Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-11-06


With increasing age Mr.. Tilden is said to
refer less frequently to politics.
The annual fire tax paid by the United
States is estimated at $l6O,0OO,OOO.
A colOred girl only 10 years old is the
mother of twins at Elizabeth City, N. C.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has all the doors inside
of her New York palace hung with pansy
velvet.
Huron people feel grieved over the re-
moval of Judge Smith and the appointment
of Church.
The supreme court of Texas has decided
that will scrawled on a candle box is a
legal instrument
1t is estimated that Montana contains
1896 sheep, worth $169Sl4S an increase
of 47h per cent over the figures of last
year.
In November, 1884, at Point Lay, Alaska,
herd of deer was seen that extended for
thirty-fve miles, and must have numbered
a million.
The October term of the supreme court
of Massachusetts, was opened with prayer
the only instance of the kind in that state
on record
The printers union of Minneapolis has
bOycOtted johnson, Smith & Harrison's
printing office, and declared it a "rat' es-
tablishment.
All editor 81 years old attributes the pro-
longation Of his life to the fact that he
never expected to please everybody, and
never tried to.
Professor Richard Proctor finished four
new books for publication last month, and
is now preparing one to be published as
serial in America.
1t has been asserted, upon what appears
to be good authority, that in the last twenty
years Mr.. Tilden has paid out not less than
$750,0OO for political purposes
Hercules Wilson (colored) has resigned
his seat in the Georgia legislature, giving
his reason that he can make more money
by laying brick at from 81 to SIS per day.
Captain Alfred Taylor, of Westport,
Conn.,, and his wife, will celebrate their
diamond wedding Thanksgiving week, if
they should live till then. They have one
son II years old.
"Mikado' parties are the latest fashiona-
BILE craze. They are not likely to become
popular, however. because all the girls
want to play Ynm-Y Yum, and the young
men insist on taking the part of Nanki-
Poo.
Joseph G. Chandler. receiver of the
United States land Office at Yankton, has
sent in his resignation to the secretary of
the interior. Mr.. Chandler is the son of
the ex-secretary Of the navy, and feels that
he can not consistently hold the office un-
der democratic administration.
St. Paul Globe: These is a growing i'm
pression especially about Grand Forks,
that the sworn statement of Miller, just be-
fore his execution and ON the gallows Fri
day, contained the real facts in regard to
the murder of the Smells, in spite of the
emphatic denals of Rutherford, and his
unquailing eye,as he witnessed the taking
off of Miller. 1t is known that he appeared
before the grand jury and testified against
Miller He lived within half mile of the
Shells and in going to town every day or
two, passed the house Of the Smells and fre
quently brought out their mail. About the
time of the murdur be was hauling wheat
to Inkster with Miller, and passed the
Smell house three times day, and yet he
states that for four days after the murder
he did not notice anything wrong about
the house, not missing Miller, nor obsery
ing that there was no fire nor any signs of
life. He even left mail there one day dur
ing this time. When he did note the qui-
etude, and found that the stock in the stable
were suffering from their long fast, he
would not enter the house, but looked up
other parties and induced them to go and
see what was the matter. He would not |
enter the house himself then, nor at the in
quest, nor 60 near it since. Miller speaks
of false mustache, but Rutherford denies
that he had one. 1t is said that one has |
since been found in his trunk. These state
ments are derived from reliable officials of |
Grand Forks county, and are developing a
public sentiment strongly adverse to Ruth-
erford. Miller was hardly more than a
boy, and was easily controlled by others. |