The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07

A Bay City, Mich. factory makes z, 400 wash
boards daily.
DR.. Marshall, Mary Anderson's ~blackmaiIer,
was acquitted.
The Ohio Legislature appropriated 100000
for food relief.
Letters cent by q courier from Coer d'Alenc
cost 50eents each.
N. T. Bullock, Dallas, Ga, has lost three
daughters by elopement this winter.
The house in which Gen. Grant was born, at
Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken of in the flood
Sat New York, George Parsons, toy dealer.
tss assigned liabilities, $4,000; assets, $40,
900.
Edward Pilsbury"s Sons, cotton commission
merchants, New Orleans, have failed. Liabiir
ties, $4,000.
Gen. 10 Shelby of Missouri, the noted ex-con-
federate, has iust been fined $50 for carrying
concealed weapons
Seventeen hzndred Chinese on the Green
River road, near Seattle, struck because
of a reduction from $1to 80 cents a day.
John Hadley, Albany, II. II, left 10000 to-
Miss Louisa Whipple, d young lady OF good
name in Troy Hadley's divorced wife objects.
James E. Scripps, the publisher of the De-
troit Evening News, has paid to DR.. Donald
Mclean $4,000, judgments awarded Mclean in
a libel suit
A Hartford, Conn, drum major can toss his
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet up,
and catch it again without breaking step in the
procession.
Two handsome negroes attended q fashion
able white folks masquerade in Stamford,
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted when
they unmasked
In Atlanta there are Sc, 0e9, 600 worth Of new
buildings in the hands of contractors and arch
fleets, besides the new capitol, which will be
started during the spring,
In Savannah, 81, 100000 lias been expended
during the past year in improvements, much
of which has gone into the river front and
much into private residences.
Treasurer Wyman received from an Ohio
bank two packages purporting to contain
81, 900 each. One was found $3.50 short, and
the other contained two pieces of flannel.
The Etna Life and Travellers Insurance
companies of Hartford have each subscribed
$500 for the relief OF the flood sufferers making
a total of about 1880 subscribed there.
Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
Ting the affairs of Rev. DR.. Mercer, the mill
lonnaire clergyman of Newport, R l. because
he cannot supply a 100000 bondsnian.
Il ID. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, Charles
ton, s. O., have suspended. Liabilities, $780,
900; nominal assets, $3.50 0 Tho suspen-
sion is due to bad crops and investments
The committee OF citizens in Philadelphia
raising a fund for the sufferers has decided to
make Gallipolis the distributing point for sup
plies. The chairman announced contributions
to date amounting to $5,64S.
Judge Dickey, of the supreme court CT Illi-
nois, has granted a super sedeas in the case
of Frederick M. Ker, sent to the penitentiary
for ten years for stealing $G5,0 600 from Preston,
Kean q Co, Chicago bankers, which necessi-
tates a new trial.
In q case before the Michigan supreme court
where the point in controversy was whether
the elopement of a wife from her husband,
with another man, bars her from a claim to
her rights in her deserted husband 5 estate, the
court claimed that it did.
Mr.. Douglass, who has lad charge OF this
district as special agent OF the treasury de-
pSrtment for some time past, will hereafter
have his headquarters at st. Paul, MINI. His
District now includes Minnesota, Dakota, Mon
taDa and Idaho and the port of La Crosse.
The Virginia senate and house, by a strict
paSty vote, passeda fill redistrictlng the state
for representatives in congress. The bill was
Immediately enrolled, signed by the presiding
officers, and sent to the governor. The redis-
| tricting shows eigh. districts Democratic and
two coalition
Mayor King, Of Philadelphia, has forbidden
the collection Of political assessments from
members Of the police department. and de-
clares that he will discharge any policeman
who pays one. 81 have never permitted as
sessments.D he said, ttand no MAJ shall be as
sessed for political purposes
AT Kansas City. Glessner & Ross. cracker
and candy factory, was closed By the sheriff
on an attachment suit of $1,000, for money
loaned by Nathan Hill. The firm has not yet
assigned. The liabilities are supposed to be
$4,000; assets unknown, Al receiver has been
appointed The liabilities are 49,, 600, and as
sets about $4,000.
DIR. George Marshall, charged with, attempt
ing to blackimail Mary Anderson, was acquitted
i'm the. United States district court at Pittsburg
recently. The court ruled that the offense did
not come within the provisions of the law pro-
viding penalties for using the mails for the
purpose to defraud, and, under instructions of
the court, a verdict of not guilty was rendered
George w. Cable recently told friend, who
warned him that he travelled too much, that he
would rather be in the cars than at o hotel
His reason was that in the former case he
wasn't bothered by visitors. All sorts of peo-
pie, no said, hunted him outlook agents,
people with pet hobbies which they wanted
him to take up and advocate, and ether varie-
ties of genus bore.
Mrs. Marion Laverre of New York, offers
part of a mausoleum which she possesses at
Eastport, L. l., as q resting place for the body
Of Commander DE Long. Mrs. DE Long re-
piled that she understood that arrangements
were pending to bury her husband in Wood
lawn cemetery and that steps would be taken
to erect q monument over his. grave. Other
wise she would gratefully accertMrs. Iayerre's
offer.
There was an exciting scene at a circus at
Cairo, Egypt. An Italian acrobat unfnrled an
Italian flag, whereupon an English officer
walked into the arena and seized IL amid great
excitement The acrobat soon recovered the
flag, however, and waved il t~riumphantly,
when he was struck by a Frenchin2n. Ameieo
ensued. Finally some English officers managed
to separate the complaints and Gained the tu-
multi. The Italian consul demanded s~atisfac.
ton for the insult to the flag. Ii is hoped the
affair will be amicably settled
The following formal challenge was issued
from Cleveland to Pngilist Sullivan: II, Dun
can G, Ross, will match Meryinc Thompson Of
gloves to i finish, for from 81 900 to $4,000,
ring rules TO govern. / win deposit the money