Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-10-05
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NUBS OF NEWS.
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL.
1t is reported that Ell Mahdi is dead.
"A. big snow storm ragged in northern
Michigan Wednesday.
Washington bakers have combined To
raise the price OF bread.
About 10000 visitors attended the Sioux
City corn palace each day.
The members of the Sioux commission
arrived Wednesday at Washington.
Great floods are reported in France.
caused by the rise in the river Rhone.
1t is rumored that Bob Burdette. the
humOrlst, has been licensed to preach.
Chas. E. Boyle has been confirmed as
Chief justice OF Washington territory.
Premier Greenway of Manitoba is ac-
cused OF accepting bribes from railroads.
There are now about 100 less than a
quorum OF congressman left in Washing.
ton.
The Nevada supreme court has decided
the anti-Mormon test-oath law unconstitu-
tional.
Richard Smith of the Cincinnati Com
merclal has purchased the Toledo Com
mercla.
DR.. NIcGlynn spoke at the Peoples
theatre, ST Paul, last night to an over
flowing house. .
The new cases in Jacksonville for the.
past tWenty-four hours number seventy.
three; deaths, six.
George Howard, farm hand living near
Aberdeen, was shot through the right leg
and robbed Of $40.
A grand testimonial banquet will be.
rendered to President Oakes Of the North
ern Pacific at st. Paul to-day.
At Minneapolis John M. Elbatton was
stabbed with a pocketknife by Stephen
A Moore in quarrel over business mat
ter.
Senator ingalls, writes friend that tag
ricultural products need protection fully
as much as those which are manufac-
tured.''
The dry goods firm of E. Allen s. Co.. of
st. Paul has assigned to Henry T. Sattler
OF Sattler Bros. Assets and liabilities ull-
known.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific railroad for September aggregated
$1,644,7O8, an increase of $236, ,497 go over
last year.
A special from Winona, Wis, says the
steamer Menominee sunk in the Missis-
| sippi river at that point Wednesday. No
| lives lost.
Henry Fitch OF Oxford, n. H., democratic
candidate for state senator, was thrown
from his wagon Saturday night and his
neck broken.
A dastardly attempt to burn the Hill
block at Grand Forks was accidentally dis
covered wednesday morning at O'clock
and frustrated.
Professor Pasteur of Paris has received
advices from Sidney to the effect that his
| method for the determination of rabbits
has been tried with great success.
The Saqua and Cordenos newspapers.
Cuba, say that there is no eXaggeratiOn in
estimating the losses caused by the recent
cyclone at over S6,000,00 in these districts
| alone.
Rev. r. 81. Wallace has been found
guilty by the M. E. conference Of immoral
conduct in being engaged to five young
ladies' at one time. and has been expelled
from the ministry
Miss Amelia Coar, aged Is, engaged to
marry young Charles Bailey of Lockhaven,
| Pa, eloped with the boys father aged So
on the night set for the wedding. Bailey
is a walking stick manufacturer.
/ The Utah commissioners, in their report
| to the secretary OF the interior, declare
the territory unfit for statehood under the
recent constitution adopted by an author
lied convention OF the people of that ter
ritory.
| Mrs. Chas. Thompson, the hallelujah
talking machine of the Salvation army. in
| her address at Decatur, 1ll.,the other night.
shouted that she was crank, but She
thanked God she wasn't crank the devil
could turn.
Congress has succeeded in stretching
its present session out beyond the longest
preceding one. The session of 1850 was
busy until September 80, when it adjourned
after breaking the record. The present
congress has again broken the record and
the day OF adjournment may be still far in
the future.
About $80O0OO0 was paid into the New
York city treasury Monday by tax payers,
| the largest sum ever received on the first
! day for tax settlements. Among the larg-
est payments were the Trinity church,
$40O, 1000; Astor estate, same amount;
Goelet estate, $260,00O; New York Central
and Vanderbilt family $675,OOO
TERRITORIAL.
The residence of r. F. Wellmer, Mandan,
was burned by an incendiary. Loss, 1880;
insured for 5000.
The university OF North Dakota opened
at Grand Forks Monday with about 100
students in attendance.
DR.. d. D. Long, late of New York, has
been appointed assistant to DR.. Archibald
of the jamestown asylum.
Fargo's new incandescent electric light
| system. put in by Mr.. E. S. Gilman OF the
Bismarck company, will be started tonight.
| Several companies of the Dakota militia
in the southern part Of the territory are
holding, reunion al Sioux City during the
| corn palace exposition.
During the quarter ending September
90th, ninety-nine arrests for vagrancy and
forty-seven for drunk and disorderly in
Aberdeen-a city where local option car
| ried last fall.
The body of Charley Miller Of Sioux
Falls, better known as s.Dutch Charley"
was found floating in mill pond at Palli-
sab. It is supposed that Miller got into an
4 altercation and was shot and the body
thrown into the pond. His money was
i also taken.