Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 19, 1896, Page 2

Swing wide! send forth your swelling notes, sweet Mid mistletoe and holly boughs may mirth be king; — Then throned on every hearth as fitting queen, The soul of symphony her sweetest song shall sing, And gladder Christmas-time had ne'er before been seen, Heap high the seasoned fagots on the flame, And make the day full worthy of the name. © Once more ’tis Christmas-tide o'er all the earth; No silver throat so sweet a story tells; ‘The Christ was born—the stars sang at his birth; Celestial choirs the anthem rolled along, ‘And Angel hosts gave chorus to the song. "Tis Virgin's yesture garbs the land, ‘neath skies of gray, And yuletide’s glow again illumes the hour. Son.e hearts are sad, but millions more are gay. Alike to youth and age would love impart its - power, The heart of childhood tnrills with genuine joy, And troubles past—forgot—no more annoy, May Christmas chimes no note of discord sound, Nor strain of selfish song find vocal life, But everywhere may love of God abound, And sweets of Peace take place of strife. Of all the festal days by Heaven's favor blest ‘The Christmas-tide is brightest far and best. | Sf BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA The football casualties of the season re placed at three killed and 122 se- Yerely injured. It is a poor use to make of young men of exceptionally fine phisique. The reading public will be overjoyed to hear that Harvard and Yale have fallen on each other's necks and agrecd to let bygones be bygones. The sequel wil come when the next football sea- son opens. The philanthropic are now devoting much thought to the debrutalizing of footbail. But neither smokeless pow- der nor the seedless raisin has as yet commanded great popularity. The Herald. | THE NEWS RESUME, DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL ~ PARTS OF THE WORLD, ' A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports—The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention, The Nation's Capital. Mr. Powers of Vermont, chairman of the house committee on Pacific rail- roads, says he heartily approves of that portion of Mr. .Cleveland’s mes- saze relating to the Pacifie railroads. During the first two weeks after President-elect McKinley assumes his duties he will have the privilege of making 150 nominations of presidential postmasters. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of insolv- ent national banks as follows: First Indianapolis was found to be over $11,000 short in turning over his office to County Treasurer Hines. During forty-eight hours the criminal ‘element of St. Louis ran the entire gamut of crimes prohibited by the statutes. i There is talk in Lexington, Mo., of lynching Maggie Catron, the dissoltfte woman connected with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children, and for which Winner and Nelson were lynched. Rudolph Breckman, a wealthy farm- er living in Osage township, Kan., has been held in the sum of $10,000 bail for the murder of his seyenteen-year-old daughter Mary. Henry Owen. O’Conner, one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution in the Cronin murder case, has com- mitted suicide by shooting himself at his home in Chicago. Abraham Eckert, who was, to have been hanged at Wilkesbarre,.Pa., for the murder of Frederick T. Bitten- bender on July 7, 1895, took poison in his cell and is dying. The United States authorities be- lieve that in the arrest of Henry F. Barkus, alias Samuel Myers, colored, at St.- Louis, they have a clue to a WORK OF CONGRESS, Na- Condensed Proceedings of the tional Law Mill. Washington, Dec. 10—The attendance of members of the house was very large to-day when it was decided to proceed with the regular order—call of coramittees. Mr. Loud (Rep., Cal.), from the com- mittee on postofficeé and post roads, called up a bill to authorize the use of private mailing cards of the same weight and form as the postal cards now in use when a 1-cent stamp is af- fixed. The bill passed. He also called up a bill to provide a limited indemnity for the loss of reg- istered mail matter. It provided an in- demnity of not to exceed $10 for any one registered letter, but if of less value not to exceed the actual value. This bill also passed. Mr. Loud ‘then called up the bill of Mr. Sperry of FPepnnsylvenia, to au- thorize the collection and delivery of mail in cities, towns and _ villages where no letter carrier service exists by the employment, under mutual ar- rangement betw<en citizens, of any person in such place to perform this crowded galleries,” lic interest felt in this: The house passed a prominent playwrights and f managers of the country have la- boring for some years to induce con- gress to pass. The purnose of the measure is two-fold. First, to secure the musical compcsitions the same measure of protection under the copy- right law as is afforded productions of strictly dramatic character; and, see- ond, to add by proper court injunction processes this protection to the authors of dramatic nud operatic works. The bill imposes a fine of $100 for the first and $50 for each subsequent unauthor- ized producticn. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in the capitol building was also passed. A bill advocated by the delegates from the territories to modify the law for- bidding the alien ownership of lands in the territories, so ss to give them the right to acquire under mortgage and to hold for ten years real property, was defeated. Washington, Dec. 13. — Seven war claims carrying an aggregate of $18,- 407 were favorably acted upon by the committee of the whole in the house, as follows: To pay Peter Cook of Ar- ESOTA NEWS. i in the North siete e me . Langage, 74 resigncd as secre tary of the St. Commercial club. The at Altoona, Pipestone county, has been discontinued. ‘The Mimesota branch of the Nation- al League of Fourth-Cless Postmas- ters completes its organization. The poultry show may be held in connection with tae horse and dog show in Minneapolis. The fourth class postmaster's of Free- bern county have formed an organiza- tion to promote their own interests. A farmer named Tiller, residing in Wanamingo, was killed by a loaded wagon passing over him. Gov. Clough has revoked his procla- mation calling a special election for sheriff of Anoka county. John Adler, who killed Bernard Nel- les at St. Paul, has been committed 10 the insane asylum at St. Peter. Edwin P. Winter, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad company, is A dispatch from Philadelphia says | National Bank of Sun mee W 0 oe pension swindle which has been con- | service at a cost of not excceding 1 | kansas $004 for stores and supplies | given a banquet Pyempomineny ch mene that M te is there, and that her] per cent; Commercial igs - ducted on an exfensive scale. cent for the delivery of each letter or | Used by the federal troops; to pay A. | of St. Paul. condition is such as to require abso-| f Nashville, Tenn., 5 per ce Thomas Davenport and Charles and | package. The bill was passed—101 to P. Burditt $5,130 for the use of the | Harvey Randall was bound over to Charman Hanna decided wpon and) 4 nnie Lamborne, charged with mur- | 13. The house then took up the pen- | Steamer Mattie during the war; to pay | the grand jury at Caledonia by Judge lute quiet. Mrs. Castle displays good judgment in her choice of location. A Chicago n is convinced that, in- stead of living on the surface of, the earth, he is living inside it. No won- der. Chicago does remind people of a place popularly supposed to be in the bewels of the e: If Spain and Cuba want any refer- ences as to our ability to patch up in- ternational differences, they are re- spectfully referred to England and Venezuela. Peace with honor guaran- teed and ne charge for services. The old-time prize-fighter, Jem Mace, is in as perfect condition at the age of leased a suite of rooms in the Glover building, 1419 F street, as pern:anent headquarters for the national Repub- jican’ committee. The president nominated Frank Dyer Chester of Massachusetts to be consul of the United States at Budapest, Hun- gary. The nomination of David R. Francis to be secretary of the interior was also made. ‘The nouse committee on banking and eurrency adopted resolutions request: ing commercial organization with deti- nite plans for currency reform to sub- mit them to the committee, and re- questing Comptroller Eckels to present his views to the committee, ‘The secretary of the interior has de- ided that the amendment of sectiors “89 and 2290 of the Revised Statutes dees not authorize the homestead en- try of lands included within the limits ef an incorporated town. dering the father of the two latter, J. T. Lamborne, at his home near Fall Leaf, on Feb. 17 last, were discharged at Leavenworth, Kan. Charles D. Steep of Van Wert. Ohio, an attorney and secretary of the Co- lumbian Building and Loan associa- tion of Columbus, has fled. He is a de- faulter for a large amount. The Colorado state supreme court affirmed the decision of the Park county district court removing Sheriff Newman of Lake county from office for malfeasance, imposing a fine and sentencing him to jail for six months. Several more members of the miners’ union at Leadville, Col., were arrested under indictment by the late special grand jury for their alleged connec- tion with the attack on the Coronado and the Emmett mines. A terrible tradgedy took place on the sion appropriatior. bill. without amendment. In the senate petitions were pre- sented from mapufacturing bodies urging the passage of tle Dingley Dill. The house resolutiops relative to the death of ex-Speaker Crisp were then laid before the senate. Mr. Bacon (Dem., Ga.) stated that at a later day he would ask that a day be set for eulogies on the distinguished Georgian. As a mark of respect to the deceased the senate adjourned. It wes passed Washington, Dec. 11. — The senate to-day by the decisive vote of 35 to 21, adopted a motion to take up the Dingley tariff-silver bill. Unexpected and surprising as this action was, it did not have the significance which the vote itself appears to convey. Im- mediately following it, Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island, one of the Republican Flora A. Darling $5,683 in satisfaction of her claims for arrest and imprison- ment and the seizure of her property at New Orleans in 1864; to correct the muster of Francis A. Benton as a captain of the Fourth United States colored cavalry and pay him accord- ing; to pay John A. Lynch $2,490 for services as assistant quartermaster at Cincinnati in 1861-2, and to refer the claims of Maj. James Stewart, U. 8. A., retired for longevity pay to the court of claims. Only the first two, howev- er, were passed by the house, as Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania made an at- tack on the bill for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. Darling and developed the fact that she was the wife of a Cou- federate general, a fact not brought out in the original debate on the measure. The result was tiat a point of no quorum was made on his motion to lay the bill on the table aud it went over. Dorival for assault with intent to kill a young lady, Lily Gottenbein, Noy. 12. The miscellaneous cash earnings 0 the Stillwater p the 1. month amounted to § the lar; est in the history of the prison. ; The state investsent board decides to retire $150,000 of the bonds of 1891 State Superintendent Pendergast will ‘Yecominend increased appropriations. for the public schools. John Dyvig, a farmer living south- east of Windom, died from injuries to his spinal column received from being thrown from his sleigh recently by a runaway horse. A farmer at Beroun, a small place six miles uorth of Pine City, had a team of horses killed yesterday while attempting to cross the track before a freight train . ‘The Rochester water work: sold on foreclosure are to be being sixty-six as most men at twenty-six. farm of George Deacon, about five t mortgage It shows what restraint and physical The Turkish legation at Washington | miles southeast of Plymouth, Ind. members of the finance committee, —_—— madé in the United States cireuit suthorizes the following statev:out: | George Deacon, aged seventy-two, mur- | Moved to recommit the bill to that Washington, Dec. 16.—The final vote | court. Burt W. Eator of Kochester ha culture can do for a man when nearing three score and ten. It looks like Emperor William is de- termined to have a navy if he has to ty on land to get it. The emperor and the reichstag are getting dangerously near to very seri- cus friction. sacrifice his popula A big tank steamer, with a capacity of two million gallons, will soon be completed to carry our petroleum to Europe. It is a striking fact that the deniand for American oil grows throughout the world, the dis- covery of new wells keeps pace with while it. An interesting domestic event is an- iced from: the hippopotami division of the Central Park menagerie, New York. Mother and child are doing as well as could be expected with all the hyenas, lions, tigers and other neigh- bors roaring their delight from morn till night. The diphtheria epidemic in Chicago has reached alarming proportions— some 5,000 cases. What has become of that sure cure, or safe preventive, of diphtheria? Bad sanitary surround- ings, it is worth while for other com- munities tg observe, is the prolific cause of this dread disease up there. When King Menelek of Abyssinia succeeded in inducirg Italy to conclude a treaty with him according to his own terms, he at once communicated the fact to Russia, and that power sent a message of congrétulation to him. Menelek has evidently carried out his instructions in a most complete man- ner. Men who have more than one wife should take solemn warning from the experience of the man who carelessly ezrried the letter from one wife in his pocket until another spouse found them. One wife should be sufficient for the ordinary man, and the one who feels that it is not should either not wear pockets or destroy all letters ‘as Boon as received. The latest Shakespearian commen- tary discovers in Falstaff’s “babbling’ of green fields” a veiled reference to, the twenty-third Pslam. This is int genious, and on equally good authorit; 1 we are told that the devil may quote Scripture for his purpose, Still, i view of all we know of the genial Jack,! nve think his ‘reference was probably; Bacchanalian rather than religio-pas- toral, so to speak. While people who write and converse in English may use French words, the french have dealt sparingly in Eng- lish words. M. Jules Lemaitre, howev- er, now comes forward and suggesis the word “snobism” as one that might be added to the French vocabulary. here is s» much snebism in countries qhere English is spcken that it could de easiiy loaned to the French, without depseuing the supply, 2 “The reports published recently in some of the American papers that the American flag has been torn down and trampled in Haney and other Armeni- an villages are entirely without found- ation.” People tn Print. Alfred Noble, the inventor of nitro- glycerine, died at San Remo, Italy. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi has. been elected president of the Societe Liberte des Artistes Franc Mr. Gladstone is d small sale of his edi ppointed at the ion of “Bishop - Butler,” only 2,000 copies having been sold. Nathan Mears, a Chicago pioneer and lumber king, died at his home in Chi- cago, aged eighty-one years. Ernst Engel, the German statistician, is dead in Berlin. He was born at Dresden in 1821, and became director of the bureau of statistics in 1860 and retired in 1882. Cardinal Gibbons has received from the pope an official registered letter, in-+ forming him that his holiness has ap- pointed Rev. Thomas J. Conaty of Worcester, Mass., rector of the Catho- lic university in Washington to succeed Rey. Bishop Keane. Thomas A. Cage, chairman of the Republican state committee of Louis- iana, died after a brief illness at New Orleans. He was one of the most prominent cored men in the South, ‘was a member of the state senate for twelve years, sheriff» of Terre Bonne parish and held other public offices. Casualties. One of the walls of the Kimball pbuilding in Cleveland, wrecked by fire, collapsed and two persons were seri- ously injured: The ship Brenda, from Damerara for New York, loaded with sugar, stranded near Long Beach life-saving station, but is in no immediate danger. In attempting to cross the Verdigris river, four miles north of Muskogee, I. T., Will Wade and two McKnapp girls, all colored, were drowned by the boat overturning. James Carter, a prominent member of the Virginia legislature, fell in a fire at Cartersford, Va., from apoplexy. When found his body was burned to a crisp. He was a Republican. Fire destroyed the large brick fac- tory building occupied by Charles H. Kamper & Co., manufacturers of halter leather, ete., Westport, Conn. The loss on the building is $30,000 and on the stock $20,000. The tobacco manufacturing plant of the Brown Bros.’ Tobacco company, Winston, N. C., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000, with $85,000 in- surance. Besides the factory and ma- chinery 850,000 pounds of manufac- tured tobacco and 150,000 pounds of leaf were consumed. The origin of the fire is not known. The Mjchigan Pipe company’s entire plant, covering about four acres at Bay City, Mich., was destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the dry kiln and when the department arrived the buildings were all in flames. The loss on the plant is $75,000 and on the tents $25,000; insurance on plant, $35,000. Evil Doings. An express train ws held up within the city limits of St. Louis, but the robbers secured no booty. Orman McPherson, alias Charles Murphy, confessed to the Decatur po- lice that he killed the marshal of Morning Sug, ,lowa. Ex-County Treasurer D. W. Fair of dered his wife, aged sixty-seven, by striking her on the head with a sharp instrument, which has not been found. At Montreal, Young Haymer How- ell, formerly of New Haven, Conn., but who has been employed within the last two years at Troy, N. Y., Ta New Mex! and in Bellows Falls, tried at churchtime to kill his sweetheart, An- nie Simms, aged nineteen years, and killed himself. Foreign Gossip. President Cleveland’s message is highly pratsed in Peru. Gen. Blanco has resigned the goyern- eralship of the Phillippines. The Pa Figaro strongly approves of President Clevelard’s messuge. Germany has protested against the action of our government imposing tonnage dvties upon German vessels. A dispatch received from Ha Nei, the capital of ‘Tonquin, announces that M. A. Rosseau, the governor-general of Indo-China, died suddenly there. ‘The Brazilian chamber of deputies has passed a bill cuthorizing the gov- ernment to assnme the responsibility of note circulation and to lease ihe Brazilian railroads. There is.a keen feeling of disappoint- ment in the City of Mexico that Presi- dent Cleveland could not see his way to recognize the beligerency of the Cubans. An unofficial dispatch received from Manilla announces a terrible massacre of insurgent prisoners on the island of Luzon, one of the Phillippine group. It appears that a number of prisoners succeeded in escaping from the fortress of Cavite, the fortitied seaport of Lu- zon. The fugitives were pursued by the trosps, who oyertook and killed sixty of them in the streets. Miscellaneous. The gunboats Vicksburg and New- port have been launched at Bath, Me. Des Moines will apply the civil ser- vice system for the regulation of city employes. : The largest purchase of coal lands ever made in the world has been made in West Virginia. Fitzsimmons is said to have manipu- lated his fight with Sharkey to his own financial advantage. The Northern Steamship company will build two more colossal passenger steamers for the great lakes. The joint convention of ~operators and miners in the Pittsburg district haye not yet reached an agreement on the scale for next year. ; The second annual dog show under the auspices of the Butterfly Bench as- sociation opened at Grand Rapids, Mich., with 303" entries diyided into eighty classes. i 'The sheriff condemned the four roll- ing mills and ninety houses of the Catasauqua Manufacturing company at Catasauqua and Fullerton, Pa., and will sell them Jan. 2 on execution. The investigation of the National Soldiers’ home at Leavenworth, Kan., begun recently by a special congres- sional committee of which Represent- ative Grout of Vermont is chairman, was resumed at the capital to-day. There have been over 100 wagons with pot-hunting outfits operating in the region contiguous to the head of Piceance creek, Col., during the last weeks of October, and some of the game-destroyers killed everything that came within range of their rifles. One Grand River party took out seventeen does and tawns, and others did nearly as much in the line*of wanton destruc- tion. DEFECTIVE PAGE committee, and this motion was pend- ing when the morning hour expired and the entire matter lapsed as though nothing had happened. Neither the bill nor Mr. Aldrich’s motion to re- ommit enjoys any privilege or prece- dence as a result of the action to-day. It served, however, for some lively parliamentary fencing between Mr. Allen of Nebraska, the author of the motion, and Messrs. Chandler, Hale and Aldrich, as well as for an exposi- tion of the uncertain and shifty ele- ments within the senate when a vote is precipitated on an important ques- tion. The debate was at times sharp and personal. Mr. Allen is very blunt in his expressions, and he taunted the Republican senators for shrinking fron the Dingley bill after conducting a tariff campaign. “It has gone out from the powers that be in the Republican party,” said Mr. Allen at one point, “that with the inconing administraticn we are to have an extraordinary ses- sion of congress fo: the purpose of re- vising the tariff laws.” Thus Mr. Allen ran along, touching on many points that. have hitherto been reserved for cause consideration. Mr. Chandler reminded Mr. Alien that only had tariff won but free silver by the United States alone has lost in the recent election, and he urged Mr. Allen to aid in a genuine effort to execute the will of the people. Mr. Hale took occasion to state with frankness that the Republican senatcrs expected an actual majority in the next senate which would make tariff legislation more easy of accomplishment than it is now. Mr. Aldrich’s first move was to ask to have the bill referred back to the finance committee with instructions to strike off the silver amendment, but later he accepted the suggestion of Mr. Harris to omit the instructions. It was in this form that the question of recommital was pending when the de- bate was cut short. Early in the day three sets of vigor- ous resolutions for Cuban independ- ence furnished an interesting feature. They came from . Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Mr, Mills of Texas and Mr. Call of Florida, and while differ- ing in terms, breathe the same spirit of recognition by the United States of Cuban independence. cae house passed a few unimportant pills, Washington, Dec. 12.—The senate got. into the regular channel of brsiness, taking up the inumigration bill and partly perfecting it, and also hearing the first of the speeches on Cuba— those of Mr. Cullom and Mr. Call. A disposition to put through the immi- gration bill was shown by the defeat of a motion by Mr. Gibson of Mary- land_to postpone the measure until after the holidays. Only thirteen votes —all Democrats—were given in favor of the postponement. The proposition served to involve Messrs. Chandler, Lodge and Gibson in several spirited personal colloquies. The merits of the immigraticn question were discussed in a general way on several proposed amendments, Mr. Vest and Mr. Palm- et suggesting that limits should be put on the restrictions, while Mr. Lodge and Mr. Chandler urged that the re- strictions be sweeping in character. The bill was not passed upon at the time of adjournment, but the senate agreed to what is generally known as the Lodge bill as a substitute to the house measure. The substitute requires that all immigrants over the age of 14 years shall be able to read and write their native language and shall be re- quired to read and write in the pres- ence of a United Stetes official at least five lines of the United States constitu- tion. The Cuban speeches of Mr. Cul- lom ang Mr. Call were listened to_by on the immigration bill will be taken in the senate day after to-morrow, ac- cording to an agreement reached to- day. Little doubt is entertained as to the passage of the measure, and as it already has passed the house, it will be in conference before the holidays. Mr. Call (Dem., Fla.) renewed atten- tion to the Cuban question by three resolutions, one being a bitter denunci- ation of the manner in which it is rl- leged Gen. Maceo had been killed while under a flag of truce, Other res- olutions by Mr. Call requested the president to demand the release of United States prisoners at the Spanish penal settlement on the Island of Ceuta, and also asked the secretary of state for a list of Americans held in Spanish prisons. The Call resolutions went to the committee on foreign re- lations. Several spirited political colloquies oceurred on thé floor during the day. Mr. Allen’s speech protesting against intemperate criticism of Populism in Nebraska led to a passage between him and Mr. Hoar, in which) the Massa- chusetts senator declared that it was a new and novel. departure for senators to appear as the representatives of political parties instead of representa- tives of their states. In the course of Mr. Allen’s remarks he paid a glowing tribute to William J. Bryan as the foremost citizen of Nebraska, and the greatest orator since the days of Web- ster and Clay. Later in the day Mr. Chandler and Mr. Mitchell had a good-natured encounter. Beyond agreeing to a resolution for a two weeks’ holiday recess beginning. Dec. 22, the proceedings in the house to-day were almost entirely devoid of public interest. Most of the day was spent in a struggle over the bill of Mr. Morse of Massachusetts to render the laws relating to the sale of intoxicat- ing liquors in the District of Columbia more stringent. The opposition was inclined to filibuster against the measure, but it was finally passed. The president's veto of a bill to pen- sion Lydia A. Taft, “a divorced wid- ow,” was sustained—98 to 85—two- thirds not voting to over-ride the pres- ident’s disapproval.* Several minor re- lief bills were passed. Old-Time Pugs Spar. New York. Dec. 16. — The arena of the Brooklyn Athletic club was thronged last night with a host of sporting men to see Jem Mace of Eng: land, the ex-champion heavy-weight, aged sixty-five years, spar six rounds for’ scientific points with Mike Dono- yan, the veteran boxing instructor of the New York Athletic club. Dono- van formerly held the middle-weight honors, and, although he is forty-nine years old, he can still hold his own against any of the club members and outsiders who visit the boxing room in the “Mercury Foot” club building. With such old-timers as Arthur Chambers, Billy Edwards, Barney Aaron and Dooney Harris on the pro- gramme to renew acquaintance in the roped arena after years of rest there was scarcely a chance of the benefit being a failure. Appleton, Wis., Dec. 16.—A_ meeting of the news print paper manufacturers of Wisconsin was held here to-day at which every mill in the state but two was represented, to hear the report of the delegates to the meeting held in New York last week looking, to the formation of a combine of papermak- ers and the establishment of one gen- eral selling agency for all. The pro- ceedings: of the meeting were not made public, but the general understanding is that the question of whether Wis- consin manufacturers will join the Eastern combine or establish one of their own was discussed but no defi- nite action was taken. sent v chan- been appointed special mas cery to sell the same. ‘Lhe Northwestern Telephone compa- ny has nearly completed its line to Rochester from Winona. The Roches- ter city council, at a special meeting cently granted the company right of way through the city. Mrs. Charles Austin of Alden ceived news of the sudden death father, John Wetzel, an old former resident of that place, but who ‘has lived in the East for the past three years. Lars Grundeen, an old settler of the town of Stockholm, died suddenly from heart failure, while at the supper table t his neighbor's house, where he had ‘been engaged during the day killing and dressing hogs. The south-bound local on the St. Paul \& Duluth killed a team of horses at Mission Creek near Hinckley and nar- rowly escaped killing the driver, who had driven onto the crossing in front of the approaching train. ‘The team of Will Nimmons of Elgin, While returning home, ran away at a crossing north of town and was caught ‘on a railroad bridge by a train. One horse was killed and Nimmons was quite seriously injured. R. A. Rordin and G. D. Toffler, would-be doctors, were arrested at Kenyon by Deputy Sheriff Goodfellow ‘on the complaint of Dr. J. A. Gates, for practicing medicine without a li- eense. Great Northern surveyors, who «re engaged on the survey of a line from Fosston, to connect Duluth and Winni-/ peg, at Deer River, are now camped half a mile northeast of Deer River, and are working toward the northern end of Bass lake. Clarence Cook of Amboy was ar- yaigned at Mankato on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree in shooting Henry G. Bornt last June. He pleaded not guilty. The trial of Louis Balser on the charge of Crook’s trial will follow. Young Fahay, who has been in the Sibley county jail since July 4, whem he was arrested for being implicated in the St. John’s pienic row, which caused the death of Louis Basel, was indicted for murder in the second de- gree, and his trial begins at once. Herman Piepho das arraigned by Justices MeMahon at Faribault on a charge of assault in the first degree for attempting to cut his wife’s throat last night. He pleaded guilty and was held to await the action of the grand jury which meets next May. At Jackson, John Iverson has been sentenced by Judge Brown to five years and four months’ imprisonment for forgery. He is a young man who has done a flourishing business in forg- ing orders, grain checks and notes, in the vicinity of Jackson and around Fulda, Minn. Sam Unseth, a young farmer living near Fertile, went to the woods under the pretense of hunting squirrels, and committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with his rife. Un- seth was sober and had no bad habits. Unreciprocated affection is given as the cause of his act. The location of the.normal school at Duluth will be brought up at the com- ing session of the legislature again. The last legislature gave Duluth the location, but the land offered by the city proved to have a faulty title and the matter has been in the United States supreme court for some time without advancing any toward a clear title. Members from this county are trying to get the matter cleared up so that they can act én the legislature.