The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-12


Mr.. Gladstone has issued his cleo.
ton address to the voters of Midlo.
THAN, giving the elements OF the pol.
icy upon which he asks that constituency
to return him to the house Of commons,to
fill the vacancy caused by the fact ofhis ac-
cepting Office. In this the prime minister
will state: The new government will insti-
tute an inquiry into the entire land ques.
tinn in Ireland and into the question
whether there exists any necessity for the
introduction OF any specially coercive meas
ures in legislation for the Irish people; but
the main policy of the government shall be
to endeavor to reach the source and seat
OF the mischief generally admitted existent
in that country.
Pierre and Jean Baptiste Vandal, who
were sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for having taken
part in the Northwest rebellion, have
been ~pardoned. 1t is expected that the re-
lease OF other prisoners confined for the
same offenscs will follow.
Thomas Morley, an escaped murderer,
indicted for killing Marein Archer, Of Or
ange county, Indiana, in 1882, has been
captured near Little Rock, Ark.
A terrific explosion occurred recently at
the Mi tmi powder works, at Goes Station,
near &enia, Ohio, where the large powder
mills were blown to atoms and Gustav
Snyder, superintendent of the works, so
badly bruised that he cannot recover. The
powder house of Stanley, Sarrell q Co.,
New York, exploded at shaft No. % OF the
new acqueduct, on the Fordham Landing
road. The shock was felt for a radius OF
many miles in all directions, and the dam
age to the surrounding neighborhood was
heavy.
The Ohio committees are still wrestling
with the legislative deadlock.
A New York bay tug ran down a row
boat and drowned five Austrian seamen.
The United States court in Indianapolis
entered judgment in favor OF the plaintiffs
in the case OF forty-two wholesale firms OF
New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities
against Michael Fletcher OF Lebanon, Ind.
1t was charged that Fletcher obtained $780,
600 worth OF goods from the firms and dis
posed OF them without paying for them.
A vote in the house shows that the silver
men nave a large majority.
Senators Edmunds and Pugh, by direc.
ton of the committee on the judiciary,
called upon the presi lent to inform him
that the committee would feel called upon
to report against the nomination OF Judge
Merrick of the District Of Columbia, who
was appointed to the district bench last
summer. The only objection to Judge
Merrick was his age, for after q service OF q
little more than two years he would be
retired upon q life pension, and the com
mittee did not think the appointment OF
men OF his age should be approved Of by
the senate. The president. promptly re.
piled that Judge Merrick was giving salts.
faction and he did not see that his age dis.
qualified him in the least. Therefore he
could not justly withdraw his name.
Ellen Gehan, waiting maid OF the late
Mrs. Roebling, wife of the famous John w.
Roebling, mechanical engineer, has brought
suit to recover $4,000 from the Roebling
estate, she alleging that Mrs. r. promised
to leave her well off.
p. N. Smith, the attorney, shot at Eliza.
beth, Stearns county by II. o.. Kempfer
will not recover. Kempfer is forty-eight
| years old. and was formerly a. resident oil
Madelia. Watawan county When TWEEN
| ty-four years old he represented the
Twentieth district in the legislature.
Archbishop Gibbons says that $4,000 0O
will soon be raised for the proposed Ro-
mar Catholic university. Bishop Marty
Of Dakota is collecting money from the
German Catholics.
The wife Of Senator Mcpherson. gave an
| elaborate and beautiful breakfast party to
young ladies, in honor of her guest, Miss
Dillon, the daughter OF Prof. John f.. Dillon
OF New York. Two tables were, sci with
| eight d~ebutante's at one table and sixteen
young ladies at a larger board. The tables
were decorated with large central cushions
OF roses and other choice flowers and has.
kets OF maiden-hair fern graced the ends o.
| the tables.
Washington Star: A newspaper CORE
spondent recently poked fun at o western
congressman for a spread eagle burst o
eloquence, and then found out that tn,
passage was a quotation from Macaulay
Snow fell to the depth OF four inches a
Nexcalings, four miles from the city Of Mex
leo. This is the first snow that has faller
in that vicinity since 1856. The Weather Ii
much cooler than is generally experienced
In that latitude.
The agreement between France and Ger
many regarding their respective possession
on the west coast of Africa and ia the Soutl
sea has been submitted TO the reichstaa
The agreement cont aims an amicable under
standing with respect tc che rival claims o
the two powers to the territory lying o,
Biafra bay, Germany surrendering her as
sumed sovereignty and protectorate owe
all that part OF the country lying south q
the river Congo, and France abandoning a.
claim to any territory north OF that rive,
Scott, clerk Of Arrapahoe coaaty. Colo,
although indicted for falsifying the record
and admitting II. has obtained BAH an
holds onto his Office. He utn't be dislodf
Ell until convicted. and penver people al
excited.