The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-12
PERSONAL MENTION.


Gen. John 4. Halderman, the United
States minister to Siam, recently had the
pleasure of presenting to the rajah OF Tulu-
ban handsome gold medal and gold in
laid Winchester rifle-tokens from the
United States government in appreciation
Of the rajah's KIND services to the officers
and crew Of the American bark Coringa
which Wrecked on the coast of Siam in No
Vem Der, 1880. Gen Halderman visited the
rajah at Tuluban, going thither in the King
OF Slams steam yacht Volant, which was
placed at his service by his majesty, and
wal accompanied on the voyage BY Kun
Bin, son of the prime minister, and Mr.. A:
Balfour, experimenting engineer of the ST.
amese navy.
A Washington paper says Mr.. Window
will sail for Europe this week, and be gone
a mo tn or more. His voyage is for bus
mess purposes only, and is perhaps in con-
nection with the placing of large lot of
Mexican railway bonds in England. The
ex-secretary is in fine health and spirits
He experiences pleasure in his new busi-
ness enterprises altogether greater than that
derived from political sources. He has un-
bounded confidence in the future of railway
enterprises in the southwest.
Mrs. Mary Apth1op Gould, who died re-
Gently in Quincy, Mass, was daughter OF
the late Josiah Quincy. She had but re-
Gently returned with Fer husband from a
thirteen years absence in the Argentine
RapukaEs, where DR.. Gould had been pur-
STING his astronomica Il work.
James Harker, president of the First Ma
ional bank Of Storm Lake. Iowa, died sad
denly on the 9TH inst. He was FORMERLY a
member Of the Wisconsin legislature and
waa widely known In thst state. Cause of
death, apoplaxy,
aoc:ety ia Hartford, Conn.,, is convulsed
with horror at the marriage of Christopher
Spencer, the millionaire inventor. of the
Spencer rifle, to Georgette Rogers, his late
wife's nurse girl. She is twenty-five, he
fifty.
Senator Window and family are still in
Washington. The New York press erred in
saying that they left fcs Etifope on the 9th
ofJune. Mr.. Window writes that they sx-
pect to Sail on the 25th of the present
month.
Gen. W. D. washburnn has ltfs for mis- old
home at Liver1noss. accompanied by his
brother, Eoh. F. B. Washburn of Him
osr. The two are to erect library building
at Livermore as a memorial to their father.
The Rev. A. L. E. Riggs, principal OF
the Santee Indians Normal school, has been
offered the position of interpreter for Sena-
tor Dawes Sioux commission, and has the
matter under advertisement.
Col. w. 8. King of Minneapolis and wife
celebrated the twenty-ffth anniversary of
their marriage at the Lyndale hotel, on the
evening of the 25th, the entire family being
participants.
Ezra Daggett, who trotted his horse Bos-
ton, ninety miles in a race with catamar-
an and was arrested at New Haven tor cruel
.ty, has been released.
1t is believed that Bishop O'Hara of Penn
ylvania Is to receive the pallium from
Rome as the successor of Archbishop
Wood.
J. A. Fitzpatrick, son Of Mr.. Thos. Fitz-
patrick, OF st. Paul, received minor re.
ligious orders at 1ssey, near Paris, recently.
Sutler, a Milwaukee photographer, has
discovered successful method of using the
electric light for photogaaphing.
Senator Bayard is three doctors of laws,
having received the degree from Hazard,
Yale and Dartmouth.
DR.. Woodbridge Of Brooklyn, Conn.,, has
cheese that has been in brandy sixty
years.
Mr.. Window will sail for Europe next
week.