The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-08-13
General News.

The late Apache raid in New Mexico cost
the Territorial government $4,000.
A number of horses and COWS were over
come by heat and died near LIE Sueur.
Commodore Kittson cancels all his Sara.
toga dates because his jockey is ruled of
the track for disobedience.
The official head Of Lowell Jerome, COL
lector of customs for the Corpus Christi dis
trict, is nearly ready for the basket.
The heirs OF John Forester of Yankton
and his brother Adam of Niobrara have
fallen heir to 10000 by the death OF their
father in Germany.
Byron McGinness, peddler, was run
over and killed by train at Youngstown,
ohio, and John Tompkins, Fort Wayne
brakeman met a similar fate at Leetonia,
| Ohio
Washington Territory wheat promises to
be something OF a feature in the markets OF
the East this season. The Northern Pacif
ic is making preparations to bring the
bulk of it to Duluth:
ordination held in this country was cele=
brated in Hartford, Conn.,, the other day.
On Aug. 2, 1885,, Bishop Seabury ordained
three candidates from Connecticut.
Two hundred laborers said to have been
sent to the Rocky Mountain division OF the
Canadian Pacific by an Eau Claire employ
ment agency, having found no work, find
themselves stranded and penniless in Win
nipeg.
According to the estimates of s. w. Tai
madge Of Milwaukee, the total shortage OF
this years wheat crop will lie 2O4, 900, 900
bushels. The spring wheat yield he figures
less than in 1884, and that of winter wheat
at PIP, 100000 bushels, as against 397,'
900, 600 bushels last year.
Josie Heniken was bitten by rattlesnake
near YanktOn. Mr.. Heniken took the boy
from the field to the house and tightly
bound a string around the wounded finger,
almost entirely cutting off the circulation OF
the blood. He then sucked the wound
vigorously, at the same time administering
whisky to the boy, and he recovered, with
no bad effects.
Sanborn, Dak., Enterprise: Only taking
into account the directly tributary to San
born, from estimates based on information
received from the most reliable sources, we
find that not less than 5, 900 acres, or 49,
900 bushels, figuring at the very low esti
mate OF fifteen buahels to- the acre, were in
an hours time completely wiped out by
recent storm.
The latest railroad rumor is to the effect
CnaC Jne milwaukee ana SC. laul mas pur-
| chased the rights and franchises of the pro-
posed Hayward, Superior & Southern.
This road is to be built from Hayward, in
Sawyer county. Wis, to Superior and Du-
luth, with a line running south from Hay
ward to connection with the Milwaukee &
St. Paul, at either Eau Claire or Chippewa
Falls.
At Greenville, Texas, there was reunion
of 10000 confederate veterans. I'm the
name of the surviving members Of Ross
BRIGADE Ricter's brigade, Maxey's brigade,
Granburn's brigade, the Eleventh cavalry
of Texas, unattached Confederates and I'm
ion soldiers, numbering about ten thousand
| men," resolutions eulogistic of tho life and
| services of Gen. Grant, and ofHympathy
with his family, were passed and ordered
telegratphed to Mrs. Grant. f.: . '''''.'
The earnings of the Grand Trunk for the
third week in July show falling of OF $685..
496. The gross earnings; OF: the Canadian
Pacific railroad for" July are reported at
$500, 900, an increase overthe correspond:
ing month last year OF $31S, 600: The Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha re
port gross earnings for July of $46S, 900,
an increase of$17 900. The gross earnings
| OF the Denver & Rio Gtande for July vert
$549, 295; an increase of STAT, 1885, Fot
the seven months ending Aug. !, the gross
earnings were s., 965, 1857, an increase OIL
$348, 897.