The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-11-09

| peared, leaving liabilities to banks, brokers
and farmers to the extent of$l00,O00.
William G. Russell, trusted teller
the Pennsylvania Insurance company for
twenty-One years. i missing. His accounts
are only 100000 short. OF course there's
! woman in the case.
The habeas corpus case of Mark Gray, the
would-be assassin of Edwin Booth, was con-
cluded a, Quincr, III. It resulted in all Or
der for his discharge froEl the asylum for the
insane at Elgin, as cured.
| miscellaneous NeaUS Notes.
Pine land pre-. emptors in the Duluth and
st. Cloud district are not crowding each
other to appear and claim their rights.
innocent purchasers, however, venture
| into the august presence and explain how
they have come into possession ofthe claims
J by right purchase without notice or iDtima-
ton of fraud. Pre- emptors are not popular.
Two weeks ago wonderful gas we'll was
discovered at Bloomington, ILL.,, and now a
company has been formed to utilize the
product OF TIE we'll for lighting and heating
purposes throughout the city. The product
of the we'll IS definitely ascertained to be
$500, 900 cubic feet per day Of nearly pure
| hydrogen gas which is already proven to be
excellent for heating and lighting purposes.
Exports from Germany to the United
States have reached the unusually large to-
tai Of 6,000,0 900 marks. The National Zei-
tung gives publicity to note, evidently
inspired by highest authority, in which it
sets forth that nothing in the range OF possi-
bility would shake off England in Esy pti N
matters more than the return of Gambetta
to power.
| The Washington Young Mems Christian
association thought they had made two
points in buying out Chamberlain's Cldb
house, gaining fine quarters for themselves
and abolishing an evil The announcement
is made that the gambling house will be re-
opened in another fashionable portion of
the city, immediately opposite the residence
of Chief Justice Waite.
Arthur B. Lake, a drug clerk, recently
from Fargo, and whose parents live in Wa
terbury, Conn.,, died at Ada, from an over
dose Of chlorotorm. He had been on a big
spree felt de]irium coming on and took the
chloroform to counteract. This is the theo-
ry generally advanced. Others believe from
his actions it was an intentional suicide
A lively legal fight is in progress in Bos-
ton over the estate OF John Hawes, who
died fifty years ago leaving property now
valued at $500, 900. Half the estate was to
be devoted to the support of Congregational
ministers, and the church authorities claim
the fund has been misnan4ged.
The Corbin- Banking company of New
York have leased the counties of Isaquena,
Sharkey, Suniower and Yazoo, comprising
what is known as the Yazoo valley. $1,000,
600 to be distributed amoag the plaintiff in
terests Of the country, with the land itself
as S cu'ity.
The bears made hungry raid on Canadi
an Pacific syndicate stock in Wall street Fri
day, and took in 10,OOOshares on the decline.
Manitoba advanced five points in the teeth
of the bears.
! Inhabitants of Brattle Station, Arlington,
| Mass, have pear trees in full bloom. A
gentleman at Lexington has picked green
| peas the past week, and pea vines are in
blossom.
The Mississippi river commission demands
81, 250, 900 for the coming year, the same as
the last appropriation. Work is being
pushed rapidly.
Although the monitors were alleged to be
| able to steam ten knots an hour, actual trial
| develops four knots as the best speed posi-
| BILE.
| The Young Mems Christian Association
of Duluth have filed articles of incorpera-
| tiOn with the secretar, of state.
| Col. Bob. Ingersoll is announced to lee
ture in Minneapolis Nov. Is.
Heir & Odiorne lumber merchants of
Chicago, failed for $3.50, 900.
From Foreign Lands.
| An Isish Times correspondent says great
distress exists in County Clare, owing to the
| failure Of crops, all epidemic among pigs
and dear prices demanded for all articles of
! food, which is caused by the taxes levied on
| farmers by the crimes act, and which has
proved very heavy burden. The country
| presents a most melancholy appearance
The fields and meadows are under wat r.
Men, women and children, pigs, calves,
| COWS, dogs and chickens, all are together in
! dwellings unfit for the habitation Of any hui
man being. The parish priest at Mitown
! " ties gloomy letter to the Dublin Free
| mans Journal, stating that before two
| months have passed at least 100 families of
! the poorest people in his parish will be ut
terly destitute and compelled to depend up
on charity for sustenance. He appeals tor
|
St. Petersburg dispatch: The Golos con-
| siders that Egypt will become British
Medit rranean colony, the same as Tunis will
become French colony; that the transfer
| nation of the Mediterranean is bad for the
powers who failed to make the Egyp yptian
question an international one, and they can
now only try to diminish the weight of the
blow again st their eastern interests.
! Victoria (B. C.) dispatch: Agents of a
California syndicate are on steamer pros
pecting the northern end of the island for
coal and mi erals, with view to heavy in
vestments. A capital vein of new metal
wor h four shillings an ounce in Lo don
has been discovered on the coast range.
Danenhower's testimony regarding the
Jeanette trip ended Wednesday. Questions
developed the fact that he had been kept on
the sick list long after he himself believed
he was fit for duty. He was also excluded
from participation in a consultation Of Of
| hcers at Bennett Island.
! Several members Of the court MARTA
which is engaged in the trial of Arab Pasha
have resigned because OF an intimation which
had been conveyed to them by counsel that
they may be called as witnesses to tell who
shared in the military uprising.
Mahomed Ali has been raiding Persia,
plundering Armenian villages slaughter
ing the males and carrying the females into
captivity. A bad man is Mahomed.
G. s. Lapham, postmaster at Socorro, N.
Mex, who was short in his accounts So, 800,
has been sentenced to one years imprison-
ment and fine OF $2,0 900.
A trio of Leipsig editors have been con.
signed to the privacy of prison life for be-
ing too free with their pens against the gov
| eminent
Earl Granville paid proper tribute to the
poet Longfeliow at meeting Of the Memor-
| ial association in London.
| Personal and Ins31e1sOaa0I.
The Danish ambassador to the United
States, Minister de Billie, has returned from
his Northwestern trip, and stated in an
interview that he went west to Miles City and
north to Fergus Falls He was particularly
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