Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-07-18

amateur organist in Indiana, has elopsd
with Tom Butler, foreman in round.
house, to be married in Michigan Village.
The produce merchants of New York.
at public meeting passed resolutions on
posing the redemption Of trade dollars at
par, as playing into the hands Of n syndi-
cate which has purchased the coin AZ its
bullion value.
John Z. Clark, yeteren telegraph op-
orator, and for long time night opemtor
for New England Associated press at
Boston is dead. He was well known in
newspaper and Telegraph offices, from SAN
Francisco to Calais, Me.
The liquor dealers OF Cleveland have
paid s2l4,0O taxes under the Scott law.
The July report of the department Of
agriculture at Washington shows mark
ed Improvement in the condition of the
wheat crop. The winter whe~s Weld viii
be fully SOC, ,ooo, 900. and the spring 1885,
900 900.
| The corn area has increased $500. 900
acres. Too much rain and poor seed re-
tarded growth in the west, but the improve
ment OF late has been rapid. The average
is ss, as against IS last July
The commissioner of the general land
Office is making up statement of the
work Of the special agents appointed to
hunt mp fraudulent entries in the west.
The Office is so far behind that many cases
are still pending, and the result Of the ex-
pertinent cannot be determined. The
cancellations SO far are about 600 entries
of quarter sections, very small proportion
of the l4,O0O,0 900 acres taken up during the
fiscal year A large number of the cases
investigated showed the complaints to be
| Of a frivolous or malicious character.
De Lesseps has arranged with the Brit
ish government for new Suez canal par
allel to the present one, with a reduction
Of dues.
Col. Moore has arrived at Cheyenne
with $50 pack Mules for the trip of presi-
dent Arthur to National park, which is to
commence August End.
At Mansura, Egypt, where there were
10l deaths from cholera, number of
Greeks escaping by forcing the Gordon.
At Damieta the fatal cases numbered 40.
The prospects for oats and barley are
nearly as good as last year, the averages
being respectively 80 and 81.
The area of Irish potatoes has been in
increased about per cent, and the escu-
lent is in high condition, averaging lOl
Tobacco has an average of 95, diminu-
ton of z per cent. rs compared with last
year. Cotton has generally improved,
though an excess of moisture interfered
somewhat with cultivation. The condi-
ton has increased from Sc to 80.
Miss Rathborne, who for six years has
been missionary abroad, has brought TO
New York the first Burmese woman who
ever landed on our shore. The newcomer
will study for five years in this country
before returning for missionary werk.
A hail storm destroyed 5000 acres of
croqs in Bon Homme and Hutchinson
Counties, Minnesota. The country north
east OF Fond du Lac Wisconsin, was SIM
ilarly afflicted. A farmer in oconto county
reports that the horns were knockeq from
a yearling steer by Maidstone.
A young woman employed in dry goods
store ut Syracuse, New York. living with
her grandmother, was forcibly abducted
by her mother and strange, who clames
to have "a warrant for her. The mother is
Mrs. Parroy, of Minneapolis, where the
girl is probably beicg taken.
c. L. Colby and other leading citizens
Of Milwaukee have taken steps to establish
in that city university which shall do
credit to The west. 1t is stated that cr-
dowment funds to the amount Of 5000, 600
have already been subscribed and contri-
buttons are being made in the surrounding
cities.
While private company has excayated
over mile Of the tunel between Doyer
and Calais. a joint committee Of the Brit
ish parliament has rejected the scheme.
Meantime bill is before the French cham
ber OF deputies to authorize soundings for
railway bridge from Cape Grisnez to
Folkstone
George Scoville, in reply to his former
wife petition for alimony, pleads ina
bility to make the agreed payments because
of her success iu running his business. He
asked the custody of the child Bertha,
whom he foels able to support and educate
| il not prosecuted to destruction. Except
for her mental condition, he declares, he
would feel absolred from any obligation to
Guiteau's sister.
Iroquois, the American horse which won
the English Derby last year, has arrived
at New York with Aranza and Parthenia.
They will finish the season in very few
tdsttfh LutcS.
A runaway horse leaped into Chicago
river at Harrison street bridge, with a
buggy containing two boys and two girls.
One lad was drowned.
On narrow -gauge road in Dodge county,
Georgia, four cars went through burn
ing bridge Iby which three men lost theil
lives. and ten others wounded.
The colored mems convention in Texas
was adres sed by Gov. Ireland, who urged
the delegates to obtain homes while lanok
are cheap, and to educate their race.
The steamers Furnesia and Spain placed
on the dock at Queenstown number oi
assisted emigrants sent back by order OF
the United States authorities at New York
]. r. Loper,a soap manufacturer Osh'
koch stnmhled into a vat of boiling I've