The Dickinson press., 1883-12-15
General News GOSSIP.

7h iweather during the month of No
7emDer was for the most part such as the
natives of the state delight to call "real
Minnesota weather." and just the opposite
ojwhat the outside orld is accustomed to
Iegard as the normal condition of things IN
this part of the country. 1t is true there were
two cold waves of keen and nipping quail.
ity that sent the mercury down to the vi
cinity of zero, and made business lively for
the furriers for few days. But on the
whole. the month was an exceedingly mild
one, the average temperature being 1913
deg. or 3.2 deg. higher than the average of
the last twelve Noyembers. Notwithstand-
terred to caused the freezing of the Missis-
:sippi at St. Paul as early as the 15th-a fact
which the signal service reports as unpre-
acedented.
lCol. Boudinot has addressed letter to
Senator Dawes in relation to the published
statement concerning the $22, 500 said to be
mlssing from the $500, 900 Cherokee az
pr,>uriation, in which be denies that the
t,stor>-" originated in a quarrel betN cen
Boudiuo.t and Phillips, and says he pre-
sumes that ..de senator and Secretary Teller
have been sla1. dered by Phillips statemt Mt
that the missing money was PAID to them;
He declares his belief that Phillips got al
the money. He suggests that the senator's
own sense of propriety should prompt him
to ask an Investigation, and says be is pre-
pared to prove that Phillips made state
ments involving Senator Dawes ana Secre-
tary Teller.
Butte Montana, has developed full
f1edged romance. James Sterling married
Miss Mary Ingersoll at Bellevue, Ind. forty
wears ago. In 1853 he went to California,
and Eor few years sent letters and money
to his family, but these finally ceased and
be was mourned as dead. Believing her
husband dead, Mrs. Sterling finally consent
ed to marry Elijah f. Downing, but before
the nuptials were celebrated she took the
precaution of securing formal divorce
from Sterling. Oae of the sons, who went
West, has found his father at Butte, who
on the following day accompanied his son
to his former home, where his wife
wears widows weeds for her second hus-
band. who died recently.
There is bitter feeling in Groton, against
'George;Avsry, thriving merchant, charged
by Mrs. Giles Avery VITA having broken a
marriage engagement. She says the we'd
ding was to have occurred on the 9th but
was informed by Avery that it was indefin'
itely postponed. Friday night mob
in efisy, and threatened to ter an1 feather
him. On Saturday night he was again
hanged in ef6gy, the latter remaining sus.
pended all day Sunday. Avery denies the
widows charges. Warrants have been
issued for the arrest of the leaoers oftke
mob, and the case will be ventilated in the
courts.
Lieut.. Schwatka, in company with severa
other army officers stationed at the post IL
Washington Territory, has been making 8
military reconnaissance on the Yukon river
in Alaska, and there discovered branch o
the Dayay, which the lieutenant has named
the Nourse river, after Prot.C. B. Nourse
of the naval observatory. whose var:ou:
works relating to Arctic explorers are vel
known in this country and abroad.
: Emerson g. Brecke, clothiers OF sChippe
wa Falls made an assignment on the 8tl
inst. Liabilities, $4,000 to $4,000; assets
1t known. The principal creditors are ii
m ns:,. -aukee and Chicago. The firm had beer
NIL" >aee less than ten months. There il
q9lte n us US. <ss leck of capital to star
OF the failure s-sas this fall.
Five days OF last W. ek nou We oitsu ~ ;ssn;n
the DEVILS Lake Indian ssey vs!.,e - sIo 11 oo
supplies, rggregating in re.. .,ss. c,othinp
to the ten bands of Sioux Ind. Iss. hard
dry goods, boots and shoes, sto .sfner
ware, etc., DelnS palQ the ln01an 'S,,;x1
in settlement for work performed by l.
William T. Adds of Boyne City, Mich,
has made an assignment to Nut A. Norton.
Adds was engaged in numbering and rail
roadi1g. His assets and liabilities are equal
about $4,000.
By executive order the consolidating o
the internal revenue districts is revoked a.
applied to the Wisconsin districts. That
State remains UNCHANGED.
A rich Cleveland widow while decorating
her husbands grave met rich widower