The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-03-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.

sions, and various forms of junketing in
which the administration has been wont to
indulge and it is to be rigidIy enforced.
OF temporary clerks in the pension Office
whose appointments expire this month,
diset:-ged. There will be no further reap
pointments until April 1. Three hundred
clerks have been dismissed from the census
office. Further discharges will be made
by the beginning of the next fiscal year, in
order to keep expenses within the appropri-
alton.
The treasurydepartment has prepared reg
ulations in regard to the m por tation of
adulterated tea, which was prohibited by an
act passed last session. This law goes into
effect at once, and the regulations based
upon it have been sent to the custom house
at New York, for perfection there before
they are formally promulgated.
Secretary Folgar is reported better. His
improvement is slight, however, and 1t is
feared perfect recovery will be slow. He
took cold Monday, and is now suffering
from liberated sore throat.
J.R. Dodge, statistician of the agricultu-
raj department, says that no report Of dam
age to growing wheat have been received.
The work on tie Potomac flats will have
to be stopped the LIST of September for the
lack of on appropriation to carry it on.
The president has not yet decided when he
can leave Washington.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
f. J. Fa lion, Edgar Smith, A. c. Wall
Jesse Larrabee, A. e. Tully, McC. Tay lor,S.
G. Primrose, George H. Cook and A. B.
Paine, all of New Yark City, are incorpo-
rators Of the Northwestern, Minnesota &
Red River Valley Railroad company, and
articles of incorporation were filed with the
Minnesota secretary of state Tuesday. The
line is to run from Brainerd and the cross
ern Pacific Railway company, to point on
: the northern boundary of the state. The
principal offices of the company are to be
in st. Paul, and the organization is to re-
main in force for period of 100 years from
March 81, 1888. The capital stock of the
company is S., 900 600, which is also the
limit OF indebtedness. The stock is divided
in $4,000 shares OF 500 each.
Freight on emigrants' outfits hence to
Devils Lake and vicinity, by way of the
Manitoba line will be $50 per load Here
tofore the ra,e has been $88 for each car
employed, but the logic of events has
prompted reduction IN the tariff, which
viii! commend itself to emulation, and the
patronage of those for whose particular
benefit the move has been made.
1t is sal that the test of the Allen paper
car wheels by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway has proved highly satisfactory
ard it is possible that they will be adopted
Tor general use on tLeir passenger and par
lor cars.
The Boze nan board of trade has ar
ranged for grand celebration upon the ar
rival of the first passenger tram of the North
Pacific road, which is positively promised to
take place within the next ten DAYS.
The report that the general officers of the
Omaha road would be removed from St.
Paul to Chicago is agaiu denied by author
ity.
Gen. Anderson predicts in glowing colors
ct the future of tran Pacific commerce BY
way OF the Northern Pacific
RECORD OF CASUALTIES,
C,pt. Burton = store in East Grand Forks
was burned Frida morning. The building
was of brick and cost about Sc, 900. Insur-
ance, $1,000. The goods were all carried
ont aud saved.
Col. John s. Gambler of the governors
staff, Georgia, in attempting to Jump from
railroad train in Atlanta, Thursday night,
was run over, had both legs cut of, and
will probably die.
Dora Cobler of Evansville, Ind, caught
atirr in her upper works and burned Thurs
Gay: Dora was steamboat, and she had
collided with the Enquirer.
At Allentown, Pa, Tuesday night Miss
Mary Smith was chloroformed by burglars,
who cut off her rich black hair, over q yard
long, close to her head.
The Piper opera house and several adioin-
buildings at Virginia City, New, were total
~ destroyed by fire. Loss $35, 200,
Patrick Early, a brakeman, was killed on
the Duluth railroad at st. Paul.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
In the trial of Enos g. Crowther, in the eel
ebrated bond robbery case at St. joseph
Mo-, the defense consumed the day in prov
ing the previous good character of the &C.
cused and a. alibi. Crowther was placed on
his stand. He denied every allegation made
by the prosecution. His wife testified that
on the night of March 18th. the alleged date
Of the robbery, their child was sick and
Crowther was at home all night.
Joe Jones of Oglethorpe county, Ga, shot
and killed his wife on Friday. They were
married when she was eleven wears old.
four years ago. After marriage Jones at.
tempted to outrage his mother-in-law. He
had been gone three years. recently returned
tried to set his wife to live with him. She
and attempted sui tide in jail.
A prize fight occurred in the parlor of a
wealthy resident of Altoona, Pa, Thursday
the ring being marked out on the carpet.
The contestants were John O'Neal of Pitts
burg and James nes Kshne of philadelphia and
the purse 81 900. The men had been rivals in
love. The fight lasted nearly two hours,
thirty.six rounds being fought, and O'Neil
won.
Daniel Fox and the commissioner of
Richland county, ILL.,, offer s., 900 each for
the arrest and conviction of the assassin of
John Fox was shot and instantly killed on
the public highway two miles from Belle
vile, Ill.
Ed. Smith of Omro, who arrived at Aber-
deem on Wednesday last, attempted suicide
volver, and will probably die. He destroy
ed all clues to his identity, and Smith is
believed to be an assumed name.
At Graubury, Tex, n. +. Croker, a pro-
fessional horse thief, took a change of ven.
ue from the county Jail to the hereafter,
leaving a note sayin he was we'll born in
Georgia. and he had killed three men and
woman in his time
Thos. Drewes, who murdered Pat Mallory
with an Ak at Rat Portage, Man., two
months ago. was found guilty of man.
slaughter. When the verdict was an
nounced the prisoner tainted in the dock.
GENERA NEWS NOTES.
Army officers are very much chagrined
at the provision in the appropriation bill,
brow ing open the quartern,aster's and
commissary bureaus to civilians It seems
that they knew nothing about it until they
saw comments upon it in the press. Quar-
termaster General Ingalls, was commenting
upon it recently, with supreme disgust.
Speaking to gentlemen in civil Life. he
said: You might be appointed now Is my
successor. I don't see how such q thing
ever crept through congress" -
Seven or eight months since two china
men were run ont of Wnyneahono a. hv