The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-19
Minor News by Telegraph.

The fund for Mrs. Hancock promises to
assume large proportions.
Great damage was done to trees and
~shubbery in Massachusetts, by a sleet
storm.
About two hundred children died at
Shenandoah, Pa, OF scarlet fever in two
weeks.
President Egan, OF the Irish national
league, donated his salary, $4,000 to the
league cause. =
The store OF j. M. Harris, Spring Green,
Wis, was robbed of $500.
Mrs. Gen. Sheridan has been dangerously
i'll for nearly two weeks, and her life has
been despaired OF, although the facts have
not been made known to her friends. Her
condition has been SO serious that her
friends have not left her DAY nor night.
She is now, however. very much better.
The United States treasury has prepared
q statement showing the amount OF silver
dollars in circulation July 81 last was
$39, 2S4,433; Dec. 81, $52,541,571; Feb.
10, 1886, $51,751,326.
Ex-Sheriff o'Bryon, and his brother, w:
w. O'Bryon, member OF the boarn, gil Of
Monroe county, Iowa, nave been indicted,
one for extortion, in charging larger lees
than the law permitted, and the other
cheating by false ~pretense.
The building and contents belonging to
+. Il. Wharton IL Co. at Fremont, Iowa.
burned. Loss, $4,000.
+. J.. Holstander and George i. Rey-
nolds were arrested, at Sioux Fails,
Oak, the former for obtaining money
under false ~pretenses upon chatter
mortgages on property he did not
own, and the latter for mortgaging prop
erty he did own.
The order promulgating the proceedings
OF the general court martial In the case OF
Lieut.. Lorenzo w. Cooke, Third niantry
who was recently tried at Fort Eiis,
Montana, for making improper proposals
to a woman resident in the garrison, mas
been published from department ~headquar-
tiers. Lieut.. Cooke was charged with con-
duct unbecoming an officer and o gentle
man, and to the charge there were three
specifications. OF the first specification ne
was found not guilty; but upon the Two
last specifications a finding oil guilty was
made, and he was sentenced to be
the service. In his review OF the case Gen.
Terry, the reviewing authority, after signl,
tying his approval OF the proceedings ana
the finding opon the first specification as
approved the Others and restored LieuV.
Cooke to duty.
At Andulasia, ILL.,, IL miles below Rock
Island, James Ross, twenty-six years o.
age, is charged by Charles A. York, aneign-
Dor, with rape and incest. Two separate
warrants has been sworn out ia q local
justice court charging the defendant Wild
these crimes, and setting forth that ms
mother. sixty years OF age was the victim
oil the crime.
A special says that during the dense ioe
Of the 18th, the Austrian bark kraljevika,
from Marseilles, France, struck on Barne.
gat shoals. Eight OF the men on board ana
three member Of the life saving crew were
drowned.
Nine prominent citizens or Columbus,
Kansas, were arrested, charged with exc
cutting fraudulent land mortgages. The par
ties are II. Barr M. M. Edmonsten, X. n.
Lawton, II. v. Gairgan, James Watson,
g. +. Woodruff, r.. s. r. Coplin, A. Coplin
and Il. w. Archer. Some Df them are also
charged With completely IN an attempt TO
destroy the county records.