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Sentenced to Ten Years for Embez-
Element.

In the United States District Court at
Winona MINI. The grand jury presented
four indictments against Douglas Wander
hoof for cmbezzlcment OF money from the
First Nationa! bank. St Paul. He was ar
ranged at the bar and pleaded guilty to one.
United States District Attorney d. B. Searles
then addressed the court. recounting the
manner and times of the emhezElements so far
as is known, and said while he felt great
sympathy for the relatives and friends of the
prisoner, he had no sympathy whatever for
man so lost to every sense of honor as to
betray the confidence of his employers as
Nanderhuof had done while occupying a
responsible position as book keeper i'll their
bank. 1t was known that the amont
ofhis embazzlements reached $4,000 and it
was believed that they would approximate
100000. and he believed d criminal
so cool, so calculating, deserving of
the fullest penalty of the law.
At the conclusion of his remarks Mr.. G. D..
Strong, the tather-in-law of Nanderhoof adj
dressed the court in an earnest and pathetic
appeal for lenienCy in passing sentence upon
the prisoner. He reviewed his past history
from his earliest acquaintance with him
down to the present time. feelingly alluding
to the trouble his indScretion had brought
upon innocent parties. Mr.. Strong spoke
for about half an hour, the court room,
which was crowded, being hushed to still
ness by his heartfelt appeal.
When he had concluded, Judge Nelson pro
ceeded to pass sentence, saying i'll Substance:
1 have known you for many years i'll the
community where you have grown fren,
youth tc manhood. In guilty moment
yOu have committed serious crime. You
betrayed the confidence repOSed in you by a
national bank of st. Paul. where you held a
responsible position. You embezzled the
money belonging to this corporation and
have incurred the penalty cf a violated law.
You had peculiar advantages for perpetrat-
ing this crime. For years you had enjoyed
confidential relations with the chief mana
ger of this association and they had no
doubt ofyour integrity. You had every i'll
ducement to lead an honest life. You had
faithful and loving wife who relied on you
you were revered and loved by children It
is distressing to think, that casting aside all
these influences to honest livelihood, in one
guilty moment you destroyed your reputa-
| ton, disgraced your family, and forfeited
your liberty. He was sentenced to ten years
at hard labor in the penitentiary at Stillwa-
ter.
After sentence was pronounced Wander
hoof was taken in charge by the sheriff and
| returned to the Jail. He says his sentence is
of his having returned to the bank some
| $40, 600 ofthe funds embezzled, he had hoped
| that his imprisonment would be limited tC
| five years. He had invested the stoler
| filndsin business enterprises ofyarious kinds
$50, 900 in one place, 81, 900 in another and
so on, besides using much of 1t in fast liv.
ing.
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HousE.-The house unanimously passed a
bill entitled Gan act to amend the pension
law by increasing the pension of soldiers and
sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the
service But this is not what it really is. In
the text is significant clause which in
cludes all those ON the pe.lsion rolls, or who
shall hereafter be granted pensson, who
shall have suffered disability equal thereto,
shall be entitled to pension OF $4o per
month" This clause, in the opinion OF
pension office official, will Hood the pension
office anew with very large class of pen
sioners, and if rs literally construed as
other laws, will take a large amount from
the nublic treasury. The bill was intro
duced bv Bingham of Pennsylvanla.
The legislative, executive and judicial Dill
wa. ;hen taken up. 1t increases the EN-
ployes in the pension office at cost OF ST.
1000 and in auunIou approprlateS S2Io'-
0OO more than the bill for the current year.
The bill creating the Oregon short line rail-
road company in Utah, Idaho and Wyom-
ing was reported.
FRIDAY, JUNE9.
SENArE.-Mr. Van Wyck introduced Il
resolution that action on the nomination for
tariff commissioners be taken in open ses-
sieh. q bill passed authorizing and pre-
scribing regulations for the extension of
mail routes.
HoUsE.-The day was spent in consider
alton ofthe legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill, and proposition
to eQualize the salaries of house and senate
employees by reducing the salaries of the
latter was agreed upon.
The feature of the proceedings was the
debate engendered by a proposition to turn
the botanic garden over to the agricultural
department and reduce the appropriation
for its maintenance from SIG, 100 to $1,000.
Mr. Cook. the author of the movement, was
supported by Calkins and Letevre, but de-
spite this strong array, the proposition was
voted down by decided majority. The at
tempt to deprive the members of their floral
perquisites brought out the fact that no law
exists for continuing the botanic garden,
but that it has been tolerated for the past
thirty or forty years, and liberal sums of
money voted it, simply because it was con-
venitnt for the members to secure free flow
ers Tor female favorites.
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Personal and Ia,spersondl.

Mai. Maginnis of Montana has returned
from the reunion on the battlefield at Gettys-
burg. He was accompanied by Coils. Her
bert and Forney of Alabama, who COM
manded regiments in the confederate divi-
sion on which the First Minnesota, to which
Mai Maginnis belonged, made its memora-
BILE charge, July, 2, 1868, repulsing the enc
my. The position of the troops were we're
fed the southern officers perfectly remem-
bering the charge of the Minnesota troops,
which finally repulsed their advance.
Lieut. Danenhower has received informa-
ton by mail from Irkoutsk to the effect that
letters from Engineer Melville, giving the
particulars of the bodies of Lieut.. De Long
and his men, have reached there by courier
from Lena Delta. In q memorandum found
ON Lieut.. De Longs body and bearing date
of Oct. Is, it was stated that four of the party
were dead and Collins was dying.
Wallace Ross, the well known oarsman,
arrived in st. Paul from the east last week
and left for Winnipeg, where he will row,
on July 8, against Hanlan. Ross was &C
companied by the we'll known trainer, John
Kennedy, who has been handling him in
Maine since the 1st of March. Hanlan is re-
ported sick at Toronto.
A large number ofinhuential republi-
cans in every county in Maine, aggregating
eyeral thousand in all, unite in addressing
| o Blaine an invitation dated May 2S, to al
ow his name to be used rs candidate for
congress, to which Mr.. Blaine has written a
| positive declination, on account of the pres
sure of private business.
| Irving, the celebrated English actor, will
come to this country next year, and appear
| in Hamlet, Charles l., The Bells, Louis XII,
| and the Lyons Mail. Mr.. Irving sails on
the End Of August, in the Britannia, for Q
brief run to Saratoga and Newport, fol
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Menus from IY0ShilaQtOta.


Representative Hazleton of Wisconsin has
introduced in the house bill to establish a
commission of three, before which all pri-
vate land claims against the government are
to be adjudicated and sent to the general
land commissioner for final action. The
surveyor general is now vested by law with
that power in addition to his other duties
but his time is SO taken up that he has not
within several years examined and reported
upon more than 100 cases. 1t is estimated
at the Interior department that at the pres
ent rate of progress it would take 300 years
to settle all the private land cases known to
be in dispute, and hence the necessity for
some tribunal before which cases can be dis
posed of. Officials in the general land Office
are busy preparing a list of cases now on
likely to be presented. New Mexico, where
nearly all land is in dispute, furnishes more
than three-fourths of the cases presented to
the department for settlement, and are gen.
orally most intricate and veXatious claims to
settle. The department officials are hearth
ly in favor of some such commission as is
suggested in this bill, and when the matter
comes before congress much light will be
shed upon the subject by the statistics now
in the course Of preparation.
Mrs. Scoville, sister ofGuiteau, has given
to the press for publication the copy of
petition addressed to President Arthur,
asking for stay of execution in the case of
Guiteau until commission of competent
physicians, acknowledged by the fraternity
to be above adverse criticism, shall be
appointed and shall examine into the ques-
ton of insanity.
A patent has issued from the land office
interior Department. in favor of ex-Pres-
ident William Harrison. The patent is for
160 acres of land in southern Ohio, which
General Harrison purchased in 1905 under
the old credit system. The interest on the
investment already amounts to more than
thesum invested.
In the Florida contested election
case, Witherspoon VS.. Davidson, the
committee will declare Davidson, (dem-
ocrat), the sitting member, is entitled to the
seat.
Mr.. lie Barnes, clerk in the general land
Office, has reduced to Methodical form the
vague theory Of that office that several wes-
tern railroads have been patching more land
than they are entitled to, and Mr. Strait has
offered resolution for committee of in
quiry into the truth of his assertions.
Senator Johnston of Virginia sustained the
reputation of Virginia hospitality as chair
man of the Yorktown junketing party, by
furnishing the most expensive refreshments.
These items he generously paid out of the
contingent fund and shrewdly allowed more
legitimate expenses to be entered up in due
form in the deficiency bill. Champagne,
sherry, old 1880 brandy and other irrigating
ingredients flowed as freely as patriotic ora
tory on that occasion, but there is trouble
ahead on the adjustment of the account.
Nominations: Geo. J. Pomeroy, agent and
cousuI general at Cairo; E. L. Brulalour,
Louisiana, secretary of legation at Paris;
Eccles G. Van Riper consul of the United
States at Moscow.
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An Cn1ucky Postmaster.

In the United States court of Winona,
Minn., on Thursday last, Charles H. Slocum
was aaraigned on two indictments, one for
unlawful detention of letter in the post
office at Blue Earth City while in the en-
ploy of the government as postmaster, and
the other for embezzling the contents of the
same. To the first indictment he pleaded
guilty. The prisoner made a plea in his
own behalf to the court, stating that last
fall man named Giblin, living in Iowa,
sent a letter containing draft to a man
named Dolan at Blue Earth City. The ac-
cused, i'll his capacity as postmaster, deliver
ed the letter to another person of similar
name, who forwarded it to relative that
had removed from Blue Earth City. This
latter party returned the letter and draft to
the postmaster at Blue Earth City, as on
opening he found it was not intended for
him. The accused continuing said
he placed the letter with the
draft in a private drawer among valuable
papers for safe keeping until it should be
called for, and was unaware that Dolan had
made frequent inquiry for the letter. He
stated that he had no intention of appropri-
ating the draft to his ownuse. He alluded to
his previous good character as substantiated
by list of prominent citizens of the state,
which he submitted to- the court, and con-
cluded his appeal by imploring leniency.
Mr.. Slocum was completely overcome and
gave way to tears as he closed. Judge Nell
son after alluding to his violation of the
postal laws thereby rendering himself amen
able to punishment, said there were circum-
stances surrounding the case which would
cause the court in its discretion to sentence
him to pay a fine of $3.50, and be committed
to the Winona county Jail for thirty days.
Another Alleged Defalcation in Scott
County, Mimi.
Shakopee Argus Some trouble was had
in affecting settlement with Mr.. Roderick
O'Dowd when that gentleman was removed
from the Office of county treasurer, but the
public supposed his accounts were finally ad-
justed It will, therefore, be q surprise to the
public when informed that ex-Treasurer r.
O'Dowd is defaulter to an amount yet un.
known.
A few days since widow living on Eagle
creek went to the treasurer's Office to pay the
interest due upon small principal due upon
the purchase of school lands To her sur
prise she was informed by the treasurer, Mr..
VIM. Wilson, that last years interest had not
been paid, and none of the principal. She
claimed to have paid last year, $145 princi.
pal and the interest due to that date, $11.90
and in substantiation of her statement ex-'
hibited Treasurer O'Dowd's receipt to that
effect
The Argus is reliably informed of other
defalcations. They are coming to light
day by day. Where they gill end no one
can tell.
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Miscellaneous Ne1Us Notes,

Helena Herald: In response to a call for
volunteers to go to Lady Franklin bay, Sergt.
G. w. Wall of Fort Shaw, Private Roggs
from Missouri and Private Dennison, from
Assinniboine are ON their way to report for
duty to the chief signal officer of the United
States army at Washington, D. c. The party
will be under the command of Lieut.. Greedy
and expect to sail on the 18th of June. The
object of the expedition is to visit the signal
station at Lady Franklin bay and replenish
the commissary's department at that place.
Two years ago station was established at
the bay and a couple of years supply of pro-
visions stored there. The observatory is in
direct line with the train of British signal
stations.
Here is small pox item from Indiannapo-
bis, Ind. The Chicago Tribune says, in
speaking Of the case of Mrs. Van Daren
that it is believed she took the infection from
Dr. Haggart, who disbeheves in vaccination
and the idea that the disease can be carried
about in the clothing. He attended the
Wenning family for a time, and is said to
have worn the same clothing while visiting
other patients which he wore while attend
ing to the Wennings. DR.. Haggart is a
homeopathist of the uncompromising type,
with special prejudices on the subject of vac
cinatian.
The gilded youth, Johnny Curtis, who
cody smoked a cigarette while waiting for
his mistress, Jennie Dixon, to take leave of
her children has experienced qulckening
of conscience and returned to st. Louis,
leaving his ill-fated victim at San Antonio,
Tex. The Curtis family, however, are ne
gotiating for the return of Mrs. Dixon to
her mothers house, while the husband and
children, are in Iowa, pending an appGca-
ton for divorce.
At the convocation in Chicago of the presid,
ing elders of the NJ. e. Church, it was voted
that the convention of 1883 be held in st. Paul
| the last week in May and the resident bish-
op and resident elders of Minnesota We're APP
pointed a committee on programme.
The friends of the Hennepin canal are
| more confident of success than ever, the sen,
ate committee on commerce having agreed
to report bill for half milliou to begin
the work.
The Chicago brickmakeIs have accepted an
offer of compromise made by the employees
| and gone to work at half the advance de.
| manded.
The annual convention of the Nationa
| Bankers association will be held in Saratogs
| the 10th and 18th of August.
The Pennsylvania supreme court has dis,
solved nineteen more Insurance companies.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
Minnesota State Medical Society,

The fourteenth annual meeting of the Min.
nesota State Medical Society occurred at
Sherman hall, st. Paul, last Wednesday
morning. There was large attendance, over
100 members being present, when DR.. G. N.
Hewitt of Red Wing, president of the socie-
ty, called to order. Owing to the presence
in the city of the thousand doctors from
other states, and the desire to attend the ses-
sion of the National Medical association,
the proceedings were brief.
DR.. G. N. Hewitt, president of the society,
delivered his annual address, which was at
tentively listened to and ordered referred to
the comm mittee on publication. He coun-
Selled increased efforts for sanitary reform,
urged upon the profession the majority OF
doing more in preventive medicine, that de-
partment of practice whose end is the preser-
vation of health. In regard to the code of
ethics, he said that no change will be per-
mitted which places the general practitioner
on lower plane than any class in the pro-
fession; nor any change which will admit to
fellowship in profession resting, as med
icine does, upon sufficient general and pro-
fessional education any who claim admission
on any other ground; that the charges, if
made, should be by appeal by respect
tul petition to the only body having the
power to make the change, the American
Medical ASSOCIATION, the CHOSEN representa-
tive of our common profession in our coun-
try.
The committee on credentials submitted
their report, and on motion of DIR. Leasure
about forty persons were admitted to men,
bership in the society.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President-P. II. Millard,
Saltwater.
First vice president-A. H. Lindley, Min
neapolis.
Second vice presidents. c. Mccormick,
Duluth.
Third Vice President--Charles Berry, New
Ulm.
Treasurer-S. 3. Sheardown, Stockton.
Recording Secretary-C. II. Boardman, St.
Paul.
Corresponding Secretary-W. A. Jones, st.
Peter.
Censors-Drs. McComb, Rush City; J. B.
McGaughey, Winona; A. w. Giddings, Ano-
ka; Vim. Jacoby, Mankato; Daniel Leasure
and c. A. Wheaton. st. Paul.
The president announced that he would
appoint the various committees in time to
have them published in the printed proceed
ings and the society adjourned to meet the
second Tuesday in June, 1888, at Mime
apolis.
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which Mr.. W. H. Vanderbilt is to take
him in charge.
A Portland, Oregon dispatch says Con-
gresham George is certainly elected by
majority of not less than 1000. The repub-
licans claim the entire state ticket by ma
iorities ranging from 700 to 1900. The
democrats concede it to the republicans by
small majorities.
Gen. Sheridan denies the story published
to the effect that he left fishing party and
returned to Chicago because he heard that
Gen. Sherman intended to resign the COM
mand of the army, leaving it to devolve on
him.
Mr.. Johnson G. Whitaker, ex-cadet of the
United States Military academy, is about to
enter the lecture field and is announced to
speak very soon at Buffalo on "The Color
Line at West Point"
DR.. George Reinhold Paul., the German
historian, is dead, aged sixty.
Ex-Gov. Dennison of Ohio is dying.
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From FO7'eiG1t Lands.

A copy of the resolutions of coincidence
adopted by congres on the death of Garibal
di is being engraved for presentation to the
family OF the dead liberator.
Prince Henry, son of Crown Prince Fred
erick William, of Germany, will visit Amer
lea in October.
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NeaNS Of the R0iL1O0lLS.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Chicago, Rock Island g. Pacific rail-
road resulted III the election of the following
directors: For three years; David Dows,
Sidney Dillon, H. r. Bishop, New York; r.
r. Cable, Rock Island; Hugh Riddle, Chica-
go. Mr.. Bishop succeeds w. l.. Scott, of
Erie who declined reelection. The new di-
rectors elected Hugh Riddle, president; Da-
vid Dows and r. Z. Cable, vice presidents;
Francis Tows secretary and treasurer.
The Western railroad of Minnesota elected
board ofdirectors and officers on Wednes-
day last. The directors include these solid
names: c. B. Wright, Philadelphia; Fred
erick Billings, T. f. Oakes and Geo. w.
Case, New York; Alexander Ramsey, +. r..
Delano, George l.. Becker and Il. NJ. New
port st. Paul; S. Il. Neller, Minneapolis.
George L. Becker is president; F. +. Delano,
vice president; Z. r. Williams secretary and
treasurer.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway COM
pany is about to inaugurate flank move
ment across the lines of the Rock Island.
It proposes, it is understood to run through
passenger train from Des Moines, via. Ell
more and the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha
railroad, to st. Paul. 1t is thought the en-
terprise has a cross-cut purpose of some
kind.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, g. st. Paul COM
pany have issued circular announcing the
opening to traffic of Estherville, Ia, located
on the branch of the Iowa & Dakota divi-
ION, eight miles north of High Lake and
twenty-five miles north of Emmetsburg.
Col. Charles 3. Lanborn, land commits.
siorer Of the Northern pacific arrived in
Helena, NJ T., q few days ago: He was vel
coined at Benson's Landing, Yellowstone
valley, by Land Agent Stone, who escorted
him to the capitol.
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Record Of Fires and Casualties.

At Minneapolis, a young man named S.
r. Walters was arrested and locked up on
the charge of robbing the Masonic Mutual
Aid association. 1t appears that Walters
procured membership in the order for his
father Sterling Walters of Haricon, n. Y,
and reported Ills death recently. He pro-
cured the required affidavits purporting to
be those of DR.. J. G. Smith, the physician
who attended him, and the undertaken.
The certificate represents that the death
was from typhoid fever, and is in due form
sworn to by j. R. Walters before r. w.
Cummings, notary, upon it the association
paid the claim of $1,304. but Information
was received of the swindle and the young
man was arrested Just as he was preparing
to leave the city.
At the United States district court at Vino
ma, the grand jury presented indictments
against the following persons: James II Cole,
selling liquor to Chippewa Indians at
Northern Pacific junction; Charles Rogers,
counterfeiting United States coin; VIM.
Cameron, selling liquor to Indians of Sisse-
ton agency. Rogers pleaded not guilty.
Gunswald Johnson, for embezzling funds of
postoffice department at Albert Lea, ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty; Austin Lob
dell for stealing money from the mails at
Janesville, Was a county; two indictments
guilty; sentenc to one years imprison-
ment at hard or in the penitentiary at
Saltwater.
At Duluth, last week, Thomas Burke, of
Detroit, Mich, working for the Northwestern
Fuel company, while engaged in oiling a
shaft which extended some 400 feet on the
dock, was caught by it while in motion and
before he could free himself was most hor-
ribly mutilated. Nothing was left but a
mass of broken bones, his skull was crushed
and his brains scattered all over the dock.
The unfortunate man leaves wife and six
children in Detroit, Mich.
Edward w. Olney, moderator of North
Providence, r. l., was shot three times fa-
tally at town meeting by John Kennicutt
an ex-policeman, who accused Olney oi
having procured his discharge and made
him town pauper.
oThe Touring, mills of Henry Rhode, the
largest in northern New York, burned re.
Gently. Loss, $4,000; insurance $4,000.
i Twelve ice houses belonging to Butsch
u Indianapolis were burned. Loss
$25, 600; insured. Incendiary.
4 At Grand Haven, Mich. one of Boyton
; Akley's shingle mills was burned: Los
$125, 600; partly insured.
The union depot at Atchinson, Kas., wa
damaged by fire to the extent of $14. 900.
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A tine residence built by the late hon.
A. B. Foster at cost of $l00, 600, In Wa
terloo. Canada, is reported to Ihaye been
purchased for $4,000 by some nuns
from Montreal for nunnery.