The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
funeral procession of Pietro Balbo. tn
| New York wife murderer.

FRIENDS of the victims of the Mamie
disaster at Detroit will sue the steamer
Garland. which ran down the yacht for
damages.
AFTER twenty-five years of suspended
labor, work was resumed on the great
Washington Monument at the Capital on
the 9th inst.
AN excursion party of land-seekers,
numbering 2O3, under the auspices of the
Iowa Railroad Land Company, left Free
port, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, for LIE Mars,
Iowa, via the Illinois Central railroad.
IT is expected that it will take four
weeks to reach the bodies of the men en-
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than a fortnight ago.
Col. GR1ERsoN reports several engage
ments with Victoria's Apaches in the vi
cinity of Snake Springs. He killed four or
five savages and lost one soldier.
PosToFFICE officials have discovered that
good deal of the campaign literature
circulated by both parties through the
mails is obscene and efforts will be made to
suppress it.
GEO. AMEs, medical student of Fort
Wayne; Ind. Twill attempt to fast thirty
days, beginning Saturday next. No one
expects he will accomplish tenth part of
the feat
A DISPATCH from Los Pinos states that
one hundred and thirty-five chiefs and
head men Of the Utes have signed the
Ouray treaty.
A LETTER received at the dead-letter
Office, from Pittsburgh, Pa, contained the
heads of several parlor-matches and an
| ounce of powder.
Forty railroad ticket scalpers held a
secret session in Detroit, on the 9TH inst,
to perfect an organization for mutual pro-
lection against prosecution,
GEN. w. o. BUTLER, of Carrollton, KY,
a soldier of the war of 1912, and candi-
date for vice president on the ticket with
Lewis Cass, died on the 9th inst, aged 80
years.
The coroner's jury in the cases Of the
persons drowned on the yacht Mamie, in
was caused by the gross carelessness and
criminal negligence of G. D. Horn, master,
and II. w. Buff, pilot, of the steamer Gar
land, which ran down the yacht
A MA1L-cARR1ER has arrived at Fort
Robinson with intelligence that Turning
Bear, one of Spotted Tails chiefs and three
or four hundred young warriors have
started on the war path, presumably against
the Rees, whose agency is located two
hundred miles from Spotted Tails.
THE united Oil Co., line have completed
the laying of a three-inch pipe from the
Bradford region to Parker city, Penn. Oil
can now be transported in pipes from the
Bradford field to Pittsburg and Cleveland
at the rate of 5000 barrels daily. This
new line will also give the United Pipe
Line company use of 1,250,OOO barrels
of empty iron tankage in the lower oil
country.
The Pacific Express company, owned
by Jay Gould and operated upon his rail-
roads, and which commenced doing bust
ness in Chicago, ILL.,, on the 10Th inst, has
notified the American Express CONF any Of
that place, that it must refuse to receive
express matter originating there, and
destined to the exclusive offices Of the Pa
cifc Express company. This has resulted
in an acrimonious controversy, and the
companies are calling each other hard
names.
A SPECIAL to the Omaha, Tribune says
big nose George alias George Parrot, one
of the Elk mountain robbers, who, about
two years ago, laid plan to ditch and rob
the Union Pacific passenger train near
Carbon, Wyoming, and who killed deputy
Sheriff Widdowfeld and Tip Vincent
scouts, who tracked them to Elk mountain.
was brought here this morning down the
Missouri from Miles city, Montana, where
he was recently caught by U. S. deputy
marshal Irwin. He was in charge Of
sheriff Rankin, of Rawlins, Wyoming,
who left for home with him on the noon
| train.
| DIR. TANNER, at noon on the eth inst. ., fin
ished his fast of 40 days. The crowd cheer
ed Tanner enthusiastically. About 1000
persons were in the hall and an immense
number of people on the sidewalk. The
for Georgia watermelon; this he tapped,
dug his hand into it, and ate heartily.
When demonstrated with, he asked to be
left alone, saying, No, my lord, am rum
ming this now" When he placed the glass
of milk to his mouth he remarked, Gen.
tlemen, you don't believe that's good" At
2:3O DIR. Tanner was resting quietly and in
good condition. AT $50 DR.. Tanner drank
an ounce Of light wine after which he ate
a small slice Of watermelon. At 4:3O he
was eating with great relish piece of beef
steak. He did not swallow the fibre but
| only partook of the juice of the meat. At
SIX o'clock he asked for an apple which he
ate and then asked for and received two
more. At seven o'clock he was given beef
steak weighing half pound and partook
OF it.. At eight he drank an ounce of wine
and then slept until ten o'clock, when he
awoke and chatted cheerfully. DR.. Work
said DIR. Tanner was we'll and did not think
any trouble would arise from his undertake
ing. He had gone against the advice of
all physicians seemingly with beneficial
results, and he expected the DR.. to work
on his biography.
Be wise and Happy.
If you will stop your extravagant and wrong
notions in doctoring yourself and families WITH
expensive doctors or humbug cure-alls, that do
harm always; and use only natures smnla rame