The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-10-15

In ths Northwest.


Attorney General Martin has flsd sn-
other suit against Mr.. Luxton, of The
Winnipeg Free Press, for criminal hbel.
He has issued fourteen warrants. and
evidently 1t is his intention 10 get the
whole staff into litigation.
Mrs. William Topper, who has bean
addicted to the reading of light Iiter-
ature, has left her husband and family
OF two children in Mason City for parts
unknown. She made no explanations.
Alois Fegele,a man living on the river
bottoms about three milea down the
river from st. Peter, Mimi, was found
dead Sunday morning, about half mile
n ON home, on the edge Of the river
under load of lumber, by young
man who was out hunting.
The county fair that closed last week
At breckenridge, was success for the
tirst attempt. The grounds, 100 acres,
were donafed By Hon. II. r. Welles, of
Minneapolis the cpunty gavr e5Oe, and
hreckouxidge gave N ,30o. This money
vas nssd Tor buildings and good mile
track.
Arrangements are being made for n
series of experineuks with Minnesota
sugar beets nc the Trout Brook Sugar
works, &c Red Wing, 90 determine their
qualities for the successful mAnufaoture
OF beet sugar The experiments win be
conducted by Prof. ID. N. Harper, Of the
state university.
Maj. b. p. Shuler, United States
Indian agent, has concluded the Red
Lake and White Earth annuity pay
ment, being portion OF the 90, 600 pro-
vided by the act OF Jan. Il. 1889, and
which is to continue for fifty years.
The amount paid TO the Red Lake Indi-
ans was $S,0g7 .4S, and at White Earth
SIS, ,l2s, making a total for these two
reservations of &26, ,525.4s.
The great strike among the Marquette
range miners now bids fair to reduce by
several hundred thousand tons the out
put of that range, and to leave 1t for the
first time in the history Of Lake Supe-
rior mining in second place at the close
of the season. Gogebic, the youngest
range, first. Total shipments 10 date
are G, 1855, ,542 tons, or ,07b, ,225 tons more
than last year at this time.
In General.
The secretary Of the treasury offers to
redeem until farther notice. with inter
est 90 Aug. 81, next, all AZ per cent.
SS1N0 PAS8OANNN'
The assistant secretary of the interior
has decided that the fact that q soldier
enlisted in the rebel army 20 escape
from southern prison Ia no bar to q
pension.
The Pennsylvania ship canal commits
sion estimate that the cost of a water
way between Pittsburg and Lake Erie
at 80, 600 900, aud will ask the state 90
construct 1t.
w. r. Hoare, the British consul at
New York, denied emphatically the
charges made by Michael Davitt that he
tampered with the United States mail 10
detect, If possible, Fenian and dynamite
plots.
Joseph t. Capple and three brothers,
of Trenton, n. j., were notified Of the
death OF their uncle, James Wood, in
Gloucester, England, leaving fortune
Of $50, 600 900, to which their title was
good.
The Italian committee appointed To ar
range for proper celebration of Italian
art ard industry at the Chicago Worlds
fair has dissolved, as few Italians are
willing TO send exhibits to Chicago ow-
ing to the new tariff law
The decision filed In the United
States circuit court in Boston in favor
of the Pullman Palace Car company, In
suit against the Wagner company for
infringement of the Pullman vestibule
cars Is said TO be worth &25, ,0OO, 900 TO
the Pullman company.
Foreign.
The French statesman and writer,
NJ. Marc Antoine, is dead
Mile. Jeannie Dumas, daughter of the
celebrated author, was married I'm Paris
10 Viscount do Hautville.
The London Posts Berlin dispatch
says that the European cabinets are sxs
changing notes in regard to the McKin-
lev tariff