, 1869-07-16


TUE NORTHWEST
LLIholA
Tho Bloomington PantaorapA tea,nI ttby gen.
uenan who has Just come IN from Iaztweli Cotu.
II, that two men were drowned In the MAcktnAw
On Sunday. Their names and the Particular of
the disaster are not known The Hact1uaM Is
very high, and getting no lower fast"
At cspEcp, on the 9Th, two Or three little girls
were amusing themselves In dodgtuK xtrpss the
track In front OF The locomotive, which xaA pro-
ceedng At allow rate. One Of the little gif1a, q
daughter Of Ar. Scott and aged about u Year,, In
attempting TO cross Immediately IL front, srumbied
and fell ae1o4s the track In N instant the e1-
s1nc passed over her body, scyering 1t In two.
The Chicago morning Train Of the 18th was do
talned twelve hotu4 near Mineral Btaton, east OF
Gcncseo, by the absence Of sbout one hundred
feet Of The ra!lruad- The uain stopped st 5 =. N.
The engineer mas running slowly. when he made
the discovery. The Lost track wu On a lere! pral-
re, and evidently had been taken away by no
common nood. There VAS every evidence that
water spout had passed that way. Not only were
the ties and rn1ls taken up, hut deep gully had
been made In the grading, Ehefa there was never
q gully before The ground had been scooped ont
for the width Of one hundred feet for 4 distance
Of eeFcrai ya1ds The repairing OF the track occu-
plednea1y ali DAY,
Hl6coEEtS.
There pasted through Milwaukee on Monday,
rou!e Tor England, large lot Of furs from the
led River country. Tho lot cost 50, ,D0, ns bought
at st. Paul from the Iicd RYer dealers and constst-
ed In part Of 1oo9 mink. 1900 wof, 14o0 lit fox,
700 red FOX, 800 fyux, 1<5 bear 800 beaver, zoo
badger 81 ,so1 mrlkrat 10 croAa fox, BilEer gray
fox, 20 wolverines, 80 martin and 1T fisher.
In Oratonna Henry Toodle, u. 5esrs old, pcr-
suaded companion to circulate report that
he WAS drowned, and while Ills distracted parents
md neighbors were dragging the mlu.race, he Was
on having holiday.
lAdJ were calling, nhcn storm arose and they
were dr1ren to III uniuhabted Island, and CON-
PEELED to remain there oil night.
MEh Deitz, Of Nabasha, was bitten BY q rattle
snake one day last week, while picking strarber-
nce, receiving the wound Ii the calf OF her right
leg, She had presence Of mind sufnclent to tie
her gnrter tightly ADORE The spot md set q little
child to sucking the poison out and escaped with
a little stlnncss In the limb.
4 INDIANA.
At Evansville. between IL mud O'Clock On Sat-
urday morning last, an unknown mRn entered tic
house OF J. Il Belt, and. b5 the use OF chloroform.
attempted TO vioaate the person Of Mt H. = dauRh-
ter lady alnut IT years Of hgc, who In hote'l for
her beauty. The man put choroturu Oh her face,
tt 1t Hot into her eye. which causcd 1t 10 snast.
ani she awoke and mhIie q movement which
frightened the scounhrei. md he jumped out Of
the Niudew aud made hs escape.
IOWA.
Tho Standard record. the death ,Y lightning Of
Mr. Tesour anu son, living Hear Montana.
Gen. Frank J. 1lcrron. formerly OF Iowa, was
married ut New UrlcaDs OH the Clh to Mrs, Alle
MlllraJ Flash.
MuRca,lnc tRs a population Of 1nls7, Including
176 cutute,I petsuns.
Miss Jennie P,nmmer, Of Atlantic, went to
Council D1ui1s to tR'1, null wh!1u dancing tcll
dead Apuprxy wns tic caIsc.
A thc HlOHx CITY 1.anut blflrc, during Tho qlar-
Ter Riding JuEle CO. tile tand sil.poEr,l Of amounted
to nenr!J hnif million ncrea, constituting MT n.ca
Of ncatIy a1ta E1uare miles, or two.tlrls as nnch
trrr1fnry nsIs embraced In tho Htatc 0f Khpio
l1ian3 Yhr tutai cash rrCcIpIa bf tho UcH for tin
1tsrtrr foot up trarlJ 3aM,voa. II ia cs'I'pat"'!
tint Tin purc,Ia*o uf thoan lands Will glsu 2j,h~
hrw Inhabitants 10 that Rrct'on.
Thr rnsrniort Hasttts If tho '4.h Rats:
"nn si",!t... In!"y Il t"'s htrass~f!. ami t'tcns
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III r1.@Ica @ of e t1 Wat I'll. .s" asd \, .s1Hpo1i
aS,,s% X A. ts'9 psEts work and iii h.fa
MICHIGAN.
An Insane man In Willis Pigeon recently burned
fl,l'A In grcenbacks md buried tue astcs. lie
.Ad taAt rccrlyri the inouey for four years. SER
vice 1n q farm, which he had suddenly taken o
notion 10 leave. He explained that he used tho
money IN this singular and Improbable way "to
help him through I1rxatofy." lie had g.yeu no
| inucatlon OF inaau,ty before.
MINNESOTA
An immense shoa1 OF xpecAltu brook trout up
pea1pd III Lake Superior. ut Duluth, last week.
The members Of the nu1a1o Concert Club cncaMp-
I'd ut shat rtace and caught then, by the dozens.
The EsA Averaged a!s0nt halt Io,Iu,l cuci though
EGme Of them were more than foot In length.
VIII Mhivrury, alias the "Ch!caEo kld, " and
Vim. johnson. had Prize eight, three niles from
St faul, on tho 18th, lot pure Of Stun. Fourteen
rounds Werr fought IL eo minutes the s. Kid tw1n
mug.
KAEgAS
4 Lcayenworth editor is In quest Of special at
ttnctIous for Lis paper. lie aays: "What We want
NtlulAA IN po3A+r
ble- Expense of libel snlts 10 he tte!rnycd by tho
wfite1-fune1al expenses by ua."
OHIO.
Three children wcrc Killed at West GAINESVILLE,
on tho 18th, hy being buried unter a aaIbauE
Two Of them were naiEel James II. a:,l VIII. J.
Timbctlakc. aged respectively ami 7ycasa.
TIE TERRITORIES.
The Georgetown {Col} Hi,stF Of the 9Th sars:
~At,r:ifc coGAsEr oriEinattd little 1et,rc
nocn Of tr.dsy n The IL .sy tt'xE epnth If lS.yen.
dnrine the day, which .lAs uu1y h4d the r~t
accelerate aud facilitate this rnsints Of
fEts Wirkrd and Unreasonable Of hII dfstFtittire
TIC hiEec sho dinnex 4hr flames have lren 1enz-
Ing and fprrnAink with startling raliiiy. tcaltns
t4in walls and se1thnk ;hroush rcky e.uon' g thst
tAlnr, etsudinr to nHr d"cr arr F'oautos uadrf
tw&rIInK flames md sitting smoEr This s1u appca1s
thr Ee the haze now cnEr!tnf thc city a. tagGt nt
kauEt. like huge round bal! ot h1r.o
Chinese trial has bera IN rtoEress at Silver
City, Idaho, and has considerable Interest from
the novel method Of swearing witnesses. The
Ti'ai Tarx thus describes the ceremony:
"a soerters bead il hacked oft \ h knffn ta,crr
hsuken The oath written on YelaH paprr lEncd. ard
the io&t tn h!ch ii osCi 10 fe thc sirtit vt ta
InrtcntE,n aud sie'rnte enca swurc tisc witnesses
k1EtA Hive chieke hrcke fire saue*'rs1 snsnrd fro
ruw awAy ty the IL !nAinen and coniatFt1 nnn for
the ArtE1ctu heather consider thrul rfnc the Tor.e
fer having rcrn b.. and cool~s to have lncu
cl;r # thr laerilres Of assisting to deveur BARTON
that nhlly 1t tcAdE1. and good ii ctr uusAnest
palate"
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