Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-05-26

The body of an unknown man was found
in Red river Sunday. Suicide or murder; it
is not known which. =
Now that Dorsey has given bail for $4,000,
it is probable that but little more will be
heard of the star route cases.
Mrs. J. T. MILLER, of Brainerd, wanted to
die. She walked out into the river, but was
seen and rescued just in time. 1t is thought
she is crazy.
A HEAVY snow storm ragged in central Iowa
on Tuesday. It was SO severe that the recent
furry in Dakota and Minnesota dwarf con-
s-deraby in comparison.
The fast train on the Pennsylvania road runs
from Jersey City to Philadelphia distance
of eighfy-eight miles III just 100 minutes.
This is speed of 52.S miles an hour.
The Brooklyn Eagle admits that Chicagois
becoming more and more city of grain ele-
vators, but cruelty adds that it consists chiefly
in elevating the grain in liquid form.
The report that the secretary of the inte-
rior was about to withdraw the troops from
Dakota was hoax. There will probably be
Indian troubles enough as it is.
A recent army order reads as follows:
''Lieut. Col. Orlando Fl. Moore, seventeenth
infantry, recently promoted, has been re-
lieved from duty in the department of the
Platte, and assigned to a station in the de-
partment of Dakota"
SAYS the Butte Inter-Mountain: "'The
chiefs OF the Montana democracy are very
hard up for d legate timber. From the null
titude of candidates not one can be selected
who would stand the ghost of a show to reach
congress except as private Citizen"
PARTIES arriving at Bismarck both via river
and from various parts of Montana confirm
the statements of the Bismarck TRIBUNE that
the reports o: small -pox are greatly exagger-
ated There have been few cases, but the
disease is not of the malignant form.
THE republican executive committee of
Butte, Montana, being convinced that ille-
gal voting was extensively indulged in at the
late city election, is causing large number
of arrests for violation of the election law.
1t is stated that at least one hundred ''crook-
ed''svoters will be prosecuted.
Col. PIKE has caused evergreen and cotton
wood trees to be laid out in regular rows sur
rounding the engineers building in Billings,
handsome laboratory is being erected and will
soon be finished, to be presided over by Mr..
SaSton, the N. P. Co. chemist.
The Manitoba government has decided to
ask the dominion government to extend the
boundaries Of the province west to the 1O6th
meridian and Horth to the Goth parallel, so
"a to contain the outlets on Hudson bay, and
east to Lake Superior, and to give the prov:
ince control OF the public lands, forests and
minerals.
IT has been truly stated stllere's no fool
like an old fool" Milwaukee dispatch of
the Oath says: ''The marriage occurred yes
terday of Mr.. Lindsay Ward, aged Is years.
ard Mrs. a. E. Erwin, who was a belle when
Milwaukee Was a frontier hamlet. The plo-
neers are heartily congratulating the aged
and happy couple"
The Helena Herald says: "Fred T. Evans
has sublet his contract for Transporting
freight in this territory to W. s. Wetzel & Co.,
who will have charge of the goods arriving mp
the river, and Sebree, Ferris t. White, who
will manage the freight arriving on the N. +.
R. R. S. G. Asl.by, of this city, has been ap
pointed agent for the tirm."
LoNGFELLow:s will was made legally defec-
tive by interlineations. But to the credit of
his heirs they took no advantage of this in
formaiity, but awarded to the poets brother
the S., 600 tho interlineation gave him, as we'll
as the 81, 900 to each of his children. The
legal fraternity may not think we'll of this
sort of magnanimity, but the world generally
will heartily commend it.
The Pembina Pioneer is evidently on to
Ed Henderson's racket. 1t says: ''Hender-
son, city editor Of the Daily Plaindealer,
Grand Forks, finds great many induce
ments to attract young men to that town.
Among others is this: "Dogs are very scarce,
and we'll dressed, pretty. girls are to be seen
and plethora of pretty girls! Aha, Hem
derson! At your old tricks again, eh -
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 23d, to the
Minneapolis Tribune, reads: delegate Pet
tigrew says if Senator Hale can be brought
to vote for the bill to admit southern Dakota
as state it will pass. It will be reached in
Whether it can be crowded through the house
the present session is more doubtful. If it
passes the senate, however, a strong effort
will be made to secure action in the house"
TuE project of certain sentimentalists in
Washington to push bill through congress
for the purchase by the government Of the
house in which President Lincoln died, will
probably not he realized. The sensible por-
ton Of the community ''sat down. on it
heavily. Should this property be purchased
as proposed, the speculation in relics OF ma
tional. ealamities would end the Lord only
knows where. IF the reverence of the An er-
lean people for the memory of Lincoln is to
be manifested by an appropriation OF money
4 from The public treasury,let it be- donated,
III the name Of Che 1nartyred president, TO
some national charitable Institution. That.