Bismarck weekly tribune., 1886-12-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

Arunaway team killed Mrs. c. l.. Barnes,
of Prescott, Wis., at9 s4s- Z. a.,-. =.
A Baltimore negro killed an old negress
to sell her body for $15. So,
The pope gave audience yesterday to the
bishop OF st. Paul, MINI.
Two persons confined in Jail in Chicago
Tor debt have been released.
The fire in Minneapolis destroyed w. w.
Sly's paint works. Loss $4,000.
A fire in the new $4OOOyOOO state house at
Springfield, Ill, did $4,000 damage.
Duluth, has suspended publication.
The furniture establishment of S. H.
Roeder, st. Paul, burned; loss, $4,000.
The Standard Oil company is preparing
to furnish Cleveland with natural gas.
Fire destroyed the court house at Poplar
Bluff, Mo. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
The presidents rheumatism is so much
improved that he has resumed his routine
duties. <f
ton narrowly escaped destruction by fire
yesterday.
Mrs. G. L. Barnes, an estimable lady of
yesterday.
Jay Gould says the Interstate commerce
bill is the chief cause of the present high
rates Of money.
1t is found the total receipts of the Min
nesOta state fair were $45, ,084.3O; expendi-
lures, $44,267.67.
Oscar A. Simons, president of the First
National bank of Fort Wayne, Ind, sui
cided yesterday.
Tall hats are fashionable in London. l
being English" the style ought to play
out in America.
The total valuation of Chicago city prop
erty this year is $15S, ,496, ,l31. against $780,
958,0O2 last year.
Owatonna is taking all active interest in
the survey Of the proposed new railroad
from Duluth to Iowa.
Mr.. Parker has introduced a bill in the
house increasing the tax on Oleomargarine
to six cents per pound.
j. r. Best, formerly of Fargo, has been
appointed agent Of the Minnesota & North
western at Rich Valley.
Lumbermen in the Minnesota bush are
lamenting the pleasant weather. The out
look is considered gloomy.
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November is 81 ,07S,OOO against $8l5,0OO for
the same month last year.
The Minneapolis grand jury has brought
indictments against 200 saloon keepers for
keeping open on Sundays.
A.. T. Lehman, a brakeman on the Mani
tOba, fell between two cars yesterday near
Fergus Falls and was killed.
The Grand Council of the Order of Elks,
Of New York, has elected William E. En-
glish, of Indiana, exalted ruler.
Ignatius Donnelly claims the farmer
members of the Minnesota legislature can
control that body if they want to.
The toboggan slide at Minneapolis will
be opened to-day. The event will be cele-
brated by banquet and fire works.
John Farrell knocked out Tommy War
rem, the great western featherweight, at
New York yesterday in five rounds.
A Winnipeg dispatch says the final re-
turns give NOrquay nineteen members, op-
position fourteen, independents two.
Forty thousand barrels of coal oil are
consumed daily on the earth. The statis-
tics from other worlds are not at hand.
VIM. Noonemaker, a switchman. was run
over and killed by Manitoba engine yes
terday iii the st. Paul union depot yard.
Judge Wade has decided that the contract
made by the city of Helena with Geo. F.
WoOlstOn for water works is null and void.
In the debris of a falling wall on the new
library building site in Washington, seven
men were buried yesterday. Several will
die.
William Heod. late treasurer of the
South Boston railroad, pleaded guilty to
embezZling $4,000. Sentence was de-
ferred.
. Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has for
hidden Roman Catholic vocalists and mu-
sicians to employ their talents in Protestant
churches.
A man named Ganders was arrested at
Kansas City on a charge of completely in
the murder of Rev. Geo. Haddock, the Iowa
prohibitionist.
Boston democrats are in revolt against
what they allege to be the "despotic power
of certain men who rule the democratic
city committee"
During the past season, 2,312, 600 young
shad were placed in the Hudson river.
Many of them will be on the grid iron a
year from next May.
Advices from Mandalay say that an en-
gagement between British troops and ma
tive has taken place near PakOka and that
200 insurgents were killed.
Arrangements nave been perfected
whereby the famous King g-RemingtOn case
of Minneapolis, will be speedily settled,
mutually satisfactory to all concerned.
Intelligence from Southport, England
says that another life boats crew venturcd
out into the rough sea off that port yester-
day to assist vessel and were also lost.
Under the derees of the plenary council
at Baltimore, the archbishop of Philadel-
phia has prohibited balls for charitable
purposes. The managers of the annual
Catholic ball in the latter city will be com
TO over $4,000.