The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-04-06
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

Brief and Interesting Ferm.
May is Arbor day in Minnesota.
Small pox has broken ont at the Chi
cago home for aged people.
Jay Gould is making tour of the
Chesapeake and Ohio road.
Masonic Lodges of Lacrosse, Wis,
have bought a lot for temple.
The Golfer will case, at Superior,
was decided against the contestant.
Dubuque boss carpenters have agreed
upon day of nine hours with the uRion
men.
In the Minnesota humber districts
there is prophecy of higher prices fer
logs than last season.
David Taylor, associate Justice of the
Wisconsin supreme court, died at Madi-
son late Friday night.
A good flow of water has been struck
i'm q new artesian well at HHoa, 8. d..
703 feet below the surface.
The cost of city improvements in Du-
iuth last year was l,als ,xA q shown
by reports just made public.
Edward Bauman and w. F. Wolfe
have purchased The Wisconsin Staas.
Zeitung, published Mt Madison.
Assemblyman John Dawson is quits
seriously i'll, and confined to his bed, n
La Crosse. Pneumonia Is the trouble.
Holden, convicted OF murder at Red
wood Falls, Mimi, has had his death
day named three times. The latest is
May 8.
There will be big increase in gram
acreage in South Dakota this year,
owing to the bright prospects for big
crops.
The lower branch of the Minnesots
legislature has cut down the worlds
fair appropriation bill to $4,000 and
passed it.
Mrs. Tuzanna Szymarck died Mil
waaukee, at the age Of 10i years, II
months and 2 days. She was a native
of Poland.
Union painters at Evansville, Ind
have struck and demand eight hours q,
a day and 80 cents on hour, an increase
of 40 cents.
DR.. E. NJ Hartwel, of Brooklyn. il
sociation for the advancement of phys
ical culture.
At a meeting of insurance agents il
Dubuque it was decided not to represent
companies that take risks on manufac
turiRg trusts.
1t is feared that the appropriation fol
the North Dakota insane asylum o.
Jamestown will not meet the needs q
the institution.
The body Of William Bracher hA
been found in the creek, near Bingcn
Pa. The case is shrouded in myster,
and murder is suspected.
The schooner Jessie Winter, which
cleared from Racine, Wis.,, Thursda,
night was caught out in q gale and ha
not since been heard from.
New Yorkers have begun suit agains
the officers of the old La Crosse ant
Milwaukee Railroad company to collec
interest ON third mortgage bond
amounting to 81 ,000, 900.
The Junior hop, which is the grea
soci3 nvent at the Michigan university
at Am Arbor, was attended Frida,
night by guests from Chicago, Detroit
Toledo, jackson, Saginaw, Cincinnati
New York and Washington.
The annual report of the Iowa rail
| road commissioners, fled with the gov
! ernor, show net increase Of earnings o
| q, ,l60. $50 for 1880 over 1859. The mum
| ber Of roads in receivers hands was 81,
in 1883, five in 1889 and one in 1890.
the Minneapolis and Sc. Louis. Tn
total number Of people killed on rail
| roads in Iowa during 1880 was 151 an.
TAT lwere injured. The gross gain il
miles of road built was 126; loss b,
tracks taken up, 60: net inccease in mile
age in the state, 6S. No recemmoda
tions as to further legislation are mad
/ by the commissioners.
/ Foreign News.
Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
Army, is seriously Ill in London.
There is poorly conce alsd opinien i
Berlin that the KAISER II . httle on hi
mental balance.
The German government has buil
| twenty sir barracks for the extra ma
engaged in making torpedoes at kica.
It il believed that the Marquis .
Latne viii be the first governor gcncx1
Of Australia under the new constitution