The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-30

POSTMASTER u9uClNl I1tNtOh "a pSHN '
chairman of the house committee on postofices
a draft of a bill providing for the reduction OF
| postage on second class, or newspapers malleu
by publishers, from two cents to one cent per
pound.
Prof. Kings balloon ascension with Signal
Officer Hammond at Philadelphia, Monday,
marked his 257th voyage. They travelled eighty
miles in two hours and fifty minutes, ana
reached an altitude Of $500 feet
Woodrow, Scott & McAlltster's furniture
store at Columbus, Ohio, was burned The
stock valued at $35, OOO, is almost a total loss;
fully covered by insurance. The building was
damaged S., 900; covered by insurance.
Sir Thomas Brassey, NJ. P. and junior lord
OF the admiralty, III a speech at Hastings, said
he believed a movement in the direction of To-
cal self government Tor Ireland was irninihenS
and important concessions would be made to
the Irish
Representative Oates, Of the committee on
public lands, has prepared q report on the bill
to prohibit alions and foreigners from acqulr-
ing lands within the United States, which the
committee has reported to the house, with a
recommendation that it pass.
A special to the Fargo Argus from Lisbon
Oak, states the examination Of W. W. Brady
for pro curing an abortion upon Sarah High.
land was concluded. The bond was fixed at
5000, and was not given. The victim or the
abortion, Miss Highland, will be in court
Miss Matilda Chase, granddaughter Of Chief
Justice Chase, and a lineal descendant of Sam
uel Chase, q signer Of the Declaration of indie
peudence, was fatally burned while sitting in a
chair in front Of an open CRATE fire at her resi-
dence on Maryland avenue, Annapolis, Nd.
The Russian government has rejected the
draft of 4 contract submitted by the ex-gOvern-
or of Eastern Siberia, which proposed to con.
cede to an American company a monopoly for
twenty five years of the fur trade and hunting
of fur animals of the Rus sian Pacific coast.
Cardinal Manning continues indisposed. He
has sent an address on liberalism to an annu-
a! meeting of Catholics at Birmingham, Eng
lend, ~denounCing the growing phase Of liberal
ism, which, he says, has borrowed the worst
aspects of French republicanism.
The New York times of the 18th says: Gen.
Grant has not been as well during the past
week. This is traceable to no one cause except
his general debilitated condition, and does not
excite alarm in his family, but his health has
been such that neither the newspapers nor his
Ildil udNC DtCI IOdu W nun as bplSOOloIO'
Charles Suffer Of Trempealeau, Wis, was
knocked down and robbed of $110 by Ralph
Grenow, a half breed, while both were re.
turning from a house of i'll fame in Winona
GrenOw was formerly a hack driver in St
Paul. He was examined and held to the grand
jury.
The sheriff of Ransom county, Oak, lodged
in the Cass county Jail at Fargo the prisoners
DR.. W. W. Bradley aud Sarah Highland, ac-
cused of committing abortion in Lisbon some
time ago. Miss Highlenl was brought into
court waived examination, and in default Of
$4,000 bonds was committed. .
The will of the late Schuyler Colfax has been
admitted to probate. The residence at South
Bend, with contents, goes to Mrs. Colfax, to-
gethef with half the residue of the estate.
The rest goes to Schuyler Colfax Jr. George
W.. Matthews is named executor. The estate
is valued at $252,OO0, and is without incum-
brances.
Senator Mcpherson regards the recent fail
ure of his bill in the house to authorize national
banks to issue circulation equal TO the par
value OF their bonds in the treasury, as the end
of all such legislation by this congress. He
thinks the defeat of the bill is an indication
that the national banks are not wanted by the
house as a factor of national circulation.
Sister Theresa, niece of James G.. Blaine,
died at St Mary's Catholic convent at Wilkes
barre, Pa, recently. Her secular name was
Annie Walker. She was the daughter of Maj.
r. G. Walker and Elizabeth, sister of James G.
Blaine; was born at Brownsville, Pa. studied
at st. Xavier's academy, Westmoreland county
made her religious profession at st Mary's
convent, P~ittsburg, in 1868, and was thirty
years Of age.
The Gar field hospital here is in financial
straits. The building was finished and fur
nished and opened for patients a y ear ago. II
is well fitted up for hospital purposes. The
great obstacle in the way of its usefulness lies
in the fact that it has no endowment or other
permanent resources to meet its expenses. The
hospital will have to be closed soon unlese
some plan can be devised to insure It's perma-
nent support
A special from Rome says: ''Terrlble &C
counts continue TO be received from the region
4 the Piedmontese Alps, of ca sualties and de.
structions caused by snow storms, and avalan.
ches. Twenty houses were destroyed and for
ty people killed at Borgorivo. Fifty houses
were demolished at Frassiniere, and the nun
Der Of fatal casualties there were eleven. In
the little village of Frassiniere. which has
total population OF l,eVV, seventy persons were
killed
Great pressure Is being brought to bear OF
the mouse committee on agriculture to secure
favorable report on a bill introduced in Decem
Der by Congressman Willis Of Kentucky, emit
tied IA bill to encourage the holding Of a ma
tional agricultural, horticultural, mineral, tim
Der and live stock exhibition at Louisville. KY.
under the AUSPICES OF the Southern Exposition
company and the department Of agriculture o
the 9Gnifed States g5verrh. ent
The dry goods house OF Myers & Sons of In
dependence, Iowa, has been closed by the Sheriff
who held six mortgages against the stock. TIL
stock inventories about $4,000. Some time ag
! the firm was burned out, holding at the tim
insurance to the amount of $2U,0UO. This th
companies refu Sad to pay, alleging fraud. am
the matter was takSn TO the courts. Failure +
receive the insurance money is ascribed a
the principal cause or the collapse.