Fairfield, Franklin county, Vt, birth
place of Chester A. Arthur, has erected
a monument to its distinguished son.
The Reed Smoot senatorial agitation
will begin again as soon as congress
convenes. Salt Lake promises to lead
loff.
Col. Robert L. Meade, of the marine
corps, is to be retired for writing a dis
respectful letter to the na vy depart
ment-
William R. Spillman, slated to succeed
August W. Machen as superintendent of
the rural free delivery department, is
a Kansan.
A a result of the disastrous hurricane
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the price of
has advanced from
bananas in Nw Yor has advanced from
75 cents to three dollars a bunch.
Prof. Salby, a wireless telegraph ex
pert of Berlin, claimB that the surface
of the earth plays an important part
as conductor of telegraphic electric
waves.
Because he was a college mate of her
son, Mrs. Martha Graves, of Washing
ton, left in her will property valued
at $100,000 to Congressman Henry R.
Gibson, of Tennessee.
The president and his advisers of the
senate finance committee have failed
to reach any agreement on ficancial leg
islation, and the whole subject may be
referred to congress in a message..
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
To Benefit tbe Indians.
