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VOL. 12, No. 2.
NEWS COMMENTS.
"IF a republican president is elected this
year he will be elected by democratic votes,"
says the New York San.
NEW YOBK has anew pisy, "The Pulse of New
York." It ought to take well where there are
ao many beats as in that city.—Boston Times.
CHICAGO TIMES. Several pair of burst lungs
were swept out of the convention building yes­
terday morning. They are supposed to belong
to Blaine men.
MIK is the only creature that laughs, and
the louder he laughs the more nearly he re­
sembles the animals which cannot laugh.—
Boston Transcript.
WHO is Samuel J. Tilden, any way ?—Scissors
Not quite a corpse yet as he has sufficient vital­
ity to eat mush and get the nomination for
presidency on the democratic ticket.
HOBATIO SEYMOUR, of Whitesboro, New
Yorlc, reached his 71th birthday Msy 81. That
day he quietly visited Utica, one mile distent
from his home and diued there.
THE republicans had a colored man for tem­
porary chairman and it is now suggested that
the only way for the demoorats to get even is
to nominate a colored man for vice-president.
NOAH ARMSTRONG, of Glendale, had $23,000
on deposit with Donnell, Lawson& Simpson,
of New York when that firm failed. He is
probably the heaviest Montana loier in the
New York panic.
THE will of the late Cyrus H. McCormick
was admitted to probate last week in Chi­
cago. The estate amounts to $32,500,000, and
is divided among the members of Mr. Mc
Conmick's family.
JOHN P. BAILEY, of North Salem, has been
given a verdict for $5,000 against Ulysses &.
Grant,
Jr., for personal injuries inflictef upon
him by an Arabian stallion kept upon the prem­
ises of the defendant and said to belong to Gen^
Grant.
THE ten thousand copies of Puck containing
the tattooed anti Blaine cartoon, circulated in
Chicago just before the convention, did not have
the desired effect. It was a disgraceful move
and only acted as a boomerang for the opposi­
tion forces.
THE New York Times says it will not support
Blaine, and Harper's Weekly promises nasty
pictures. If the republican party is so near gene
that it is necessary to have the support of such
alleged newspapers, then the candle had better
be snuffed at once.
THE foundation for the Bartholdi statue
pedestal is completed. It rises twenty feet
above the old ramparts on Bedloe's Island, and
from its top the mountains of Pennsylvania
are visible. Work on the pedestal is to be
commenced at once.
THE Oregon voters at their state election
passed upon a proposition to give women the
right of suffrage. The majority against the
proposed amendment to the constitution was so
large as to make an early renewal of the move­
ment in that state unlikely.
SARAH BERNHABDT was hissed vigorously one
night recently at the Porte St. Martin because
she kept her audience waiting half an hour, but
when it was learntd that she had fallen through
a crack in the floor of her dressing room, the
audience felt sorry for her.—Kentucky State
Journal.
THE building for the United States and col­
lected state exhibit
1 at the New Orleans expo­
sition, has been designed by Chief Architect
M. Torgerson, who designed the main building.
It will be about one-half the size of the main
edifice and resemble it. Each Btate and terri­
tory,
beside the space for exhibits, will have a
reception room in the building.
AN EASTERN man has discovered that Blaine
will be the sixth president named James.
James Madison.
James Monioe.
James E. Polk.
James Buchanan.
James A. Garfield.
James G. Blaine.
There seems to be something in a name after
all.
A FRENCH iournal says: The glory of having
reached
the deepest recess of the ocean falls on
M. Martial, captain^of the Bomanche, and head
of the
exploring
expedition to Cape Horn.
minutes
Ou
the 11th of October last, in latitude 0 degrees 11
south, and longitude 20 degrees
35
minutes west, he tooK soundings at 7,370 metres,
the greatest depth reached as yet, and represent­
ing about four miles and a thousand yards in
English measure.
W. M. has a coin of which he would like to
know the value, and whether he can dispose of
it.
It
resembles the ten cent piece, is dated
1796,
and has fifteen stars around the head of
the Goddess of Liberty. Who can enlighten
this
correspondent?—PhiladelphiaCalL After
racking our memory, and sticking closely to the
date, we refer you to Susan B: Anthony. It is
believed that she wore it when she* was in the
Starred ooins were fashionable a« stage
ornaments in those days,
THE DAY'S REPORT.
As Taken from the Electric Machines
for the Enlightenment of Capi­
tal City Readers,
Brings News of Fire and Flood from
Districts Ontside of Dakota's
Favored Borders.
While the Nourishing Bains Which
Fall Within Assure the Abun­
dance of the Crop.
The Musical Festival at Mi nneapolis
Closes Amid Thunder, Light­
ning and Rain.
Indian Territory Has its Band of Bad
Men Who are to be Wiped out
by the Militia.
The Washington Budget.
Minneapolis Frond.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 12.—The Quincy-Minne
apolis ball game was postponed on account of
the rain. The last concert of the June festival
was held amidst storm, thunder, lightning, and
rain. Lightning struck the Coliseum this after­
noon, creating a panic in the audience attending
the children's concert, but prompt action on
the part of several resolute men and women, es­
pecially Theodore Thomas, who, finding the
Building not on fire, signalled the orchestra to
proceed, and prevented any one being seriously
injured, though several ladies were carried faint­
ing from the room. The great concert hall to­
night was densely packed from the
stage to the remotest corners of the
dress circle and balcony. Hundreds
were standing throughout the entire evening.
The opening number was Hay den's Creation,"
with Madame Nilsson, Miss Juch, Messrs. Toedt
and Bemmertz, soloists, and a chorus of six
hundred voices. Each soloist received gen­
erous applause, Nilsson being accorded another
flattering ovation. After the rendering of
"Oh! Perfido," a duet by Nilsson and Winkel
man.act three from "Lohengrin" closed the
performance. In every respect the festival was
a great success, and Minneapolis will hereafter
be ranked as one of the great musical cities of
America.
Floods in Pennsylvania.
PIITSBUBG, June 12.—Points along the Alle­
gheny valley were visited yesterday by one of
the heaviest rain storms known for many years?,
causing the most destructive flood since 1885.
At Brockville a water spout burst, and in lees
than two hours the creek rose ten feet, tiani
forming it into a seething, foaming torrent.
The rapid rise gave mill men no chance what­
ever to save their stock. Dams at NorthfOrk
mills, iBryant and Wainwright Litch mills
gave way, carrying with them lumber valued at
$70,000. Two bridges were washed away, many
small buildings demolished and a number of
families driven from their homes and com­
pelled to seek shelter elsewhere for the night.
In Pittsburg the rise in the Allegheny last night
was very rapid, and a number of coal barges
were swept from their moorings but caught by
tow bosts uninjured. The flood at Brockville
brought down about 50,000 pieces of lumber,
and almost every owner of a skiff is busy today
catching drift wood. The water is now subsid­
ing and no further damage is anticipated.
Bad Men in the Choctaw at ion.
FOBT SMITH, Ark., June 12.—Late advices
from Indian territory are to the effect that a
band of thieves exists in Gaines, Sansabois, Cul
ley, Villa and Coles counties, Choctaw nation,
and that they are thoroughly organized under a
captain and other, officers. They are said to
number fully a hundred, mostly Choctaw In­
dians and are extensively depredating on prop­
erty. A fight occurred between some of them
and an officers posse in Sansabois a day or two
ago, in which two of the band were killed and
several captured, including five women. The
militia of the nation have been called out to ar­
rest them and at last accounts fifteen of the
band had surrendered in Sansabois hills, and
when all tfce militia gets together an effort will
be made to round up the whole gang.
Banquetting With Farmers,
LANCASTEB, Penn., June 12.—The annual
banquet of the Pennsylvania Farmers' club
was held at the residence of Colonel Duffy
this morning. Among those present were
Senators £dinunds, Pendleton, Bayard, J.
Donald Cameron, Angus Cameron, General
Simon Cameron, Charles A. Dana, George W.
Ghilds and judges of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania.
Fire at Boston.
BOSTON, June 12.—A fire is now burning the
building occupied by the National Rubber and
New Brunswick Rubber companies, Congress
street. The three upper stories are burned and
BISMARCK, DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1884.
still burning. An explosion of fcaptba on the
second floor burned three firemen, Hodgson,
Halsey and Littleton they were taken to the
hospital. Others were injured an follows: John
Flavel, District Engineer Cunningham, Captain
Willard, Captain Frost, Lieutenant Gradyick
and Ladderman Sweitzer. The loss will be
heavy insurance, $490,000 on stock and $27,000
on buildings.
Died in Peace.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 12.—News has been re­
ceived of a deadly affray at New Albany, Miss.,
between J. B. Reeves, mayor of the town and
editor'of the Union Count/ Optic and Lloyd
Ford, a good for nothing desperado. They had
an altercation about the congressional contest
between Morgan and Watson, candidates for the
democratic nomination. Each shot five times.
Ford was shot in the breast, from which he
died. One bullet from Ford's pistol struck
Squire Reeves' father, J. R. Reeves, inflicting a
flesh wound in the leg. Just as Ford was dying
he said to a bystander: ''Did I run? No?
Then I die in peace."
Br. Pratt vs. Pioneer Press.
ST. PAUL, June 12.—Judge Berry, of the
Minnesota supreme court, today filed a de­
cision affirming the order of the Hennepin
county district court, granting anew trial in
the Dr. Leonard Pratt vs. Pioneer Press case.
Dr. Pratt appealed from the above order ren­
dered on motion of the defendant, the Pioneer
Press, the court having declared excessive the
jury's award of $5,000 damages for Pratt in a
libel suit. The Pioneer Press said that Dr.
Pratt had permitted a dead child to remain in
the room with the sick mother for an unneces­
sarily long time.
The Buiuih Outrage.
DULUTH, June 12.—A party of fifty men, ex­
cited over the sensational reports which impli­
cated Runmark, his brother and a cousin, in the
murder of Mrs. Runmark went out to the resi­
dence of the former last night and took the
three parties out of bed by main force and
brought them to the city at an early hour this
morning and delivered them over to the sheriff.
There was no charge or warrant against the men
and no evidence at all pointing to them as the
guilty parties and they were promptly released
by the sheriff who refused to hold them.
How Mexico Takes It.
MEXICO, via. Galveston, June 12.—Newspa­
pers continue discussing tbe nomination of
Blaine, which is generally regarded as a threat­
ened evil for Mexico. La Liberta and Ameri­
can says it hopes for the election of Blaine, for
Mexico has more to fear from a friendly presi­
dent than one who is avowedly hostile, regard­
ing it as more to the interest of Mexico to deal
with her neighbor in a spirit of want of confi­
dence and reserve than to hobnob with traitors
who pretend to be friends in order to become
masters.
Tariff Reform lieaeue.
NEW YOBK, June 10.—The Tariff Reform
league formed here today with W. B. Anderson,
of Rochester university, as president. The vice
presidents include Henry Ward Beecher, Geo.
William Curtis and Governor Richmond. The
league is to hold annual conventions. Ad­
dresses were made by David A. Wells, Gen­
eral Devins, Thos. G. Sherman and others. Mr.
Wells was requested to frame a pamphlet on
the tariff question to be distributed among the
people.
Bigtcer Crops Than Ever,
JAMESTOWN, Dak. June 12.—Ihe heaviest rain
ever known by white men fell here this evening
about 7 o'clock, continuing about an hour. It
came from the southeast. No damage was done
except the temporary flooding of cellars. It
is thought this will make the wheat and oat
crops, which already looked splendidly. All
over the upper James river valley the farmers
are jubilant over the prospect jot the biggest
crops ever produced in this country.
Thurman fheirMan.
SAN FBANCISCO, June{12.—The Stockton Asso­
ciated Press representative interviewed a great
number of the prominent delegates to the dem
ocratic state convention now in sesion as to the
effeot
Tilden's declination would have on the
party throughout the state. All expressed sur
prise and regret but unanimously declared that
Thurman is now their man as he represents the
popular sentiment of the entire coast.
Kew Kailroad Arrangements.
ST. PAUL, June 12.—Northern Pacifio road an­
nounced to day that on and after July 1st that
road will operate for its own account the new
line of railway between Sauk RapidB and Min­
neapolis. It has been arranged to operate all
stations on this new line with the exception of
Minneapolis, jointly with the St. Paul, Minneap­
olis & Manitoba road.
A Bad Kisser.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 12.—Wm. Doom, a
worthless negro while drunk at Brandstown
Kentucky, cut out the entrails of George
Hughes, a hotel clerk, for ordering him away
from the premises. Hughes will die. It is
thought the negro will be lynched.
Thurman to the Front.
CINCINNATI, June 12.—Steps were taken to­
night to organize a Thurman club, with a view
of attending the Chicago convention in a body
to urge his claims for nomination.
HE DECLINES.
Tilden Writes a Letter in Which He
Repeats His Declination of
four Years Ago.
The Democracy Must Look Elsewhere
tor a Bar'l to Burst. Whose
Shall it Be?
Further Reports in Regard, to The
Union Depot Fire at St. Paul
Yesterday Morning.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Wiscon­
sin hold a Session and Elect
Officers for the Year.
Another Good Man Gone Wrong.
St. Louis Post Office Clerk De­
tected Stealing.
A
J. Declines.
NEW YOBK, Jane 11.—The following commu­
nication ffom Samuel J. Tilden has been given
to the associated press:
NEW YOBK, June 10,1884.
Daniel Manning, chairman of the democratic
state central ceinmittee of New York: In my
letter of June 18,1880, addressed to the dele­
gates from the state of New York to the demo­
cratic national convention, I said: "Having
now borne faitjifully my full share of labor and
care in the public service, and wearing the
marks of MB birdens, I desire nothing BO much
as an honorabfe discharge. I wish to lay down
tbe honors and toils ot even quasi party leader­
ship and to s^ek the repose of private life. In
renouncing th® renomination for the presi­
dency, I do sdjwith no doubt in my mind as to
the vote igf the state of New York,
or of the United States, but because I believe
that it is a renomination and re-election to the
presidency. To those who think my renom­
ination and re-election indispensable to an
effectual vindication of the right of the people
to elect their tutors, violated in my person, I
have accorded as long a reserve of my decision
as possible—but 1 can never overcome my
repugnance to enter into a new engagement
which involvet four years of ceaseless toil. The
dignity of the presidential office is above a.
merely personal ambition, but it creates in me
no illusion ita value is as a great power for
good to the country, as I said four years ago in
accepting thd nomination. Knowing as I do,
therefore, from fresh experience—how great
the difference is between gliding through an
official routina anl working out a reform of
systems and policies, it is impossible for me to
contemplate what needs to be done in
the federal administration, without an
anxious thoipht of the difficulties of the
undertaking, but if summoned by the suffrages
of my countrymen to attempt this work, I shall
endeavor, with God's help, to be the efficient
instrument it their will. Such a work of reno­
vation, after many years of misuse such a re­
form of syttems and and policies, to which I
would cheerfully have sacrificed all
that remained to me of health and life, is now,
I fear, beyond my strength." My purpose to
withdraw fr»m further public service and the
grounds of iSwere at that time well known to you
and others, and when at Cincinnati, though
respecting ny wishes yourself, you communi­
cated to me an appeal from many valued friends
to relinquii that purpose, I reiterated my de­
termination unconditionally. In the four
years whict have since elapsed rothing has
occurred to weaken,but everything to strengthen
the considerations which induced my withdrawal
from public life. To all who have
addressed lie on this subject, my intention has
been franlly communicated. Seyeral of my
most confidential friends, under the sanction of
their own names, have publicly stated my de­
termination to be irrevocable. That I have oc­
casion now to consider the question is an event for
which I lave no responsibility the appeal made
to me by the democratic massas, with apparent
unanimity, to serve them once more, is entitled
to the m»t deferential consideration and would
inspire a disposition to do anything desired of
me, if it were consistent with my judgment of
duty. 1 believe there is no instrumentality in
human Society so potential in its influence upon
mankind, for good or evil, as the governmental
machinoy for administering justice and for
making and executing laws. Not
all tiie eleemosynary institutions of
benevo^nce, to which philanthropists
may demote their lives, are so fruitful in bene­
fits as tie rescue and preservation of this ma­
chinery from perversions that make it the in
strnmeat of conspiracy, fraud and crime
againstthe most sacred rights and interests of
the pecple. For fifty years, as a private citizen,
never atntemplating an official career, I have
devoted at least as much thought and effort to
the duty of influencing aright the action of the
goveramental institutions of my country as to
all other objects. I have neyer accepted official
service except for a brief period for special
pnrptseB, and only when the occasion seemed to
require from me that sacrifice of private pref­
erences to the public welfare. I undertook tbe
state administration of New York because it was
snpp)Bed in that way only could the executive
power be arrayed on the Bide of the reforms to
whick, is a private citizen, I had given three
years oi my life. I accepted the nomination
for
the preiidency in 1876 because of the general
conviction that my candidacy would beet pre­
sent the issue of reform which tbe democratic
majority of the people desired to have marked
out in fba federal government, as it has been in
that of the state of New York. I believed that.I
had ttcngth enough then to renovate the ad
minfetntion of the government of the United
States,land at tbe close of my term to hand over
the great trust to a successor faithful to the
same rolicy. Though anxious to seek the re­
pose pf private life, I nevertheless acted
upon the idea that ever power is a trust
thatinrolves a duty. In reply to the address of
the Conmittee, communicating my nomination,
I debited the difficucties of the undertaking,
andilitened my feelings in engaging in it to
thote If a soldier entering battle, but I did not
witkhild the entire conservation of my powers to
pnbjic service. Twenty years of continuous
malidmniatration under the demoralizing
inflte ices of intestine war and bad finanoe,
bavi infested the whole governmental system
of the United States with the cancerous growth
of false construction and corrupt practice.
Powerful classes have acquired primary in
tereats in official abuses, and the moral stan­
dards of the people have been impaired. To
redress these evils is a work of great diffi­
culty end labor, and cannot be accomplished
without the most energetio and efficient per­
sonal activn on the part of the chief executive
of the republio. The canvass and administra­
tion which it is denied that I should undertake,
would embrace a period of nearly five years,
nor can I admit my illusion aa to their bur­
dens three years of experience in the
endeavor to reform the municipal government
of the city of New York and two yean of
experience in renovating tbe administration ot
the state of New York have made me familiar
with the requirements of such a work. .At the
present time the considerations which induced
my action in 1880 have become imperative. I
ought not to assume a task which 1 have not the
physical strength to carry through to reform
the administration of the federal government, to
realize my own ideal, and to fulfill the justifica­
tion of the people, would indeed warrant, as
they alone compensate, the sacrifioe which the
undertaking would involve, but in my condition
of my advancing years and declining strength I
feel no assurance of my ability to accomplish
my objects. I am, therefore, constrained to say,
definitely, that I cannot assume the labors of ah
administration or of a canvass, under
valueing in no wise that best gift of
heaven, the occasion and the powers, sometimes
bestowed upon a mere individual, to commem­
orate anj impulse ifor good. Grateful beyond
all words to my fellow countrymen who would
assign such a benificent function to me, I am
consoled by the reflection that neither demo­
cratic party nor the republic for whose future
that party is the best guarantee, is now or ever
can be dependent upon any one man for their
successful progress in the path of noble destiny.
Having given to their welfare whatever of
health and strength I possessed or could borrow
from the future, and having reached the limit
of my capacity for such labors as their welfare
now demands, I but .submit.
(Signed.) SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
What IlendricKs Thinks.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 11.—Hon. Thomas
A. Hendricks, in an interview concerning Til­
den's letter of declination, said tbe news was
not a surprise to him, for when he visited
Tilden in August last, that gentleman very
firmly announced his intention to remain per­
manently out of politics. On a succeding
visit in April last, the same determination was
expressed. Mr. Hendricks thought there was
little doubt that the eld ticket-would have been
unanimously nominated at the Chicago conven­
tion if it had not been for tbe declination today.
He said that the demand for it among the
democracy was almost universal and greater
than any movement of the kind that
had ever been seen in politics. Personally he
felt no great disappointment, he did not want
the office of vice president eight years ago and
did not want it now. If the old ticket had
remained in the field he should have considered
the election to that place a great honor con­
ferred by the people as a rebuke to what they
considered a great wrong. It would have pre­
vented seating of Hayes in 1876 from being
a precedent for future elections.
Blaine Meeting at Portland.
PORTLAND. Me., June 11.—An immense au­
dience gathered at tbe city hall this evening to
welcome the California delegates. Charles F.
Libby presided. Judge Schelland and Judge
Brush, of California, made iro speeches which
were received with much applause. John H.
Rand, of Nevada, followed. Every allusion to
Blaine was received with enthusiastic demon­
stration. Capt. Jos. A. Palmer, of Nevada, an­
nounced himself a cowtoy of Nevada, which
statement was received with a storm of plaudits.
He asserted that they would not have dared to
go back if they had flinched from their duty to
Blaine for they hung bilks in Nevada for that
Bort of thing. He paid an earnest tribute to
Logan, and closed by alluding to the wealthy
leader of Nevada, who wanted to go to Chicago
to vote for Arthur, saying he would pay all
their expenses, but they told him to stay at
home. Senator David McClure, of Cali­
fornia, predicted the time when the republican
party would fall into line with a strong de­
termination not to turn this gevernment over
to the democratic party. After another se­
lection by the band, Straub, of Portland, pre­
dicted 20,000 majority in Maine and that all
New England would go for Blaine. Loud calls
were made for General Selden Conner and he
responded eloquently. The meeting closed
with three cheers for Thomas B. Beed. The
delegates have accepted General Anderson's
invitation to go to the White Mountains to­
morrow.
The Same old Story.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11.—Isaac A. Stanley,
paying teller of the National Bank of Commerce
was jailed this evening for embezzling $100,000
from the bank. The shortage was discovered
yesterday afternoon when Cashier Garretson
counted the reserve fund kept in a special apart­
ment of the vault, the combination to which was
known only by Garretson and Stanley. When
asked to explain the shortage Stanley confessed
that a year ago he was troubled about a debt of
$800 on his house and thought he could take
that, gum from tbe reserve fund without harm
to any one and invest it in grain and realize a
profit and pay off the mortgage
on his place and retain the money, bnt
the investment was unfortunate, and to cover
the loss he took more, and so on until he had
taken a clean $100,000. The directors of the
bank met last evening, and after consultation,
held Stanley a prisoner at a hotel in the cus­
tody of a detective, and today more confer­
ences were held, resulting in his arrest. Stanley
has —ign^ his property and some speculation
PRICE FIVE CENTS
deals, and the bank announces in a card that it
will realize a part of the loss from this and will
not be affected by the defalcation.
The Union Depot Fire.
ST. PAUL, June 11.—A number of tickets
having been stolen at the depot fire this morn­
ing, all the roads came out this afternoon in a
circular cautioning the public against buying
tickets from other than authorized agents..
Conductors will refuse all tickets not properly
stamped. The Milwaukee road found it nec­
essary to order tickets from Milwaukee today.
The rotunda of the depot will be arched ovet
for tbe protection of passengers pending the
re-roofing and enlarging of the bmlding. The
total insurance on the building was $75,000,
not yet known in what companies. F. E. Snow
who kept the restaurant, had no insurance
his loss is $5,000, Other losses for which there
was no insurance amount to $6,000. This af­
ternoon two laborers |engaged in taking out the
debris were caught by the falling of a remnant
of the flooring of the second story, and one
was slightly and the other seriously and it is
thought fatally injured.
Wisconsin Masons,
MIBWAUKEK, June 11.—The Masonic grand
lodge of Wisconsin elected the following offioers
for the ensuing year: Grand master, Oliver
Sibley, Green Bay deputy grand master, H. W.
Sawyer, Hartford grand senior warden, John
0. Hailbohn, Fond du Lac grand junior war­
den, G. W. Bishop, Wonowoc grand treasurer,
F. L. Van Suessmilch. Delavan grand secre­
tary,(J. W. Laflin, Oshkosh trustee for three
years, Eugene Elliott. John W. Woodhull, de­
faulting treasurer, will be summoned before
the next annual convention to answer charges
against him.
Texas Democrats.
GALVESTON, Texas, June 11.—A Galveston
News Fort Worth Bpecial: Tbe democratic state
convention to elect delegates to the National
convention at Chicago, and to elect presidential
electors, convened at noon today. General
Clayborne, in calling the convention to order,
touching the issues of the day said: "Tariff for
revenue only is tbe democratic slogan. Men are
secondary issues." This sentiment was greeted
with applause and shouts of Tilden.
Magazine -Explosion,
DENVER. Col., June 10.—The Giant Powder
company's magazine containing 10,000 pounds
of powder, located three and one-half miles
east of this city, exploded with terrible force
this morning. A large number of plate fronts
in the business portion of the city were
wrecked and anew farm house, three hundred
yards distant, was completely demolished the
occupants miraculously escaped. No clue to
the cause of the explosion.
The Minnesota Leader.
ST. PAUL, June 10.—A large number of the
friends of ex-Governor Davis tendered him a
banquet at the Metropolitan hotel this evening.
The occasion was the return if Mr. Davis from
the Chicago convention. It was a very in­
formal affair a number of short speeches were
made, and ex-Governor Davis was honored by
being termed tbe leader of the Blaine party of
the state.
lieft for Portland.
ST. PAUL, June 10.—Vice President Oakes,
General Freight Agent Hannaford, Gen. Land
Commissioner Lamborn and Auditor Martic,
of the Northern Pacific road and John C. Bul­
litt, of Philadelphia, one of the directors of the
road, left to night for Portland. The party will
visit the Coeur d'Alene mines and be gone three
or four weeks.
Cremated in a Barn.
CHICAGO, June 11.—Early this morning an
unknown person entered a barn, corner of Cen­
ter avenue and Taylor street, and with alighted
candle ignited the hay. Fred Osdell, an ex­
pressman, fifty years old and a young man, name
unknown, were sleeping in the barn and burned
t] death.
A.
Destructive Fire.
KANKAKEE, Ills., June II.—The village of
Grant Park, this county, was swept by afire
last night, which destroyed twenty of the princi­
pal buildings, including business blocks and
two hotels. Loss not estimated, and insurance
light.
Sentenced to the Penitentiary.
HARTFORD, June 11.—John G. Morgan, gen­
eral auditing agent for the New* York banking
firm of Putnam & Earl, was sentenced to three
years in the pe.itentiary today.
Excursion Steamer Sank.
BALTIMORE, June 11.—The excursion steamer
Gazelle sprung a leak and sunk off Bodkin bar
last night. Forty members of the Tuesday club
were on board and were all saved, as was also
the crew.
A Postofllce Clerk anted.
ST. LOUIS, June 11.—OttoH. Weidner, gen­
eral delivery elerk in the postoffioe for several
years past, was arrested for rifling letters of
money and lodged in jail.
Boy Drowned.
ST. PAUL, June 1L—The nine-year-old son of
David Patterson fell off a barge in the river op­
posite the Chestnut street depot and was
drowned today.