Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-07-11

N AOho" ctouc Dfhucn Will De COM
pleted by August lst. st. Paul will con.
tinue to be the eastern terminus of the
road.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. Is
dead. His body was placed in catafal-
que in the cathedral Monday.
The creditors Of the late Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt have been paid in full with in
terest. from the proceeds of the sale of his
residence, leaving surplus Of several
thousand dollats.
A Huron man had his pocket picked Of
ninety dollars the other day.
Assistant Chief Engineer KimbaIi, of
the Milwaukee 4 St. Paul railroad, who
arrived in Mitchell Saturday. said that the
company had let the contract for the ex-
tension Of the Minnesota Southern 10
o'Hara Brothers. The road is already
surveyed to the Jim river and work will
begin west Of the river at once. The Min.
nesota Southern will tap the Mitchell Bis
marck line about twenty Ave miles north
Of Mitchell. Mr.. Kimball said passenger
trains will surely be running between
Mitchell and Aberdeen within ninety days
Redwing, Mimi. had a sl2 900 FIRE Sat-
urdny night.
The following is the decision Of Post
master General Gresham in the Louisiana
Lottery case. Il have carefully considered
Postmaster General Keys order touching
money orders and registered letters Of the
character which he specifically describes.
In view Of the subsequent action of the
department and conflicting views TO which
1t has given rise, have deemed 1t my
duty TO make the following ruling" The
Postmaster General here quotes order of
Keys to the postmaster ut New Orleans
forbidding payment Of postage orders
drawn to the credit Of Dauphin and di-
recting return of all registered letters sent
to the same address.
A rigid quarantine against Egypt has
been enforced at Constantirople on ac-
count of the cholera
Wilson Howard, who killed Jim Kane
on an excursion train at Mound City, ILL.,,
was taken from the Pulaski county jail by
party Of thirty masked men. He was
dragged fifty yards and suspended to the
limb Of tree and shot two or three times
before being hung. He was dead when
strung up. The body was entirely naked
and left hanging. The mob came by rail
from Cairo, but it is not known where
they belonged. As they gathered around
the Jail the prisoner get up fearful howl
and the crowd rushed in and made the
constable and deputy sheriff prisoners,
while others covered the jailer with re-
volvers and demanded the keys. He said
that Sheriff Crane had the keys. The
door was broken in and Howard taken
out. He fought desperately but ii was of
no avail. Howard bore bad reputation
while Kane was generally esteemed.
Princess Victoria, wife OF the eldest son
of Crown Prince Frederick William, has
given birth to boy. This makes the old
Emperor's second great grand child.
Miss Marie Won Elsner, known to the
musical world as Mile Litta, died Of spinal
meningitis at Bloomington, Illinois last
Sunday.
Yankton expects the Northwestern will
build to that city the coming simmer.
Sixty-fve per cent Of the land entries
in the United States, this year, the land
Office records show were in Dakota.
Ohio and Iowa politics are badly mixed,
and in addition to the old party questions
seems to be cutting big
figure.
The greatest heroine in Georgia is said
to be a girl who is raising four acres Of
onions.
The Canadian Pacific is being built
faster than any other railroad in the world.
The subsidies are the greatest also, and
the country is developing most wonder
fully.
Henry Ward Beecher was given an ova-
tion on his birthday. Three score and
ten summers have come and gone and he
has left the impress of intellectual growth
and free thought upon nation
The republicans Of Iowa renominated
Gov. d. r. Sherman. Lieutenant Gov.
Manning, and elevated Judge Reed, Of
Council Bluffs, to the supreme bench, and
adopted prohibition platform favoring
both constitutional and statuary lows,
Baron Rothschild gave his recently mar
ried daughter $780, 200 to buy furniture,
and $500, 600 month to keep house on
On Thursday, Frank Monaghan, a young
man who worked in the Domestic organ
factory, while operating q rip saw, allowed
the board TO touch the saw in such q way
that il was thrust against him, the end Of
the board striking him in the abdominal
region and telling him to the floor. He
was not thought at the time to be serious
ly injured, in fact he got up and walked
home without assistance, but continued to
grow worse until Saturday between 8
and 8 o'clock, when he expired.
The Mexican Central railway is not
through desolate country as some sup
pose. There are along its line twenty.
one cities thai have an aggregate popu-
lation of S96. .609, and nine Of them are
states capitals 10 runs seven mints which
work metals to the value of not less than
$35, 900 900, and the agricultural value of
twelve states travsrsed rs quite slis.0O0,-
900
Governor Hale, of Wyoming, hes at the
point of death AT Colfax, Ia, from Brights
disease.
Hanlan won the three e-mile mce at
Lowell, Massachusetts,, with Hosnser Sec
ofid and Hamm third.
Richardson Brothers, humber dealers
at NJc-,rhead Nipn have made an assign