The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-05
Miscellaneous Items.

The charity ball at Chicago Melted about
So, 600.
The Hancock memorial fund at New York
aggregates $31,740.
Surgeon General Hamilto on thinks cholera
will get no ioothold in America this year.
The Ohio supreme court sustains Gov
Foraker in o~usting the Cincinnati polics
commission.
Des Moines figures out that prohibition
has cost her S120, 600 during the last nine
teen months.
In an interview at Bismarck, Gov. Pierce
denies the rumor that he ever thought OF
starting a newspaper in Minneapolis,
Ex-Rev. Downs OF Boston sues Rev.
Franklin Johnston for $40, 600 for Islander
growing out OF the recent scandalc case.
Pittsburg is excited over a sudden failure
in the supply OF natural gas. A scientific
iaquiry will be made to discover it's cause.
Both elevators at Flandrau, OAK, have
been attached by William Deering, for pur-
chasing grain covered by a. chattel mort
gage.
Mccormick OF Chicago believes that his
labor troubles are ended, but it is said
that the socialists and outsiders don't give
up the fight.
Fred Foote charged with the murder OF An
drew j. Brink, n saloon keeper at Fenton,
| Mich, on the morning OF Dec. 20 last, WAS
convicted ut Flint OF murder in the first
degree.
The snow storm which commenced at
| Dubuque on the 9th developed into the
worst OF the season. 1t has fallen to a
depth OF fifteen inches, and has drifted un-
til the banks are five to eight feet high. All
passenger trains are either abandoned or
are fast in the snow.
1t is reported in Washington that the
senate has deferred action in the appoint
ment OF w. NJ. Campbell, recently appoint
ed United States marshal for Minnesota,
on account OF charges made against him
BIZ certain parties who have recently come
to Washington 10 pfevent his confirma-
ton.
T.. s. Hulburd OF Chicago, who went to
Duluth some months ago to live with his
daughter, Mrs. II. G. Mitchell, died very
suddenly Of apoplexy- He was seventy
three years old. He was in poor health,
and went there to try q change OF climate,
and was so quickly benefited that he pro-
posed to return to Chicago in ten days.
The Northern Pacific madea new through
rate on agricultural implements and farm
wagons in car load lots from Chicago to
Portland. The tariff rate was $1.4O per
100 pounds, and the new rate is 80 cents
per 100 pounds. The reduction is not
made to interior points, but only to Port
land.
A six days type-setting contest at Bos-
ton, one hour and twenty minutes a day,
between female compositors. closed the
9th. The final score was: Miss kenni,
"a, $50 ems; Miss Davis, "a $50 ems; Miss
Francis, 24.475 ems; Miss Hammond, To-
S25 ems. The prizes were q gold watch
TO Miss Kenni, a silver witch and chain to
Miss Davis. pearl-mounted opera glasses
to Miss Francis and $50 in cash to Miss
Hammond.
The storm which prevailed throughout
New England on the goth Is reported al
the s~evercst OF the winter. Insome sections
Of New Hampshire and Vermont fifteen ia
twenty-four inches Of snow have fallen, ac
companicd by a furious Wind, which ut
tanned a velocity Of fifty to sixty-fivc miles
per hour. Tho roads in many places arr
bsockaded. Telegraph and telephone wires
are Frustrated. and railroad travel is I'M
pcded. II WIS equally severe in Boston,
Hartford, New York, and aloaS the coast