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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
CONFINED TO HIS BED.
THE GRAND OLD MAN is RE-
PORTED ILL.
Mr.. Gladstone Is Suffering From a
Severe Cold, With a High
Fever and Other Symp-
toms OF In
flueHZa. ..-
There Is Much Anxiety.

London, March 14.-Mr. Gladstone is
confined to bed with a cold. He became
indisposed while paying a visit to Hamps-
head, about four miles from Lordon,
on Saturday, and was slightly feverish.
On returning to Downing street in the
morning he Immediately went to bed,
which is his usual remedy for any indis-
position. While her husband is ill in
Downing street Mrs. Gladstone is re-
cruiting from an attack of influenza at
Hawarden. Mr.. Gladstone's symptoms
are those of influenza. Sir Andrew
Clarke's diagnosis in the meantime leaves
uncertain the actual nature of the dis
ease, and considerable anxiety is felt.
MI. Gladstone's fever has risen sorue-
what this evening and he suffers from
oppression If the lungs. Sir Andrew
Clark still refuses to pronounce his i'll
ness influenza: Mr.. Gladstone dined
with Lord Kimberly on Saturday and
left an overheated room at midnight
to drive to the house of his son, Harry,
in Hampstead. There vas frost. and
Mr.. Gladstone was chilled through when
be left the carriage. Besides Mr.. Glad
stone, Mrs. Drew, her daughter and two
servants of the household have the in
flucnZa.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Personal MentiOn.

Congressman Nj. d. Harter has an
nounced that he could not accept the
nomination for governor of Ohio.
Col. Weber. superintendent of emigra-
ton at New York. has sent his ~resigna-
ton to Secretary Carlisle.
Mrs. Cleveland is the latest addition
10 the opponents of crinoline, and de-
clares that she will never wear or coun-
enanc it.
A dark-skinned young man in New
York, who says he is a Long Island
Indian named N~acatansee, is about to
make his stage debut as Othello.
One of the oldest of British noblemen
is the duke of Northumberland, who is
nearly ninety. He has been a member
of five cabinets, and sat in parliament
twenty years before he secured his title.
-Four years ago Grover Cleveland rode
to the capitol sitting on the right of Ben
janin Harrison. This time Mr.. Harri-
son sat on the right of Mr.. Cleveland
during the ride.
Gen. Horace Porter, president of the
Grant Monument association, says that
money enough has been raised to finish
the monument, and that work will be
resumed at once.
Neal Dow, the veteran prohibitionist,
is strongly opposed to the bill now pend
ing in the Maine Legislature which pro-
vides for the treatment of habitual
%drunkards at the expense of the state.
MIR. BOWS idea is millions for prevention,
but not il cent for cure.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Decided by SntOlli

W%estchcster, Pa, March i4.-For the
first time in six years w. s. Bowen of
Westchester yesterday occupied bis old
pew in st. Agnes Catholic chuIth, this
place, which, acting upon the then exist
ing rules and laws of the Catholic chIrch
in this country as they v.rc interpreted
by the ecclesiastical authorities Of that
body, he was excluded from holding by
the rector. Rev. s. l.. Spauldiny. The
pew was yesterday restored by tie same
rector, acting under the advice ,nid in
structions which he last week received
from Mgr. Satolli, at Washington, With
Ell Father Spaulding Wont ia reference 20
a decision pending the matter. The case
is the first on record in this country where
the church has decided in nn appeal
against Il decision of a priest that all
Catholic children must attend the CGtho-
lie school under pain of the Sac:aments
being denied the parents VINO ra?use to
send their children to the parish schools.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
From Other Shores,

Favorable news from America was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm at Hawaii.
Landslides wrecked many houses at
S%andgate, Eng.
Taine, the celebrated French writer,
is dead.
The senate of Dublin university voted
to petition parliament to defeat the
Irish home rule bill.
Signor Agazzi, cashier of the Bank of
Rome, was arrested for having embez-
zled 100000 franc two years ago.
Nj. Collet, an accountant for a firm
which owns collieries at Charleroi, Bel
GUM, committed suicide at Brussels by
shooting himself with a revolver.
Dynamiters are still operating in Rome.
Two dynamite bombs were discovered in
the house of Signor Brin, minister of
foreign affairs. Another bomb was found
in front of a local prison.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Accidental HAPPENINGS,

Two towns in Georgia were wiped out
by a cyclone and several persons were
killed.
The works of the Kirkham Art, Tile
and Pottery company at Barberton, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $24O,OOO;
Insurance., S1G5,OOO.
Fire in the Colonial flats at New York
did damage amounting to $4,000. Many
women and children We're carried from
the building by the firemen.
Fifty blooded horses and several Hol-
stein-Friesian cows were burned to death
on he extensive stock farm River
bank in Baltimore county, Md.
A se~ven-year-old son of Henry Cook
of East Selkirk, Man, hanged Himself
while at play. When the child's mother
found the lad life was extinct.
II. V. Temple. president of the First
National bank of Lexington, Neb., and
his wife are in a dying condition from
eating meat on which one of the children
had spread rough on rats.
John Horseficld. a ffteen-year-old boy,
jumped from the Larimer avenue bridge,
overlooking Silver lake, at Pittsburg,
Il distance of nearly seventy-ive feet,
to avoid arrest. He was not injured.
He was wanted for malicious mischief.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
A Wooden Library.

Cassel, Germany, has q wooden II
brary" of five hundred volumes.
The back of each volume is formed OF
the bark of a tree, the sides of the
wood in it's mature state, the top OF
young, immature wood, and the bot
tom of the same after having been
dried and seasoned. The inside con-
tains no leaves except those OF the
particular tree which Is being illustra.
ted. In fact, each volume is in reality
Il box holding flowers, seeds, fruit, and
leaves, the FIVE hundred volumesform-
ing abeautifula and useful collection OF
woods.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
English country houses have fires in

English country houses have fires in
only a few sitting rooms, the halls r
cold and there are nc bath rooms.
When the Romans occupied the same
country years ago every villa was
thoroughly heated with hot air pipes,
and had both Turkish and cold plunge
baths. Within one Enclosure are the
remains of a Roman house, built more
than 1,6O0 years ago, perfectly fitted
with heating AMI bathing appliances,
and q modern hous2-slx dimes the size
Of the Dther-warlned with four open
crates.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
All lmportent Occurrences Of the
Past Week, Boiled Down and
Arranged for Rapid
Reading.
WASHINGTON.

Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts will
be assistant secretary of state.
There will be no extra session of con-
gress, it seems.
Sixty-one naval officers will be re-
tired during Clcveland's term.
There We're thirty-siX nominations by
President Harrison that were not on
tirmed by the senate, among them that
of Judge Hanchett to the United States
circuit court.
The United States supreme court has
sustained st Louis in it's claim to the
right to charge the Western Union Tele-
graph company for the use of streets
in stringing wires.
The treasury department is informed
that numerous fraudulent papers have
been presented by Chinese upon the Pa
cihc coast II Canadian border claim
ing to be merchants with right to domi-
Gle in the United States. In view of
this state Of affairs Assistant Secretary
Spauldin2 has instructed collectors of
customs to disregard all such papers and
refuse entry unless it is proven salts
factorily that the persons presenting
them have the right to land.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18

The French academy has resolved tc
abandon for the present it's Dicton-
naire Historique, a history Of words,
which, after forty years work on it,
has not yet. in four Volumes, reached
the end OF the letter A.. Even the
academy has come to realize the brev-
ity Of life. When such phenomena as
this r made visible around us every
day it is safe to say that the meaning
Of the term "immortar' is about to
undergo a change for the better.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
It,s Br ,xg,. Turn to Laueh.

Washington, Special, March 11.-Senator
Villas declared very emphatically to-day that
one thing he would not do was to chase
about the departments or around the White
House to get Offices for anybody. At the
same time, he is very anxious to have ham-
oreaux Of his state made commissioner Of
tain that the same Influence that prevented
H.. 9. Wall. from being a member Of the
cabinet will prevent the appointment Of
much Wisconsin pine land ring connected
with the names OF Villas, Lamoreaux, Wall
and other Wisconsin men to allow them to
who was knocked out for the Mexican mis-.
sion with the help Of the Wisconsin people.
will now have the laugh oil to himself over
land Office fight.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
The Columbian Cnrnvels.

washington. March I4.-A cabIegraIn
was received at the navy department to-
ark and Bennington with the Columbus
caravels Pinta and Nina, at st. Thomas.
The Newark and Bennington will re-
main at st. Thomas long enough to coal
and will then proceed to Havana. where
they will turn the ~caravels over to the
Cuban authorities and sail for Hampton
Roads to take part in the naval review.
The Pinta and Nina will remain at Ha-
yan until the arrival of the Santa
Maria, Columbus flagship, which is on
her way there under convoy of 4 Spanish
war ship. On the arrival of the Santa
Maria the whole fleet will proceed to
Norfolk under convoy of the Spanish
mau-Of-War.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18

Java than in any other part of the
world, there being an average Of nine
ty-seven days in each year upon which
they occur. Next to Java comes Suma-
ira, which never has less than eighty
six thunder days per year. Then
comes Hindoostan with fifty-six, Borneo
with ffty-four, the African Gold Coast
with fifty-two and the region about
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with fifty-one.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Bad for Edison.

Schenectady, N. Y, March 14.-Last
night the ice in the Mohawk, west of tn.
city, broke up and formed an immense
gorge against the Fitclburg railroad
bridge three miles from here. The water
ov lfowed the banks, flooding Edison
Park and all that part occupied by the
washington house company and the Edi-
son General Electric company. The first
floors OF the Edison General Electric COM
pcry, which aggregate sixteen acres, are
under water to a depth of three feet.
Both plants have beer shut down and
400 men are laid off. A mile south of
the city at the point where the tracks
or the Delaware & Hudson Canal COM
pany pass under those Of the New York
Central & Hudson River railway, the
foundation of the latter road has been
washed away, stopping all traffic be-
tw zen this city and Albany On the main
line. Passenger trains on the Central
railway were sent around ty the way of
Troy. No trains are passing over the
Del ware 4 Hudson road. All the ex~
hibits which the Edison company were
preparing for the worlds fair are prac-
tlcally destroyed by the water, as is
als' most of the machinery and stock OIL
the first floor. The loss is estimated at
over half a million. Nothing has been
heard yet of the party who wcnt to the
~fitchburg railway bridge to blow up the
gorge with dynamite. Unless the gorge
breaks soon IL ore damage is anticipated.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Six Men Injured.

Duluth, Special, March 1.-two yard
engines of the st. Paul & Duluth collided
near Lake avenue viaduct to-day and six
men were injured. The accident occurred
during a binding snow storm, when it
was impossible to see or hear, and the
engines ran into each other with con-
siderable force. The injured are:
Charles H. Reimer. small bones Of wrist
broken; Andrew j. Young, bad scalp
wound and otherwise bruised about the
head; Eugene Fargo, badly damned
about the hips and thighs; Matt Sullivan,
leg bruised; Arthur Clare, badly hurt and
squeezed about the shoulders. Fargo is
quite seriously injured and was taken to
the hospital
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
MONDAY, MARCH 6.
Senate.

President Cleveland transmitted the
following nominations in u message to
the senate:
Walter @. Gresham of Illinois to be
secretary of state.
John G.. Carlisle of Kentucky to be
secrtary of the treasury.
Daniel S. Lamont of New York to be
secretary of war.
Richard Olney of Massachusetts to be
attorney general.
Wilson L. Bissell of New York to be
postmaster general.
Hilary s.. Herbert of Alabama to be
secretary of the navy.
Hoke Smith of Georgia to be secretary
of the interior.
julius Sterling Morton of Nebraska to
be secretary of agriculture.
They were confirmed in executive ses-
sion.
Senator Sherman presented a joint
resolution, which proposes that the terms
of office of president and vice president
of the F%ifty-fourth congress shall con-
tinue until noon of the Both of April,
1897; that he senators whose terms
would expire on the 4th of March, 1897,
shall continue in office until noon of the
Both of April, and that that time shall
hereafter be substituted for the 4th of
March as the commencement and ter
mination of the official terms of the
president, vice president, senators and
representatives in congress-.
On motion the resolution was laid ON
the table for the present
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Among the Wicked.

Frank La Page of Cory, Pa, sui
cided by shooting at Niagara Falls, N. y.
Charles Cronea, last of the La Titte
freebooters, died in Chambers county,
Tex.
The residence of Gov. Stone of Mis-
souri, was robbed of several articles Of
jewelry and a small sum of money.
L. X. Ford was hanged at Magnolia.
Miss, for the murder of Marshal r. A.
Clay about a year ago.
George Loomis, a bank clerk, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at Jackson
vile, Ind. He was demented.
F. G. Lucas, a prominent business man
of Los Angeles, Cal, committed suicide
by throwing himself in front of a loco
motive.
John Cambray of Habama, Mich, is
under arrest charged with having as
saulted his eight-year-old daughter.
Lester H. Gale, who embezzled $1O.-
1872 from the City Savings bank of Nash
vile, Tenn, has been acquitted. Gale
has refunded the amount embezzled.
John Glass, ST., a blacksmith of Poca-
hontas, Iowa, shot and killed himself.
Domestic trouble is thought to have been
the cause.
Jesse Jackson, who led the gang that
robbed a train at Wharton, I. T., last
November, was arrested near Eufala.
I. T.
During a fight between the Morrison
and Ross factions at Whitewell, Tenn,
Roy Morrison, Taylor Morrison and Will
Ross were fatally stabbed.
Mr.. Solomon is under arrest at Lin
coin, ILL.,, for selling postage stamps to
business men. He had a large quantity
in his possession, and it is believed they
were stolen.
Oliver Johnson, colored, thirteen years
old, murdered Stanley Holt, white, aged
FIVE, and threw the body into the Scioto
river at Columbus, Ohio. johnson was
arrested and confessed.
w. c.. Jones, a we'll known horseman,
was arrested at Nashville, Tenn,
charged with larceny in securing horses
in Chautauqua county, N. Y, under false
pretenses.
In a hand-to-hand fight at Sedalia,
Mo-, between W. H. Hogg, a clerk, and
p. III. Haley, a travelling salesman, both
were badly wounded. A pistol was used,
each securing possession of it alternate
II. Haley's wife was the cause of the
trouble.
Lewis Furman has been arrested at
Birmingham, N. Y, for the murder Of
Richard Foote, on Friday, Oct. 30, 1891.
AT the recent trial of Mrs. Foote, who
was charged with the crime of murder
ing her husband with an AK and burn
ing his body in the barn, the fact was
developed that the crime was committed
by Furman.
At Chicago Frank Eek, formerly a
fireman at Wichita, KAN, murdered his
wife by cutting her throat. and then
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18

Washington, March 1.-THE senate
discussed for nearly an hour to-day the
resolution offered last week by Mr.. Man
derson intended to limit the action of the
senate in the present extraordinary sas-
sion to executive matters or to matters
not requiring cooperation on the part of
the house. Mr.. German favored that
policy, but preferred to have it take the
of a resolution. Objection to unanimous
consent came from the Democratic side
of the chamber, and the most strenuous
opposition to the resolution came also
from that side. The question finally went
over without my decision, and the SEN
ate adjourned till Wednesday.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
MIR. Blafne,a Ramna.

Washington, March 14.-Acting under
the teens of a resolution adopted by the
legislature Of Maine, Gov. Cleyes has
written to Mrs. James G. Blaine request
ing permission for the state officials to re-
Oak Hill cemetery, this city, to Augusta.
Me. At the time the resolution was
adopted it was understood that the people
of the state would provide a monument to
mark Mr.. Blaine's final resting place in
case the effort to secure the removal OF
the remains was successful. Mrs. Blaine
returned last night from New York, and
has not yet made any reply to the re.
quest of the governor.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Yeaterdax-,s Storm.

Sacred Heart, MIMI, Special, March
14.-A heavy snow storm set in last night
at II o'clock. Eight inches of snow had
fallen up to 1 o'clock to-day. Tho wind
is blowing from the northeast thirty-lVe
miles an hour. There are more snow and
larger drifts than at any time this Win
ter. The thermometer registers zero.
Montevideo, Mimi, Special. March IA.
The heaviest snow storm of the season
has ragged here for over twenty hours.
Not less than fifteen inches of snow has
fallen, and is drifting badly before a
strong north wind. Prospects of a block
ade are good.
Tracy, Mimi, Special, March IA
heavy snow strom has been raging here
all day. Several inches of nov lies on a
level and badly drifted. Thermometer
falling.
Northfeld, Mimi, Special, March IA.
"A hard storm Of wind and Snow has
been raging here to-day, and is increasing
in violence.
Faribault, Mimi. Special, March IA
A severe snow storm hasN prevailed here
all day, and is growing worse tonight:
Lake City, Mimi, Special, March IA
A heavy now storm from the northwest
set in here this forenoon, anu continued
for several hours.
Brownsville, Mimi. Special, March II,
The heavy rain of last week melted the
snow and the creeks We're swollen until
yesterday when the wind changed to the
north. To-day it began showing. and
there is a repetition of the storm of two
weeks ago, with u heavy gale from the
north.
Republic, Mich, Special, March IA
A heavy snow and high wind set in this
morning. There is ten inches of new
snow, and the beautiful still falling. 1t
will be a godsend to lumber operators.
On Menominee river and its tributaries
alone 100000 to LOG. OOO,O 600 feet OF
logs were hung UP by the recent unex.
pected thaw. There is now a good pros
pect of getting them out this spring.
New Richmond, Wis, March IA
severe snow storm from the northeast
has been raging ever since early this
morning.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Going to Hawaii

New York, March 14.-Assistant Ser
geant-at-Arms Felix McCloskey, of the
national house of representatives, is in
this city for u few days. He said yes
terday that while here he intended to
complete the traffic arrangements for IL
party which proposes visiting Hawaii in
May. In this party, Mr.. McCloskay said,
would be seven United States senators
and seventeen congressman, who simply
have the trip in view as one Of sight
seeing and pleasure. The idea OF visiting
the island came up, Mr.. McClo skey said,
some months ago, before there was any
political trouble, and the plans were so
well formulated that it VAS rOousi,t best
not to abandon them. The barry, MI.
McClOskey stated, would have no official
recognition whatever. 1t was proposed
to make Chicago the rendezvous, on the
first of May. II to start from there for
San Francisco on May 3. Mr.. McClos-
key said the senators had not finally
given their word that they would go,
but he was quite sure seven would join
the party. Others who he thought would
make the journey were ex-Speaker Reed,
Representative Burrows of Michigan,
Cobb of Alabama, Hit of Illinois, Geary
of California, Funston Of Kansas, Mar
Gus A. Smith, delegate from Arizona,
Coggswell of Massachusetts, Cadmus Of
New Jersey. Dunphy and Lockwood of
New York, Wagner md Clancy of Brook
lyn, Washington of Tennessee, Malloy
of Florida and Storer of Ohio.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
At one of the performances of "Cvn

At n of the performances of Gym
beline" by Modjecka's company one Of
the audience heard a man behind him
say to another: what is this piece,
and where did she get it?' "Oh," an
swered his companion, something she
picked up, I suppose" ALI this seems
less r~eprehensible when DR.. Johnson's
criticism Of 'Cymbe;:ne" is recalled.
TO him it sounded like the creation Of
a b1natic without a single lucid inter-
val.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
LIVES AND PROPERTY
SWEPT AWAY BY DEVASTATING
FLOODS.
A Dam Gives Way in Michigan
and the Kalamazoo River
Floods Thousands of
Acres Of Ter
r.tOry.
On the

Kalamazoo, Mich, March IA re-
port has just been received that the
dams at Howlandsville, south of here,
and at Plainwen and Otsego to the north,
have gone. Thousands Of acres of land
are inundated and many ives and much
property are no doubt lost. The Kalama-
ZOO river was never before known to be
50 high.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Charged With Libel

Dubuque, Iowa, Special. March IL
Brown, assistant editor Of the Ledger, was
arraigned to-day on a charge of libel grow
ing out of correspondence to the Chicago
SUNDAY Sun, and was remanded until next
tuesday. He asked for a. guard to and
from the jail to protect him from mob yio-
fence. The in&iminating letters found on
ms premises Wednesday night are before
a large number of indictments against him
tomorrow. ~
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
A Fiery Death.

Utica, N. Y. March Ia horrible acct
dent occurred on the Erie & Western road
tonight within a few miles Of Onaoage.
An oil train parted and one part collided
with the other. The collision was terrible
and burned. The flames from the burning
oil Illuminated the country for miles.
Michael Donohue, engineer, of Cswego, the
fireman, Frank Dwyer Of Oswego, and the
head brakeman, Henry Burke, were burned
to death.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-18
Fighting Carter Harri.on.

chicago, March II. A bitter fight ia
being made against Carter H. Harrison,
who wants to be mayor for the fifth time.
A Few days ago every daily in the citv er.
cept, the one owned by Mr.. Harrison nrinted
q plank ballot. and requested every quail
1ed voter to write the name of his candi-
Tens OF thousands of ballots have been re.
Gelved. anu the count will begin Tomorrow.
Lyman J. Gage has been prominently men.
refuses to allow his name to be used. ~