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%^i 1% $•«. hi v., New Dim Review. BRANDT & WEDDENDORF, Publishers. NEW ULM, MINNESOTA THE South Australian government has made arrangements by which an engine driver who has run his trains for two years without accident shall be presented with THE Denver university ownb so much land in and around Denver that her treasury will soon be filled with millions from the increase in land values. A RESTAURANT man says: "As long as we keep frogs in a dark place their color is a dark brown. But when we bring them into the sunlight the col or soon begins to change, until final ly it becomes a light green." AT BURLINGTON, Ala., a Baptist minister took fifteen converts to a mill pond owned by one Burton for the purpose of baptizing them. Burton declared he did not believe in immersion, and drove the party off with a shotgun. THE English company who is working the Nacoochee mine in Georgia took out the other day a nugget ofgold weighing 1,300 penny weights, and was valued at $2,500. Not long ago they took one nugget that weighed 30 pennyweights, and another of 507 pennyweights. THE rise in refined sugar49 has reached 3 cents a pound. I is not a rise incident to a short crop, but to the power of the trust. Forty per cent, is the increase. I is a robbery of the poor. The profits of the trust for the first fivemonths were$8,230, 000. A PHILADELPHIA paper is told a horrible story by a doctor to the ef fect that gloves supposed to be kid are often made from human skin. The tanning of human skin is quite extensively carried on in France and Switzerland, it is said.« The cuticle of a child's breast makes a soft plia« ble glove material. A FARMER near Rantoul, HI., has hit on a novel idea for securing an outlet for his tile ditches. He bored a well ninety foet deep, in which wa ter rises forty feet. The water in the well never rises or lowers, no matter how much is poured in. Into this well he has turned the outlet of his tile drains, and he finds that it works like a charm. MR. BENARD tells a New Orleans paper that fighting is not so dan gerous as foot ball playing. Men fight in the ring according to scientif ic rules framed with the view to guarding as much as possible against fatal or even serious injuries to the contestants. A well trained pugilist is in a physical condition to endure punishment without hardship that would be too severe for the untrain ed man. STATISTICAL returns show that there are 1,000,000 more women than men in England, notwithstanding the fact that there are nearly 20 per cent, more boys than girls born in the country: The hazardous na ture of male pursuits is given as the reason for the disparity. Of the ex cess of women the majority are widows, relicts of men who at an ad vanced age formed matrimonial alli ance with young women. CAPT. €AMBIER, of Brussels, who was in charge of the surveys for the Congo Railroad, says the trains will make the entire journey, which now takes between three and four weeks, in two days. Engines of thirty tons will be used, and trains will run only during daylight. The entire Cost of the service the first year is estimated at $212,000, which added to the in terest on the capital at five per cent., will make a total outgo of $462,000. HORNED rattlesnakes are said to abound in the valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers, in Southern Arizona. The horns appear when the snake is less than faalf grown, and are attached to the head just above and a little to aside of the eyes. They present \jail the appearance of the two horns, resembling the stubs which adorn a ^•-calf's head, and reach the length of a ^//quarter of an inch in a* fall grown |specimen. I is not known that one of these snakes will hook its adver sary after the approved bovine fash don, but it is a fact that the horned snakes are-the most vicious and ven omous of the whole family of at ^lers, OTS IN BRIE The Latest News Gleaned From Asso ^Ntsjs eiated Press Telegrams. Washington Jottings* Senator Davis while in Washington will ar £Up before the interior department the claim of the settlers on the Mille Lacs reservation that the Indians should be removed and the lands opene 1 for settlement. Assistant At torney General Shields has been notified that an attorney for the Indians wishes to be heard, and is now on his way to Washing ton. Another hearing will be had in a few days. Secretary Noble has decided to appoint a commission to negotiate with the Sissetons for the cession oft at part of their reserva tion that is not taken by allotment. The commission will have to be detailed from the new men now in the government's service, as there are now no funds on hand to pay a commission made up outside. I was the in tention of the committee which wsnt to Washington to get a commission made up of men at or near the reservation, as they could thus deal more understanding^ with the In dians. Mr. Crossfield left for home, after a very satisfactory interview with the secre tary. Minor Casualties. A fire which broke out among some hemp warehouses on the docks along the River Pregel at Koenigsberg, Germany, caused a loss of half a million marks. The English steamer Tortona was burned. A disastrous cloudburst is reported from For Robinson, in the northwestern part of Nebraska. The flood swept down Soldier Creek valley, carrying allberore it. A wood chopper named Duncan, who lived in the valley with his wife and five children, was drowned together with three of his children. The rest escaped. A company of infantry has been sent out from the fort to search for bodies and to render all the assistance possi ble. Food, money and clothing: have been provided by the people at the fort. The village of Princeton Ohio was almost wiped out by a tornado and it is reported that fifty people were killed. No a house escaped damage, and some of them were blown entirely away. Shortly before 4 o'clock a heavy black cloud passed eastward and to one side of Hamilton, just missing Cincinnati. Turning sharply in its traek the storm came back and passed directly over Hamilton. The high wind was accompanied by a flood of rain and did great damage to trees. I was this storm which demolished the village of Princeton. The most impos ing building in the village, the new brick sehoolhouse, was swept away. There ai some twenty or more dwellings in the place, with a population of 200. Every house was more or less wrecked anrl some of them en tirely destroyed. In some instances not a trace was left of the structure that had stood on the spot. A watersDout caused the small streams known as Herring run and Moore's run, half a dozen miles northeast of Baltimore, to to an unprecedented height, bursting two dams.^ The water rushed down in a wall twenty feet deep, sweeping everything before it. Several people were drowned. Horses and cattle were drowned in large numbers, and property and crops are destroyed. I is reported that there is a scene of desolation and ruin along the streams named. The damage done cannot be estimated. Nearly every bridge crossing Herring Run was swept away. Fields of grain were destroyed and trucking farms ruined. The roads are all wiped out. The tracks of the'Hall's Spring horse railway were twisted and completely ruined. A large country store on the Har ford road was swept away. There was a, washout on the Maryland Central railroad at Guilford station, causing a suspension of travel. A cable car accident occurred at Cincinnati. The grip loosened and the cable dropped. The momentum increased every moment by the grade and heavy load until a speed of eighteen miles an hour was reached. When Eiehler's garden, a pleasure resort, was reached, a passenger requested the conductor to stop the cars. In an instant the brake chain broke and fell on the rapidly revolving front axle. Becoming fastened to it. the flooring of the car was knocked out, and a panic ensued, everybody yelling to jump, which the passengers did, and weie tossed in every direction, stunned and dazed. After the cars stopped it was found that Mrs. Will iam Telgate was killed by having her neck broken and skull frattured Mrs. S. Keller re ceived severe contusions about the head and body Thomas F. Conbey, Newport, Ky., had his left arm broken and was badly cut. An unknown young woman had her eye gouged out and received severe bruises. Pettj "Wickednesses. Wiley Matthews, the escaped Bald Knobber, killed two men in Arkansas who attempted to arrest him. E. Williams, a business man of Cole brook, N. H., has disappeared, lea\ing $80, 000 of fraudulent paper. Charges of thievery are made against the grain commission firm of Sherman Bros. & Co. of .Buffalo, iind arrests may be made. The preachers of Charleston, S. ft, entered a protest aajamst the verdict of acquittal of the jury in the McDow-Dawson murder case. E. L. Gillespie,doorkeeper of the last Neb raska legislature, is under arrpst at Pittsburg, Pa., as a fugitive from justice, charged by his wife with grand larceny. At Iona, Mich., Alf Algren, an insane Swede, stabbed J. T. Jackson, an attendant, to death, and in the house of correction George De Weight fatally stabbed another prisoner named Meaney. W. B. Watts, a well known lawyer and politician of Indianapolis, has been arrested on the charge of making unauthorized col lections for an estate for which he was attor ney and keeping the money. Elizabeth E. Gross shot and killed James E. Coates at Baltimore. The Gross woman states that Coates was beating his wife and that she remonstrated with him, whereupon Coates said he would kill her. Shortly alter he whioped out a raisor and used threaten ing language toward her. She. then took out her pistol and shot him dead. J- Geogre Hanson of Pleasant Grove, Minn., was arrested on circumstantial evidence on the charge of maliciously injuring his neigh bors' horses. Some poisonous fluid was ap plied secretly to produce ulcers, to cure which he afterward was paid extravagant prices lor bogus medicines. Hanson was enabled to purehaee the injured animals at acheaprate He made a clean breast of the whole affair and was fined $250, most of which went to the owners of the injured horses. Dr. William B. White of Boston, a medi cal electricaa, seventy-five years of age, shot his wife Ellen, an attractive young woman of about twenty-five years of age, and then committed suicide. Dr. White had baen married twice. By his at wife he had sev eral children, who are all grown up and do- wig well. Some two years ago his first wife died and he married his present wife, who was then, it is said, a ballet dancer a very pretty girl. Of late they have not lived hap pily together, the doctor being imbued with the idea that his young wife loved some other man. His wife will probably recovei. The station agent of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic at Soo Junction, Mich., found the remains of a Canadian mail pouch which has been missing since Nov. 2. The hag was known as the Windsor pouch, and was made up at the Canadian Soo. All graces of it was lost, and after a thorough investigation at the time by postoffice de tectives the search was given up. The theo rv now is {that it was stolen while being transferred from one train to another at Soo Junction in the dark, and taken into the woods by thieves, where it was rifled of its contents. In their hurry, however, the thieves overlooked a package of money amounting to $417.61. This the station agent discovered reduced almost to a pulp, and turned it over to Postonice Inspector Eugene Parsell. The bag contained beside $1,067 in registered matter, $524 of which was Canadian customs dues, all of which the robbeis secured. Foreign Brieflets. One-half of the town of Djarkened, in Cem iretchinsk, has been destroyed by an earth quake. The French chamber of deputies has papsed the Panam a canal relief bill in the form in which it was adopted by the senate. The famous church at Stroehus, near Bin gen, built in 1666, was struck by lightning during a terrific thunder storm and com pletely destroyed. Adherents of Mr. Parnell believe at an inspection of the books of the Loyal Patri otic union would afford proof that Pigott either wrote or fully inspired the "Parnehsm and Crime" papers. Miscellaneous Items. A London syndicate purposes to organize a gas company in America and furnish gas for 8 cents per 1,000 cubic feet in the holder. Troops have been ordered to Oklahoma City, where opposition factions to the city government threaten each other with annihilation. An indignation meeting was held at Johns town, Pa., and the management of affairs under Gov. Beaver's commission was severe ly denounced The Otis Iron and Steel company, the great est manufacturing concern of the kind in Cleveland, has been sold to an English syn dicate for $4,500,000. Arrangements are making at Newark, N. J., to form a leather trust. Nine-tenths of the patent leather made in this country is manufactured at Newark. Five of the laigest American trusts—the lead, sugar, cotton oil, distillers and cattle feeders aud American cattle—have a com bined capital of $219,183,200. The steel cruiser Baltimore returned to Cramp's yard after a satisfactory test of both speed and maneuvering. The engines averaged nineteen knots on a devel opement of 8,700 horse power. In an encounter at Brainard, 111., between striking miners and a sheriff's posse, two of the strikers were sholf One of the two, Dan Lillis, received a severe scalp wound, and the other, named Lawless, was shot in the head. Neither one of the men is dead. I is under stood that warrants will be taken out for the arrest of Sheriff Huston, who did the shooting. He claims to have intended to fire over the heads of the strikers Gov. Barto, commander of the department of Minnesota, G. A. R., says that unless the railroads come to the terms offered by the Grand Army for the Milwaukee encampment the meeting will be wholly a delegate meet ing. The objection, he says, comes fiom the Milwaukee and Northwestern roads These roads will be obliged to handle all the feag gage as they have the terminals. They will also have to accommodate all the cars that are sent from every part of the United States and the officials claim that the run on their lines is so short that they will be put to all the expenses and trouble while the other roads will reap all the benefits. St. Peter, Minn., enjoyed a sensation. Senator Bowen, of the Sleepy Eye Herald, came down to St. Peter to rectify an errone ous statement which appeared in the St. Peter Tribune concerning the published ru mor of his intention to start a daily in Du luth. The tribune insinuated that Bowen was a boodler and that his practices in the late legislature were not honest. To this the senator took exceptions, and he came down to "cane the lie down the throat of the editor," as he said. Senator Bowenmet Col lins, the editor of the Tribune, in the lobby of the Nicollet house and demanded a writ ten retraction and an apology. Collins made the retraction, which was to the effect that he knew absolutely nothing about the iutended deal, and that the insinuations was based on no facts whatever. He refused, however, to apologize, and Bowen stretched out his right arm and delivered a blow on Collin's right eye which laid him prostrate on the floor. When he arose he was again pounded rather freely. THE MARKETS, NEW YOKE. Wheat, No. I red, 98c No. 1 white, 91@ 91Msc ungraded red, 83@87%c. Rye, west ern 50@51%c: Bailey malt, quiet. Corn, No. 2. 42%c No. 2 white, 46% bid un-and graded mixed, 41@43%c. Oats, No. 2 white, 32%@32y2c mixed western, 25@29c white do 32@39c, eggs. Western, 14%@14%c. Butter, we3tern dairy, 10@13c do creamery, 12@16y2C. do factorv, 8@13c. CHICAGO. Cash quotations were as follows- Flour firm and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 78%@79%c No. 3 spring wheat, 78c No. 2 red, 78%@79Mc No. 2 corn, 35%c No. 2 oats, 22%c No. 2 rye, 43c No. 2 barley nominal: No 1 flax seed, $1.33 prime timo thy seed. $1.42@1.43 mess pork, per bbl. $11.25 lard, per 100 lbs. $6.22%. Butter, lancy creamery 15Va@15%c fine 12V6c@15c. Eggs, lli/2@12c. MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat, No. 1 hard. July $1.04 on track, $1.05 No. 1 northern July 98%c Aug. 81c Sept. 79%c on track 98@99c No. 2 north ern, July, 85c, on track 85@87c. Flour Patents in sacks to local dealers, $5.45@ 5.65 patents to ship, sacks, car lots, $5.25 @5,40 in barrels, $5.45@5.65 delivered at New England points, $6.25@6.40 New York points, $6.15@6.30 delivered at Philadelphia and Baltimore, $6.10@6.2o bakers' here, $3.50@4.15 superfine, $1.90@2.65 red dog, sacks, $1.30@1.50 red dog. barrels, $1.50@ 1.65. Bran and shorts,. $7.@8.50 corn, 34® 35c. Hay, $5.@'3.50: Prices on incoming trains onlv: Wheat, No, 1 hard. $1.02@1.04 No.l Northern, 98c@$l: No. 2 Northern, 90@92c Corn, No. 2, 34c: July, 33c sample, 33@ 34%c. Oats, No. 2 white. 26%@27%c July, 27%c:No. 3.22@25c. Rye, No. 2,41c. Barley, No. 2, 50o bid No 3, 35@45c No. 4,35@40c. Ground Feed, $13.50@14.50.Corn Meal, Un bolted. $14. Bran, $7.75@8.25. Hay, No 1 upland prairie, $7.50 No. 1. $6.75@7.50. timothy, $9.@10. Eggs, $3.60@3.75 per case. Flour, Patent*. $5.60@5.90 straight, $5#5.25 bakers,' $3.50@3.75: rye, $2.70@ 3.20: buckwheat, $3. Butter, Extra cream ery, 14@15c extra dairy, ll@13c firsts, 9@}0e packing stock, 8c grease, 3@5c. s\B- THESTWIN DAK0TAS. How They are Getting Along In the TVork of Transferring Themselves gP^Sf Into States.?|P^ ^p 4 ,«,« SOUTH DAKOTA. ORGANIZATION OP THE CONVENTION. Srocs FALLS, S. D., July 5.—AH of the delegates who were not sworn^m when the convention assembled yesterday took the oath at the session this afternoon with the exception of Judge Thomas, of Dgadwood, who declined to serve, and whose seat will remain vacant. The secretary read telegrams from the constitutional conventions in session at Bis marck, N. D.. and Olympia, Wash. The convention elected the officers nom inated by the Republican caucus last night: Secretary. Rov. A. Burdick, Yankton, en rolling and engrossing clerk, Dr. A. W. Hyde, of Brookings sergeant at arms, Ja Kearney, of Lawrence: watchman, E. C. Warner, of Day county: messenger, Frank Hopper, of Beadle chaplain, Rev. A. Wakefield, of Aurora. The Democrats placed in nomina tion candidates from their party for each office and they received from 19 to 23 votes each, 73 delegates voting. The constitution of the United States was unanimously adopted as a part of the state constitution. The committee on rules re ported in favor of making the commission on part of this convention to go to Bismarck and act jointly with a similar commission from the North Dakota convention for a division of the territory's proj erty, and debts, consist of seven delegates. There was ob jection to the commission beiner so large, and the question was made a special order for tomorrow afternoon, when the proposition to appoint, a commission to act with one from the North Dakota convention for a set tlement of the boundary line will be consid ered. It is held that there ars two distinct and officially recognized seventh standard paral lels, and that to adopt the seventh parallel without determining which one would make confusion. I is proposed to make this co m mission consist of three delegates irom South Dakota. A disposition to be tedious was shown to day, which, if continued, will prolong the work into several weeks. Delegate Kellam, of Brule county, presided in the absence of President Edgerton. PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS Sioux FALLS. S July 6.—The South Dakota constitutional convention was called to order by President Edgerton. After the reading of the Journal Clark Coats of Minne haha was sworn in as clerk. The convention then went into a committee on rules. The report was adopted and so re ported back to the convention, where it was lormally adopted. A motion by Mr. Price to appoint a special committee to consider the northern boundary line was withdrawn, and the whole matter rererred to the regular committee. Col. Jolley, as chairman, re ported for the committee on rules and moved the adoption of the report. After two or three ineffectual attempts to amend the le poit it was adopted. The day would have been tame indeed hacl it not been for the meeting of the Prohibi tionist members of the convention who re mained in the hall to the number forty-four, after the adjournment. The object of the meeting was to call to aecount certain news papers, both within the territory and with out, which had been asserting that the cause of prohibition was waning in Dakota. Col. Clough presented Mr. Dickson of Day, who stated the object of the meeting, and said they wished formally to correct some mis representations which had been made. He believed the northern counties were principally for prohibition. Three fifths of the constitutional conven tion, Gov. Mellette and the strong est repiesentative men of the state were for prohibition. Messrs. Lee, Welles, Kerl, Spooner. Ramsey and Wood all spoke en thusiastically of prohibition in their part of the state, predicting at it would carry overwhelming. Mr. Wood thought the Black Hills would give a majority for prohi bition. Col. Clough earnestly and feelingly complimented an Iowa daily which circulated in Dakota, and commended it for the fearless positaon on the tempprance question. He hoped Brother Caldwell" editor of its Press and member of the convention, would hasten to catch on to the band wagon and lend his aid. THE JOINT COMMISSION. Sioux FALLS, S. July 8.—After Presi dent Edgerton called the convention to older Mr. Caldwell announced that he had received from the commission of emigration maps of South Dakota and North Dakota and hangers for distribution to members of the convention, and from the secretary cop ies of Long's legislative handbook for the same purpose. The piesident announced the following membeis of the joint commission to Bibmarck as provided by the enabling act A. J. Kellam of Brule, V. T. McGillicuddy of Pennington, Harry Neill of Grant, E. W Caldwell of Minnehaha, William Elliott of Turner, Charles H. Price of Hyde, and S. Brott of Brown. CHAIRMANSHIP OF COMMITTEES. The chairmanship of the committees is as follows, as reported July 9. Congressional and legislative apportion ment. Van Tassel of Sanborn judiciary, Sterling of Spink schedule, Hall of Beadfe names boundries and seats of government, Stoupe of Brown state county and munici cpal indebtedness, Sherwood of Clark execu tive and legislative, Wescott of Deuel legis lative, McFarland of Lincoln bill of rights, Spooner of Kingsbury election and suffrage, Stoddard of Brown: federal relations, Mur phy of Hansonjeducation and school lands, Coats of Minnehaha municipal corporations, Hall of Sully corporations other than bank ing and municipal, Dickinson of Day county township organization, Whitlock of Potter revenue and finance, Goddard of McCook public accounts and expenditures, Ringsrud of Union state institutions and public buildings, Young of Lake mines, mining and water rights,* O'Brien of Lawrence: roads, bridges and oth er internal improvements, Smith of Charles Mix exemptions, Buercher of Hutchinson, rights ofmairied women, Willis of Aurora: banking and currency, Davies of Edmunds military affairs, Clough of Codington amend ments and revision of constitution, Bouchler of McPherson printing, Humphrey of Faulk seal, Houlton of Douglas miscellaneous sub jects, Eddy of Miner compensation of public officers, Williamson of Moody arrangements and phraseology, Carlson of Lawrence manu facturers and agriculture, Lee of Spink ex penses of the convention. Huntly of Jer auld engrossment and enrollment, Hartly of Hand. Maj. Kill am offered a resolution confirming the appointment of a joint commission by the convention. Frank E. Clough has been appointed as additional page. I was or dered, upon motion of liii Clough. that 500 copies of the journal be painted each day and one laid upon the desk of each member at the opening of each session. Mr. Clough suggested that there was a call from the newspapers for official copies of proceedings. One of the stenographers was ordered to ac company the commission to Bismarck under direction of the president. «M~ I MISTAKE HERE.^f M^* WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, July" 9".— Delegate Price, who in the Sioux Falls con vention declared that there were two stand ing parallels and intimated at trouble would likely ensue about the strip oi land between the States of Dakota, had not in vestigated the matter thoroughly. There is only one seventh standard parallel and at is the one designated for the dividing line between the Dakotas. The error oi Delegate Price is made on account of the error in sur veying the Sisseton reservation. I this sur vey all township and parallel lines were run a few miles south of where they should be. The later surreys of land joining the reser- vation and extending almost across the ter ritory were correct, and when the Sisseton^ reservation is thrown open for settlement^ the seventh standard parallel will be carried'' acros.8 the north end of the reservation. Land office officials say that a standard par allel extends indefinitely, and the mere tact at the erroneous survey of an Indian res ervation years ago made it appear that the parallel was a few miles south, cuts no fiar ure. A parallel is a line of latitude, and a mistake by a surveyor cannot change it. NORTH DAKOTA. GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS. BISMARCK, N. D., July 5.—A report was circulated this morning that' auti-Fancher Republicans and Democrats had formed a combination to organize the constitutional convention. Mr. Faneher called the assem blage to order at 10:30 o'clock a. m.,_and, on account of hoarseness, asked M. N. John son to occupy the chair. The report ot the committee on credentials was read and adopt ed. McGinnis, of .Jamestown, havina with drawn ft om the contest, Blewett was not dis turbed. The report was adopted as read. Judge Rose administered the oath to the members in a body. Faneher was nominated permanent president by Camp, of James town. Purcell, of Richland, made a eulogistic speech nominating Judge Carland. The Re publicans held together and Faneher receiv ed 52 votes to Carland's 17. Six members were absent, and Bartlett, of Dickey, distin guished as being a Democratic Prohitiomst, voted for Faneher. This ended the animated struggle which has been in progress ior a weet regarding the presidency. Mr. Faneher made an address, which was necessarily brief owing to his cold. He thanked the convention for the honor con ferred and hoped to be able to assist in framing a constitution which would con serve and protect the interests of all classes. Congratulatory telegrams were read from tne other territorial conventions. The chair appointed Messis. Williams, Parsons, Turner, Carland, Allen, Stevens and Johnson acommiitee on rules, with in structions to report the character of com mittees and number of officers required be yond what were provided for in the congres sional bill. REPORTS OP COMMITTEE3. THE NORTHERN HALF. BISMARCK, 6.—The only business of the constitutional convention to-day was the report of the committee on rules, which was ordered printed. The rules provide for twenty three commitees. ranging from five in number to fifteen: The principal commit tees number nine and fifteen. The commit tee on legislative apportionment number twenty-five. Everybody will be represented on that committee. Johnson of Lakota rose to a question of privilege and read a couple of paragraphs from the Devils Lake Capital reflecting upon him. He offered a resolution excluding Maishal McClure, the editor, from the floor. The convention ad journed until Monday at 2 o'clock. MORE OFFICERS. BISMARCK, July 8.—The constitutional con vention met this afternoon. The first busi ness was the completion of the organization by selecting Maj. Hamilton chief clerk, R. M. Tuttle of Mandan official stenogiapher, Edi tor Falley of Wahpeton sergeant at arms. Editor Bowsfield of Ellendale engrossing clerk, E. H. McKnight of Fargo messenger, S. Weiser of Valley City watchman and Rev. George Kline of Bismarck chaplain. A dis patch from President Edgerton, of the Sioux Falls convention, was read, announcing the selection of a commission of nve to divide the territorial assets. The president was au thorized to appoint a commission of seven on the part of North Dakota. Spaulding of Fargo, Griggs of Grand Forks, Scott of Val ley City, Purcell of Wapheton, Camp of Jamestown, Harris of Bismarck and Sanda ger of Ransom will probably be the seven. TAKING IT EASY. BISMARCK, July 9.—The constitutional con vention was not in session to-day. Many of the members went home, and a few went to the Bad Lands. Auditor McManima. who returned to-dav, says it would take a month to furnish all the information the convention have asked him to contribute. H^ says if the convention is going into the question of the division of the territorial property as extensively as the Spaulding resolution of yesterday indicated, it will take all summer to make the division. E W. Cnmp of Jamestown is the chairman of the North Dakota commission. The oth er members are as stated in last night's dis patch. Griggs, Sandager and Harris are the business men on the commission, and Pur cel, Spaulding, Scott and Camp the lawvers. The division of the capitol property of the value of about $200,000 is a probable bone of contention, as the property did not cost the territory anything except for plumbing and maintenance. I is held here at South Dakota is not entitled to any share of its value. There is $75,000 de linquent taxes, and the largest share is due from counties in South Dakota. In the adjustment of this tax ques tion South Dakota will necessarily be the loser in the matter of the maintenance con tributed from the general fund for public institutions. North Dakota has contributed a great deal more for the support of South Dakota institutions than the latter has for the support of North Dakota institutions. South Dakota owes North Dakota a large sum on this score. The whole business is something new in the history of states. Everythlng is Paper. An establishment in the West is al ready doing an extensive business in the manufacture of paper clothing, and the fabric is said to equal that of any other class of goods in style and durability. For blankets, piano cov erings and similar purposes, the pa per fabrics are an established success They are light and serviceable. Pa. per pails, dishes and canes are famil iar to everybody. Paper boards for making houees, paper boats, paper water pipes, column pipes, tanks and a thousand other new uses are be coming popular. Paper made from wood pulp is becoming a very im portant article in manufacturing, and its products are being exported from this country to every part of the globe.—Manufacturer. A Fnneral in Busy Broadway. A funeral procession that tries go down Broadway in the early aft ernoon of a busy day usually loses its identity as a procession, before it gets to Canal Street. A reporter noted that it took seven carriages ten minutes to pass a point near Broome Street. The hearse passed first. It was followed by a truck fill ed with hides. Three horse-cars slowly rolled after the truck, and then came a heterogeneous lot oi vehicles and another carriage. I was an incongruous spectacle—death in the midst of life—a funeral sand wiched between the boisterous activ ity of metropolitan activity.—New York Sun. NEW to Enfperor William's Norwegian trip has nearly had a fatal termination. While the emperor and his party were viewing the Buar glacier a great mass of ice became displaced and a fragment struck the emperor on th shoulder, dashing him violently to the ground. Full particulars of the accident have not been received, but it is known that the emperor's injuries are serious. %l MANUFAt/i'UitEii'OF FINK CIGARS g@»Special brands made to order.«49f*v WM. FRANK. I* JOHN BBNTZIN. Cottonwood Mills. Custom grinding solicited. Will grind wheat for (one eigth) or ex change 34 ft»s. flour, 5 ,Jbs. shorts and 8 lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour and feed sold at low rates and delivered a New Ulm free of expense. HARNESS MAKER —and Dealer in— Whips, Collars, and all ot7i-~ er articles usually kept in a first-alass har ness shop. New harnesses made to order and ro pairing promptly attended to. NEWMLM, MINN- H.FRENZEIv Manufacturer of SODA WATER, SELTZER WATER* and Champagne Cider. Centre Street. New Ulm, Minn Empire Mill Co. ROLLER MILL. lb Rollers and 4 Burrs, We take pleasure in informing the public that we are now ready for bus« ness. The best machinery and all the atest improvements in the manufac ture of flour enable us to compete witfe he best mills in the country. We are constantly buying Wheat, Bye, Corn, Oats, Buckwheat, &c*t &c. At the Highest Market Prioet.* We sell all kinds of JFLOVK, 8MOJRT8, BRAN, &e.> AT LOW RATES. Speoial Attention given to Oustom "Worlc An extra stone for giinding feed. Steam Cornsheller. Wood taken for cash or in exchange Sfapiife ]\iiU a CASH PURCHASES and CHEAP SALES/ RMK E & miam, Carpenters, Builders and Contractors*. NtW ULM, MINN. Designs and plans made to order andV estimates on all work furnished and- contracts faithfully executed, HTHANSOHEN,. Contractor and Builder, Special attention given to mason* work in the city and country. New Ulm, Minn. The North Star Lung and Throat Bal sam is a sure cure for coughs and colds.. THE CHICAGO HpRTHiafc WESTERN I I I T? FRANK & BENTZIN. AUG. qUEOTSE, W 1 RAILWAY.PAILWAV OVER 7,000 MILES Of steel track in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,' Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota^ and Wyoming, penetrates the Agricultural^ Mining and Commercial Centres of the $. WEST AND NORTHWEST. The Unrivaled Equipment of the LineT embraces Sumptuous Dining Cars, New Wagner and Pullman Sleepers, Suoerbv^t day Coaches and tt 'i FAST VESTIBULED TRAINS Running direct between Chicago, St. Paul I and Minneapolis, Council Bluffs andL Omaha, connecting for Portland, Denver^ San Francisco and all Pacific Coast Points. ONIYLINFJOTHEBUCKHIIL For Tickets, Rates, Maps, Time Tables and tnil Information, apply to any Ticket S J.M.WHIHIAH, K.C.WICI88, S.P.WIL80S.* 4t Gsnwaimugw. XraficXauger. Qea'lJw. AtfJ^ f\M