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Little Rhode Island conies to the front again. She starts the first crino­line factory in the country.

*• Two Englishmen intend walking from Portland, Or., to New York. They ex­pect to cover the distance in 160 days.

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Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the vice president, pleads guilty to being mi-able to make a speech. Mr. Stevenson is to he congratulated. Silence is golden.

The Mansion house relief funds are a special feature of London's help for distress in any part of the world. Dur­ing the past twenty years $10,500,000 have been received for such purposes by different lord mayors.

A tilting seat for bicycles by which the rider may adjust it at any angle by his own weight is a new invention.

New Orleans people maintain the most independent attitude toward the dictates of fashion of any city in tho land.

A few Milwaukee bachelors started a home for themselves on the co-opera­tive housekeeping plan, but it was a dismal failure, one of them getting married to drown his misery and the others taking refuge in ordinary board­ing houses where ladies presided over the soup tureen.

Thirteen torpedo-boat destroyers are to be added to the British navy, to be 180 feet long, about 240 tons displace­ment and of 3,400 horse-power. Their armament wi l l . consist of one 12-pounder and three 6-pounder quick-firing guns and five 18-inch torpedoes for use in a bow tube, and two ievolv­ing tubes amidships.

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Secretary Herbert has decided to name the torpedo boat No. 2, being built by the Dubuque Iron works, the Ericssen.

Indications point to the selection of Col William P. Carlin, Fourth infantry, for the vacant brigadier generalship in the army. ' * *

The resignation of O. P . Childsfv the

chief clerk of the census bureau, has been requested and J/>H. Wardle the present assistant chief clerk has been promoted to the vacancy.

Owing to the almost unprecedented ac­cumulation of applications and other pa­pers in the postoflice department bearing upon pending appointments, the entire clerical force of the departmnt, number­ing about 400, has been ordered to do ex­tra duty between 4 and 5 o'clock each day, briefing and filing them for action.

The government of Costa Rica has ap­pointed Senor^Don Manuel M. Peralta, who is the representative of his govern­ment at several of the European courts, envoy extraordinary and minister pleni­potentiary to the Unitd States, on a special mission of congratulations and good wishes on the part of Costa Rica to the president of the United States.

Minister Egan cabled the department of state that the president of Chile had appointed Domingo Gano envoy extraor­dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States. Mr. Gano will also act as arbitrator for' Chile on the com­mission provided for by the recent treaty to settle the claims of citizens of either country against the government of the other.

The enforcement of the Chinese ex­clusion act causes the treasury officials much trouble, as the Celestial proves himself to be a very slippery person. He is now engaged in turning himself into, a merchant from a laborer. To such an extent is this the case that Assistant Secretary Spaulding has written a letter to collectors on the Pacific coast to stop the fraud.

with her- alone. Neighbors hearing .screams rushed in and found that Long had cut his wife's throat with a pen­knife and then gashed his own. Both were fatally hurt.

Daniel Sweerenger, a wealthy stock breeder, aged fifty, living near Lima, Ohio, was murdered by highwaymen re­cently. Sweerenger's body was found in a thicket near the roadside. His skull had been crushed by a heavy blow from behind and his throat cut from ear to ear. Sweerenger's watch and $1,200 which he had when he left home were taken by the highwaymen.

Ignacio Galvan, a young Spaniard, who came to Mexico from New Orleans, has been arrested and put in Bltem prison on a charge of swindling. H e had realized a profit of several thousand dol­lars in the City of Mexico. He brought with him a large quantity of Confederate bills which he had secured in New Orleans. H e found no difficulty in palming these off on the smaller shopkeepers of the city as American currency, and received the change in Mexican coin.

The French senate elected M. Challe-mel Lacour, the well known statesman and writer and senator from Bouches du Rhone, president of the senate in place of Jules Fer . v , deceased. The elec­tion is very satisfactory to President Carnot and the supporters of the gov­ernment, and is all the more popular on account of the recent election of M. Challemel Lacour to Renan's seat in the French academy.

Frank Pendry, ten years of age, was arrested at Chicago charged with high­way robbery. When taken into custody he wore a black mask and carried two re­volvers. He acknowledged that he had robbed several people and had shot one man through the hand because he resist­ed. He said that he was the son of J. D. Pendry, a tea merchant at Fifth and Walnut streets in Cleveland, Ohio, and declared that he was wanted in Cleveland on several charges of robbery and bribery. He was held to the crim» inal court in bonds of $4,000.

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On the farm of M. J. Mock, near Waycross, Ga , is a marshy basin which is seven miles long The basin is filled with water from natural springs, and the water is always in motion. The motion of the water forms a run. and the run is divided into two streams, which run parallel with each other but in opposite directions.

A report from one of the Kongo State expeditions states that they have dis­covered the point where the Lukuga river, the outlet of Lake Tanganyika, joins the Lualaba river. This discovery gives the solution to an interesting geographical problem, for the junction of these headwaters on the Kongo is the beginning of the true Kongo

In the sixteenth century theie was a curious enactment in England where­by street hawkers were forbidden to sell plums and apples for the reason that servants and apprentices were un­able to resist the sight of them, and -were consequently tempted to steal their employers' money in order to en­joy the costly delicacies

For a short period, tinder the West Saxon kings of England, Croydon was the capital and London a mere prov in-cial town. Norwood, if it were now named afresh, would be South Wood, since it is south of London; but, when it w a s christened, it lay in the north of Croydon, which was the more import­ant place of the two.

Casua l ty . The Standard theater building at Win­

nipeg burned. Loss, $40,000. The shoe factory of Snedicor & Hatha­

way, at Detroit, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000.

A number of business houses at Mount Eagle, Tenn., including the postoflice, were destroyed by fire.

William Mayott accidentally wounded himself at Stanton Junction, Mich., with a shotgun, the charge entering his stom­ach. He will die.

Henry Voyt, aged five years, was cut to pieces by an lectric car at Dubuque, Iowa. His mother witnessed the acci­dent and has since gone insane.

The barge Equator went on Fenwick island and was lost. Capt. John Feehan of Philadelphia and three colored sailors were drowned.

The steamboat Minnie Cornell was burned at Keyport, N. J. The Cornell was lying at its dock and had discharged its freight before the fire occurred. She ,was valued at $60,000.

At .Hookstown, Pa., Saturday evening, N. Will McPheters, a boy, while at­tempting to shoot a do?:, shot and al­most instantly killed Will Poe, twelve years of age.

In a rear-end collision on the North­western at Fortieth street, Chicago, be­tween the Rockford express and the Cir­cle accommodation Frank Usanio was fatally injured and Frank Sister and Frank Little dangeiously so. One coach was badly wrecked.

The stock barns owned by Kirk Bros, at Mason City, Iowa, burned. The fa­mous Storm, holding the fastest five-year-old stallion pacing record of the world; Brown John, by Brown Hal-Reme, by King Reme; Red Clay, by Red Wilkes, and Edmund C , by Red

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T h e Foreign Budget . The correspondent of a German paper

was expelled from France, and he and his daughters were mobbed recently.

Great alarm is felt by people living in the Tonolu district of the State of Chiapas, Mex., over the eruption of the San Martin volcano, which has been belching forth flame, lava and ashes for the last two weeks.

M. Charles de Lcsseps is reported to be completely broken down under the sentences imposed on him tor the Pan­ama canal frauds.

The German government will raise the Washington legation to an embassy, in view of a similar change being made in the representation of the United States in Berlin.

The body of Baron Louis Kalla, a con­spicuous Hungarian politician, was found in the River Theiss, near Senta. His skull had been fractured by repeated blows with a metal instrument. His •lothes had been torn in a struggle and his face was cut.

At Rome Maffeo Barberina Colonna di Sciarra, prince of Carbagnano, has been sentenced to three months' impris­onment and* to pay a fine of 6,250 lire for having sold works of the old masters to persons outside of Italy without the con­sent of the government.

In the Italian settlement of Hallowell, Me., Ricardo Gonzales innocently put to death his two children, Elbira, aged two, and Pilan, aged four, by administering to them oil of chenapodium as medicine, not knowing its effects. Gonzales be­came insane.

M. Blondin, sentenced at Paris to two years' imprisonment for having con­ducted the negotiations for the bribery of M. Baihut by Charles de Lesseps, is suffering from incipient paralysis. His physicians say that imprisonment would kill him and urge that he be sent to a private asylum.

There is a lake in the State of Main­land, near Chestertown, that is known as Still Pond, because it has never been known to be ruffled by the most vio­lent storms. Another peculiarity of this lake is that even during the re­cent cold weather there was not a skim of ice on its surface, and it is not known ever to have been frozen

There are several thousand Germans in the Eastern district of Brooklyn who, on Sundays and holidays in pleas­ant weather, go out to Cypress Hills or Evergreens with lunch baskets and bottled beer and have a right pleasant time. Their children tumble about the grass and enjoy the flowers and the birds and they never injure the head­stones.

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A figure fiend has been at pains to draw up a list of all the lyrical works of women composers from 1675 down­ward. H e has succeeded in compiling a catalogue of 153 dramatic works (operas, operattas and oratorios), which are distributed among the various na­tionalities as follows: Eighty-seven are by French composers, 34 by Italians, 20 by Germans, 7 by English, 2 by Dutch and 1 each by Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

P e o p l e in Print. Sir George Dibbes, the premier of New

South Wales, who failed for $900,000 has assets of only $175,000.

William Walter Phelps has returned to Berlin from his travels in Egypt and Italy much improved in health.

According to Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, Gen. Booth and the Salvation Army are doing work in the slums of London which never could be done by any other methods.

It is generally believed that Col. W. P. Carlin, of the regular army, now stationed in Idaho, will be appointed brigadier general, vacant because of the failure to confirm Col. Otis.

When Clara Morris wants to make real tears start she looks straight at the gal­lery, though she says she can make them come by looking steadily at any point for a few seconds.

Ex-Empress Carletta of Mexico, in her insanity, requires a fresh pair of pearl gray, two-button kid gloves on rising every morning throughout the year.

Mrs. W. H. Smith, editor of the Japan Gazette, conducts the political and com­mercial departments of a daily paper with a large circulation and much in­fluence in the Orient.

It is an open secret that Mrs. Jeffer­son Davis, wife of the late Confederate president, who is now living in New York, is not in comfortable circum­stances. Her income is inadequate to her support, even in the modest way in which she lives.

L a b o r I t ems . The long threatened strike of 500

carriage and wagon workers of Boston for a nine-hour day with ten hours pay was formally inaugurated the other day.

The United Brotherhood of Switchmen met in Philadelphia. The sentiment is in favor of a strike during the world's fair.

1 The tracks of the great Atlantic liners between the United States and Great Britain are as accurately made out and followed as if they were built on land, the winter track being some dis­tance south of the summer track be­cause of icebergs. Over these wate iy roads the ocean greyhounds travel at the speed of moderately fast railway trains, the maximum attained by the American liner Paris being about twen-ty^-three miles an hour. r

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Sinful D o i n g s . Burglars secured $700 from the safe

of the Swift Chicago Beef company at Sommerville, N. J.

C. E. Hughes, under sentence of thir­teen years for murder, six of which he has served, was pardoned out of the Iowa penitentiary.

The sum of $150,000 was secured on the forged whisky warehouse receipts negotiated at Louisville, Ky., by A. R. Sutton.

A bill is before-the New York le-*sla-ture providing for an appeal in murder cases where a new trial has been refused. The measure is intended to save the life of Carlyle Harris.

Frank Long, a gas fitter of Cincin­nati, twenty-eight years of age, who had not been living with his wife for the past six months, went to her home in Covington, where he had an interview

General N e w s . The New York home rule meeting

netted $14,000. The sash, door and blind trust has

made a 5 per cent advance in prices. Miss Matilda Greenfield has recovered

$10,000 damages at?New York for breach of promise against Charles J. Weiseman.

The Michigan assembly passed a bill providing for the use of voting machines at elections.

Brooks & Co., furniture dealers at Boston, have assigned, owing $100,000 and with $50,000 assets.

Mrs. Seligman gets $25,000 alimony at Saginaw in the suit for divorce brought by her husband, he receiving ihe decree.

The Western Union Telegraph com­pany has bought out the Edison Mu­tual, with 550 miles of line and head­quarters at Fort Wayne, Ind.

Several members of the family of Henry Byid, in Prince George county, Ya., drank from a well in which poison had been placed by unknown parties, and all died.

W. M. Speer has bought half the stock of the Albany, N. Y., Argus. It is be­lieved Editor Manning will be retired and the paper become a state Democracy organ instead of a Cleveland organ.

The parsonage at Swedesboro, N. J., occupied by Father Tracy, the priest who rebelled against Mgr. Satolli and who was excommunicated, has been stripped of furniture.

The A. L. Tribble company, dealers in wrapping paper, twines, etc., at Boston, have assigned to John C. Chandler. The liabilities amount to $40,000, and nom­inal assets about the same.

Ward McAllister suggests that New York city shall give in the Madison Square Garden Monday, Oct. 23, a grand Columbian ball in honor of the distin­guished Europeans visiting the exhibi-tion. - ^ , jr }

The health officer at Cincinnati has found a case of malignant typhus fever

A in a Front street boarding house. The patient is James Riley, a roustabout, who worked on a steamer at New^ Or­leans and other Southern places, p ^

A movement is on foot to raise $o0",000 to be applied to the endowment of a chair in Knox college at Galejsburg, 111., to be known as the Bateman professor­ship in honor of Dr. Newton* Bateraan, for BO many years the president of the to

A C o n c i s e A c c o u n t of t h e H a p p e n ­i n g s of t h e P a s t W e e k In Min­

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I B C l t l M i n n e s o t a . . <̂ » While Frank Whitten was overseeing

•ome repairs in the basement of the Lin-In the town of Kertsonville the two-

year-old child of Victor Charon was burned to a crisp the other morning. The

John Stearns had his hand completely severed at the wrist while sawing wood at Morristown.

The saloon of Olinschid Bros, at Le Sueur was closed under an attachment by the Minneapolis Brewing company.

Mr. and Mrs. Gustaf Rosenberg, pio­neers at Rush City, celebrated their golden wedding recently.

John Morrill fell from the top of an elevator at Morristown breaking three ribs and severed the knee cap. He is in a precarious condition.

Tollif Otos, of the firm of Arneson & Otos, of Benson, shot himself at his mother's house at "Wiillmar. H e has been insane for some time and leavs a family.

On account of the failure of Nicolin, at Jordan, farmers have begun to re­plevin wheat from his elevator at New Prague.

While taking lumber from a band saw at Milaca Torinus Nordseth got his hand in the cogs, ncessitatmg amputa­tion.

There was an attmpt at burglarizing the Stillwater Hardware company's store recently by breaking out the glass in the rear door. *"

Fire gutted the Pittman house at Still­water recently. Loss about $5,000. The Pittman was one of the largest hotels in the city.

Vernon Hicks, aged thirteen, of Fair­mont, was attacked by a bulldog and one of his legs terribly bitten. It will proba­bly have to be amputated.

The four-year-old son of James Barber of Echo swallowed some carbolic acid ami is now in a critical condition and not expected to lecover.

A man arrested at St. Paul for begging on the streets was searched at the police station and $21,665 in cash, checks and certificates of deposit was found on his person. coin flour mill at Anoka he was caught by a belt, and, falling twelve feet, was killed instantly. Three men who were helping him were knocked down. He leaves a wife and three childven.

Robert F . Boidie, treasurer of the town of McKinley, waived an examination on a charge of embezzling $800 of village funds, and was committed in default of $1,500 bail.

Ex-Gov. John S. Pillsbury has filed an account at Duluth against W. K. Twcmey and othrs to perfect title to iron lands valued at $50,000. The prop­erty is in section 29, 58-20, and a lis pendens has been filed against it.

The barn and granary of H. B. Orcutt, of the town of Minden, was burned to the ground recently, with a quantity of grain and hay and some farm machinery, the stock being saved with difficulty. The fire was caused by tho explosion of a lantern. Loss, $500; insurance $250.

John Ericson, aged fifty, committed suicide in his house at the rear of his sa­loon on East Superior street, Duluth, by shooting himself in the head. No cause for the aet^s known, but he had been a heavy drinker for the past six months.

, Sheriff Tierney of Anoka arrested Eliza Rivers, a se\etiteen-year-old girl who lives in Dayton, Hennepin county, for attempting to passed two forged Anoka creamery checks, amounting to about $16.

Frank Judson, a prosperous young farmer lhing one mile from Lake Crys­tal, attempted suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor. Do­mestic trouble is said to have been the cause. He will recover.

Richard Gerdes, general merchant at Morgan, assigned in favor or Hans Mo, vice president of the State Bank of Sleepy Eye. Mr. Gerdes was apparently doing a prosperous business, and his action occasions great surprise.

At the regular annual meeting of the city council of Moorhead Mayor Lewis reappointed Chief of Police Sullivan and the entire old police force. The liquor license for the ensuing year was fixed at $750, the same as at present, and Capt. L. von Bornstedt was elected city at­torney.

The -school house at Pipestone burned to the ground recently. The fire depart­ment saved the dwelling houses near the building by their woi*k. The value of the building was $30,000, with an insur­ance of $12,000. A new building will be erected soon. Seven teachers are thrown out of employment.

St. Stephens Catholic church at Anoka was burglarized recently. The priest's vestments and laces were taken. The thieves entered through the basement. They attempted to make an entrance into the chalice closet, but were fright­ened away, and the costly service re­mains intact. There is no clue.

A great sensation has been caused at Redwood Falls by finding Ned Mulloy, a well known laborer, in his hut two miles north of this city. dead. When found he was sitting on the bed, with a jackknife at his feet. A further investi­gation has been suspended pending the appearance of the coroner. I t is a very suspicious case.

United States Inspector of Immigrants Edward H. Windom at Duluth received a letter from Secretary Carlisle, request­ing his resignation, to take effect April 1. No charges are made against Win­dom. His removal is made for party reasons only. His successor is not yet known. Mr. Windom in a relative of the late secretary of the treasury.

A man named Levi Durham, a farmer fifty years of age, and living eight miles northeast of Madison, Minn, committed suicide by shooting himself in the breast with a revolver, causing instant death. The wife of the unfortunate man, hear­ing the report of the revolver up stairs, went to see what was the trouble, and found her husband expiring. No cause is" known for Mr. Durham's action.

The city council of Windom passed an ordinance at its last session prohibiting the issuing of pool or billiard hall li­censes after the expiration of the license of the present hall proprietors. This, to­gether with the voting down of liquor license by a vote of 177 to 25 at the re­cent election, places Windom in the front ranks in this state as a prohibition town, father was absent and the mother went

milk the cows. The child sat on the hearth of the cook store and its clothing

became ignited. I t s cries finally reached the mother's ears and she ran to the house, but was too late. ,The child's clothing was entirely consumed, the flesh blackened and burned almost to a crisp. The child lingered five hours in great agony. Another child, five years old, tiled to put out the flames and its arms and face.were slightly burned. 4&w* i

Rev. William Copp, pastor ""fox* the Methodist church at Jackson, is in re­ceipt of a letter surmounted with skull and crossbones and signed "White Caps, Camp No. 10," warning him against be­ing so personal in his sermons. Mr. Copp took a.n active part in the rcent revival meeting, and has created a sensation by the fearlessness of his attacks on vice and the saloons. The letter is sup­posed by many to be a joke, and it was posted on the wall of the postoflice by Mr. Copp. » ?y , , * s *

,( Wiscons in . Jack Ryan lost his nose during a fight

in a saloon at Chippewa Falls. The salary of County Judge Holgat

of Marinette has been raised to $1,000. The Wisconsin Central Stock Farm

company of Mazomanie has been organ­ized with a capital stock of $20,000.

Fire in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway depot at Janesville caused a loss of $1,500.

The Spring Creek Creamery association of Walworth has been incorporated with $4,000 capital stock.

Mrs. J. R. Sechler of Sechlerville, Jack­son county, is dead, aged sixty-six years. She was a pioneer of JacKson county.

Mrs. Spicer,* formerly a resident of Ap-pleton, died suddenly at her home in Clintonville aged about sixty years.

H. A. Reuter, a pioneer of Dane coun­ty, died at his home in Blooming Grove, at the age of eighty-eight years.

Frank Cone, arrested at Racine on a charge of bigamy, has been held for trial in the sum of $500. ^

Miss Fannie Wells of Fond du Lac has been declared insane, and she was -committed to the Northern hospital at Oshkosh.

The Delafield Cheese Company of Del-afield has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capi­tal stock is $3,000.

Mrs. Harriet Fisher, one of Rock county's earliest settlers, died at her home in Janesville, aged seventy-three years. , The combined capital of Racine's four banks amounts to $985,000. The aggre­gate deposits acctrdmg to the statements are $2,559,884.

Miss Louise Gilbert, a clerk in a Mar­inette store, has fallen heir to one-third of an estate of $250,000 by the death of an uncle at Los Angeles, Cal.

J. S. Colhngwood of Barron was robbed of $72 and a watch and chain in a sa­loon at Chippewa Falls. Oile John Smith was arrested.

Harvey Emery h§d three fingers on his left hand crushed while switching in the Chicago & Northwestern yards at Janesville.

Henry Buttman, a butcher at Osh­kosh, was fined on a charge of beating out the eye of a cow and wrenching off her tail.

The common council at Menasha adopt­ed a resolution to borrow $8,000 for the erection of a new school house on the island at that place.

Will Matthews and John Morrissey of Appleton narrowly escaped drowning in Little Lake Butte des Morts while duck hunting.

The new depot built by the Milwau-' kee, Lake Shore & Western railway company at Manitowoc has been com­pleted. Its cost was $15,000.

James Frawley, a Racine young man, had his right foot terribly mangled by the cars while trying to pass beneath a train. It will be necessary to amputate the limb.

The work of preparing the plant for the Marshall Field factory at Fond du Lac is nearly completed. It is expected that work will be commenced by April 15.

A Mrs. Dunlap is under arrest at Green Bay, charged with staling a pocket-book containing $65 in cash, several drafts and other valuable papers from a stranger named John Anderson.

A woman who gave her name as Wil­son died at Chippewa Falls from an al­leged improper operation. Her parents live near Eau Claire, and a brother has taken charge of her remains.

Misses Katherine Berry and Alice Gra­ham, two well known La Crosse young women, were thrown from their carriage and severely injured in a runaway acci­dent.

A stranger^ giving his name as James Taylor, who claims he stole a team from Frank Sanford of Richland Center last October, has returned to that place. I t is alleged that he has confessed the crime.

Martin Wallace of Waupaca has been arrested on a charge of sending threaten­ing postal cards through the mails. H e was bound over to the United States court for trial in $500 bonds.

Miss Laura Hulbert, one of the lady members of the Hamler Theatrical com­pany, fell down a stairway at the Grand opera house in Oshkosh and received se­vere internal injuries.

The Marinette Iron Works company has received an order from Kasan, Rus­sia, near the head of the Volgo river, asking for prices and plans of band mills, planing mills, etc.

I t is reported that A. A. Vail, who was recently arrested at Marinette on a charge of obtaining money from the Knights of Pythias and I. O. O. F . lodges under false pretenses, will go before the county judge, plead guilty and receive his sentence.

Two young men residing at Wauzeka were badly injured in a saw mill at that place. Mr. Lawrence had his hand so badly mangled that amputation will be necessary. The other young man named Powell fell against a circular saw and had his arm cut off.

The Wisconsin Telephone company of Racine has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capital stock is $500,000. The company in­tends to operate telephone lines through­out the state with headquarters at Ra-cine. ,. ^ ^ ' ' s - * * ^ ! ^** ^nj

A road has been projected from Chip­pewa Falls north to Lake Superior, which will open a fine timber country. The corporation is to be known as the Chippewa Falls & Northern Railway company. I t is proposed to survey a line from Chippewa Falls or Cadott, ten miles distant, as far as River Falls, forty miles altogether, and build the com ing season. j ^ ^ ^ v i ± * . * i « e _ W J H I 3 ! » .

North Dakota, Oscar Kreutz, a Grand Forks phar-

macist, is d f r f ^ H H - i fcjgj.

Miss Nellie Hamilton of >Grand Fork* is law, .„_,._,.

A special froin Mandan says %at no-trouble is feared from high water at that point.

A new suit over the possession of a four-year-old "lamb" was recently triedi at Northwood. I t cost the man who los t

Hatton citizens have called a meetmgr to secure subscriptions of stock for the erection of customs flouring mills at thatr place. (

/ * ' n"" Charles Herbert of Mayville is1" the

proud possessor of a couple of ewes, each of which became a mother of trip­lets recently.

Thomas McDonna had his left arm blown- off by dynamite while breaking the ice blockade on the line of the North­ern Pacific, west of Dickinson.

Minto has a large election sensation-Twenty-five illegal voters have been identified, bribery is charged and a con­test is possible.

Larimore and Dunseith have filed ap­plications for the necessary instruments-to establish and paintain voluntary weather signals.

W. B. Hench of Hope, arrested and placed under $500 bond for selling li­quor, has vamoosed for parts unknown,, and several bondsmen mourn. /

Col. Lounsberry, having served out his-term as special agent of the land office,, has been notified by secretary Smith that his services are dispensed with.

Temperance women raided a blind pig run by Lindsay Bush at Rolla recently. Mrs. Charles Scott was struck by Bush. H e was arrested.

S. Winegardner was on trial at ijargo-recently before Judge Barnett on com­plaint of his married daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Anderson, charging him with criminal assault on his daughter, less-than ten years of age. There is much excitement amongst a certain class of people over the case.

The Grand Forks Typographical union by a majority of one vote elected F. A^ J. Tudhope a delegate to attend the meet­ing of the International Typographical union to be held in Chicago next June. Tudhope has resided here for the past six years, and stands at the head of the printer's craft. His election is the re­sult of a week's spirited canvass. His opponent was W. O. Strandberg.

An article in a recent issue of a Grand Forks paper, signed by P. O. Sullivan and D. Guiney, charged Marshal Will-lam Hurst with taking them into a blind pig and drinking with them till all Were pretty fuli and that Hurst arrested them and made them pay $20 each. They also charged city officials with having an interest in blind pigs and that the-main street has eight running in full blast and thirty-nine others more or less public. Hurst has Guiney and Sullivan in jail charged with criminal libel for publishing the article.

Fire at Giirnell recently burned five small business houses.

A Seymour special says: The farmers-of this county have organized an asso­ciation for the purpose of buying land on a large scale. Thy contemplate turning their farms into a common fund and do­ing all their business on the co-operative plan.

At a fire at Spencer, Frank Osbornr while helping the firemen, and saving property, was injured. He died from„tbe effects last night.

Charles Voss, a young farmer living near Zama, suicided by shooting himself. Pecuniary difficulties was the cause. He-was unmarried.

Helmer Johnson, a fifteen-year-old boy, while riding on the tender of a loco­motive, fell off and was run over and killed in the railway yard at Calmar.

Actress Irene Worrell Holton of Chi­cago of the once famous Worrell sisters,, gets $5,000 damags for fallmg down the opera house starirs at Dubuque.

Gomisky Bros., proprietors of a large department store at Creston, failed to­day. Chattel mortgages aggregating $10,000 were filed. There are other un­known liabilities. Th assets are small.

The Iowa college for the blind is ar­ranging for an elaborate exhibit at the world's fair. Space has been assigned in the Iowa building. J. W. Sarnugoi. member of the Columbia committee, w as-here to-day assisting the arrangements.

A number of prominent liquor sellers, were convicted in the district court at Creston and the saloon element of Cres­ton is greatly discouraged. States At­torney Bull anounces his intention of making a clean sweep both by prosecu­tions and injunctions.

Rev, James Hill, a Baptist minister of Cascade, has received from th* war de- t partment a medal of honor for an act of* distinguished bravery at the battle of Champion Hill, before Vicksburg, in capturing single handed three of the enemy's pickets and bringing them into-camp. H e was at the time first lieuten­ant of Company I, Twenty-first Iowa in­fantry.

C E. Waters of Sioux City committed suicide by shooting himslf at Ackley. He left letters, the contents of which are not known. H e had been in Ackley a little more than one day, and was not>"ed to act strangely, burning a pile of old letters, consulting a justice of the peace and talking strangely and finally ending his life on the porch of the hotel. I t is-thought he was insane.

The floor of the second story of Unter-kircher's new building gave way and a section sixty feet wide by eighty long, laden with bricks and mortar, dropped down, carrying with it six laborers and seven brick masons. One brick mason named Humpton was severely injured. His leg is broken, and he sustained in-v

ternal injuries. Another named Wrenm' was badly bruised about the head and body, while the others are bleeding from scratches and bruises.

Burglars entered the residences of F W. Powers, Frank Koht and H. Miller t at Reinbeck recently. Dr. Powers was^'v awakened by the prowlers and arose-*,, from his bed to reach his revolver which was in the bureau drawer. He w a s - ' / struck by one of the men with a blunt weapon and badly injured. The burglars^, made their escape, taking all the money „ they could find, together with some. * watches and several suits of clothes. %

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