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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

The secretary of the treasury has pre-
pared statement showing. that there
are &C., holders of the United States
registered bonds, and that this number
includes 1892 national banks. The three
per cent bonds of 1882 are in the hands
of l, $40 national banks and 1922 other
holders the four per cents of 1907 are
in the hands of l, 1853 national banks and
4G, 1872 other holders; the four and one
half per cents of 1891 are held by 515
national banks and II 1894 other hold.
ers, and the currency skies are held by
forty-four national banks and 1890
others.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Adjk Gen. Drum has received dispatch
cinSthe death Of Lieut. Col Weitzel, of
she engineer corps
Mr.. Murphy of Aurora, Ill, has been ap-
pointed assistant United States attorney for
Dakota, to be located at Fargo.
Postofice Established Britton, Day
county. Wisconsin, Alstad, Burnett county;
Fountain, Walworth todaty fostofic Name
Forest City
Chief Signal Officer Hazen has issued cir
tular giving notice that letters for members of
the Greedy party may be sent to them address,
ed to the care Of Commander ", g. Schley,
brooklyn navy yard. to reach there not later
The house committee On agriculture hss al
thori4ed favorable report On tha bin to allow
any person to manu- factVre wine Or brandy out
Of apples peaches, grapes and other perishable
Traits raised by himself or his tenants, free
from any tax or restrictions.
1t is being said in official circles that The con-
stitutionalty of the civil eertito law is seriously
doubted. 1t is alleged that the cabinet officer
have been discussing the question of late
amenS themselves and the best lawyers in the
cabinet believe the law unconstitutional
The total number of postofficee in the United
States and territories on the LIST of July. 1888
was 47,S58. The total number, en- March 20,
1884, was 4S, 993, an increase &. less than nine
months OF 1,lsa AZ The present rate of in
crease, Il Is expected that the number will
reach 10000 by the end Of the fiscal year.
A singular accident occurred in Washington
on the 21st A shoemaker named pittard was
mending boot, when q bottle of cement
which he was using, exploded, setting IRE to
his clothing, burning bis arms Ind face very
badly. He is not able to tell where he got the
cement, nor eff what substances it was COM
posed.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania,
who has been spending the last few months in
the South, went through Washington Friday
on his way home. He etlled upon the presi-
dent and Gen. Grant, and met few of his old
associates nsthe capitol: Mr.. Cameron celebra-
ted his eighty-third birthday in Florida few
weeks ago, but notwithstanding his advanced
age is looking remarkably well, and says his
trip has benefited him greatly.
Two other candidates beside Mr. Leunsbury
have been very faverably mentioned for the
Dakota governerehAh, One is Mr.. Deering of
Iowa, aud the ether Mr. Tyner of Indiana, ex-
assistant postmaster general. Mr. Deering
may be nominated for congress in his district,
In which case he will not be candidate for the
governorship. AS his convention meets very
soon, he will know about this, and will make
his plans accordingly. If he is not in che race,
the chief competitors will be Mr. Tyner and Mr..
Lounsbury, the latter having the support of
the Minnesota deleE&ticn.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
We are told by cable that Bismarck

We are told by cable that Bismarck's
newspaper organ warns the liberal
party in the Reichstag that to attempt
to pass vote of thanks to Congress for
the Lasker resolution would be breach
Of the constitution for which the gov
eminent would visit the offenders with
serious consequences. Fancy, now,
certain newspaper which has been
clothed at times with the style and func-
lions of an administration organ, adj
monishing a faction in Congress that to
try to pass resolution of this kind, or
any other, would subject them to the
dire displeasure of the government.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

The supreme court of the United
States has decided that a photograph
tnay be copyrighted as an original work
of art, but expresses no opinion as to
whether this protection would extend
to the mere mechanical reproduction by
Photographic process of the physical
features or outlines of an animate or in
animate object, where there was no or
iginality of thought or novelty in intel
lectual operations connected with its
visible reproduction in the shape of the
picture.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Casualties Of the Week.

Mr.. Shutters, his wife and two brothers of La
trebe, Pa, ate raw pork. Mrs. Shutters is dead
and the others cannot recover.
Two of the warehouses of the Appleton
Wis, Manufacturing company were destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at s25,0O0
At Pocahantas, Va, the citizens relief COM
mittee has taken measures to provide relief for
families who lost their breadwinners in the
mine calamity there, and provide labor for
those able to wo rk
AT Arkansas, Hot Springs, fire originating in
q defective fue in the kitchen, broke out in the
Josephine hotel, and the building was soon
wrecked Most of the furniture was saved.
Many guests lost clothing and valuables. The
hotel belonged to Mrs. E. j. Polk. Loss, So
600: insurance. $12 600
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Is Collins q Crank.

Secretary Chandler has addressed letter to
Representative s. s. Cox, chairman of the COM
mittee on naval affairs, in reference to the res
olution of the house of March providing fol-
the investigation of the facts of the Jeanette
arctic expedition, and the alleged unofficial-1ke
and inhuman conduct therein. The secretary
submits copy of the proceedings of the court
of inquiry, and calls attention to the various
papers bearing on the subject on file in the ma
Wy department which will be submitted if de-
sired. The secretary says:
In view of certain reckless statements in the
petition of DR.. Daniel F. Collins printed in the
Congressional Record of March A. 1884, upon
which the resolution of the house was based, I
deem it my duty to state that every facility
was rendered by this department to enable
the relations of Mr.. Jerome J. Collins, to at
tend the sittings of the court of inquiry; that
both the petitioner and Mr.. Bernard A. Collins,
as a brother and legal representative of the
deceased, were informed. of their right to be
present in person or by council, and only re-
quested that they might be represented before
quest was duly e compiled :, with tn and
they were accordingly. represented by that
officer. Occasion is also taken by
me to assert that all aspirations
contained in the petition Of DR.. Collins upon the
heroic Lieut. Com De Long; the un6ring and
the faithful members Of the courtof inquiry,
and the navy department are untrue and unjust
and that Is, in my opinion, highly inexpedient
as; q second pitiless sacrelge to again tear open
the graves OF the dead for the purpose OF in
$decently calling public attention to what the
court Of inquiry correctly termed trivial diff,
der the most favorable circumstances, and.
which had no influence in bringing about the
disasters Of the expedition and no perpiciouss
eject upon his general conduct
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Sentence of the Boy Paracide.

Worthington, Mimi, Special On Friday
morning last the boy, William Riley, was
brought up before Judge Severance for SEN
tence, he having pleaded guilty to murder in
the first degree in having killed his father, Mar
tin Riley in February last The boy is quite
slight, understood, just turned sixteen years
of age, and presented very much better ap-
pearance than when he was brought over from
Adrian in charge of sheriff Miller, to be put in
jail to await Indictment and trial After some
feeling words from his attorney, L. NJ LANCE,
putting forth some of the many facts in the
home-life of the boy, Judge Severance ad-
dressed him, showing the enormity of the
crime, revealing from both words and manner
strong sympathy, and saying plainly that
owing to the great doubt in his mind as to the
impelling motive to the deed, the whole cir
cumstances around the case showing and
tending to still further show very unnatural
condition of affairs between the father and
the children, he should take it upon himself to
make the sentence the ightest that the law
allows. The sentence was then pro-
nounced, that he be committed
to the penitentiary at Saltwater for the term
of his natural life. During the talk of the
judge, previous to sentence, the boy exhibited
publicly the first emotion he has shown since
the commission of the crime This ends the
second act in one Of the most singular tragedies
III the history of crime. The boys sister, Mary,
of thirteen years, is now on trial for being &C
cessOry after the fact
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

Three Observation-Disclosures, Montana.
and Westinghouse now demanding
admission to the Union of Sta tes, Bills,
Ill of the same general tenor, ar now
before congress, but repres entatives
20 m these territories and the general
public, agree that, there will be no ad.
mission of territories until after the
presidential election. Hence some Of
the bills fix the time Tor admis sion on
Or after the 4th OF March 1885.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
The --LATEST iowa Murder,

Cedar Rapids Special: The body Of the
man who was brutality murdered at Cedar Rap.
ids on the night of March 21st, was found on
a cake of ice, short distance below the bridge
where he was thrown in. His head was cul
up fearfully, and his throat laid wide open
from ear to ear. Anegro and ex- convict from
Anamosa prison, recognized the man as Joseph
Chum, who was released from the prison five
days ago. at the same time the negro was re-
leased. Three of them we're released at the
same time, and it is believed the third one is
the murderer. Chum was about thirty years
old, sent up for eighteen months for larceny,
from Sioux county. All efforts to apprehend
the murderer have proved fruitless thus far,
though two men have been arrested on the
railroads but discharged. The negro Is held
as witness
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Crimes and Criminals,

Sam Prayer was convicted of murder in the
first degree at Marysville, Kans.
George Grace, boy of eighteen years, is
charged at Cape May, N. Y, with having pois-
oned his father, mother, two sistsrs and broth
or with rat poison.
II. NJ. Richmond young lawyer of Mead
VILE Pa, shot and killed himself in the Metro
politan hotel, New York, in tit of dependency
induced by dyspepsia.
Maggie Flood, twenty three years of age,
shot and killed Thomas Grady in New York, in
the presence of his wife and three children
She alleges Grady betrayed her under promise
of marriage, telling her he was single man.
George McFadden of St. Louis, an accom-
plice OF Tiller in the express robbery crushed a
glass vial he had in his pocket by stamping up
on it. and while eating supper mixed the pow
dered glass with his food and swallowedit He
will probably die.
E. NJ Eberhardt of Dayton, Ohio, who had
left his wife last summer, called on her and
asked her for reconciliation, and, upon refusal,
he drew knife and attempted to kill her, but
without success. He then went to the barn
and hanged himself.
Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick, brothers,
were hanged Friday, the. 22d at Columbia, KY,
place twenty live miles from telegraph. sta
tlOu, 1OT tIle DTuCdl MuTuer Oh MlltOu DreWSt0T.
The execution was public, and 5000 people
witnessedit The condemned men were re-
signed to their fate, and died game.
At Modesto, Cal, Robbins and Doane, who
were accused but acquitted of having outraged
two girls, aged eleven and thirteen years,
daughters of }: N ,McCrellis,. were notified
a vigilance committee, to leave town or suffer
death. Doane delayed. Fifteen masked men
visited his place last night and shot him dead
on sight
William Dane, young man of Bentonville,
Fayette county, Indiana, was enamored of Ada
Swift, aged thirteen years. The parents of the
girl objected to the continuance of his atten-
tons, on account of her age. On the night of
the 18th Dane purchased two ounces of laud-
anum, giving Miss Swift half and taking the re-
mainder himself. The poison failed to have
fatal effect, being an overdose. The father of
the girl had Dane arrested for giving Miss
shot himself, dying in short time The girl
is seriously sick, but may recover. Dane was
school teacher, and correspondent of the New
York Granhic
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

s.After Robinson, what?" asked {,
Massachusetts paper. And we though
we saw chance to come in with LITTLE
pair, and said Cru-oe = of course. And
the intelligent ccmpositor came in ant
busted the. pot by printing it Alfrei
Robinson Burlington Hawkeye,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Foreign Flashes.
The pope has recently given 90 900 francs to
needy Catholic setMinAries Of Italy.
Political N6tes and News.

An Independent Republican state convention
Assembled at Providence, r.: L, with
delegates representing half the state. Hon.
George W. Corliss, was nominated for COVER
nor.
The Republican conventions of Huntingdon
and Cameron counties, Pa instructed the dele
gates to the state convention to favor Blaine
representatives to the national convention.
The Connecticut Republican state committee
has called a state convention to be held at Hart
ford, April %, to elect delegates to the Chicago
convention.
A Republican county convention recently at
York, Pa, earnestly pronounced for Blaine.
The democrats of Delaware county, Pa, in
structed for Randall for president.
The lively contest in Philadelphia between
Quay and MacManes, over the selection Of dele
gates to the state convention, resulted in TWEEN
ty-two Quay representatives Who will favor
Arthur. and twenty -four Blaine men marshaled
by MacManes. Twenty counties in Pennsyl-
Stnia have elected delegates, Of which all but
the Mexican county delegation, are pronounced
Blaine men, with iron-clad instructions, al
though nearly all the conventions adopted res
olutions endorsing Arthtirs administration.
>.Rhcdc island Republicans ronominated the
Present state officers.
At a meeting of the second Minnesota con-
gressional committee it was decided, by resolu-
ton. that the representation by counties in the
district convention be based on the Republican
gubernatorial vote for 1888, enc representative
being allowed for, each 200 votes or major
fraction thereof. It was decided that the dis
triet convention, to elect delegates to Chicago,
be held at Mankato, and that the chairman be
authorized to fix the date of the meeting to be
determined by the time of the meeting of the
state convention
Virginia Democrats will hold their convention
at Richmond, May IA
The democrats Of Rhode island have nomin-
ated, Thomas W. Ledger, governor; Amasa
Sprague, lieutenant governor; Jonathan M.
Wheeler, secretary of state; Charles E. Cor
man, attorney general; George P. Leonard, gen.
eral treasurer. Delegates to the national De-
mocratic convention were chosen
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
Earthquake ia Nova Scotia.

:, A violent earthquake shock visited Trinity,
Hants Harbor, Harbor Grace and Holyrood,
Nova Scotia Wednesday about o'clock. The
disturbance lasted fifteen minutes At Hearts
Content several houses were shaken At Clark a
Beach the ground heaved in undulations and
the ice in the lakes cracked and rent. Two
woodsmen were compelled to fly to the woods
They describe the hills rocking and shaking.
The western sky was illuminated as by con
fagration.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

Tack Spurglon was arrested at Wau-
pacca an accessory, before the fact, to
the killing of old man Vierka, the
German farmer. Harris, the confessed
murderer, says that after he killed
Vierka Spurglon was to come and rob
the house Of 5000, which they under
stood the old couple had hidden away.
If necessary, he was to kill Mrs. Yierka.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
$s5,ooo parsonage 10 the Charming Memorial

$1o,U00 p6IsVHage % tuB OnHnnIng Men01I&l
church.
Edward B. Watkinson, president of the Con-
nechcut Trust company, and vice president of.
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, is dead
Mrs. Elisabeth Haldeman, probably the Old
est resident Of Harrisburg, Pa, died Monday,
the 18th, in her ninety Attn YEAR She was the
Sweden, Under President Buchanan, and ex-
Congressman Haldeman, who is married to
Senator Cameron's sister,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

The introduction of two-cent letter
postage has hid the effect Of reducing
the demand for postal cards in a mark
ell degree. For five years past the
sales Of postal cards have steadily in
creased at an average annual rate Of
fourteen per cent. whereas, since two
cent postage was adopted, there has
been a decided falling off in the con-
sumption as compared with previous
years and the department has notified
Congress that the original estimates for
the cost of manufacturing postal cards
during the next fiscal year may safely
be reduced by one-eight. The falling
off in the demand for postal cards is
more than compensated for by the in
creased sales of postage stamps and
stamped envelopes, which have grown
in amount eighteen and twenty-five per
cent, respectively, since last July. Ex-
perience has thus indicated the claim
that q reduction of letter postage would
lead to great increase in the number of
letters sent through the mails, both by
encouraging more frequent correspond
ence, and by leading to the substitution
OF stamped envelopes for postal cards
and it is already evident that the de-
partment will speedily reach a self-sup-
porting basis again.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27
General News Items,

Mrs. Georgiana Miller, widow, died while
on her knees in prayer at Chicago mission.
Gov. Crittenden says if the present state
laws are enforced the cattle plague can be
stamped out
Rt Rev. Bishop Hennessy, of the diocese of
Dubuque is lying dangerously ILL His condi-
ton is critical
Mr.. Dana, of the Sun, and three other New
Workers, have started on six weeks trip
through Mexico.
Miss Nannette Leonard, sister of Lillian Rus
sell, the actress, is sensation as singer at New
York revival meetings.
A Windham, Me-, deacon sold for $22 a tonof
hay last week he had been holding over twenty
years to get that figure.
The blanket and wooden mills OF John & James
Dobson, Falls of the Schuylkill, have stopped,
and ], 200 male and female operatives are now
idle.
Gen. Newton, chief of engineers, will remain
in charge of the work of improving the harbor
of New York, unless it is found that his other
duties will prevent his doing so.
James H. Moore's pottery at Trenton, N. j.
was seized by the sheriff on executions from
two judgments, aggregating $35, goo. Work
was suspended and number of prisoners are
tuO u CMplOyuouk no pOLt0Ty SGOOU ulS0.
It is reported worth S125, 600.
Emigration to the northwest has, during the
past few days, increased very much. just at
present pretty much all new corners are
destined for points on the extreme western end
Of the Northern Pacific. The through trains of
that road have, during the past two weeks, been
80 large that the company has been taxed to
supply the necessary rolling stock.
There wore 1872 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet's during the past week,
as compared with 1856 in the preceding week,
and with 1886, 11S and 121, respectively, in the
corresponding weeks of 1888, 1882 and 1881.
About "a per cent were those of small traders,
whose capital was less than $1,000 Canada
had thirty seven, decrease of one.
At Erie, Pa, sensational elopement was
frustrated, the lady being Mrs. Biffin, young
married woman of good family, and the man
an illiterate colored youth employed as hod-
carrier, The pair were discovered on the cars
as the train was leaving the depot scene
ensued Mrs. Martin, mother Of the girl, ap-
pealed to the police to prevent the outrage, !;
but Mrs. Bifin fled from the officers grasp
and has not been recovered yet -.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27

Judge Thatch Of the supreme court Of Colo
RADIO, died Of Bright's disease. -. @
Col Norman Curtis, aveteran Of the war Of
1872, died at Rockford, Pa, aged ninety two =
Mr.. Willard contradicts the report that he.
has sold for 1890 GOO one seventh Of piece Of
property in Portland which cost him only 49,
co. . So Es,5
Hired Smith of Newport r +, has given 4
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-27


It is now the foot-and- mouth diesase
that annoys farmers and stockmen. It
has effected a Judgment in Kansas, and
one or two other states, and it is said
that the germs of the disease were in
troduced into this country from En-
gland. The following description of the
foot-andmouth disease is taken from a
recent publication: The mouth of the
sick animal becomes hot and its skin
cracks; the eyes are watery and unnatur-
ally bright; the skin about one or more
of the feet cracks, and presently the
crack extends clear around the ankle
joint, and the foot rots and drops off.
The swelling of the feet and mouth is
very painful. The cracks generally
show first on the feet. An account
written by visitor to the infected herds
in Kansas says of the disease: "The
right hind foot to the ankle joint was
gone, the bare bone protruding. The
leg was still swollen, with prospect
of further loss. The lips were hot, dry,
and cracked, the eyes clear and bright,
with yellow liquid running from their
corners. A heifer's feet to the second
joint were swollen, with tender crack
around the ankle. Her muzzle was hot
and cracked, eyes bright and full.
Seven calves on another farm showed
swollen feet and legs. They move re-
luctantly, preferring to lie still. A
mich COW had scabs on her teats, which
were infamed and tender, with her
right hind foot gone, and her left hind
foot swollen and cracked. She refused
to lift it from the ground" On an
other farm yearling bull had one foot
gone and another only held on by
bandage. One premonitory symptom
is a slobbering ut the mouth. From
this description some idea can be
formed Of the terrible nature OF. the.
disease. TITS no wonder that the alarm
over its appearance Is wide spread,
especially q it IS 3earfully contagious