The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1883-07-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Red Wing, Minnesota, had a $4,000
fire last Saturday night.
The Northern Pacific will be com.
pleted the first week in September.
Archbishop Purcell was buried at
Cincinnati, o., Wednesday.
Mdlle. Marie Litta, the great singer,
died at Bloomington, ILL.,, Saturday.
The New Hampshire legislature is
still balloting for United States SEN
atOr.
The Government report for July
puts the yield of wheat at 425,OOOO0O
bushels.
\ new postotfice has been estab-
lishe,l at Elgin, Pembina county,
Dakota.
Winnings keg factory burned at
Stenhenville, o., Thursday. Loss
$25O,OOO.
Heavy rains during the past week
in Wisconsin have done great deal
of damage.
Ellen Clifford, a Boston lady, has do
mated 100000 for a summer home for
cats, dogs and birds.
A bank safe at Franklin, n. Y,
was blown open early Wednesday
morning, and $500 taken out.
The fourth annual convention of
the national colored press association
assembled i'm st. Louis. Tuesday.
Pullman cars are now run, for the
first time, from New York to San
Francisco, over the Central Pacific.
J. Harrill was murdered in a church
at Russellville. Arkal Is, last Sunday,
by John Herring. The murderer es-
capped.
High water in the river caused
great destruction of property and the
loss of seventeen lives at London,
Ontario.
Five cars of Coles circus train
were thrown from the track and
wrecked five miles east of Brainard,
Sunday morning.
1t is reported that extensive coal
fields have been found Oh the Mis-
souri, river in Mclean county. The
coal is said to be of excellent quality.
Hosea King, of Sanke, Arkansas,
accused of numbering Longmyer,
doorkeepcr of Coles circus, several
months ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff ut that place.
Forest fires are raging in South Ka.
lsma county, Oregon. Two locomo-
tives have been destroyed. The loss
is already upwards of 100000. The
flames extend for miles.
a heavy rain storm in Pennsyl-
vania, last Sunday, did great
amount of damage to the growing
crops. Corn and oat fields were beat
en- level with the ground.
A wife beater at Turtle River, OAK
ota was taken out by his neighbors
and thrown into the river, after
which he was put into tub of ice
water. He promised to do better.
Sam. Cook, a negro, who in fit of
Jealous rage shot Emma Shores, a
colorcd girl at Potos, Mo-, last week
and then put two balls through his
own brain, both of which are still i'll
his head, lived for several days in
this condition.
a Bismarck dispatch of the llth
says the capital commission to-day
accepted the plans presented by Buff
ington, for the Dakota capitol. The
building will be u fine one and built
of brick. 1t will cost about ss250,000,
and will be completed by April Of
next year.
j. r. Loper, prominent soap man.
ufacturer of Oshkosh, Wis, was
found in soap vat Wednesday even
ing with the flesh all off his bones.
lie was identified by a truss and the
filling in his teeth. 1t is thought he
fell in the vat while standing on top
stirring the contents.
Giteau's sister has brought another
suit in a Chicago court against her
divorced husband. Geo. Scoville, ask
ing that he be restrained from visit
ing her place of abode, and defraud-
ing her of her property; that he be
compelled to contribute to her sup
port and that of her child, and to give
her the assassin's s effects.
John @ Maltin and Michael Nc
M2hon, two young brutes raped
young girl aged lS, the daughter of
respectable farmer, near Darlington,
Dakota. The girl was terribly out
ragged, her collar bone being broken,
and she is in a critical condition. At
last reports the young men had not
been captured.
Large numbers of immigrants are
arriving in New York, from Mont
real and Quebec. Many of them are
destitute. having neither money nor
friends and are too feeble by age and
intirmity to support themselves.
Mast nf thaca immiurants are from