The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

The late q W. McCune OF the Buffalo
Courier, left his residence and a life interostin
100000 to his wife, the interest on s5o,NO 10
his sister, and s20,0N0 to his private secretary
and business manager.
Gen. William Preston Of kentucky is q can
didate for the Spanish missiou-a position he
held under a former Democratic administra-
ton, long ago. He is seventy years old, but
vigorous and straight as a pine
Louis HubbeIl, living in the country near
Elkhart Ind, was about TO be removed TO an
asylum on account of alterations of the mind,
but taking advantage Of his Waterman, he shot
his wife and then himself dead
In the court martial, Gen. Hazen's friends
manifested their sympathy with HIM not only
by their presence, but by loading the table at
which he and his counsel sit with baskets and
bouquets of choice cut flowers.
DR.. Francis Wharton Of Philadelphia has
been appointed legal adviser upon questions
of International law III the state department.
to succeed Judge Henry O'Connor. DIR.
Wharton resigns from the chair of mterna-
tionsl law, Boston university, TO accept the
position.
4 certificate has been issued to Director Gen
eral Burke. of the New Orleans exposition, by
the controller of the treasury, showing that the
returns, vouchers, etc, made TO the govern
ment by the exposition management, as to the
disposition of the s1,ON,OO government loan,
are correct.
At Quincy, Ill, a young colorod man, J. c.
Hensen, swore out a warrant charging Elder
L. c. Henderson, pastor Of the African Metho-
dist church, with having committed rape upon
HcnsOn's sister on the 18th Of October last
Henderson, whose standing III the community
Is above reprOach, gave bonds to appear at the
examination.
Ed DolittIe and John Schonbach, the two
railroad strikers arrested at Hannibal, Mo, a
few days ago by United States Marshal Couz-
ms for interference with the operations Of the
Wabash railway, had a hearing before Judge
Brewer, of The United States circuit court, and
were each sentenced to sixty days in jail.
The American Express company, the Guar
antee company, and a force of detectives are
engaged in a still hunt for J. w. Dudley, a
messenger of the former company. Dudley,
while acting as messenger of the Northwestern
road between Chicago and Cedar Rapids, stole
a money package valued at nearly $4,000.
The Senate confirmed the following appoint
ments: Col. Nelson H. Davis, inspector general,
with the rank of brigadier general; Lieut. Col.
Absolum Baird, inspector general, with the
rank of colonel; Edward D. Clark, Mississippi,
assistant secretary Of the interior; Sidney d.
Jackman, Texas, United States marshal West
ern district of Texas.
When Miss Cleveland, now lady of the White
House, left her position as teacher in the Leb-
anon high school some years ago, the pupils
gave her a surprise 10 the course of the chorus
sung at the concluding exercises. They amend
ed the lines, w are ready TO fight, ready to
die, for our fatherland, and sung, Eve are
ready to fight, ready to die, for Miss CIeve-
land"
I. ". Henderson, the colored pastor of
Quincy, Ill, who was charged with rape,
proved an alibi, and the prosecuting attorney
dismissed the case. Henderson was then ex-
anime on a charge of hastardy, sworn ont by
the woman Henson Although the same evi-
dence was given, the justice bound the accused
over to the June term of the county court in
5000.
The principal gift of the Emperor William
to Bismarck on the occasion of the ~latter's
seventy-frst birthdag-the LIST proximo-will
be a copy by Won Werner Of his famous his
torical picture entitled 'The Proclamation Of
the German Empire at Versailles. +" The original
was presented to the kaiser by the reigning
sovereingns of Germany at the time Of the
unification-
Secretary of the Navy Whitney has declined
to take action upon the report advising the
board and recommending the acceptance Of
the new dispatch boat Dolphin. until he has an
opportunity to Examine the contract and all
details of the vessels construction. The sec
rotary also ordered that the T~allapoosa be put
in repair for regular service, instead of for
transportation of government freight and pas
sengers
Mary Baker, the sixteen-year-old daughter
Of William Baker, a German comedian, and
Justin Segrist, both of BIT falo, we're arrested
in Cleveland while on the way to st LENS.
Segrist is nineteen, and was q clerk in a Buffa-
10 wholesale house. Segrist lamented his fate.
and accused the girl of getting him into trou-
BILE. The girl says she Is determined to marry
Segrist. She was taken back TO Buffalo, and
the young man, being released, proceeded to
st. Loui
Two new senators-Gray of Delaware anG
Wilson OF Marylsnd-were sworn in the senate.
Seuator..Wilson is about Ave feet eight inches
tall, looks to be about sixty years of age and
has o scant head Of hair, which ia as white as
buOW. Lib l6Cc. WlilCu 10 YCEJ PdlC, Al HllOOtu
shaven. He was given q seat in the second tier
from the rear and 10 the right Of the vice pres
ident There are still vacant chairs in the SEN
ate to be filed by senators chosen from Illi-
nois, Arkansas and Oregon
Joseph SHELTON and George X. Osborn were
Swallowed by United States detectives at Chi
ago, and arrested while passing counterfeit
quarters. In some part OF the house Capt
Hall unearthed $3.50 in counterfeit quarters,
% in imperfect silver dollars, put aside to be
remelted, one face die for the dollar issue OF
lSs4, tga back dies feg silver dollars and 9
face and back die for quarters of 1877, and two
strips of German silver or composition In
which standard silver Of 30 per cent value ia
found
Congressman WellborH ofTexas Is not well
pleased with the civil service reform BE
wanted q Democratic constituent appointed to
q postofice. This Is what he says Of his in
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