The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-08-25

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Date of election, Tuesday. November 9Th.
| r. BLAKELEY: Chairman,
| Republican S ate Central Committee
! CHAs. W. JOHNSON, Secretary.
EX-Goy. STEPHEN MILLER.
His Death at WorthinSton-sketch of His
Life.
Ex-Gov. Miller, who has been in i'll health
| for several yel1s, declined very rapidly
the forepa't Of last week, and died on Thurs
funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, ct
| Window, and was largely attended by friends
from abroad and citizens of that place:
Stephen Miller was born in Perry, Cumber-
land county, Pa Jan. z, 1916, his parents be-
ing David and Rosenna Dorkes Miller He re-
cvived common school education, and later
learned the milling business. In o37 he le-
came forwarding and commission merchant
at Harrisburg, ard tFo years later vas elected
ed in 1852 In 1855 he was appointed -four
Inspector of Philadelphia, wLica position he
held until IS : s, when he removed to Minneso-
ia, a confessed invalid, locating in St. Cloud,
ness untl the breaking out of the re-
| be'lon. In the spring of 1856 Mr. Miller en-
| lis cd as private soldier, and was appointed
| lieutenant colonel of tho First Minnesota i'll
f.ntry, serving in the army of the Potom &c TN
til September, 1862, when he was promoted to
! the command of the Seventh Minnesota in
fantry, hurrying with his regiment 10 the
frontier of Minnesota where the Sioux were
massacreing men, women and children. In the
fall of that year Col. Miller caused the exc
cu,ion Of thirty eight of the captured 1ndiane,
who were hanged at Mankato
In the fall of 1868 Col Miller was promoted
to brisadier general of volunteers, and short.
| afterwards g ected governor of the state CT
Minnesota. He fllel tho executive chair dur
ing the closing years Of the rebellion and in
| many ways showed his patriotic impulses and
zeal fer the welfare of bis state and country.
Gov: ldlier was rendered civil appointments
by presidents Lincoln and Grant, which We're
not accepted, and since the close of the war he
has held no public position save one term es
| member of the assembly in 1873, and presi-
Dental elector at large in 1876, being chosen
! messenger to carry the electoral vote to Wash
ington. In 1880 Mr. Miller married Mrs.
Margaret Funk of Dauphen county, Pa, the
issue being three sons and one daughter OF
these Wesley F., a lieutenant in tie
| army, was killed at Gettysburg.
Their second son was commissary of subsistence
| Washington. The other son resides in Penn
| sylvania, while the daughter died in infancy.
| Gov. Miller is an ardent republican, and in
! 1860 headed the electoral ticket of Minnesota
coin. From 1858 to 1855 he edited the Tele-
graph, an influential Wing paper, at Harris
burg. From 1871 to 1878 Gov. Miller lived
at Window and was employed as field agent OF
the St. Paul & Sioux City railway company.
He then removed to Worthington, where he
lived at the time of his death. Gov. Miller was 3
practical and efficient business man. and was
highly esteemed by the citizens Of Minnesota
for his valuable services in the field and as gov
| ernor of the state.
! Thomas Donohue of Howard Lake, has lost
three children by diphtheria within the past
two weeks.
| The houses Of Thomas Lowry and Henry T.
| Miles of minneapolis were raided by burglars
last week, each losing about $500 of silver
ware.
| A new town is to be laid out on the railroad
! four miles east of Hector, in Renviile county,
to be called Buffalo Lake. after small lake in
| that vicinity.
A little afterclap of the New Ulm tornado
brushed across the town of Vernon Center,
Blue Earth county. recently, knocking an
empty house into kindling wood and doing
some damage to crops, but probably killing no.
body.
Prof. Kings big balloon which is to go up
during Kings big fair at Minneapolis measures
one hundred and eighty six feet IN crcumfer-
ence by ninety-tive feet in length, and is by far
the greatest and largest air ship ever construct
ed i'll any country.
George McGowen, who recently shot An
drew Dick at Hartmann's saloon, Minneapolis,
lived at Brownsville, Mower county, two or
three years ago, but left the pace under q
cloud, having attempted to collect debt from
a farmer by whom he had been employed by
orf.> - lot II,
kno WI then as a lawless and ugly sort of
pilgrim, and the people were generally afraid
of him.
The organization Of the First National bank,
Moorhead, is being rapidly completed The
articles of association and organization certif-
cato have been forwarded to the comptroller of
currency. The sum of $50, 900 in bonds have
been purchased and deposited with the United
States treasurer, and the safe and various Office
fixtures are on their way. 1t will be ready for
business in less than a month. Mr.. Lewis
Benedict, of Attica, N. Y, will bo the cashier.
A division of the order of railway Conduc
tors was arranged at st. Paul last week. There
were forty-sev charter members present
from northwestern railways, and of these TWEEN.
ty-eght were inducted into the workings of the
order, and the rest to be afterwards init; I'D
by the new division officers. The order is
secret ono, but the following officers, yesterday
chosen, arc ma le public: Chief conductor,
James A. Mitchell, s. P. Il D.. s; assistant chief
conductor, NJ. Blinkerhoff, Northern Pacific;
secretary and treasurer. W. II. Doyle, North
ern Pacific; senior conductor of ceremosies,
C. II. jerks, st. p, NJ & M. junior conductor
Of ceremonies, Nicholas Bouce, st. p, NJ &
M; inside sentinel, H. Moiloy. St p, NJ. NJ.
outside sentinel D. R. Dixon, st. P, NJ. & NJ.
At Minneapolis, young Englishmau named
James Clark, who has been employed as day
laborer by the Manitoba roac, paid his fellow
worAmen a call last Tuesday morning in a
garb unsuited to his ordinary vocation, and
said that he had had some good times in their
company, but he was going to leave them and
wouldn't work any longer. The reasons he
gave, and which prove to be true, we're that
he had fallen heir to large estate in England
valued at 100000, which only awaited his
appearance at his former home to be put in
his possession. The letter bringing him the in
formation contained q draft for $500, which
sum he received from the city bank, and took
the l o'clock train that day for New York,
where he will tako steamer for England.