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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
THE RECEivERshIP CASE.

Argument Of Ex-senator Sanders the
/. Feature et the P~roeesdisss.
snArTLE. WASH, Aug. 26. - The
feature Of the days proceedings in the
Northern Pacific receivership case was
atwo hours address made by ex- United
States Senator Sanders OF Montana,
counsel for the company. While only
the question Of jurisdiction has thus
far been raised in the case. Senator
Sanders went into the history of Vii.
lard's regime and he made sensational
reference to the men who had been
connected with the roads management.
Other arguments were made by sena-
tor John H. Mitchell of Oregon, ex-
Senator John B. Allen of Washington,
both for the Farmers Loan and Trust
company; by J. D. Crowley of Ia
coma, and ex-senator John G. Spooner
of Wisconsin,, both for the receivers.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
POLITICAL NEWS.

Lloyd Lowndes was nominated by
the Republicans Of Maryland for gov.
ern0r.
Senator PETER has come out for cur
rency based on land values and against
the silver movement.
Senator Vest was interviewed at
Carlsbad. He said that . free coinage
law will surely be enacted.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Republican League has elected
A. J. Bliss Of Saginaw, Mich, treas
urer.
OF the national commissioner, . ma.
jority Of the Republicans and half Of
tie Democrats favor 4 short presiden.
tial campaign.
The conference Of free coinage Dom.
oorats at Warrington adopted resolu-
tions not altogether complimentary to
the administration.
The Massachusetts Democratic cen.
trail committee has decided to hold the
state convention In Worcester, Oct. 2,
with Hon. Josiah Quincy presiding.
Senator Harris, chairman Of the
executive committee Of the recent
democratic silver conference, says the
organization Of Q national committee
viii be at once proceeded with.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

The whisky trust properties were
cod at Chicago to the reorganization
committee for g, 500, 600.
Agricultural department advices on
crops in Europe show good yields ev.
erywhere except in England.
The government fruit report shows
indications OF continued improvement
o. the already abnormal crop.
Justice O'Brien of New York denied
all injunction to restrain the reorgan.
izat;on committee from purchasing
whisky trust property.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
O OF A WRECKER.

Someone Tried to Blow Up a Northern
Pacific Train.
BUTTE, Mon, Aug. 26.-An attempt
was made by some unknown miscreant
to blow up the 1890 eastbound North.
ern Pacific passenger train, by placing
a stick Of dynamite in a frog at a
junction, half a mile east of the city.
Nearly the whole train passed before it
exploded. The last coach, with pas.
sengers. was badly shattered, but no
one was injured.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
USUAL SHR|NKAGE
Volume Of Business the Past
Week Affected by Sum-
mer Dizziness.
CERTAIN INDUSTRIES BUSY.
Price of Wheat Takes a Big
Drop Despite the Short
Crop Abroad.

New YORK, Aug. or. q. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review Of Trade says:
The volume Of business shrinks, as is
natural in August, and the shrinkage
seems rather larger than usual, be.
cause transactions in July were some.
what inflated for that month. Some
industries are doing more than ever
before in August and the prospects for
fall trade is good in others, although
much depends on the crops, and the
outcome Is less clear than spectators
on either side are disposed to admit.
Industrial troubles have not entirely
ceased, but during the past week have
become much less threatening.
The price Of wheat has fallen 81
cents during tho week. Wheat
Ought to Go Abroad Freely
At present prices, but Atlantic exports,
-four included, have been only 1862.
500 bushels for the week, against
2,o94, 764 last year, and for four weeks
only 4,S46,6 82 bushels against 10, 937,-
Az last year. Impressive stories Of
short crops abroad have little weight
in the presence Of such q record, and
the ahstention Of foreign purchases
proves more effective than the with.
holding Of wheat by Western farmers.
Naturally the 81 cent wheat Of the Pa.
chic coast still goes forward freely in
place Of the Atlantic supplies. Corn
has also declined ~ cents, while pork
and lard, with accustomed i~nconsist.
oncy, raised . shade a. corn declines.
Cotton Has Advanced . Fraction
without any definite change in orop
prospects. In iron, Notwithstanding
some uneasiness because the output
has greatly increased, heavy purchases
by two leading companies have ad.
vanoed the price Of Bessemer 80 cents,
and . new combination has raised gal
vanised basbed wire to 81. 80, while
combinations are being formed in wire
rods and common wire, and advance in
prices il expected. Other prices are
unchanged, and the new orders for
iron and steel products are not at pres.
emit large.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
A,eths, Heavy Gold shipmsa

Another Heavy Gold Shipment.
WARRINGTON, Aug. 26.-Ths treasury
department has been informed Of the
withdrawal Of $v85, 900 in gold from
the sub treasury in New York for OK.
port. This will reduce the gold reserve
to 800, 629. 324. The total loss Of gold
since last Saturday, exclusive Of the
last withdrawal, is ., 200. 600, and the
net loss is 3809, 847.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
NEWS OF LEGAL NATURE.

The attorney general has decided
that the Illinois flag law doesn't apply
to parochial schools.
William LEWIS has sued William
Ferre at Bloomington. His, for the
price Of II slaves sold il 1858.
Arkansas authorities are trying to
make the Pullman Palace car company
and Pacific Express company pay taxes
in that state.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
Gibbons Returns From Europe.

Gibbons Returns From Europe.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-After an alb.
sence Of 10 weeks Cardinal Gibbons re.
turned from Europe Friday on the
Oampana. When seen by . represen.
tative Of the Associated Press Cardinal
Gibbons said, my visit to Rome had
no special significance as it is custo-
mary 10 visit the holy father every
eight or ton years. or perhaps oftener."
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
NEWS,

The Big Four's freight tonnage last
year was the largest in its history.
Railroad earnings for the first half Of
the year reveal a satisfactory increase.
It is reported that the 500 is carrying
wheat from Minneapolis to the sea-
board for IL cents per 100 pounds.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

che highest po1uU 1t nas reacned since
1890, when it sold at $24. so. AS pig
iron is the base Of oil grades of iron and
steel there will be a general rise in
prices.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

NEWS FNOM WASHINGIONs
About all of the income tax paid in
has been returned.
The plans for the four new gunboats
authorized have been agreed upon.
s:George F. Shelton was appointed
special United States attorney for Mon.
tana.
Minister Ransom denies that he has
made reflections upon the Mexican
nation.
Imports from France and Germany
have increased at a rapid gait for the
last year.
Secretary Morton has formally placed
the agricultural department under civil
service rules.
To avoid further complications over
the Mexican mission Minister Ransom
i to be r~eappointed.
Comptroller Bowler says he will not
make . decision on the sugar bounty
cases until next month.
A government employe has resigned
his job. He is J. w. Bennett, a former
st. Louis Newspaper man.
Secretary Morton, again paid of
agricultural department employees who
believe in free coinage in silver.
State department officials deny any
knowledge Of the reported removal OF
Consul General Judd from Vienna.
The interior department has - yet
taken no steps to secure punishment OF
the murderers of the Bannock Indians.
The age limit has been removed
from government printing Office ON.
ployes by the civil service commission.
Charges of violating army regula-
tions have been made against Major e.
81. Crowder, Of the Department Of the
Platte.
Boston parties are arranging to give
that city and suburbs q pneumatic mail
service If Uncle Sam will lease the
tubes.
The agricultural department. in \
bulletin, states that the total exports
of 1894 were tS8o, S4S, 900, against $847,.
000, 900 for 1898.
A table of errors made by railway
mail clerks shows a total Of about
1900, 900 errors in handling 10, DOC, 000,.
900 pieces Of mail.
The captains excuse has been &C.
copied by the government and the
Petrol, seized for flibustering at Key
West, was released.
Solicitor General Dabney, of the
state department., will resign in Sep
TENDER to take a law professorship in
the University of Virginia.
Chief Weather Prophet Moore has
given it out that all the subweather
prophets must stand an examination in
morals to hold on to their jobs.
Minister Terrell sends word from
Turkey that Bicyclist S%achtleben will
be given a guard of soldiers to help res.
u the remains of Cyclist LEM.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
-Four Fatally Injured.

PETERSBURG, Ills, Aug. 26.-While
q cage filed with miners was being
lowered into Hill Top mine, this city,
the cable broke and the cage dropped
to the bottom with great force. Seven
miners were injured, of whom four
will likely die.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
A AND TRADE.

The harvest in the Red river valley
and North Dakota will be finished this
week.
It il believed that the Chicago canal
viii greatly increase Mississippi river
traffic.
The New Yogk bank statement shows
. largely increased accumulation Of
idle cash.
At the end Of The fiscal year there
were reported e b 19S, OOO, 600 gallons
Of whisky In bond.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
Wealthy Families to Unite.

NEW YoRK, Aug. 26.-Miss Emma
Rockefeller, eldest Of the four children
Of William a.. Rockefeller, one Of tho
two brothers who control the Standard
Oh company, is engaged to marry Dr..
David Hunter MoAlpin, j., Of this
city, son OF the millionaire tobacco
manufactures.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
THE DEATH RECORD.

General Samuel Bell Maxey of Texas
is dead.
Baron Tauchnitz, a noted publisher,
died at Leipsic.
J. E. Norton who built the Hannibal
and St. Joe road through Missouri died
at Lawrence, Kan.
]. Mott Smith, who was Hawaiian
minister at Washington when the
queen wa deposed, is dead.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

Another Rise n Pig Tres.
P1TTsDu10, Aug. 26.-Pig iron has
advanced d in tho last few days and il
now quoted at 0l6.6 80 per ton. which is
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
Champion Jim Corbett was married
to Vera Stanwood last week.
A Missouri steer sold in Chicago for
SOL. 50; he weighed l. 40 pounds.
The American Library association
decided to meet in Cleveland, O., in
1895.
Physicians have given up hope Of
the recovery Of ex.6upreme Justice
Strong.
The Illinois State Fair association
has offered prises for exhibits aggregat-
ing as, 900.
A party Of Chicago physicians will
soon 90 to China to establish hospitals
in that country.
]. M. Good Of st. Louis was elected
president Of the American Pharma-
ceutioal association.
The aged guide Of a st. Paul party
Of treasure seekers died in Mexico City.
Hs only knew the secret.
South Dakota men win give the Mic
araguan government steamboat service
in return for = large tract Of land.
A moonshine whisky spring is said
to have been found near Randana, Ky.,
whore the red fluid flows like water.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
STRONG LANGUAGE

Ry Federal Judges in Deciding . North
ern Pacific Case.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-Another sensa.
tional chapter in the Northern Pacific
receivership case was opened in a de-
cision by the United States court of
appeals. This is the court of final ju-
risdiction. The opinion was prepared
by Judge Caldwell and assented to by
Judges Sanborn and Thayer. Refer
ring to the original appointment of
Northern Pacific receivers by Judge
Jenkins, the opinion says:
1T is obvious that if an individual
or private business corporation had
conveyed its property to another for
the same purpose and upon the same
trusts that the court was asked to take
this property and did take it, the law
would have stamped the conveyance
as one made to hinder and delay cred.
itors, and fraudulent and void tor the
reason"
Aids the Ivss Interest.
Under any circumstances this would
be strong language. When used by
the court Of highest Jurisdiction in the
United States it will undoubtedly b
made the basis by the Ives interest in
the Nosthsrn Pacific in = suit to have
tho appointment Of tho zsoeivsEs Va
Gated. The language Of the court was
used In he dsclsioa a suit brought
originally ~ Charles oeott against 5hs
Nosthssa Psclaa On tho suit hs re-
covsssd jadssnsot Tor q, l16. 10. eatis-
faction Of he Judgment was resisted
on tho ground that he road Wa IN The
hands Of fsoavers, and SCOTS judg.
msnt w~ thrown ont BY the lower
Dakota court On this ground. Right
here another very important legal
question Wa finally settled, the court
deciding that tho Dakota court had
full powers 70 satisfy Judgments and
aid in the collection Of debts on all
such property Of the company - wa
not embraced In the mortgage under
which tho receivers were appointed.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
No Betting 1t Gelssbvr~.

0ALEsBURa, nle., Aug. 20.-Horse-
man G. W. Williams has decided that
no pool selling O. other Questionable
features would b allowed on the
grounds during tho meeting, Aug. ~
to Sept. Z.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
Stevensons Return.

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 26.-Vice
President Stevenson and party arrived
from Alaska. The party goes east over
the Canadian Pacific railroad,
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31

WEEKLY NEWS SUMMARY
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-31
important Events Far and
Near Briefly Reported.

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-02
ing murdered his step. son and two

ing murdered his step,son and two
ether men.
President Huntington. of the South
ern Pacific, is arrested for giving a
pass.
George III. Kicker, - years old. ed
itor of the Bristol Conn., Herald,
committed suidde in Hartford, Conn.
Charles Rinsson salesman for Je-
rome Bignalls, tobacco dealer. was ar
rested at Clinton. IC va, charged with
embezzling $500.
\ Montana uan il charged with hav
ing secured tie incarceration of his
wife in a California asylum, though
she was sane.
Three negroes. two of them women,
are lynched il Alabama for murder
ing II white man and burning his
body.
The Singleton house. n large frame
hotel in the southern part of st. Jo-
seph. Mo-. was fired by incendiaries
and the inmates narrowly escaped
with their lives.
During "A fight at a gypsy camp near
Liberty. Ind. 3uck Noe and a man
named Rogers were fatally cut. "A
gypsy man was fatally shot and six
others wounded
Isaac Hammond. farmer has dis
appeared from Leroy, III. He had
$500 with him when he left. His team
was found tied to a tree and foul
play is feared.
G. w. Rogers was arrested at Tole-
do. Ohio, charged with using the mails
for fraud. He collected so each for
applicants for IN imaginary position
as engineer in a mill.
Frank III. Poor serving a sentence
in the Massachusetts penitentiary has
become heir to $4,000. 900 through the
death of q Nevada mine owner. Poors
time is nearly MP.
AS the result of a family feud, An
gelina Barber murdered at Phila-
delphia and Dminick Mamma is dy-
ing. Miss Barber attacked Mamma
with a Ratchet and inflicted fatal
wounds before lie killed her.
The Kentucky court of appeals az
firmed the two zeal sentence of t.. A.
Sutton the Louisville warehouse re-
cepit forger. 1t also reversed the en-
year sentence on the ground OF defcc-
tive indictments.
. Two men with blackened faces ap-
piled for food at the farmhouse of Nj.
J.. Carlton. Magnolia, Ark. Upon be-
ing directed to the kitchen they shot
and killed Mr.. Carlton. They tried to
shoot Mrs. Carlton but failed.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-02
Unfortunate Events.

Two locomotives and four cars were
wrecked in a freight train collision at
Decatur, ILL.,, causing a loss of $4,000.
Henry Bahs of Adrian, Mich, was
kicked by a horse and is in a critical
condition.
Henry \. Shirley and James s.
Amerton. English capitalists, We're
drowned south of San Antonio, Tex.
At the Edison electric light works
in Cincinnati a cylinder burst, fatally
injuring Bert Wilbur, an engineer.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ajax
Manufacturing company at Cleveland.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
G.. w. PattersOn's e~ight-year-old
daughter was burned TO death in
Jackson township, Ind. her clothing
catching fire from burning logs.
BY the collapsing of an amphithea-
ter surrounding n cockpit at the Next
can village of Huitla six men were
killed and many wounded.
James Sheridan, n prominent farmer
and resident of Galena, ILL.,, since
1888. was instantly killed by a run
away accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. JOhr. Shield were
poisoned by drinking coffee Mt Shell
burn, Ind. They will recover. The
poison came from the cooking utensil.
Lincoln McAllister, an employe of
the Westman Lumber company, was
drowned in Hay creek at Daggett,
Mich, while working upon some saw
logs.
Charles Smith, car inspector for the
Air line. died at New Albany, Ind,
from injuries received by being
caught between the bumpers of two
cars.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-02
Personal MentIOn.

The CurZOn-Leiter wedding takes
place in Washington as scheduled.
Daniel Weaver, aged 20 years, presi-
dent of the police commissioners and
twice mayor of Elkhart, Ind, has be
come insane from a paralytic stroke.
Catherine Scott, aged 1913 years, the
oldest Oma in Brooklyn, is dead.
She was porn in Ireland and came 10
Brooklyn seventy years ago.
James H.. Eckels, controller of the
currency. has declined an offer TO be-
come financial editor of the Chicago
Times-Herald at a large salary.
DR.. William Howard Russell, the
famous correspondent, who reported
the Crimean war for the London
Times, was "a years of age March ~.
There is a project to erect in Boston
an equestrian statue to Gen. Joseph
Hooker. and a group of statues to
Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan.
Mrs. VIM. Taylor, a museum charac-
ter, known throughout the entire
country as the Virginia fat midget.
died at Peru, Ind. She weighed =
pounds and was less than three feet
high.
John NJ. Stearns. who, next to Neal
Dow. was the most interesting and
prominent figure in the temperance
movement in the United States. died
at his home, al Noble street, Brook
Ign. Death was due to heart trouble.
Hon. Miss Julia Peel, daughter of
ViscOunt Peel, late speaker of the
house of commons, was married yes
terday to Rochfort Mcguire, the
young Parnellite who represents the
west division of Clare in the house of
commons.
Frederick A. Mitchell. at IN time
one of the wealthieSt and beSt-known
criminal lawyers in Chicago, died yes
terday in straitened circumstances.
He practiced for Il time in kansas
City and attracted attention as attOr-
ney for the James boys, the notorious
bandits.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-02
AROUND THE GLOBE
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
All Important Occurrences OF the
Past Week, Boiled Down and Arr
nnged for Rapid Reading, From
Home and Abroad.
From the Nations Capital.

The YanktOn reservation, II Is now
stated, will be opened before May l.
President Clevelapd announces that
Secretary Morton did not voice his
the preSident'Sl sentiments on silver
in his recent utterance.
The president has recognized +.
hammers as consul to Belgium. AT
Galveston, for Texas and Indian Ter
ritory.
The United States ship Minneapolis
has arrived at Kingston, Jamaica.
where she will coal and proceed TO
Hampton Roads.
The civil service commission is al
ready receiving applications from per-
sons who desire to take the eXamina-
tons next fall.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury shows an available cash
balance of S1S3, 140,291 and a gold re-
serve of S90,S35, sos.
The government has received an
official dispatch from Havana confirm
ing the announcement that General
Bosch had defeated the insurgents
near Guayabel.
Reciprocity between the United
States and Hawaiian shipping regula-
lions has recently been brought about
by the action of the treasury depart
ment in giving TO Hawaiian merchant
vessels the same advantages enjoyed
by American ships.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-02
South Dakota Agricultural College.

By order of the regents of educ&
ton, a special course of dairying is
offered during the summer term to
both men and women who desire to
make butter and cheese by the latest
and best approved methods, or who
desire to fit themselves to take charge
OF and run creameries and cheese fac.
tories. The tuition for the course
will be only one dollar. How to make
good butter and cheese, on the farm,
in the factory and in the creamery, in
the best, most certain and most eco.
nonical, way will be the end aimed at
in the instruction. Daily lessons will
be given in both butter and cheese
making. A dairy building, well equip.
ped with the most approved modern
machinery and apparatus, and fur:
nished daily with an abundance OF
milk purchased from farmers, as well
as that from twenty five fine dairy
COWS, belonging to the College, will be
made use OF as the means of illustra.
tive instruction. The methods oil
testing specimens Of milk for the pur.
pose OF determining their value Tor
butter or cheese, and the method oil
rlpening cream so as to make butter
OF a uniform quality the year around,
will be taught and Illustrated in the
most careful way. 1t is hoped and
expected that the Dairy School will
be influential in promoting and en-
%couraging the dairy industry OF the
state and thus give. to the people OF
the state another most profitable EN-
ployment. Board and lodging can be
had in good families for $3.50 to
$500 per week. A few ladies can
have rooms in the dormitory.
The general courses OF the college
will also be carried on, and a fine
opportunity is offered to teachers, or
others, during the summer term to
review their studies or to take up
new ones.
Classes in English Grammar, Ele'
mentary Algebra, Physiology, Book,
keeping. Penmanship, Free Hand
Drawing, Civil Government, Rhetoric
Physics, Shorthand and Typewrltlns,
Sewing, Instrumental and Noca1
Music, Shop Practice, Botany, Neter'
nary, Medicine, Pharmacy, History,
English Literature, Elocution, steam
Engineering, and many Others Will %
carried on. Summer term opens May
18th, and continues to August ls''
1905.