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

be paid Sl,56O Tor carrying malls rum
1858 to 1862 ON the route from Browns
vile to Carimona. The committee have
also been asked to act promptly on the
claims Of Thomas George OF Lake Benton
for 81, $50 for loss OF his crops in the Sioux
outbreak of 1862. Isaac Slocum OF Blue
Earth county asks for So, AGO for losses in.
CURED during the Sioux outbreak in 1857
and for property unlawiully taken from
him by the United States marshal. The
committee on pensions recommends that
q pension be granted TO Mrs. Bridget
Smith, mother OF Patrick j. Smith, Tenth
Minnesota, and John l.. Hunter, First
Minnesota mounted rangers. The ollo
ing have made applications for pensions by
special act Of congress-: George Chambers,
First Minnesota; Betsey bartholomew,
widow OF Lament Bartholomew, Second
Light artillery, Minnesota volunteers;
Jacob Nix, who wants an increase OF PEN
sion. Mr.. Strait has with the military
committee n bill providing that in ~recogni-
ton of the valuable services oil John Jones,
late captain OF the First Minnesota bat
terry, especially in the defense OF Fort
Ridgely when attacked by the Sioux In.
dams in 1862, the president be authorized
TO place him on the retired list Of the army,
with the rank and pay OF a captain.
Congressman Wakefield OF Minnesota
has submitted to the committee on post
offices a plan to simplify and economic the
collection and management Of the postal
revenues. He proposes that: The post
master general be directed to select from
the first and secOnd-class ~postofIices such
q number as he may deem adequate for the
purpose, TO be designated as Repositories
and depots, for the deposit:ng OF postal
tgqds and supplying postage stamps TO
! Qthar pOstOtICeS. Ie WeLthen arrange the
-@.A, ~ go, s-A1 S-{n;,t nNnXFnnInnf m
! said repositories, and they shall there
after deposit all postal funds with and OBJ
tain all supplies from said depOts. Post
Office supplies are to be furnished by the
department to these repositories only. All
postmasters shall thereafter be paid q fix.
ed yearly compensation, and the salaries
Of postmasters OF the fourth class shall
range from $l2 to $1,000.
A German colony has purchased 1000
acres Of land in Kansas, which will be de-
voted exclusively to grape culture.
A remarkable temperance revival is in
progress in Clay county, Indiana. In one
town OF SOC inhabitants 300 have signed
the pledge, including many ~saloonkeepers.
Four Ursuline nuns left Cleveland recent
ly for work in Montana.
V. A. Whether, a well known orator and
politician i'll West Virginia, was lynched for
wife murder.
The bodies ofColman and Patten, prom
inent Seattle citizens, assassinated by anti
Chinese agitators, are recovered fTom Lake
Washington, w. 7.
The committee on military affairs refuse
to recommend that a branch oithe nation
alhome for disabled volunteers be located
in minnesota.
Zach Montgomery OF the interior de
Y, vf,,naut pbnryau Gnpnfnr Tpua lS NTH
grossly misstating his sentiments in the
senator's recent speech.
The senate committee on public lands
viii report favorably upon the bill TO al.
low homestead settlers within railroad
limits who acquired only eighty acres to
take an additional eighty acres adjoining
the original claim If any adjoining land re-
mains vacant.
At Wapheton. Oak, Judge Mcconnell
sentenced o. c.. Schoeneman to three years
each, and julius Ebel, the hired man, for
four years. Mrs. Dill the principal Offend
er in this case, is now serving a life SEN
tence in the penitentiary.
f. B. F. Graham, aged thirty-iye, a
book keeper employed by Kirkendale d
Brown at Butte and Helena, Mont, forthe
past two or three years, committed suicide.
Graham stated to "a friend that while in
Helena he was engaged to the young lady
who recently became the wife of Thomas
Cruise, the Helena mining millionaire, and
that she cast him of on account of Crnse's
wealth. 1t is supposed that d~isappoint-
nent was the cause OF suicide.
Prince Pascal de Bourboun, brother OF
the ex-king OF Naples, has just figured in a
police court, being charged with fraud in
giving a mortgage for $150,000 upon his
villa, which he had already mortgaged to
its full saiue-$30,G 600.
Prince ~Krapotkine, the learned and
famous anarchist recently released from a
French prison has decided to make his
home in Hampstead, England, and ex-
poets to spend there in peace and quietude
the closing years OF his adventurous and
troubled life. He intends, however, before
resuming his studies to make a tour oil
England and America delivering lectures.
Documents which nave been seized at the
house Of d man named Prohl, at Kiel, dis.
close that he was engaged in q conspiracy
having for its object the sale to France oil
plans Of the mines in the harbor oil Kiel and
OF the fortress on the Baltic. Prohl had
~accomplices in France.
In Vienna Capt. Gerstel OF the Austrian
army, was tried by a court martial for a
slight oifense and convicted. A light sen.
tence was imposed upon him. He heard
the sentence with composure, and bowed
respectfully TO the court, then drawing a
revolver and placing it to his head fired
two shots, and fell dead.
An earthquake shakes up Cosenza, Italy,
with fatal results.
The German government unearths a con
spiracy to sell the plans OF German fortif
cations to France.
Mr.. Gladstone is steadily ~cTfacjng the
factionai Liberal opposition TO his Irish
remedial programme, in which a land pnr
chase bin stands first.
The name OF the man who fired of his
pistol in the Paris bourseis not Petrovich
but Cabot. Formerly he was q chemist
assistant, and Il frequent speaker at pub
, lie meetings. In 1879 Galiot was convict.
ed Of coming and circulating counterfeit
money. The police examined Gallot,i