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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1886
Page
2
With a taxable valuation of 130.9 million dollars Arkansas spent 720,168 on teacher salaries and current public school expenses. The state built more than twenty new schoolhouses at costs ranging up to 20,000 dollars each, and left 469,837 dollars in the school fund.
The London Times denounces the English War Office as corrupt and incompetent. It accuses the department of comprising military men lacking mechanical chemical or metallurgical knowledge and of being led by subordinates who are shareholders in a private gunnery company.
Dr T Blom Coster served as official representative of the Netherlands at Albany’s bi centennial. Chevalier Tantonious De Jonge and Hermanus J Coster Jr of Leyden University received honors. Coster presented Albany’s mayor with the original Dutch parchment and Amsterdam’s gift of five vellum bound columns and fifty large photographs of the city as a memorial.
The Carleston News and Courier salutes South Carolina for giving up the dueling habit. It notes no duels since the Cash killing, credits the deadly affair with discrediting dueling and prompting a strict law, and states the state has eliminated dueling from its crime record.
Nova Scotia fishermen report a mermaid near Gabarees in Cape Breton. They first saw a corpselike figure floating, it sat upright, stared, surfaced again and fled, matching classic mermaid lore.
Washington correspondent reports diplomats at the capital are better paid than missionaries abroad. The British minister occupies a large Washington house with an annual salary of 20 000 dollars, the German minister 40 000, the Japanese minister 20 000, and the Turkish minister 39 000. The German and Japanese ministers are described as highly valuable and capable in diplomatic circles.
In a Buffalo Congregational Presbyterian service Mrs Frances Cleveland, wife of the U S president, was baptized as part of a communion service after admission of new members from Buffalo. Dr Sunderland led the rites and public welcomes followed while Mrs Cleveland appeared deeply moved as the congregation celebrated the moment.
The Manitoba and Canadian Pacific announce a joint transcontinental route from St Paul and Minneapolis to Vancouver and Puget Sound. The Manitoba line departs St Paul daily at 7:30 pm, connects in Winnipeg with CP through service to the coast, and VG connections with steamers to Victoria and Puget Sound, plus later links to Asia. Rates include 80 to Victoria and Tacoma, 79 to Vancouver, with various class prices and surcharges.
Senator Sabin of Minnesota travels by steamer to Boston with his wife and two adopted daughters due to illness. Doctors restrict him from stress and correspondence as he seeks four days at sea and a quiet seaside place for a month or two to recover before returning to Minnesota.
The Massachusetts indeterminate sentence law approved June 24 took effect at the state reformatory on Saturday the 31st. It allows release on ticket of leave at the superintendant and commissioners discretion for sentences up to five years. It does not apply to current inmates, ex post facto cases, or to common drunks.
A London dispatch reports Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's lecture tour drawing weak crowds as critics condemn a paid admission policy. The controversy centers on a “no money gospel” accusation and Maj. Pond responds in letters to newspapers.
After twenty weeks of wage resistance five hundred Dubois miners return to work on operators terms. Other items note a lynching in Seymour Indiana, a robbery at Eau Claire Wisconsin, new gas discovery in Dun das Calumet County, and various political and financial reports from July and prior weeks.
Secret sessions yield multiple pension bills for Civil War veterans and widows, including Mintour Gillham and Lizzie Wright, plus payments to Haldeman and Butler. House and Senate clash over silver certificates, fortifications, and bills on judges, rail forfeitures, and post office costs.
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