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Green Bay for more than half century;
served As mayor and held other public Of
fees. He was formerly agent Of the AstOrs,
and had full charge of their property inter
stS.
Congressman John F. Finnerty has bit.
ter article in the Weekly Citizen, Chicago,
denOuncing the popes interference in Irish
affairs, and declaring that il persisted in
the result will be war of the Irish against
the pope and the downfall of his authority.
The degree OF IL. ID. was conferred on
Prof Milton H. Humphrey, recently, by
Vanderbilt university, the first honorary de-
gree ever conferred by this institution.
A. b. Sprague, New York pedestria n,
tried to walk across the Brooklyn bridge in
seven minutes, but the authorities prohibi-
ted the exhibition for fear OF u crush.
w. X. Vanderbilt has bought for So. 600
large tract lying at Mentor, near Garfield s
home, and will build costly summer resi-
dence there.
The American Academy of Arts and Sci
ences has elected Joseph Lowering president
and Oliver Wendell Holmes vice president.
Perry H. Smith, the once crazy Chicago
millionaire, is with his family at Neenah
summer resort TO stay month.
Lieut.. Col. w. G. Mitchell, acting adju-
tant general on Gen. Hanock's staff, died
in New York, recently.
Mr.. Blaines daughter Margaret, sailed. a
week ago from Liverpool for New York.
In Georgia Sepator Browns income is
put at 100000.
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THE CASUALTY RECORD.

In Boston, the big elephant Bolivar, the
rival of Jumbo, got mad at a young attend
ant while being served with food, and the
urchin is now at the hospital The ~ was
engaged in carrying hay into the tent where
the elephants are quartered, and suddenly
found himself entwined in the trunk Of the
ferocious brute. The elephant. after swing
ing the lad in the air, threw him violently
to the ground and then proceeded to crush
him by walking on him. The boys screams
brought to his assistance q number Of men
who with poles, hooks and clubs drove
the beast from the victim, who was picked
up in an unconscious condition. The boy
had one leg badly torn and lacerated, and
arm broken, and also suffered q confusion
Of the pelvis. His injuries are such as to
nailn hin. :or l;so, even should they not
prove fatal. There was no prOvocation for
the assault, the elephant simply being seized
with one of the fits of rage to which he has
been subject.
ID. c. Winchell, of Marshaltown, Iowa. in
charge of lot Of cattle for Messrs. Wal
ler.& Carr, ofJamestown, OAK, was killed at
the Union Stock yards st. Paul on Wednes,
day last. In switching, one of the engines
on the different tracks got cut of order and
became beyond control, and backing down
IAN into the caboose. Had Winchell re.
NAMED inside he would have escaped, but
hearing the noise he stepped out on the
rear of the car and was crushed in the con-
cussiOn.
John Fitzgerald, John Walton and John
Nausland, log drivers employed by the
Muskegon boom company, were drowned
on the Muskegon river at Hersey, Mich.
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by the Bismarck banks This being
80, Dakota will secure $4,000
with which 10 erect public buildings,
the added 100000 being cash
payment on the part of the city. Tho l60
acres marked Che about three-fourths OF q
mile south Of the railway depot, in what Is
known as the first bottom OF the Missouri river;
in other words the northers grant commands
and overlooks the town, the southern nc 10
overlooked by it. The latter quarter section
is, Of course, not 80 valuable as the other, but
a low estimate OF its value, in the aggregate,
is given as 800 per acre, which would make
the plat worth an additional SIG, ,OO0 10 the
Territory. Az previously stated, there are
msnv handsome brick stores and business
blocks in tho town, and tho court
house. which cost 10000. was erected in
1880, and is creditable and handsome
structure. The Sheridan house, already re-
ferred to, IS one OF the notable buildings, and
the new High school, tho site OF which Is given
in the diagram, will prove great adornment
Many OF the residences are handsome and
commodious. The 8, 900 inhabitants have ten
hotels, four churches, two banks, two public
halls, one daily and two weekly newspapers,
al artesan we'll, q grain elevator, flour mill,
! extensive brick yards, large freight depots,
both in the town and at the boat-ianding. dis
tant mile and half from the center OF the
city. The Northern Pacific railway runs
| through tho town from east 10 west, curv-
| ing north when it nears the river, and
| through a deep cut reaching the magnificent
| bridge across the Missouri, which was opened
| for travel last year 1t cost nearly 81 5OO,-
600, has four spans Of 400 feet sach and two
reversed truss spans Of $50 feet each. The
approaches and piers are triumpLs OF modern
| engineering, and the whole structure Is re-
garded as one Of the finest OF the kind in OK
istence
STATISTICS OF BUSINESS
, As previously stated, Bismarck's early trade
was largely with ranchmen, the forts in Ds-
kOta and Montana and through steamer
lines In 1877 tho Northwestern Transpor-
| fston company, opened the road tc
the Black Hills from Bismarck direct TO Dead
wood, and can daily stages for pr ssengers and
tri-weekly wagon trains for freight In 1879
the company removed it's stables and stock
| 70 Pierre, and the Deadwood, road from
Bismarck, was practically abandoned.
| Until the completion OF the Northern Pacific
| railway TO dlendive, Bismarck was the shipping
point on the river for all the supplies destined
| to the great Northwest Territory, and ~ still
holds it's supremacy, in steamboat way.
among the riparian town north of Kansas
City. In 1852 total OF "a, ,4Sl, 141
pounds OF government and private freight were
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rior. The two victims were placed in these
barrels after the gags had been removed.
The barrels were then headed up. The floor
Of the hall was wet down, and small fire
built i'm the centre. The barrels were
then rolled frsm Lne end of the hall to the
other, and several times around and over
the fire. Revolvers were fired and fire.
crackers exploded. The cries of the i'm
prisoned young men could be heard above
all the confusion. A constable demanded
admission, but was driven away. The
barrels were finally rolled down stairs and
into the street. The heads were knocked
in and the two students liberated. They
were now more dead than alive and presen-
ted pitiable sight " hen the citizens of
fered to call physician the firing ofrevol-
vers began. and all were glad to retire.
The young mep's clothing was nearly torn
from their bodies and the blood flowed
from their wounds. The hazers were in
dignant over the interference of the villa.
gers, broke every street lamp in the town
and destroyed other valuable property.
The hazers left town at 3 q. NJ, taking the
young men with them. The whole affair
has caused great excitement and indigna-
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miDu san sout. Urdwsy, TOO, is COM
paratively close to the 46th parallel. though,
as said, don't think the question Of division
need enterdysion is dead tor years 10 come,
The law under which We are working is clearly
pcit-1 should know, as l framed it-and directs
that site should be chosen with reference TO its
eligibility, for the whole territory" and the readi-
ness with which it eau be reached from any part Of
Dakota. That Bismarck best fufls these condi-
tions no one can dispute who will dispassionatcly
nd conscentiousv examine the map OF the terri
tory
Mr.. Hughes was further asked as TO what
effect the legal proceedings against the COM
mission would have He laughingly said:
"You are not so foolish as TO believe they will
amount TO anything, are YOU? Why, they were in
stituted by the disgruntled fanktonians solely TO
frighten the towns which intended to bid. They
hoped the commission would not receive any
tangible or desirable offers aud would thus be made
ridiculous The game didn't work, as you have seen.
am proud of the Territory. Why, ! have IN an
81 OOO,O 900, and, as you know. We did not open or
consider all the bids What other Territory OF
equal age--or older for that matter-could would
make such liberal bids?"
WHAT OTHERS THINK.
Alock Mckenzie, who is the hero of the hour,
bears his honors meekly and seems rather to
dread the ovation which is sure to await him at
Bismarck. To his personal influence more
than 70 that OF any ono man is due the
SelcctlOn OF tu6 Slu NDlle dChHOWleuB-
ing that the result is very gratifying
to him personally he insists that when the nat
ural disappointment of unsuccessful towns is
abated, the universal verdict will be that Bis
marck was the wisest choice possible to
make The selection will put many dol
lars in his pocket, as he Is large
holder OF realty in Bismarck, town in which
he has had unbounded faith through good and
evil report. He insists with much earnestness
that everything has been open and above board
in the dealings Of the commission, and that
Bismarck won on its merits.
OPINION IN FARGO.
Gov. Ordway does not conceal his satisfac-
ton at the result, and although he may have
had other preferences, Pierre or Ordway, for
example, his sentiment, anything 10 beat my
Yrnkton opposers." has received pleas
ant flip. Roberts, the Fargo capital
ist, is not at all tckled, and
probably feels a. bitterly as Col Pat Donan,
though not as outspokcn as the latter who can
not find superlatives strong enough to condemn
tho commissions III toto and in detail.
Walsh and La Moure Of the upper
country declare themselves satisfied since
North Dakota came 10 the front in great shape.
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west II is on the main line Of the Northern
Pacific, 400 miles north of west from St Paul
4i7 miles almost due west Of Duluth, l9J
miles west OF Fargo, l57 miles east of
the Montana line, about 400 miles
| by land north OF IanktOn, and 223 miles south
east OF Fort Buford also by land. The river
distances from the two points last named arc
considerably greater. Fort A. Lincoln il dis
tant five miles by road and ferry, Fort Yates
fifty-slx, ana Fort stevenson seventy-tnree, 10
| the north. Almost directly opposite on the west
eru side OF tho Missouri is tho mouth
Of the Heart river, the crookedest
stream TO be found aud running through one
| the most fertile aud beautiful valleys on the
| continent. The country roundabout does not
differ materially in general characteristics
| from that which NAV be- found north OH the
| Missouri a. far as Fort Peck and south to
Sioux City or Omaha, though the bultes are
moro marked than they are further south, and
! the bottoms and uplands more inviting looking
| For more than twenty miles east from tho town
slto the ground gradually undulates, some
times abruptly but in general with gradual
| and readily -cultvatable slopes. 1t is COM
paratively we'll watered. Apple creek, which
empties into the Missouri 1ivo miles below
tho city, enriching the ad jacent territory,
In it's winding and fertilzng course. In fact
! the lay Of the land impresses all comers ex-
ceedingly favorably, and the rolling pillows OF
ground are sometimes felt as a relief after the
dead levels of tho farther East OF surround
ing timber thore is little, the trees being gen.
orally cottonwoods on the river bottoms and
small willows OH the tributary creeks.
THE TOWN ITSELF
Bismarck is built on what is known as the
second bench of the Missouri, and in tho town
site proper, as now plated, there are about
three sections Of land, OF which one Is pretty
wollbuilt over Scattered buildings are numer-
Gus on the various lots into which
the other sections are divided. The l60
acres, marked Il in the diagram, has ali alti-
tude Of fifty TO seventy five feet greater than
that OF the railway track at tho depot Within
its scope are several rounded knolls upon
which public buildings can be erected to COM
mand an excellent view OF the
| entire surrounding country, the Mis-
souu aud is valley included. 1t is distant
| less than three quarters Of milo from the
depot and the town already reaches with
| buildings and streets its southern edge Upon
| twenty acres OF this it is probable the capitol
building will be located, leaving 140 for sale
| by the Territory, Land Immediately adjacent
| to this tract was sold last eu-
tumn for $3l2 per acre, in bulk,
subsequently plated and the lots sold at
ratio aggregatlng $1,000 per acre. II il
authoritavely stated that there will DO no diff
Guilty in realizing from tho sale of this 1iO
! acres the $500. 900 guaranteed the Territory
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PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS IN WASHINGTON.

nv ANxO Nv " WAOHxN0xONs
Controller Lawrence has rendered al i'm.
portant decision in the matter of the right
Of the United States to apply money appro
priated by congress to the state Of Georgia
to refund certain money to the state ex-
pended for common defense in 1777, by way
Of q set off against the quota of direct tax
appropriated that state by the direct tax act
Of Aug. 5, 1861. The controller decides that
accounting officers of the treasury depart
ment, in adjusting the accounts 0fa credi.
tor OF the Unitei States, are authorized to
set of against the claims of such creditor
any sum due him from the United States.
Postmasters commissioned: Wisconsin,
Warren Woodruff, Unity; Peter w. Weber,
Timothy; Minnesota, Charles II. Green.
Otter Tail Dakota, Henry III. Welding.
Carlton; Iowa, AlansOn Southworthy Tai
tix. POstOfiices were established recently at
Sterling, Wis, Clearwater, OAK, and Town.
send, Mont.
The estimated decrease of the public debt
for May is about s., 500, 900; bond redemp-
ton during this month, $40, SOC, 900; pay-
nents on account Of pensions, $4,000, 600.
Indian Commissioner Price is informed
that the removal Of the Grow Indians to
their new agency in the Big Horn valley
will be made in q few days.
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COnfiagration at Lynchburg, Va.

On Wednesday morning 3Oth, large
amount of property was destroyed by fire,
including the Daily Virginian building and
fixtures, Commercial bank, the large hard
ware establishment Of Jones, Watts Bros. &
Co., the large tobacco mandatory of Flood
& Peters, and other business houses. Sew
eral residences were also destroyed. The fire
was got under control after raging two hours
and destroying property to the amount ol
over $500, 900. The loss OF Jones, Watts Bros.
Il Co. is estimated at $3.50, ,OO9; insurance only
5000 The loss on the Virginian Office is
$40 900; insurance $4,000. Peters & Flood,
tobacconists, lose about $4,000; insured
$4,000. A number of smaller buildings
were destroyed, on which there is partial in
surance, and others partly damaged by
water and fire. Five men, Halsey, GoGd-
man, Policeman James Vaughan, Felix Bel
dalare, James Clemens and Capt. William
Moore the last conductor on the Norfolk
& Western railroad, were buried under
falling walls of the Virginian building and
killed
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RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.

Surveyors of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
have left the end OF the track at Morton, and
are now above Beaver Falls. running direct
to Ortonville. They will continue their line
north on the east side OF the lake
The following appointments by iCharles
b. Lamborn, land commissioner of the
Northern Pacific are announced: G. NJ.
Cummang, assistant commissioner and J..
X. Weymyss general land agent of the east
ern district, vice Herman Trott resigned.
The appointments took place the first of
the month.
Manitoba earnings per mile this year
have increased $366, and the mileage have
increased 81 miles. The earnings for the
third week In May were $l47.
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a. they express il; while ". 4. Steele is, OF
course, Jubilant, tho proximity of Bismarck to
his town site largely enhancing the value OF the
latter. Wells OF jamestown was not seen,
but Is understood to be satisfied, and the same
is regarded as the feeling OF Touner OF Lari-
more. In fact, few who live north OF tho
forty sixth parallel have anything dorogatory
10 saw OF the commissioners action
GRAsPINd THE FoBELoCK
/. IL regarded os a stroke of good policy,
and credited to Aleck Hughes, TO have taken
immediate steps toward the preparation OF
plans aud The exact location OF tho capi-
tai IL is said tnat rs the @iVV.-
900 is Immediately available, 1t
in wise to use some or IL
!. once, 80 that the people will the more read
iy scauiesce or course, there arc plentiful
.harges Of bribery aud corruption, but none
,rc definite as to persons or amounts, and the
commissioners preserve an air Of innate reoti-
nde
GEOGRAPHICAL l. AND DESCRIPTIVE
THE NEW DAKOTA CAPITAL
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THE CRIMINAL RECORD.

A good deal of interest is felt as to the
whereabouts OF Bowen, the absconding de-
partment of justice detective. 1t was first
understood that he was secreted in Phila-
delphis, and District Attorney COrkhill i'm
mediately dispatched detective to that
city for the purpose Of finding and taking
him int custody. This detective has made
no report. Mr.. Corkhill, however, says
every means in his power will be used TO
bring Bowen TO justice.
Noah r. Steiner, postmaster Of Sterling,
o., and secretary OF the Russell Wrench
company, is missing. 1t has been discover
ed that he forged his fathers name TO his
bond OF Sc, 600, as secretary of the Wrench
company. He held other positions of trust
and was Coked upon as q young man OF
unusual promise. Other crOOkedness is be-
ing developed.
Reports come OF brutal case of slavery
in house ofill. fame at Vermillion, North
Of Duluth, where man named Norton has
five women In his control, and none Of
them car get away from him. One ofthem
walked twenty miles last week with the
mail carrier but was Overtakeu, beaten and
driven back at the revolver's muzzle.
William Porter pal OF "Shang" Draper
and Red Leary, the noted cracksmen, was
released from the penitentiary recently for
good behavior. He was in for Eve years fol-
burglary, and the term would have expired
In August. While in prison he fell heir to
$1,000.
]. w. Motsley, agent of the Texas Ex
press company ut Baird station, Texas, In q
fight, shot and killed John Reeves. and
wounded bystander named James Daven-
port In the melee. A squad OF rangers are
In pursuit of the murderer.
When Judge Bouton discharged Olive
Cook, rich oystermsn at South Norwslk,
who beat q cripple boy, the spectators
Kissed loudly and openly threatened to tal
and feather either the court or Cook.
Mrs. Annie Curtis, Chicago prostitute,
has sued 8. w. Nickerson, brother of thu
millionaire banker, for 900 damages.
A Cincinnati man drank five pints oi
whisky Sunday and died In twenty y-foul
hours.
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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. q. p. Buel, U. 8. A., died at Nash
vile. The general was first cousin OF Gen.
Don Charles Buel. He was, at the time OF
his death, colonel OF the Fifteenth United
States infantry, now stationed at Fort Sta
ton, N. NJ, and has been there on q sick
furlough since last January. He leaves q
wife and one child.
Miss DR.. Josephine Walters, the only
woman among twenty applicants who
passed examination. has been appointed
assistant to the house physicians OF Mount
Sinai hospital. Miss Walters Is the first
lady who has won the position of hospital
physician in New York.
At Green bay, Wis, Nathan Goodell died
ON Saturday last. He was o resident o
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FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

st. Petersburg Cable: At Wednesdays re.
ception of the diplomatic corps, Minister
Hunt, on presenting Admiral Baldwin and
staff, congratulated his majesty in the name
of the United States, and said that the gov.
ernment had in this instance created what
was unprecedented-a special mission
The czar said he felt extremely gratfied q,
the evidence Of friendliness which was man
ifested by 1t, and was also highly pleased to
learn that the American flag ship had fired
a salute in honor of his majesty's corona
ton. The empress appeared much delight
ell, and chatted pleasantly withthe admiral
longer than with any other person In the
hall.
The ladies' committee to aid political
prisoners have sent the following telegram
to Gladstone: We appeal To you. on the
ground of humanity, for cOmmutatiOn OF
the sentences of Thomas Catfrey and TimO.
thy Kelley, twoo Of the condemned Phoenix
park murderers. Three lives have been ia
ken IN atOnement for two. We ask for
mercy. Caffrey is sentenced to be hanged
June 2, and Kelly June 8. No reply to the
communication was received from Glad
stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mackey and their pilgrim
age to Moscow attract great atten ton, ane
the whole European press is taken up with
the magnificence of Mr.. Mackey's private
car and the fifteen Worth dresses which
were contained in Mrs. Mackey's private
baggage car. Even at Moscow neither Or
ientalsm nor imperial splendor could
throw Mrs. Mackey in the shade.
The London News says il any of the sons
of the queen should be appointed governor
general of great colony, the precedent will
have to be followed in other cases. There
could be no valid reason why, if the duke
Of Albany were made governor general O,
not take the vice royalty of India and an
other the lord lieutenancy of Ireland.
A dispatch to the Dublin Mail from Rome
says the pope will, if necessary, follow up
his recent circular to Irish bishops in rela.
ton TO the agitation in Ireland and the Par
nell fund by suspension from their func-
tions Of all acclesastics who disObey the
commands of the circular.
The tribune at Xeres has sentenced one
member of the Black-Hand society to life
long servitude, and another to seventeen
years, for the murder Of man who de-
clined to Join the society.
The emperor and empress of Russia re-
Gently received the congratulations of the
great duchesse and ladies of the court. The
scene at the reception was very brilliant.
In the house OF commons the bill empow-
eripg local authorities in Ireland to i'm
prove dwellings Of laborers passed its sec
ond reading.
James Young, M. =. p, was appointed
provincial treasurer of Ontario, vice s. q
Wood, resigned.
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Horrible HaZinR.

Syracuse, N. Y, Special telegram, June 2.
"A terreble outrage is reported to have
been committed on two sophomores of the
Madison university and Baptist Theological
seminary, at Hamilton, by their fellow stu
dents. The details, If true, show that tits
one OF the most disbolical instances OF hazing
that ever dissraced a college. After the two
selected victims had retired last night their
doors were broken in, and they were com.
PEELED TO dress, bound and gagged, thrust
into carriage and driven TO Earlville,
where hall had been engaged. Two large
barrels had previously been procured for
the occasion. Sharpened neiIs had been
driven into them from the outside 30 that
they protruded nearly an inch on the ine-
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Chicago Special o. b. Ireland, the fern
er proprietor of the Times at Blunt, OAK,
came to the city, Saturday, with money to
invest. He bought for $500, half interest
in restaurant. The afternoon of the pur-
chase his partner borrowed $75 of him. On
Sunday Ireland opened his restaurant only
to find it stripped of all portable stock, and
note from his partner saying he was OIL for
the restaurant. Creditors began to pour in
and the place was closed up. Ireland will
realize about $75.