Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-06-16
Personal and General.

auopte0 appropriate ODserVatlOns.
Personal and General.
The forest fires in Wisconsin still con.
tiuue to be source of alarm and appre.
hension.
Benjamin Teller Of Suspension Bridge
has been elected grand master of tho New
York Masons.
There has been some fifteen cases Of
small pox developed in Davenport. L..
during the past week.
A Baltimore s. Ohio passenger tram
was ditched near Martinsburg, w. va.,
by running over COW.
f. A. Clark of Utica committed suicide
by hanging himself in barn. Cause un.
known. He leaves family.
Alexander H. Stephens is rapidly rs.
covering from his late accident, and hopes
soon to be able to take drive.
The new comet discovered by the mem
bers of the eclipse expedition to Egypt has
been named after the Khedive.
Don Cameron is reported to have paid
out Of his own. pocket the entire cost Of
the 3O6 "Stalwart'' bronze medals.
Two sons of Garibaldl's daughter The.
resita, wife Of Gen. Canzio, are named
Abraham Lincoln and John Brown.
The Able Liszt, the famous pianist, de-
votes the afternoons Of three DAYS each
week to giving free instructions to young
artists.
Gen. Grant says he has not invested
single cent in stock speculations, In
which it was widely reported he had lost
his capital.
At Kirkville, Mo-, yesterday, the four
Brookfeld bank robbers plead guilty and
were sentenced to twenty five years in.
prisonment.
The 250th anniversary of the First con.
gregationalist church, the oldest orthodox
society IN the country, was held last week
in Lynn, Mass.
During riot between circus mem and
crowd of Indiana polls roughs, last week,
a circus man named Tehl was killed snd
several injured.
1t is reported that the wife of one Of The
Brookfeld bank robbers has returned
sl.4oo in gold, taken in the recent raid
from the bank
The postoffice officials assert that the
surplus of receipts over expeuditures Of
the department for the past year viii foot
up nearly 81, 10000
Sir Henry Rawlinson has been elected
to succeed the late Charles Robert Darwin
as honorary member of the Imperial Acad-
envy Of Sciences at Vinna.
Senator Hill, Of Georgia, there is rsssoa
to fear, has gone to his home at Atlanta
to die. His arrival was the occasion Of .
pathetic popular demonstration.
The electric light wires at Bay City.
Mica, have rendered many of the tele.
phone circuits useless, tho wires being 90
placed as to cause heavy inductlve cur.
rents.
The reslt ents Of Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
the late DR.. j. G. Hollands summer home
intend erecting soon monument in the
Lutheran cemetery there to the memory Of
that genial and gifted author.
The great log jam on the Wiscensin
river at Grandfather Falls has been brok.
en-. 1t was the largest jam ever known
on the Wisconsin over 4. 600 600 Of -
being heaped N one immense pile.
Lake Minnetonka,a pleasure resort nea1
minneapolis, is once more the scene Of
scd-SeTpenV scare. Two PHYSICIANS ana
business man were out fishing in the rear
of Hotel Morrow when they discovered, It
Is alleged, a huge serpent coming towards
them. The monster reared his horribao
head some ten feet in the air, preoeatine
such frightful appearance that they 6od
from the scene and have not been able TO
muster up courage enough to returR -
yet. This is probably the same Eoaes0
that frightened gentleman and wife tve
seasons ago in the lower lakss.
Billings Herald, S: 'sin An interview
held with d CLARK. Just previous to hi
departure for Tie end Of the track, ths
editor OF I-tc Herald gathered some addi.
tlona, facts relative to the irriglting canal
which will interest our readers at ho0o
and abroad. The original intention u
the company was to have extended IL
canal from Hensley's, thirty-two nileD
west of Billings, TO point about Two
miles east of the town, where il Woull
find an outlet into the river. As sooa .
the vast possibilities of the scheme ~
came apparent, the company determiao1
to change the original plans and lnciu6o
not only the Clark's Forks valley aud -
eiiowstone valley, as FAR east = Hunsloy
IN the territory to be irrigated, but 80
to strike from Huntlcy through . 20 q
the Bull mountains, and wu1er 6eyuad
them, district l32 miles in extent a
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