Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-27
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BosTcN contemplatcs spending $685.
600 this season toward the improvement
of her parks.
CINCINNATI is to have new theater
with a seating capacity for three
thousand persons.
THE government tax on tho will Of
Holloway, the English patent medicine
man was 1926, 1000.
The annual rent-roll of the Astor
estate in New York city alone amounts
to over So, 100000.
The Z1ni Indians in New Mexico are
said to be dying in large numbers from
the rayages of measles.
THE Chicago cable roads draw 1SO
cars, carrying 27,000,000 passengers
yearly, on twenty miles of roadway.
A BLUNDERING auctioneel at Leroy, N.
Y, the other, day sold $l25 colt for
SIS before he realized what bargain he
was giving.
A COMMITTEE of one from each post
of the G. q. r.. in New Mexico is to be
selected for the purpose of having Kit
CGrson's grave placed in respectable
shape.
BERKELEY COUNTY, Va, has adopted
the Nebraska style of organizing
vigilantes' bands to protect their stock
from thieves. and lively time is ex-
pec!ed.
ONLY seven persons attended meet
ing in San Francisco called for the pur-
pose of organizing cremation society,
ard the movement is not likely to sue
ceed there.
SINCE the recent southern cyclone, the
enterp,isipg citizens Of the section
through which the storm passed have
been indust1iously engaged digging
refuge caves.
A FARMER of Fall River, Mass, has
recently sold a pair of fowls, dark Brah-
mas, for SAT, to go to Auckland, New
Zealand. The distance is nearly seven
thousand miles.
THE italian societies of New York
have placed memorial tablet of marble
over the door of the house on Staten
Island where Garibaldi lived in exile
from 1851 to 1868.
DURING a small tornado near Raton,
New Mexico, recently, the smokestack
of an engine was blown off, striking the
head of colored boy, completely sever
| ing 1t from his body.
A COWBOY recently astonished the
natives in Austin, Tex, by appearing on
the streets clothed i'll pair of pants
made of Oregon gost-skip, with tie
hair on the outside.
A YOUTH is under arrest in Philadel-
phia charged with stealing money from
his mother and geese from his neighbors
for the purpose Of purchasing a wedding
ling for his sweetheart.
A NUMBER of Memphis merchants have
signed q petition asking that d1ummers
operating within the taxing districts be
released from taxation when not dis
playing goods for sale.
| DURING the trial of murderer at
Cambria, Pa /, recently, the prisoner in
terrupted the proceedings to epjoin that
the pistol be returned to his family,
whatever became of him.
TnE Secretaries of State, War, ardt
Navy have ordered the removal OF all
wires on the roof of the new State, War,
and Navy Department building. The
wires will at once be put under the
ground.
A COMPANY of gentlemen at jackson,
Tenn, have formed the Tennessee
Educational Bureau" an organization
designed for the aid of teachers through
out the country in securing positions
and otherwise aiding them.
The London Chemist and Druggist
states that in twenty years the sales of
single packages OF patent medicines in
Great Britain have increased from G, 66l,-
657 to IS 457, $3.50. The number of vend-
ers, formerly 10, 1913, is now 19, 404.
An exchange says that blast in a
limestone quarry Gear Bodie, CAL, nn-
covered five pet1i6ed gull's eggs.
Scientists are now wrestling with the
question: Can petrified gull lay an
egg?"-Bismarch Tribune.
An Oakland, Ca, tramp entered a
restaurant recently aud ordered sump-
tuous dinner. 1t was brought to him,
and after eating the food he attempted
to escape without plying for the same,
but was arrested and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail on the charge OF s'obtainipg
goods under false pretensee."
JOHN G. JACKSON, noted character
In Delaware, poste in the town of Hock-
esein notices pro estiug against the read .
ing of the bible in the public schools
He maintains that it is contrary to tha
genius of American institutions and the
constitution of the state Of Delnware
| He expresses his willingness to pnhliclv
discuss the matter.
A BILL is before the Utah Leeislatnro
which requires that "any person who
| shall sell any proprietary or other medi.
cine, except on the prescription Of a
pbysician. without first putting on the
bottle or package, containing the medi-
cine formula of the contents OF the
bottle or package, in plain English Ian
guage, shall be guilty of a mis-
| demeanor.
GIBSON County, Tenn. has three
men thai have sixty.three children,
twenty-ono apiece. Two of them have
| been married twice, and the other once.
| One of them says he can walk forty
miles a day; he is SO years OF age. and
the others are 66 md SO. One Of them
has about sevepty-five grandchildren
and great-grandchildrer, another has
thirty. and the third only two.
A YOUNG German baker who peddles
cakes and sweetmeats from cart in Tio-
ga, Pa, got ahead Of lot OF bal boys
who organ zed q "Jesse James gang" !"
each taking an awful ond lengthy oath
10 remain true to the organization
through every peril. The purpose Of
| "the gang" was TO raid all the candy
shops and strike terror to the inoffensive
maidens back of tho counters. After
submitting to their thieving and finding
no redress the baker consulted doctor,
aud mixed in some nice.looking cakes q
goodly portion OF ipecac and tartar emet-
ic. The crowd cleared him out as usual,
but it cleared "the gang" ont more eff
fectnally. lsis reported that not boy
OF the gang was seen oa tie streets for
a week.