The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-05
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wood has abated, says q telegram Of Jan.
27th. 81. :s
AN Augusta telegram Of Jan. 26th,.
says the fusionists had raised 2,4OO men
to capture the state capitol. s. .ss
CAPT. JOHN CARSON, Of the United
States Revenue M arine, and commanding
the cutter Manhattan on Lake Ontario.
the past two years, died at Oswego, N.
Y. Jan. 426.
The governor.general; Of Canada and
suite, left Ottawa Jan. 28th, for Halifax,
to meet the princess. The ceremony al
tending the princess reception will be
much more elaborate than the first time
HORACE THOMPSON, president of the
first national bank Of St. Paul, and vice
president of the ST. Paul and Sioux City
railroad, died'sudd denly in New York city
Jan. 9th, whittier he had gone on rail-
road business. ~. =.
= SAYS dispatch of Jan. Goth The re-
port of the New Orleans {La. supervis.
ors of steamboats, shows that during the
past year not a single death was occa+
stoned by steam explosion, a fact unpre.
cedented in the: history of Mississippi
steamboat navigation, ~.
9 The Chicago Times announced on Jan.
28th, that the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway company has arranged
for the construction, early in the spring,
Of a Lire from Minneapolis. MINI, to
Norwood a distance of. thirty-nine miles.
The branch will supply connection be-
tween the Hastings and Dakota division
and Minneapolis. =. =. ::
The supreme court of Maine rendered
another decision on the situation Jan.
27th... This decision was made in answer
to set of resolutions proposed by the
fusionists, and it declares that the legis-
]ature organized by the republicans is
the only legal body; and that the other
must disperse.> The decision was signed
by the full bench. -
A CANVASS of the Iowa state senate for
the presidential preferences of the mem
bers was completed Jan. 26, and resulted
as follows: Blaine 81, Grant 3, Sherman
2, Edmunds 2, Washburne an d Garfield
each. The democrats voted 2 for Til
den, for Seymour, for Thurman, I for
David Davis, Greenbackers, 2 for Ben
Butler. The total canvass of the legisla-
ture, on the republican side, shows {:
Blaine 81, Grant Is.
The fusion senate at Augusta did not
have a quorum Jan. 9th; and cohse
quently did not do any business. The
house met, but transacted no business,
and adjourned: The finance committee of
the republican legislature called upon
the fusion treasurer, White, for the pur-
pose of examining his books, but White
refused. saying he did not consider either
legislature, legally organized, There was
talk of removing him from the Office by
force: ~
The Baker family, well-known mu.
sicians and singers, were to have given a
concert at Morris, ILL.,, Jan. goth. AT
about 3 O'clock in the afternoon some
one went UP into the hall where the con-
cert was to be given, and found Mr..
George Baker, the bass singer, lying I'M.
conscious, and he soon afterwards died.
It is supposed that he had stroke of
apoplexy. Il ~.:.-. f..,~>- r~ il
;. TORONTO dispatches of Jan. 20 state
that Han1on has letter tire Tire tttus-
tees of the sportsmen's challenge cup,
informing him that he was entitled to
hold the challenge cup until challenged
by the best man in England, and that
the fifty pounds deposited in his behalf,
last fall, for the match with Elliott, had
been withdrawn. Hanlon has written
to Soelle, asking him to agree to put up
$500 as guarantee that he will have a
man ready to row him (Hanlon) on the
Potomac, May Goth, so that in the event
of a walk-over Hanlon will:get one thous'
and dollars-Courtney's five hundred and
the pools five hundred. Hanlon also re-
jects the last-drafted articles, and asks
substituted those signed at Rochester.
A QUEBEC special of Jan. Goth says
A letter has been received by the city
police from a Mrs. J, E. Dickinson, of
Petersburg, Menard county, ILL.,, stating
that letter written by Ter husband to
her address has been picked up by an
American on warf in this city, and
mailed to her. She states that her hus-
band left home for Chicago with stock,
for which he received 5000, and that he
writes her to. the effect that he was drug.
ged in that city; that, when he came to
himself, he was on a large steamer, con.
fined ali prisoner, and forced to work
that he had called for help, but without
success; and that the boat was, at the
time he wrote, in the river, so he intend.
ed, when his letter was finished, to
brow it through window at night.
The poor woman very naturally express;
ed the fear that her husband may be
crazed and inesome hospital here, and
innocently inquiries if there are pirates
on the river here. His name is James
Edward Dickinson. The poor woman
appears by her letter to be in sad dis.
tress, and entreats the police to make
diligent inquiries and let her know. the
result. The detectives are looking into
the matter. 1881 ..:' $3.50. T..
81. FOREIGN.
GEN. sGAR1BALD1 Z was, married to
Donna Francesca Jan. 26:h.
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