The Mineral argus., 1884-03-27
General News Items

The Lake Superior Elevator company has
finally decided to begin work at once on
the new elevator at Duluth. The capacity
will be LOO, 600 bushels of wheat. 1t is to
be built Immediately west of the elevator
company, on the property owned by the
company, just east of Rice's point railroad
yards. Work on the foundation walls will
be completed his fall, and the whole struc-
ture will be ready for handling the wheat
crop of 1884.
The Iowa Presbyterian Synod in session
in Dubuque, appropriated 50, 900 each t. the
Dubuque Theological seminary and the
Lenox college at Hopkinton, $4,O 900 to
Parsons college at Fairfield. Reports
showed SIS, 795 was received and 1913, 335 ex-
pended in home missions by this synod.
Cedar Rapids was selected as the next place
Of meeting.
About 200 creditors of Archbishop Pur-
cell met at Cincinnati and passed resolutions
condemning the decision of the district
as illegal, charging the court with being
under the influence OF the clergy and actua-
ted by political considerations. The reso-
lutions are very bitter. A committee of
five was appointed to request the assignee
TO appeal the case to the supre ne court.
The English schooner Otoele was cap.
tured trespassing upoa the preserves of the
American Alaska Commercial company
and its cargo of otter skins and hunting
material coniscated. The schooner was
taken to PetroPanlOrski, Russia, and the
crew four Englishmen and fifteen JaEa-
nese-sent to Vladivostock.
The late Henry Farnam of New Haven,
left So, 600, coo in Chicago property to his
widow and six children, and provided that
on the death OF Mrs. FaInam and the eldest
son, the family homestead shall go to Yale
college, to be occupied by the president or
professors. The mansien and grounds are
valued at $3.50, 600.
The famous Tombs prison in New York
IS to be enlarged by the addition Of two sto.
ries. An enlargement las long been need
ed, and this will be the first that the TOmbs
viii ever have received. Forty years have
elapsed since the TOmbs was opened.
Judge Gary, in the superior court at Chi
cago, decided that the ordinance bv which
the city sought TO collect $3.50 annually
from the wholesale liquor dealers was void
because it partook of the nature of a tax
which the city had no right to impose.
Prof. Lewis, the travelling lecturer and
showman, charged with the murder of Eva
Lewis, who Travelled with him, near Dillon,
Mont, has been discharged, the jury find
ing that she accidentally shot herself
L. G. Comstock, defaulting chasier of the
Muskegon National baak, took out a 800
600 life policy tor the benefit Of the bank
and died in 1881. The bank is suing the
Northwestern Mutual for it.
The paper of the Union Iron COMPANY OF
Portsmouth, Ohio, went to protest some
weeks ago, and the affairs of the company
have sincs been put in the hands of the
trustees.
Official returns in lowe give Sherman,
republican, majority over Kline, democrat,
for governor, of %. 1877. There is no change
in the complexion of the legislature.
w. n. Jones asks a Chicago court to make
John B. Alley account for $3.50, 600 bonds of
Des MOines & Minneapolis road sold to
the Northwestern.
: A million dollars worth of buildings are