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The National tribune., 1892-05-26
Finding q Torpedo.

W. P. Clingshen Hamburg, Ill.,, says: In
reading Comrade Simmonss article in regard to
torpedoes notice he does not mention the first
one found by tho Mississippi Squadron, near
Fort Henry, think the day before the fort
was captured. The tug Sampson with Com
mander Breeze, from one Of the gunboat5, was
accommodating near the fort. We were ordered
to stop the tug. Commander Breeze with
few men got in small boat and few feet
from the tug the Commander caught hold of
small object on the surface of the water.
Gently raising it he brought a torpedo to the
surface. We took it ashore and found it ready
for use. 1t seemed to be made from large
Joint of stoye-pipe.o
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
Not Enoagh Pie.

CHICAGO. April 3.-Saturday was the
first day of the Investigation of the
mess hall at Fl. Sheridan. Colonel
Heyl, inspector general of the depart,
ment OF the Missouri, began the investi.
CATION yesterday morning under orders
from General Miles and directed the
greater part of the day to hearing com.
plants from the men. When he had
patiently listened for two hours to the
9 .me story from each of the fortv M. n
OF the bad and insufficient food, he be-
came convinced there must be something
wrong with the management of the mess
ball. One private testified that all he
got Tor supper night was a
dish OF apple sauce and two biscuits
nome SAID n morning after having
been out all night all he received was
bread cheese and coffee. Another
said be had been threatened with conf
martial because he had dared to ask that
q piece OF bacon that had been given him
be changed, because it was so fat he
could not eat it. A non Commissioned
cfh scr brought the charge of misannro.
prlatlon of funds against the post saloon.
Il would like to know" he sa;d
canteenH'. 'ne
The inspector could not tell him Int
promised to look into the matter. It il
esllmated that these profits would aver.
age 300 q month and they should have
oeen divided among the companies.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

says that notwithstanding all reports to the
contrary, reciprocity between canada n
the United States is now in sight.
A semi-oficial dispatch from st. Peters
burg denies that there have been fresh bank
failures there OF any embarrassment requir-
ing treasury help.
THE papal brief appointing DR.. Vaughan
archbishop Of Westminster, to succeed the
late Cardinal Manning Is expected within a
few days.
Mrs. Osborne, who is serving a nine
months sentence for perjury in connection
said, be released before the end of May or
the prison physicians certificate that fur
ther confinement will endanger her life.
unanimously to expel from his seat in par
Lament George Woodyatt Hastings, union
list member of parliament for East Worces-
t~ershire, recently sentenced to penal servi-
tude or embezzlement OF trust funds.
Mr.. GORDON of British Columbia has
given notice of his intention of introducing
a bill in the Canadian parliament amend
ing the Chinese immigration act by in
creasing the poll tax on Chinese immi-
grafton from $50 to 500 per head, and pro
hibition after six months.
THE engagements Of the Ghenzburg
branch bank at Paris, it is now ascertained,
were not large. In regard to the Banque
Generate Chemin de Fer ct Industrie, which
SUSPENDED recently, it appears that the in
stitution's 'boursier'' interest was nil. Its
nominal capitol was only t6, ESQ. 600, and its
clientele was entirely composed of the
smallest investors.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
SPORTING

BILLIARDS have taken quite a squirt in st.
Louis OF late.
THERE are 20, 600 bicycle riders-men and
women-in Washington.
THE nation league clubs will travel q
total of 1872, 1856 miles during the season.
EVANSVILLE, Terra Haute and Fort
Wayne want to break into the Two Eyed
league.
TIE Cincinnati Times dubs the Toledo
aggregation 'the tribe of Blackfeet from the
City Of Frogs"
The Eastern association will divide up
its players and adopt a schedule at Albany
on the 9Th of April.
Hoy was the only one of the players as
signed to Washington who reported and
went South with the club.
The. Pastinle Athletic club gave its first
exhibition last night. The main event was
between Charles Gleason and Ed. Burke,
middIeweie hts. The latter was knocked
out in two minutes.
APRoeREss1vE billiard party will be given
at the Windsor hotel, open to all amateur
players. The game will be three ball French
oarom billiards. Several prizes are offered
for the successful competitors. A number
of players have already signified their in.
tention of participating; in the game.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
THE TOILERS.

THE compositors of the West Publishing
company, st. Paul, quit.
The strike on the Canadian Pacific is de-
clared off and the trouble will be settled by
arbitration.
~THEsupreme council of the Patrons Of In
dustry of the United States met at Toledo,
Ohio.
AT St. Louis a strike Of cabinetmakers
has been inaugurated by the employees of
four of the largest firms in the city, Three
hundred and tilty-five men are already out
and the trouble is spreading.
SIXTEEN leading breweries of Cincinnati,
which propose to manufacture union beer
have agreed upon a proposition which will
be presented to the Brewers Union No. IL,
of this city. 1t gives preference to employ
ing union men, and comedies about all the
union demands.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
Cauxht at jamestown.

JAMESTOWN, N. D., April 1.-[Special
Correspondence Ia. M. Tabor of Ann
Arbor arrived yesterday to superintend
the seeding of his farms in this county.
He will put in a larger acreage than
ever this year.
George Fletcher, one of Stutsman
county's large farmers, returned today
from Canada, where he has been spend
ing the winter. He says he is glad to
get back to North Dakota again, and
that he will farm more land than ever
this year. 81
Jack Clayton was b. und over in the
sum of $500 bail by Justice Eyer
Wednesday, on a warrant sworn out by
the states attorney for violation of the
prohibition law. Not being able to fur
nish a bond he was committed to i'll.
Judge Rose is now holding a very in.
teresting term Of court at Darlington.
The following jamestown lawyers are
in attendance: F. Baldwin, Lewis T..
Hamilton. John s. Watson, s. l. elias
pell and E. w. Camp; also John E
Greene of Fargo.
Owing to the recent heavy rains and
the breaking of the ice the James rive,
has ovelfowed its banks. causing con.
siderable alarm to those living near it
Some families have been forced to leave
their houses, and the jamestown Roller
mill has shut down for a few days, as
there is considerable water on it's first
floor. One bridge is wrecked and the
others are in a %precarious condition.
There is fear felt at the railroad head
quarters that there will be a washout on
the Valley line.
There is quite a little excitement in
local politics over the coming city cleo
ton. There is some diff srenoe of opin
ion as to whether the electric light
franchise shall be renewed, and The
contest seems to be between the light
and anti light factions. There seems
to De no opposition to Hon. B. W. Full
Ter for mayor, and he will probably be
e. elected.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
HENEWSSUMMARY
The Latest News of the World Con.
densed and Arranged in Onven-
lent Form.
Washington, Personal, Foreign, Grim
inal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
THE CAPITAL.

A QUARREL is said to be in progress
between Secretary Noble and Indian Com
missioner Morgan.
A BILL %refunding to settlers $3.50 per acre
on land near forfeited railroad land grant
passes the senate.
THE president has approved the sentence
of court-martial in the case of Maj. Giles b.
Overman, corps of engineers, charged with
certain irregularities in his accounts. A
general order containing the reprimand
will be issued by the war department.
Mr.. TsUI Kwo GIN, the Chinese minister,
has prepared a letter to the secretary of
state urging an early response 10 the vari-
Gus communications that the Chinese
government has sent to this government
with reference to the restriction Of Chinese
immigration.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
FOREIGN.

An unfounded report that Cara has been
captured comes from Mexico
DISPATCHES from st. Petersburg state that
another important firm is in financial diff
culties.
THE Canadian government has forbidden
the importation of American cattle in Brit
ish Columbia.
PRINCE B~IsMARcK's condition is, improv-
ing, and it Is thought he will soon take his
seat in the reichstag.
The negotiations between France and
Spain for . commercial treaty are about to
be renewed.
The extensive furniture and glass works
Of Fasig 4 Sons, at Ludwigsburg, near
Stuttgart, has been destroyed BY fire,
involving . loss Of halfa million marks.
J. A. CHAPLEAu, the Canadian statesman,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

New Orleans has a hospital for lepers.
The Phoenix Iron company of Trenton,
N. j., has suspended business and was taken
charge of by a receiver. The liabilities are
1858, 900; assets, $186, 600.
Two hundred and three applications for
space at the Columbian Exposition have
been made by Philadelphians, DESTROYS OF
making exhibitions.
A LARGE meteor fell in the Choctaw Ma
ton a few days ago. 1t was imbedded at
least twenty feet in the earth, and protrudes
twelve feet in the air.
Representatives Of all the leading marine
insurance interests on the great lakes met
of rates practically the same as last year.
KING TENBR1No, of Butaritari, who ar
rived in San Francisco o the bark Towara
last week, announces that his mission to
this country is to secure the protection OF
the United States for the Gilbert islands.
The Lindell Hotel, Of st. Louis, which
cost when it was built IA years ago 81, 300,
600, was sold by the Marmaduke estate to
the present ~lessees, Messrs. Howe and
Chassaing, for 1876, 600.
A PROJECT is on foot to establish a trans
Atlantic line Of steamers between Phila-
delphia port and Breentown, a harbor in
Bristol channel, passengers to be transport
ed thence by a short railroad route to Lon
don.
GEORGE SHEPPARD PAGE, one of the most
conspicuous figures on Wall street, and
famous as the 'lnillionaire chemist" has
been committed to an asylum for the in
sane, his mind broken down by worriment.
su%perinduced by a severe attack of grip.
MRS. SARA ALrHEA TERRY, since her In
generation in the asylum at Stockton, CAL,
has become very reticent and violent. Re-
iusing to conform to the asylum rules and
discipline, it was recently necessary to use
some force with her, and she became so re-
i~racto-y that she has since been put in e
straight-jacket.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
A Very Consider.te Suicide.

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 3.-Frsnk
johnson of Chicago committed suicide
in q room at Moore's hotel in q manner
that showed he did not intend to make
q botch Of the job. He went to his room
in the afternoon, leaving word that he
not to be disturbed. Carefully dis.
robing, he laid . quilt under the bed.
and, crawling into il, he stretched him
self out at full length, opened his pocket.
knife, and plunged the blade into his
jugular vein. He kept his position I'M
til most Of the life. blood had drained
from him and then crawled into bed,
where he covered himself up with the
quilts and awaited death. On his per-
son was found Q letter from his wife ask.
ing him 10 visit her, and indicating that
their separation was caused by 3 diff
Guilty over the children. The only res.
son assigned for cutting. his throat nm.
der the bed is that he did not want "a
damage the bedclothes any more than
necessary.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
CASUALTIES.

IT is estimated that the losses to Texas
stock and sheep men by the recent blizzard
will reach to $500, 600.
JOHN P. MURPHY. chief of the depart
ment Of public safety of Allegheny, Pa,
has been held in 81, 600 on the charges o
embeZZlement and bribery.
Or the 200 unfortunate sealers who were
carried out to sea near Trinity bay a few
weeks ago all have been accounted for but
twenty-five.
THE depot Of the New York, New Hav-
en-, & Hartford, at New Haven, Conn.,,
burned the othe: night, causing a loss of
$3.50, 600.
BERRY TURNER, the celebrated outlaw
and leader of the Turner faction for the
last eight years in the Barton-Turner feud,
was captured by Sheriff John c. Colson
and our deputies at White Oaks. Tenn.
A YOUNG girl inmate of the female refor-
matory in indianapolis which was burned
a few weeks ago, confessed having fired
the building. Several lives were lost in the
fire.
HENDERSON Bros carriage depository in
Boston burned, with four large storage
buildings in the rear, occupied by The firm,
and a number of tenement houses in
the vicinity. Loss, $500, 900.
AT The Williamsburg stone quarries
near Huntington, Pa. John Gates, of
Petersburg, while warming himself at a fire,
near which several cartridges had been
placed, unconsciously stepped on n Of
them and was instantly blown to pieces.
The business portion of Homer, ILL.,,
from the square on main street to Andrew
fingers residence ard on First street to
Drupp's residence, was destroyed by fire.
Eleven buildings were burned and the loss
will aggregate $4,000.
Two lives were lost near ~Tullahoma,
Tenn, recently, a north-bound Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis train thro wing J. w.
Alliston and his two children, Charles and
Bessie into the Garrison river from a
bridge. The girl was rescued some distance
down stream, but the man and boy drown
ed and their bodies were not reco vered.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

IT is a common saying that q wom-
ans most relentless enemy is one of
her own sex. The pathetic appeal
made by Mrs. Hargreaves, however,
in behalf of Mrs. Osborne would seem
to disprove all that. Had Mrs. o.
borne been successful in her original
design she would have cast the stigma
upon the Hargreaves family which she
herself is now obliged to bear.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

TENNESSEE has six surviving ex-
Governors, and they all reside within
the borders of the state. The oldest
of them all is Senator Isham G. Har.
ris, who has been in politics longer
than any other man in the State, and
whose career links the ante-bellum
days with the present. He has passed
nearly sixty years in Office, and for
thirty years he has sat in the Senate.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

RUDYARD K1PLING's first Impressions
of the United States, received mainly
in San Francisco, made a great stir in
the critical world. They did not help
people who live in the United States
to form a very favorable impression
OF Mr.. Kipling. He is now writing a
new series of impressions, received
mainly in New York.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
Switchmen Have Trouble.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 2.-The entire
force of switchmen at the Minnesota
Transfer, the railroad center between
Minneapolis and st. Paul, went out on
q strike yesterday afternoon because the
superintendent refused to reinstste q
switchman who was discharged for be
ing absent without leave. At a meeting
of the switchmen's union last night.
however, it was decided to go blok to
work pending the arrival OF Grand Sec.
rotary Sweeney, who will endeavor to
adjust the difficulty.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
THE WICKED WORLD.

LOUIS HEGEMAN, the notorious, is again
in the laws clutches in Minneapolis.
SEVEN Chicago councilmen ere indicted
for boodling.
E. L. GoDKIN, editor OF the New York
Evening Post, is arrested or q charge OF
criminal libel.
Four men are arrested in st. Paul on the
charge of being members of an organized
gang Of thieves.
TIE legalization of the recent big coal
combine is said to lave been brought
about by extensive bribery in the New
Jersey legislature.
LIEUT.. J. E. DODGE, of the Fourteenth in
fantry, appointed from Minnesota. is
arrested, charged with burglary at Hanni-
bal, Mo-, and duplication Of pay accounts.
+. E. ELcoN is in Winnipeg, en- route to
the Turtle mountain district in search OF
Tascott, who is reported to be living with q
band OF Indians near Killarney.
THE safe in Calvary Baptist church, New
York was robbed of So, 600 in money and all
the valuable silver and communion service.
Later an unknown man returned the sill
verware to DR.. Satterlees, the pastor.
AT New York, John H. Hartford was
sen to the Elr4ira Reformatory for embez-
cling $4,000 from his employers, Smith &
Sills, wholesale grocers. He was a fire..
quenter of the Guttenburg race track, where
lie lost the money. He formerly conduct.
ed a grocery store in Waterbury, Conn.
FRANK McKEEN, a laborer, has been ar
rested at Chicago for pounding his wife tc
death. She died after being beaten with
clenched knuckles at intervals for sever
hours, the husband desisting when the
wife would become helpless and resumina
when she revived. The cause was drunk
enness and jealousy.
A. GORDON MURRAY has been suspended
as chief of the Highlanders' association
Chicago, pending an Investigate on O
charges preferred against him. There arr
several counts. all relating to his official
acts except the one concerning his chal
lenge to E. Erskine McMillin to fight
duel.
Miss Nora DENISE. a young woman liv
ing with the. amily of Thomas Seigle, a
81 Creole street, Indianapolis, drank a half
pint of whisky, presumably to steady he
nerve, and then fired a. bullet from a re
volver into her brain. causing death in
few minutes. Miss Denise was disap
pointed in q love affair. Her parents reside
at Union City.
/ WHILE the Dorchester, Mass, Higt
| School battalion was drilling in the Tow
Hall Monday evening, q rush was made BY
outsiders to get into the hall. This the boy
prevented, and when they came out wer'
pelted with snow and ice. VIM. J. Lynch
Is years old, was struck on the head with
| piece of ice, knocked down, and he died
The police have he matter in hand.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
Way Cause a Delay.

WATERFOWL, s. D.. April 1.-The
death of Register Williams leaves the
United States land Office powerless to
transact business. The city is full Of
settlers who desire to locate on the
Sisseton reservation which is ordered
to be thrown open April Is. They fear
that the president may not appoint IN
time to admit of the opening on thai
day. This gives more chance for "a
ditional settlers to get here and get Ill
ings in ahead of them.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
STARK OOUNTY.

Dickinson: The Recorder says: Some
time ago the states attorney took evi
dence regarding the sale OF alleged SAL
of Intoxicating liquors in Dickinson.
Last Sunday q general raid was made
on all the places where it was alleged
liquor % sold. The result, howeve ,
a rather oiscoursgiog to those who
we're looking for q "tig haul" and il
liquor is sold. there happened to be but
q small invoice, OF none at all, on hand.
Several arrests were made. but no in.
jur ctions served. Bonds we're given il
very case, and the world moves on as
before,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

AN eccentric French woman has left
a bequest OF 500, 900 to be given to
the man who with five hundred COM
panions will penetrate further into
the interior of Africa than any other
explorers have done. What an open
ing for the third party.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

THE British syndicate is not so nu-
merous in this country as it has been,
some of the syndicaters having made
the painful discovery that they had
taken more upon their fork than they
could comfortably NOW away.
Americans, after all, seem best fitted
to conduct American enterprises.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

The School Trouble at saltwater, MIN
SALTWATER, April flames Mulvey,
president of the Defenders Of the Pub
lie Schools, has appointed the following
executive committee:. James Mulvey.
T E Fellows, Otis Staples, John &
Nelson, Charles Boo, E. L. Hospes and
a. L. Foster. This committee is en-
powered to institute any legal action
deemed necessary, but it is still hoped
that the public psrochial school trouble
may be settled amicably without re-
course to the courts.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

In Illinois 100000 sparrows have
been slain by law, and still little
punches of d~irty-looking feathers with
an impudent squawk concealed in their
midst can be seen everywhere. The
sparrow in Illinois, with a view to
equalizing things, is now devoting all
his energies to the propagation OF his
snacias
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09
THE RAILROADS.

A railroad company styled the Sioux
City, Chicago & Baltimore is organized.
The Milwaukee has issued a second edi-
ton of its Minneapolis convention flyer.
Harrison, now occupies central plan in the
group Of possibilities, while the dark horse
shows the familiar outlines of the face Of
Uncle Rusk.
THE Western Passenger association has
been requested to name date when a COM
mittee Of Commercial Travellers Federation
of America may appear before it and argue
for the adoption fa5,oOO mile interchange
cents per mile.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

THE late DR.. Junker, the African ex-
plorer, put more faith in Livingstone's
than in %Stanley's way Of advancing
through the Dark Continent. He new
killed a native, and for the most part
Travelled without a weapon, but still
achieved what he wanted.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

THERE should be considerable
charity toward the Emperor OF Ger
many. He is certainly suffering from
a diseased ear and as certainly his
reason is affected by it.. What Ger
many now needs is a law which will
permit it to superannuate afflicted
mOnarchs.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

WARD EMMoNs, the ossified man, died
at ~ Jefferson, L. l., of the grip.
Col MAPLEsoN, the we'll known operate
manager, has been stricken in London by
paralysis, and is in a dangerous condition.
A New YORK morning paper states that
Col. Daniel s.. Lamont has been very ill for
the past few weeks. He is not yet out of
danger, physicians have been in constant
attendance,
A ROME dispatch renews the we'll worn
I'M that Archbishop Corrigan of New
York will probably be made a cardinal at
the next consistory. The archbishop
places no credence in it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-09

CARLYLE HARRIS, CONFERENCE.-The
murderer, is writing poetry in the
Tombs. Can't his electrocution be
expedited somewhat? There's NO tell
ing when a lou of the stuff may run out
through a keyhole or otherwise find
its way abroad to add to the perils
and inconvenience OF street travel in
the metropolis.