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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
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At a meeting of the Fargo Board of
Trade a committee was appointed to confer
with the Northern Pacific railroad in re-
gard to the erection ola new depot and
a hotel here.
A unique celebration was held in the
rooms of the Flambeau Club, at Fargo re-
Gently when a class of six graduates from
the Houston Narcotic Cure Institute for the
Cure of Drunkenness. They were the first
to enter the institute three weeks ago, and
have stepped forth new men.
Dock Price, a prominent cattle man of
Coal Harbor, was shot by William Clark,
. neighbor. Price was taken to Fort
Berthold and placed in charge ola govern
ment surgeon, who says that his wounds
are very serious though not necessarily
fatal.
Eighteen townships of splendid land in
Sheridan county, about ESQ, 600 acres were
opened to entry and settlement at the
Bismarck land Office. This is nearly as
much land as the famous Sisseton reserya-
ton, but no rush ofsettlers is expected.
The opening has not been extensively
advertised, as the land is distant from rail-
roads.
The Merchants National Bank Of Devils
Lake formerly managed by Fulton 4
Gowran, and for the past two years one of
the =. Ashley Mears system OF banks, has
been sold to q company of which John a.
Percival is president and August Peterson
cashier. The names Of the other officers
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Boston, Aug. 3.-Insurance Commits
sioner Merrill " as seen to-day in relation
to the latest statements made by Supreme
Justice Somerby OF the Iron Hall, wherein
the latter criticises the courts action ana
expresses the belief that the order will Sc
revived. The commissioners said:
~ Is sheer nonsense and amount to to MOTH
inR-mere wind on Mr.. Somerby's Dart. Thera
IL no chance Of his or anybody else resurrsctine
the Iron Hall. 1t ii dead now as q door nalI
Ine TACT 10, the people b have been aud aro
It BY this latest showing up pi the order.
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are not announced, but are said to include
Minneapolis men.
What will prove to be q most sensational
occurred at Fargo recently. L. G. John
son, brother OF Congressman johnson, and
a prominent Scandinavian attorney, shot
a COW belonging to a woman named Nc
Cloud. The COW strayed into the lawyers
garden and he ended its life with a revolt
yer bullet. Friends of the woman will
carry the case into the courts.
Over 900 delegates have been appointed
from the various commercial bodies of
Northwestern cities to the international
reciprocity convention to be held at Grand
Forks. The subjects to be considered at
the convention will be the urging of joint
action by the two countries in the interest
of reciprocity trade relations and naviga-
ton on the great lakes to the seaboa'd by
way of the st. Lawrence river.
Grand Forks over a kidnapping case. The
other morning Jake Police, of Fargo. ar
rived in that city in search of his sister-in-
law, a pretty Jewish girl OILS years of age,
who has been in this city for the past year
working. She was located in a disfeputa-
BILE house, arrested and taken before JUS
tice Dwyer. Police and the girls sister,
who accompanied him from Fargo, plead
ed with the girl. and she agreed to accom-
pany them home. An officer stepped out
of the room for q moment and Sam Brook
er, q hack driver, grabbed the girl, carried
her away forcibly, placed her in a carriage
and drove rapidly away, with officers and
men in hot pursuit. BROKER evaded the
pursuers, but was arrested on a charge of
kidnapping. He was held in the sum OF
$500. The girl returned with her sister and
brother to Fargo.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.

Frightful Experience of Gilbert 9. Rice
in the Hands Of Tennessee Miners.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3O.-Gilbert G. Rice,
whose suffering at the hands Of ) mob of
Tennessee miners did SO much in the re-
cent strike strike to turn sentiment against
the strikers, was seen at the Grand Central
depot yesterday. He says:
/ was in that country dur Ing the trouble In
piece OF forest between the North CarolinA 4 9
Louis railroad and Elk river. While looking
the land over / lost my way and was captured
papers in my possession, was taken tor aspy.
A meeting was held, and q most painful aud i9-
nimonious death was discussed. The meeting
was held near an old freight car that had been
side-tracked over q steep incline. and its pres
ence offered q suggestion that was quickly acted
on. One OF the miners had brought . strong
lariat Of cowhide. 1t was decided to tie ma By
the neck by one end OF the lariat and iasten the
other end to the Car. and SCI the car rolling
down the grade.
The decision was quickly carried out. Tho
loosened. I soon felt myself flying through
space. AS ! swung around on q curve the lariat
wound itself around q telegraph pole. There
car went on. It was hours before / revived.
The flesh about my loins was torn into shreds
and two ribs were broken; have been very u
rsal is to $50 In s three weeks sas and ii the shock has
turned my hair white.
Coal CREEK, Tenn, Aug. 30.-Not . day
passes over Coal Creek without its sensa
ton. While the boys in blue were gath
cred upon q hillside yesterday listening to
. sermon by Rev. Dr.. Ramsey OF n urirees-
boro and enjoying u & orious Sabbath day,
the services were broken in upon by the
sharp crack OF a rifle or the mountain side
above and the sping of several bullets as
they passed close to the heads of the crowd.
Col. Clark at once dispatched an order to
Capt. Roach, Of the First regiment, to send
. volunteer scout after the sharpshooter.
The captain himseli hurried up the mount
ain side and soon sighted the man, but he
was then disappearing away up on the
mountain, ana hree shots from the cap
tain's gun nj to bring him down.
1t has | decided to transfer several
compe~'"e Clin'on, the county seat,
whel trials will take place during
the tirs. Vs." !" September. There Is still
. scouting sq-.A at Oliver Springs captur.
ing prisoners,
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THE

Chicago sca.pers continue their fight
against the Milwaukee road.
Chairman Caldwell receives a 70 asst from
the passenger agent of the Chicago & Al
ton.
c. K. Lord, of the Baltimore & Ohio,
has been ~"'"c'ed as the third arbitrator to
act with +. Z. Donald and w. b. Shattuc
in deciding the Atchison's appeal from one
OF Chairman Caldwell's decisions.
The Milwaukee has appealed to the
Western Traffic association against a decis-
of the freight association establishing
certain rates from La Crosse and Onalaska
to points on the Milwaukee west of Mason
City, Iowa. The appeal will be considered
at the next meeting.
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expedition sent to punish the natives have
been murdered at Kilamjorie.
Severe weather in the south of Ireland
has caused great damageto the crops. The
hay crop has been destroyed and the p0-
tato blight has appeared. The potato crop
has promised to be the best in years.
Owing to the intense heat which still pre-
walls throughout Austria, Emperor Francis
Joseph has c~ountermanded the orders for
the holding Of the military manoeuvers
which were fixed for Aug. 20.
It is officially announced that Herbert
G. Gardener has been appointed president
o fthe Board Of Agriculture, which Office
protege Of Sir William Harcourt.
The official cholera report issued at St.
Petersburg shows IN increase of 381 new
cases and an increase Of 236 deaths as COM
pared with recent figures. The total num-
Der ofnew cases reported was 1891 and the
deaths numbered 1913.
A most disastrous fire has swept through
the town of Sontra, a short distance from
Cassel. One thousand and forty buildings
weretde.troyed. It is impossible as yet to
state what the loss amounts to, but it is
very heavy. H. S..
The newspaper Paris announces that Q
number Of parties Of Jews. en- route to
America from Russia, have recently ar
rived in France. The paper describes these
people as disgustingly filthy and without
money; dwells upon the danger Of an epi-
demic from this source, and demands that
precautionary measures be taken.
A Winnipeg, special says: A party Of
prospectors in the Battleford district made
q curious discovery. It was q burning coal
mine emitting no smoke, but the heat of
the earth was so great in the vicinity that
the explorers were unable to walk on it.
An immense cave in the side of q hill
shows where a large seam Of scoal has
taken fire and gradually penetrated the
earth. .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
WANTS INDEMNITY.
N American Arrested In EouadsY
Demands Large Damage.

A American Arrested In Eouads1
Demands Large Damage.
SAN FRANo1sco, Aug. 8-Edward Cari5v,
9 sailor formerly in the employ Of the
Pacific mail company will enter claim with
the state department at Washington. against
the Government Of Ecquador for
5000 damages. Carlin says he
went to Ecuador in 1883.
At Cuanco, an interior city, he was seized
by the police authorities and thrown into
the vilest sort offs dungeon. where he was
brutality treated for several months. He.
was then forced to work in the mines aysar
and after that was returned to the prison,
where be was kept nine months more. He
was then released and told to get but or
the country. The only explanation
offered :or the ~indignities heaped upon him
was that he was the wrong man. After his
release Carlin discovered that he bore . re-
Variable resemblance to an Englishman
who had swindled . number Of peUp.e, and
u was on. this account he had been arrested.
Carlin's story has been corroborated by .
number ofsAnlericans and Englishmen at
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
LABOR CIRCLE.

Telegraphers on the Delaware, Lacka-
& Western may strike.
Miners and soldiers in Tennessee engage
in another battle. The bodies of tour SOL
diers and fifteen miners are found.
Locked-out strikers at Buffalo try to con-
tinue the trouble. Grand Master Sweeney
is assaulted by a striker.
Striking switchmen derail o train on the
Erie road. A general strike of railroad
men may occur. . s- ..7 ,
Striking switchmen in Buffalo continue
to lose ground. Mr.. Sargent, of the Fire
mans Brotherhood, refuses to order a
strike. ''f .
The brewers employed in the three brew
cries in Troy, N. Y, struck because the
drivers on the delivery wagons refused to
organize. The strike was ordered by the
National union and the Central Labor
Council. .
The boycott instituted by Homestead
strikers against tradesmen who sold to the
Carnegie Steel company resulted in the
failure of Adolph Doerr, one of the princi-
pal provision. dealers in that borough.
Doerr furnished meat, milk and ice to Supt.
Potter and .he non-unionists from the be-
ginning of the trouble. No Amalgamated
association men have ~patronized him since
and his loss has been $4,000. .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

WITH a total of more than ten thou
sand new cases of cholera and deaths
from that disease reported in Russia
in two days, it is evident that the
danger limit is not yet passed, and
that we must keep q strict watch
against the malady it anything like a
feeling of security on this side of the
ocean is to be maintained.
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HENEWSSUMMARY
The Latest News Of the World Con
densed and Arranged in Conven-
lent Form
Washington, Personal, Foreign, Grim
inal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
THE CAPITAL:

Additional correspondence regarding
the Canadian canal tolls is made public.
The government of China will appeal to
the United States supreme court from the
Chinese exclusion law.
The controller Of the currency has re-
ceived an application from Fred Pabst and
associates of Milwaukee to organize the
Wisconsin National bank of Milwaukee
with a capital of 81, 600, 600.
In reply to the complaint made to the
department Of justice by the Knights Of
Labor that the imprisoned miners at Wal
lace, Idaho, were not being properly treat
ed, the attorney general has received a
telegram from Examiner Crostwaite saying
he finds absolutely no grounds for The
charges.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

THE French courts don't seem to be
deeply in sympathy with Mr.. Edward
Parker Deacon in his proceedings
against his wife. The fact that he is
an American who shot a Frenchman
seems still to stick in their throats.
Besides, the Frenchmen have apower-
fui sympathy for q pretty woman,
whatever her faults.
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Must stop n.

Was HrsaTos, Aug. 8o.-Actius Secretary
spaulding has written Il. ii. Tuohey.
United States deputy collector of customs
ct Montreal, Canada, that United States
Chinese inspectors inform him that em-
pioyes OF the Canadian Pacific road aid
Chinese TO pass over that road from Canada
to the United States, and that since May
last 40 Chinese have taken trains at To-
ronto tor points or the Michigan frontier.
Mr.. Tuohey is instructed to present these
facts to the officials Of the Canadian Pacific
with . view to stopping the practice.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

THE little ten-year-old queen of
Holland is having suit o fregimentals
made, as she has been made colonelto
a German regiment by the kaiser. As
she is not too old to wear short
dresses, something very gorgeous
ought to be constructed for her in the
way Of striped pantalettes, etc.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

THE Chicago Musical Union endsav-
ored to keep out q Hamilton, Ont,
band that vas on it's way to Denver,
by trying the anti-foreign labor law
on it. The United States Commits
sioner who heard the case has not
heard many bands, it seems to me for
he decided that members Of bands
i artists and not amsnAbls to that
law. Even the laborious bass drum
mer escaped.
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win Examin. th. Remains i, +:

EAU CLAIRE. Wis, Special, Aug. A.-on
behalf Of Ole Moen and Otto Witt, two Au-
gusta men in jail on the charge Of murder,
application was made to-day to have the
remains of August Stevens, whom the pris-
soners are accused of having beaten to
death, disinterred for . post norton exam-
ination to determine the exact cause Of
death. Stevens was killed several weeks
ago. Judge Baiiy made an order author
izing the disinterment tWenty-iour hours,
notice. to be given ID advance to the district
attorney. 800.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

The Rev. J. G.. Tate, the Republican
nominee for Lieutenant Governor of
Nebraska, will not meet the legal
requirements of the situation. He is
ineligible because he has only been
naturalized about one year, and has
too much of the fresh aroma of old
England about him.
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Peterson's carriage shop and residence
burned at Sheldon. Loss ], 200, insured for
half.
About fifty car loads of hogs at the Stock
yards at Sioux City had to be shipped to
Chicago, for lack of local buyers. Both
packing houses are shut down.
The Tenth district Democratic congress
ional convention came off at Humboldt
J.. J.. Ryan of Kossuth, was nominal
ed by reclamation.
The Peoples Party congressional con-
vention OF the Seventh district met at
Des Moines and nominated Prof. E. A.
OFT, of Drake University of this city, for
congress on the Tenth ballot.
The result of the election held for major
of the LIST regiment Iowa national guards
was as follows: Lieut.. Brown, of Dubu,
que, 2s5; Capt. McCollum, 173; majority
for Brown, l22. The regiment is composed
Of u companies.
Will Fisher, a young railroad man., mar
ried to Miss Cassie Harris four days ago,
was arrested at Cedar Rapids charged with
bigamy. 1t is claimed he was married to
Agnes Rich', of this city, about two months
ago. Fisher claims not to be married to
the Klchl girl.
The body of the famous Cardiff giant,
which has been buried under a livery
stable in Independence for twenty years,
was exhumed by Bruce l.. Baldwin and
P. c. Cummings, circus managers, and will
be exhibited by them. This was Barnum
& Older's giant fraud of 1871.
While a number of national guardsmen
were practicing in the Armory at Des
Moines, a gun in the hands of Horace
Smith, which was supposed not to be load
ed, was accidentally discharged, the con-
tents taking effect in the head of Clifford
st. John, killing him instantly. Both were
members of company A 3rd regiment, bet
ter known as the Governors Guards. The
victim was we'll known and highly con-
nected here, and the tragedy casts a gloom
over the community.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

IT is a wonder that Queen Victoria
was not overcome by nervous pros
tration when she discovered the
whole world laughing at her speech"
to her "I1ords and Commons" Lord
Salisbury certainly took advantage
of the royal good name that time.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
B6ried in chair

CENTERv1LLE, Iowa, Aug. @.-Hezekiah
Shepherd. the eccentric old gentleman who
Aved ct Draksville, has had his wishes car
Ned out BY being buried in q coffin III the
shape Of . chair. For the past fifteen years
Ne Shepherd had been unable rest except
bysitting in an easy chair. and in.that posi-
ton he proposed to die. His friends On.
daavored 10 dissuade him from his eccen.
TIC notion, but he. ordered ! cabinetmaker
to construct the curious casket. which was
finished before his death. Il was substan-
TALLY built Of white oak, With walnut
trimmings. He lett Instructions to have
his body placed in this casket il . sittine
posture the wrist strapped TO the arms 81
3 scasket, the limbs to it, legs, and the
had md neck to the back. A glass. panel
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
WISCONSIN,.

Ars-V. G. Willard, a -resident-oL Belait
since 1885, died at an advanced age.
Mrs. Sarah s. Chadbourne, of Fond du
Lac, passed away at the age of 70 years.
Mrs. Mary Scheuer, an old resident OF
Sheboygan, died at the age of 70 years.
The north entrance at the capitol at Madi-
son is to be repaired.
DR.. David A. Norton died at Philadel-
phia after a severe illness of several weeks.
He was formerly q resident ofMadison.
The residence of A. w. Crate at Madison,
was entered by burglars and Sc in cash and
a number OF articles of clothing stolen.
The State University will open for he fall
term September ID. The examina al. on fol
entrance will begin September Is.
Nils P. Haugen was nominated Tor con.
gress by the Tenth district convention in
Cumberland by reclamation.
Some unknown parties entered the car
riage works of Riteer & Peterman at Apple
ton, and carried off barrel of linseed oil.
The fourth annual reunion of the Forty
sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry will be
held at Evansville September 7 and8.
Frank Houck, a resident of Onalska, La
Cross County, was probably fatally injured
in a runaway accident.
One eff the clowns in the Ringing circus
was killed at D~odgeville Nv falling from q
sulky in the hipprodro.... .~ses.
The corner stone Of the new Luthersn
Church at Marshfeld was laid with inlpos-
ing ceremonies on August %.
Frank Reck, a 12-year-old boy. residing
at Appleton. fell off a high ladder and
broke his right arm.
John Bartel, of Appleton, had his arm
badly crushed in a belt. Amputation may
be necessary.
Carl, a young son of Joseph Dietrich, of
La Crosse, fell from a high chair and
broke his arm.
The 11-year old son of Robert Kinstler,
OF ~Sheboygan, shot himself through the
hand while handling q loaded revolver.
Mrs. Baker, mother OF the late L. B.
Sale, Of Green Bay, died at her home in
Evansville at an advanced age.
The stockholders of the Racine Hotel
Company have increased the capital stock
from 500, 600 to $3.50, coo.
The marriage is announced of Miss
Josephine Walters, of Hsnover, to George
w. Bidwell. Of Evansville. ~
Becomes . Politicia n.
WASHINGTON, Special, Aug. 24.-Capt.
John G. Hill. Of Minnesota, who las or q
year or more been chief of the Indian d.
vision of the interior department., has de-
cided to accept q position with the Repub-
lican national committee in New York,
and will resign the place in the interior de-
partment he has SO creditably filed. He
has been a good officer in the Indian sery-
ice. and the only head OF the division dur
ing the present administration
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

CARA. whom military officers in
Texas had just reported all done up
and weather-beaten, has, according to
the Mexican authorities, broken out
afresh as a revolutionary sharp. Gar
"a, as the defiant plague of two armies,
will get himself into a comic opera.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

Governments Contracts Cancelled. "
HASTINGS. Mimi, Special, Aug. 3O.-The
government has bought out ali the cor.
tractors upon the river work in this vicin.
tty.. and will undertake the lob in rarson
under the eight hour law. It will cost
probably, about DOUBLE the o paid
under the old system. D@'N
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
ECHOES.

Gen. Bidwel, Prohibition candidate for
president, writes his letter of acceptance.
Ex-secretary Blaine:decides to make p6lit-
ical speeches in Maine.
Ex-Congressman Dunnell of Minnesota
makes a political speech at the Information
al exposition in Detroit, Mich.
Gov. BOYD declines denomination. He
promises to work hard for the party this
fall, and predicts success with the state
ticket if good men are nominated. .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03

THE adjournment of congress COM
pletes a thirty years service in the
house for Mr.. O'Neill ofPennsylvania.
Mr.. Holman comes next in length of
representation, as he has been for
twenty-eight years a congressman.
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SEN AlIONAL SUIT.
A Former minneapolis Man Co-Reapond
emit In . Chicago Divorce Case.

emit In = Chicago Divorce Case.
CHICAGO, Aug. @.-A sensational divorce
suit was begun here to-day by AL red II.
Compton, . salesman with the house or J.
V. Farwell & Co. Thomas P. Nisbett is
as correspondent. Mr.. Nisbett is
n Of the best known men in Sunday
school work in Illinois. For many years be
has been q leader in church work, and he
now hollis the position Of chairman Of the
Illinois division OF the Christian Endeavor
society missionary board. Nisbett used 10
live In Minneapolis, whore he was pron,i-
nent In church work. Two or three wears
ago Nisbett came to Chicago, where he has
since been engaged In real estate work. He
declares he will have no difficulty in PROV
ing his innocence.
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Opening Of q Nor.n., Sab.

Opening Of q NorAnsi School.
MAFKATo, Mimi, Special. Aug. 30.-Tha
state normal school opened to-day with :
good attendance, especially IN the higher
classes. There is double the number -
high school graduates than ever be ore.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

A general fight occurs at a political
meeting in South Carolina.
The trial OF Miss Lizzie Borden for muir
der begins at Fall River, Mass.
w. W. Blackwell OF Kentucky is elected
supreme chancellor of the knights of Pyth-
las. "@#f pr
Mr.. Gladstone has been re-eIectedi in Mid
lothian on taking Office. He had no OPP
position.
Miss Ella Reid, neice of Whitelaw Reid.
will o 0 be married at Ophir farm to
Robert G. Harrison, Judge of the supreme
court at California. He is seventy years
old.
A report touching upon the recent lynch
ing Of Italians in New Orleans is presented
at the meeting of the American Bar asso-
citation.
At the First parish Unitarian church at
Gloucester, Mass, services were held COM
memoratiye OF the fifty years existence of
that church. Rev. Daniel Munroe Wilson.
Of Quincy. delivered an historical address,
l842.
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MAL1ErAo, the King of the Samoan
Islands, has been struck into wealth
which makes him feel big enough to
buy Jay Gould and put a mortgage
on the Vanderbilts. He has been paid
$4,000 Is the proceeds of the sale of
wreckage from the vessels which went
ashore in the great storm.