The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-01

The United States treasurer has paid out
$12, 500, 600 during the present month on
account OF pensions alone, notwithstand-
ing which fact the excess OF receipts over
expenditures during the month is nearly
So, 900, 900. The treasury surplus, which
fell to 500, 600, 600 at one time during the
month, has again risen to $l01, o00, 600.
The president mas approved the act au-
thorizing him to arrange d conference be-~
tween the United States and Mexico, Cen
trail America, Hayti San Domingo and
Brazil: the act to limit the hours that let
ter carriers in cities shall be employed per
day, and the act for the relief OF the first
National Bank Of Marion, Iowa.
Sir Charles Topper has resigned as min.
lister Of finance, in the Canadian govern.
ment. and has been ~reappointed high COM
missioner for Canadu in London. Hon.
C. i. Foster, minister OF marine, has been
appointed minister OF finance.
Acyclone swept over Browntown,~ twenty
five miles east OF Browntown, Texas, de.
stroying the Methodist, Baptist and Con-
gregational churches and eight dwelling
houses. One building was carried across
the railroad track and crushed, and
Amanda WilIls, colored, who had taken
refuge inside, was instantly killed. Eight
persons, including the sheriff and county
recorder, were fatally injured.
Mrs. George Reed, OF Napannee. Elkhart
county, Indiana, took her three-months,
old child in her arms and jumped into A.
well-both were drowned. She lett a note
saying that she was tired OF living and
would take her child with Der to rest. Her
age was 20.
The body cf AdeIbert Kreiger, Of Day.
ton o.. who died suddenly at Chicago. was
cremated IL Cincinnati in the unfinished
crematory on Clifton Heights. There Was
no ceremony.
The Wisconsin prohibit onists have put
np the following state ticket: Lieut.. Gov,
II. II. DAZZLE Of Dane; Secretary OF State,
Nelson Ladue OF La Fayette; Treasurer,
ID. g. Prescott OF Marinette, Attorney
General g II. Pike, 81 Winnebaeo; State
Superintendent, u. II. GoulR Of Wads-
worth; Railway Commissioner, T.. w.
Drake, Of Milwaukee; Insurance Commits
sIoner, s. NJ. Dixby Of st. Cfoix.
The Cincinnati Price Current offers to
substantiate its charge That Information
has lsafed oRt from ths department 81
agriculture at Washington to q Western
grain speculator. whereby the latter was
enabled to profit by his knowledge OF the
Forthcoming crop report. Tn pape as
serts that the leak was not from Statisti-
clan Dodge. but from a higher Official.
The corner stone Of tie great Roman
Catholic. University at Washington was
laid with great pomp and ceremony. Tbs
grand stand was we'll filled with promi-
nent people, and among them the following
preIates: The cardinal Archbishop Of Bal
timorc, James Gibbon, Archhishops Will
Jams. Corrigan, SalpOinte, Elder and Ire
land; Bishops Northrup, Moore. Curtis,
0Reilley. 6palding. Macs. R~adamacher,
Fitzgerald Jannssons. WieQer. Phelan,
Keane. Kaiu. Mcmahon, Hardin Gil.
mour, Richter, 0'Suliiyan. Ryan, McNier.
ney, McGoyern. Haid. President Gle r.
land occupied q seat ON TIE plntform bo-
tween Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop
Ireland.
The big log jam at Little Falls, Wiscon.
sin. now extends Tor distance Of foHrteen
miles. The logs are piled irSsome places
from ~eeventy-hye 70 one hundred ieet high
The scene is one ~ the erg Attest imng.n-
able. ana ; attracting great crowds d
sight soers despite the weather. A large
crew 81 men j. constantly At work at.
] tempting 70 break it.