The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-30

caught ana Killed. Inc vineyards IN hnuueS.
helm, Bingen and Geisenham are also infested
with phylloxera and the crop is In danger Of
total destruction. IL
OTHERWISE.
An American dramatic agent is suing Gou.
nod for breach of contract to conduct sixty
concerts in America for 1000, 600 francs.
Two young ladies-onefr from Kentucky and
the other from North Dakota-will have an
equestrian race at the Minnesota state fair.
The Northern Pacific & Manitoba railway
is turned over to the Northern Pacific under
a hundred years. lease.
Intense heat is reported throughout Aus
tria. There have been many fatal cases Of
s%unstroke,
The railway strike in Wales has been set
tied by arbitration. Sixty thousand men
have been idle for nearly two weeks.
An enormous flow of natural gas was
struck at Summerland, three miles from
Santa Barbara, Cal. The flow is estim ated
at 3,00O,O 600 feet per day.
The ship Francis has arrived at Tacoma,
Wash. from Yokohama, Japan, with $685.
S5S pounds of tea consigned to Eastern cit
ies.
A dispatch from Cairo states that reports
from a reliable source are at hand that Os.
man Digna has arrived at Tokar from Om-
durham at the head OF a formidable army.
Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln has arrived in
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, from London, with
her two daughters and will visit her father,
ex-senator James Harlon, for some time.
Deverell & Hall, manufacturers of cassi-
meres, etc, Hinsdale, Mass, have assigned.
The mill will shut down alter running out
the stock on hand.
Judge Rose, of the United States district
court of North Dakota, ~pronounces the state
law prohibiting the Importation OF liquors
unco Institutional.
At a recent meeting in New York Of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Grant Monument
testing against the removal of the remains
OF Gen. Grant.
The steamship Nevada, of the Guio n line,
Liverpool, has arrived at the latter port
Her off GERS report having sighted icebergs
fully 100 feet in height during the voyage.
Six or eight representative British farmers
and three delegates of leading agricultural
societies will visit Canada for the purpose oi
reporting upon Manitoba and the North
west as a suitable field for settlement.
The first annual convention of the Ma
tional Association Of Letter Carriers OF tn,
United States has been begun i'll Boston
One hundred delegates from sixty branches
of the organization are present.
Another ocean greyhou nd" the Teutonic
has smashed the record, making the run be
tween Queenstown and New York in s days
10 hours and s minutes. This is a gain o
thirteen minutes over the City ofNew York.
syndicate has been formed with q capita
of IS, OOO, 900, which will buy up all tb'
coffee it con secure OF planters in Brazil, re
gulate prices and ship to the agency in the
United States, instead of the importer, and
it will be disposed of by the agent
A dispatch from Erzeroum says that the
government is supplying the Kurds with
Martini rifles. The Christians have cut the
telegraph wires. Four Armenians who had
made themselves o~bjectionableto the author
tiles were strangled in prison. ~
A reporter made q tour Of the New Yorl
Central railroads lines from Albany to
Schenectady, in clusive. The freight blockade
at these Joints is almost complete, and what
few trains are run are sent down and up or
the passenger tracks. w.
The committee charged with the arrange
ments of the International council of Con
g~regationalists has practically settled thai
the council will assemble in London Monday
July 81, 1891. One hundred representative
are expected from the United States. "
Ex-Ald. Badnoch OF Chicago testified in
suit to enjoin the construction of the Ran
dolph Street & Ogden Avenue Elevated rail
road that, when he was chairman of thu
committee on streets. A. N. Wright, presi-
dent OF the company, offered him a larg
block of stock to support the ordinanc
granting the franchise.
1t is reported that theworld's fair will belo
Gated on q tract OF land east Of Roger
Park, on the lakeshore and just inside tn
city limits of Chicago. The tract spoken q
is a tract of $40 acres, with a mile and q
half of frontage on the lake. The owners ar
understood to have offered it free Of 81
charges. #t
Thehouse committee on education, who's
bill providing for the endowment Of agricult
ural colleges has been introduced, has pr,
pared a report on which these institution
are discussed under the bill. Minnesota
North and South Dakota will receive SIS,
600 each for the first year and an addition
al 81, 600 each year for ten years.
The authorities OF the Swiss canton {
Schwyz have issued positive orders forbid
ding the oft-told and generally accepted mar
rative of William Tell rom being taught ]
the public schools as q part Of Swiss histor,
The order treats the narrative of Tell an
Gesslor as pure fiction, for which there il nc
asuspicion of historical foundation.