The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
News Items of General Interest.

Ex-Gov. Reuben E, Fenton OF New York
dies suddenly at his desk.
The Tennessee saluted Mr.. Blaine with
twelve guns at Bar HarbOr.
Thirty-two buildings were burned by light
ming in Stafford county, Nh.
The late Lyman Clark OF B~rockton,
Mass, left a fortune of $780, 900.
Mr.. Blaine is living quietly at Bar Har-
Dor, attending yacht races every now and
then.
Cardinal Manning intimated that some
ecciesiastic in Boston would ere long be
made a cardinal.
The president will deliver an address be-
fore the Virginia Agricultural society at
Richmond, Oct. 21.
To much rain at Sidney, Ohio, carries
away the water works reservoir and leaves
the city without water.
Attorney General Garland has not been
out OF Washington this summer, and will
not take a vacation until the president re-
turns.
Architect Belts latest trouble is in con-
motion with the Kansas City p~ostofice.
He is charged with spending $4,000 i'm
properly.
Under the recent navy department or
ders over four hundred men are employed
in the construction department at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Extensive forest fires are raging all along
the Northern Pacific, between Horse Plains
and Huron Montana, destroying immense
quantities of valuable timber.
Postal cards are reported to be generally
scarce at the p~Ostoffices throughout the
country, the government being very tardy
in meeting acquisitions for the arcicle.
President McConnico, OF the American
exposition, at New Orleans, received q dis
patch from Geo. NJ. Pullman increasing his
subscription from $4,000 to $4,000.
Mr.. Cannon, controller Of the currency,
has been recalled from Monmouth Beach,
n. j., where he has been spending his yaea-
ton, because of the illness OF his deputy.
At the Western Rife association tourna-
ment at Western Union Junction the short
range match is won by Milwaukee, by a
score of go, to $50 for Minneapolis and
214 for Racine.
Prof. Wylie, territorial superintendent
of instruction, and Peter Koch, assistant
cashier Of the Gallatin National bank,
were fined $50 each for leaving their camp
fire burning in the National Park.
Lord Carnarvon will visit all the large
towns OF Ulster and the poorer districts OF
4 DOUeHdi. ne udS lSSuSu " bCdbuluS EcDdho
to Clifford Lloyd, with reference to the lat
ter's recent article on Ireland in the London
Times.
Mrs. Mary A. Stuart, wife OF the million
aire banker Joseph Stuart OF New York,
was accidentally shot and killed at her
summer home in Rye Beach. She was re-
moving a revolver from one place TO an
other, when itexptoded.
AtCooke City, Montana, two miners play
ed 100 games OF cribbage, the stakes being
100 feet OF the Snowslide lode against 100
feet OF the Elevate lode-both rich proper
ties. The Elevator man won, and received
his deeds Immediately, for which he refused.
81, 500.
The Conservatives are expressing great
satisfaction on the Zulfkar pass question.
Word has already gone out to make This q
campaign point, but the announcement
that a joint commission will settle the de-
tails OF the spot seems to leave everything
where it was before.
The publicity given to the fact that the
United States treasurer has resumed the
transfer of gold coin from San Francisco
to New York by registered mail has again
caused a suspension of that mode Of trans
portation. it is not expected that any
more gold viii be sent through the mails
for some time.
The register OF treasury has issued the
following order: To avoid the troubles and
delays inthe transfer OF United States bonds
by the successors or legal representatives
Oh holders in nominaiiy or really fiduciary
capacity, this office will hereafter refuse as
a condition precedent to issue to any trus-
tee, executor, administrator, guardian etc,
that the beneficiary or particular trust thus
represented shall be named on the applica.
ton and in the assignment OF the bonds for
the purposes proposed.
Carter III. Harrison's attorney, Allen G..
Storey, submitted an answer TO the bill filed
by citizens two months ago disputing Mr..
Harrison's titletoth the mayoralty OF hicago
by reason OF numerous miscounts stated to
have been made in the vote and innumer-
able frauds alleged to have been committed
at the polls in the interest OF Harrison.
The answer is in the nature of q demurrer
generally denying the allegations OF the bill
and giving fifteen reasons why, in the opinion
OF the defendant, the case is not entitled to
a regular trial in court.
DR.. Loring has replied to the charge OF
Controller Durham that he mislaid the dis
allowed ~accountin his letter OF fully 27. He
says that he never intended to convey the
idea that purchases OF machinery were in
ciudedln the disallowance, and that the con-
roller has misapprehended the meaning ~
his letter on this point. In reply "a the
statement OF the controller that the bur-
chase OF seeds formed no part OF The sugar
experiments, he claims that the purchase a.
beet and sorghum seeds and the employ
ment OF labor for their distribution was as
much a part OF the experimental ex-
penditure as the purchase OF machinery.
and expresses q confidence that the con-
troller will not fofsa moment suspect him
Of attempting to m~isstate the case e;therto
hlm or the public.