The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-17


Marcoastu for the best essays Oh the subject
OF an international assembly for forming a
code If international law has been awarded by
the Social Science Congress committee to
Abram Pulling sprague, lawyer OF Albany,
New York. T. IT, Ii ..- Is.
GENERAL MATTERS. ..,5s..sss..,.
The prohibition party Of New Hamp.
shire has nominated AS. Kendall for Gov
ernOr. '4s T.
The second annual church congress of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States is in session at Philadelphia.
In test vote in the French Assembly
on the 1lth, on the electoral bill, the govern.
ment was sustained by sayote OF s67 yeas to
a26 nays. ri - NJ -.%>r: Y >'s<1 !
The great hatter's goods importing house o.
Haight, Halsey & Co., has suspended payment.
The house has long ranked !, and had a
capital of $3.50, 900.
The TWO leading Baptist papers Of Bos-
ton. the Era and the Watchnaon and Reflector,
have been consolidated, with DIR. Lorimer in
editorial control.
Hartranft's majority for Governor OF
Pennsylvania is II, 1921, or some I, 600 less than
his majority in Philadelphia. The prohibi-
ton vote of the State was about 1900.
The large cotton mills at Glasgow, be-
longing to Robertson & Co., were destroyed by
fire on the nth. Loss estimated at 81 500 900.
Twelve hundred persons are thrown out 0
employment.
Both factions of the Cherokees still
claim to have carried the day in the last elec-
ton OF chief, and bloodshed is apprehended
when the council announces the result of the
canvass.
The President has appointed Hiram
Leffingwell United States marshal for the dis
trict OF Missouri. L. V. Bacon of Michigan
has been appointed financial clerk of the pat
ent Office.
Twenty millions one hundred and thir-
eight thousand postal cards were issued by the
post office department last month, the largest
issue by at least five millions ever issued in the
same time.
The question being raised as to the ell
igibility OF a Mormon to serve as juror in a
suit of a ncn-Mormon against Mormon,
Judge Foreman overruled the challenge and
decided that the challenged party was compe-
tent to serve.
Mr.. Fl. Ostcrberg denies that the
Northwc stern railroad company has purchased
OF him the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis
railroad. He says he is determined to run the
latter rod in the interests Of the German
bondholders, whom he represents.
The aggregate amount of business done
at the New York Sub Treasury during the
last fiscal year was S7Os, 0O0, 900. The amount
of receipts of customs at the port of New York
was Sill geo, 600. The balance at the end of
the last fiscal year was l10,o00,0oO
The American cooperative union, in
connection with the direct trading company,
by Mr.. Worsall OF England, has
been organized at Louisville; J. R. Buchanan
president and J. Nelson Harris, secretary.
This is designed for the central organization in
this country.
The court martial Of naval cadets at
Annapolis, Nd, for hazing, resulted in the
of Thomas Dickinson, appointed
from Kentucky, the colored cadet from Missis-
sippi, Henry E. Baker, Jr., and the retention
OF two others imp ieated under certain PEN
altes ana restrictions.
Returns of the Kansas election show
that there are but seven districts in which
Democratic members are elected, and eleven
districts in which they are classed as reform
ers Most of these, on strict party diyis-
ion, would vote with the Republicans. There
are IS members out-and-out Republicans.
The Pullman palace car company is
about to commence suit against Wagner and
the Michigan Central railroad to restrain the
after from using the inventions of Pullman
Eminent council, including Senator Conkling
of New York, Ashley Pond of Detroit, and D
Darwin Hughes OF Grand Rapi Is, have been
retained by the Pullman company.
Recently the Diario Espa1'ol Of Mad
rid gave publicity to the statement that note
had been despatched from the Vatican to
Spain, insisting upon the execution of the
conoordat, attributing the civil war to religious
tolerance, demanding that the Bishop OF Ur-
gel be tried by ecclesiastical judges, etc. The
existence of this note is denied at Rome.
The Attorney General has decided that
the act of Congress Of April 9th, 1916, con.
frmed to Hugh and John Maxwell a grant
%, 900 acres at the forks of Black river, No..
made to Priest Maxwell in 1899 by the Span
ish government. This large tract of land, sit
uated in REYNOLDS and Iron counties, No., il
thes fore declared to belong to claimants rep
resented by Warwick Tuntsell.
The Western Associated Press.
The 18th annual meeting of the Yves.
tern Associated Press. was held at De-
troit, Mich, On the 10th. Arrangements
were authorized for the procuring of very
full reports during the Centennial and
Presidential year. The following board