The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Sioux Commissioners have gone tc
the Crow Creek agency, without having &C
cOmDlished anything at Standing Roci
agency.
st, Paul is TO have an appropriation by
congress for a new public building at an es.
timRted cost OF 500, 600, and Milwaukee
one at a cost Of 81, 200, 900.
Reports from thirty-6ye representative
points in Northeastern Nebraska show
that wheat, oats and all small grains are
almost "A total failure. almost contin,
uous rain and the heavy wind and hail
storms OF the last week destroyed the lit.
tie prospect which there was. Corn in
that section will be in peril Of frost.
Salamonie No. 3. a powerful gas and oil
well gusher, at Montpelier, Ind, has bro
ken loose, and the farmers within half a
mile radius OF the well are panic stricken.
No fires have been lighted at their homes
since the well broke loose, and il is unsafe
TO strike a match within hall a. mile Of the
well. The fields and outstanding crops are
saturated with oil owe the entire section.
Mr.. Gladstone, addressing a deputation
81 Liberals o! BursIem who had presented
him with a vase, said the government had
treated Mr.. Parneil with gross inequality
when they refused TO allow an inquiry into
the Times charges agglast him by a select
committee OF the house OF The
charges against Mr.. ParnelI. he said, would
il proved, destroy everything he valued
political power and position.
Adviees from Boulder valley, Butte and
Nevada creek, Mont, report that a most
extraordinary meteor was seen il that
vicinity recently. When first seen it re-
sembled q huge ball Of FIRE plunging la the
arc OF q circle in the heavens illuminating
the country for miles around. 1t VAS fol-
lowed by a long trail OF fire resembling the
tail Of a comet. 1t is thought that it bur.
led itself in the mountains between Butte
and Boulder.
DR.. r. j. Gatling, the inventor OF the
Gatling gun. has spent several years OF
study upon q new method oF making
heavy ordinances, and as q result has OBJ.
tainsd patents upon an Invention which
may reyolntionize the entire sysrem Of
manufacturing heavy missile protectors
now Ia vogue. DR.. Gatling's new invention
is the casting OF the heaviest ordinance In
solid steel around a center core, which Is
used in several ways Tor ohviating the dis
advantages Of the old style guns.
There has been a Veterans reunion at
San Antonio, Texas, under the auspices Of
the Ex.~Confederate association. About
1900 veterans were IN camp, which was
pitched ia The beautiful San Pedro Springs
Park, two miles from the center Of the
city. The camp WAS under command of
Gen. w. II. Young. United States army.
The Alamo City Was decorated in honor
Of the happy comrnineI Is the blue and
the gray. The military post under com.
mand Of Gen. David Stanley, commander
Of the department 81 Texas. took part in
the grand parade.
Great excitement haEg prevailed in and
around Abbeyills, La, in Vermiiion par
ish. dnring the past few days over the at
tempt Of the regulators to break up mis-
cegeuation there The movement which
has been general 10 tho state for some
time, recently spread to Vermillion. where
the regulators or GauaassEnna, as they are
called, warned all white men living With
negro womvn, and vice versa, to leave the
parish.l One day the regulators whipped
white man, but when they am 70
the residence Of a negro named Shepard,
who was living with 3 white woman, the
woman rushfd ont with Il shotgun and
opened fra on tho crowd, fatally wound
Ing one Of them. This created great ax-
citemeat, and 4 company 81 rangers In the
adjoining parish oi iberia vac eom17e1
to arms.