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The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.
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The ceremonies Of laying the corner stone of
All Saints school, the Episcopal college orDa.
kota, took place at Sioux Falls on the 18th. The
college is to be 81 by 1913 feet; is to be three
stories high beside the basement, and built Of
Sioux Falls cut granite, with red pipestone
block of Sioux Falls granite, highly polished on
the two front surfaces; is two and a ,if fee t
square by sixteeninches in thickness. Upoa the
north front of the stone are cngravedthc words.
"All Saints school, A. L. 1884," and upon the
east front the words "From Glory to Glory
The devotional exercises were conducted by
bishop Hare, assisted by the clergy OF South
Dakota, The laying of the stone was con
Quoted by the Masonic order of Sioux Falls.
Speeches were made by Bishop Hare, Gov.
Pierce. Judge Palmer and others. The col
lego is to be q diocesan school for the State of
Da kota, established in connection with the
Episcopal church oft territory. The bishop
proposes to make it a college for both males
and females, and the plan of tho build
ing provides both school rooms and halls
for the students. The chapel, which is to
constitute a separate wing of the college build
ing, is the gift of one person, and is to be
built as a memorial hall. Work on the college
is to be pushed rapidly, and the school open at
pn early day.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

Pennsylvanians are celebrating the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the striking
of the first oil we'll, near Titusville.
That has grown to $4,000 wells, 90, 900
of which are still producing, and the ten
barrels a day with which tue infant en-
terprise began has grown to daily pro-
duction varying during the past four or
five years, between $4,000 and 100, 900
barrels. The little oil field bounded
by the encircling bluffs which hem in
the Oil Creek valley has been extended
over portions of eight OR ten counties,
and the little hamlet of a few hundred
inhabitants has grown to q city of ten
thousand people, and is only one of a
half dozen or more 1ourishing towns of
like size, while the smaller towns
which the industry has given rise to are
almost countless.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
General News Items,

1t is estimated that 100, 900. 600 feet of lumber
was blown down in Wisconsin.
Official investigation disproves the rumor o.
Pleuro-pneumonia at Omro, Wis.
Massachusetts, Prohibitionists nominated
President seelye, of Amherst college, for gov.
ernOr.
Mr.. Cyrus W.. Field sent a private dispatch
from Cinnabar, Yellowstone Park, dated Satur.
day, which contains this cooling and hopeful
item of weather news: SIT has showed here
the last two nights, and is so coldthat we have
gwen up the long journey through the Yellow.
The second annual reunion of soldiers and
sailors of Dakota closed at Yankton after one
OF the most enjoyable sessions ever expert
eneed there. Col. William Duncan of ELI
Point was chosen president, Capt. L. Parli-
man OF Sioux Falls vice president, and Dr.. S.
II. Hill of Fargo, treasurer. Letters of regret
we're read from Gen. Logan, Gen. Sherman,
Gov. Oglesby and others.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
The Wisconsin Tornado.

A correspondent says: sfSummoning thu
whole route of the storm from Marine to Somer-
set, in st. Croix county, Wis, from there &c
Star Prairie, thence to Deer Park, including
Stanton, Alden and Black Brook, then up te
Clear Lake and Clayton, passing off almost
due East, it will be seen that six lives were
lost. The timber losses are in millions; grain
losses close to 81, ooo, oa5; private property in
villages, loss near $50O, ND, and all other losses,
bred thousands. A manufacturer of Clear
Lake, Oh a close estimate. claims the total loss
in his whole district is fully 100000 0 Scat
tering reports come slowly in from outstand-
ing farming districts, reporting broken limbs
deaths. The reports of increased loss Of grair
and timber between Deer Park and Clayton are
coming in. The excitement has passed away and
the work Of rebuilding begun"
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
Rail and River News.

New York Special: The war between the
railroad companies has come to IN md. Tick
cts between New York and Chicago and 9TH
err Western points arc still sold at greatly re-
duced rates, but they are not as low as they
have been, neither are the conditions as advan-
tageous. Scalpcrs arc selling tickets to Chica-
go as low as SIT, but will not sell return tickets
at the same rate.
The government is informed that a new sys-
tenn of clearing streets and railroad tracks is
about to be established which promises to
revolutionize the entire business, consisting
mainly of sweeping the dirt to the railroad
tracks instead of to the cutters, where it is at
once taken up and out of the city by self load
ing street cars, which sprinkle and sweep. the
streets as they go, thus saving the cost of
sweeping and sprinkling on the rails and stone
payements, and the slow and expensive work
of men and horses and carts in the cutters.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
A Floating Island.

White Plains, N. Y, Journal: Sit
uated one and a half miles north of
Poundridge is a pretty little sheet of
water called Trinity Lake. It is the
source of supply for Stamford, Conn,
fourteen miles away. There is a singu-
lar phenomenon connected with this
lake, which is not generally known ex-
cept to q few residents of this locality.
1t is what is called a floating island, o
good sized body af land, which has for
several years appeared at regular inter
walls near the center of the lake, ard after
remaining upon the surface of the wa
ter for several days, sinking again to
the bottom. about forty-fve feet. No
one has yet taken the trouble to investi-
gate the phenomenon, and the country
people have become so accustomed to it
that they think little about it.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
smaller Pension Fees.

Washington, Special Telegram:-Actings Sec
rotary Joslyn rendere3e decision which will
be of interest to pension agents and pension
attorneys alike. It is specially in the interest
of pension attorneys and deprives the pension
agent of a small fee he formerly received, and
which in the course of many years amounts to
q considerable sum. The case came up from
the pension Office on an appeal to Milo B.
Stephens, q pension attorney of Cleveland,
Ohio. The commissioner of pensions had de-
cided that under the new law United States
pension agents may deduct thirty cents from the
amounts of attorneys fees, as compensation for
services in forwarding the same in each
pension claim allowed and represented by a
pension attorney at the time Of allowance.
This was tho law embraced in section 1860 of
the revised statutes, which however, was re-
pealed by the act of July, 1877, fixing the COM
pensation of pension agents. 1t appears that
tho commissioner of pensions was under the
impression that the law passed last session
virtually destroyed tho old law and he ruled
that the pension agents could now collect the
thirty cents fee. On this question Mr.. Joslyn
disagreed with him and ruled that while the
act Of July 4, 1854, materially changed that of
1878, it failed to enact the old law authorizing
this. In his letter to tho commissioner of PEN
sions he gives a complete history of the pension
laws.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

Julius R Fredericks, who was sergeant in
the Greedy Polar expedition is in Minneapolis
He denies that there were two factions in the
Greedy party, and says the men Of the expedi-
ton were united and harmonious. There may
have been cannibalism, but of this he has no
personal knowledge. He gives the following
account of the shooting of Henry: Henry had
been warned several times about stealing food,
but he repeated the %offense, and finally Greedy
issued an order for his execution. Three guns
were loaded, two of them with ball and one
with a blank cartridge. Fredericks, Long and
Brainerd were detailed to carry the orders INTO
effect They took the guns and found Henry
The three men approached within twenty
yards, and the ranking man called out, Glen
~, we are now compelled to carry out our or
ders" TIL men fired and Henry dropped
dead Fredericks says his experience has not
satisfied him, and he intends to visit the Arctic
regions again as soon as possible.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

France and Germany, and in fact all
European nations, explain their mill
tary activity by saying that in order to
preserve the peace, wal establishments
must be kept in the highest condition
OF readiness for emergencies. The
time will come, it seems certain, when
the tax-ridden people will protest in
violent and effective terms against the
%hypocrisical pretences of sovereigns
and princes, who pursue the policy OF
turning plowshares into baynots instead
of the reverse. There will surely be,
at no distant day, either general dis
armament OF O general revolution.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
More Damage by the Dakota Cyclone.

The Alexandria Herald gives The following
description of damages by the cyclone in Han
son county, OAK: The damage in this county
seems to have commenced at Red Stone post
Office. J. H. Nolts house, barn, stacks and
tools, were mingled in one vast wreck and
swept onward. Pieces of the building, bed
ding, clothing, and mail from the postofice
were found strewn along three miles in the
were away from home. His wife and family,
one being a babo in arms, barely got into
the cellar when the house was taken, and
they looked up shelterless at q clear sky,
thankful none of them had been killed
Mrs. S. A.. Wilhelm's house was taken
up into midair, whirled twenty rods northwest
where it seems to have struck on its roof, and
plowed into the earth until only splinters, bits
of clothing, scattered and broken utensils
showed which way the storm went. Walter
Peck was moving, saw the storm coming and
got his team unhitched but they broke away
from him and ran. He lay down and held o
som grass roots. Parts Of hay and grain
stacks sailed over him. Household goods and
flying timbers raced past. Great chunks of
ice fell all around him. The hay rake rolled
rods and dashed to the ground in a hundred
pieces. In a minute it was over and Mr..
Peck arose from the ground unhurt, and
found the only thing he had damaged was the
mower. Nelson Van IaSsel,s stacks were
blown down. The tornado started for Charles
Fl. Wards, took the tops off some stacks,
started toward II. W. Peck's, then toward W..
D. Knapp's, twisting up corn stalks, backset-
ting breaking, tearing up flax and piling sod
in mounds three feet high. In some places
the sod was cleaned off breaking as smooth as
a house floor. When it got within twenty rods
of Knapp's III moved into the cellar on a run.
.Circling againi it went back to Wards moved
his house, which fronted the south, clear
from the foundation, and set it down 'front.'
ing the east. Everything about it was
twisted out of shape. Wards granary, con-
tanning SEQ bushels of grain, was twisted off
the foundation, one side of the roof taken and
part of the shingles from the other side, a COW
was killed and other damage done. The
%neighbors came right to the rescue with teams
and money, and ere this his damage has been
all repaired, Willard Woodwork had about
one hunered bushels of oats standing in shock.
This went up and never came down. When
tho tornado crossed Long Lake the wa
ter fairly boiled, and in less than a half q
minute enormous hail stones fell. The largest
we heard of measured saven inches the long
way. Hail fell all along the route The
storm only took a swath about five rods wide,
M 81, 600 is a large estimate for the damage
done in this county.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
German Display In st. PAM.

The annual meeting of the German Catholic
Central Benevolent Union of America"
brought to St Paul last week, delegates from
almost every State in the Union, who spent
several days in devotional exercises and in at
tending to the business of the association. On
sunday, this and other Catholic SOCIETIES had
= grand procession. The streets were
In the procession, were u very large nun.
Der ofsocieties, with elegant regalia and ban
ners, and seventeen bands of music. The an
Gent order of Hibernians, 4US strong, were uni
formed IN green and silver sashes and wearing
Ed Schliek was marshal, was headed BY q
large car drawn by four white horses. the car
being filled with thirty eight girls in white
dresses to represent Columbia and the various
states OF the Union, each bearing q flag with
whole, was never excelled in ST Paul. save by
the great Willard celebration last year.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
United States Consul Piexatto, at

United States Consul Piexatto, at
Lyons, France, has forwarded report to
the department of state relative to crops
this year in France. He says: "The
wheat crop will amount to about &c.,
DOC, 900 bushels, which will surpass the
harvest Of 1883 by over 80, 900, 900
bushels. The quality is excellent. The
rye crop will equal 10000, 900 bushels
and quality verysuperior. Indian corn
will amount to 33, 900, 600 bushels and
the potato crop 412, 1000, 900 bushels"
Reports from England's continental
countries also report a fine wheat crop.
The. English crop IN particular has rare
ly been so fine.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
China Keeps it On.

The Pail Mall Gazette says tho Chinese gov
ernment has made a declaration of war in the
form ofa manifesto from the emperor. He
declares that he regards the French action as
constituting q state of war, and calls upon his
subjects oaid in repelling the foe. The Chinese
have closed the mouth Of the Canton river to
steamers. The English gunboat Zephyr was
fired upon yesterday from the Kinpoi fort
ard officers and sailors wounded. The
Zephyr was mistaken for a French vessel of
similar appearance. TIL British admiral de-
manded an explanation. The Chinese are
profoundly distressed by their mistake, and
have made a satisfactory explanation to the
British admiral. The Chinese report the dam
age done the forts and arsenal on the Min
river by Admiral Courbet triaing. The ma
ssonry has been fully restored. The French
landed and destroyed only three guns at the
Mingon forts and did not land at ali at Kinpoi.
The arsenal was not damaged, and no wal
material or stores were destroyed. Work at
the arsenal is prosceeding as usual. The navy
loss was serious, but after all only two fight
ing vessels were sunk.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

France has already obtained o foot
hold in China, and the indications are
favorable to its definite extension, and
with the tacit acquiescence of other
great powers, most of whom are en-
gagged in the same business of territorial
extension in various parts of the world.
Germany, especially as we'll as England,
seems determined to carry out her colo
nization scheme and will probably fol-
low up the advantages which she has
already obtained in Africa. 1t is now
we'll understood that there are vast
regions north of Cape Colony and the
Transvaal and south of the Egyptian
Sosdan in which white men can live
and flourish. In these regions are vast
deposits Of iron, copper and coal, be-
sides gold snd silver. The crops OF
southern Europe can be grown there,
and the temperature is nearly the same
all the year round. This inviting terri
tory is about six times larger than
France. 1t is the opinion of recent
travellers that great tracts of land in
this country can be made salubrious
and productive at no great expense.
OF course the pioneers will have many
hardships to contend with, but organ
lied European colonies, well equipped
with all the constructive and destruc.
tive agencies of civilization, will grad.
ually exterminate the native races and
turn q large area of the dark continent
into q white mans country.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
Crimes and Criminals.

There are reports of incendiaries at Mitch
ell, Oak, but none have been caught.
At Moscow, Ohio, L. H.. Farley, an old man,
was found murdered in his yard. Take Pris-
hard was arrested Oh suspicion.
Col. ]. M. Hough of Lincoln, ILL.,, is under
arrest for hunting Carter Harrison with a pis-
toll, after an exciting political argument.
A peddler named John Olson has been arrest
ed at La Crosse, charged with attempting to
outrage q ten-year-old girl at Harmony, Wis.
J. o. Christian was killed at Chipley, Ga, in
a difficulty withS NJ. Dickson, railroad agent.
Christian was q prominent citizen and NOR
chant of White Sulphur Springs.
Barney ONeil, u reporter on the New Orleans
Mascot, attacked by Claude Thayer with O
horsewhip, on account of something he had
written, drew a revolver and nearly prccip-
itated u riot by his wild and reckless firing
But lie didn't hit anybody.
A. NJ. Bowscr, convicted of murder in tho
second degree for killing Obadiah Haymake1
during the Murrayville (Pa.) gas we'll riot, and
undergoing sentence of ten years in the peni-
tertiary, was released OH $15,O O bail, pending
1RnLi'A'l0D 10 LILO supreme court '0' a he"
William W. Stadler, for ten years assistant
secretary of the Manufacturers & Builders In
surance company, New York, was arrested re-
Gently, charged by William r. Pitcher, adjust
er of the Royal Insurance company with hay
ing presented a fraudulent claim for So, 900 tc
the latter company.
Frank H%utchings, the stranger Of Ncttie
Hastings was hanged Friday at San Francisco.
He mounted the scaffold with . firm step ant
took his place on the trap without assistance
His neck was broken, and he died from strang
%ulation. He lived thirteen and one-half min
utes after the fall. The medical men in at
tendance say the vitality of the doomed ma
was something remarkable. He was thirt,
years of age.
At Hot Springs. Ark, recently Ed. Howell
a former railroad man from Memphis, AM
participant in the Doran-Flynn affair of las
spring, had a fight with Chief of Police Toler
who at one time was very active in expellins
the gamblers. Howell lately returned, and wal
carrying a pistol for the officer. Howell drew
his weapon, Toler forced it from his hand ant
shot him dead with it. Howell was a note,
desperate, frequently engaged in ARRAYS.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
Failures of a Week.

There We're $50 failures in the United State.
reported to Bradstreet during the week, end.
ing 18th against us in the preceding week ant
l:S, l37 and IS in the corresponding weeks Of
1883, 1885, and 1881, respectively. About s:
per cent. were those OF small dealers. whose
capital was less than 5000. Among the sus.
pensions reported were: Burger, Hulburt &
Livingston, molasses and syrnps, New York
city: National bank of New Jersey, at New
Brunswick; State bank of Fort Edward, N. Y:
hii.celn Savings bank of Fayetteville, Tenn.
Green Manufacturing company, print cloths,
Providence: Payne, Wiley 4 Co, cotton factors
Louisville, Ky. Rust, Harris 4 Co., wholesale
hardware, and T. ]. Burton & Co., wholesale
cigars and notions, of Denver; Stafford T. Co.,
manufacturers of cotton yarns, at Brownsville
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
The Canadian Pacific.

General Manager Van Horne gives the fol.
lowing facts: The road will be constructed
for more than s4,O0o,OOO less than the estimate
of cost made last session. There is a good
deal of tunneling, but not much of a formidable
character. The longest tunnel is that at Lake
Kamloops, which extends some sOOfeet Start
ing from the Eastern slope the road passes
west through the Kicking Horse pass, the
Rogers pass and the Eagle pass, coming out
at Lake Kamloops. Fully two-thirds Of the
mountain work may be described as of an
easy character, more SO than that north of
Lake Superior, ninety miles of the rail-
way on the latter section costing more to
build than the whole Rocky Mountain section.
The heaviest work we encounter is for q dis
lance of seventy miles west of Sudbury juno
ton, and on the west slope of the Rockies, and
both these sections will be finished this month.
On the Lake Superior section of the line the
tunnels have all been completed but one, and
the heavy work may be considered as accom-
plished I see nothing to prevent the com.
Pletion Of the whole railway from CALENDER to
the Pacific ocean by Sept !, 1885, just one year
hence. II government sections in British
Columbia, being built by Onderdonk & Co., are
well advanced, and viii be ready by July LIST
next. Beyond Stephen, the summit of the
Rockies, twenty eight miles are now graded, and
the rails will shortly be laid.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
OF the $500, 900 appropriated by con.

OF the $500, 600 appropriated by con-
gress for the New Orleans Exposition,
$4,000 was apportioned to the Smith
sonian Institution. That institution
has begun the preparation of it's ex-
hibit. A number of agents have been
sent to different sections of the country
to collect specimens, so that a complete
exhibit of the various branches of the
department can be made. These ex-
hibits will consist of as complete and
exhaustive collections as can be obtained
of mammals, birds, building straw tex
tiles. animal products, fishes, shells,
and gems and minerals. The gems to be
exhibited are valued at about $40, 900,
and consists of specimens from all over
the world.
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
Casualties of the Week.

The Wisconsin cyclone cost something like
s1,6NO,OM.
Young Bros. paint shop at Quincy, ILL.,, was
burned. The stock was valued at $4,000. In
%surancc, $4,000.
The jean mill of Charles Roberts at South
Chester, Pa, was burned recently. Loss,
s2O,WW: partially insured.
Mrs. Brown, an old and wealthy resident of
Sarpy ounty Neb., was run over and killed by
q Union Pacific freight train near Papillion
station.
At the wedding of S. d. Storer and Mrs. NJ.
j. Scott at Burnside, ILL.,, canned fruit poisoned
tel. Three victims-John Wilson, Jerome
Estinghausen and Mrs. Breeden-will die.
Henry Henke, a prominent citizen of Park
ersburg, Iowa, was killed by the cars Thurs
day. A gravel train on the Illinois Central
railway was pulling through the town at a rap
id rate, and struck his team on q crossing.
horses was thrown $50 feet from the track.
Henke was slightly deaf, and no signal was
given for the crossing.
By the late blow in Wisconsin two addition
al deaths are recorded being those of the two
Aee cuiluIell, so Dauly crushed III u lalllaS
house at Star Prairie. These, with three al
ready reported from Clear Lake, make five
deaths in all thus far. Bill Nye, whose leg
was broken is doing as well as can be expected,
though lie has not begun to feel funny as yet
One case of loss by lightning only is reported,
it being one setting Of wheat stacks owned by
Elder Lake out in the town of Roberts, this
county. He sustained a similar injury six
weeks ago, and lost some $1,000, which with
this last blow will make a total of nearly So
600.
At Pierre, Oak, thirty houses wero burned
Friday morning. The fire originated in the
general merchandise store of Hayden Bros,
on Pierre street, and rapidly spread, sweeping
every building in the block on that street, be-
tween Dakota and Missouri avenues, with the
exception of the brick building to be used by
tho First National bank, which turned the
flames westward on Dakota avenue, sweeping
four buildings on this thoroughfare before be-
ing brought under sQbjection. The principal
losers are L. j. Short1ef, $1,000; T. j. Goades,
& Co., 1000; L. Wakefield, $4,000; Hayden
Bros, $1,000; W. G.. Phelan & Co., s1o,G0
The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
immense

The late Senator Anthony of Rhode
Island, took his seat in the Senate of
the United States on the 9th of Decem-
Der 1859. OF the men who sat in the
Senate with Mr., Anthony that day not
one is a member of that body now, and
very few r still living. Public life
in this country is comparatively short.
A seatin the senate, the summit with
few exceptions, of political ambition, is
rarely held more than twelve years, the
limit of two terms.