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Another Railro.a Holocaust.

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8 Bradford, Pa, Special: A stream # waste
oil, flowing from q tank across the Bradford
Bordeil. & Kiuzua railroad caught fire on
the 18th inst. A passenger train from
Wellsville for Bradford ran into it, and the
train was Immediately enveloped in flames.
The track tor a distance of fully 100 yards
was covered with oil. 1t is believed thai
gas coming in contact with the fire box OF
the engine exploded, firing the oil, which
spread and enveloped the doomed train III a
mass of flames. SO int Use was the heat
that windows cracked and fell in. In less
time than it takes to write q passenger
coach and baggage car were
converted into seething, hiss.
ing fire. 1t was a terrible moment.
The coach was filled. There was a rush :
the doors; but the heat was so in ,.. ~: .ot
the panic-stricken ps-, -sehse .lat
ee = ~ to Jump through the win.
VOWS e 9 landing In the snow. A relief
tain With surgeons, was dispatched to the
Scene. Upon arrival . terrible sight pre-
scented itself. The passenger coach and
baggage cars were smoking ruins. The en-
CINE lay on it's bacx, having turned a COM
plete somersault. 1t is definitely known
hat only three persons, all women, were
burned to death; but Q large number were
more or less burned.
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sion of public esteem to being dragged
through the mire Off campaign.
DR.. john I. Gilman, president of the
Maine Medical society, died at Portland,
aged seventy eight years.
Wilson Barrett, the London actor, has
been offered $1,000 aweek for an Amer
lean engagement.
At St. Adams. VT. John Stewart is still
pressing his claim to relationship with the
dead Alexander.
The aggregate wealth of the seventv.six
Unifed States senators is said to be $50,
O06, 900.
The latest Chicago banquet to the actor
Irving was given by Emory Storrs.
Mr.. Robert Patterson, a well known
printer OF st. Paul is dead.
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DAKOTA.
-.-r~

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Jan. IL
A bill prepared by the bar of South Dakota
will be introduced into the house by Mr.. Ray
nond next week, providing for the election
Of the Judge in each judicial district of Da-
kota. The matter Of appointing a judge to
succeed Judge Kidder in Dakota is
still hanging fire. Delegate Raymond
says he hopes the matter will be settled
soon. There are a host of candidates
Among them are Judges Campbell md Pal
mer of Dakota, Fuller of Illinois, Coburn Of
Indiana, Pettis and Wilson of Pennsylvania.
The department of justice has about decided
that it will not be proper to.appoint any one
who took sides on the question of the re-
moval of the capital. 1t appears that Camp
beu is endorsed by the people of South d.
kota and Palmer by the people who favor the
capital removal. 1t seems probable that
some outside man will get the place,
onDwAY FURTHER DIsoLAMs.
Gov. Ordway of Dakota thia evening com
planned of unfair treatment in an editorial
published in the Chicago Inter-Ocean yester-
day. He desired to say positively that the
criticism was based upon informa-
ton and did him an injustice. He said he had
gone to Dakota when past fifty years of age,
and had attempted to do his duty. The
organization of a county was too thrilling n
temptation OF which to wreck an honorable
reputation Mt the close of his public career.
even if 50 disposed: SONS one was always
dissatisfied necessarily because the
county seat could only 60 to one
place, when every little town wanted
it, II often there did not seem to be much
reason why one should have it over another
further than the personal preferences of the
commissioners He could not suit every
one. Ihe statements with reference to his
son being a sort of middleman he declared
to be erroneous, He did not live at Pierre.
and had nothing to do with commissioners
except when acting as his secretary in an
official capacity at Bismarck, lie said he
courted an investigation and was here ready
to meet any charges which his accusers saw
tit to make to the president He was ready
to Justify his course in every particular if
given the opportunity by the presentation of
charges against the official integrity. He only
requested that those who had stood by him
In the past should suspend Judgment upon
such vague testimony as had been present.
ed, and he also demanded that the charges
so tlipantly put forth in the newspapers
should be authenticated and forwarded i'm
mediately to the president in order that he
might have an opportunity to meet them
while here,
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Bureau Of Animal Industry.

The Loring bill to provide for q bureau
Of animal industry was introduced in tha
senate on the 10th. It is very sweeping in
its character. appropriating $500, 900 for the
purpose. contemplated, which 9 brace the
COLLECTION OF live stock statistics. the iuves-
tigation OF contagious Diseases of animals,
the extirpation Of pleuro- pneumonia and
the inspection Of live stock transportion.
All this is to be done under autbority of
the Commissioner OF agriculture. The Sec
Rotary of the treasury is given authority to
regulate export of cattle and provide such
restrictions IS will prevent the shipment
abroad of deceased animals.
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A New Bridge for the s.. Croix.

Mr.. Washburn introduced q bill in the
house on the l4th inst, to authorize the
Minneapolis, sault Ste Mari. q Atlantic
railway to construct and maintain q bridge
over the st. Croix river between Minnesota
and Wisconsin at the most accessible point
between Saltwater and the village OF Tay.
lor's Falls. |; provides that ii the bridge
sball be made with upbroken and con.inu.
Gus spans i. shall not be OF less elevation
than fifty feet above the extreme high water
mark to The bottom chord Of the bridge
nor shall the spans ne less than Loo feet in
length, and the piers shall be parallel With
the current OF the river; and also. If con-
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Death ola Generous Woman

Mrs. Valera Stone died on the 18th at
Maiden, Mass, from the effects Of a fail
four weeks ago. During the past few years
she has given the colleges and schools for
girls over S400, 600. Among the principal
gifts made by her were 500, 900 to the We'll
lesley Female college; about $3.50, 90, to the
Andoyer Theological seminary; $50, 900 to
Drury college, Springfield, Mo-; $50 900 t
the Chicago Theological seminary; $50. 700
large amounts to Amherst, and other New
England colleges and Oberlin University.
TIE gifts were mainly in the interest of tn.
Congregational denomination. Mrs. sston.
also gave many thousand to the American
Missionary association, which were used
Tor the education of colored people of the
South.
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Almost a Fatal Mistake.

Mrs. Horace Thompson of st. Paul came
near falling victim to a servants stu
pidity on the night OF the 18th. The girl
administered a large dose OF aconite in lieu
of n simple preparation contained in q vial
similar to that which held the poison.
The mistake vas discovered almost Instant
ly by Mrs. Thompson; and physicians were
summoned. BY the use of a galvanic bat
terry serious consequences we're averted and
the lady is now r,g rded tree from DAB ger
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Montana's Constitutional Oonven
ton. 4f.-7

Pursuant to the house joint resolution,
passed at the thirteenth session Of the legis-
alive assembly, territory of Montana, the
constitutional convention. met on the 14th
at Helena at IL O'Clock, and was called TO
order by Hon. W. ]. Mccormick Of Mis-
souia, who was elected temporary chair
man. Other temporary officers were lected
aud a committee on credentials a%ppoiAted,
At the evening session. permanent organ
jzation was effected by ell citing Hon. A. A.
Clarke of Butte, president, and P. L. Van
Clevso Yellowstone county, secretary, both
democrats. Thirty-seven of the forty five
delegates were present.
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Insurance in k

Fargo, OAK, Special Telegram, Jan.
l4.-Considerable discussion has been
caused by the law which was passed by
the last Territorial Legislature requiring
insurance companies to deposit $25, 200
with the territorial treasurer before they
could do business in The territory, and it
wa rumored that underwriters doing
business in the territory were about to
withdraw their business. The following
from Auditor'O rdway will have the eff.
feet of abrogating the law. 1t was sent
to a Fargo citizen, in answer to an in
Quiry i'll regard to the matter: MY ruiz
ing IN reference to the insurance deposit
taw IS to the effect that if q fire insurance
cornpany organized outsi 'e this territory
lilies in this Office acertificate from either
our treasurer or the chief financial officer
otthe state where the company was or
sanlzed to the effect that they have de-
posted $4,000 tor the benefit of all
po]icyholders, a certificate of authority
will be issued from this office. In case
such officer refuse to accept the deposit,
a certificate from the officers of a sound
national bank will be accepted. This
rule seems to give satisfaction to all in
surance companies, | fully appreciate
what you say with reference to the re.
suits which would follow a rigid con-
struction Of our law, which to say the
least, is made up of inconsistent sect,
and for this reason have made as liberal
n construction as possible in the interest
OF h people ofthe territory.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National Bank of
Mandan. L. E. Reed ofthe Capitol bank
OF st. Paul was elected president in
place OF James Bellows. resigned, The
semi-annual dividend of S per cent was
paid to the stockholders. {
Dakota wants a successor to JUDGE
kldder appointed.
Lieut.. Col. O. H. Moore, Seventeenth
infantry. has been relieved from
duty at Fort A. Lincoln and ordered to
proceed to Fort Yates, OAK, and report
to the commanding officer Of that fort
for duty.
A syndicate has purchased the town.
site OF Minor for $4,000.
The Leech farm, near Fargo, has re-.
Gently been lcfor $92 1000.
The stockholders Of the Ban,r of
Brookings have elected the following
Officers: W. Fl. Morehouse, president.
\: ID. Williams. vice president; George
Morehouse, cashier. os
A meeting of the Mitchell bar and of
the bar OF the second district has been
called at Mitchell, to secure the election
OF ut least six associate district iudpes
.or me territory to be paid by the terri
tory, and to consi Ter other necessary
legislation to unload the crowded dock.
OF the Dakota courts.
Williams & Co., hardware merchants
Of Pierre, have assigned. No particulars.
were known ut Bradstreet's.
Inc body of an unknown man vas
ound near Sims, on the 4th inst.
having 'rozen to death.
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structed as a draw bridge, that it shall be a
pivot draw bridge, with the draw
over the main channel at an acc sslble and
5naviyable point. 1t also contains the cus
tomAry clauses preventing interruption for
the navigation OF the river, making it a
post route and reserving - congress the
right to regulate freight and passenger
charges, and to alter, amend or repeal the
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Doings OF CRIMINALS.

3 While resisting arrest, ". A. Alexander,
. cowboy and noted desperate, was shot
n KILLED on the reservation at Pena Col.
orado, Texas, on the 18th by y detachment
OF soldiers under command of Lieut..
E1giesten. Alexander had been terrorizinx
the neiehborhood and threatened to wipe
out the military. One soldier, named Ross.
was killed and two Others slightly wounded
before Aiexander's Winchester was silenced.
Lieut.. Es lesion was fred at by the despsr.
49,, Jumped aside and the ball grazsJ
Jury was justifable homicide.
a six~teen-year-old boy named PowIes,
partly an imbecile. arrested in Chicago, has
confessed that he made several attempts to
wreck Milwaukee & St. Paul trains, near
Milwaukee, recently.
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The Casualty RECORD.

The steamer Ludgaie Hill, nom New
York Dec. 81 for London, reports that she
spoke the Celtic or the 9th inst, in latitude
1880 north, Longitude net. After breakine
her shalt, b Celtic beat aboutseveral davs'
the captain hsIing the weather would mod,
crate and he be able to return to New YORK.
IRE vessel, however, driftsd too far sonth'
and Inning II Impossible TO beat back. he
9. 20 proceed eastward, the passengers
approving Of his oourse.s
y The Berliner Post referring to the trans.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Uedncsday, Jauuayv no.

sENATE-Mr. hoaT called up his bill
providing for the electoral vote, being the
same as the bill passed by the senate OF the
Forty seventh congress. 1t was again
passed without debate.
A bill introduced in the senate to-day by
Senator Beck authorizes the establishment
of special bonded warehouses for distilled
liquors. II provides that whenever a distil.
lery is discontinued permanently or distil-
ling has been suspended for twelve months,
aid the quantity Of distilled spirits held in
a distillery warehouse does not exceed 400
gallons, b distiller may pay the tax on
such spirits or cause them to be removed
in bond from the distillery warehouse to q
special bonded warehouse.
When the rule forbidding the sale OF lig-
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News or tho Railr0ada.

The east-bound passenger business in st.
PAnl 4 at present in . very demorslizsd
condition, y both the railroad agents and
|scalpery are selling ct less than tariff rates.
Since the dissolution Of the sgreeme I made
in September last between the railroads and
scalpers, there hiss been nothing to maintain
rates.
United States Marshal Denny has served
papers or the officers Of Plainview to recoy.
er interest on the Plainyiew railway bonds,
amounting TO "a, s15 fosP lainview and So, COO
for Elgin.
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SakAsnsf Job tr,ytn NasyieE. Miss, has
tn GppoinsAA tsas ucceed Faaner 3Y;n.
g. nsspextosYa 81 sasMslys chnrsb ia LAKE
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Personal Gossip.

q. oOD6kps .-a..
Charles santley, the baritone, who
has married Elizabeth Innes, a wealthy
lady made his first. appearance as an opera
singer at Cenveat Garden opera, in Lon.
don, and achieved his first great success il
the part of Rhineberg in Wallace's opera o
Lurline, IN New York. A memorable ap
pearance was made up of Santley Watched
Parepa and ADELAIDE Philips.
Senator Sabin, telegraphed to Vice Presi
dent Stimson, Of the Northwestern Man.
ufacturing and Car company at Stillvate,
Ms follows; Put me down for $500 on Com,
payn KS benefit for u sufferers by fire
and on benaif of Car company. See tha1
there is no suffering among families of oul
workmen. Signed D. M. sAs1s.
The engagement of "Pet" Mcclellan o.
New York, appointed to the chair OF phys.
ical culture and hygiene at Cornell uniyer.
slty q year ago, has been broken because,
within q week after the appointment, hi &C.
cepted a challenge to q prize fight for the
lightweight championship Of America.
Conductor David Lyke, OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee & 81. Paul road, died OF con.
sumption at Minneapolis. Conducto,
Lyke was severely injured in the collision
near Minnehaha Falls about three years ago,
from which his friends assert he never iully
recovered.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry were given
a reception by the Chicago Press club on
the 18th which was attended by between 300
nd AGO gentlemen and ladies-members OF
the newspaper and legal professions pre-.
dominating. Gross receipts the first wees
we're $x7 500.
Mrs. Margaret C~ollingwood, known on
the stage as Florence Gilmore, has sued 10,
~ ordp George O. Colllngwood, on the
grounds OF drunkenness and general worth.
iessness.
A very elegantly appointed banquet. al
which between Thirty and forty citizers sal.
was tende- ed Henry Irving by Hon. Emory
A. Storrs, in Chicago the l4tn, after the
performance at Haverly's theater.
j. H. H~allinguis, a graduate OF West
Point. who vas chief of artillery under
Gen. Bragg in the confederate army, killed
himself with chloral at Terrell, Texas.
DIR. Lucy M. Hall has declined the posi-.
ton OF superintendent of the Massachusetts
Woman's Rslormatory Institution as success
or to Miss Clara Barton
Hon. Phillip Phillips died in Washing.
ton, Monday, the 14th. He represented the
Mobile tAla.) district in congress from 1855
TO 1855.
Mrs. ]. j. Aston has sent 1,0e3 home
less children to the South and West in the
last lew years, at an expense OF nearly Sl5,.
600.
Calvin Ellis Of Boston has given out,
right $4,000 to Harvard college, and al
much more alter the dastb of a sister.
Edn,unds declares that be prefers posses.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08
The Origin of Wheat.

Evolution claims at length to have
solved the problem of the origin of wheat.
The noted botanist, Grant Allen, saws
"Wheat ranks by origin as a degenerate
and degraded lily The primitive ancestor
of the lily was very simple plant, with
a triple set of pollen bearing stamens, fer
tilted by insects. 1t thus acquired those
bright eolors and that beauty which riyaled
Solomon in all his glory The develop
ment was through many stages, through
the alesina and marsh arrow grass and IN
Vulnerable forms, until ii reached the
perfect lily. The first downward step
seems to have been Standardization, tax
ing the place of the insect aid. After
ward the winds brought the varied fer
tilizing pollen dust, and so came the
rushes-plain little lilies with dry, brown
ish flowers then the wood r,ishes, some
thing between the true rush and grasses,
The Erlscaulon, a common American
water plant, rushlike in character, bridged
over the gap between the rushes and the
grasses. and then step by step the changes
in the part of the flower eliminated in
our wheat plant. With the wood rush
began the habit of storing starch and
gluten along with the embryo, which has
made the cereal SO valuable for human
food, and raised our wheat, the descendant
of the lily, the queen of the floral world,
to the rank of the prince of grains, bearing
its princely sway upon all the golden har-
vest fields of every civilized race and ma
ton of the globe"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08
Sumatra CannihaIisnn.

\ friend Of the writer's who for more
than forty years has been in the employ
ment of the Dutch Government, bears per
sonal witness to the prevalence of the Gus
tom in Sumatra up till recent times. He
was once making scientific investigations
in the interior of that island, and was be-
ing entertained in the most hospitable
manner by the native Raiah, or chief, of
the place he was then in \ feast had
been made to which he was hidden, and to
which he went, taking his own native
servant with him. The banquet had pro-
ceeded for some time without Interrupt
ton, when at last, as crown Of the
feast, Il beautiful brown roast Joint
was brought from the back of the
house to the open airy place where
the repast was being held. This was
cut up without remark and handed
round, and the Dutch gentleman was
on the point of eating his portion, having
raised part Of it to his lips, when his SER
want rushed forward and stopped him, say
ing: " Master, master, do not eat
it IS boy" The chief, on being
questioned, admitted with no small
pride at the extent of his hospitality,
that hearing that the white man would
feast with him, he had ordered a young
boy TO be killed and cooked in his honor,
rs the greatest delicacy obtainabIe, and
that the joint before them was the best
part, the thigh Gentleman's Magazine
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08
The Brahmin's Terrible Mistake.

Some shocking tragedies have occurred
| in the Sibsagor district of India. 4 trav-
cling honarie eweler arrived late one
evening at the house of Brahmin with
who he had slight acquaintance, and
displayed his wares. The Brahmin, after
making some purchase, offered to put him
I up for the night. The offer was gladly ac-
ceptcd, ana it was arranged that the lew
eler should sleep on the floor in the room
occupied by the Brahmin's son, the Brah-
MN and his wife occupying the other
room. While preparing to turn in the
honarie heard the sharpening of dao and
fragments of Il conversation being carried
on between the Brahmin and his wife
Suspecting foul play, he induced the son to
change places with him; and, as soon as
the former was asleep, placed dummy
composed of bundle OF clothes on the
bed, crept quietly out, and assembled 4 tree
at the back of the house In about half
an hour he heard the dao doing its work,
them EXPLANATIONS of disappointment at
finding no plumber, shortly afterward fol-
lowed by cry of anguish at the discovery
of the mistake the murderer had made
From his place of concealment the jewecr
then saw the Brahmin come under the
tree with a hoe. Here he dug a grave in
which he buried the body of his son. At
early dawn the ieweler descended from his
hiding place and gave information at the
nearest thanna. The police found the
body under the tree and arrested the
Brahmin, who trial comes off at the next
aSSiZCs- St James Gazette
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08
Gounod's Faust Rejected.

Although we hold the faith that genius
will eventually make its way, there can be
little doubt that many instances have oc-
CURED in which either a lucky chance or
sympathetic helping hand has very ma
terially fastened this result. OF the first
Of these aids to popular recognition the
following paragraph furnishes an instance:
" About thirty years ago poor little
musical composer, very modest, and almost
unknown, tried to sell the partition of an
opera which had just lately been produced
in Paris, to some publisher, but nobody
wanted it. Perhaps one Of the music
houses would have accepted the partition
had it not been for the illustrious Berlioz,
who advised him not to touch it at the
price demanded-that is to say, sum
equal to $500. When the publisher had
declined the music the young composer
carried his manuscript to another house,
but it was refused, simply because the first
had done so. Strolling along the boule-
ward, the disappointed artist met young
gentleman named Choudens, a clerk in the
Department of State. To him he related
his troubles, whereupon Choudens said,
Ma fol, but it islucEy we met. | am going
to marry in few days the daughter Of
man who engraves music, and when we are
married we shall start music warehouse.
| cannot afford to pay you 5000 francs for
your work, but | will give you l 800 for it,
if you will trust me for the year The
composer accepted these terms, and the
work was printed. The name of the opera
is Faust and that of the composer
Charles Gounod" This, if true, NAV in
deed be termed the lucky chance which
at once frightened the prospects of one
who, entirely unknown, sought only the
worlds attention to achieve fame which
has gained in strength to the present day
But it must not be forgotten that there was
also helping hand and that this came
not from France, but from England. In
the columns Of the 4theaeum H. F. Chorley
then musical editor of the journal, rot
ely drew public attention to the excep-
H5nal powers Of NJ. Gounod, but from his
own knowledge spoke in such glowing
terms of his Faust" that a widespread
desire to hear the work was aroused, and it
was mainly through his writings that the
opera was produced in this country
| London Musical Times.