Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-11
EVENTS OF A WEEK,
Minor News of tho Day Given Brie
Mention.


Mention.
Oct. Is an election will be held in
Chill to fill all offices.
An unconfir1ned r,nnor is current at
Constantinople that Osman Pasha, eX-
minister Of war, has met with violent
death.
The Indian commission has made
report to the interior department recon-
mendlng that the Cheyennes stay in
Montana.
The report that the sultan intends to
cede Old Servia to Russia in discharge
OF the war indemnity, is not credited in
Vienna.
By Il vote of sc to 3G. the board of lady
managers OF the worlds fair have pro-
nounced i'll favor OF closing the show on
Sundays.
! AT Oskaloosa. Ia.. the state yearly
meeting of Friends is in progress. The
attendance is large. Much spiritual
feeling is manifested
Scarlet fever is epidemic at the st.te
school at SPARTA, Wis Fifty children
are on the sick list but no fatalities are
reported. The grounds are quarantined.
In the Paris Academy of Medicine DR..
Proust announced that the cholera from
the East was nearing Aleppo and that
the great danger to Europe lay in the
Persian gulf
The English free schools. now open as
such under the education act, are receiv-
ing remarkable increase in attendance.
Thus fully refuting those who predicted
the failure of the system.
rTl,,,
Que;ry, who was suspended for six
months by the Episcopal bishop of Ohio
Tor heretical utterances. has been
changed to perpetual suspension because
OF his refusal to retrac..
| CongreSs,nall-clcct John l.. Mitchell.
OF Milwaukee,, has given to the state
university at Madison twenty scholar
ships OF 500 each. for students from
! country schools who desire to take the
short agricultural course at the univer-
sity.
A terrible forest fire is raging in the
Cascade mountains near Hot Springs,
Wash. 1t extends Il distance of twenty
five miles. and for three days has been
tanned bya strong wind The hotel
buildings and cottages ;lre endangered
by flying sparks.
Eugene Davenport, professor of agri-
culture at the Michigan Agricultural
college, has received Il Telegram Offering
him the presidency Of the college which
1t Is proposed to establish in Brazil. at
an annual SALARY of $4,000, together
with house and living expenses.
At the Catholic congress which has
just begun its session at Brussels there
will be Il discussion Of methods to be
recommended to make practical applica-
tion of the ideas set forth for the benefit
OF the laboring classes i'll the popes recent
encyclical.
John F. Cramer, of the firm of Cra-
mer, Aillens & Cramer, proprietors of
the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, has
been arrested by the United States au-
thorities OH IL charge of publishing lot
tery matter. The articles Oh which the
prosecution is based are two accounts of
San Francisco paper attacking the
validity of the lottery law.
The result Of the investigation into
charges made against the management
OF the state insane asylum at Harris
burg, Pa. has been made public. The
committee find that the charges of mis-
management and cruelty are substan-
italy true and recommend the selection
Of Il new medical superintendent and
prompt removal of ;ll attendants guilty
OF crU"lsy to inmates.