The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
The News Condensed.

1t is said that Russia has decided to
abandon her claim to the Zulikar pass.
Up to July 80 the number of cases OF
cholera reported in Spain was 4S,S59, with
21,S46 deaths.
At a banquet given TO the Catholic bishop
Of Down and Conner at Belfast the usual
toast to the queen is ignored.
A clash nearly occurs between Russians
and Afghaas, owing to the too near APP
proach OF the former to Karatepe.
The secretary of state has applied to the
president Of Mexico for the extradition OF
Aufdemorte, the New Orleans postoftice en-
bezzler. on the charge of forgery.
The authorities OF New Orleans decline to
permit the m~an-of-war Yantic TO enter that
port, her captain having refused to permit
her to be disiniected ndfumigated.
The total amount raised for the Bis
marck testimonial fund was $685., 900. OF
which $4,000 went to purchase Bis
marck's ancestral estate OF S~chonhausen.
The political crisis in Denmark is reviv-
ing. There are four deputies already in
prison on the charge OF treason. The trial
of the'leader of the opposition is impending.
A mar claiming to be a cousin of Presi-
dent Cleveland's former law partner has
been bleeding officeholders and applicants
in Washington by representing that he had
Influence"
The wife of Col. j. O. p. Burnside, the de-
f~aulting disbursing officer of the postoffice
department, has been appointed to manage
the affairs Of her husband, who was com-
mitted to the insane asylum last December
Gen. Middleton has recommended that a
medal be struck for the volunteers who
took part in the Northwest campaign. The
pnpo M r,apHo finp has haan onYNrnyaI hu the
Dominion minister ofmilitia andforwarded
to England.
Ex-Gov. Osborne of Kansas, who hasjust
returned from Brazil, where he has many
years represented the United States as
minister extraordinary, has settled his ac-
counts with the department OF state, and
left for Kansas.
The Boston Transcript says: All the
money needed to extend the Wisconsin
Central to Chicago has been subscribed, but
who are the subscribers, or whether the Bal
timore 81 Ohio takes any interest in the
matter or not, cannot now be learned, as
the Wisconsin Central officers are very ret
icent.
The estimate for the French wheat crop
is 100, 900 900 hectolitres. the yield Of an
ordinary year, and leaves nothing for ex-
port. France viii be required to import
10, goo, 900 hectoiitres. Advices from
Italy estimate the wheat crop at only 50
per cent of the average year.
The contract for grading the new Wiscon-
sin Central extension, the Chicago, Minne-
sofa Il Wisconsin, from Schleisingerville to
Chicago, was let to Harrison & Green OF
Milwaukee. This firm will employ 5O0men,
and the grading will be done and the track
laid so that trains will be running from st.
Paul to Chicago over the Wisconsin Central
line by Dec. l..
Commissioned Thoman says: Edward
Rowe, assistant appraiser, has been ap-
pointed ~ member OF the local board oil
examiners Of the New York customs dis
tricts vice G. "A. Stevens, resigned. Mr.
Rowe has been for twenty years Il member
OF the hoard of education for the city OF
Brooklyn. He is y gentleman OF high
character and fine attachments.
Henry Fink, railway postal clerk, acct
dentally shot and killed himself recently
he was out cunning in company with Pos.
tai Clerk 9. s.. Beardsley, about six miles
from Bismarck, and the two stopped in a
grove on Apple creek to pick grape
Beardsley was 100 feet away and did not
see how the accident occurred. The whole
charge OF shot entered Fink's neck at the
left side and lodged in the base oil the brain.
Death WAS instantaneous. Fink's parents
reside in New York City.
The postoifice department is called upon
TO decide the question whether a citizen al
the United States canpogt hissetters where
he likes. A business man in Washington,
who sends out an immense quantity Of cir
culars annually, mails them ut q small OF.
fce In Maryland, where his brother-in-law
is postmaster, whose salary is governed BY
the amount OF matter passing through his
hands. These circulars lave increased his
pay from nothing up TO a fair-sized saliry.
and in some way the department has just
found 1t out
George /. Wright, secretary OF the execu-
tive committee on the Improvement OF the
! Western waterways, is here urging attention
to the Mississippi river convention to r.
held at St Paul. Only two members OF the
cabinet, Lamar and Garland. favor the
permanent Improvement of the Mississippi
river, the president u other cabinet min.
listers being committed to the economical
plan OF no appropriations. Mr.. Wright Is
e~ndeavoring to ascertain the position ofthe
administration on tho river question, but
Tears the cause has a hard hattlato fght.