The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-03-25
70 MADISON SOUTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH % 1891
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Concise Chronicies Of Events - Facts
Frora All Parts of the World.
Charles Kissinger. principal of the
graded school OF Boltonville, Wis, has
become insane.
Bricklaxers and stonemasons Of the
Fox River valley, Wisconsin, towns will
organize April /.
The ice HI the Missouri riyer is dam
gerous. It's cropping and promises TO
90 out In day or two.
The Citizens National bank, of Lyons,
Iowa, capital 500, 900, has been author
lied to begin business.
An epidemic resembling scarlet fever
Is among children in Dayton. Wis, and
Three cases have proven fatal.
Ata naeeting of the ministers Of Mil
waukee Monday, strong resolutions
were adopted protesting against the
opening of the worlds fair on Sundays.
The qu&sTvmen and stonecutters in
Thomas Breen's quarry, at st. Cloud,
have stru%k because of the refusal Of
the proprietor to discharge non-union
employs.
A ST. Paul woman comes forward
with the claim of being the wife Of
William I Jackson, who died at Man
kato recently, and who was supposed to
be unmarried. A nice little property is
involved.
Steps ar. being taken to secure the
establishment of sewer pipe works, at
Red Wing MINI. Clay specially adap-
ted for this work is found there, and
there are 0ther facilities which make
the establishment of the works very
probable.
Wheeler Holmes, a destitute farmer
living in the country near Cedar Rapids,
attempted to commit suicide by shoot
ing himself with A calibre revolver.
He was formerly quite wealthy and
owned several farms near De Witt,
Iowa.
Charles Hull, a heavy, thick-set fell
low, about B5, and Joe Colligan made
their escape from the county Jail, at
Dickinson, N. ID. Hull was waiting
trial ON the charge of horse stealing.
Much liberty was given the men outside
of their cells.
The cultivation of sugar beets for ex-
| perimental purposes is to be undertaked
| systematically at Red Wing this season.
| The climate, conditions and character OF
the soil there are believed to be espe-
cially suitable for the successful propo-
| CATION of this crop.
As the hacks that connect Monticello,
Mimi, With Big Lake station were
crossing the Mississippi river, Monday,
4 the Ice gave way. The forward hack,
filled with passengers. was kept from
/ sinking by the pieces Of ice, and the
! people and horses were rescued.
The rsr64s that the S;ssetons and
WahpetOns are in destitute condition
is untrue. They have been drawing ra-
| tions for the past three months, and are
now having their seed wheat, oats and
corn distributed to them, and they are
4 actually in better circumstances than
many Of the white settlers In the vicir-
ity.
4 In General.
At Philadelphia judgments aggregat-
ing $19, 900 were entered against the pro-
| prietors of the Collonade hotel, H. G.
and G. R. Crump.
1 Miss Zoe Gayton, who is walking
from San Francisco to New York on a
wager, expects to reach New York on
Friday.
At Athens, Ga, Sam Ross, colored,
assaulted little white girl. An armed
mob Is after the negro, and he will be
lynched if caught.
The wife of Gen. John T. Cutting,
Congressman from the Fourth Califor-
| MIA district. died in San Francisco, Mon
day, after a long illness.
/ The California Viticuitural commits
sion has received a diploma and gold
medal awarded to the California exhibit
of brandies at the Paris exposition.
The schooner Thomas Branigan, of
Jamaica. L. l., went ashore off Holly
wood, West End, N. j., at 4o'clock g..
m. One man is reported drowned.
/ A profound sensation has been created
In Italy by the report that a French
house sent 100, 900 Remington cartridges
TO King Menelek of Abyssinia, by way
| of Obock.
Messrs. John A. Fletcher e. Co., deal
ers in general merchandise at No.
1 Warren street, New York, have made
an assignment for the benefit of their
| creditors. The liabilities are not yet
| known.
The German scare about Socialism
/ has spread to Italy. The police of Leg
horn are making domiciliary visits, and
have already arrested fifty Socialists, ac-
cused of melting people to hostility to-
i ward the government.
4 A Berlin dispatch says that the ru-
i mors of imperial resubmission to Bis
marck have greatly offended the kaiser,
who is said to be congratulating himself
on having got rid, of Gossler, Of the only
| remaining Bismarckian in the cabinet.
An active trade is already springing
up between Hamburg and the Darda-
nellas under the new commercial treaty
between Germany and the porte, and
several more vessels are being equipped
for trade with the Turkish ports on the
Levant.