The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-09-10

prison. The prison officials ill-treateo
him, with q view OF forcing him to make a
confession, and would not allow him to
see his wife. Although he proved his inno-
cence, he was retained Il month"; and haa
Just been released at theinstancc OF Mr..
Mclean, the United States minister.
Mr. Stead. editor Of the Pail Mall Gazette,
telegraphs from Switzerland that he alone
lis responsible in the Eliza Armstrong case,
| and that Mrs. Jarrett was an unwilling
agent.
The pope assisted at the ceremonies at
tending the erection of q bronze statue o:
| St. Peter on the summit OF the monument
erected to the memory OF the ecumenica:
council OF 1870, which stands in the gar.
dens Of the Vatican.
Emory Storrs is very confident that hi
will clear his client Mackin
The freight depot OF the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton burned at Cincinnati, caus
ing $3.50, 900 damage.
The cattle lords are reported to begcner.
| ally moving, on tho double quick, out @!
the leased lands on tho Arapahoc and
| Cheyenne reservations.
The New Orleans exposition management
propose to hold big American waterway:
convention" Jan. 1921.
Mclaughlin, the rider OF Miss Woodfor.l
In the recent race ia worth $1,000 and
is paid $4,000 a year by the Dryers tc
ride:
The coinage at the various mints during
August was Sc, 529, ,O66.2O, of which $2,-
Al, 900 was in standard dollars.
The fact that not half OF tho tonth census
has been printed, and S5,OO0,OOO have
been spent upon the work, suggests that
the working plan was on too large scale
| I'll al cu1, olr
ed in the inquiry. A large amount of the
statistical work was found to beabsolutely
useless and had to be thrown away.
| Sixteen Cinnamon were sent by the Gus
! toms house officers ut Port Townsend
Wash., to ViGtoria, but have boen returned,
| the British Columbi.. authorities not per-
mitting them to land without the payment
OF $50 per head.
The new president of V;,ssnr college, Dr..
Samuel, W. Duncan, {; Baptist minister OF
Rochester, n. Y, is wealthy and has great
business CAPACITY.
| John r. Eakin associate Judge OF the su.
pTeeine court OF Arka anSSas, is dead, aged
sixty three years:
! John w: Porter, editor Of the Ports
mouth (Va:) Enterprise, assaulted Con-
folk, They were separated: Tho trouble
grew out OF published attack and ooun-
| ter attacks.
A fire broke out in glazing shop con-
nected with large sash, door and blind
works of r. McMilen & Co., and for two
hours was experienced one OF the hottest
fires. with the largest single loss since the
great fire OF 1875. Loss $500
Judge Mann, OF the Milwaukee probate
court, took under advisemcnt the applic,,-
tion OF Charles NJ. Cottlil to have his
brother, State Senator J.. p. G.. Cottrill
! placed under guardianship. Senator Cott-
mind bX' EXCESSIVE dr rMEinS du }iiis tR9 past
two yehrs, and haS neglected. his fahily
md Business:
4 quit hAs been commenced in the United
States CIRCUIT pourt at New York. to lost the
cQnstitutionality Of tho civil service law.
On petition, United States en- rol. James \.
ainkley, quo warranto order was granted
| by Judge Wallace, returnable on the 25th
instant, requiring Dorman 3. Eaton and
the other civil service commissioners to
| show cause before that court why the de-
fendants exercised unc constitutional powers
They insist at Omaha that the shooting
OF the son of Gen. Howard in the National
Rark was accidental, and that loye had
hothing'to do witlrlr, i ~! =
A medical expert found arsenic in the
viscer;t OF Mr.. Wslkup OF Emporia, Kan.
and the coroner wants his wife to explain
how it came there.
Ex-senator Win. NJ. Gwyn OF California
Is dangerously i'll at the New York hotel, n
Y, from the effects Fl = seve,.c oai., and the
4eebloness incident to oxtromo age.
At Chicago, George Campbell, lessee OF the
Chester park, who had the gate money in
custody, decided to make no further trou-
BILE for himself by holding the money but to
pay over Sui llvans share and let Mccall frey
make good his claim TO a portion OF it If
be gould: Hs,' thereforA, paid John /.
Sullivan $5,6S4:GQ as his per oent, OF the
gate money:
A bill was filed in Chicago to set aside the
will Of the late Clarissa Peck and for an ac-
counting OF the estate. The complainant
Henry and Albert Keep, the executors un-
der the will, and thirty-three lcgatccs.
The management OF the American ex-
position having conferred upon Maj. Charles
S. Hill OF the state department., the APP
pointmento OF comm;s ,ioner OF consular and
diplomatic exhibits, in ap appreciation Of his
technical work in behalf Of that depart
ment's industrial exhibit last year, he has
resigned his department position to give his
Who1e time to the interests 0cf the Southern
{ndusstriess:
Col: Gregory and Capt. Davis 9i Gen.
sheridan's staff have been ordered away,
the former to engineer service and the lat
tor to his regiment, the Fourteenth infan-
served three years on detached duty. Gen.
Sheridan has not selected their successors.
The kukluxing in North Georgia has not
ended: The yigilantes seem determined to
rid tho country OF bad characters by their
own methods.
Sheriff Walsh, Marshal Clemens, and two
assistants, OF Greensburg, Ind, searched
for Barney Connor, local desperate.
The first two named we're armed with shot
guns. They met Connor, on a turnpike,
and ordered him to halt. He sprang to-
ward the fence and put his hand to his hip
pocket, when Clemens fired and Connor fell
deal.
The Empress Augusta, in Berlin, accord
ed United States Minister Pendleton spe-
cial audience:
The cause OF the suicide of n. H. Win
chester OF Minneapolis at Sheldon, Iowa,
remains a mystery.
John r. Morgan, Jr., son of ofSenator Nor
gan OF Alabama, and Mrs. Della Stella were
drowned in the river at Washington.
Miss Bridget McCosl, daughter OF Presi-
| tpPtil!!e - DeANAA'6 3 ":'iA ~ p"''oJ A'
At Dubuque Judge Couch decided nfayor
OF the removal OF the saloon Injunction
cases to the Federal court
Norwich, Oldest son OF Col. N. Gussett, a
banker and merchant OF Corpus Christi,
Tex, was bitten by a venomous spider on
the neck He WAS ut IL ranch forty miles
off. Swelling set in rapidly, and the boy
suffered untold agony for several days, when
he died.
The dead body OF Edgar Mainos was
found 4SHr KAloxXille, Tenn: He was mur-
dered presumably To get Possession Of ST.
600 which he had recently collected fQF his
employers.
r. L. Jones, late postmaster at Lake
Providence, La., was received in Chester,
ILL.,, prison, under a five years sentence from
the United States courtin Shreveport. His
crime was the robbery OF the mail carrier
between his office apd the river. lie has
had two trials. On his first one he got u
life sentence.
George Curry a we'll known resident OF
r n. l. I, cd