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The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
NORTH DAKOTA.

b. Stevens has been appointed postmas-
ter at Wheatland, Cass county.
A public reception was given at the opera
house at Dickinson, in honor of Senator A.
G. McGillwray and Representative J. A.
Farrah.
Mizie lurnich, an Austrian, aged 80, was
adjudged insane by the county Judge at
Devils Lake and taken to jamestown by
the sheriff. His mania was that it was his
duty to make all men Catholics. He was
neglecting his stock and starving himself.
A fire occurred at Oakes on South Second
street Mccarthy Bros stock of dry goods,
valued at $3,O00 consumed, insured for
$4,000. The citizens, by great efforts, saved
the adjoining buildings, although Berg's
furniture store was severely scorched.
State Treasurer Booker sold $1O6, 600 4 per
cent 80 year bonds Of North Dakota, at a
premium of Sc, 169. The purchaser is the
Fidelity trust company of Kansas city, and
it is supposed that the investment is made
for John L. Blair & Co., of New York.
There were various other New York and
Western bidders, all offering premium.
The sale is satisfactory one to the state
authorities.
p An adjourned term of the district court
was held at Fargo. There was considerable
business to come before the court at this
term of civil nature, besides number of
criminal cases. Among these are the Rem
ington, charged with the murder of J. T..
Flett, at Arthur, 8, D., Gelhart and Per-
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
The Dog Got There.

It is we'll known that most animals,
quadrupeds, are natural swimmers,
but I know of an exception which is
as we'll authenticated as it is peculiar.
A gentleman of our neighborhood had
foxhound which was mortally afraid
of deep water and could swim but a
few strokes. His head would invari-
ably 60 down and his hind quarters
up, when he would have to be rescued.
A friend who we'll knew the dogs fail
ing, made bet with the owner that
the unfortunate beast could not swim
across good-sized stream which they
had to cross. When the stake was
put up the proprietor of the pheno-
menon calmly attached a good-size
stone to the canine's tail, and with
equilibrium thus restored in this nov
el manner he successfully swan the
stream with head and shoulders
triumphantly poised, winning the
wager for his ingenious master.-For'
est and Stream.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

PIE has caused many direful calam-
ties, but the New York youth who
shot off the top of his head the other
day was the first person on record
who was actually suffering for cake to
such degree that Life became a howl
ing wilderness to him when his mother
refused to give him cake. Had he
eaten the cake first, he might then
have had some sort of reason for
reckless desperation. Still his view
OF the matter was rather a handsome
tribute to the style and finish of the
lady's cake.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
THE OPERATOR BLUNDERED.
Predicament Of a Wife Who Helped
Bridegrc

Predicament of a Wife Who Helped
Bridegroom.
The eager desire of a. young married
man to find suitable suite OF apart
ments, coupled with the mischievous
perversity OF a telegraph operator
caused CONSERVATION and anxiety in
a peaceful household, not long since.
The mistress of the peaceful house
hold, being an old schoolmate and
friend of the married man, had kind
~ undertaken to aid him in finding
him a flat, he being partial stranger
in the city. After one forenoon's
fruitless search the two friends parted
with the understanding that as soon
as the young man could find it con-
venient to make another trip the
lady would willingly accompany him.
A few evenings afterward the
gentleman sent a telegraphic dis
dispatch to his old schoolmate worded
as follows; "Will come up and wor-
ry you again tomorrow" The SEN
der expected that the dispatch would
be delivered about breakfast time.
Instead of that, however, the peaceful
family was aroused o'clock A. NJ,
and imagine the feelings of the shiver-
ing husband when he opened a dis
patch addressed to his wife and read:
Twill come up and marry you
tomorrow afternoon, Tom" VI
course subsequent explanations
Strengthened things out.-New York
Times.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

''THERE is,' said Tennessee Judge
in delivering judgement, "some excuse
for playing poker but none whatever
for craps" Whereupon he fined those
guilty OF the offense OF craps $25 each
and those who had yielded to the al
lnrements OF poker $40 each. Thus.
it will be seen, he sets down poker as
two and one-half times less reprehensi-
BILE than craps. AS craps is utterly
without palliation, it must be taken
as the maximum otfense, and if poker
is two and one-half times less repre-
hensible than craps it may be figured
out roughly that in Tennessee playing
old sledge at 81 a corner is no offense
at all and betting On q hoss-race fairly
entities the better to the goodwill OF
the commonwealth.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
DIGEST OF T.HE.NEWS
Interesting Digest Of the Happenings
of the Past Week Culled From
the Associated Press.
Washington, Criminal, Foreign, Per-
sonal, Casualty, and Other
Important News.
AROUND WASHINGTON.

THE president has appointed George Nc
Kean of Kansas City a special agent to
make allotments of lands in scveralty to
the Sioux Indians.
A CABLEGRAM received by the state depart
ment says Guatemala will be represented at
the worlds fair by q complete display,
showing its resources products and indus
tries, and will also present for exhibition
articles of great historical value and in
tereSt.
BANKERS HEIDELBACH, ICKELHEIMER Il
Co., and Lazard Freres, who applied for
$1,OOOOOO worth of gold bars for export,
which was refused by the treasury depart,
nent, decided to accept gold coin instead
of the bullion, and 81 100000 in coin was
paid out to them.
THE supreme court Of the United States
recently dismissed the appeals of torty-tivc
Chinese, whose return to China was order
ed, because the records in the case were not
printed. Two of the twelve remaining
cases We're set for argument on the first
Monday in April. Decision in all twelve
is to be governed by these two cases.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

They have become so virtuous in
Washington that they cover bill
boards which contain pictures regard
ed by the police as Objectionable with
concealing pastors. But recently the
rains washed off these pasters and dis
closed the scantily costunned figures
OF burlesque show. The police i'm
mediately had the manager arrested,
but the court discharged him on the
ground that he could not be held re-
sponsible for the elements. AS these
are safe from police interference the
question as to how virtue is to remain
triumphant over wind and weather be-
comes an engrossing one.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

Fred Rothschild, was silot and killed 70.
Gently in Chicago by Officer Frank Klafta,
in the act Of burglarizing a flat. - I IS
FERDINAND TRoTz, an old man CHARGED
with arson, hanged himselfin Jail in Nil
waukee. He was charged with trvinc -
burn a house in which a little girf whom
principal witness of his crime.
THE Englishman who, at Monte Carlo,
twice broke the bank recently, has again
won $4,000, making him, he says, anit1
with the gambling palace. He adds that
he has hitherto been loser, and accuses
the bank of cheating.
THE Canadian government announces
that Sir Charles Tupper will represent Can
ada at the approaching negotiations at
Washington, and that with him will be as
sociated Sir William Whiteway on behalf
of Newfoundland and the Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain as the representative of tho
British government.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
MIScELLANEoUSsNoTEs.

The colored editors are considering plan
for syndicating news for the colored press
The grippe is thoroughly epidemic in
Pittsburg and fully 1000 cases are reported.
The private bank Of F. r. Wood & Co.,
Willianlsport, Pa, closed it's doors. No
statment has yet been given out.
A BILL was introduced in the Missouri
house recently appropriating $15O,OOO fo1
the state exhibit at the world'a fair.
The Variety Iron works of Cleveland,
Ohio, has made an assignment The La
bilities are $3.50, 600 and the assets $3.50, 600.
New YORK paper says that the rumo1
current that an arrangement has been made
by an English company to obtain control
OF the Westinghouse interests seems to lack
confirmation.
The ecclesiastical court which heard the
charge of heresy against Rev. Howard Mac
Queary Of Canton, Ohio has finished its
labOrs. He has been sus pended from the
ministry. ~ ,..--s .s.s@ D..
THE United States Corporation Bureau OF
Chicago reports the weekly list of new,
States for the week ending March 49, 1891,
as 339; total capitalization, $74, $3.50, ,225. t1-
THE limited liability company formed
out of the banking firm of Murrieta g. Co.
Of London has capital Of $125, 900 600,
So, 100000 Of which is uncalled. This
leaves huge surplus for the partners.
THE Chicago Chapter OF the Daughters of
the American Revolution has been organi-
zed by Mrs. Frank Stewart Osborn. appoint
ed regent for Chicago by Mrs. BENJAMIN
Harrison, the president general Of the or
ganiZation. Il.
JAMES r. BARCLAY g. Co., stock brokers OF
Montreal, Que, have announced them
selves as unable to fulfill their stock ex-
change obligations. Canadian Pacific
Barclay has disappeared.
The Netherlands Steamship Navigation
company, which for years past has run a
line Of steamers between Now York and
Amsterdam, completed arrangements re-
Gently for new line between Baltimore
and Europe. ''4no'e
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

A New YORK court is now engaged
in the effort to determine whether
5000 is an excessive charge for the
services OF "a ''beautiier" who is ad-
mitted to have removed wrinkles from
the face of society woman. Femi-
nine ingratitude could 60 no further
than to contest a claim of this kind,
when the salvation OF the complexion
is regarded among the four hundred
as so much more important than is
the salvation OF the soul.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
CRIMINAL

NEAR Hartman, Ark, Harris Gilbert
quarreled with negro, when Gilbert's son
stepped between the men, and was shot
and killed by his father, who then fled.
A LARGE oleomargarine factory in Provi-
dence, R. l., was seized. The proprietors
were charged with sending out unstamped
packages of the pro duct.
A LONE highwayman robbed sta ge near
Redding, CAL, securing two light treasure
boxes: The passengers were not molested
The highwayman is supposed to be: the
man who robbed the same stage short
time ago.
AT Mosquito, Tex, at dance, in a quar-
rel over a trivial matter, Ike Allen cut
Jim Weatherfords throat with a knife.
Bed Weatherford, brother of Jim, opene
fire on Allen and killed him. Weatherford
will die.
REV. JOSEPH DoBBs shot and mortally
wounded his son-in-law, Bud Gossett, at
chattanooga, Tenn. Gossett's wife had OBJ
tanned divorce, and the ex-husband had
gone to the house of her father to kill his
wife, child and father-in-law.
DELLA CLOSE was shot at Dallas. Tex. bv
George Martin, stock dealer. Mrs Close
came here from Vinton, Iowa, where she
was well connected, short time since. and
it is said, has sustained relations of an in
tlmate nature with Martin.
IHE Queens county grand jury presented
indictments against six of the Polish cloak
makers who were arrested at Brooklyn for
completely in mobbing Herman Green
paulns house at Jamaica. The indict-
ments charge the men with burglary in the
second degree.
1HE case of Patrick O Sullivan, sentenced
to the penitentiary for life for the murder OF
DR.. Cronin in Chicago, came up in the su.
preme court at Ottawa, ILL.,, on a writ of er.
The eappellant asks for new trial, The case
was submitted to the court without arg1.
,nent. -o>
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

A SAN FRANCISCO paper saysa young
man from the East was hired to plow
a. field near MADEIRA. One day he
found himself surrounded by seven
hungry coyotes. He left his team and
broke into swift run for the house and
quit work right there. The team was
found all right by the owner, a woman,
who told the tenderfoot to 60 back
home to his mother, while she finished
ploWing.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
AMONG THE TOlLERS.

BETWEEN 500 and 1, 900 railroad gardiner
and firemen in Atlanta, Ca, and on tht
East Tennessee railroad between there anc
Chattanooga are on strike for higher wages
AT Providence, R. l., the Atlantic mills
strike, in which 1000 operatives went out
and 1000 others were thrown out Of em
ployment by the shutdown of the mills, i
ended and work will be resumed soon.
The miners employed in the East rangt
mines at Negaunee, Mich, have struck OF
account of the backwardness of their pay
Six hundred men went out. Trouble i
feared.
The Western Flint Glass asso citation ha
decided to close down June l., and to re
main inactive for three months. This il
for the purpose Of ofmaintaining prices ant
said have hostile designs against the asso
citation.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
IOWA..

Owing to a scarlet fever epidemic at
Mitchell. the public schools have been
closed for the remainder of the term Sew
eral deaths have occurred.
Mrs. A. c. Richards, living near Charles
City, rose from her bed and in violent fit
of insanity grabbed shotgun and shot her
husband through the head, killing him in
stantly.
John Penning, single man, "a years old
was instantly killed at Dubuque while en-
gagged IN excavating rock on Queen street.
He had filled his wheelbarrow and had just
started to run it out when mass Of frozen
rock and dirt fell upon him. When he was
| taken out life was extinct.
horrible accident occurred in a coal
mine at Lehigh, Webster county. While
John Peterson was working in the bottom
| OF hundred-foot shaft, the rope support
| ing the heavily loaded bucket broke e when
the latter was near the top; the bucket
| descended with frightful velocity, the chain
| striking Peterson on the head, cleaying the
entire body in twain.
ii: }. Jacobs, living near Waterloo, has
received telegram stating that his twelve
year-old son, who was visiting in Nebraska,
had been captured by band of Indians.
"A party of men started in pursuit. and as
they approached tn redskins the latter
split the boy open with tomahawk, scalped
him and then escaped. The boy was dead
when the men reached him.
In view of the innum erable prosecutions
lately begun by tn Law and Order league
against the saloons, Mayor Palmer of Sioux
tity has informed the liquor men that the
| license ordinance will no LONGER he enforced
and that the police will not interfere fur
therto close the saloons at night or Sundays
For over year the city authorities have
been collecting monthly about$2, 600 by fines
Dubuque wholesale grocers have agreed
on plan of a ction to meet the reduction
on su gar duties which takes place April l..
They have disposed of stocks on hand and
sugars ordered will be shipped in bond.
Dubuqu being port of entry, the sugars
received will be held until midnight, March
3d. when the cars will be unsealed by tie
surveyor ofcustoms and be shipped at once
| to their customers in the country
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
OTHER SHORES.

IIpPoo TIB has been stricken with naral :
ysis his right arm and side being affected
AN extra of the Official Gazette, issued
few days ago, calls the Canadian narlia.
ment together for Wednesday, April29
THE first conversation by telephone be.
tween London and Paris was excbonra,
recently and was highly successful.
PRESIDENT CARNoT has signed the agree.
ment by which England and France under.
take TO- submit the matters in dispute in
connection with Newfoundland to arbitra.
ton. ~ - ~ -
WHILE making a desperate attempt to
escape arrest q young man, supposed to be
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

STANDING BEAR, one of Buffalo Bill s
Indians, returned from Europe the
other day bringing with him German
wife. When native American noble
men-even OF the siwash brand-can
carry off European brides, it kind of
evens up this thing of European no.
blemen carrying off American brides
who are likewise heiresses.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

IF'the'experimenters at Philadelphia
who succeeded in killing a COW with
Koch's lymph propose to continue
their work OF investigation and wish
to be OF service to their fellow-men
they should leave the meek and use
full Jersey alone and tackle the potato
bug and the dude.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

4 VALUABLE and ferocious bull dog
was stolen from a Kansas City police
station the other day. This beats the
feat of that other Kansas City gentle
man who carried 'otfa red hot stove
with a batch of heavy biscuits in the
oven
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

The freedom of speech seems to be
somewhat limited in the German en-
pire. A soldier in the regular army
has just been sentenced to along term
of imprisonment for intimating the
opinion that the youthful William was
not quite the equal of the great Fred
erick as military genius.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

A LITTLE town I'm Indiana called
Greensburg has been found to be the
center OF population i'm the United
States. The European critics are
right after all, it seems. We are very
callow; green even in the center.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

THE recent battle in Chilli resulted in
serious loss to the Government, fully
two-thirds OF the forces being killed
and wounded. In the massacre OF
wounded officers who followed Col.
Robles, the Government Commander
was riddled with bullets. There were
$500 rebels and 1900 Government
soldiers in the hattle.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
POLITICAL CIRCLES.

THE Rhode Island Republican state cen
trail committe has nominated Henry A.
Stearns of Lincoln for lieutenant governor
in place of Lyman B. Gotf, who declined.
The Republican city convention of Chi.
cago has nominated Hampstead Wash.
burne, son of the late E. B. Washburne fo1
mayor.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26

chart, shooting scrape at Casselton; lar
.ceny case from Mapleton and an enlbezzlc-
ment case from Grandin.
4 Kev: ). N. Fradenburgh, A. NJ, P. II. d.,
was elected president Of the new Methodist
Episcopal university at Wahpeton. He is
Well known for pulpit work throughoutthe
STATE or Pennsylvania, a member Of the
Amerlcan onental society, the society of
bibl'cal archaeology, Of ofLondon, and asso-
cate or Victoria institute Of philosophical
society OF Great Britain. He is the author
OF hve well-known books, witnesses From
the Bible Illustrated From the Monu-
ments," 1885; "Beauty Crowned or the
story story or Easter" 1887; Living Religious, !"
1885; The Hitteles Of the Bible" 1889;
"Flre From Strange Altars' 1891
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
sIhey manufactured wooden keys with

They manufactured wooden keys with
which they unlocked the door,
Morltz Mursch, engineer at the Butte
Mueller saw mill at Ellis Junction, was
seriously hurt by the Explosion of the
boiler. Charles Woertzel, Will Wauson and
Anprew kinslcr, employees were also in
jured. ..
Fred Staples, charged with murder, at
Grantsburg pleaded guilty to the charge.
manslaughter in the fourth degree The.
sentence was 5000 fine and thirty days in
jail Some of the citizens who have heard
but one side ofthe story are very indignant,
saying the penalty was too light, but there
are no grounds for their indignation.
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
RAILROADS,

JOIN n. TITTIMoRE has received his ap-
pointment of travelling passenger agent of
the Sioux City d Northern.
ACCORDING to the Omaha World, Grail
road companies seem to have the power of
hypnotiZing legislatures by making pas
ses.''
TIE Omaha and the Chicago & North
western have issued joint tariff on tow in
car loads from Rock Rapids, Iowa, to Des
Moines, Iowa, of 1899 cents per 100 pounds.
1t goes into effect March 20. 49,.
THE prospect of legislation in Illinois
and other western states making cents a
mile the maximum rate of fare on all the
roads, will probably bring about a settle
ment of the Alton & Jacksonville South
eastern difficulty.
The Omaha will put into effect a new
proportion tariff, of cents per hundred
pounds on through shipments of grain and
flax seed in car lots from Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Minnesota Transfer to Washburn,
Wis.
The total earnings of the Southwestern
roads from competitive Missouri river traf-
fic for February were $4,000, against
S729, 600 for the same period last year. The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy shows the
smallest decrease, $4,000, and the Wa,
bash the largest decrease, $4,000. - i /
The Princeton union., 1891-03-26
SPORTS.

NIKE KELLY has signed Frank Dwye, :,
pitcher of last years Chicago club, for the
Cincinnati American association club. ~@@I
THE New Orleans Olympic club offers
purse of $4,000 for a glove fight between
McAulitfe and Myer, to take place in about
six weeks. .~ ~.
JACK CARKEEK announces that he has
given up wrestling forever, and will engage
i'll business. Carkeek says there is no mon
ey in wrestling. -.
MEREDITH STANLEY, the bridge jumper
leaped from the Cincinnati suspension
bridge with safety. 1t was his twenty
seventh feat of that kind
EDDIE MYERS and Jack Ryan, both OF
Brooklyn, fought near Newton, L. L., with
small gloves, the former winning in twen-
ty-three rounds.
The London Pelican club has offered a
purse of f60O for fight between Ted Pritch-
ard and Jack Dempsey, allowing Dempsey
f1OO for expenses.
THE managers of the Crib club of Troy,
n. Y, have offered purse of $12, 600 for an
in ternati onal prize fight betw cen Ted
Pritchard and Bob FitZsimmons. A mes
sage has been sent Pritchard asking him if
he would accept
PAT ALLEN of Omaha and Lawrence Far
rell of Chicago, heavy weights, fought a
thirty-three-round mill twenty miles from
Denver recently for purse of $780, Far
rell won thetight, after badly furnishing
the Omaha man.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-13
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around with a piece Of red cotton. Indians,
however, knew how to tally by means Of
sticks, and notohed records are known
everywhere. The Eskimo draws sometimes
very graphic outlines on . piece OF ivory,
picturing each animal he has slain. Often,
by way Of diversion, he scratches on the
smooth ivory hunting scenes, pictures Of
ships, villages, etc., in q mastery manner.
Most Of his village life also can be read
from his ivory drill and bag handles and
animal carvings, which resemble those
found in the ancient caves of France.
There is a roster Of q Sioux band in the
National museum. The warriors are
known by different pictures of animals,
birds, etc. Red Clouds census records is a
remarkable specimen of Indian pictorial
writing, in which every man is named
by rudely drawn figures expressing his
name. Two hundred and eighty-nine In
dams are named, and apparently the sYs-
tern would answer for any number. There
is every reason to believe that the Indian,
il left alone, would have invented an alpha
bet az Was done BY the Phoenicinns.
There is also an interesting winter count
on q buffalo robe. being a complete record
Of the events happening in a Sioux camp
for seventy winters, beginning with the
year 1900. 1t is we'll painted on the skin,
and can 30 read with ease by those
familiar with this kind of writing. II well
shows the Indian method Of recording