The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
IN GENERAL,

in 0ENEHALs
Gilmartin & Doyle, wooden merchants ofNew
York, have made general assignment with
out preferences. Liabilities, 500, OOO, assets,
100000.
The contract for three and one-half miles
OF elevated railway in Chicago was let to
Carnegie. Phipps & Co. of Pittsburg. The
price will be between $500, 900 and $1,000
900.
l.. Edwin Dudley, secretary Of the Citizens
Law and Order League OF the United States,
announces that the eighth animal meeting
of the league will be held in Toronto, Can,
on the 22d, 23d and Oath instant.
synopsis Of the proposed school changes
is published in Manitoba. 1t proves that all
public schools shall be free schools, separate
Catholic schools being abolished. School
matters will be managed by an advisory
board under the supervision OF the govern .
ment.
The Hekla Fire Insurance stockholders, at
Madison, Wis, ratified the sale of that COM
pany's stock to the German Insurance Com
pany. of st. Paul. The total amount Of stock
is $500. 900, Tor which the purchaser pays
$31S 200. All Hekla risks will at once be
reinsured in the st. Paul organization.
The New York Sun prints five-column
article on Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, entitled,
lis Talmage a humbug?" 1t dwells upon
the preachers advertising methods and de-
scribcs his peculiar efforts to secure publicity
for all his movements and sayings. 1t says
he has acquired large fortune by pursuing
methods not hitherto considered proper i'll a
clergyman, and accuses him of profaning
sacred places for the selfish purposes.
number of old soldiers are to leave
Eldora, Iowa, in a few days for the Sioux res
ervation to take up some new land. They
are oil hired by Mitchell Is. d. capitalist.
who will pay them q certain salary per
month. and at the end of q year. or the time
they have stayed on the land. will take the
claim off their hands and allow them $500
for it. 1t is very good chance for number
of these men, who are able to do much man.
ual labor.
1 james McKeen Arnold was released from
the insane asylum. in California having de-
veloped no signs of insanity. Arnold is a
young man who created a scene on the Union
Pacific train near Pendleton, Ore, Dec. 3, and
was arrested by the sheriff there on tele-
graphic request of the railway conductor.
When arrested he had a revolver and a knife
in his hands, but did not use them. Arnold is q
member OF Il we'll known Philadelphia family,
and contends that he has been prosecuted by
Eastern rela tives, who had tried to incarcer-
ate him in an insane asylum. He claims that
the influence of his relatives caused him to be
taken out OF Oregon without trial to San
| Frantisco where he was examined before q
commissioner of insanity and incarcerated
without any evidence in open court, and that
until within the past week he has not been
permitted to notify his friends of his where
abouts
The story of a plucky 4-year-old baby
comes from Oskaloosa, Iowa. 1t is the child
OF Mrs. Wilson, and while playing about a
deep we'll covered by loose boards, fell in.
The we'll is 80 feet deep, and contained 10
feet of water. The mother saw the child fall,
and frantically grabbing a clothes line, low
cred it into the well. The child grasped the
llne but of course, could not hold on tight
enough to be drawn out, SO the mother tied
her end above, Twill Pet hold on tight till
mamma runs for papa?" tremblingly cried
the mother to her little one. "Ess" came a
brave little sob from below. The mother
hurried away and soon returned with the
father and several other men, who. after
much difficulty, rescued the the child from its
chilly bath. The child was almost I'm.
conscious from cold when taken out. but had
bravey chung to the clothes line, all the time
! holding it's head above water