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Auother w1sconsin n1uraer.

Waupaca, Wis, Special Peter yierka, a
German farmer over eighty years old, was
found near his barn, in the town of Lind, this
morning brutally murdered. His hea1. was
split open, ond the brains had run ont upon
the snow. A bloody ak was found in the snow
some thirty feet distant, where it had evidently
been thrown by the murderer. The cash on
the head was five inches long and four inches
deep, and must have caused instant death.
James Harris a young man working for Vierka,
is suspected of the crime. He calls himself
Wild Bill! of the West, and has devoted much
time lately to reading dime novels and other
highly sensational literature. Heis now under
arrest for the murder. Vierka was an old and
respected resident of the town of Lind, and
there seems to be no well-founded reason why
his life should be 80 suddenly and brutally
taken.
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Order Against Dynamitcrs. /,

TIL following circular has been issued in
Washington:
Department of Justice, Washington, March
IL, 1884. To District Attorneys and Marshsls
of the United States: By direction of the pres
ident I have to inform you that it is reported
certain persons are aiding in the prosecution
of various heinous crimes by shipping to for
eign parts explosives dangerous in TIE highest
degree to life and property. No proof has
been adduced that this rumor is founded upon
fact, and the president cannot believe it truth.
honor of this nation, however, requires
that it should not be open to the imputation.
%unfounded though it be, of the slightest ap-
Pearance of tolerating such crimes, whether to
be committed against our people or those of
other countries. Your attention is therefore
called to sections 1855, 1854, $3.50, 427s and
1878, Revised Statutes of the United States,
which regulate the shipment of explosives and
the punishment of those who infringe on their
provisions, and you are instructed to be dill
gent IN your efforts to prevent the offences
described, and to detect and prosecute those
who have or may commit them. Very respect
fully. BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER,
Attorney General,
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A Good Record for Mormons.

The criminal census of 1881 showed ~fifty-one
prisoners in the Utah penitentiary. Mormons
constitute s. per cent. of the population, and
hence should have furnished forty-two of these
prisoners; but instead they furnished only five,
and two of these were in for ~polygamy. The
Salt Lake county jail contained six c%onvicts,
and by the same proportion five of these should
have been Mormons; but instead not a Mormon
was there and only three had been there i'll five
years. Tho Salt Lake city prison, at the same
time, contained twenty-nine c%onvicts. Three
fonrths of the city population were Mormons,
and hence we should expect twenty-five of
these prisoners to come from them; but instead
not a Mormon was among them. The Gentle
fourth of the city had furnished the prison
with every one of its criminals.
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rhe Cattle Trouble in england.

Minister Lowell has written to the department
of state regarding the prevalence of the foot
and mouth disease among the cattle in England.
Hesays:
The prevalence of the disease has been adroitly
used by the friends of protection and the
enemies of the party in power for the purpose
of bringing to the surface and rendering active
to q certain amount of political discomfort. II
has not been difficult to pursradn The %agricul-
tural classes that their losses have been due to
unwise and oven cnlpahle iaxity of the govern
meut in the admission of foreign cattle. The
question has ssumed so much political iulpor,
tance as to give anxiety to the government.
Lowell refers 10 tic bill that passed the
house of lords with respect to the importation
of cattle, aid says:
1t now goes to the house of commons with
the probability of passage. Tile wish of the
farmers is for absolute exclusion, hut this
would be ditiieultto attain The privy council
may find themselves forced to adopt measures
which in principal they disapprovc. Should
the protectionists and farmers succeed ia bring
ing about anything ike exclusion Of foreign
cattle, there would seofibc even a. more power
fiil reaction brought about by higher prices of
meat, that inevitably follow. and which it ia
thereby tho object of the agricultural interests
to produce.
Mr., Lowell recommends vigorous inspection.
and unswerying resolution in stamping out
existing contaSion. We're such course per.
severed in, he says it would produce such a
conviction in England asiiotbing else, especial.
~ no amount OF argument ever could or will
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The patota Judicial Hill.

Delegate Raymond says that in spite of the
action of the senate ccmmittee he expects to
secure the passage of his bill to create two adj
ditional judicial districts in Dakota. The bill
has been favorably reported by the house COM
mittee of the judiciary, and he hopes to secure
q favorable report finally upon it by the SEN
alto committee. There is no objection to the
bill on its merits, and tho only reason assigned
for an adverse report, is the argument that
the territory is to be divided. As it is very
questionable whether this can be accomplished,
the importance Of passing the Judicial bill will
be urged upon congress-.
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national debt in December 1883,
tho GaahSsan the treasury was ST.
sb09, 785, ;060, apdsthe interest charge was
~, 110,.181sgT This interest charge In
slrded t3,s77, 1851 paid for interest ON
bonds issued to the Pacific railroad.
ocnapanies In 1899 the interest paid
n5PaciAc ltilroads bonds was only ST.
s19A.6577, Oh less than half the amount
slast gear. The debt has been, re-
duced IN the fifteen years named 81
s15,677S 200 land the interest charge, by
nearly 60 per cent. The smallest re-
ductionsof the debt in any one year was
4,7738D,4772 IN 1874, and the greatest was
4l6l, 684, ia 1882. At the rate Of
payment ins1ss4 the whole debt, less
thescashin the treasury, would be t;nid,
IL II could be called at its face, in less
Sthnn ten years. The largest amount
SSfoff revenue ever received
from customs IN the history Of the o
ernl1ent ~ O,4lO,73O in the fsca
year ending June 8O,I562, and the mex
.a4Nf tNt-+I aEfEfH sk HELWT *"
largest amount il any 3 was $2ll4,-
7066,4 in18ss The largest amount
ever collected as iaternalrevenue was
$$s0s,,226,8 18 ii 1865 and the SMALLEST
any year since chen wa slOs ,7s4i in
1874. The government issued to the
several citfe railroad companies $64,-
6z23,,5I2 IA bonds. Flhs debt bears 6
per cent. interest aud the government
pays the interest andisresponsible Tor
tEhs principal. These Pacific railroad
bonds viii 10 due July {, 1854. The
Sl9satilopaId debt per capita Is now s2S Al
and he annual interest charge per
cspissna5Fcents The debt per capita
IN ssss heaviest uer capita August 81, 1866.
saahaensttt NV ia q ma the annual inter,
~ elpi4Sxast u ~. Thesdebtb bore
~ tke;pecplee four aid ashalls times =
~ 4 49, VI.
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FOREIGN Flashes.

Last year 220,6 22, $50 lottery tickets were sold
by the lottery offices in Italy, on which a, S26,-
6oS francs were staked.
Nh. Sargent has accepted from Bismarck an
invitation to dinner on the gid inst in honor
of the Emperor William.
Germany has expressed a willingness to Join
the other powers in measures providing for the
extraditlon OF anarchists.
The London Standard calls attention to the
significance of ParnelI's speech in the commons
that Irish farmers are fools if they pay taxes
to enforce the coercion act
TIL Florida Land Mortgage company of Lon,
don, of which Earl Huntington is chairman OF
the board of directors, has invested a vast sum
IN over 1,UOo,OW acres OF LAM in various coun-
ties in Florida.
AT Winnipeg, Ryan, the alleged Fenian who
was arrested sometime ago for forging a mill
TIA order and calling out volunteers, was re-
leased from custody, the government deciding
not to prosecute.
In the reichstag recently the debate on the
workingmen's accident insurance bill was re-
sumed. Bismarck advocated the measure, urg-
ing its benevolent and Christian character, and
said it was Intended to help the poor and con-
solidate peace between employees and workings
men.
TIL Haggis tribe have given their adherence
to Gen. Gordon, thus stemming the advance Of
sheikh Ell Obeid to the Nile. Gen. Cor,
don has built q strong fortified camp on tho
opposite side OF the Blue Nile, and has sta
toned q strong force there to prevent an adj
vance of Ell Obeid
Prince Bisnark's speech was physically re-
markable for the nerve Of its delivery. His
last doctor has done him a palpable service.
He has now not a particle of superfluous flesh,
his eye is bright, neuralgia no longer compels
to wear the hated beard, and he astonishes
all Berlin by walking the 500 yards between
his house and parliament, though hitherto he
has invariably driven even that distance in a
covered carriage. @
A paper called S~wobodnoje SIowa, or Free
Speech, has appeared 1t summons the youth
Of Russia to oppose the despotic form OF gov.
eminent, and says: 'ssThe Russian state ma
chine is rapidly decaying. Discomfort is in
creasing among all classics. Revolutionary
ideas are spreading everywhere, even in the
army. The day OF victory is approaching"
h paper strongly deprecates terrorism and
favors q union of I'll branches of socialists,
who, it says, should pursue the desired end by
moral energy, not by brute force.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.

NrA DwightM. Sabin assisted at Mrs. McEl-
toy's reception at tho White House last Satur-
Tho friends Of the Mcpherson banking bill In
tho house arc OF the opinion that the bill can
not be reached before the middle of May, il at
that time.
NJ. Healy, the artist, now in Washington,
once painted Daniel Webster. When the por-
trait had been finished, MI. Webster said, in
hisgdeep, CHEEKY voice: 81 think that is q face
which I have often shaved.n
Col. N. s. Steele and wife Of Steele. Dak..
returnedto Washington, and are stopping at the
National MI. Steele says there is great opposi-
ton IN North Dakota TO the name Lincoln
for the new territory. He says the people in
sist upon it's being called North Dakota. They
regard the name dakota" as q sort Of trade
mark.
In passing upon . pension case the secretary
Of the interior ruled that the fact that q soldier
had 2 disease priGr to enlistment is not an alb
solute bar to his pension claim. It must not
DO presumed that the soldier was sound be-
cause he was accepted into the service; but
service and subsequent disability being proved,
y does not require much evidence to establish
his ~sorindness at enlistment
MI. Strait has received for fling with the
secretary Of the interior the papers in appeals
from decisions OF the secretary OF the general
land Office in tho following cases: 'The st.
Paul Minneapolis 4 Manitoba Railway COM
pany, appellant, against Peter Ringholm, res
pendent; the same company against Norvin l.
Novln; the same company against o. G. Olsen;
and the same company against Eelae g, High
6trom." Each case involves 100 acres in the
St Cloud district These respondents are fill
ing briefs through their attorney, John W.
Aretander.
'The speakers desk, Y writes q Cleveland
Leader correspondent, sis q sort of marble pull
pit. behind which Mr.. Carlisle sits in a great
arm chair, and holds in his right hand the eb-
ony handle of an ivory headed gavel. This, in
. case Of disorder, which very often occurs, he
brings down with q laundering rap upon the
board top Of the marble pulpit. It sounds,
when Used with yigor. like the shot of a pistol,
and is the terror of long MINDED speakers. MI.
Carlisle uses the gayel lightly, but little Sam
Cox, when he gets in the chair, brings
1t down with all his might,
and the other day when he was raising it for d
mighty stroke the head came of and It ficw to
the floor. Often the gavel breaks and then a
new n 10 procured. Sam Randall was very
hard on garels, and broke = great many during
his term - speaker, He has the remains OF
these in . cabinet at home, which he shows to
visitors as . sign of his former power. One of
these is . beautiful one which he got during his
last term ~ speaker. II was made by q Geor-
gan mechanic OF flo pieces Of hickory wood
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9dt2ESFt ztN-ga
Senator Anthony attributes his recent
sery severe illness to the smoking Of
aisarettes. Just why these little paper
rolls ofstobacco are worse than ordinary
oigars, does not fully appear, but they
ne 81 declared byphysicians and others
competent to express Judgment upon
them. Excessive smoking whether Of
'cigsrettss o. cigars, is the parent Of
much functional disorder, especially Of
The heart and liver. sYou have q to-
basoo heart,n has come to be : common
exclamation Of physicians, after apply
ms the stethoscope 70 persons suffering
from pAipitAtion, intermittent action,
n the heart etc. Abstinence in most
csses isthe only sure remedy.
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Gen. Grant in Bad Condition.

A republican representative who has just re-
turned from Fortress Monroe, said he was sur
prised to see how much Gen. Grant has changed
during his recent illness. From newspaper re-
ports he had supposed that Grant was getting
well, but he found the old commander fallen
away, his face twisted out of shape, with infiam-
matory rheumatism tending toward the upper
portion Of his limbs and bearing every appear
ance of a man whose time on earth is limited to
a few months or a few years, at least He looks
very badly and like a man who has outlived
both legs and stomach. He doubts very much
II Grant ever gets well. This was a discourage
ing view, he said, but the others who called on
Grant agreed with it.
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1ansdowue Euttr.1x SAFE.

Ottawa, Ont, special:-Your correspondent
has been informed by Governor General Lans-
downe that there is not one vestage of truth in
the statement telegraphed New York and Bos-
ton leading papers that he had been in receipt
of threatening letters and letters warning him
Of impending danger. He enjoys himself at
Rideau Hail splendidly and without restraint,
having nobody onguard or hindrance, partakes
freely in fashionable tobogganing parties and
parliamentary dinners and prominent social
events during the session. The guard of Rideau
Hall has not been increased, nor any precau-
tons taken to prevent injury to Lord Lans-
downe, as none is anticipated.
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The Jsannette Inquiry.

Secretary Chandler has written a letter to
Representative Cox, the chairman of the COM
ni.tee on naval affairs, strongly opposing o
second investigation of the Jeanette arctic OK
petition. He says the friends of jerome Col
Inns had every opportunity before the court of
inquiry to ascertain the facts in the case, and
thatin his opinion the proposed rcopening of
the case is highly inexpedient, and it seems a
pitiless sacrilege to again tear open the graves
Of the dead for the purpose Of indecentIy call
ing public attention to what the court of in
quiry correctly termed trivial difficulties, such
~ occur on shipboard even under the most
favorable circumstances, and which had no
influence in bringing about the disasters Of the
expedition, and no pernicious effects upon its
conduct
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Latest Horthwestern Patents.

George NJ Brannigan, GAINESVILLE, Wis, boil
er water purifier; Dennis Collins, New Hamp-
ton, Iowa, gate; Albert Cooley, osceola, Iowa,
hay stacker; Dexter Curtis, Madi,on, Wis.
horse collar pad; Donald Fraser, s.. andy L.
E.. Jones, ST. Paul, Mimi, bed-spring-fire-es-
cape; Lewis B. Kennedy, Keokuk, Iowa, brick
machine: Charles L. KruIn, Minneapolis.
Mimi, beer-cooler; Willis L. Moore, assignor
of one-hnf to J. I. L.adn. Rochester, Mimi,
nut lock George Steudel, Chiffon, Wis, pillow;
ferdinand Wetstein and /. II. hickman, Sleepy
Eye, Mimi, ttace buckle.
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A Montana Gold rina.

Great excitement prevails in and around the
town of Heron since the discovery of gold about
ten miles from the railroad. Aparty was sent
a few days ago from Heron to make q new
trail to Eagle City. During the first night they
built a fire near the root of a tree and in the
morning the snow was melted by the heat of
the fire and they discovered evidences of placer
gpaa; Z wa pa9 fnnnS t 31 eo aame . q la ane sa npap ama
ton of richly paying metal. The above infor-
nation has caused great excitement and men
were going from Eagle City to this new mine.
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Failed to Amalramate.

It is said that the two companies holding
charters for the construction of the railway
from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay, have failed,
after repeated conferences, to arrange an ANAL
gamation. 1t will be remembered the govern
mont recently announced its intention to sub
Hldize the company, for that purpose, to the
extent of la6 acres per mile, with the under
standing tiintthe companies holding the charters
would amalgamatc, and failing to do this, tho
government would select one OF the companies,
TO whom the subsidies would be given.
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casualties Of the Week.

Rev. William H. Baulin, a prominent Baptist
was struck by o train near Limerick.
Pa, and fatally injured.
At Springfield, Ohio, Henry Ruhl, while un-
Harvesting his horse at midnight, was knocked
down with q club and robbed. Hei is seventy
fve years old, and il MORALLY wounded.
Dennis Riley pointed d revolver at Celia Rem
ney, aged seventeen, while both were visiting
friends in Brooklyn. The weapon exploded,
Instantly killing the girl. Reilly was overcome
by grief, and didn't know it was loaded. He
was arrested Examination showed all the
OF the revolver were empty except
ma @SHE
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Boston has resolved that women shall
greceiye the Same wages as ven who do
the saIne work il the public schools.
rscotncf voted e give q woman in
rhArgs IN grammar school $2, 700 per
snnsum, tthle same received by men in the
ss1ne grade. This is only simply JUS
ace providing the woman does her
work ~. we'll as the mar. And here
Hes tho difficulty ia the question Of
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-28
National Forest Reseryattoa.

The bill introduced in thesenateby Edmunds
to provide for the establishment of . forest res
~eryation at che h~eadwatcrs of the Missouri river,
and at the heaewaters and Clark's Fork. of the
Columbia river, provides that
a tract of land in the territory Of Montana,
embracing an area of about GOO square miles,
the boundaries of which are described in the
bill, be reserved and withdrawn from settle
mont, occupancy or sale, and dedicated and set
apart forever as 81 natnr...l forest reservation
for the preservation ofnaiiopal forests protect
ing the headwaters and tributaries of the CO.
lambda and Missouri river.
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Gen. slocum will nave charge of the Fitz

wen. faioeum Will nave charge OF the tltz
John Porter bill in the house. The only diff
tcnlty expected is that some of its opponents.
Will make the objection that the preamtleis
not pertinent to the bill. The fact that the
bill had to go back to the house Is duo to blum
dering on The part Of tho house managers. In
stead of selecting the bill which passed the
senate last year, which provided adequate
safeguard against back pay, and which would
be certain to pass the senate this year, the
mousse managers adopted a different phraseolo-
gy, which, in the opinion Of the best lawyers
IN the senate, did allow back pay. Yet it was
not Gen. Porter's desire to have his case com
piicated with such a question.
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ton Of Lionel Clayton, on the James river,
near jamestown, Va. and. escaped to Canada
when he was afty-fvc years old where he has
lived ever since.
In the Sharon divorce SHIT at San Francisco,
several Of Sharon's letters to tho PLAINTIFF were
introduced In some he addresses her ms
dear Wife and in others 'sdear Miss Hill. :
Plaintiff testified that when Sharon asked her
TO give up the marriage contract she replied
che had lost it, as she anticipated trouble.
Miss Hill continued: .1Sharon said if / would
sign q paper Of release he would give me $780,
COO, and $500 a month allowance, but / re-
fused.n
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Thus far this year 1874 miles of track
have been laid in new railroads in this
country, againsn 800 at the correspond
ing time in 1888, 452 in 1881 1873 in
1881. 497 in 1880, 81 in 1879, 1893 in
1878, 81 in 1877, 224 in 1876, SDin 1873,
y IN 1874. and 304 in 1873.
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James P. Hicks, of Evansville, Ind,
asks q divorce from his wife on the
ground that she prays daily that he
may die, and as he is a believer in the
efficacy OF prayer it is beginning to tell
on his health.
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The Oldest editor of p Pennsylvania, and
possibly the Oldest printerin the United
States, is w. P. Elliot of Lewistown.
no was born on Jan. IL, 1898, and
founded the Lewistown Gazette in 1911.
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Since 1910 Pittsburg las had twenty
three floods, thirteen of which have
occurred i'll the winter-threa in De-
cember, four IN January aud six in
February, The worst have come in
February.
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From The Scientific American we
learn that there are about seventeen
Thousand dentists in the United States
who use a ton Of gold annually in fill
ing teeth. At this rate all the gold
must eventually find its way to the
graveyard.
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The bodies of ten Of the victims Of the sn

The bodies of ten of the victims of the snow
slide at Woodstock, Colorado on the 10th. inst,
have been recovered. They are George Alex
ander, Michael Shea, J. Cashemell, Joseph
Tracy, Andrew Christopher, Martin Christopher
Kate Marsilln and Maggie Doyle, childreno OF the
Widow Doyle, who with Miss Dallon and Hugh
Alexander, was rescued, and may recover. The
bodies OF the operator, j. q. Brown,
Of Chsteaugay, N. Y, Joseph Rivers, and
John Mulholland have not yet been recovered.
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Gen. Grant is at the Arlington hotel, Wash
ington. He is believed to DO better than at any
time since his fall. Hell accompaniment by Mrs.
Grant, Col Fred Grant and his wife and Miss
Bessie Sharp of Yankton. They will remain
in the city about three weeks.