The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-13

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the Wood Carvers' union and has been
officially endorsed.
.PARAaAAPHIc NEWS.
Bernal, the famous Mexican bandit, has
been killed.
A shoe factory at GAINESVILLE, Wis was
partially destroyed by fire.
Three men were terribly burned at De.
trott Friday while vanishing beer vat.
The president has signed an order di-
recting the removal Of the land office
from Lake City to Montrose, Col.
The comptroller Of the currency has
authorized the North Texas National
bank, of Dallas, Tex, to begin business
with capital Of $500, 600.
Scarcity of coal is daily becoming more
apparent at Philadelphia, Dealers pre-
dict it will be selling at from 50 to $40
per ton in few days.
A fire at Pittsburg completely destroyed
three fine dwellin gs. The tire is sup
posed to have been caused by natural gas.
Loss, $35, 600; artly insured.
B. B. Shafer, awealthy farmer living
near Guitman, No., has become a ravinR
maniac because his daughter would not
give up the man she had promised to
marry.
Reports from Central Minnesota indi-
cate that the snow is so deep on the
ground as to make it almost impossible
for farmers to attend to their ordinary
winter work.
Loggers complain of too much snow in
the pineries. On some of the streams
they are troubled with three feet of snow,
which is about two feet more than they
think they need.
The thirteenth annual convention Of
the Commercial Travellers association of
the state of Indiana, began ut Evansville,
Ind. Between 1900 and 1900 members
are in attendance.
At Cambridge, Ohio, yard engine of
the Cleveland g. Marinette road ran into
north bound freight train. The boiler
OF the freight engine exploded, fatally
tnjurtng two persons.
At Harmony, Penn, yesterday, a dyna-,
mite bomb exploded in the public square,
badly shaking up buildings No one was
hurt. A reward is offered for the detec-
tion Of the bomb fiend.
It is emphatically denied by Manitoba
officials chat their road is making any
survey from Sioux Falls to Yankton, and
that they have no intention of extending
their line to that place.
A Lima, Penn, newspaper states that,
according to private dispatch from Val
paraiso, cholera has increased at that
port to an alarming extent, the number
of cases, daily reaching 130, of which
eighty to ninety prove fatal.
The officers of the Southern Minnesota
Fair association are already securing at
fractions for their fair to be held next
fall. Several good ones have been se-
cured, and Secretary Van Campen says
they will have much larger fair than
last fall.
The five Apache Indian scouts who
were found guilty of numbering Lieut.
Seward Mott, have Just been sentenced
by Gen. Miles. Two of the murderers
are to be imprisoned at hard labor for
twenty years, one for fifteen year, one
for ten years aud one for two years.
Suit has been begun against the direc-
tors OF the Horn Silver Mining company
to compel them to make good the defal-
cation of Charles G. Francklyn of $780,
QUO, His shortage in the Horn Silver and
In the Cunard steamship line amounted
to $l00, 600.
A special from Chicago states that i've
pressed beef houses, in petition to the
interstate commerce commission, have
asked for damages to the amount Of
$3.50, ,080 against railroad lines for losses
on rfbates in east-bound shipments since
the interstate commerce law went into
effect.
The private car of President M. E. In
gals, of the s'Big Four" railroad, was
struck by passenger train while it was
standing on siding at North Bend, Ind.
Mr.. ingalls, and his secretary, William
Green, were somewhat shaken up and
bruised, but not seriously. Fireman
George Letter had his leg broken. The
side of the car was badly damaged.
Foreign.
The pope will give a reception to the
presidents of the English and American
colleges in Rome, and to British pilgrims
on May 70.
The exhibition of the pope's Jubilee
presents was opened in the Vatican FRI
day, distinguished assen- hlage being
present.
Application for space by the intended
exhibitors at the Brussels exposition.
will be received until March Is, instead
OF until Jan. Is, as was first announced.
A party of gendarrnes met and dis
pefsed band Of Montenegrins briRands
near Sofia, killing ten of the marauders.
The band was headed bya Russian officer
named Nobokoff.
Carli.le's Case Postponed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The committe
on elections, after brief secret confer.
ence, postponed the Thoebe. Carlisle con.
tested election case until next SATURDAY.
in order to give Speaker Carlisle an on.
portunity to make formal reply, II he
chooses, to the atfidavits and other ma.