The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-19
General News Condensed.

except leather, and all dealersi in such boots
and shoes, shall cause them to be distinctly
maried or branded, andinvoiced as paper
soied boots or shoes, as the case may be.
It's pro visions are to apply only where said
boots are manufactured for sale or are sold
to citizens or other than citizens ofthe state
in which they are made or to a citizen OF q
foreign country. Violation OF the act is
punishable by fine and imprisonment, the
fine being placed at $50 to $500, and tonto
one hundred days.
The debate on Dillwyn's motion in the
commons brought out the fact that there
is a strong leaning in parliament toward
the serious consideration OF the disestab-
Ishment Of the Church of England. Many
Libarals oppose the motion, not from lack
OF sympathy, but merely because it was an
i~nfractioa OF the pledge given by thegovern-
ment on assuming power not to deal with
the church question in the present parlia-
ment. The Liberal press, however, re-
fecting the real opinion and purpose OF
the Liberal party predict that disestab-
lishment is certain to be considered in the
next parliament and a bill passed ~severing
the official connection between state and
church.
Gustave George Wolfram, proprietor OF
q railroad and steamship ticket office and
collection agency in New York, has abb
seconded, and is supposed to be in Cana
da. His liabilities are about $4, 900 and
his assets SO, 900 or $4,000.
P. n. Pitman, an employe Of G, W.
Moore's insurance agency OF Detroit, Mich,
has beet arrested at Kalamazoo on q
charge OF embezzling Sd, 900 from the New
York Life Insurance company.
Samuel G.. Schaeier, real estate agent OF
Kansas City, who was recently sentenced
to the penitentinry for swindling John f.
Blair, the Blairsville On. j. millionaire,
was bound over in the criminal court at
Independence, Mo-, to answer o. charge Of
conspiracy for the murder of Mr.. Blair and
the employment OF sa assassin. Schaefer
is in the Kansas City jail in default of$l0,-
600 BAH.
Washington Special: The bill TO allow
Col. Steele OF Dakota to buy section 16,
which is q school section, in the town OF
Steele, on the Northern Pacific, has met
with n terrific reverse. Col. Steele secured
from the house committee on public lands
and also from the senate committee favor
able reports on q proposition to let him
buy tina section at $3.50 an acre, the fact
being that he had settled on it supposing it
was section II, and he had put $4,000
worth Of improvements on it. The other
day Chairman Cobb, OF the house commit
tee on public lands, received a budget OF
afidavits from Steele going to show that
Col. Steele knew he was settling on the
wrong section, and did SO with the inten-
ton of ~defrauding the government, ETC.,
etc.
A postofice has been established at Gro
yer, Winona county, Mimi, and A. f.
Hidden made postmaster. The following
postoffices have been established: Da-
lkota-Holmes, Grand Forks county,
L. p. Hampstead postmaster; Thorson,
Day county, NJ. Thorson postmater:
Postmasters Commissioned-Dakota-
Steele, f. s. Corwin; Tower City, +. Valan-
digham. Minnesota-East Grand Forks,
T.. p. Geisert; Geneva, Elizabeth Reed;
Grove Lake, A. Harrington; Sherburn, M.
NJ. Jenkins. ,Wisconsin-Leland, f. Kip
stein.
The Dolph bill establishing regulations
for bridges over navigabie waters has been
amended in committee s. as to fit such a
case as that of the Stickney bridge at st.
Paul and the bridges over the st. Croix.
A senate committee begins to investigate
Pension Commissioner Blacks charge that
his predecessors made the Office a political
machine.
Mai. William Ludlow, of the corps OF en-
~gineers, u. s.. A., is appointed engineer COM
missioner OF the District OF Columbia.
The report OF the committee on COM
merce upon the interstate bill
presented TO the house says: Ii is be-
lieved that the enactment and enforcement
OF such a law will provide for the just and
necessary abridgement OF the monopoly
powers OF these corporations and protect
the people against unreasonable charges
and extortionate actions, and will at the
same time not interfere with or embarrass
the management of railroad corporations
in anything that is reasonable or just.
The committee believe it wiser and better
to provide for the enforcement OF such o
law through the fundamentally OF the or
binary course OF Justice and by the judges
and iuries Of the country than by the or
ders OF a commissioners, because they are
more accessible.
There are $50, 600 Creoles in Louisiana,
principally residents OF New Orleans.
The university OF Southern California has
received requests OF land and money to
the value OF 100000.
Mary Blocker, relict OF ex-Gov. Horatio
Seymour, died at the residence OF Mrs.
Roscoe Conkling, at Utica, N. r., recently.
The late governor removed Mrs. Seymour
from his country home TO Mrs. Conkiin 2
on account or her illness, and while attend
ing her was attacked with his fatal Illness.
Congressman Strait, OF Minnesota, who
opposes the Blair educational bill, IS q
member OF the committee having the bill In
hand. He thinks there are enough mem
bers of the committee who oppose 1T TO
strange it and keep it pigeon-holed.
First Comptroller Durham has approved
n requisition OF $12, 600 to pay the salaries
OF the members Of the Utah legislature.
The spectacle OF a reconciled wife cling,
ing to her husband, who had tried to kill
her. caused his acquital at Homer, Ga.
Some miscreant poured a lot OF strych'
nine into the buckets OF sap at a West
Virginia sugar camp, which was fortunate
ly discovered before the sap vas emptied
George Campbell Of Beaver Falls, Pa.
quarreled with his sister, a young lady
seventeen years OF age, and picking up 9