The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-27
General News Items.

The Lake Superior Elevator company has
finally decided to begin work at once on
the new elevator at Duluth. The capacity
willb be LOO, 900 bushels of wheat. 1t is to
be built Immediately west of the elevator
company, on the property owned by the
company, Just east of Rice's point railroad
yards. York on the foundation walls will
be completed his fall, and the whole struc-
ture will be ready for handling the wheat
crop of 1884.
The Iowa Presbyterian Synod in session
in Dubuque. appropriated 81, 900 each to the
Dubuque Theological seminary and the
Lenox college at Hopkinton, ana 81 coo to
Parsons college at Fairfield. Reports
showed So, 795 was received and $23, 1886 ex-
pended in home missions gby this synod.
Cedar Rapids was selected as the next place
Of meeting.
About 200 creditors of Archbishop Pur.
cell met at Cincinnati and passed resolutions
condemning the decision of the district
as illegal, charging the court with being
under the influence of the clergy and actua-
ted by political considerations. The reso-
lutions are very litter. A committee of
five was appointed to request the assignee
to appeal the case to the supreme court.
The English schooner Otoele was cap
tured trespassing upoa the preserves of the
American Alaska Commercial
and its cargo of otter skins and hunting
material confscated. The schooner was
taken to Petropanlorski, Russia, and the
crew four Englishmen and fifteen Jana
nese-sent to Vladivostock.
The late Henry Farnam of New Haven,
left So. coo. 600 in Chicago property to his
widow and six children, aud provided that
OF the death OF Mrs. Farnam and .he eldest
son, the family homestead shall 60 to Ysle
college, to be occupied by the president or
professors. The mansion and grounds are
valued at 5000, 900.
The famous Tembs prison in New York
is to be enlarged by the addition OF two sto-
ries. An enlargement Las long been need.
ed, and this will be the first that the Tombs
will ever have received. Forty years have
elapsed since the Tombs was opened.
Judge Gary, in the superior court at Chi.
| cago, decided that the ordinance by which
the city sought to collect $50 annually
from the wholesale liquor dealers was void
because ii partook of the nature Of q tax
which the city had no right to impose.
Prof. Lewis, the travelling lecturer and
showmas, charged with the murder of Evs
Lewis, who travelled with him, near Dillon,
Mont, has been discharged. the Jury find.
ing that she accidentally shot herself.
e. g. Comstock, ~defaulting chasier OF the
Muskegon National bank, took out a $40,
600 life policy for the benefit Of the banl
and died In 1881. The bank is suing 10,
Northwestern Mutual for it.
The paper of the Union Iron company o
Portsmouth. Ohio, went to protest som,
weeks ago, and the affairs ofthe compan,
lave since been put Ia the hands Of tia
trustees
Official returns in Iowa give Sherman
republican, majority over Kinpe, democrat
for governor. Of %. 10. There is no chang
ip the complexion Of THE legislature.
w. N. Jones asks Chicago court to max
John p. Alley account for $500, 900 bonds q
pes Mojnes q Minneapolis road sold tc
the Northwestern.
i A million dollars wortfs Of buildings III