The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEP.

| a strong opposition TO convict labor
Is being agitated in Texas.
! The son OF Meissonier the painter,
has been bitten by a mad dog in Paris.
! The Merrill house at Glendive, Mont.
| was busned Sunday. Loss, Sal 900.
The Hendricks monument committee
! at indianapolis issue an appeal for con-
tributions.
The nom polygamous Mormons are
/ increasing very rapidly in New Eng
land.
| There was a great liberal demonstra-
ton against Sir John Macdonald at
! CRYSTAL City, Manitou, Thursday.
/ Chauncey Depew says that Wander
/ bllt left nearly $500, 100000 instead OF
$500, 900 900, as generally stated.
! Cheyalier Antoine de Kontski, for
many years pianist to Kaiser Wilhelm,
| is playing to select New York audi
ences.
I E. A. Jones, wife and two children,
of Mechanicsville, n. Y, are ILL OF
trichinosis, having eaten fresh pork
and sausage.
| According to the Railway Age the
railroad mileage in the northwest dur
/ ING the past season was $50 miles.
Winter shipments of sugar, formerly
landed in Halifax and sent to Mon
treal, now go to Boston and New
York.
! tits believed the Northern Pacific
EXPRESS line will hereafter be operated
by the American Express company.
The understanding between the Sui
tan and Prince Alexander includes the
porte's consent to the personal unions
of the Bulgarians.
Tt.a.4r.1st If the Phillips
bus nteTed SUIT
to- iderss to
pay their arrears.
The government has ordered five au-
tomato torpedos, two Of which have
been made at the Edison machine
works in New York.
A. M Kelley has gone regularly into
the lecture field He will lecture on
Sunday in Washington upon Irish
Nationality"
f. A Charming, newly elected Lib
eral in England, is grand nephew of
Rev. DR.. William Ellery Charming, the
famous Bostonian.
Minnie Baker, a st. Louis girl, while
standing with her back to the fire, her
clothes caught and she was burned to
crisp on Thursday last.
Miss Smith, who recently died at
Chapel Hill, N. c. bequeathed 100 acres
of land and $l25in cash to each of her
old slaves who are now living.
James Gnnter was shot dead Thurs
DAY at Big Laurel, Il. c., by a little son
whose mother he was abusing. The
boy murderer is only eight years OF age.
The Northern Illinois railway, run
mag from Bellvidere, Boone county
H., to spring Valley. Bureau county,
H.. was opened for business Monday.
The members of the Louisiana dele
cation In Congress are SO bitterly an
tagonistic to each other that they can't
combine to resist the proposed effort to
lower the sugar duties.
The new school attached TO the Ro-
man Catholic church of st. Vincent de
Paul at Brooklyn will be the largest
parochiaI institution III the country,
and will accommodate 200 pupils.
Adyices from Mandalay state that
the sacred white elephant is dead. the
customary ceremony Of keeping the
body lying in state for three days was
prevented by the British officials, owing
10 sanitary reasons. The funeral was
attended by an enormous crowd.
Miss Genie Knight, daughter OF al
wealthy lawyer of Ashland, Wis. associ-
ated with Postmaster General Villas. in
the numbering business, was married
Tuesday to Leslie B. Rawley, a young
commercial traveller of Madison. None
of her relatives attended the wedding.
A year ago she was engaged TO wealthy
southern planter.
A passenger on The Northern Pacific
train Wednesday. who gave his name
as O'Connor. fell from the train Just
after it pulled out of the Anoka depot
ana received bad cut on the head. He
claimed that fellow passenger who
invited him to go out Oh the platform
picked his pockets and then knocked
him off.
A triple tragedy has occurred at Sas-
acora, Indian Territory. In drunken
fight Robert Brown shot and killed an
unknown Greek; then turned and fired
at Captain E. Mantle, shooting him
through the shoulder. Mantle returned
the fire, killing Brown instantly. and
his own wound proved fatal.