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Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRtSSIONAL.
Second Session.
The conference report on the bill for the allot
ment of lands In severalty to Indians was
igreed to In the senate on the 233, and the bill
tor the establishment of a bureau in the agri
cultural department for the promotion of the
silk culture industry was favorably reported.
The sundry civil appropriation bill was dis
cussed..... In the house the post office appro
priation bill was passed and the deHclency ap
propriation bill was considered. Mr. Wilte fill.)
introduced resolutions asking for the impeach
ment of Speaker Reed.
Tits sundry civil appropriation bill was dis
cussed in the senate ou the 31th, and the nomi
nation of Charles Foster, of Ohio, as secretary
of the treasury, was confirmed....In the house
the Bcnate bill to refund the direct tax levied
twenty-eight years ago to support the war for
the union was passed. It carries an appropri
ation of $15,387,633.
1M the senate on the 25th Senator Gorman, of
Maryland, announced the death of his col
league, E. K. Wilson, and after adopting reso
lutions of respect to his memory the senate .ad
journed.
.In the house the immigration bill and
the agricultural appropriation bill were passed
and the general deficiency bill was discussed.
THE sundry civil appropriation and the mili
tary academy appropriation bills were passed
in the senate on the 26th and the Indian and
legislative appropriation bills were reported
A bill was also passed appropriating $2,000,000
for a new mint building at Philadelphia In
the house the deilcicncy bill and a bill transfer
ring the county of Logan from the northern to
the southern judicial district of Ohio were
passed.
THE president sent to the senate on the 97th
ult. the nomination of Henry W. Blair, of New
Hampshire, as envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary to China, and the nomina
tion was confirmed. The legislative appropria
tion bill was passed. House bills were passed
to amend the various acts relative to immigra
tion and the importation of aliens underjxra
tract or agreement to perform labor, and for
the relief of certain volunteer and regular sol
dlers of the late war and the war with Mexico.
....In the house a substitute for the senate
shipping bill was passed after a long debate.
DOMESTIC.
FLOODS at Yuma, A. T., had done
$150,000 damage and threatened to
sweep the town away. &us Lee was
drowned in bed.
NEAR Winchester, Ky., A. C. Barrow
and Thomas Barrow were swindled out
of $4,800 by the gold brick scheme.
THE charge against Banker Cowles,
of Clarks, Neb., of killing his wife on
February 4, was withdrawn by the
county attorney.
FRANK GAVEL, a tax collector near
Honesdale, Pa., disappeared, taking
822,000 belonging to the county.
IN the case brought by Marshall Field
Co., of Chicago, to test the legality
of the United States revenue law, Judge
Blodgett decided in favor of the gov
ernment.
A FIBE in Armourdale, Kan., de
stroyed an elevator, owned by J. P.
Campbell Co., forty freight cars and
about 100,000 bushels of grain, entail
inga loss of about $150,000.
THE Windsor national bank of Wind
Bor, Vt., assigned. Depositors would
be paid in full.
MAT WBIGHT SEWALL, of Indiana,
was elected president of the National
council of women of the United States
•at the session in Washington.
HYDROPHOBIA was raging in Brandy
wine township, Indiana, and many
hogs, cattle and horses had been killed
to prevent its spreading.
HUNDREDS of acres of bottom lands
were under water at Covington, Ind.,
saused by the overflow of the Wabash
river.
THOMAS HALL, the inventor of the
turbine water wheel, was killed by an
Erie train at Rahway, N. J.
JOSEPH HOLLA SE, a Polish miner at
Iron River, Mich., angered by some
boys who had been throwing snow
balls at him, shot Peter Hoctor, a bar
tender, and Ed Scott, chief of police,
wounding both mortally.
ROBERT GRAYSON and Charles Mc
Comb discovered a heavy vein of silver
in Grayson's farm on Silver creek, in
Clark county, lnd.
THE business portion of Edina, Mo.,
was swept by fire, causing a loss of up
wards of 8100,000.
A LABGK meteor burst with a loud re
port near Madison, Me. It was seen in
all parts of the State.
IN a wreck on the Reading road near
Gordon, Pa., five oil tanks, four freight
cars and four engines were demolished,
causing a loss of $150,000.
IN a tornado at Sunbury, N. C., two
children were killed and much property
destroyed. A number of persons near
Sunbury were said to have lost their
Jives in the storm.
TJIE New York V*ard of aldermen
passed a resolution naming the triangu
lar space at Seventy-third street and
the boulevard "Sherman place," in
memory of the late general.
FLAMES at Burlington, Vt., destroyed
the cotton mills and a lumber yard,
causing a loss of $180,000.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
on the 21st was $328,890. The issue
during the corresponding period of last
year was $805,659.
IT was reported that gold had been
found along the streams of Brown
county, Ind., since the recent freshets.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado visited the
region near Jeffersonville, Ind. The
greatest damage was done at Utica,
'where many dwellings an.i business
buildings were demolished.
MRS. COFFEE, of Omaha, a poor me
chanic's wife, is heir to $75,000,000 left
by her father at Bradford, Eng. The
-woman was the only daughter and was
•disowned years ago as a result of an
undesirable marriage.
JOHN L. SUI.I.IVAN, the pugilist, was
«oundly thrashed by a train hand in the
cars near Athens, Ga., for using insult
ing language.
JOHN D. MILLER, of Greensburg, was
appointed by Gov. Hovey to fill the
vacancy on the Indiana supreme bench
caused by the death of Judge Berk
shire.
THE Lumber exchange, the Edison
building and adjoining buildings at
Minneapolis were burned, causing
estimated at $500,000.
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COUNSELMAN'S grain elevator in Chi
cago was almost entirely destroyed by
fire, involving a loss of $100,000.
EIGHTY soldiers were in the hospital
and four deaths had occurred at Fort
Logan, Col., from the grip.
FOUR persons were killed in a wreck
on the Richmond division of the Pan
Handle road at Hagerstown, Ind., and
a large number of passengers were
wounded.
FOUB of a party of five laborers in
search of workTfrere frozen to death in
the Two Medicine mountains in'Mon
tana.
THE bill recently passed by the -Ar
kansas legislature providing for sep
arate coaches on railroad trains for ne
groes has been signed by Gov. Eagle.
WALTER DIE, aged 17 years, of Van
dalia, Mo., was killed by lightning
while standing in his father's yard.
THE town of Fennville, Mich., was
almost entirely destroyed "by fire.
WILLIAM WEST was hanged at Wash
ington, Pa., for the murder of the
Crouch family May 14, 1890, and Henry
Marsh was executed at Ebensburg, Pa.,
for the murder of Clara Jones at Gallit
zin July 6, 1890.
THE twenty-third annual convention
of the National American woman suf
frage association convened at Washing
ton.
IN a landslide at Berry, Vt., hundreds
of tons of earth were hurled down and
many dwelling houses were wrecked or
damaged.
DR. BLANC, chief sanitary inspector
of the state board of health, announced
that there were in New Orleans twenty
five fully-developed cases of leprosy.
ABOUT 1,000 Wichita, Caddo, Dela
ware and Kechis Indians, near And
arko, A. T., were reported as continu
ing the dances which commenced dur
ing the Sioux troubles.
MRS. ED. CLABKE and child, Superin
tendent Ropell and Engineer B. F.
Smily were buried beneath a snow
slide at Irwin, Col.
WARRANTS to the amount of $15,000,
000 on account of pensions were signed
at Washington by Assistant Secretary
Nettleton.
THE Kansas house by a vote of 79 to
27 defeated the proposition to resubmit
the prohibition amendment.
SECRETARY NOBLE issued a notice that
all persons found on the Cherokee strip
or other Indian lands would be removed
by force and their rights to acquire pub
lic lands forfeited.
AT the national conference in Phila
delphia of school superintendents reso
lutions were adopted indorsing the com
pulsory education law, commending the
principles of civil service as applied to
the teachers of public Rchools, and rec
ommending the retirement and pension
ing of teachers after a service of thirty
years.
DURING the year 1890 over 70,000 im
migrants arrived at New York, Italy
sending the largest number.
THREE men were run over and killed
by a railway hand car at Santa Cruz,
Cal.
THE steamship France from Liver
pool reached New York four days over
due and badly battered. A succession
of gales was encountered throughout
the pa&age. The second officer was
swept overboard.
AT Fort Edward, N. Y., Dr. Crandall's
house was robbed of $2,600 in gold.
MAJ. J. B. HICKS, an old settler and
one of the Mexican war veterans, was
found dead in his bed at his home near
Monticello, I1L
IN the stomach of a cow killed at
Seymour, Ind., were found a silver
half dollar, a lot of needles and pins,
several large bones and over one-fourth
of a pound of horseshoe and other nails.
The cow was apparently healthy.
ABRAHAM GUMP, of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
who wagered with Col. Geary that he
could fast thirty days, gave up after
fasting twenty-five days and losing
twenty-four pounds.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended
on the 27th ult. numbered 290, against
295 the preceding week and 801 the corre
sponding week last year.
AT Tacoma, Wash., J. C. Arnold, a
guard, and two prisoners, Charles Ole
son and Charles Barrett, were drowned
by the capsizing of a sailboat while at
tempting to reach the mainland.
A GANG of burglars blew open the
safe in the Mulvane (Kan.) post office
and carried off all the cash and stamps.
AT Booneville, Mo., W. H. Lawrence,
who confessed to wrecking a pessenger
train last November, was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
THE coldest weather of the winter
was sweeping down over the north
west, the thermometer ranging from 4
to 40 degrees below zero.
AFTER a strike lasting two*, years the
striking glass blowers at Glassboro, N.
J., were returning to work.
AN explosion of gas in iron works at
Pottstown, Pa., caused several tons of
hot metal ts.flow over several men, and
fifteen were terribly burned.
AT Pine Bluff, Ark., a daughter of
Frank Rufus (colored) picked tip an ax
and killed her father during a quarrel.
EX-JUDGE BOBO, of Decatur, Ind.,
while under the influence of liquor shot
his son Roland, aged 23 years, inflicting
a fatal wound.
EVERY building except two in the
village of Yuma, A. T., was swept
away by floods. In Tia Juana, Cal.,
not a building was left standing on its
foundation' and several persons were
drowned.
THE census bureau announced the
population of Kentucky by races as fol
lows: Whites, 1,585,526 colored, 272,
981 Indians, 98 Chinese, 2& Japanese
1 total, 1,858,635.
E. L. WOOD, of Haverhill, Mass., was
fined $50 for allowing women and chil
dren to work more than ten hours a
day.
THE two children of Henry Going, of
Silver Lake., Kan., were turned to
death during the absence of their par
ents. 'v-y
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
MRS. MARGARET TIMMONDS was buried
at Hartford City, Ind. She was born
in Ireland in 1789 and was 103 years old
at the time of her death.
AT the republican convention at
Jackson, Mich., Judge R. M. Mont
gomery, of Grand Rapids, was .nomi
nated for supreme judge.
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SENATOR E. K. WILSON, of Maryland,
died at Washington on the 24th at his
apartments at the Hamilton house of
heart disease, in his 70th year.
CHARLES FOSTER, the newly appoint
ed secretary of the treasury, took the
oath of office at Washington on the
25th.
AMONG the nominations sent to the
senate by President Harrison were the
following: John A. Anderson, of Kan
sas, consul general at Cairo, Egypt
Truxton Beale, of California, minister
to Persia, and James V. Long, of Penn
sylvania, United States consul at Flor
ence.
JOHN W. CHAMPLIN was renominated
for supreme judge of Michigan by the
demo^ntir convention at Lansing, and
Charles Is. WilliatnB and Arthur A.
Clark were nominated for regents of
the state university.
GEORGE C. INGHAM, one of the fore
most criminal lawyers in Chicago, died
suddenly of heart disease, aged 40 years.
ANNA DICKINSON, the once noted
lecturer, was placed in the insane
asylum at Danville, Pa. It was said
that fear of poverty unbalanced her
mind.
THE Republican league of the United
States will meet in fourth annual con
vention at Cincinnati April 21 next.
AT the session in Washington of the
National Woman's Suffrage association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected
president and- Susan B. Anthony vice
president at large.
JUDGE C. C. FITCH, of Garnetsville,
Ky., ,died at the age of 99 years. He
was the oldest mason in the state.
FOREIGN.
THE work of recovering the bodies of
the victims of the mine explosion at
Spring Hill, N. S., shows the number
of dead to be 119. Of these 54 were
married men, 40 single men and 25 boys.
Two CLERGYMEN while sleighing at
Tamesvar, Austria, were attacked and
devoured by wolves. Two night
watchmen were also devoured.
ITALIAN friendlies in revenge for a
raid on the Italian frontier surprised
and attacked 600 Soudanese near Buri,
Africa, killing 200, including the lead
ing chiefs.
IN a fight with bandits and officers in
the state of Jaliseo, Mex., twenty-two
of the former and four of the latter
were killed.
OWING to a revolt upon the part oi
the natives the governor of Nossi-Be,
an island and French colony off the
northwest coa&t of Madagascar, caused
the execution of over 100 rebels and
killed their wives and children.
GENERAL DA FONSECA, who was
chosen provisional president of Brazil
at the time of the overthrow of the em
pire, lias been formally elected presi
dent of the republic.
MRS. ROSE WALKER, 105 years old,
was burned to death at St. Johns, N. B.
by her bed-clothes catching fire while
she was smoking.
IT was learned that during the bom
bardment of Iquique, Chili, the insur*
gents sacked and burned six of the
principal squares and 200 women and
children perished in the ruins.
THE British forces captured the stock
ades of the Tsawbwa of Wuntho in up
per Burmah, killing twenty-seven of
the defenders. The British loss waa
thirteen killed or wounded.
AT Durham, Eng., 350 strikers were
fined $2.50 each for quitting without
notice.
A LARGE body of Jewish refugees
from Russia, consisting of men, women
and children, arrived in London.
FLOODS at San Felipe, Mex., de
stroyed eighteen houses and many fam
ilies were made homeless. A number
of lives were lo: and many cattle were
drowned.
LATER NEWS
A Lost Steamship.
NEW YORK, Feb. 88—The Red Star
steamer Pennland, which arrived to
day, reports on Feb. 22d, she sighted a
steamer in distress which proved to be
the Warren line steamer Iowa, Capt.
Owens, from Boston, Feb. 17, for Liver
pool. The British steamer Chester,
Capt. Tolle, from Rotterdam Feb. 10,
for New York, was taking off in her
boats the crew of the Iowa, and she
will bring them to this port. The
Pennland reports that she could not
get near enough to the Iowa to ascer
tain what the nature of the trouble
was. It is believed, though, that the
Iowa had been- in collision with an
iceberg.
Senator Hearst DnC
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Senator
George Hearst, of California, died at
his residence on New Hampshire ave
nue, in this city, at 9:10 o'cloek to-night.
He has been ill for a long time, and in
December last went to New York city
to consult with Dr. Charles S. Ward in
regard to his condition. The physician
found that he was afflicted with a com
plication of diseases, resulting primar
ily from a serious derangement of the
bowels.. His death will result in send
ing a Republican to fill his unexpired
term.
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REPORTS from Yuma, Ariz., on the
1st, state that 1,400 people are homeless
not a single house remains and it is
feared that hundreds of lives have been
lost in the in the Gila valley. The tel
egraph wires are down in the valley
and as all bridges are gone and roads
passable. No particulars can be had
from there.
AT a conference of Republican Sena
tors held at the capitol. in Washington
on the 1st, fortv-one were present. Af
three ballots, Senator Manderson, of
Nebraska, was nominated President
pro tern to succeed Ingalls of Kansas.
THOS. BAKER* was arrested at Antigo,
Wis., on the 28th, accused with having
killed five white and one colored man
in Kentucky. The arrest was made at
the instance of Kentucky officers.
A LONDONER on the 28th, broke the
gambling bank at Monte Carlo.
6N the night of the 1st six buildings
in the vicinity of New Bedford, Mass.,
were struck by lightning and destroyed.
Two children of Henry Going were
burned to death on the 28th, In a fire
that destroyed the family resldenoe at
Silver Lake, Kas.
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THE TWO DAKOTAa
CENSUS STATISTICS.
Jfflclal Count by the Cram Bureau off
South Dakota Counties.
The following is the final count by
counties in South Dakota, and will
stand for the next ten years in the
eleventh census:
Aurora
Beadle
Bon Homme.....
Brookings
Brown
Brails
Buffalo
Butte
Campbell 3,510
Charles' Mis
Choteau
6.045
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•,067
Kingsbury
Lake
Lawrence
Lincoln
Lyman
McCook
McPhersoa
Marshall........
Martin
10,188
16,835
8,737
093
11,673
0,143
833
8,448
6,040
4,544
J,037
4,178,Meado
8 Miner.....
4,840
5.165
Clarke 6.788 Minnehaha. 81,870
Clay 7.5091 Moody 5,041
Codington 7,G.i7jNowlin 149
Custer 4,891 Pennington. 6,540
Davison 5,4494Potter 8,010
Day 9.10S|Pre3ho 181
Delano. 40 Pyatt 34
Deuel 4,574 Roberts. 1.097
Douglas 4,61.0 Sanborn 4.610
Edmunds.. 4,390 Scobey... 38
Swing 16 Spink 10,581
Fall River 4,478
Faulk 4.068
Grant 6.814
Gregory 895
Hamlin 4,635
Hand 6.546
Hanson 4,S6
Harding 167
Hughes 5,044
Hutchinson 10,469
Hyde.. 1,860
Jackson £0
Jerauld 3,60:
Stanley 1,088
Sterling 06
Sully 8,418
Todd 188
Turner 10l TO
Union 0,130
Walworth 8,153
Washington 40
Yankton 10,444
Ziebach 510
Total.
The towns of Boreman, Dewey, Lu
genbeel, Meyer, Rinehart, Schnassey,
Shannon, Tripp, Wagner and Washa
baugh made no returns.
A STRANGE CASE.
Can a Man Be Imprisoned for Oiie-llalf of
IlLa Life?
What is considered an unique case in
the history of American jurisprudence
took p'.ace at Sioux IT"lis, S. D., the
question being: "Can a man bp impris
oned for one-half of his life?" Two
years ago John Leford, of Deadwood,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
fifteen years for attempting to rob
the Homstake treasure coach. The
statutes of Dakota at that time
provided that where an unsuccessful
attempt was made to commit high*
way robbery the penalty shall be one
half of the greatest penalty for a suc
cessful commission of the crime. The
severest penalty for highway robbery
is imprisonment for life. The court in
Leford's case thought fifteen years
would be half of his life, and an argu
ment was heard before Judge Aitkens
for the release of Leford from the pen
itentiary upon the grounds that a pen
alty of one-half of a man's life was so
vague and indefinite that he should not
be deprived of his liberty. The judge
granted the release of the prisoner.
John Leford was given his freedom.
Stopping a Bad Practice.
It is a common practice among tha
Sioux Indians to dispose of their annu
ity goods, consisting of clothing, etc.,
as .soon as they .receive them from tha
government. The government proposes
to put a stop to this, and Deputy United
States Marshal Kilbride had arrived
at Chamberlain, S. D., with a pocket full
of warrants which he would serve on
white persons who buy the annuity
goods from the Indians. It was be
lieved this would effectually stop the
practice for the present.
The New Fence Law.
The governor of South Dakota has
signed the new fence law. It provides
that there shall be free range for stock
in all unorganized counties and all
cour.tijs to be organized hereafter until
such time as the people decide other
wise. The law will prove a great in
centive to the development and wealth
of the newly acquired 11,000,000-acrc
tract west of the Missouri river in this
state, to which Pierre is the gateway.
In a Hurry to Marry.
Yankton, S. D., was excited over the
marriage of William Munroe, county
auditor, to Mrs. C. E. Bartlett, a widow.
Mr. Munroe's first wife had not been
dead ten days, and his marriage so soon
after that event had aroused public
opinion. The groom is 50 years old,
and the bride 45. Munroe has one son
in Trinidad, Col., and has five children
in Yankton.
Half Rates for Old Soldiers*
The Freemont, Elkhorn Missouri
Valley Railroad Company has decided
to transport all old soldiers who are ad
mitted to the state Soldiers* home at
Hot Springs, S. D., from Sioux City to
Hot Springs at one-half the regular
rates. It was believed that the other
railroads in the state could also be in
duced to give a similar rate.
A Brlile in Short Dresses.
James Snow, aged 22 years, and Net
tie Cross, aged 13 years, ran away from
their homes in the eastern part of
Yankton county, S. D. They left a
note in which they stated they were go*
ing to be married and would return in
a week. The girl still wears short
dresses.
Short Suw* Item*.
The post office at La Foon, Faulk
county, S. D., has been discontinued.
Edward Williams, for six years hotel
keeper at Campbell, S. D., dropped
dead with heart disease.
Omaha, Nelx, died at Woonsocket, S.
D., from the effects of his feet and
hands being frozen in a late storm
while herding cattle west of Chamber
lain.
Bright Star, an Indian girl, wounded
at the battle of Wounded Knee, S. D.,
and now'an inmate of a church hospital,
is described as strangely beautiful and
remarkably intelligent.
Parker, S. D., is going into the stone
business and is about to organize. a
company to operate a quarry located
not far from the city. The stone re
sembles that found in and around Sioux
Falls.
"Speaking of moose," said Tom
Hardiman, the veteran trainer of Sioux
Falls, S. D., "you may not know that
at Devil's Lake the 4th of last July a
moose trotted below 2:50. I am told this I
moose can strike a 2:40
THE DOOM OF YUMA,
Only Two Buildings Left 8tan ding in the
Arizona Town, All Others Having Been
Swept Away by the Flood—No Loss of
Life Reported
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7,808
YUMA, A. T., Feb. 28.—The water
reached its highest point at 11 o'clock
Thursday night. Every business house
was washed down. But two build
ings are left standing. The convent of
St. Joseph, the Ancient Order of
United' Workmen hall, the school
bouse and the express, telegraph
and post offices were leveled to
the ground. The railroad and steam
boat office was swept into the Colorado
river and the Southern Pacific freight
depot destroyed by dynamite to prevent
the wreckage from knocking down the
railroad bridge. The water in the Col
orado is up to the stringers of the
bridge, which is yet uninjured. The
railroad icehouse and the track
at the foot of Main street
are washed away. Five hundred
men worked Thursday night to save
property, but met with little success.
The town and property is now guarded
by members of the Yuma rifles, who
have been sworn in as deputy sheriffs.
The water is now falling here, but dis
couraging reports have been received
from above and east.
Friday morning the river dropped 17
inches in one hour and Yuma residents
are feeling less anxious. All the coun
try east for 30 miles is under water and.
the Southern Pacific tracks are washed
out for fully that distance. Trains are'
running between El Paso and Tucson,
but west-bound passengers are held at'
the latter place.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 28.—Several
deaths have resulted from the flood at
Tia Juan. A Mexican was drowned
while attempting to assist others. A
druggist named Scribner was swept
away in his store by the flood. There
is not a building left standing upon its
foundation. The Buss house is the
only one that has not been
completely wrecked^ and that is
badly damaged. The main current of
the Tia Juana riyer runs through the
town. The valley is completely swept
of fencing, wind mills, etc. A number
of cattle, hogs and horses are known to
have perished. There has been no
communication with the Mexican side
yet and it is impossible to tell the
damage or number of lives lost.
BLAIR GOES TO CHINA.
The New Hampshire Senator Appointed
to Represent Uncle Sam lu the Flower?
Kingdom.
WASHINGTON, Feb 28.—The president
has again surprised everybody by ap
pointing Senator
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Hampshire! minis
ter to China in
place of CoL Den
by, of Indiana,
who had bee
holding over from
the Cleveland ad
ministration. The
appointment was
a complete
surprise
SKMATOB BLAIB. since nobody was
expecting it. The mission to China is
rated in the second rank and carries a
salary of $12,500. Mr. Blair has
been twelve years in the sen
ate, and prior to that had
served two terms in the house of repre
sentatives. He is a native of New
Hampshire, 50 years of age, and a law
yer by profession. He was lieutenant
colonel of the Fifteenth New Hamp
shire regiment during the civil war, and
was twice elected to the state legisla
ture before he entered congress.
The nomination of Senator Blair was
well received at the capitol. As soon
as it became known on the floor of the
senate he was surrounded by a large
crowd of senators and kept on his feet
for half an hour receiving congratula
tions. Senator Blair received a national
reputation as the author of the educa
tional bill named after him and his ad
vocacy of national prohibition and vari
ous labor measures.
The senate in secret session con
firmed the nomination of' Henry W.
Blair as minister to China.
CASH
A son of Mrs. M. Dutton, living at ®8*,000,000, so that there will still be a
surplus after paying all these pensions.
I.Iveg Loat in Mexico.
A message was received at Huron, S.
D., saying that T. Dick Archer, former
station agent there for the Chicago
Northwestern rail way, died at River- lives have been lost and many cattle
side, Cal. Archer was one of the best drowned.
known railroad men in touth Dakota.
FOR PENSIONERS.
Warrants
Issued for the Payment at
Nearly 820,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 88.—Acting Secre
tary Nettleton has issued warrants for
the payment of nearly $30,000,000 on ac
count of pensions. The amount was
distributed among the different agen
cies as follows: Augusta, Me, $750,000
Boston, $1,500,000 Columbus, Oi, $3,
250,000 Concord, N. H., $750,000 Des
Moines, la., $1,600,000 Troy, $1,500,000
Indianapolis, $2,550,000 Knoxville,
$1,300,000 Louisville, $1,000,000 Mil
waukee, $1,550,000 Kansas City, $2,450,
000 San Francisco, $400,000, making in
all$18,600,000, in addition to which $758,
000 was paid out on account of naval
pensions. The requirements for pen
sions for the quarter ending March 4
next are about $31,000,000. Including
these disbursements a little over $21,
000,000 has already been applied to that
purpose, leaving nearly §10,000,000 to
be met between now and next Thurs
day. The available cash balance in the
treasury, as stated by the treasurer, is
CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 28.—The port
of San Felipe has been flooded by a
storm. One schooner, one lighter and
thirteen smacks have been wrecked,
eighteen houses destroyed and many
families made homeless. A number of
Two Children Burned to tteath.
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 28.—Robert and
Lena Going, two children of Henry Go
ing, were burned to death at 10 o'clock
Friday morning in a fire which de
stroyed the family residence at Silver
Lake. The mother had gone to a neigh
bor's to spend the morning, and while
absent the house caught fire.
Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The senate
has confirmed the nominations of
Truxton Beale, of California, to be
minister to Persia, and Martin A.
Knapp, of New York, to be interstate
commerce commissioner.
NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 24.—In the
Senate the following bills were passed:
Appropriating $7,000 for the mainten
ance of the capitol building appropri
ating $7,000 for the relief of destitute
settlers appropriating $6,000 for May
ville normal school sheep inspectiun
regulating corporations and boards of
management regulating benevolent
and charitable institutions fixing value
of exempt homestead at $5,000. The
famous bill to repeal section27, the'
penal clause of the state bank law, waa
defeated by a large vote. This measure
has caused more discussion than "any
other before the legislature, and there
are two or three bills pending in the
House. i,.
In the House but little work was
done.' The House refused to concur in
the Senate amendments to the native
coal bill and a conference was ordered.
The wool market bill amendments
were agreed to and the bill now goes
to the governor. A resolution was of
fered for a constitutional amendment,
cutting the salary of the lieutenant gov
ernor to $500 a year. The senate bill
remodeling the school law was passed
without amendment, and the bill dis
pensing with school treasurers was
killed.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 25.—In the
Senate the following bills were passed:
Appropriating $1,600 for the expenses
of the recent Indian outbreaks provid
ing for the recording of brands and
trademarks providing for a standard
of weights and measures to prevent
fraudulent transfers of property by in
solvent parties providing for record of
marriages, births and deaths prohibit
ing mortgages of crop for more than
one year. The bill providing for publi
cation of laws in newspapers was re
considered and passed.
In the House a bill to repeal the pro-': 'j"-',
hibitory law was introduced. The fol
lowing bills were passed. Appropriat
ing $100,000 for the Valley City normal"
school repealing the boiler inspection
law fixing salaries of county treasurers
exempting firemen from jury duty and.'
poll tax providing for a state military
code repealing section 41 of the 1890
school law.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 26.—In the I
Senate a reapportionment bill was in-,,
troduced providing for seven more Sen-'-'---1
ators from the Red River valley.
Bills Passed—Appropriating $3,000 for
the firemen's tournament amending
the boiler inspection act for the pro
tection of large game levying a state
tax counties to build bridges of value
of over $100 and pay for same out of the"
general fund. '!j
Bills Lost—Protecting threshing ma
chine laborers penalty for adultery^
payment of county' salaries monthly
fixing fees of clerk of courts in large'
counties.
In the House the joint committe to
ascertain the cost and value of railroads*
made a lengthy report. It was resolved
that no bills should be introduced later"
than Monday.
Bills Passed—Providing for five trus
tees for Devil's Lake mute school
bringing school districts under general I
law publication of supreme court re
ports city levy for waterworks teach
ing Scandinavian languages in state
university personal taxes not to be
collected by distress until October
making railroads liable for fires started
by locomotives giving county lien for
seed wheat collection of statistics for
commissioner of agrioulture and labor.
BISMAKCK, N. D., Feb. 27.—The Sen
ate passed the following bills: The Aus
ti^^in system of conducting elections
to facilitate the shipment of live stock
and grain providing that school lands
shall not be sold for less than $10 per
acre fixing the maximum salary of
county commissioners at $300 regulat
ing primary elections! to prohibit
spread of noxious weeds by threshers
allowing marriage at ages of eighteen
and sixteen if parents consent fixing
fees of registers of deeds providing for
furnishing county officers with state
documents. '-4
In the House the following bills were
passed: Regulating fees of clerks of
district uourt providing for probate of
foreign wills prevention o£ cruelty to
animals long and short haul clause to
railroad commission law providing for
compilation of state Jaws by a commis
sion of three to be chosen by the gover
nor transferring a part of Benson
county to Itamsey county allowing
physicians to handle drugs under same
restrictions as pharmacists also the
joint committee's warehouse law, which
called forth a very interesting debate,
and was finally passed.
Ill-Spent Wit.
Son-in-Law—I can't understand why5 I
the comic papers show such bad taste as
constantly to publish jokes about the
mother-in-law.
Mother-in-Law—It is really the great
est injustice, and I am glad to a
man at last who
Son-in-Law—Yes, it is the greatest in
justice! A man is glad when he can,
for a moment, forget his mother-in-law,
and to be continually reminded of her
in this way is positively cruel!—Quebec
Chronicle.
The Darker Side.
Mrs. Keyes—I'm getting tired of these
being-a-sister-to-him jokes. Why don't
they ever publish something about a girl
accepting a man?
Mr. Keyes—Because, Maria, that's too
serious a subject for any humorous pa
per to tackle.—West Shore.
THE star actress wardrobe is incomplete
nowadays without a divorce suit.—Term
Haute Express.
ALL OVER THE UNION.
OPALS that sold for $200 have been
found in Oregon.
ILLINOIS offers a bounty of threecents'
per head for the destruction of EngHste
sparrows.
MISSOURI annually expends over $7,000
for tobacco for the convicts in the peni-
tentiary.
A MKERSCHATRO mine has been discov
ered in Florida. They will soon begin
to lay. pipes from it.
THE enumerators of live stock far
New Mexico report 1,800,000 cattle and
4,0000,000 sheep for country.
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