Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-09
MINNESOTA.

The deficit of Dunn, the defaulting
treasurer of Watowan County, is S6, 445.
His bondsmen have offered so cents ON q
dollar.
THE smallpox expenses to the town
of Frankfort, Wright County, will sum
about $1,000. The epidemic has dis
appeared, and the quarantine has been
raised.
JAMES THOMAS, well-digger at
Parker's Prairie, was buried by the
caying in of earth, twenty feet below
the surface. He was dug out alive, and
will recover.
AT the meeting of the WinoDa board
of education, Prof. William F. Phelps
was elected superintendent of schools in
place of Superintendent McNaughton,
resigned to go to Council Bluffs.
The Glyndon village and town special
election resulted in favor Of Sc, ,O02 bonds
for a public building to be owned and
used jointly by the two municipal Or
carnations. The vote was four to one.
UNKNOWN parties broke into A. F.
kavanagh's saloon at Verndale the other
night, poured out $3.50 worth of fliquors,
and cut the tops of his pool tables to
pieces, iptlicting $500 worth Of damage.
!. JOHN CAMPAN, proprietor of variety
theater in Duluth, known as the Crystal
Palace, has decamped, leaving creditors,
among when are his actors and actresses,
with claims amounting to $1,000. His
place has been seized by his creditors.
The man Conklin, in jail at Brainerd
for robbery, is wanted for robbery in
Chippewa Falls, Wis. 1t is also beiiev-
ed that Conklin was in heavy robbery
ut Winnipeg recently, the haul being
$4,000, concerning which Sheriff Mertz
has written the authorities. Ea3f
Mr.. SENRIoK, of Haverhill, has a Gu
riosity in the shape OF calf that was
born without eyes, and has no tail, its
backbone extending no farther than it's
hips, and it is otherwise deformed. 1t is
five weeks old, and is growing nicely, is
nearly white, only having a black SPOT
in the forehead.
In Window tue depot was entered and
an effort was made to break open the
safe, but was not successful. The mail
pouch was ripped open and the mail
matter scattered around; express pack
ages were opened, but nothing missing.
The City Hotel and the Hyatt House
were also visited and eatables taken.
ST. CLOUD Times: A mau named
Connolly, of Clearwater, in mistake
the other day paid Benton Polander a
500 bill instead Of a $40 note. The
Polander had the bill changed at Boyd's
before leaving town. Upon discovering
his loss Connolly went out with an off.
Ger, but the Polander would not give up
the money.
ATWo- -YEAR-oLD son of jackson Leach,
OF Anoka, while playing at neighbors,
saw pipe laid up on a window, and in
little while succeeded in getting hold
OF it. AS he touched it the pipe turned
over in such a manrer as to empty the
tobacco, which was lighted, on the little
fellows head and shoulders, igniting his
clothing, and before discovered was fa-
tally burned. The ch:ld died in short
time.
CAPT. VIM. SIMMONS, the noted her
NIT of Balsam Luke, was recently found
dead in the lake. He was standing in
STOPPING position in mud aud water
nearly up to his waist, with his hands
across his chest, and a huge cash in his
forehead. Blood had also been run
ming from his ears. 1t is generally sup
posed that he had been murdered and
alter becoming stiff lie was taken out
aud stuck up in the mud and water.
WHILE the men were removing the
shinglers' scaffold from the Fergus Falls
paper mill, Nilsson Dobbs stepped
against plank which gave way, pre-
cipitating him off the building. He
struck the edge of the river bank in bis
fall and went from thenca into fha r;rar
The rapid current carried him several
feet down The stream, where he lodged
between two stones. He was saved from
drowning, but had sustained other seri-
pus injuries,