The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-03

tv- three vessels have been driven on shore
or foundered with loss oflife. The sChOon-
ers l. J. Conway, Bell Walbridge, SoutH
Haven, Pathfinder, LuCerne, Florlta Hel-
en-, Menekaunee, Marinette, Dickinson and
Emerald and the fine propeller Robert
Wallace are total losses, and represent a
money value OF nearly $500, 600 in vessel
property. The value OF the CargOes Is prob
ably double thai amount. In all, forty
one sailors lost their lives by the wrecklns
OF vessels on the lakes this season.
The railroad warehouse at Black River
Falls, Wis, the property OF A. d. Merrill
and used by Cargill IL Holman for storage
Of grain, was burned. The origin is not
known. The contents consisted OF about
| 1000 bushels Of grain and 5000 pounds
OF hops. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, 800.
At Havensville, Ky, a young farmer
named Rhodes Clements, while going
home from prayer meeting with another
farmer named Samuel Gordon, suddenly
became insane and killed the latter with a
club. Not returning home, a search was
commenced for Clements, and he was found
some distance from the road, sitting be-
side the body OF the man he had murdered,
eating his heart.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan has declined
to contest the Brighton district for the
seat in the house Of commons, vacated
recently by Mr.. Marriott.
The election for the rectorship Of st. An
drew's university resulted in the choice of
Rt. Hon. J. B. Balfour, secretary OF state
for Scotland, who received 108 votes
against IS for Sir John Lubbock.
The house and barns OF Stephen Calvary,
Jr, near Portage, Wis, were burned.
Nothing was saved. Loss, $4,000; partial.
ly insured.
Eben Bacon. a farmer near GAINESVILLE,
Wis, killed himself with an overdose Of
morphine.
Washington colored society is agitated
over the elopement of Miss Francis and
Cassins Harrison. Miss Francis is the
daughter Of the richest negro in the city,
and al about to marry George NJ. Sneed.
Z. II. Allison, scout and interpreter, de-
clares that Ram-in-the-F Face is not the In.
dian who killed Custer.
Thoebe has decided to contest the seat
OF Speaker Carlisle.
Senator Sabin has withdrawn his oppo-
sition to the appointment Of DR.. Guernon
as collector at the post Of ST. Vincent.
Members OF the Grand Army of the Re-
public are making a move to induce con-
gress to buy the house in which President
Lincoln died.
Two freight trains on the Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee railway collided at
Lowell, Mich, recently. The loco
motives were telescoped, and Engineer
Price, of the e%ast-bound train, was killed.
Rev. MISS Anna Shaw is a plucky woman.
She drew a revolver on a stage driver who
insulted her in the woods in Michigan and
silenced hin.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train col
lided with a freight train near Greenwood,
Mo. The engines were wrecked, and the
freight engine was hurled upon the forward
part OF the mail car, crushing it and kill
ing Elijah Magoffin, postal clerk. f. H.
Beebe, a clerk, is in a dying condition.
At Cleveland, o., Coroner West returned
a verdict in the WHEELER murder case. Mrs.
WHEELER, the murdered woman, was eighty
six years old, and was worth $500, 900.
Her husband, Benjamin WHEELER, is eighty
one. and he claims that his estate is still
larger than his wife's. The coroner reach.
ed his conclusions after holding a post
mortem examination On the dead body OF
the murdered woman, and after examining
fourteen witnesses. In summing up he
says: II therefore find that Jane Wheeler
anne to her death by being choked to
death by her husband, Benjamin WHEELER
The Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul Rail.
road company has settled about half OF the
damage claims growing out OF the disaster
at East Rio. The husband OF Mrs. Scherer,
and Mrs. Johns OF Winona, Mimi, have re.
ceived their money. The amounts given can
not be ascertained. but the first settlement
was made at the rate OF SO, 900 each.
The law provides that the damages in each
case shall not exceed $4,000.
The last ray OF hope for the recovery oil
Hon. William T. Price OF Black River
Falls, has vanished. tits only now a mat,
ter OF how long the ravages OF the disenae
can be held back by medicine.
At the trial Of one OF the Milwaukee gar
den rioters Judge Sloan discharged Henry
Gastel, one OF the prisoners, after hearing
his testimony. Gastel was one OF the
workmen whom a mob forced to quit
work. He had worked steadily at his
trade Tor twelve years without losing 8
day, but when forced out became grossly
intoxicated. and in this condition was in
duced to join in the riotous demonstrate
at Milwaukee garden. He explained that
his condition was such that lie imagined
himself pack in the old fatherland will
tho army, and when he saw the police inn
agined he was fighting the French. Judg,
Sloan commented IN the evil cons equencei
OF workingmen compelling others to GO in
to idleness, and allowed the prisoner IL
90.
Judge Shiras. OF the United States districr
court at Dubuque rendered a decision
in the case OF Sheer vs.. Grass BROTHERS
who conducted a retail saloon in connec
tion with their brewery in Chickasav
county, the question at issue being thatn
; federal question was involved. The judg
, decided that a federal question was in
volved, and that the case would have t,
remain In the United States court.
At Appleton, Wis, q frame buiIdinI
owned by G. q. Adkin and occupied jointl
! by Mr.. Baker and Miss Wheeler as q jewel
ny and millinery store. was burned. TIL,
} loss on the building is covered by 5000 in
surance, and on the jewelry stock by abou
$500. On the millinery the loss is 81,