The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-02-10
PARA0RAPHlc NEWS.

pARAaRAPHlc NEWS.
Cholera continues bad IN Chill. It has
now broken out at La Zsrena.
War has opened between tho two-sugar
refining companies Of San Francisco.
Secretary Young has signed Charles E.
Daniels as league umpire for the season
of 1888.
The house committee on Indian affairs
reservation bill.
President spalding has gone South
with his family to remain until the
league schedule meeting at Now York
March 8.
The Bulletin Of the American Iron and
Steel association finds that the number
OF iron furnaces idle on account of the
coal miners strike is twenty-one.
The Blakey saw mill, near Seattle,
Washington territory, was totally des-
troyed by dre Friday. The lumber ad.
joining was still burning Saturday.
The Northern Pacific has closed con-
tract with it's agents in Yokohama for
carrying from Portland to st. Paul tho
coming season 1o,0oO,O0o pounds of tea.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mrs. George
Lees, aged so, dropped dead Friday on
hearing the news of the death of her son.
She has suffered for some time with heart
disease.
Crofters, of the Island of Lewis, on
trial for rioting, have been convicted.
Some OF them were sentenced to a years.
imprisonment, some to nine months, and
Others to six months.
Thomas Callan and Michael Harkins,
charged with being connected with dy-
Mantle conspiracy in London, were found
guilty, and were both sentenced to fifteen
years penal servitude.
j. V. Newton, Ohio state veterinarian,
reports that more than hundred horses
in Toledo are suffering from disease
closely resembling typhoid pneumonia,
which promises to become epidemic.
Representatives of the letter carriers
of the United States were before the sem
ate committee on education and labor in
favor of the bill to extend the operations
OF the eight-hour law to letter carriers.
An official circular has been sent out
by President James Mcmillan, of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, an
nouncing the appointment of Sam F.
Boyd, Of Minneapolis, as general pass
enger and ticket agent of that company.
President Spaldlng has mailed letters
to the players under contract to the Chi
cago club directing them to report here
March 1. AS soon as they all get here
Anson will take them to Hot Springs
where they will be conditioned tor the
seasons campaign.
The Presbyterian ministers of Omaha
have addressed communication to the
managers of the Omaha Base Ball club
protesting against Sunday games and de-
claring that, in case they are continued
next season, legal means will be employed
to stop them.
The American Publishers Copyright
league, embracing all Of the prominent
publishers of the United States, have
issued an address asking the cooperation
of all who deal in and all who read books,
in obtaining an international coyprieht
law.
The secretary of the treasury has re-
ceiyed letter dated Fitchburg, Mass,
enclosing 25 cent silver piece, which
the sender desires to have placed in the
treasury to the credit Of 'consciencs. -
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Work on the Spalding house and Hotel
st. Louis, at Duluth, has been recon
menced.
Winnipeggers are delighted with the
success of their curriers' at st. Paul, A
reception is talked Of.
During 1887 there was not single fore
closure OF mortgage within the limits
of St. Louis county, MINI.
Herman F. Harmon, an uncle Of Mrs.
Cleveland, her mothers brother, died
Friday in Charlestown, Mass.
The boiler Of portable sawmill on
farm near Barnesville, Ohio, exploded,
Instantly killing two men and seriously
tnjuring Ave others.
Sir John Macdonald says the fisheries
commission has considered q number of
questions, and all except two or three
are disposed of, but declines to indicate
wha: the questions were.
The department of state at Washing
ton having received the twelfth install
ment Of Mexican indemnity, announces
that it is now prepared to distribute the
same among the parties interested.
The Fremdenblatt says that the Turk
ish authorities have arrested fortv-one
insurgents, who were part of band
which was preparing to invade Eastern
Roumelia to institute revolt in Boureas
and Zski-Sagra.
A pack Of wolves has been infestinp
the vicinity of an old slaughter house
near Sauk Center, MINI, Just outside Of
the corporation limits, to such an extent
that travellers have become afraid to
travel on the road after dark.
A farmer near Cavour, Oak, named
Jesserud put some snow on coal fire to
smother it and then went to bed. The
Tunes and gas aWoke him, when he
found his youngest child sdead and his
wife so near dead that it required ply
sician to save her life.