Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-12-30
Dakota DOings.

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i list church.
4 The building loom at Huron the Times
sFys, still continues.
+. The Elk Point public schools have an
enrolment Of aboue 240.
The new Cataract housc to he built in
The spring at Sioux Falls, will cost over
i t25 COO.
| Nordland, twcnty.thrcc miles away,
could be distinctly seen from DeSmst the
other morning.
The people in the northern part oiI Union
county boast a boom. The work Of the
surveyors Of tho Northwestern road
through there hes stimulated matters.
The Huron Enterprise is tho name Of
the lstcst journalistic W nturc at Huron.
Geo. w. Sterling and N. d. Walling,
editors.
| The hutchinson County News snys that
agrcat .nanv young cat,lc arc dying Of
blsGk leg. hlnat and dry murrain, in that
part Of the territory.
4 Sioux Falls clergyman gave notice 10
the Times that hc would preach to young
men. And S, he did, though The Times
had it that he would preach "to iufymen."
Yankton Press While Mrs. Phil
Fa1lk was alone in hcr house one evening
size heard some suspicious noises outside
which suggested that burglars were
prowliug around the premises. To pro.
yer and in her efforts to render it service.
able the weapon was accidentally dis
charged, shooting off a portion of one of
Mrs. Faulk's fingers.
Vcrmil!ion Republican. 'John Connors,
new arrival from England, had the mis-.
fortune to jump from stack aud fall upon
Il hay knife and cut The main artery of his
leg below the knee The accident hap.
pcncd at Edward Clitford's, ou the edge
Of the bluff, north of Burbank. on Mon.
day afternoon. He wss brought to town
in tainting condition from loss Of blood,
when DIS. Brldick and Call tied the
severed artery. lie is now doing we'll
Watertown bac had sensation. A
Young man named Gillette, living near
that place, has been counting young lady
the daughter of nejghbor. IS hich was all
proper enough, and only proved tue good
sense Of ihc young man, but the father Of |
the girl objected to the proceeding and
made things decidedly unpleasant for
her One evening last week Gillette went
to see his inamorata, and found her father
aud brother maltreating her. lie, of
course, took her part, when the old man
turned on him with a butcher knife, cut.
ting him somewhat. He managed to get
away, and came to town. whcn he had the
Old man arrested and jailed, and then
married the girl.
Sioux Falls Pantagraph, Last week
Thomas Egau, lie wife murderer under
sentence to be hing January 13, declared
that he wouldn't give anybody the graft.
licati ot seeing his peck stretched, but
would die d Gently In his bed. Thence.
farth he refused to partake Of any food.
and it seemed that he dctcrmineu to
starve himself He just lay stubbornly
and stolidly in his bed, and didn't seem
TO take care any more for anybody than
anybody seemed to care for him. At
first it was 10, ked upon by Sheriff Dick.
passed on aud Egan still! refused to eat.
Two days went by without his taking I
food and physicians were then consulted.
1t was considered certain that If he per.
sisted, he might starve himself to death
before the date set for his execution. I
Next day passed, and he refused still to
aat, but after about scventy.ive hours
[nsting he weakened and commenced to
rat,sincc which time lie has partaken reg.
llarly of food, sometimes eating as many
/. five meals a day, and there is no danger
# his dying of starvation auywise soon.
He will hereafter likely use his swallow
regals,lv until the anfftnan's moose inter.
rercs with it." {