The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

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shower and struck several grain stacks
near Ashton. E. Lewis, living seven
miles east, lost two stacks containing
about 700 bushels of wheat, and Chase
Brothers, o short distance north of the
town lost about $50 bushels.
The thief who stole Assessor Wyc-
kofs horse was captured near the Tur-
tie mountains by the sheriff of Steele
county. He wa brought back to Hupe
and was put in jail there preparatory to
to being taken to Fargo the next day.
He broke Jail and escaped during the
night, and there is no clue to him. The
horse and buggy were recovered.
Orders have baen issued by the sec
rotary of the interier disbarring the fol-
lowing named attorneys in Dakota:
Sanford McGinnis, Kimball; William
D. Mixter and A. J. Gibbs, Mine Cen
ter, and B. Bartlett, Salem. They
We're charged with completely in land
frauds.
The construction of the new Bismarck
extension of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern, says the Luverne
Herald, is now completed to Luverne,
MINI. The track is laid to a distance
Of about a mile and a half north of town.
The telegraph poles have Seen set as
fur as Luverne, and the WIRE will be
strung to that place in a day OF two.
The track IS now laid about twenty
miles north of P~ipestone, and by the
time the iron is laid to that place from
the south, the road will probably be
nearly completed to Watertown.
The house of John Crofoot, near Alb
erdeen, was robbed of $1,000 in cash.
After getting into the house, they n
tered Mrs. Crofoot's bed room and took
q trunk from under the bed, on which
she was sleeping, unlocked and ran
sacked it for the money, but not find
ing itthey threw down the bed clothes,
and took the money from a belt which
she wore around her body without
awakening her or any other inmate of
the house until they were about leaving
the premises. but pursuit was useless.
In Sioux Falls, Cora, daughter of
Jacob Hawkins, aged about seventeen
years, took q dose of creosote with
suicidal intent. The Press says: She
left her fathers house in the morning
to take the north bound train, ostensi-
bly, for Minneapolis, but, it is said to
elope with a young nan of that city,
who took his departure to some point
out form here on Saturday. Her faith
er's former house keeper, learning of
the girls movements, fastened to the
depot and walked her back home. Up
ON reaching the house she repaired up
stairs, wrote q letter to her father and
swallowed the drug, but was saved by
the prompt action of d physician.
Gov. Pierce has recently issued a
proclamation appointing an auditing
board, whose duty it shall he to make
rules and regulations for auditing the
accounts of the commissioner for Dako-
ia for the coming worlds fair at New
Orleans. The members of the board
will be Alex Mckenzie, W. II. Mckay,
Yankton; and r. Brown of Canton.
At Yankton, there we're we Is 900
soldiers present at the soldiers reunion.
Full grand army posts were present
from Vermillion, Elk Point. Canton,
Sioux Falls, Hurley and Salem. The
exercises of the stand were interesting,
entertaining and were mainly of a pa
triotic character. Chief Justice Ed
gerton delivered o short address of well
come, to which Col. Duncan responded.
Maj. Free Of Sioux Falls, commander
of Grand Army posts for Dakota, then
spoke briefly, when Gov. Pierce wa i'll
PRODUCED. The great mass of people
uOW SdW 0OV. l0fC0 1Or Cuo urSC CllQG,
and all were favorably impressed and
receivedhis able address with cordiality.
Col. Oliver, q prominent politician of
Arkansas then delivered q set address,
at the close of which Gen. Campbell,
of Scotland, Oak, an old Mexican war
veteran as we'll as of the late war;, was
called for and responded happily.
A little child of Eugene Holcomb of
Rapid, Black Hills, was bitten by a
rattlesnake, dying within two hours.
A Wahpeton special says that the
thresher engine on the Judd farm, ten
miles from that city, exploded while the
men were at dinner. The Waterman
was present, and heis injured badly and
may die. The cause of the explosion is
unknown. The engine was entirely de-
molished.