The Dickinson press., 1884-01-05
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vice took shape in February aud March. Sen.
ator Pendleton's bill was passed Jan. q:
early in March the president appointed Dor.
man B. Eaton OF New York, John NJ. Gregory
service commissioners. March 3, Sena.
tor David Davis retired from tho vice
presidency, and Senator Edmunds elected to
succeed him. March 4 congress adjourned
john W. Foster was sent Is minister to Spain.
Thomas W. Palmer of Detroit was elected to
appointed postmaster g. Nora! to succeed 7. o.
Howe, deceased. May 81 Walter Evans
was appointed comm ssioner of internal
revenue to succeed Green B. Raum. In August
President Arthur came West. gong by way of
the Union Pacific TO the Yellowstone park.
Dec; !, the forty-eighth congress met and J.
G. Carlisle of kentucky was elected speaker.
On the 18th the Republican national committed
met at Washington and elected Senator Sabin
Chairman. to succeed Marshall Jewell, de-
ceased, and Chicago was selected for the next
national convention.
taken place. Jan. 4, Gov. Butler was in
augurated at Boston. James S. Boynton was
sworn in as governor Of Georgia, to succeed
Alexander II. Stephens, deceased. April ~,
II. ID. McDaniel was nominated for governor,
aud on the oath was elected, to succeed Boyr-
governor of Kentucky. and later was elected.
Nov. 6 Judge Hoadly, Democrat, was
elected governor of Ohio; Buren, r. Sher-
man, Republican, of Iowa; George D. Robin
som Tnnc %hePpn amesr:t q n M~fasMsa sl ns9 robert o Ne NJ
belt, Democrat, Of New JERSEY; and [. F. Hub
bard' Republican. Ct MINNESOTA.
lnthe dramatic world the year has been more
or less memorable. Mrs. Langtry made her
January J.. After an extended tour through
the country. in which she experienced
all the incidents attendant on a
theatrical scandal, she sailed home July "a.
Her earnings are said to nave been neatly
Irving and Ellen Terry landed G in New 41 YORK
lug week in The Bells, receiving a
welcome from people and press such
as belonged to England's greatest
actor. Mary Anderson went to London in Oc-
t1ber, aud has played steadily at the Lyceum.
Mapleson and Abbey have brought large aid
.iiigh-priced operate performers from Europe,
inc uding Patti, Gerster and Sembrich, and
have been playing in fierce rivalry at the Met
ropolitan and the Academy of Music in New
York.
Jan. 6, in a billiard match, cushion carroms,
at New York, Maurice DAILY defeated William
Sexton; average: DAILY, 4 8-23; Ssxt N. 4
ll-1l4. The wrestling match on the ID h,
at Louisville. Ky, between John Ora
ubLu uAu SldEGuC6 Whistler, DoSG Two
out of three falls, Grsco-Roman and
catch-as-cateh-c can, was won by Graham. In
tue Grace Roman wrestling match, the 9th,
for $500 aud championship, at st. Louis, be-
tween Muldoon and Bauer, the former won.
1rges,,;a 4 n Muldoon downed Bibby in a
23l Carver beat Bogardus at Louisville;
score. S3 to So: March Il theN National league
and American Base Ball associations ma ,e up
their differences. The Chicago billiard tour
nament opened on the 18th with u victory for
H Hds9s ~, over ne,1 DAILY :.oo April 8 SAaeter
at Chicago. May IA, sullivan knocked cut
Mitchell in three rounds in Now York. July
20, the Pullman regatta opened ct Pullman, hi.
August q, Sullivan, in a glove fight al the Mali-
son Square Garden, New York city, knock d
out Herbert A. Shade in two and e-ha!f
Morrissey's trainer in his ea,ly days, died at
Fort Edward. Boston won tho ieagno cham
pioa<hip; the Athletic, of Philadelphia. the
American; and the Toledo nine the Northwest.
ern championship.
NORTHWESTERN EVENTS.
The year has been especially %eventful in tho
Northwest ln Minnesota Senator Window
was defeated for reelection, and D. NJ. Sabin
elected on the twenty-ninth ballot, Feb. 2.
Tho capital of Dakota, after a long
and arduG %s s strugGgl l was removed to
commission chosen through his instrumental
ity., The Northern Pacific road was completed
and formally opensd Sept. 8. st Paul aud
Minneapolis, on Sept 3. celebrated this
event with a msgniiceuce AID enthu-
s!asm never bo:orc shown in the two
cities. President Willard. accompanied by
numerous guests, among whom were Gen.
Grant and ex-Secre:aries Evarts and Schurz.
was accorded a grand ovation. ending with u
banquet given by the city of St. Paul ut the
Lafayette ho'el Lake Minne'onka. Tho last
spike was driven Sept. .. at a point sixty
miles west of Helena. with appropriate aud
park was this year opened to tho pubic by
railroad, and Rufus Hatch, with a special trail.
b airing o large number of invited guests.
spent a fortnight there. The Canadian Pacific
discoveries of gold in the Cnur d'Aleue
mines have stimulated crowded emigration
thither. The crops throughout Minnesota and
Dakota were generally good. Early frosrs
damaged wheat in some parts Of the Red River
valley. Tho improvement Of the mineral
region north of Duluth was be.un IN the
building OF the Iron Range railroad, which 1s
to tap that hithereto unknown section of the
State. One of the important events is the
completion of the Manitoba railroad vialucs at
Minneapolis, tho first stone bridge across the
Mississippi
One OF the most blood curdling crimes of the
past year was the killing of Richard Pierce of
St Paul the night of Jan. 1. Great excitement
WAS caused by the affair, which was only
ailayed by the discovery OF tho supposed dead
man IN the pineries and his return nome. The
probably larger for 1883 than any preceding
year. Only Two celebrated crimes can
be mentioned. June 8 Armisteud Barksda e
killed his cousin. Scott Clayton, at Lawrence
burg, Va, and u few days later committed
suicide in renaorse. March I, Jimmie Elliott,
tho ,,r1tIui1iof Re ebok o,rl l,.J1al -, <tl:.--'
by Jere Dunn. q notorious sporting man.
March 8, George Conkling shot and killed w.
H. Haverstick, his sisters paramour in New
York; Conkling was let of on bail and ia
living in Nevada. At Harrodsburg. KY, April
27, Congressman Phil Thompson shot and
charged with seducing his wife. Thompson
was acquitted. April "A, a mob at DEVILS
Lake killed the two Ward brothers. AT Union
town, Pa, June l3, James Mutt killed Dukes
who murdered his father, Capt INIT, in an
f h,lzia Mott oyer ye,5no 2 Nr, sian t Ter a q 5 Miss :.
pittsburg. Sept 8, the body Of Rose Amber
Clark was found at Stanford, Conn. The MUIR
derer escaped. On the 25th of tho same
month, Ada Atkinson was brutality murdered
by Melting at Oxford, Ind. Melting was subse-
quently lynched.
Other notable crimes were the robbery of
he City bank, New York, Of S4s, 600 by
Cashier Shaw and Assistant Cashier Beach:
the abduction of Zerelda Garrison Mt st. Louis:
the robbery at Panama of $l5. 900 sent by the
government to the United States fleet in the
Pacific; o. B. Owen. stealing 5000, GOO from
the st. Louis bank; the robbery Of POO, 900 in
diamonds at Springfield, Ill. the assault on
LIZ y Florende Dixie in lie grounds at Winl-
sor; robbery of the United States ex-
pres, company of $4,000 at Des Moines;
murder of two mon in the posse thst capturei
the Blrber brothers in Iowa: tho defalcation OF
Treasurer Polk of TennesSea to tho on,n,nt of
$3.50. 600; tho murder Of Brandy by