The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
NeaVs from. Washington.
| The clerks in the various outside bureaus
OF the war department are being all dis
charged, and most of them hired over again.
Under the bill recently passed the clerks in
! the office of the commissary general, surgeon
general, and adjutant general are made civil
ians, while heretofore most Of them have
been enlisted men. The heads of bureaus
are taking the opportunity to recognize the
force, and some of the discharged men will
stay out for inetficiency or other objection
able qualities. A number of female clerks
in the Office ofthe secretary of the navy have
been dismissed on account of failure Of APP
preparations.
/ \ statement has been prepared in the
office of the second assistant postmaster
general, Elmer. the successor Of Gen. Brady,
| showing the decrease in the cost of the star
route service for the year ending June 80,
1882, from which it appears that the cost of
transportation ofthe mails has been cur
| tailed ia per cent. Mr.. Elmer, in speak
| ing ofthe subject, said that he was proud to
be able to make such good showing in one
year, and would endeavor to keep his rec
ord on satisfactory basis.
The officials of the various St. Paul roads
have issued circular, announcing that MIR.
J. n. Hanley is appointed superintendent of
| the Minnesota transfer and stock yards from
August l, 1882. Mr. HARLEY will be at that
point the representative and joint agent of
the st. Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba, the
! Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul, and the Omaha line, and as
such will have entire control of all freight
business there.
Somebody sent Jay Hubbell the names of
twelve employees in the Philadelphia post
office who had been overlooked in the dis
| tribution of assessment circulars. In due
timetwelve letters came from Washington
| for the parties named, but it was some time
before they could be found At last it ap-
peared that they were the twelve cats sup
ported by the government for the benefit Of
the office. They have one 2nd all declined to
The claims ofthe army officers for longev-
| ity pay will be settled in the order of their
| presentation. Hereafter none of this class
of claims will be made special without fur
| ther direction Of the secretary of the treas
| ury
! Secretary Lincoln in discussing the exclr1-
| sion of women from the departments, admit
| ted that senators and representatives had Sc
cured them positions for immoral purposes.
Ne,vs Of the Railroads.
The report of the sale Of large tract of
| land in southern Minnesota by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul company, which has
| been published in several papers, is declared
| to be false, by the land commissioner Of the
company, w. Drummond, Jr Mr.. Drum
mond states several Englishmen have asked
the company it's prices for a tract Of land
in Pipestone county, Minn., and they have
been given; but no sale has been effected
nor any agreement made on the part of the
Englishmen to accept the company's offer
on any conditions. 1t is the intention of
their countrymen, in some places in the
northwest, and if satisfactory terms can be
made with the companies, PipestOne coun-
ty, Minnesota, will probably be the seat of
the colony.
! Last Friday the last rail was laid that COM
pleted the Northern Pacific railroad between
St. Paul and the crossing of the Yellowstone
river opposite Billings, Montana. mas
much as the bridge is not finished, trains
cannot enter the town yet, and will not be
| able until next Thursday. There was great
rejoicing among the citizens over the arri-
val Of the construction train, and the event
was duly celebrated.
! 1t is announced that $S,500,000 of the
| $4,000, 900 Canadian Pacific railway bonds
have been taken up: The duke of Man
| chester company took SIS, 600 600, $780, 900
were taken up in Toronto. The remaining
5000, 600 were disposed of in Canada.
The receipts Of the Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway for the first week in August were
sS4l' ooo decrease Of slseoo: 80 - '..>'
Record Of Fires anil Casualties
| A Moberly No. special says: The court
house of Randolph county at Huntsville,
| burned to the ground. All of the official
| stroyed and many county records, including
those ofthe circuit clerk, probate Judge and
| sheriff. A portion Of the records in The
| building were saved in damaged condition.
The real estate records are all right as two
| sets Of abstract books were saved The
building cost 1913, 00O insured $4,000.
Yellow fever is rapidly on the increase in
Texas as we'll as on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande. twenty-five new cases were
| reported at Brownsville alone in the last
| twenty-four hours, and at Matamoras twen-
| ty-four new cases and eight deaths. The
| Marine hospital force will now have ample
opportunity to see how effectively the vel
| low fever fund transferred to them can be
| disbursed
A United States officer at Colon reports
| the population 10000 dying at the rate of
| 100 month. Natives as well as the unac-
| climated are attacked by fever. Of total
of $50 Gillian soldiers in the garrison at
Cheylago, Peru, 300 died from yellow fever.
Advices from Brownsville, Tex, state
that there are about fifty cases of yellow fe-
yer there, and the epidemic is developing
The people are organized and prepared for
| the worst, though no aid is required from
the government at present.
Grimes and Criminals.
Paul Tollner, machinist on Division
street. Chicago who has frequently quar-
relied with his young wife, took an heroic
method of ending their troubles Thursday
afternoon. Taking her one side in their
domicile, he said: 2Will you obey me after
| this?' Receiving an evasive reply, he pulled
| a thirty two caliber revolver and fired two
| shots into her breast killing her instantly.
Stepping into an adjoining room, he put
bullet through his own heart. They had
been married two years and had one child.
The police of Milwaukee were notified by
the authorities of Prague Bohemia, that
Hermann Abeles, forty-fve years old, own
! er Of large milling establishment in that
| city, has absconded with $3.50, 900 belonging
to his creditors. The dispatch claims that
the defanlter is in either Chicago, st. Paul,
| Minneapolis or Milwaukee,.
deadly feud exists between the Hatfelds
and the McCoys of Kentucky. A Hatfield
was killed by the McCoys on election day.
and the Hatfields lay for the McCoys and
| caught three Of the boys tied them to trees
| and shot them dead. The surviving Nc
Coys are now on the war path, and the Hat
| valuable lives. : i
F. Howe, an employee of the Troy &
Greenfield railway in Mass, has been ar
rested on charge of being train robber.
He confessed his guilt apd duplicates H. E.
Eastman, formerly night yardman of the
TrOv g. CIraanfiel6 road on1 Goo VWorpor