The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-11

and charges Northcote with causing all the |
mischief that has grown ut of the cOntin. |
ued violation of his (Bradlaugh's) rights.
Fifteen thousand steel and iron workers
of Glan,organshire and Monmoutnshire,
England, have struck against reduction
OF wages. The employers urge that owing
to New England and American com petition
they lust either close their works or reduce
wages.
The Journal de st. Petersburg denies the
report published that several Russian Of
fcers had been arrested for completely in a
nihilist plot, and that a large depot had
been discovered containing arms, gunpow-
der. dynamite booms and printing apparatus.
British" merchants engaged in trading
with Madagascar are forwarding to Lor
Granville, secretary of state for foreign af.
fairs, claims :gainst France for damages
because their goods are not allowed to be
landed.
Value ofexports for the Ottawa district to
the United States for the quarter ended
Sept. 80 is 81, ,041, us an increase of $4,000
over the corresponding period last year.
Sawed l.mber alone reached 1886, $3.50.
The Parnell fund co mmittee has received
the draft for 81 ,682 from Dennis O'Connor
of Chicago The fund will close at the end
of December. It is expected it will reach
f4O,OOO.
The British consul at Scutari, Albani,
was fred at while on hunting expedition
few days since, but was not hurt. The
would-be assassin escaped.
The Austrian and Hungarian delegations
afe convoked for the 23d inst. The juris-
diction of the delegation is limited to for
eign affairs and war.
Suze & Sibeth, East Indian and West
Indian merchants, London, have failed. Ii
abilltie', 1880 900.
dispatch says negotiations between
France and China are virtually suspended.
Personal 1IENZI1N.
Judge F.S. ellison, Of Fond du Lac, Wis,
was gone to Washington toIargue before the
supreme court of the United States case
that involves the liability of the general
government. Judge Gilson's clients own
| land along Lake Winnebago. which they
| claim IS injured by the overflow caused by
the dam at Neenah, which Is part OF the
Fox and Wisconsin river improvement
| This case governs some seventy-fve or a
hu dred others. The aggregate damage
claimed amounts to 100000. Judge Gill
| SOA CI4SutS uttVS SeCuT0u VGTulCt Ol 3lU,-
600 from the state circuit court, and this
has been affirmed by the s1preme court of
| the Slate.
Rear Admiral Benjamin Franklin Sands
died at Baltimore, Nd, on the Sd inst. He
was born IN Baltimore, Feb. II, 1872, ard
entered the navy April 1, 1926, as a
midshipman. He was promoted to lieu
tenancy in 1880, to the rank of commander
in 1855, captain in 1862, and commander in
1866, gaining the post.of rear admiral in
1871. He served with distinction in the
Mexican war. and commanded the Fort
Jackson in both the Fort Fisher fights.
He was recommended tor promotion by
Rear Admiral P1rter in the latter's Official
| lis oatca of Jan. %, 1862. He retired from
| active service in 1874.
Henry Famham, New Haven's richest
man, age eighty, was stricken with paralysis
recently. He was president Of the Rock
Island road from 1854 10 1868. He has
helped Yale college literally.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his
eighty. third birthday on the Sd inst, al
Newport, r. l., and received numerous let
ters and telegrams of congratulations.
Engineer Blackburn caught three-ye
old child from the track in front of his en-
CINE, at Troy, the other day, while the To-
cOmotiye vss at tull speed.