The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF NEWS.
J. b. Pinney was appointed receiver Of the
Erie Railway company.
R. G. Woodham of Fergus Falls, celebrated
Arbor day by setting out $50 trees.
The Kalamazoo Mich college, a Baptist in
sttu1on, is to suspend for lack of funds
At Plymouth, Pa, thousand people are suf-
fering with an epidemic disease closely resonl-
bling typhoid fever.
: The Fort Ripley reservation, with the build
ings thereon, will be offered for sale at public
auction, Wednesday, May g.
The citizens of Scotland have subscribed
5000 of the $500 needed to establish a
Presbyterian college there.
The case of Bishop Hiram B. Clauson for
unlawful cohabitation was called in the COM
missioners court, Salt Lake, recently: He
pleaded guilty:
George Hambley and Miss Martha Gordon,
of Spiritwood, Dak., eloped and were married
at Fargo just before the arrival of the irate
parents of the bride.
The Dakota board of dental examiners will
meet in Fargo on the fourth Tuesday in July,
The North Dakota Dental association will also
meet in Fargo at the same time.
The jury in the case of M. P. Griswold
against the Northwestern brought in verdict
at Appleton, Wis, for 81, 600 for the plaintiff
He sued for SIC, GOO for personal injuries sus-
tanned in the winter of 1883 by being thrown
from the platform Of a sleeping car:
The Dubuque Presbytery in session at Jes-
sup, Iowa. adjourned Among the work per-
formed was the dissolution of the pastoral re-
lations sustained toward the First Presbyter-
ian church of Dubuque by Rev. +: r: Barrett
Lemone, i. Won Giethys and L Hyeeleger:
Judge Gresham of the United States court
at Madison, Wis, has rendered decision in
the Watertown railway bond cases, holding that
the claims Of the bondholders were outlawed.
The case considered was that of Metcalf vs.
The City of Warertown, which involved $780,
600, but the decision in reality covers all the
bond cases, in which about 81, ,5UO, 600 is IN
volved.
Articles of incorporation of the ST. Paul
Presbyterian Missionary society were filed at
the capitol The officers are: Wilford l.
Wilson, president; William B. Dean, vice presi-
dent; Joseph McKibben, secretary; Charles P.
Noyes, treasurer; George L. Becker, director.
The capital is $10,OOO in shares of $40 each,
The association has for its object the support
of Presbyterian mission churches in st. Paul
and its immediate vicinity.
A decree of divorce has been entered at Green
Bay, Wis, in the case of Kate Osborne against
Frank o. Osborne, the defendent has been for
several years rector of Christ Episcopal church
Of that city, but resigned the position. Mrs,
Osborne has gone to Chicago. The petition
alleged adultery on the part of the defendant
and no defence was made. Trouble in the fam
lily had been known to exist for some timo
The CUSTODY of their only child was awarded to
Mrs. Osborne.
Leo Miller, the free love and temperance
apostle, who ten years ago formed an alliance,
:.civil and conjugal," with Mollie Strickland,
daughter of Congressman Stric&l and of Michi-
gan, has become . drunkard, But now admits
that the union" was mistake, and publicly an
nounces the union dissolved by mutual consent
Miss Strickland, whom Miller thus divorces, is
practlcing law at st Johns, Mich, and aside
from her mistake with Miller, has preserved
good reputation,