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THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.
Tho Pope ON Temperance.

Bishop Ireland OF st. Paul was inter.
viewed in Chicago. In answer to the
question. What wa the pope's action on
the temperance DEGREES OF the plenary
council?" the Bishop said:
They were endorsed entirely. The
Catholic church from this time places it.
self on the highest ground on the temper
ance question. The council took an ex-
tremely strong stand on the closing OF
saloons on Sunday, indirectly put
ting the ban on the whole liquor
traffic, by stating in these words that Cath
olics engaged in it should seek q more hon
orable mode of gaining n livlihood. 1t
condemned selling liquor to minors and
habitual drunkards, andproclaimed against
blasphemy and improper language in ga
loons. 1t forbids the sale OF liquor, beer
and wine in any connection with the
interests of the church. 1t solemn
ly approves OF total abstinence 3D.
~cieties, and requests pastors to encourage
them. As for prohibition, it is a question
OF public policy and not a church question.
Upon this question all Catholics will act as
citizens. The Catholic church would never
commit itself on prohibition as IL political
question. In the details OF politics the
Catholic church does not interfere, Though
this is not sometimes understood by
P~rotestants.n
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General News.

Railway mileage in Iowa increased 1880
miles last year..
About sos, 12O has been contributed to
the Galveston relief fund.
Col. Sumner is nakinga very clean sweep
OF the boomers in Oklahoma, and the
squawmen have got to go too.
BY the failure OF the plate-glass works at
J~effersonville, Ind, that city lost $50, 600
amount OF stock in the concern.
Fifty five young women are now pursuing
the prescribed course Of study in the Har-
ward college annex. Two OF them are from
Minnesota.
The leading millionaires OF Fifth avenue.
New York, have combined to fight the
scheme for running q horse railroad on the
aristocratic thoroughtare.
Miss Cora Erwin OF Kansas City obtain
ed q verdict for $4,000 for breach OF
promise in IL suit against Robert L. Jacobs,
Of Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Gov. Pattison, OF Pennsylvania has de-
cided to call an extra session OF the lcsisla.
ture to consider the subjects OF apportion.
ment and anti discrimination.
A movement is in progress to transfer
Union college, Schenectady, N. Y.,to Albany.
Old Union has been in Schenectady 100
years, but it is thought it would thrive
better in Albany.
At Bozeman, Mont, in the case ofThomas
Surtees vs. The Northern Pacific CoalCom-
pany, claiming 100000 damages for his
eye through an accident in the mine, the
jury returned a verdict OF $4,000 dam.
ages.
Miss Mary Virginia Durham offered to
give John Durham Robson, her twelve
year-old nephew, S27, 900 by the time he
was OF age, provided he would visit her at
stated times. His father prohibited the
visits because. it is said. they would tend
to ALLEVIATE tho boys affection from him.
The trustee in charge OF the estate asks
the court to make an order allowing the
visits.
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mo man. says Professor Sumner,
SHOULD marry unless he can lfford tc
support and educate his possible chill
3dren. People talk about the rights
e the parent and the duty OF the
child, but / tell you that a man who
is The cause of his child's existence
owes, the child everything instead o.
being owed every thing by the child.
Birth is q dire misfortune to many
childeps and their parents cannot dc
enough f@r them in return for their in.
herited diseases and naisfortunes
which they bestoW upon them. One
OF these duties is education, and nc
man should marry who cannot carry
this out However just may be the
e0sscluslons of Prof. Sumner, their en-.
.foreement by legal authority would
lardiy be tolerated. They SAVIOR s
little too much of the 5Ialtilusian ar.
giinent 10 be generally received viii
favor.
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Personal Gossip.

James T.. Allen, a Nebraska pioneer, is
dead.
John B.. Alley denies that he was ever
Dorsey's partner.
Senator Pike, OF New Hampshire, has
been sick for some weeks through over
work.
Mrs. Mamie F. Anderson, the wife OF
Hon. John A. Ander son, OF the Fifth Kan
sas district, died recently.
Auditor C~henowith got himself into
trouble with Dorman B. Eaton by writing
"a brochure on the ~iatter's hotel bills.
John b. Bowman, ex-mayor of East st.
Louis, who was murder d there recently.
was worth $20O, 900. and has been IL prom
inent figure in all the political troubles
which has stirred the community for the
past twenty years.
The engagement OF Miss Anderson, dnugh-
ter OF the late Gen. Robert Anderson, OF
Fort Sumter fame, Is announced to Mr..
James Lawton. ofLawton Bros. of Havana,
and New York rumor has 1t that the wed
ding is to take place next spring.
Rev. w. w. Downs, OF Boston, against
whom the doors of the Bowdoin Square
Baptist church has been closed, preached
in music hall TO n large audience. His text
was, Acts viii, 26,40, closing with an ap-
peal to his hearers to let their light shine
before men that they might see their good
works and gloriiy God.
Miss Melissa McClery. a well known young
lady OF Fort Wayne. answered an adver.
tisernent two years ago from a gentleman
advertising for correspondents with Il view
to matrimony, since which time they have
correspondent. A few days ago William
Richard Of C~larksburg, Va, introduced
himself to Miss Mc6iery as the expectant
bridegroom, and they were married. The
gentleman furnished letters OF
dation from Senator Malone and other
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DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS
DAKOTA CROPS.

MR. AYNEs REPORT.
ALEXANDRIA, Oak, Special Telegram, Nov.
Dissatisfaction Baynes in his report on the
wheat crop says:
There were at least two counties that in ths
sheat that in 1855 produced 1000, 600 bushels
ach. The development has been no rapid that
he most radical estimates did not keep pace
Wheat for 1884 per aero was 60 bushels:
vhcreas the yield as shown by the census
aiken this year, and is official, is III
Z. scope Of territory, greater than
indiana and Illinois. with q crop that varied
rom two to forty-two bushel. per acre, to say
Ter the circumstances The guess that was
wide OF the mark was in the acreage. We mad.
7 1,S15 200 acres, while the census figures are
e6, l66. 24o bushels. The United States agricul-
:ural department cut it down to 90, 23O.O 900
lsslsis "h BUSHELS the T CENSUS puts Is l i g $50 $50
md / over r'An Is, 600 ooo more our than rep shs
department officials report, In which the total
yield for the United States is given at 5l2.763.-
300 bushels. It increases tho total yield Of
1851 to 52s. 600 l3 bushels. These extra 49,
visible supply that refused to go down during
last spring and summer. We now have the crop
Of 1884. as determined by the census. to figure
European war news that gave a boom to prices
Just prior to seeding, allied with tho sweeping
reports OF damage to crops throughout the winter
wheat section, there would have been a decrease
In acreage for 1883 from that of the preceding
year, but these conditions were
A PROMISING OUTLOOK
Tor the marketing OF the next crop and spnrred
up farmers TO send more than they otherwise
would have done. The price at which tho clop
Of 1884 was marketed was discouraxing to
wheat producers and much OF the land In the
large wheat belt was not ploughed during the
fall. In the south and central par. Of the terri
tory many acres that would have been sown
with wheat with good prices prevailing. were
seeded with fax. With a careful survey OF
the field we are Of the opinion
that the land broke up in 1884
and sown to crop for tho frs!
acreage from the causes before mentioned. The
acreage of 1885 IL therefore equal to that u
1884. The yield shows nearly as great a range
as the crop OF 1854. There were some localities
OF drought, Others of wide-reaching hail storms
while the prevailing specially hot weather dur.
ing the middle stage also worked injury all owe,
the territory. We believe that the harvest
also ended with an average yield OF l4h
bushels per acre. Loss before threshing, fron
rains and prairie fires, the latter being NOR.
disastrous than was ever known before
mounted to represent over 1882, 296 bushels,
when being deducted would make the remain.
ing crop for lSs5-31.O15.l 1873 bushels. Thi.
Dakota i'll 1884 and 1855 more than was figured
In any calculations by statisticians or in the
official report of the department OF agriculture
rank OF the great wheat producing states.
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Suspected wife Murder at omaha.

John w. Laner, general manager and SUI
perintendento OF the Omaha nail works, shot
and instantly killed his young and beauti-
full wife, who was formerly Miss Sallie Goet-
schins. According to Laner's statement,
about 2 o'clock Saturday morning the 21st
lust, he was awakened by a noise in his
house, and seeing a figure near the foot OF
the bed he fired and the person fell to
the floor. He then felt by his side
and found his wife was not in bed.
Getting up, he discovered that he had mis-
taken his wife for a burglar and had shot
her in the face, near the nose. She naver
spoke and must have died almost instant
". 1t was the general expression that
Laner had murdered his wife. 1t is well
known that since his marriage, about three
years ago, he has treated her most shame
fully, and has at times beaten her black
and blue. The jury, although unable
te say that the killing was done with
malicious intent, recommend that Laner
be held to the district court for further in
~yestigation. Flo was accordingly charged
with murderin the first degree in the police
court, inc required to give bail in $1,000,
which he furnished. Laner's former home
a in Cleveland. His wife was Il niece OF
p. e. Her, n prominent distiller and leading
citizen OF Omaha.
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The Barker estate valued at $50,
10000. is the latest in England that
awaits American heirs if they can be
found This report has put all the
Barkerss in American a state of ex.
pectancy They, and all others in
this country, ought to know that
there are NO such estates in England,
and no such amounts in the bank .ol
England, as frequently reported, that
are likely to reach American heirs.
james Russell Lowell, the late minis.
ter to England, and also Mr.. Phelps,
the present minister, made diligent
inquiries, and stated over their own
signature, on the best authority, that
such reports are without the slightest
foundation in TACT.
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What is pronounced an absolutely
reliable census has just been complet-
ed and reported to the authorities OF
Kansas City, Mo. The total popula-
tion is 1O5, 043, rs against $4,000 in
1870. Since 1880, when the city con
tanned $4,000 souls, the yearly rate
Of increase has been nearly 10000.
As q result of this showing, the form
Of government will now be changed in
to that of city of the first class, un-
der which even swifter strides are an
uounced to be possible.
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The faith of the French capitalists
IN NJ. Lesseps and his canal borders
on the marvellous. The call he has
just made for 125 francs per share is
being responded to without the stock
being thrown ON the markets to an5r
appreciable extent. In the meantime
NJ. Lesseps announces with the ut
most confidence that the French gov
eminent will assent to a lottery-loan
to cover 600, oOo, 900 OF de%bentures,
and reafirms that the canal will GER
tainly be completed in 1888.
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The New York Sun thinks that Fer
dinand Ward ought to be wrapped in
cotton waste, or otherwise treated
with extraordinary care, not on
grounds OF humanity or leniency, but
that he may be kept IS an essential
implement of justice. The Sun ar
CUES. Without his testimony it will
be impossible to convict some OF the
coldest-blooded and most unprinci-
pied rascals that there are in this
community; and until he has minis
tered tothatduty, at least, his should
be regarded as q most valuable lifo.''
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Benjamin Franklin bequeathed
$1,000 to thetownof Bostonin 1901,
to accumulate for q century, when
s1OO.000 was to be expended in some
important public work. 1t has been
decided to devote $35O,OOO to the
purchase Of WestRoxbury Park, which
Is now within the city limits. Frank
lin also left a sum of money, interest
.of which was ever after to be annually
given as bridal gifts to worthy and in
dustrious mechanics. This legacy has
also largely increased and is faithfully
administered according to the wishes
of the giyer.
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Since her accession in 1887 Queen
Victoria has received, lin addition to
casual allowances and the value Of
royalresidences) the sum Of 1855, 900
annually from the civil list, making in
all to this date E18 700; and since
the Prince Consort's death in 1861
she cannot have spent above the one,
hall of her allowance. Then she sue
eeeded TO all the Prince Consort left,
and for 81 years he received 100000
annually, making alone 100000
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The Chinese minister at Washington
ID entirely satisfied with the action Of
the United States government regard
ing the recent outrages upon his coun-
trymen in Wyoming and Washington
Territories, and believes that the adj
ministration is doing allit can to pre-
vent their reoccurrence and to punish
those engaged in them.
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Saturdays report of the vote on state cap
ital did not include the county of Faux.
Following liz a corrected report of the vote
for capital as announced by the canvassing
board:
Huron 10, Go5 Pierre
Chamberlain. $40. 3.1TO Sioux Falls. $3.50
Alexandria. 100. 1871 Scattering 49,. 500
Total vote, 31.sl5. Huron's plurality, 2,l21.
Following is the vote on state ticket:
Governor. A. C. Meilette. 2s.994; scattering,
scattering. quo. Secretary OF state, H. S Murphy
2S,Al7; scattering, 1856. Auditor. Frank Alex
anier. 27,323: scattering, a. Treasurer. a. W
Robert Dollarl. 29.U67; scattering, 1872. Sap
erintendcnt OF public instruction, A.. S. Jones
2s.4oG: scattering, l61 Commas oner Of
81 scattering, 1877.
The following was the vote for justices OF
the supreme court:
First District
D. Carson........2 s.6 6l Scattering .........1 III
A. q. Kellam.. -. 90, 149lScat.erine ........ 1.9
Third District
John L. Bennett. %. 13OiScattcring .......l 2t
The following is the vote for members OF
congress:
o. s. Clifford. ... 9.1S1i Scattering .......1s
I. ID. kdn0use. ...2S. 80
The following were elected Judges of the
circuit court:
hSb 'iStIiSts u. w. lit csCOuil, II IL,
Keith: Third, D. c. Thomas: Fourth, C. II. Dill.
lon: Fifth, seward Smith: Sixth, Nv. Nowlin.
The counties of Butte, D.ckey. Richland
Sargent and Walworth, all sparscly settled
and where elections would be expensive and
hard to hold. held no election. All member
of both houses of the legislature are Repub.
%licans, except G. II. James, member of the
lower house, who is n democrat.
A La Moure Argus special says
The completion of the James Rive;
,Ialley road from Jamestown to La.
Moure was celebrated here. The first
through train from jamestown ar.
rived at l:15 p. H., bringing a large
number of people, who We're received
at the depot by the La Moure cornet
band and escorted ny the principal
citizens to the new Leland hotel
where a banquet was in waiting, pre-.
pared in homer OF the completion OF
the north and south line. The run
was made in about three hours.
Judge Church qualified at Huron
and has entered upon his duties.
A colony OF about two hundred Rus.
sian Mennonites arrived in Bon
Homme county.
Mrs. Slaughter OF Bismarck has gone
to Washington to secure a pensionfor
his little daughters. Their great
grandfather was a naval officer, killed
in an engagement at sea in 1912.
Their grandfather was an officer in The
regular army, and died from wounds
in the Mexican a Their father
served as brigade surgeon in the war
of the Rebellion, and is an invalid
from injuries received in the service;
yet zone OF the family have ever re.
ceived one dollar or an acre of land.
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DAKOTAS VOTE

THE COMPLETED CANVASS.
1~ANKToN, Oak. Special Telegram, Nov. %.
The state canvassing board finished it's
labors to-day. The vote by counties on
constitution, and its separate clanses vas
as follows:
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Casualty Record.

Batligate, Oak, had a SO, 600 fire.
Louis Coldusco, workingin the Brookings,
Oak, flour mill, fell into the bran pit and
was smothered.
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prominent men. He IS editor and pro.
prietor OF Il newspaper at Ciarksbur.
Springs.
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MR. HENDRICKS. CAREER
EARLY DAYS.

EARLY DAYS.
Thomas A. Hendricks was born on a farm
near GAINESVILLE, Muskingum county. Ohio
Sept z, 1919. His father, Mai. John
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-Justice Miller Of
the United States supreme court, in sneak
ing of The presidential succession to -nipbt,
said.
If Mr., Edmnnds had been elected president,
~Pr"tc1nporc OF the senate at the recent ex. n, SEES
OF that body,he would now he the constitutional
successor to the prtsit-ncs in case of the death
OF MIR. Cleveland during his term of office
tcmpere can be terminated at will by vote OF The
senate"
ID you think that the sudden death of tho
vice president VIII give rise to II constitutional
amendment defining more clearly the status of
the president pro tefnpOre OF the senator"
NO. 1t Is not needed. The president PRO
tciiltufe Epids Office until the return OF the yicc
president or until the senate elects His src.
cessor, nor is his tenure OF office limited 10 n
single session, for the senate is a body in mr.
n@tuo' not expiring by limitation as does the
house OF representatives"
EX-JUsTICE STRONG,
Of the supreme court, said:
If Mr.. Cleveland should also die before the
meeting OF congress, the country woul1 he
without a head, and a most difficult problem
wouid DE offered for solution. 4 constitutional
amendment is not necessary. but n con.
eressIonai enactment is certainly II eedcd
ana under the circumstances will ,rob
ahIv be .ndoptcd BY the inc tmin
congress. testing the presidential succession, in
case or the death of the president. vice
president and speaker of the house, in the secre.
cary OF state until an election could be held. In
That contingency the secretary of state would be
courtesy he would be called president. The SAINT
would be true of the vice president, president
pro tenlporc. OF speaker of the house, in case o;
the succession falling upon either of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-14
TELEGRAPEIIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

A LARGE number of employees have
been discharged from the Portsmouth
IN. b )navy yard, and work IN all the
departments is suspended.
GEN. WEAVER, of Iowa, is throwing
his influence III favor Of State Senator
Charles E. Whiting as the fusion can
dldate for governor OF that state.
The bill passed by the New Jersey
legislature preventing railways from
leasing their roads or franchises with
out legislative san ction has become a
law.
JAMES R. OsGooD C Co., publishers,
and the Heliotype Printing Company,
of Boston, made assignments MonJay.
Osgood & Co.'s liabilities are about
$3.50 900. with assets between 100000
and 100000.
The Canadian journals are calling for
the immediate fertilization of E;qui-
mault barbor, commanding the entrance
to British Columbia waters. Although
an imperial naval station, as well as a
valuable Canadian port, it is almost de-
fenseIess, and would fall aa easy prey
to Russian war ships.
Two Of the revolutionary leaders who
ordered and participated in the burning
Of the city of Colon (AspinwaID, on the
lsthmus OF Panama, recently, were
tried by court-martial and sentenced to
death, and in the afternoon of the same
day were taken into the midst of the
ruins OF the burned portion of the city
and hanged.
ALL was quiet Tuesday at Lement,
but a bitter feeling against the military
was manifest. The militia officers re-
fused to testify at the inquest, and tho
| col Oaer's deputy who went to the camp
to serve subpOenas was compelled to
leave without discharging his duty.
Captains Bell and Smith were at one
| time threatened by a mob near the post
| Office, but suffered no bodily injury.
| Sheriff aanchett issued proclamation
calling upon the rioters to disperse and
announcing that persons who desired
to return to work would be protected,
and that unlawful idling or lettering
| would not be tolerated.
THE result of the special election in
the Thirty-fourth Illinois Legislative
District, for the choice of a successor of
the recently democratic mem
Der of the house, was republican vic
tory, notwithstanding the fact that the
district has always heretofore been
strongly democratic. Mr.. Weaver, re.
publican, is elected by over two hundred
majority. This gives the republicans a
majoriy of two on joint ballot of the
two houses, and changes the ma ority
in the house from thc democrats TO the
republicans Although the republicans
Will now have majority of two on
joint ballot, every republican vote will
bo necessary to elect republican sena-
tor; 1913 votes, which constitute a GAO
rum, being needed to elect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-14
ACCIDENTS,

DIPHTHERIA Of a malignant type is
epidemic in Greenwood township, rear
HilIsboro, III.
By the tenement house fire in First
avenue, New York, early Sunday morn
ing, eight persons lost their lives, ard
fourteen were more or less in jured.
Iris now ascertained that twenty-one
persons persisted in the recent building
bodies have been rec .vered.
The popular seaside resort on the
New Hampshire coast, known as
Hampton Beach, was the scene Of a de-
strCctive coRdagratioD. Three Of the
fashionable summer hotels and many
Gotta es were consumed.
WAINwRIGHT's brewery in Pltt4burg,
Pa, caved in with heavy crash st
o'clock Sunday morning The struc-
tHre, four stories, is an entire wreck,
together with 10000 barrels of beer
stored in the building. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
A FIRE on Sunday DESTROYED all the
business portion of Grand Junction,
Michigan. Tie principal losses are: z.
| II. Warner, hotel and contents. Loss,
81, geo; insurance 81, 500. w. A. Feazell,
store and general stock. Loss, s., 600;
insurance light. W. III. Smith. house
hold goods. Loss, 81, 900; no insurance.
Rogers Brothers, store and general stock
and the post Office. Loss, 1900; insu-
rance, $500. w. NJ. Young, restaurant
and barn. Loss $1,000; insurance, $500.
Numerous additional losses aggregate
| $50, 900. The fire originated from a de-
| fective fue.
AT 2 o'clock Sunday morning, fire
was discovered in Mrs. Helborn's mil
linefy-shop in Cabery, a thifty village
of 800 population, located on the lire
! betv cen Kankakee and Ford counties
% miles from Kankakee. The flames
spread rapidly, there being no fire de-
| partment in the village, until soon the
entire business portion, consisting of
frame buildings, occupied as stores on
the first floor and residences on the
second, including twentyfour business
| houses and fourteen residences, were