The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-18
CURRENT EVENTS.

of health for some days before the race at
Vienna, but is now better.
The New Hampshire house, by vote of 1863
to 9, has indefinitely postponed the bill to es.
tablish general railroad law.
i. Peter Gram, aged Is, resident of wauke-
aha Tor many years, was run over by an engine
near that place and instantly killed.
Philadelphia has disposed of her white ele-
The structure originally cost 81, 600, 600.
About 5000 citizens of Chicago attended
soft-g glove fight at Mccormick hall between
John L. Sullivan of Boston and James Dalton
of Chicago. The latter was knocked out of
time in the fourth round.
During the last week there were In New.
York city $40 deaths, $50 births and 1873
marriages OF the deaths 468 were children
under five years of age; 22b from diarrhoea,
and thirty-five adults from heat.
Miss Anna Dickinson exploded bomb in
the temperance convention at Ocean Grove by
critieisising the efforts of the temperance peo-
pie to save fallen men and allowing fallen wo-
men to take care Of themselves.
The widow of ex-President Willard Fillmore
is lying at her home in Buffalo dangerously i'll
from stroke of apoplexy suffered Sunday
evening. She is wholly unconscious, and her
physicians give up ali hopes Of her recovery.
The relatives of Baron steuben, who ten
dered his sword to Washington IN the dark
days of the revolution, have been invited to
attend the Yorktown centennial az the guests of
the republic Secretary Blaine's invitation is
in his happiest vein.
President Balm, of the Atlantic mill, St. Louis,
which was struck by lightning and wrecked by
an explosion that followed, has already secured
another milling establishment of 400 barrel
capacity, and is now negotiating for another
business as if nothing had happened
Gov Tono oFM Moe o1,,,o hos 5oo:1ol -
nominate Judge VIM. Allen, Of the superior
court, for the place on the supreme bench
made vacant by the death Of Judge Colt NJ. r,
Knowlton, Of Springfield, will be nominated for
Judge Aliens seat on the superior bench.
Gen. Sherman, in q recent speech in Canada
said: have always wanted to see the Cana
dian peninsula annexed-that is, that part of
ward to the lakes. 1t would make splendid
state. 1t is the only part of Canada 1 would
like to see us get; they could keep the rest
The Indians at Standing Rock are in foyer
of excitement over the report that q herd OF
seventy-five thousand buffalo are ranging with
are not corralled out Of their range and under
the guns Of the garrison at Yates they may be
expected to make break for the game.
During race at Norwich, Conn.,, Trottine
Park, between the horses of Joseph Mccain,
of Newark, N j., and John McNamara, Nc
cams morse won the nrst heat. When he
passed the wire he bolted and threw Mccain
on the fence, breaking his right arm and sever
al ribs, the ends oe the broken ribs piercing
the ungs
The Brooklyn socialists in mass meeting
protested against the extradition of LeosHart-
man, such course they believe having been
contemplated by the authorities, and adopted
resolution to the effect that it would be dis
g1ace to the country if the government should
deliver up the revolutionary hero to certain
death while he found refuge as political exile
even in British monarchy.
Winona Republican: Rev: J. B. Cotter, Of
Winona, was elected president of the National
Catholic Total Abstinence Union, at their $685.
sion recently held in Boston. This il q de-
served tribute to one of the most earnest and
able men in the temperance work-a man
whose quiet devotion to the good of his fellow
men, so long recognized by his co-workers in
Minnesota, finds also fitting recognition at the
hands of the National Union.
The junior Mr.. Steere, of the well-known
firm of steere Il Turner, who built tho organs
for the fisrt Baptist church, House of Hope
and First Presbyterian churches of st. Paul
sends intelligence that the firm has contracted
to build 81, 900 organ for ::the Westminster
Presbyterian church of Minneapolis. II will
have fifty registers and 1872 pipes, and be
the largest organ in the state, and probably
west Of Chicago.