The National tribune., 1883-09-20

Sunday, September g and two of them, Rossi
ter and McKeever. engaged in q fight in the
herders' hut in which the whole party became
involved Rossiter was killed, two men named
Jones, and another, were fatally injured, and
two others wounded.
Moody the evangelist preached at his old
church in Chicago last Sunday. The church
was crowded TO suffoc3tion The main entrance
was closed owing to some defect. and admit
tance was had by narrow side door. When
this was opened the crowd rushed in. num-
Der Of women and children were seriously
crushed and some tainted.
At Pittsburg, Thursday, balloon, in which
Prof e. A. Warner had been making ascensions,
collapsed when 5000 feet above the earth.
Mr. Warner held on to the ropes, and the bai-
loon came down so slowly as to land him ON
the ground unipjured.
PERSONALS
General Thomas T. Fauntleroy died at Lees
burg, Va, on Wednesday last, in the eighty
seventh year of his age. General Fauntleroy
was a native Of Virginia, and was appointed
commissioned officer in the United States army
by President Andrew Jackson. He served in
the Mexican and Indian wars, and at the
breaking out OF the late war resigned colo
nelcy OF Dragons and entered the Confederate
service, being the senior officer IN point of
rank that resigned TO enter the Confederate
service He was made a brigadier-general, and
for time commanded the department of
Richmond being too ole for active service in
the field.
Hugh J. Hastings, editor of the New York
Commercial AGreFt5ser, died in that city last
week The funeral took place on Saturday,
and was largely attended. The pall-beareTs
were President Arthur, Roscoe CoDkling, Hugh
!. .Iewett Jay Gould, Samuel Sloan, General
EckeTt, Jenkins Van Schaiek, VIM. q. Weed,
of Albany; Isaac W. England, J. Nelson Tap
pen. and John HOey. The remains were taken
TO Albany for interment.
A dispatch from Council Bluffs says: Gov.
sherman and Gen. N. B. PrentiSs had appoint
ments to address Republican meeting at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, last Saturday night Gov.
sherman. who was stopping at the Pacific
House fell on a stairway, and was so severely
injured about the head that he was unable to
attend the meeting. Gen. Preatiss filled his
appointment.
President Arthur remained in his rooms at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York during the
greater part of Sunday last. He received only
few friends. In the afternoon he drove
through Central Park and in the evening, in
I company with Secretary Chandler, dined at the
residence of Chas. E. Miller.
Junius Brutus Booth died peacefully at 11:l0
O'clock Monday night last at Manchester, Mass.
Mr. Booth was the Oldest son of the great
/ tragedian by his first wife. He was born in
] Charleston, s c, in 1921, and spent the early
/ part Of his life on the home place in Hartford
/ county, Nd. He was married three times.
/ Judge Robert Mayo, of Westmoreland county,
/ Va, committed suicide early Saturday morn
F ing by shooting himself through the head with
/ a pistol on board the Bay Line steamer Viz
I ginia while on trip from Baltimore TO Nor
af his oh .i1vav1 iffal zuIplHp
some time since.
George II. Bangs, general superintendent OF
Pinkerton's Detective Agencies, died at Roselle,
I \. J.. THURSDAY morning last. During the war
Mr. Bangs rendered important service TO the
4 Government in tracking and arreSdng rebel
1 spies aud other detective work.
The Earl and Countess Rosebery arrived al
I New York September y on the Pavonia from
! Liverpool The Countess was the only daughter
of the late Baron Mayer De Rothsehild. and was
4 married to the Earl on March 20, 1873.
Senator Vest and Representative Maginnis
4 of the Indian Commission, returned to Missoula
, Mont. September u from ST Mary's mission
at the Fiat Head Agency. The Indians refused
TO sell any part of their reservation.
Longfellow's two unmarried daughters have
decided TO live rs students at Newham College
England, during the coming year.
POLITICAL.
The North Dakota convention met al
Fargo, d. T., September 18th. Most of the
counties were represented in the convention
The permanent officers chosen were w. II
Francis, OF Bismarck, chairman, and Major
Hamilton, of Grand Forks secretary. The
following resolutions We're adopted:
Whereas the convention now in session at sious
Pals. Oak. and representing only that portion
10 act for the people OF the Territory ia the prea
ble 10 is constitution. published in the Associ
ated Press dispatches of to-day; and. whereas, the
convention at Sioux Falls IN this action has ignored
the rights OF North DazoIans, who represent more
than halfthe aggregate wealth OF the entire Terri
tory; therefore it is
ResoIred by this convention that we earnestl,
protest against this attempt on the part o. the peo
4 pie OF South Dakota as represented in the sioul
Falls convention to appropriate the name Da
. l10ta, our common heritage. The productions o
that portion OF Dakota lying north of the forty
sixth parallel have made the name OF Daizot;
famous and given II commercial value and pTestg'
OF which We should not and cannot be deprived
that further protest against the admission O
South Dakota under a constitution making no pro
vision Tor the assumption oi an equitable proper
ton of the present territorial debt by the people
South Dakota and we 90 further protest agains
the admission Of the Territory as z whole unde
the constitution adopted or to be adopted at SIou,
Falls or elsewhere III which the people of the en-
tire territory must be admitted as a whole.
We demand 3 voice IN the preparation Of the or
ganlc laV, and VIII oppose any movement leading
toward Statehood which deprives of the priv
lege OF asserting TO or dissenting from its constitU
. tional provisions.
An executive committee, consisting OF w. i
: Francis, of Bismarck; w. f. Steele, of Kidder
: A. W. Edwards Of Cass; J. II. Miller and GEE
| H. Walsh, Of Grand Forks, was appointed {
. consult with the Sioux Falls convention, an
the convention djourned subject to the call c
the executive committee.
The Democratic State convention assemble
at Trenton, Y. j., September 13 and nominate
Leon Albeit for governor on the second ballot
The final vote, according TO the secretary
e showed 534 votes for Albeit The widest con
4 fusion prevailed after the nomination, and th
e supporters of Albright cursed the nominatio
. and declared they would bolt. The platforl
S denoupces the sham methods of the ciYil-seryic
4 / commission. it declares that the people shoul
4 only be taxed so much as is absolutely indii
5 pensable for the frugal conduct of their publ
Q affairs, not one cent for surplus. 1t faYors til
abolition Of the present system Of internal ta2
V alton, which it calls nursery of spoiis an
d infoTmers; fayoTs a tariff for revenue limite
i 10 the necessary expenditure of the Cover
J. ment, and so adjusted as to give protection an
J. encouragement to home productive industI
and labor without producing or fostering m'
nOpOlies.
a The executive committee Of the Nation
+ Union League met in New York Thursda
4 President J. S. Neglcy, Of Pittsburg, preside
! Details were perfected for a series OF Unio
I, meetings TO be held in the South to be a.
\ dressed by prominent Northern men on currel
= political and educational topics. The fir