The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From tho Wires in a Con.
uenaed Form.

uensed Form.
Russia has agreed 10 assist the Unit
&c States in the better protection OF
seals in the North seas.
a formidable movement is On foot TO
Dust Russell Sage from the presidency
of the Iowa Central railway.
Giuseppe Verdi the celebrated COM
poser, now in the eighty-third year of
his age, is reported seriously i'll nj
Rome.
A dispatch from Paris the
marriage of Puvis dc Cbavannes, the
famous painter, and Princes Canta-
cuzene.
Elmer Dahl, eight years old. son Of
Martin Dahl of La Crosse. was
drowned by going into the river owe
his depth.
Within a short time three furnaces
in the Mahoning valley. Ohio. which
have been out of blast for some time,
will resume.
Judge Joseph Sible; died mt Quincy.
Ill, aged eighty years. He was on
the circuit bench from 1850 to 1879 and
served two years on the appellate
bench.
James Oesterle. one of the pioneers
of Sharon, Portage county, Wis. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself ia
the right temple. He was eighty-two
years Of age.
John NJ. Francis. senior proprietor
and editor-in-chicf of the Troy Times.
ard eX-minister of the United States
to Austria, Greece and Portugal, died
at his home in Troy, y. Y.
Richard Oates. proprietor Of the Cen
trail house. Calumet, Mich. left for
Chicago one month ago yesterday,
promising To return in five days. No
word has been heard from him and
foul play is suspected.
Rev. Lorenzo ID. McCabe, D. d.. LII
d., for fifty years a professor in the
Chic Wesleyan university and a dis
tinguiShed author and t~heOlOgian in
the Methodist church. died at Della
ware, Ohio, In his eighty-tirst ycar
The Idell WoOdcnware Company of
st. Louis. whose stock for the third
time III as many years was burned last
week, filed IA general assignment for
the benefit of its creditors. The liza
bilitieS are SS0OOO; assets, SS3,OOD.
Henry T.. Stone. formerly vice presi-
dent Of the Chicago. Burlington n
Quincy railroad. and for the last Sev"n
years president of the Chicago Tclo-
phone company, will retire from its
service in July, having other plans ia
view.
Mrs. Marion Kelly. n handsome
young widow from San Francisco, has
/ brought suit at Butte, Mont. for S10.-
OO0 damages for breach of promise
against Oscar Bell, a mining engineer.
: and to get title to 100000 worth of
property which he had promised her
and which II Is now in possession of.
The Mexican official gazette de-
nouLces the report published in the
United States that the government has
granted a charter for gambling houses
at Tijuana, Lower California. The re-
quest was recently made by some
Americans for n charter for q lottery
in Lower California but the govern.
ment did not consider the petition.
The statement that Julia NarlOwc
and her husband. Robert Tabor. will
star separately next season is true.
Miss MarlOwe has zone to Europe TO
secure some new plays and will ap-
pear under the management of Mr.,
Frohman next ScasOn. This in nOWisc
affects the domestic relations of ar.
and Mrs. Tabor. Mrs. Tabor will
stage he" plays,
DeSritc the fact that he was com
PEELED to testify in the Davis will ease
to the effect that he believed the sig
nature TO the alleged will to be Il
forgery, Gcorga Nj; Xweil. after twenty
years service as paying teller for the
First National Bank Of San Francisco,
has been summlrily discharged for
having violated the confidence Of that
Institution in his startling testimony.