The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-01-18


WADENA. MINNESOTA.
THE NEWSM BRIEF.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.
The report from tho pension committee
has recommended but $81, 575, 900 for the on
suing year, although $3.50. 000, 900 was asked.
rs an unexpended balance on last years ap-
preparation of$1O0,OOO. The Washinton cor
respondent of the New York Times reports
that 1.-THE expenses of the pension bureau
are very important item In the expendi-
lures of the government, and If they are to
be only $81, 575 in the next year, in addi-
ton to money already appropriated for this
estimates made heretofore would allow"
It is thought the special committee Of the
Mississippi river Improvements will recon-
mend that no more money be appropriated
to build levees; that the present plan of I'M
provements be Disco tinued, except at one
port, which will probably be Plum Point,
and that after this reach has been improved,
no more money be appropriated until the
experiment at the one point decided upon
has had thorough test and withstood at
least one food. Their report will show up
startlin,: amount of extravaganza In the
expenditure of money.
The commissioner of the general land
office having asked First Controller Lawrence
for an opinion as to the right of registers and
receivers Of district land offices to receive .
commission of one per centum on the cash
value Of lands entered under the timber-cul-
ture act, that officer has decided that regis
tiers and receivers are not entitled to such
commission on the minimum value of lands
entered under the act in question.
A clause will be inserted in tho sundry
civil bill providing for treaty with the Sioux.
Delegate Pettigrew is pushing the matter,
but he has been antagonized by Riley Of
Kansas who has developed into an abort
ginal philanthropic crank, and argues that
the Indians rights are not protected by the
treaty.
Members of the committee on ways and
means say that all current reports to the ct.
ect that they have been corrupted by
lobbyists in the interests of any protected
industry are false, and originated with per-
sons who contemplated levying blackmail.
1t is understood in Washington that Mr..
Robert Sc vail will succeed Mr.. Stewart l..
Woodford as district attorney for the South.
ern dist let of New York. and that Mr. Sc
walls name will be sent to the senate this
week.
1t is said that there is no foundation for
the report that Lieut.. Commander Gorringe
will be ordered to command the Pinta on
her voyage round the Horn to Alaska.
The senate military committee to-day de-
cided to report favorably Senator Logan's
bill providing for increasing the efficiency
of the army.
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.
Mr.. Gould says that running all night
trains on the elevated roads rather tends TO
encourage late hours and dissipation. A
near friend of the great monopolist, with !
epparent seriousness gave this as one of the |
reasons why the Manhattan company had,
at Mr.. Gould's diction, taken q step back |
ward and Inconvenience the public by |
withdrawing all the trains on the Sixth |
avenue between midnight and 5 o'clock in !
the morning.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
A most horrible catastrophe occurred |
near Elk Polnt OAK, twenty-five miles |
northwest of Sioux City, The house of |
Henry Pierce three miles west of Elk Point |
caught fire while Pierce was at the barn |
some distance away feeding cattle. Mrs. |
Pierce tipped over lamp and the whole |
room was instantly enveloped in flames. |
She endeavored to ssve her two children |
who were in bed, but tainted, and Pierce !
arrived in time to drag her out badly burned. |
The heroic father then made dash into the |
blazing building and fought madly toward |
the sleeping room, but was forced to plunge !
out into the snow very badly burned about |
the head and face. Both children-Cyrus,
aged five, and Bertha, eyed tWo-were |
burned to death.
The knives supposed to have been used |
by the Phoenix park assassins were fond |
near the premises of Care of Dublin, ARES
ted with twenty others, on charge OF con- |
sp'racy to murder government officials |
The lord lie tenant declines to interpose in |
the case of Pat Higgins, one of the persons |
sentenced to death tor the Hubby murders |
Garret s. Boice, president of the wrecked !
city bank and treasurer of the Fifth Ward |
Savings bank in Jersey City. and Edward E. |
Shaw, cas- lier Of the City bank, arrested on |
charge of wilfull misappro priation of funds |
have been held in $12, 600 bonds for further !
examination.
At San Felipe recentlya Mexican named |
Jose Morales snatched an infant from his |
wifes arms and dashed it on the floor. He |
then drew revolver and shot his wife |
twice, killing her instantly. He was ar
rested.
Ex-Auditor Cyrenius johnson of Lafay-
cite Ind, has just paid into the county treas |
ury $l054. 88 that being the amount of lille |
gal fees col ected by him in 1879. His con- !
science had smitten him after there years.
RECORD OF CASUALTIES.
The new public school building at Mitch |
ellv lie, station seventeen miles east of |
Des Moines was burned Sunday morning. |
The fire was discovered in the basement at |
1880, and by o'clock the structure was |
mass of ruins. None of the furni ure or |
books were saved. The building was new,
built Of brick, and cost $4,000 It was in |
sured for $1,000.
Every days delving in the debris of the |
Newhall house fire at Milwaukee, brings to |
light the charred re aims of other victims |
of misplaced confidence in q death trap. |
The conviction is deepening that the fire is !