. H. W. Cad by, an extensive dealer in
musical instruments at Kingston, Catskill
and Schenectady, N. Y., with headquarters
at Hudson, N. Y., was arrested at Hamil­
ton, Canada, charged with a$6,000forgery.
The charge is made by the Farmers' Na­
tional Bank of Hudson. He will be return­
ed on extradition papers.
Sam Johnson, negro, agod sixty-five,out­
raged the nineteen-year-old daugter of
Henry Herbert, white, at Eatontown, N.
Fred Kenzle, fortwenty-fiveyears a host­
ler in Pennsylvania, has fallen heir to $100,
000 left by a relative in Germany.
A sensation was created in Burlington
Neb., by the announcement that Mrs. Alice
Bell had shot herself with suicidal intent.
The lady had recently been married to An­
drew Bell, tho son of a prominent business
man of that city. Two weeks aso her hus­
band left her and his parents refused to as­
sist her, and she returned to her parents.
The deseition of her husband and otlier
troubles so affected her mind that shesbot
herself in the head with a revolver, but for­
tunately the ball glanced off, and the
wound, the phvsicians think, will notprove
fatal.
A fire at Sprinefield, Mo., burned the
auction house of Hirst A Henry and the
dry goods store of B. T. King. Loss by
Hirst & Henry, $16,000 insured for $12,
000 B. T. King, $33,000 insurance, $23,
000.
Mormon women, in large numbers, re­
cently held a meeting in Salt Lake City.
Many speeches were made, and a protest
adopted. The speeches to uphold the
rights of women to go into polygamy said
thousands of women in the East now fh
prostitution would be glad to be made
wives such as the speakers were. It was
maintained that the government had no
right to say women shall not marry. It
might as well take the opposite course,and
compel vireins from the cloisters to marry.
Such social preferences should be respected.
The government had no right to interfere.
The protest declared that womanhood had
been outraged in Utah courts in questions
about maternity, lathers of children, etc.
WashingtonSpecial.—The committee on
claims recomnended that H. K. lielding
be paid $I,5ti for carrying mails from
1858 to 1802ou the route from Browns­
ville to CariiiKiia. Tho committee have
also been askel to act promptly on the
claims of Tlionas George of Lake Benton
for $1,080 forloss of his crops in the Sioux
outbreak of 1HJ2. Isaac Slocum of Blue
Earth county isks for $3,460 for losses in­
curred during the Sioux outbreak in 1857
and for property unlawfully taken from
hiin by the Unled States marshal. The
committee on pensions recommends that
a pension be granted to Mrs. Bridget
Smith, inotlierof Patrick J. Smith, Tenth
Minnesota, and John L. Hunter, First
Minnesota momtcd rangers. The follow­
ing have made ipiilicationsfor pensions by
special act of wngress: George Chambers,
First Minnesota Betsey Bartholomew,
widow of LamMit Bartholomew, Second
Light artiller*, Minnesota volunteers
Jacob Nix, who wants an increase of pen­
sion. Mr. Striit has with tho military
committee a bil providing that in recogni­
tion of the valuibleservices of John Jones,
late captain cf the First Minnesota bat­
tery, especially in the defense of Fort
Ridgely when a:tacked by the Sioux In­
dians in 1862. the president be authorized
to place him on the retired list of theariny,
with the rank aid pay of a captain.
Congressman Wakefield of Minnesota
has submitted ts the committee on post
offices a plan tosimplify and economize the
collection and nanagemeut of the postal
revenues. He proposes that: The post­
master general te directed to select from
the first and seoond-class postoflices such
a number us he may deem adequate for the
purpose, to be disignated as "depositories
and depots," for tho depositing of postal
funds and supplying postage stamps to
other postoffices. 11c will then arrange the
postoflices into districts convenient to
said depositories, and they shall there­
after deposit all postal funds with and ob­
tain all supplies from said depots. Post
office supplies are to be furnished by tho
department to tl ese depositories only. All
postmasters shall thereafter be paid a fix­
ed yearly compensation, and the salaries
of postmasters of the fourth class shall
range from $12 to §1,000.
A Gcrman colony )tas purchased 21,000
acres of land in Kansas, which will be de­
voted exclusively to grape culture.
A remarkable temperance revival is in
progress in Clay county, Indiana. In one
town of 500 inhabitants 300 lia*e signed
the pledge, including many saloonkeepers.
Four Ursulinenuns left Cleveland recent­
ly for work in Montana.
V. A. Witcher, ft well known orator and
politician in West Virginia, was lynched for
wife murder.
The bodies of Colman and Patten, prom­
inent Sea ttle citizens, assassinated by anti
Chinese agitators, are recovered from Lake
Washington. W. T.
The committee on military affairs refuse
to recommend that a branch of the
nation­
al homo for disabled volunteers be located
in Minnesota.
Zach Montgomery of the interior de­
partment, charges Senator Ingalls with
grossly misstating his sentiments in the
senator's recent speech.
The senate committee on public lands
will report favorably upon the bill to al­
low homestead settlers within railroad
limits who acquired only eighty acrcs to
take an additional eighty acres adjoining
the original claim if any adjoining land re­
mains vacant.
At Wapheton, I)ak., Judge McConnell
sentenced O. C. Schoenemau to three years
each, and Julius Kliel, the hired man, for
four years. Mrs. Dill the principal offend­
er in this case, is now serving a life sen­
tence in the penitentiary.
E. B. F. Grnliam, aged thirty-five, a
book-keeper employed by Kirkendale &
Brown at Butte and Helena, Mont., for the
past two or thrceyears, committed suicide.
Graham stated to a friend that while in
Helena lie was engaged to the young lady
who recently became the wife of Thomas
Cruse, tho Helena milling millionaire, and
that she cast him off onaacount of Cruso's
wealth. It is supposed that disappoint­
ment was the cause of suicide.
Prince Pascal de Bonrboun, brother of
the ex-king of Nafifcs, has just figured in a
police court, being: charged with fraud in
giving a mortgage for $150,000 upon his
villa, which ho had already mortgaged to
its full value—$30,000.
Prince Krapotkine, the learned and
famous anarchist recently released from a
French prison has decided to make his
home in Hampstead, England, and ex­
pects to spend there in peace and quietude
the closing years of his adventurous and
troubled life. He intends, however, before
resuming his studies to make a tour of
England and America delivering lectures.
A strong effort is being made at Ottawa
to repeal that portion of the Canadian Pa­
cific railway charter which refers to the
construction of branch lines south to the
central boundary line.
In Vienna ("apt. Gerstel of the Austrian
army, was tried by a court martial for a
slight offense and convicted. A light sen­
tence was imposed upon him. He heard
the sentence with composure, and bowed
respectfully to the court, then drawing a
revolver and placing it to his head tired
two shots, and fell dead.
Ex-Collectors Arthur and Robertson, of
the port New York are to be sued for
technical shortages.
An earthquake shakes up Coscnza, Italy,
with fatal results.
The German eovernment unearths a con­
spiracy to sell the plans of German fortifi­
cations to I'"ranee.
Mr. Gladstone is steadily effacing the
factional Liberal opposition to his Irish
remedial programme, in which a land pur­
chase bill stands first.
The name of the man who fired off his
pistol in the Paris bourseis not Petrovich,
but Gallot. Formerly he was a chemist's
assistant, and a frequent speaker at pub­
lic meetings. In 187!) Gallot was convict­
ed of coining and circulating counterfeit
money. The police examined Gallot's
apartments and found materials for the
manufacture of explosives, and a number
of bombs. The authorities are convinced
that Gallot belongs to an organization of
conspirators and ate endeavoring to find
his accomplices.
An earthquake has occurred at the city
of Cosenza, Southern Italy. A number of
houses were thrown down, one person kill­
ed aid several wounded.
In a new text book which has been order­
ed by France to be used in all tho French
schools, there is a paragraph which teaches
that if every Frenchyouthdoes hisduty tho
republic will some day be strong enough
to regain Alsace-Lorraine.
Frank Humphreys of Mill Grove, Ga., is
arrested, charged with murdering Miss
Rains and Miss Humphreys, his sister-in
law, and outraging Miss Humphreys.
Alexander Stewart, the Vermont farmer
who claims to be an heir of the dead mill­
ionaire of the same name, has filed a com­
plaint in equity in the United States court
asainst Judge Hilton to recover $200,000.
Stewart had Ir-en adjudged a lunatic in his
native state, and action is brought by his
guardian, Benjamin F. Whelden.
Eve-ret S. Smith, a well known cnmpoB
i'or and secret iry of the Nashville Typo­
graphical union, committed suicide recent­
ly, and was found dead with a bullet
through his heart. He left a letter ascrib­
ing his woes to whisky.
A local union in th American Flint Glnsi
works at Pittsburg, strikes against the
employment of the Knights of Labor or­
ganization in the same factory with its
members.
Ottawa is full of pride over the most
brilliant ball since Dufferin's time. It con­
sumed 3,000 bottles of champagne.
Scott L. Fisher, ft retired merchant at
Sidney, N. Y., abandoned his family and
eloped with a fourteen-year-old girl.
About $600,000 has been pledged for the
proposed Catholic University of America.
Only $200,000 more is asked for at pres­
ent.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister of Gen.
Grant, is lecturing in Massachusetts under
the auspices of the Women's Chriatain
Temperance onion.
A fascinating but impecunious clergyman
of Detroit creates a sensation by marry­
ing the rich Widow Mabley.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
SENATE.—A message was received from
the president refusing to transmit to the son
ate papers regarding suspensions from oSice.
Mr.'Pugh presented a minority report from
the judiciary committee on the relations
between thesenatoand the president. It was
very long, and in substance takes the
same
ground as the president in his message.
When the message had been read Mr. Ed­
munds said:
It reminded him of the communications
ol King Charles the first to parliament,
and that the president unintention­
ally, no doubt, had entirely mis­
stated the question involved by himself
and the senate. I think I am safe in saying
that is the first time in the history of the
republic that any president of the United
Sta tes has undertaken to interfere with tho
deliberations of cither house of congress
or
questions ponding before them otherwise
than by message on the state of the Union,
which the constitution commands him
to make from time to Mine. This message
is devotod uolcly to a question for the son
ate itself, in regard to it3elf, that it has
under consideration. It is a singularity. I
think it will strike reflective people in this
country ns somewhat extraordinary, if, in
these days of reform, anything at all can
be thought extraordinary. The senate of
the United States, in its communication!!
to the heads of departments, not his heads
of departments, but the heads of depart­
ments, created by law, directed them
to transmit certain official papers, and
that is all. The president of the United
States undertakes to change tho question
into a consideration by the senate of
his reasons or motives for putting a civil
officer, as it might be called, "under ar­
rest," with which the senate has not un­
dertaken in any way to make any question
at all. By every message he lias sent to
this body, and they are all published, ho
has asked the senate to advise
and consent
to the removal of one officer and the ap­
pointment of another. That is what he
has done, and the senate in calling for
those papers—to say nothing of the wider
considerations about any deficiencies in
the department of justice—is asked to re­
move these officers without knowing the
condition of the administration of their
offices.
HOUSE.—Bills were introduced to repea
the patent laws and establish another
system of rewards for inventions to repeal
the internal revenue laws to create a de­
partment of industry and a bureau of
labor to admit free of duty lumber, salt,
coke, coal and iron ore produced in Canada.
Unanimous consent was asked to have
printed in the Record a memorial calling
tor the impeachment of the secretary oi
the treasury for high crimes and misde­
meanors in the execution of the silver law,
but objection was made.
SENATE—The president sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Consuls—Henry Albert Johnson to the
District of Columbia, at Venice Mortimer
A. Turner of Arkansas, at St. Thomas.
Commodore William Truxton to be rear
admiral in the navy. Another whole day
was spent in the discussion of the Blair ed­
ucation bill.
Senator Gorman introduced a bill author­
izing the president to invite the presidents
of tlie sixteen American republics to meet
in Washington on March 4, 1887, in honor
of the one-hundredth anniversary of tho
constitution of the United States.
HOUSE—After reports from the commit­
tees, including one which presented the con­
sular and diplomatic appropriation bill,
and other routine business, the pension ap­
propriation bill was debated, and the dis­
cussion was almost entirely political in
character.
A message which was read from the Pres­
ident on the subject of the outrages agaimt
the Chinese is none too timely. It deals
solely with the Rock Springs massacre,
but the principle involved in the
more recent outbreaks is of course
tho same. In vigorous and unmistak­
able language the president calls attention
to that unhappy affair, dwelling particu­
larly an the fact that not only are the
Chmamen in this country entitled to as
full and complete protection to life and lib­
erty as aliens of any other nationality, but
under our treaty with China, even more so.
He also kits out the fact that tho
Rock Springs affair was almost entirely the
work of men who were themselves
no more citizens of the United
States than were their Chinese
victims, and briefly but strongly condemns
that ghastly travesty ol justice which the
Wyoming authorities perpretrated under
the form and. color of law. As to the
claims of China for indemnity, the presi­
dent concurs v.-itli the secretary of state in
the opinion that they are entirely without
foundation, but suggests that it might bo
well for congress to display some generosi­
ty toward the- victims of the unprovoked
and unjustifiable outrages.
The president sent the senate the follow
ing nominations:
Lieut. Col. Alexander Chambers, Twenty
first infantry, to be colonel of the Seven­
teenth infantry Maj. John S. Poland,
Eighteenth infantry, lieutenant colonel ol
the Twenty-I
irst infantry Capt. George K.
Brady, Twuity-tliird infantry, major o!
the Eighteenth infantry First Lieut.
William Manning, Twenty-third
infantry,captain Second Lieut. WiliiamA.
Nichols, Twenty-third infantry, first lieu­
tenant Second Lieut. James Lockett,
Fourth cavalry, first lieutenant Joshua
T. Child of Missouri, minister resident and
consul gsneral to Siam William Gordon of
New York, consul «t. Medellin.
HOUSE.—l!'ho debate on the pension ap­
propriation bill was resnmed, but mora
was said ou politics than on pensions. The
army appropriation bill was reported.
SENATE.—Mr. Sewell, from the committee
on the library, reported favorably a joint
resolution accepting from William JI.
Vanderbilt and Julia Dent Grant objects ol
value and art presented by foreign goverw
nients to the late Gen. U. S. Grant. On
the suggestion of Mr. Ingalls, it was chang­
ed to the form of a bill and passed.
Mr. Sewell, from the committee on mili­
tary affairs, reported favorably the house
bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter,
with a report giving the views of a majori­
ty of the committee. Mr. Sewell added
that Mr. Logan would later submit the re­
port of the minority.
The debate on the education bill was re­
sumed.
HOUSE.—The pension bill was again con­
sidered. and tho political debate continued.
The bill finally passed. The speaker an­
nounced the special committee on the Pan
Electric' telephone investigation as follows:
Boyle, Oates, Eden, Hall, Halo, Rannock,
Millard, Hanback, and Moffat. Adjourned.
SENATE.—The education bill was amend­
ed and passed by the slim vote of 36 to 11
-tho whole Senate being composed of 7"
The vote in detail
members—20 dodged.
is as follows:
Yeas—36. Berry, Gibson, Payne, Black­
burn, Hoar, Piigh. Blair, Jackson, Ran­
som, Bowen, Jones (Ark.), Iiiddle
berger, Call, Kenna, Sawyer, Col­
quitt, Logan, Spooner, Conger. Mahono,
Teller, Culloni, Manderson. Vance, Dolpli,
Miller (N. Y.). Van Wyck, Eustis, Mitchell
(Or.), Voorliees, Evarts, Morrill, Walt­
hall, George, Palmer, Wilson (Iowa).
Nays.—11. Cockrell, Hale, Maxey.Coke,
Harris, Plumb, Frye, Ingalls, Wilcon (Md.)
Gray, .lones (Nov.).
The bill provides: Foreight years after its
passage there shall be annually appropri­
ated from the treasury the following sums
in aid of common school education in the
Btatrs, territories, District of Columbia
and Alaska: The first year, $7,000,000
the second, $10,000,000 the third $15 I
000.000 the fourth, $13,000,000 the
fifth, $11,000,000, the sixth, $!1,000,000
the saventh, ?7,000,000, and thecight, $5,
000,000, in a ki ne $77,000,000 besides liich
there is a special appropriation of $2,000,
000 to aid in the erection of school houses in
sparsely settled districts—makingthe total
fund $70,000,000. The money is given to
thp several states and territories in the
proportion which the whole number of per­
sons in each, who, being of the age of ten
years and over, can not write, bears to the
whole number of such persons in the United
States according to the census of 1880.
HotrsE—The day was mostly devoted
to the consideration of the urgent
deficiency
bill, the debate being almost entirely polit­
ical. The bill finally passed.
TERRY AFTER HANCOCK.
Ilrlg. Gen. Terry Nominated by the Pres­
ident to Succeed Hancock us Major
General.
MAJOR-GENERAL A-H-TERW
The president has sent to the
senate
the
nomination of Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry
to be major general, vice Winfield Scott
Hancock, deceased.
Gen. Terry was born at Hartford,Conn.,in
1827,and is consequently 58 years of age.
Ho
was a lawyer before the civil war, but tho
breaking out of the rebelion found him a
colonel in tho expedition against Port
Itoyal, in November, 1861. He became a
brigadier general in March, 1862, and
took a prominent part in the capture of
Fort Wagner, in September, 1863. Gen.
Terry commanded a division in the ariny
of the James river, in Virginia, in 1864,
and was selected by Gen. Grant to
lead the expedition against Fort
Fisher with the co-operation ot Admiral
Porter. On the ISthday of Jannary.1885,
he assaulted the fort,and was met with ob­
stinate defense, butcapturcd the entire gar­
rison and armament, thus securing one of
the most important results of the war.
Gen. Terry assumed command of the de­
partment of Dakota Sept. 18. 1886. He
was relieved by Gen. Hancock, May 17,
1859. From there
he went as commander to
the department of the south, with head­
quarters at Louisville, Ky. llo returned
to the command of tho department of Da­
kota in January, 1873, and has been there
ever since. It is impossible at tins time to
tell what the changes will be at Fort Snell
iug, as there will be an appointment of an­
other brigadier general, and matters there
will hang fire, waiting tor further advices
from Washington.
A Swell Marriage of Rich Israelites.
New York Special: One of the most bril­
liant of the spring weddings took place on
Fifth avenue and united two of the most
wealthy and prominent families of the me­
tropolis. The bride was Miss Julia Worius
er, the daughter of the rich Wall street
broker, Isadorc Wormser and the bride­
groom Jefferson Seligman, son of James
Seligman, ol the firm of J. & S. Seligman,
of Broad street. The bridal dress
was very beautiful. The material was a
soft, heavy ivory satis, which fell in a.
court train three yards long. The front
was covered with two deep flounces of rare
point lace, the gift of her mother. The
bodice wascutsquareand trimmed with the
same lace, and a full veil of tulle caught
by diamond pins, and a wreathe of orange
blossoms fell over all. She wore diamond
solitaires of unusual beauty, tho gitt of
the groom diamond bracelets, the girt
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wormser, as
well as a pearl necklaco and
diamond pendant, the gift of her
father. A princess might have envied tho
display of presents. They filled a lnr^e
room and included, besides, any amountof
silver and jewels, bronzes marbles, em­
broideries, Gobelin tapestries worth their
weight in gold, rich paintings and an
endless variety of bric-a-brac. The gift'
of the bride's father was $150,000 in
government bonds and diamonds. The
groom's father gave a large block of
government bonds, also a complete library
of standard works and a grand piano.
Simon Wormser, the uncleof the bride,gave
complete dinner and tea services of solid
silver, also three valuable silver fruit dish­
es purchased atthecentennial. The bride's
sister gave a $10,000 bronze statue of.
Hercules Acliiles and Cerberus," and the
brothers of the groom a fine rosewood
billiard table and a parlor pipe organ.
Clearing tlie Land of Trespassers.
Mitchell, Dak., Special: Under the actof
Feb. 25, 1885, and in accordance with in­
structions given by Commissioner Sparks,
of the general land office, several parties
in the counties of Brule and Charles Mix
have been notified by Special Agent M. T.
James tlint their enclosure of school and
public lands in the counties mint be re*
moved. In compliance with the notice
Abraham Turgeon and Edward Morgan,
both of Charles Mix county, rep­
resenting a company having about 2,000
acres enclosed, came to Mitchell and volua
tariiy niado a statement of the whole mat
ter of such unlawful iaciaaufes themselves,
giving all the information needed embrac­
ed in tho report of the special agent. The
special agent is required to file affidavit
with the United States attorney setting
forth the facts of such enclousure,
whereupon it becomes the duty
of the United States attorney
to bring the matter before the United
States court. In the present instance Mr.
Turgeon will go voluntarily and submit the
whole matter to Judge Tripp at a general
session of the United States court at Yank­
ton. Under the statute, the fences must be
taken down, nnd a fine not exceeding $1,
000 and imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or both, may be imposed.
Wiggins SOU WeatherwUe.
In an interview at Ottawa, Can., Wig­
gins said:
In August last he predicted that the
winter of 1886 would be unusually cold
and stormy on account of the planet Sat­
urn being in perihelion. This planet had
forced the gulf stream out of its course and
nearer to the American shore which ac­
counted for the lack of snow in the mari­
time provinces this winter, lie also pre­
dicted months ago, a heavy storm on the
meridian of London on March 3, which
would roach America on March 7 accom­
panied by high tides. He says it will be
lively in the maritime provinces and he is
curious to know how high Saturn will raise
the tides of Quebec, Halifax and St. John.
In Marqji violent northwest winds across
north American continental ways, preceded
by a dangerous storm in the Atlantic.
Sam Jones Rebuked*
Chicago Special. In his sermon at the
rirst Baptist church recently, the Rev.
bam Jones said:
"What a privilege it is to pray. Now I
wont all those who got down on their
knees and prayed before they came to this
meeting to rise in their seats."
About twenty persons arose in the audi­
tor urn.
"You can be seated now," said Jones.
"Why, brethren, I could find more prayer­
ful Christians in Hong Kong, China, than
there are in this meeting. If youcan'tpray
I want you to tako your carcasses out of
here. I don't want you to come here if you
can pray."
Several in the audience, including Rev
Scudder, of Plymouth church, took except
tion to these severe words, and it was some
time before Jones was allowed to proceed
with his sermon.
which i« .ake?aisPeech
in
,nterpreted
London
to mean that the gov-
tntil nn ^soon to be compelled to
take nn appeal to the country.
A treaty of peace between Servia and
Bulgaria was signed at Bucharest.
Earl Cairns gave a brilliant ball at Can
nps in honor of his fiancee, Miss Grant. The
»pnnce"2
Wale"'
the
duchess
of Mecklenberg and other members of the
nobility were present, Miss Grant, who
white
»tin ^»e, wMmuch
admired. There were 200 guests.
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS,
At the election at Tower City the li
cense men were victorious.
Judge Campbell and E. H. Van Ant­
werp of Yankton have formed a co­
partnership.
Elijah Godfrey, postmaster at Beu
lah, Douglas county, has been ap­
pointed a special agent of the interior
department.
Charies Long, night watchman at
Yankton, has just received $2,500,the
first installment of a large legacy left
him by a relative in Germany.
Grafton is to have a $5,000 art&
dan well. It is intended for general
water supply as well as for fire protec­
tion.
Grand Forks has just organized a
farmers' hail insurance company and
subscribed $75,000 stock.
A new insurance company called the
Dakota Mutual Live Stock associa­
tion has been organized with head­
quarters at Bed field.
Citizens of Crandon propose to pe
tition the Northwestern railroad to
keep the price of wheat in that town
as high as at competing places.
A delegation from the
Turtle Mount­
ain band of Chippewas are en route
for Washington to plead their claims
to the Devil's Lake land district.
Surveyors find that the shack of th«
murdered man Lenz is on the Fort
Rice reservation, hence his assailants
must be tried in the United States
court.
It is reported the Milwaukee road
will be extended thirty-six miles west
of Ipswich.
Frank W. Allen has resigned as
superintendent of the Caledonia mine,
and is succeeded by T. L. Skinner,
heretofore attorney for the company.
La Moure county commissioners
have been ordered to show cause why
they should not reimburse Stutsanan
county for the former's proportion oi
court expenses.
The Yankton flax tow bleaching
works are ready to begin operations.
First National Bank of Sioux Falls
is seized under an attachment in a
suit brought by the Sioux Falls Na­
tional bank.
Moses Kauffman i3 reported to have
left New Salem, leaving a good many
business claims unsatisfied.
Sioux Falls brokers, having been
severely bitten lately, refuse to lend
money on chattel mortgages.
Charles L. Pool, aged nearly one
hundred years, has located a claim in
the Devil's Lake region.
At Sioux Falls the other day Judge
Palmer decided that the court had no
jurisdiction to disbar a physician from
practice.
Some of the citizens in Watertown
and farmers in Codington county have
formed a joint stock company for the
fimit
mrpose of holding county fairs. The
of the capital stock is $10,000.
Attorney Bosard says Treasurer
Holman's books at Lakota were kept
fraudulently from the beginning. It is
also allegged that Holman's accounts
have been short for nearly a year.
Hon. J. H. King has sent in his
resignation as postmaster at Chamber­
lain.
Extensive gypsum beds are being
opened at Buffalo Gap.
Col. Wilbur F. Steele of Northern
Dakota was taken suddenly ill with
an affection of the heart while in at­
tendance on the meeting of the house
public lands committee in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunning of Leola wer6
found insensible a few mornings ago
from coal gas which had escaped from
a hard coal burner, and were barely
saved from death.
Rapid City has voted $8,000 for the
purpose of having Rapid creek
straightened at that place. There will
be many acres of land, reclaimed and
less damage from freshets.
The two prisoners confined in the
Steele jail—one for arson and the
other for murder—were caught hiding
a caseknife and submerging it in water
to harden it for the purpose of sawing
their way out of jail.
An indictment has been found
against the parties who tarred and
feathered W. H. Fulnier at Plankin
ton last summer.
Thomas Fish, at Valley City, was
bound over to the criminal court,
charged with outraging a thirteen
year-old girl.
Canton will vote in April on the
proposition of bonding the city for
$7,000 to put in a system of water
works.
L. Horton was appointed postmas­
ter at Elizabeth, vice Cragor declined
and K. J. Husevald at Cyrur,vice Ole
son. removed.
The Redfield Rifles have ordered new
uniforms at a cost of $850.
C. K. Howard has been indicted in
Lincoln county, charged with bringing
diseased Texas cattle into the terri­
tory.
Pennington county will vote on a
proposition to bond the county for
$15,000 for a jail at Rapid.
Lewis Olsen, general merchandise at
Caledonia, has assigned with liabili­
ties of $9,000.
A medical journal is to be published
at Mitchell by Dr. Andros and Dr. Se
vey.
George Woolsie, fifteen years of age,
was found dead on a ranch in Fall
River county. He was in charge of
stock, and is supposed to have acci­
dentally shot himself.
At the preliminary hearing of Cum
mines and the Byer brothers, the al­
leged horse thieves from Wyoming, at
Ellendale, they were discharged.
In the absence of Rev. A. P. Jones,
the preacher, at Frankfort, Spink
county, on a recent Sunday, his wife
preached a sermon, and the congrega­
tion now want the male to Jones stay
away all the time, or let his wife do
the preaching.
Creditors of Michael Mead, Luverne,
has taken steps to declare him in­
solvent.