The Dickinson press., 1883-09-08

Ex- Paymaster WATSON, now of the Kan
sas penitentiary, has been detailed for out
work, and petitions to be allowed 10
cover his numbered penitenttary pants with
o~veralls.
GASUALIIE ELS OF THE U'EEK.
The dry kiln al the Duluth Lumber Cow
pany at Duluth was burned on the 29;h. The
building contained a large quantity of lath
shingles and pickets, which were undergo
ing the drying process. The exact amount
OF IL could not be ascertained, but its es-
limated between IS, 600 and $40, 1000. The
building was erected one year ago, at a cost
of $15, 600, SO that the total loss will foot
up 10 between $40, 600 and $25, 900.
Fire in Petersburg, Ind, destroyed prop.
erty valued at $50, 600. Insurance, $$45, 900.
Principal losers are Fogan & Adams, drugs;
the Press.Re publican, newspaper; Miss
Frank, millinery; Hammond & Parker;
dry goods, Burnett & Son, dry goods; Ed.
T. G. Hammond & Son, dry gods; Bett-
meyer & Young, hardware; Moses Frank
dry goods; a.. q. Gordon, printing.
Ayoung man named Ralph johnson,
nephew of Congressman Price of Ohio, was
thrown in front off reaper by q runau ay
team, near Euclid, MINI, and was so bad.
~ cut that amputatiol of his leg was neces-
aary.
A man engaged as trimmer in the Valley
company's mill, at Eau Claire, named r.
Weber, was killed by a flying piece of
board striking him in the abdomen. His
father lives at Usage, Iowa.
The depot at Blunt, OAK, was blown down
on the night Of the 31st.
PERSONAL I'll RAGRAPHS
a very pleasant presentation was made
at Fo1t Smelling on the 29th il at. 1t will be
remembered That, at the request of Gov.
Hubbard, Bvt. Lieut.. Col. Gaines Lawson,
c plain in the Twenty-tifth infantry, U. s..
a., was detailed to be present at the en-
campments Of the state militia at New Ulnl
and White Bear last month Recently,
Col. Joseph Robeleter Of New Ulm, Lieuts.
Honde and Clyde of Little Falls. and Lieut..
Ives Of st. Peter, of the Second regiment,
and Capt. Mccarthy, Of the Emnet Light
at Fort Smelling; and Capt. Mccarthy, on
behalf of the officers present at the New
Ulm encampnAent, presented him with a
beautiful and costly fisld.elsss, appropri-
ateiy inscribed. The colonel acknowle lsed
the unexpected testimonial fittingly.
Milwaukee Special: Grace CORTLAND, "the
Witch of Wall street" who horsewhipped
young Jones a few weeks ago for traducing
against her divuraed husband NJ. B, Davis.
travelling agent for Heller Bros. & Co., for
$1,000 alimony, which she alleges is due
her. Mrs. Courtlnnd was divorced from
Davis In 1873, t e courts awarded her ST.
800 which she alleges is still unpaid. Miss
Maize, her daughter, whose Aame was un.
pleasantly connected with that of Jones, is
now in Milwaukee.
Bret Hsrte resides at st. Johns Wood,
London, with. the chancellor of the Belgian
legation, Mr. Vanderveldt, a cultivated man
whose wife seriously set herself to work to
regulate Mr.. Harte, OF whose genius she
bad q high idea. Mrs. Harte lives in This
country upon her husbands consular
salary, not being able to provide the con.
dltlons TO decoy his fancy forth. Mrs.
OF literary inclination and is fine at re-
partee.
John Q. Flynn, q newsboy who has been
stationed at the northwest corner of Fourth
and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, for the last
thirteen years, has sold out and retired
from business. 1t is understood that he
has accumulated, by the closest economy
and strict attention to business. the hand
so,ne sum of $4,000: Flynn intends embark.
lEg ia the hotel business III Denver, Col.
Lord Headly, who accompanied the
Hatch excursion to the Yellowstone, went
into the wilderness in search Of game; &C
%companled by two experienced hunters.
He sustained injuries by slippi ,g down q
precipice while pursuing game. He was
taken to the Mammoth springs. His injur.
les are painful, but not serious.
Mr.. Hitchcock, of Omaha, SOC of late
United States Senator Hitchcock, and Miss
Jessie Crounze, daughter OF x-congressman
Lorenzo Crourz re, were married at the resi-
dence Of the BRIDES parert at Fort Calhoun,
New. The happy pair will enjoy u bridal
tour to Enropc.
Wolf Meyer, s1o6 years old, who died
recently in Newark, N. j., was a sol.
der unde, Napoleon in 1885 and again in
1902. He was a hapitual smoker up TO the
hour of his death.
Hon. John Rice, member of assembly
from Erie county, N. Y, and a prominent
republican politician, died SUI denly Of
heart-disease at Buffalo.
The Currie Minnesotian tells oitLe death
OF Pap Mason, sixty-fvo years old, who has
been q stage driver all his life, and for many
years i'll Minnesota.
Seeing a familiar name ot knights
at San Francisco Mrs. A. l.. Williams found
d brother she bad not seen for iorty.two
years.