The Dickinson press., 1883-06-16
IL NEWS NOTES.

The Lake Minnetonka Navigation c,m.
pany, become the pc assessor and owner O
the fine fleet of steamboats, that navigate
the waters of the Lake Beautiful. The
Minnetonka steamboat company sold to tn e
new corporation the Belle Of Minnetonka,
and Charles a. Zimmerman sold to the
same concern the steamers Lotus, Hattie
May, Minneapolis and Sau y Kate. The
officers Of the Lake Minnetonka Navigation
company are as follows: President, p. s..
Davidson of La Crosse; general manager,
Charles a. zimmerman, secretary and treas
uter, William Secombe. The Belle Of Min.
netonka has been completely o~yerhauted
and reftted. Her texas has been con, erted
into an open pavilion and her cabin has
been extended forty feet, so as to form IL
magnificent ladies' parlor. The splendid
boatcan now safely carry and accommodate
$500 passengers. Capt. Charley Sencelbox
is to command the floating palace this sum-
iner. The present company. claim that the
men of naval architecture to be found ANY,
where on western waters.
One OF those unfortunate consummations
so apt to follow a marriage in haste, is to
be recorded in st. Paul. Ia 1879 Miss
Catherine P. Marin, daughter of Walter
Marin, one Of st. Paul's most respected citi-
zens, met, while visiting White Bear lake,
one James J. Burns, alias Burgin. Burns
was q fascinating sort of fellow, and the
acquaintance soon resulted in an attach
ment between the parties, who were welded.
The young husband seems to be destitute of
the qualities his wife attributed to him, and
after nearly four v, ars of welded life, dur
ing which the relations of the pair have
been anything but pleasant, Mrs. Burns las
been impeiled to sue for a divorce on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treatment.
Joseph d. Weeks of P%ittsburg has finished
the last of his reports to the census office.
He wrote five long, important reports Tor
the census. That on glass he would not
prepare agan for $40, 900. The last was on
wages and labor. Incidentally, to prove
that strikes are not always beneficial, he
says out ofG62 strikes in 1850 30 per cent.
We're successful and the balance were com
promised.
The American medical association in ses-
sion at Cleveland adopted q resolution pc
titioning State legislatures to enact more
stringent laws regarding the sale of deadly
polsons. A resolutions was adopted adyo-
eating the establishment of schools to rain
nurses for the sick. A resolution offered
by DIR. Hnllock of st. Louis, to revise the
code of ethics, created a sensation. and was
hu%rriedly tailed for the year.
Bishop Elder of Cincinnati has directed
that no Catholic entertainment shall be
given in any hal, or garden whose proprie-
tor is unwilling TO close the place up be-
fore dark. The regulation is intended 10
remove the temptation to the young to
term. Charles Pelleter and Stephen Pen
nington have been indicted for the same OF
tense as above.
A suit will be brought at Nashville,
Tenn, in a day or two against the estate OF
Thomas O'Connor, Involving s1O4, COO, the
alleged profit %ofioint specula ion between
OConnor and Ex-Treasurer Polk in Tenn
essee bonds. The state sues to cover the
%defsnlting treasurer's share of the profits.
At a meeting of a number of prominent
1rish-Americans in Chicago, it was decided
to call a mass meeting, to be held on the 10th
next, to protest against papal interference
with the affairs of Ireland.
V%andeihoof, Morrison & Co. of New York
have suspended, because customers did moi