The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-15
GENERAL NOTES.

PRESIDENT HAYES has been made an
L. L. D., by Yale college.
A METEOR of large size appeared to the
people around Macon Ga, on the End inst.
Mr.. WEAVER, the greenback-labor par
letter of acceptance.
THE supplementary European confer
ence, in session at Berlin for FORTNIGHT or
more, has adjourned.
FARMERS in Tennessee and Kentucky
complain Of the continued transforms of
the last two weeks.
TIE failure Of Young, Chapman & Co.,
boot and shoe manufacturers, of Montreal.
is announced.
Gov MURRY, the recently
Executive of Utah, delivered the fourt-of-
July GRAFTON at Salt Lake city,
SUPERVISOR of census, Wright, having
completed the taking of the census of Chi
cago, gives sol ,979 as the actual.population
of Chicago.
The fifth annual eight-oared race over a
four-mile course between Yale and Har-
ward was won by the former in "a minutes
and q seconds.
The population of Omaha, which has
doubled in the last ten tears, is now sc, 1905.
Aurora, ILL.,, has IA, 1872 people. and Kan
kakee, about 1000.
MIR. STORES, of Chicago, and B. H.
Brewster, of Philadelphia, have volun-
teered their services as council of Cadet
Whitaker, in case he asks for court-mar-
tial
The commission appointed to investi-
gate the Tay bridge disaster reports that
the structure was shabbily built, and that
the plans were altogether inadequate.
IT is rumored that Judge William Law
renee, of Ohio, an ex-member of congress,
will be appointed first controller of the
currency, rice Judge Porter, who has re-
signed to make the canvass for Governor
Of Indiana,
The grand Jury at Richmond, ", has
indicted one of the seconds engaged in
recent duel in that state. It is supposed
that he will be acquitted, and that he will
then give evidence which will lead to the
conviction of the principals.
a GANG of men engaged in relaxing the
track Of the Illinois Central road, in Iowa,
with steel rails pulled up one thousand
feet of the old track, and then struck for
higher wages. They had the company
foul, and their demands were conceded
:;WHoLE blocks of houses were damaged,
some beyond the possibility of repair, by
the explosion of gas-mains, in Tottenham
road, London. 1t is believed that the
number of casualties was also greater than
at first reported.
AMAsA STONE, the millionaire of Cleve-
land, offers to give 100000 as an endow-
ment fund and 100000 for the purchase of
land, provided the Western Reserve col
lege, of Hudson, Ohio, shall be removed
to Cleveland His proposition will be ac-
cepted.
The Marshal Of La Sale, ILL.,, and a
posse of twenty-five armed men attacked
and dispersed gang Of drunken tramps
in arms, who committed a number of out
RACES, laying the city under general con-
tribution. Shots were exchanged, but the
tramps surrendered at discretion and were
arrested in body.
IT is now known that the wife and two
children of John Roeder, an engineer re-
Gently killed by boiler explosion at
Springfield, ILL.,, were lost in the Nara
gansett disaster on Long Island sound.
They were en- route to the home Of Mrs.
Roeder's parents in Germany.
FRANK L1LLIENDAHL, cashier of the
First National bank of Hoboken, n. j.,
kept private account with the bank, and
made some trifing overdrafts to meet
family wants, and was detected by an as
sistant, who informed President Symes. A
dismissal followed the discovery. Lillien-
dahl informed the president that he in
tended to make good the deficiency.