The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-25
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

HOG cholera. of violent type, prevails
in sevo sections Of Indiana.
Boorn's theatre Of Chicago, has been
mortgaged for $4,000 by Oliver and
Cakes A. Amos.
A VEIN of good coal, over four feet thick,
has been struck at Ponca, Neb., 5S5 feet
from the surface.
AFTER contest of ninety minutes, in
Pittsburgh, John Mcmahon, of Vermont,
defeated W. J. Farrell, of California, for
the champion wrestler's belt.
GEORGE J. Bolton, widely known as a
hotel proprietor, died at Harrisburg,
leaving his family $4,000 insurance
policy.
A TORONTO journal claims high author
ity for the statement that the government
will virtually give the Canada Pacific syn
dictate $105, 900 in subsidy.
The latest rumor about General Grant
is that he is to be put forward for the pres
idency, in 1884, by gigantic politico-rail-
way combination headed by Jay Gould.
a LIEUTENANT and twenty-five men of
the 18th infantry were fired upon by Sioux
at the mouth of Muscleshell river, on the
18th inst, the only result being the killing
of a horse.
In church at East Cambridge, Mass.
on the 18th inst, Miss Jennie Smith an
nounced that after sixteen years of intense
suffering her sight had been restored and
her useless limbs renewed solely through,
prayer.
The Lipau Indians, who have lately
been pillaging both side of the Rio
Grande in Texas and Mexico, have been
badly punished by band of Mexican vol
unteers.
Don PIArr, in the Capitol, declares that
the command of the Mediterranean squad.
ron was given to an officer who presented
Secretary Thompson with persian carpet.
and that a scandal turks beneath the pro-
motion of Paymaster Stevenson.
The Milwaukee Sentinel publishes the
names and addresses Of $500 male persons
who claim they were not returned by the
census enumerators. Most of these are
believed to be voters, and it is claimed ac-
cording to the usual ratio would bring the
population of Milwaukee up to 10000.
LIBBY PRISON went to the auction-block
in Richmond, on the 18th inst, under a
deed of trust, tobacconist making the
best bid, $6,725. The auctioneer declared
that each brick could be sold for dollar
in the northern cities, part of the wall
having been carried away by relic-hunter
erS.
LITTLE Rock (Ark,) dispatches Of the
18th say: A heavy snow storm commenced
here at s o'clock this morning, and has
continued without intermission ever since,
and is still falling at 5 this afternoon. This
is something without precedent in this lat
itude.
CONGRESSMAN FARwELL, Of Chicago, will
urge the widening of the Illinois and
Michigan canal to La Sale, and the i'm
plovement Of the Illinois river. but
Charles Randolph favors a new cut from
La Sale to the most direct point on the
Father of Waters. The estimated cost of
the scheme is $15,000,000 to $l8,000,000.
A HIGHLY romantic escape from jail is
reported on the 18th inst, from Missouri.
A murderer under sentence of death lying
in the Jail at Lebanon, Laclede county,
not only made his escape from the Jail,
but took with him the pretty 17-year-old
niece of the sheriff and $75 of her uncle's
money.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
company have finished the MILESTONE
" uuSAl ~ Unity uA11cS 1IOul All1DdCk
Junction; the Hastings division to the
Jim River; the Sioux Falls branch to Dell
Rapids; the Southern Minnesota branch
to Vermillion River; and the Mitchell
branch is completed to within twenty-five
miles of the Missouri River. The James,
vile and Beloit branch is finished; the
Albany branch nearly completed; the
Monroe branch is we'll under way; and the
Minneapolis and Benton cutoff will be
finished soon.
The Chicago Times of the 18th inst,
says: The fact developed that large guam
titles of material which is called butter,
and sold as such on the marked, is really
made of lard by a peculiar process known
only to few. One establishment in the
city has been doing prosperous business
for more than a year, and has trade so
extensive that shipments are made to Eng
land. A representative of The Times was
shown through the place, and there was
no effort at concealment made; the manu-
facturer is frank about it, and says the
compound is no more injurious than pork.
A large number Of restaurants are said to
be using it as butter, and the report is
that other manufactures are to be opened
shortly.
Accidents.