The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-30

been turned into the wheat and oat fields
aud roadsides to obtain enough TO sustain
life. \ good many are selling of stock, one
farmer near Omro disposing of ten cows
for 500. Grass is being cut upon the
marshes, and even wild rice is being ga thrr-
ed for feed this winter. Another farmer
offered to sell thirty-acre oat field ior
500.
Henry Boden, a brakeman on the Chi,
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, was killed by
being run over at Harpers Ferry, few
miles north OF Dubuque.
Portland Special A telegram from
Spencer's Bridge, b. c., says the dead body
Of an unknown man was found there, with
unmistakahle evidence OF murder. In his
pockets was found the address OF Hugh
Butler 127 Main street northeast, Mime.
apolis, Minn.
William Hunter, second assistant secre-
tary of state, and the oldest Off cialin con.
tinuOus service in the United States, die | in
Washington OF complication of diseases
incident to old age.
Wilfred II. Barber beat the worlds uni
cycle mile record at Rochester. n. Y. re-
sently, by ten seconds, making the distance
in 3:51.
Several leading French anarchists, in.
Guiding Louise Michel, have been commit
ted for trial at the assizes torinciting pillage
and riot.
In England the population doubles in
fifty years; in the United States, Canada
and Australia in twenty-five years; in Ger
many, 105 years, and in France and its
countI les using the French Language, 14O
years.
1t is positively stated at Ottowa that
Sir John Macdonald viii resign the premier
ship on his return from the Northwest,
owing to ill-health.
The French Republicans have organized
a committee for the propagation OF repub-
hcan principles among the people oil
France, and the extirpation Of royalism.
At the Crescent mine near Crooksville
Ohio, Robert Burton was killed and Edward
Harrier fatally injured by the premature
explosion OF blast.
An engine of peculiar construction has
been built in Philadelphia to make the run
between that city and New York in 80
minutes. .#
Howard Hines, aged fourteen, deliberate
ly shot and killed Samuel Dean, aged eleven,
near Louisville. Hines is under arrest.
The London Standard says: The new
extradition convention hardly iustifies the
the interest which it appears was awaited.
1t fails to provide for the suppression OF
American societies in which horrible pro-
jects are hatched and by whose support
alone outrages in England are possible,
Public opinion in Great Britain will Ger
tainly look to the American government
for the suppression OF so gross and palpa-
BILE q conspiracy against the peace and
prosperity OF a friendly nation.
dispatch from Minden, Kearney CO..
Nal ba fcfn in hicr
try was very severe. There was q heavy
rainfall. The wind blew down the Danish
church, three miles south OF Fredericksburg,
and killed an old lady Mrs. Nels Monks
Nine miles south OF Minden the lightning
struck "a house, killing Ramasus Dilletson,
German farmer, his son AL, seventeen
years old, and daughter fourteen years
old, instantly, and severely injured another
child. No damage to crops is reported.
Capt Mike Hoy was sworn in as deputy
United States marshal by United States
Commissioner Odell. He will make his
headquarters at Minneapolis.
The committee preparing a manual for
the common schools of the state at their
session at the capitol building are at work
upon geography, history, language, civil
government penmanship, spelling and III
brary wcrk. Among the new departures
will be a course OF reading outlined for the
common schGols.
Adverse criticisms OF the lecture deliver
ed by Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr appear in
several papers. The Pail Mall Gazette
says: Mr.. Beecher did not have q first
class send-off. The hall vas not filled, and
the great platform WAS elnpty. The recep.
ton given to him did not realize expecta
tions. The applause WAS hearty, but4ack'
ed fervency. This was partly due to th'
character of the audience, the high adms
sion fee charged being bar to the presenc,
81 the people Mr.. Beecher's nlagnilcen'
presence, the mobility OF his face. the mod
ulation of his voice, his splendid dictini
and original thought combined TO make
the man greater than the occasion.
Near Columbia. Tenn. on the Louisvill,
Il Nashville railroad. a special engine com
ing north ran into the Columbia accommo
dation going south. killing Engineer Beeci
and Fireman King, OF the light engine
Henry Lanman conductor of the accoino
dation train; Fireman Robert Brown
Monroe Wilson, baggagemaster; al Il
Robertson, passenger agent and Section
Foreman Thompson. Two passengers
we're slightly injured.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, r. e. Watemar
and ID. II. Brewster purchased Il tract con
tanning 10000. 600 OF standing pine f0i
$50, 900. F. Weyerhauser, president o
| the q. l.. X b. company, has purchased foi
| $14O. 600 two tracts containing about 80,
o0c.U00 OF standing pine.
( The semiannual meeting Of the 1owo
| S9seriiIs association closed in Waterloo.
| about fifty sheriHs were in attendance
! The business consisted mainly in compar.
| ing notes oi service and arranging to work
| together in unison. An effort was also
| made TO establish uniform system of fees
| throughout the state. The next meeting
viii be held ait Sioux City in December
| 1t costs $500. 600. 900 a year to main.
| tain the standing armies of Europe
| The works OF the Bradley Fertilizer COM
pauy on Pine ffssa Island nd, near Boston. ware
| burned. Loss, over 500, 900.