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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

ing the side of Howard, from the effects
OF which he died in four hours. He was
the only child of NJ. Anlozo Wing. His
death has cast a gloom over the entire
city.
A GIRL named Josephine Schicke, of
Leavenworth, Kan, died at No. $40 Kicka-
poo street. She went into a cellar on Sat-
urday night for coal and placing a lighted
candle on the floor started to walk around
1t, when her clothing caught fire. Her
screams were unheard and with unusual
presence of mind she climbed the stair
case to the kitchen where the flames were
smothered by her aunt with a piece of
carpet. Her limbs and stomach were
burned to crisp and the flesh was cooked
on her right arm so that large portions of
it fell from the bone.
A STRANGE and fatal accident occurred
in church in Rock Hill, n. c., on the
2Sth inst. The collection-plate was being
passed around after an earnest exhorta
ton had been made for money to help the
christian cause. Jas. Gooch, young man
in the congregation, did not have cent,
and, being moved by the minister's appeal,
he attempted to borrow ten cents from a
man next to him. The man refused.
Gooch then took pistol from his pocket
and offered it as collateral. The man took
the pledge, and while examining it the
weapon went off. sending ball through
the brain of Gooch, killing him instantly.
A YOUNG girl named Mary Crawford,
of Macomb, threw herself from the plat
form of a passenger train on the Goth, at
MENDOZA. ILL.,, as it was approaching that
city, and striking on her head against a
cattle. guard, fractured her skull, and sus.
tanned some internal injuries, which, it is
feared, may prove fatal. Some members
of her family came up from Macomb.
who state that she stole away from home
Thursday evening, and the first. account
they have heard of her was the telegram
announcing the accident here. It appears
she has been of weak mind for two mont hs,
and was constantly talking and wishing to
become nun in some Chicago convent.
She is very wild at present, and it re-
quires three or four persons to hold her
down. If practicable, her family will re-
move her to her home.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
Accidents.

ERNST GABLRR's piano factory, in New
York, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
inst, causing loss of $4,000.
Il Miss LAURA Broadway. of Milwaukee.
Wis.,, who was taking care of her sick sis
ter Mrs. John DUTIES, took by mistake
some poison prepared to kill bed-bugs, and
will die.
DR.. HAwEs of Tecumseh. Michigan, fell
under train at Hillsdale, and was seri-
ously, and perhaps fatally hurt. A few
months ago, the same man was waylaid at
his home, knocked down and thrown under
the cars, which cut his hand off.
No less than forty-two horses were
burned alive at Quincy on Saturday, one
$4,000.
The Milwaukee Sent;neps Augusta
special says fire destroyed most of the
business part of that village. Loss $780,
600. It is supposed to be the work of in
cendiaries.
WHILE John Murphey, of Elizabeth
port, N. j., was adjusting weather-vane
at the top of a liberty-pole at Summitville,
the pole broke, throwing him sixty feet to
the ground. He never spoke after his
fall, and died an hour after.
Mrs. REA, of Madison, Ind. while sitting
in front of a fireplace. nursing young
babe, was seized with fit and threw her
child into the fire, fatally burning i.
GRANT, the youngest son of Zadock
Chichester, one of the directors of the
Monroe county bank, (Albia, Ill., after
pasturing some cattle, accidently shot
himself, killing him instantly. The ball
went through his forehead.
WHILE Howard Wing and Will Henry,
of Jefferson, Wis, were hunting, at Ruse
lake, gun in the hands of the latter, was
accidently discharged, the charge enter
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
hired man, named Wyelth, were arrested
as his acconanlicos

AlEeu nan, named "yelth, were arrested
as his accomplices.
LEOPOLD HART and George Venn. two
saloon keepers, of Pittsburg, Pa, became
engaged in a dispute relative to boat
race: Finally words gave way to blows,
and Hart was badly worsted. Later they
met again, the quarrel was renewed, and
Hart, drawing revolver, fred four shots,
one taking effect in the arm of bystand
causing his death this morning. Hart
was arrested and placed in Jail at the time
Of the alteration, to await the result of
VEINS injuries.
In Brooklyn, n. Y. on the 26th inst,
the secret service officers arrested w.
Spencer alias Bill Brockwav, Charles H.
Smith and Jas. P. Owens, charged with
being concerned in counterfeiting of one
hundred dollar national pank notes. coun-
terfeiting one thousand coupon bonds of
the issue of 81. Smith confesses he en-
graved plate from which the bonds were
printed. The counterfeit bonds are in the
possession of Doyle in Chicago. He also
states he engraved plates for several coun-
terfeit one dollar notes which recently ap-
peared. The last engraved was on the
Pittsburg national bank. Owens was the
printer of these notes and bonds. Smith
claims in addition he engraved the plates
counterfeiting 40 bonds which we're put
on the market in 81, about s.. 600 of which
had been taken by Jay Cook & Co., before
their character was discovered. The ex-
animation ofthe arrested parties ia set
down for Tuesday next. A number of
bonds taken from Doyle in Chicago will
be forwarded to Brooklyn to be used as
evidence.
A SPECIAL from Robinson. Neb., says:
The mail carrier brings news from Camp
Sheridan OF horrible carnival of blood
in low den of iniquity, near that post, in
which two men were killed, two danger
ously, perhaps fatally, wounded, and sew
eral others bruised. Last Saturday night
there was large attendance of COW boys
and soldiers in the place, and half g dozen
low women, poor whisky, and lively
dancing, soon caused bad blood. 1t began
by a drunken Mexican brandishing re-
volver and threat ening to shoot the bar
tender for swindling him. A dozen cow
boys drew pistols simultaneously, shot
was fired, and one of them, Ed. Collins, fell
MORALLY wounded, having shot himself
while drawing his revolver. The dance
was resumed twenty minutes after his body
had been removed. Jim Royce and des-
perado named Page soon got into a fight
over the prOprletOrshlp OF girl, known
as Bever Tooth Nell. It ended by Page
shooting Royce fatally. Sergeant Green.
of Co. NJ, 9Th cavalry, attempting to dis
arm Page, received shot which necessi-
tated the amputation Of his leg; he will
probably die. The soldiers at once re-
taliated by emptying their revolvers into
the Page crowd, as they rushed out on the
prairie. The melee ended in a rough and
tumble fight between the cow boys and
boys in blue which would have resulted in
a terrible loss of life but for the timely ar
rival of the military from the post. One
during the melee. The murderer Page is
in the guard house and the soldiers threat
en- to lynch him.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
Cablegrans.

IRELAND has been importing American
arms to degree which excites alarm
among British officials.
The possible union of Bulgaria and
Roumania has stimulated the porte to or
der 10000 men to Adrianople.
THE postoffice at Manchester, England,
was burned on Saturday night, and tele-
graphic communication cut off between
that city and London.
The Carmelites Of Rennes, France, were
expelled from their establishment by the
police, who broke the doors, battalion of
infantry being necessary to maintain or
der among the bystanders.
Count Won MoLrkE. the German stra,e-
gist, celebrated his S0th birthday, on the
2Sth of Oct.. by refusing the title Of prince,
which his sove rel gn sought to confer on
him.
Ia is reported that the blacks are rising
at Natal, and number of Europeans have
been massacred near Maritzburg. Affairs
at the Cape are becoming more and more
serious every day.
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says:
"There is well-founded rumor that in
consequence of court intrigues against
Melikof he will retire to the Caucasus.
and that the committee of ministers which
is antagonistic to Melikoff's policy will be
reorganized." The Russian has been sus-
pended for publishing the above.
UNITED STATES Minister Christiancy has
submitted the following basis for prelim-
inaries of peace: Chill, Peru and Bolivia
will each elect three commissioners to dis
cuss conditions of peace to meet in the
Peruvian territory occupied by the
CHILEAN army, the United States minister
taking part in the conference as friendly
mediator.
MIR. PARNE1L and his brethren of the
land league are said to have decided to
abandon the policy Of exherting the peo-
pie to preserve the peace, and hereafter to
let them take their own course, which is
pretty sure to lead to trouble. Affairs in
the south and west of Ireland are in very
critical condition. Several agrarian out
RACES are reported, and many more may
be expected from this time forward.
IRELAND is to have two more regiments
quartered in its rural districts. In its
land-league policy the British ministry
meets denunciation on all hands, but will
stand or fall thereby. At the tenant meet
ing at Galway, Parnell had an audience
OF forty thousand people, and pronounced
the government solely responsible for the
assassinations, while O'Connor Power as
serted that the tenantry were suffering
more than did ever the slaves OF South
Carolina.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
A Fortified SQuaW.
Carson Appeal.

On Thursday last Alonzo Zaletto, an
Italian fisherman, discovered petrifed
woman at Cascade Lake. He was 60
ing out to fish at the time, and when
pushing off his boat, struck his oar
against sonnet ing which attracted his
attention. He investigated the matter
and found a petrifed hand protruding
from the sand and pebbles on the
beach. In short time he had I'M
earthed a woman. The body was small,
brown and scrawny and emaciated.
The petriication had a hideous an
pearance, and the body originally must
have belonged to shriveled, sickly
woman. The left breast was well de-
veloped, but the arms and legs were
not much larger than the bones would
have been, and the fingers of the right
hand were gone. The petrifcation
weighed nearly 20S pounds, and a
more unsightly object could not well
be imagined. 1t was brought down to
Lake Bigler in the afternoon, and L. J.
Wilson, of San Francisco, has offered
500 for it, as he wished to present it to
the Academy of Science. In all prob
ability the body is that of an Indian
woman. There is a tradition that
years ago the Indians had a battle at
Cascade lake in which the squaws
joined, and the dead were buried on the
shore of the lake. The finder wants
$3.50 for his prize, and it is probable
that the sum will be paid by the acad-
envy, and the curiosity be sent to San
Fancisco.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
Criminal.

A VIRG1NIAN who claims to be 100
years old complained to the police of Gin
cinnati that he was robbed of $1,000 on a
river steamer.
UNDER the noses of the Louisville police
the sports of that city and Cincinnati in
dulged in the most brutal dog-fght on
record, the participants being literally
chewed up.
The lightning-rod swind lers are going
for the farmers of Iowa again. VIM Hog,
of Abba, gave them his note for SO, and it
was raised to $50. Several others have
been taken in the same way. The sheriff
has arrested one of the swindlers in Gen.
treville.
A LIQUOR saloon in New York was the
scene, on the 9th. of prolonged shoot
ing in the southwest. The leader in the
assault received deadly wound in the
right lung. He proved to be the husband
of Sophia Lyonf, the famous shop-lifter,
who recently attempted to release some
desperadoes from Sing Sing with false
keys. The notorious pair once fled to
France with large amount of stolen
wealth.
IT will be recollected that about month
ago, DR.. Philip Talcot, a prominent citi-
zen of Maryvillc, Mo-, and editor of a
greenback paper published at that place,
was shot through window at his resi-
dence and killed while he was retiring for
the night. October Goth, his son, Albert
Talcot, was arrested on the charge of COM
hitting the murder. Mrs. Talcot, wife of
the doctor, Ed Talcot. another son, and a
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

EACH family of the three hundred
destitute Irish brought over from Con-
nemara last summer, has been given a
homestead of one hundred and sixty
acres in Bigstone couhey, Minnesota,
purchased by fund of 500, 900 raised
at New York. The colony is named
Graceville, after William H. Grace, the
principal contributor, and its people
are prosperous.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
Milwaukee NJ arket.

MILWAUKEE, October S.-Flour-Quiet and I'M
changed. Wheat-Opened and closed firm
No. hard, 1.o7 No. l, 1929; No. ?. 997z;
99>z for seller October: 1.001t for seller Novem-
Der; l.01zs for seller December; No. ),
81; No. 4, IS; rejected, nominal. Corn
Quiet; No. 2, 39b. Oats-steady, and in fair
demand; No. 2, 2s1s. Rye-Higher; No. l,
s31z. Barley-Firmer and quiet; No. g. 691z.
Provisions weak.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

Leprosy exists to a considerable ex-
tent i'll the parish of Lofopche, La. An
attempt to make an official investiga-
ton was lately resisted with arms, the
epers and their friends believing that
he sufferers were to be isolated on an
land in the ocean. The report of the
MUSICIANS is that the disease is not
gaining ground.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

DEAD LAKE, in California, is peculiar
in having no visible outlet, though a
large stream runs into it. The Indians
believe that it is bottomless, and marks
the spot where wicked tribe once
sank into the ground. No Indian can
be induced to 20 near it.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

A SENSATION has been produced at
Orange, n. j., by the arrest of a Mrs.
Atwood, wife Of the proprietor of the
Mansion house, fashionable summer
hotel. on charge Ct robbing the guests
of the hotel.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The young ass used in opening the
scene of the Ober-Ammergen Passion
Play is for sale. The animal is de-
scribed as being very tame and gentle.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

THE payment Of census enum orators
is being pushed as rapidly as the re-
sources of the census bureau, in Wash
ington, will allow. One hundred and
ninety clerks are constantly busy ON
this work, fifty working at night.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

THERE will be no pheasant-shosting
this year at Leigh Park, near Ports
mouth, the seat of Gen. Sir Frederick
Fitzwygram, in the south of England,
nearly all the birds having been acct
dentally poisoned. In one morning
600 dead pheasants were picked up.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The production of gold in New
South Wales in 1873 was only e279, 166,
not a tenth of that produced twenty
years ago. The yield from the coal
fields shows steady increase.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

LORD BEAcoNsF1ELD's agents at High
Wycombe have, by his lordship's in
structions, returned twenty-five per
cent. of the half years rent just paid
tt. all his tenants Oh the Hughendan
Manor estate.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The Lire Stock Journal says that in
Natal rhinoceroses are found this year
in haunts from which they have been
absent twenty years, and elephants and
buffaloes are unusually plenty in Zulu
land.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

THE devastation caused by rabbits
amounts in Australia to a serious Ca
lamity. One large estate, which for
merly supported $4,000 sheep, has
been abandoned on account of these
pests.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

have suffered from kidney difficulty for the
past ten years, accompanied with nervous spasms.
Physicians gave me but temporary relief but after
using three and one-half bottles Of Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver cure, my nervous spasms were
this great remedy to all suffering from nervous
troubles. esq., MRS. NARY REESE.
EastoM, Pc.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The Mormons have thirty -one mis-
sionaries in Great Britain, and will send
twenty more.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

President Hayes at the end of his
speech at The Dalles, Or, proposed to
shake hands with the crowd before him
by wholesale. At his request the crowd
held up their right hands, and he held
up his right hand, which he called q
hearty Buckeye shake. DR.. Richard
son then introduced Mrs. HAYES as
the great mother"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
;OilM ENTS.

Or the three Irish peers murdered in
the present century none have been
absentees.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The Sheffield papers are jubilant
over an order for 10000 tons of steel
rails given by the New York Central
and Hudson River railway.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

CHAUD1ERE, Canada, lumbermen,
say that a great deal more square
timber will be taken out this winter
than there was last.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

The Rev. John Perry, Baptist, is UNI
der arrest in Rhode Island on charge
of burning his property to obtain the
excessive insurance.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04
A Wise Deacon.

deacon Wilder, 1 want you to tell
me how you kept yourself and family
well the past season when all the rest
of us have been sick so much, and have
had the doctors visiting US SO often"
"Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
I used Hop Bitters in time; kept nv
family well and saved the doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept us well
and able to work all the time. I'll war;
rant it has cost you and the neighbors
one or two hundred dollars apiece to
keep sick the same time"
deacon, III use You, medicine
hereafter"
Lieutenant Governor CantrelI. of
Kentucky, has just been married to
Miss Cecil, of Danville, and CORES
pundent of the Cincinnati E,aquiyer. af-
ter POLITICALLY describing the satin and
orange blossoms of the bride, saws:
"The groom is an exceedingly fine and
man-looking man. He is tall, of com
manding appearance, and was exceed
ingly handsome in full dress suit. white
satin tie, white kid gloves and patent
leather pumps"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
A Fierce Firbt-rerrible EXPLOSION.

PANAMA, May l9.-The Star and Herald
prints the following: "From Locumba, near
Tacna, there comes the report OF severe light
between the Chilian cavalry, under Colonel
Vergara, and q division of the Peruvian cav
airy and infantry, under Colonel AlborIaccin.
The latter appears to have been severely
handled, the infantry of the force being, 1t is
said. cut to pieces by the fierce charge of the
Chilians. The Peruvian loss is placed at 100
killed, while many were made prisoners, and
a considerable amount of arms and ammuni-
ton and large number OF cattle and mules
also fell into the hands OF the vtctors. The
PeruVians retreated on Tacna, close pressed, to
within few miles of the city, by the enemy.
"At Ancron, Peru, large torpedo In process
ofcompletion exploded accidentally, blowing
the manufactory 10 pieces, killing every in
mate and nine others, and leveljng dozen
adjoining houses to the grounds"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
The Court of Inquiry of the Opinion That
whitaker Committed the Assault Upon


WEST POINT, May 29.-The Court of Inquiry
in the case OF Cadet Whitaker met In secret
session to-day, and agreed upon a final report
which was signed by all the members of the
Court. The conclusions are as follows:
/. The Court Is unable 10 believe that such
slight wounds as Cadet Whitaker received
manner and unoer the circumstances de-
scribed by him.
2. Itdoes not see wins man with his sur
roundipgs, and in his condition and frame OF
mind, as shown by his own evidence, should
have submitted to an assault such as is alleged
without summoning assistance during the
assault, or Immediately thereafter.
3. It believes person tied as he was, and
left as he claims to have been, could readily
have released himself had he exerted himself
to do so.
4. From the testimony of the Post Surgeon,
and others, the Court is compelled to believe
that Cadet Whitaker, was neither asleep nor
insensible when he was examined on the
morning OF April s, 1880, but that he was feign-
Ing.
tive that any person. other than Cadet Whit
taker, could have had in making such an as
sault, and there is no evidence whatever to
warrant the belief that any other person did
make Ii.
s. IT believes that the hair clipping, flesh
cutting, and binding could all have been ac-
cornplished by Cadet Whitaker himself.
Z. The theory, that the note of warning is
an imitation of Cadet Whittakers writing. is,
in the opinion of the Court, untenable. The
severe tests to which experts In handwriting
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
A Large Number of Miners ON Strike.

DENVER, Col, May 26.-Twenty-seven hun
dred min rs struck to-day, demanding an ad-
vance from So to "a per day. They held a
meeting and visited the mines, and compelled
the other miners TO quit work. Several mines
have refused 10 accede to the demands. The
arms of several Leadville military organiza-
tions are in the hands of the strikers.
There has been little or nothing rumored as
to the movement until 1t developed itself this
morning in s. TO $3.50 per day. At O'Clock
this morning 400 men appeared at the Chriso-
lite mine aud ordered out the men. After some
consultation the demand was complied with,
and they Joined the strikers, who proceeded to
the Iron carbonate and Bruce hills. Tonight
there IS not man at any of the mines. 1t is
estimated that 5000 men are partici
pating in the movement, whilst
perhaps 5000 other miners are
remaining quiet at their homes. All the prom
inent miners are strongly guarded, The eX-
element is feverish. Michael Mooney, q Mol
lie Maguire from Pennsylvania, is at the head
of the movement Thus far there has been no
violence. aud ii is hoped DO serious results will
follow, although the managers generally show
resolution to yield to the demands of the
strikers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
The Police Called In to Keep Order in the
Reformed Presbyteriau synod.

PIr7sBURG, Pa. May day, for the first
time. the Reformed Presbyterian Synod was
placed under the protection of the police. The
good people of Oak Alley have preserved order,
but for the last two days outsiders have been
disturbing the meetings and acting in such a
manner thst the Moderator was obliged to call
on the Mayor for protection. During the dis
cusslon of paper OF the Northern Presbytery
the trial. frequent Interruptions were
made. The Moderator called them to order,
but the boisterous manifestations continued,
and DIR. Mcleod was authorized to bring In the
Chlef-of Police. On the latters arrival the
Moderator said an explanation was due the
Synod. he regretted exceedingly to have been
required to pursue such a course. While the
Synod had entire confidence in the good men
OF the church, it was evident from the proceed
ings of to day that drunken and irresponsible
persons had appeared in the church. The dis
order was increasing, and he now asked that
the Chief. OF Police take charge OF the Synod
and protect 1t until the final adjournment