The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-10

houses alta, tents Seventy-tnree. ana DullQA
iings under construction but pot yet occus
gainof forty -three houses IN Que month,
and loss of six tents. Ill
! A faith cure camp meeting in progress at
| Old Orchard Beach, Me, is developing re-
markablc features. The lame, halt and
blind, after being prayed over and annoint-
| ed with OIL are sent on their way rejoicing,
and many claim to have received great ply
steal as we'll as spiritual benefit.
Gov Cullom of Ill.,, refuses to remit the
| 81 900 fine imposed on Edward Murphy by
the Cook county criminal court for ballot
box frauds. He has served his additional
| penalty of year in the penitentlary, and
now asks remission of his fine. ,-,.,
A court of inquiry has been ordered in
the case of Col Carr, Sixth cavalry, III refer
ence to accusations growing out of charges
of INSTRUMENTATION preferred by Gen. Will
cox, commanding the department of Ari-
! IONA.
\, The total number Of deaths in Chicago
last week was 3D. al increase Of 80 over the
previous week. Cholera iniantun, carried,
off nearly one-third Of the victims. The ex-
ira mortality is attributed, to the hot wealth
| er.,
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naturalization papers, Judge Wylie informed
him the Chinese bill recently enacted abso-
lutely forbade the naturalization of Chinese
from the date ofits passage.
| A conspicuous increase is noticed in the
importation of foreign wares. The entries
dry goods alone for July at New York foot
up Sll,370,04O. lis
! An electric light experiment at Ottawa,
has. according to the Montreal Witness,
been sad failure, after costing the city $15-
600. w.
The ship North A :. lean and the yacht
America, the latter owned by Gen. B. r.
| Butler. left Boston yesterday for a 50O-mile
| race. ,-.s
New York. merchants are making active
preparations for the reception of surplus
grain there. the elevators being already full.
St. Barnabas Hospital at Minneapolis was
dedicated last week. Bishop Whipple de-
| livered an address.
or 80 above the average
Personal and In2Derso,.ui.
Rear Admiral John c. Beaumont died
suddenly at Durham, N. II August 2. He
was native of Pennsylvania from which
state he was appointed acting midshipman
on March l, 1888. He passed through the
several grades and was promoted to rear
admiral in November, 1881, and placed on
the retired list in February, 1882, since
which time he has lived in that city. He
has been twice married. A widow and three
children survive him. His age was sixty
one years.
DR.. Francis Atwood, NJ. D., one of the
brightest physicians of St. Paul and the
northwest, died of typhoid fever at the age
of 49, After his study in Europe he located
in st. Paul and attended his work, giving
his entire attention to the: eye and ear,
from which he obtained good living the
first year he located and his progress has
been so great that his income before he
died amounted to $4,000 year.
James Generals, one of the oldest colored
men in Wikesbarre, was found dead in a
livery stable. He recently received severe
blow upon his head by all unknown man,
and that, together with excessive drinking
caused his death. He had nearly $500, 900
Insurance on his life, held by various per-
sons, in the Death Rattle insurance organiza-
ton, but he outlived all the companies
Fred G. Knight and J. c. Ellis both colo
nels met on the field of honor in Georgia,
with shot guns the other day, and without
having had recourse to their fowling pieces,
submitted to settlement Of their trouble
honorable and satisfactory to both part
| les
H. G. Angle, formerly we'll known citi-
zen of Cedar Rapids, Ia. who has been liv-
ing at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, with
| bis family for some months, died Of hemOr-
rage of the lungs Sunday evening.
| Jack Campbell has been appointed chief
| of police of st. Louis. Six weeks ago he was
q sergeant on the force, which shows that
the humblest citizen may be elevated to ex-
allied attitude in the great republic.
The story that Archibald Forbes, the FAM
Gus war correspondent, is engaged to Miss
Meigs, daughter of the late quartermaster
general, is authoritatively denied.
Secretary Teller will, it is said, soon after
| the adjournment Of congress, leave Wash
ington fer his Colorado home, to be absent
about month or more.
A court Of inquiry has been ordered in the
case ofCol. Carr, Sixth cavalry, in reference
to the charges of INSTRUMENTATION preferred
by Gen. Wilcox.
! Maj. Joseph l.. Leland Of New York is
dead. He was member Of the great hotel
family of New York, Saratoga, Albany and
Springfield
Last Sunday, forty carloads of people
from st Paul and Minneapolis, visited Jim
Hills great hotel at Lake Minnetonka.
| Capt. Webb, the swimmer, wants to swim
any man in the world distance of from
five to twenty miles for SIS 900 side.
Gen. Barstow, United States army, retired,
died at Oakland, Nd, on Monday.
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