The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-10-10
NEWS HREvFTigs.


In the Nerthwest.
The Wisconsin woman's suffrage
meeting viii hold its annual meeting
| at Berlin, Oct. 2l, 20 and e3.
| The new state bank organized by A.C
Probert, of Waahburn, at Shell Lake,
| Wis, will commence operations Mon
day.
Farmers at Renville, Mimi, met and
\ decided 20 build a warehouse for the
purpose Of getting better prices for their
| wheat. Work viii begin ut once.
1 III. B. Mills closed a big timber deal,
at Black River Falls, Wis, with ID. A.
1 and q. A. Goodyear, of Tomah, by cell
ing them 1900. 900 feet OF standing
pine In jackson county for $55,oO0.
Governor Mellette, In company with
4 Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, and
4 Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, viii
attend the closing ceremonies at the
corn palace in Sioux City saturday.
An infuriated steer attacked Andrew
Hippenmeyer, aged 20 years, ut Madi-
sop, Wis, and gored him frightfully.
| He viii probably die. Hippenmeyer
| operates q slaughter house, and IL was
in its yard that the horror occurred.
l William johnson, the forger. pleaded
guilty before Judge Newman, at La
Crosse, Wis, and was sentenced TO two
years in the state prison at Waupun,
with solitary confinement two days In
each year.
The board of county commissioners
In session at Chamberlain. &. p. refused
TO establish voting precincts In the un-
organized counties of Presho and Ly.
man, west of the Missouri river, and
lately part of the great Sioux reserva-
ton.
l J. G. Tietjens, wealthy resident OF
Lyons, Iowa, left Wednesday night TO
drive 10 his home, six miles west.
In the morning his carriage was found
overturned down three-foot embank-
| ment with the team standing beside,
: while near by lay Tietlens with his neck
broken. The coroner's jury rendered
! verdict of accidental death.
The whaleback steamer Collegiate
Hoyt has quietly broken . few lake rec
; ords and has now broken another.
Coming from Buffalo 20 Superior light
i for wheat, she steamed over the 40
miles which constitute the length of
Lake Superior in twenty-seven hours.
! This Is the best time recorded,
Indian Agent Kelsey, of the Shawano
. reservation, has forwarded hts first
official report. He says the Indians are
in good condition, and are tlhng tho
soil. Last winter he says the Indians
banked 25,60i ,565 feet Of iogs, which
netted them S2is,37s. All the schools
there are eight are overcrowded.
The new Congregational college at
Fargo, N. D., was dedicated Wsdnes-
oil DAY, with quite elaborate services, occu-
s pying the entire day. Rev. DIR. Virgin,
pI OF New York, made the main address.
, The school opens in good shape, and the
Agricultural college has rented rooms
in this building for the present, The
building dedicated il called the George
III. Jones Memorial hall.
The Pipestone village council has Just
closed the contract for .300ycandle
power arc electric light plant. These
! lights viii be used for lighting the
streets, and are to be running by Nov
/. T. r. Robinson has also asked for q
twenty year franchise to lay pipes and
furnish gas for lighting and heating
= purposes, claiming to have his gas plant
already TO ship.
Il A decision in favor of the defendant
q was rendered at Omaha In the case of
= Henry b. Meyers, of Chicago, against
the. Union Pacific Railway company foE
the recovery of certain property IN the
vicinity of the company's depot. The
Oh decision was based upon the fact
!, | that the company had held nndisputed
a possession of the property for ten years.
The property is worth between so, 900
and 900, 900.
I'll About week ago Frank Nevertn, an
! employe of the La Crosse Knitting
; works, Jumped to the floor upon nail
{ | which made q slight wound In the ball
4I his fxo4 The xxyo.1vVa xvua Yaaf inf
b and of so insignificant proportions as TO
|. | cause him no uneasiness. Tuesday,
1 however, fockjaw set IN ana Wednes-
. l day morning be was dead, having died
= In the fearful agonies OF commissions,
= during which the combined strength Of
+ two men was required TO hold him in
7 the bed.
1l In General.
The sultan of Morocco has politely
| but positively declined French pro
| tectorate. He says that his people, by
q popular vote taken under his direction
have declared their opposition TO any
closer relations with foreign powers.
II The French cabinet is considering q
plan by which it Is hoped TO come tc
. | terms with America on the tariff ques-
. tion. The proposition is substantially
; one of mutual concession or reciprocity
Unless some terms arc arrived at an at
tempt win be made TO virtually exclude
American products from the French
A markets.
At Pittsburg Harry Williams
Acadamy Of Music was badly damaged
by fire at 0 a. IN The flames, of un.
" known origin, were discovered IN q
shooting gallery on the first floor Of the
\ building. The fire burned for two
hours and the lower floors were com.
D pletely gutted. The stage settings and
q the rich furnishings were only slightly
damaged.
A dispatch from Scotland says that
a Chief Secretary Balfour received with 4
}; smile the news of appointment of 4
= committee in America TO deal with ths
2 threatened famine In Ireland, and thai
he remarked: Dillon and the rest have
oyerdone the thing this time; IL wa:
A not a famine fund they wanted, but
-. q &Asx 40 ksrs.