The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-10

Louis that John G. Gault will retire from
the management OF the Erlanger system at
his own request about Jan. l, and be sue
ceeded by Capt. w. W. Peabody.
C. NJ. Tennis OF Brainerd, Mimi, mail
agent, was burned to death, and Il. II.
| Linnen, another agent badly hurt. Much
mail matter was destroyed.
The personal friends OF the late ex-Presl.
dent Arthur nave already contributed
| about $50, 900 towards the erection OF a
500, 900 monument TO his memory, and
they are determined that no appeal II a
be made to the public in this behalf.
A Washington Special % the Helena In
dep~endentsays: Hon. Sam Wood, attorney
of the Union Pacific in Montana, has been
engaged by the department oil justice tOas-
list District Attorney Smith OF Montana IN
the timber trespassing cases In that terri
tory. These cases involve more than u
million dollars, and involve the Montana
Improvement company and other concerns
that nave been cutting timber OFF the pub
lie domain.
There is much opposition on the part
OF Mississippi river men to the Dill lor q
low bridge across the Mississippi at st.
Louis. Iowa and Wisconsin lumbermen are
especially opposed to it, and J. H. Stout
Of Dubuque has arrived here to interest
Western congressman in opposition.
The second trial OF John w. Lauer, for
the murder OF his wife, whom he shot by
mistake for a burglar, as he maintains, be-
gan At Omaha, but was postponed till the
next term OF court in March, atidavits
being filed dy the prosecution that an I'M
pOrtant witness, Emma Bell, was in Chi
cago at the bedside Of her sick father.
Official returns from the two disputed
counties in Washington Territory are re-
ceived, and make the legislature Republi-
can on Joint ballot by two majority. The
official vote on delegate gives Charles 5.
VOORHEES, (Dem.) a plurality OF 2,192.
Belva Lockwood has a law practice
worth from IS, 600 TO $4,000 a year. In
1875 she was teaching school at $40 a
month.
The treasury statement shows the No
vember decrease in the public debt to be
SO, 005, 249.
United Ireland, OF Dublin, publishes a
legal opinion given by Hugh Holmes, at
torney general for Ireland, to the govern
ment as to the right TO suppress the new
movement Of the Irish National league
which aims to beat the landlords by hav-
ing tenants deposit with a trustee for ten
der such sums below the demanded rents
as the tenants believe fair and are able to
pay. Holmes say men have legal rights
to act as trustees for tenants as proposed
by the league, and the government has no
right to arrest them for so acting. Holmes
also advises the landlords to seek Some
method of getting their money from ten
ants which will not involve government
assistance.
At Mason, Neb., MacKendorf's store was
burned. The second floor was used for
sleeping rooms. Mr.. MacKendorf broke
his leg in jumping to the ground. His son
and J. J. Hoagland and Malcolm Miller
were burned to death.
Mr.. Parry, a civil engineer in the Ameri-
can navy who during the past summer was
exploring the inland ice of Greenland, Een-
etrated 100 English miles into the interior.
He was accompanied by Margarad, a
Dane. They were out three weeks, sledg.
ing in ice fields all the time.
DIR. w. r. Summers Of New York, a mis-.
sionery in Africa, has been naturalized as
a Portuguese that he may continue his mis-.
sion work and explorations under Portu.
guese protection.
L. B. Frank & Co., the Oldest mining
stock firm in Nevada, failed. Liabilities,
$915, 900. TIL creditors include many oil
the most prominent shareholders in the
Comstock mines. The following are the
heaviest losses: l.. Jones, superintendent
OF Crown Point and Belcher, $205, 600;
Gen. Heating, superintendent OF Savage
and Norcross mine, $50, 900; e. ID. Berle,
ofthe Alta mine, 100000.
Alice Hughes, aged twelve years, living in
Franklin township, Gloucester county, New
Jersey, became a mother recently OF a fe.
male infant weighing eight pounds, the
father OF which is the girls own father, a
laboring man. Investigation reveals that
1 %lz !, Ehn- e. oo1sNAa1 4Ln co no c~,,r N 1RA
IN older daughter three years ago.
Charles Carter, a notorious land swindler,
was arrested at Birmingham, Ala. He
swindled parties out OF 500, 900 worth Of
land. He is wanted in several Southern
cities for similar crimes.
There was a tremendous financial furry
in San Francisco. a short time ago. not
equalled since 1878. Consolidated bust.
ness reached nearly fifty. and lots of oper-
ators failed.
The president has appointed the follow.
ing postmasters: Alexander Charles at &c.
dar Rapids, vice William Smith, suspend
ed; James p. Carlton at Iowa Falls, vice
Il. b. Knapp. suspended; &C.. Scrimgon at
Belle PLANE, Iowa, vice r. w. Hunter, re.
signed; g. w. Carlton at Deer Lodge,
Mont, vice 4. s. Stackpole, suspended. G.
w. Carlton, appointed postmaster at Deer
Lodge, Mont, is a resident OF that city,
about forty years old, and prominent
local politician.
William Hicks, wife and two sons of Bos.
ton, Ellsworth Brown OF Miamisburg, Ohio;
Daniel Williams OF 1rondale, Canada; DID.
Reed, Manson, Iowa; Henry Wright OF Sill.
yer City, N. NJ; the seven Methodist mis-.
~sionaries bound for the Congo sailed on
the Adriatic from New York.
The Lewis Walter property forty eight
acres, on what is known as the Finger.
board road at Southield. Staten island,
has been Sold to A. b. Stickney, of the Min
nesota Il Northwestern. TIL property Is
to be used in connection with the stocR
yards scheme OF the Northwestern cattle