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Monday, Jan. 21. After the Hawaiian debate in the senate the rest of the day was devoted mainly to appropriation bills, the fortification bill, carrying $2,000,000 approximately. being passed, and the deficiency bill, including the income tax appropriation, being finally agreed to as it came from the conference of the two houses. Mr. Hill made another fruitless effort to amend the income tax proposition, but his proposition was voted to was close a vote on the the down-26 debate and 19. It take determined to long pending canal next a The house, Nicaragua under special bill order, Friday. passed seven public building bills, among them one for Chicago, carrying $4,000,000. Mr. Richardson of Tennessee was elected speaker pro tem, to act during the absence of Mr. Crisp. NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Burleigh county has 1,265 school children, an increase of 60 over last year. The Red River Valley institute has opened its winter term with over 100 students. The State bank of Lisbon declared a dividend of 3 per cent, notwithstanding the poor year. The first postoffice in the state, established at Fort Stevenson in 1867, has been discontinued. Hughes Bros., the Michigan City millers, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. A Wells county man, Charles E. Briggs, was killed by the fall of his horse while fleeing from the sheriff. a of mules up At auction Minto brought good span put at $26. The same day a pointer dog was sold in the same town for $25. Receiver Martin of the Fargo land office reports six homestead entries, amounting to $95, filed during the week ending Jan. 12. The announcement is made that the stockholders of the Bank of Forman decided at their meeting Jan. 2, 1895, to discontinue business, and will receive no more deposits. Some one stole $1,500 worth of plate and jewelry from the residence of J. A. Johnson, the Fargo machine man, but the valuables were discovered later, secreted in a shed. A harness over 250 years old was rebrought cently into a Minto harness shop for repairs. It came from Norway and is known to have been used by one family for over 250 years past. well is said to be one of McLean A burning county's sensations. The well, on the homestead of Hans Olson, instead emits fire and of bubbling up water, now smoke. The well is located about six miles from Washburn. J.F. Brodie, an experienced Peunsylvania miner, has opened up a new mine called the Ea4t Lehigh, near Dickinson. 26 feet and an The vein is thick, analysis shows it about 80 per cent the of of the coal of heating possesses qualities Ohio coal. Recently a lynx was shot near Jamestown. This is the only animal of that kind ever known to have been seen in that vicinity. The hunter mistook the for and tracks of the animal undeceived those of a wolf, was only upon coming up with it. At the annual meeting of the Alliance officers for were Hail the association ensuing yea in Jamestown, elected. Vice President D. Mertin of Grandin, was elected to the presidency, and W. N. Campbell of Valley City to the office of vice president. John Farmer, who has been working several years for S. H. Welch, manager of the Bank of Edgerton, which recently failed, was found dead, hanging by the neck with a rope suspended from a rafter of an upper floor in the barn belonging to Welch. He had $800 deposited in the bank. Mayville parties have received letters from Chicago insurance sharks offering to carry insurance away below the rate charged by the local agents. The agents expose the scheme and say the insurance would be placed in con erns which have been prohibited from doing business in Illinois.