Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-06-17

Serious Storms Sweep Sn16snly
tie Little Missouri. 31
Yignaux and slosson Playing BiIliar1e
sor Fun at Park. s
Emigratioa Statistics -Unfsrtanate
bee GAMBLER KILLED.
.uNFoRTUNArE QUEBEC


! UNFORTUNATE QUEBEc.
Quebec, June lit Is officially
stated that 642 houses were destroyed
by the recent FIRE, making homeless
] 124 families, consisting Of (, ops indi-
! viduals, two-thirds Of whom lost ~
and are without insurance. Ten per
cent. Of the subscriptions recsive1
! by the relief committee is to be PAID
to the Protestant COMMITTEES for the
relief Of Protestant victims. q largo
amount of missing property e being
recovered by detectives.
tswINDoMs.''
Washington, June II Secretary
Window has decided not to make
public the partial report submitted by
the committee charged with the exar
mination Of the alleged fraudulent
transactions in the Office Of the Eusto-
dian of the Treasury.
The Treasury department. to-day
purchased S35, 900 ounces Of fine sil-
yer for the Philadelphia and San
Francisco nints.
GAMBLER KILLED.-THE DUKE.
Denver Col, June l7-About noon
to-day James Moora, aDotorious gam
bier was shot and killed by Clay VIII
son, another gambler, it being the re-
suit of trouble from quarrel shout
q woman.
The Duke ofSoutherland and party
arrived here last night. They leave
for New York Saturday.
WIND STORM.
Cantonment, Little Missouri
June ia great storm passed
over here this afternoon, The new
round house of the North Pacific
railroad was blown down, and trees
were torn from their roots. All
the tents in the various camps were
leveled and the Suffers building
was blown away. 1t is one Of the
severest storms that has ever been
known here by the Oldest settlers. I
The loss in dollars and cents cannot
be estimated.
BILLIARD CHAMPIONS.
New York, June 16.-A dispatch
from Paris says: Slosson and Wig
naux played a friendly match game
Of billiards last night at the rooms
Of the Jockey Club, all but mem-
bers of the club being excluded.
The number Of points originally
agreed upon was 1000, but the
table being Of unusual size and the
play consequently slow the match
was broken off at six hundred.
Vignaux being then only few
points ahead
THE VOTE.
Albany, June 16. The following
S the result Of the senatorial ballot u
Today to succeed Conkling: Wheel
er, 3S; Conkling, 80; Lapham, 12
Jacob, 81; Cornell, II; Balance,
scattering.
Wheeler took nearly all Of BOG
ers' vote.
10 succeed Platt: Depew, SIS;
Herman, 50; Platt, q; Cornell, III;
Balance, scattering.
EMIGRATION.
Washington, June 16.-During
The month of May there arrived II
The United States lit, ,4s2 emf
grants, and during the eleven
Of the fiscal year 536, ,24O.
Of this latter number there were
from Germany, 175, ,3O6; Dominion
IF Canada, 1860; England and u
Wales, 57,s6l; Ireland, 81, TAG;
Scotland, 1893; China, ,443;; al 4
other countries, 139, ,649.
TO BE REMOVED.
Washington, June 16.-SecretaFy u
has referred Gen. Shef
mans letter to Secretary Kirk
wood to-day in regard to alleged a
disturbances on the Ute reservatiOn. q
caused by the erection Of ! neN
station by the Denver & Rio Grande M
and the erection Of saloons and a
lance houses. He requested that
The Gen. take. the necessary and 4
proper action toward removing the
THE RISING sur.
St. Paul, June 15.-A special car B
will leave here tomorrow mornina
following the regular passenger Ii
which will contain General Mana
ger Haupt, Mr.. Henry Willard, Vice
President Oaks and j. VanO Ostend
of western divisions.
The party will inspect points on the
division and reach FargO3 81
sometime in the evening. Thew
viii push on through to Bismarck
without stopping and proceed to tho
end of the track. No more stops
will probably be made until The
train reaches Sentinel Buttes. The
party will return at the end Of the
week, hating at the principal points
On the Dakota division for inspecs
tion.
THREATENED STRIKES.
New York, June Ii, "A circuiss
which has been sent from here to "a
bhe railway managers Of the country
them Of ageneral = strike + II
5ranspire this summer Is pronounce
20 be another canard Of the VA
street "Liars syndicate inten1il
70 depress railway shares. Persod
nigh among the trades unions 81
clare that American workings
we're never before 30 prosperous Il
,ontented as at present. q
WHAT, SHALL rHR:nAnvRsr N S.
Harrisburg, Va, June le--Ds1 q
ion companies Of white md eor e
from Virginia, ~