The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-05-16
Wahpeton Richland County.
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coach, making thes faseest time on.
record. The train consisted. of two
coaches. and came from Lima here,
a distance of "a miles, in 66 min
utes. The train started from De-.
troits making the eltirestrip te Gin
icinnati, a distance Of 263 miles, in
S hours and 80 mtndtas an average
of sos miles an hour,
The Alert is pleased to note
substantial token of appreciation of
Chas. Richardson, Of the valley
City Times, BY his friends at that
place. When Mr.. Richardson re-
turned from the, Huron convention
last week, he found the anfoant of q
thousand dollars, sscond1payment on
his Office which was about due had
been paid for him. Richardson. has
made the Daily Times a paper cred
liable alike to his town and to
North Dakota and this act shows
that his efforts are appreciated and
it will both enable and encourage
him to put forth greater efforts in
the future jamestown Alert.
st. Paul Globe, 10: Quite smart
German woman applied for lodg.
ings at the city hall last night and
after hearing her pitiful story Land
lord O'Keefe furnished her the best
accommodations at the station.
She had been deserted with her
three children by her husband at
Dubuque, Iowa, nine years ago, and
had poverty stricken time in sup
pocting them and herself. Two
weeks ago she received a letter from
St. Paul tnat if she would come
here her husband would meet her at
the union depot and take care of
her. She gathered together $40
and started, but found no husband
at the depot as the latter promised,
and wants now to go back there
again. When just, about leaving
Dubuque, a man spoke to her in the
depot, whom she did not know. call
ing her by name and she now thinks
it was her rascally husband.
In an interview Henry Ward
Beecher said: II would notsupport
Blaine if he was nominated. With
out analyzing the public services of
MI. Blaine, or making any invidi-
Gus or disparaging distinction be-
tween him and the other candidates
prominently mentioned, I would
say this: That I have no sympathy
with and would not support, any
candidate whose sources of income
have been the many centers and
monopolies of the country, nor
would counsel the nomination of
such a man by either party. I can
not reiterate my sentiments on the
subject of Mr.. Blaine's nomination
too strongly. His nomination would
be public calamity, and his elec-
tion national disgrace. You will,
however, understand the personally,
I believe Mr.. Blaine to be an ex-
cellent man; but as a politician his
sun has set, and he may now de-
vote himself entirely to the literary
labor in which he so much delights.
Robert Lincoln is, I think, COM
ing man. If he were nominated I
would be among his staunchest ad-
herents. He is Il painstaking, sem
sible man, the son of 4 great father,
not without good parts in himself,
though not brilliant, yet clever, and
highly respected. ~, .
Pioneer Press, 9: Among the pas
sengers arriving at tile st. Paul
union depot yesterday was John
Routh, Wisconsin farmer, not
more than twenty-three or twenty
four years Of age. Mr.. Routh lives
near Elroy, and was married to a
young Wisconsin woman of very
prepossessing appearance only a
short time ago. Residing near the
house in which the young couple
lived was a school teacher by the
name of spear. Spear is also a
young man, and by some means or
other enticed young Rough's wife
from him. The first intimation
Rough had of his wife's infidelity
was her disappearance from home a
week ago. At first the young hus-
band thought his wife was on a
visit to some friends or relations,
but when he heard that Spear had
also left the neighborhood, he be-
came convinced that the pair had
eloped. He started an investiga.
tion, and soon learned that the guilty
pair had come west, travelling under
the assumed names of G. H. Noble
and wife. The deserted husband
tracked his truant wife to ST.. Paul,
where she was known to have been
Sunday last. Since then, however,
nothing has been heard of her, and
last evening Routh gave up the
search and returned to Elroy. The
runaway couple had with them
when leaving Elroy about $400 in
money.
Hope Pioneer: Ex Gov. Austin,
register of the Fargo land office, in
a Fargo Republican interview, fav-
ors the changes in the homestead law
proposed by Delegate Raymond's
bill, which gives a homesteader a
year to locate on his land, if he erects
"a suitable honse and g. breaks five
acres Of land, besides permitting
absence Of the settler during the
winter months to engagesin,employ-
ment. Mr.. Austin thinks that even
more radical changes would work
naught but good. He would not,
for instance, compel q family, with
out means to provide suitable COM
forts, to reside on a claim during the