Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1884-03-26
NEWS BRIEFS.

Navigation has besn resumed on the
lakes.
Blaine aud Logan are Bes il aaleets,
50 the former says.
Van Buren, county, Iowa, cattle are af-
ilicted with the terrible foot and mouth
disease,
The grave of the celebrated Kit Carson
is ut Taos, n. NJ. and the Grand army
posts Of that Territory are about To take
steps to erect a suitable monument to his
memory. A son OF the old mountainser
is in the employ of Ex- Senator Dorsey ON
his cattle ranch.
Fire in the Newcastle coal mine, in
Washington Territory, has been raging for
eighteen months. The fact that it obtained
mastery over the management had been
conce.ed up to saturday.
The friends of the Hennepin canal
claim the bill will pass the House with a
handsome majority.
Frank L Chamberlain SPORTSMAN or
Cleveland after eleven years of study, has
perfected machine in which every sport
sman is Interested Its capable of charging
l,500 shotgun cartrid es per hour, Prom
inent Cleveland and Plttsburg capitalists
organized a company with S250,0UO cap
ltal to establish a manufactory at Cleveland
They will begin operations April l..
A west bound passenger on the Milwau-
kee telescoped a freight train at Red Wing,
Mimi. turday. Several passengers
slightly injured.
The Missouri river is broken up and
the ice is passing out without serious
damage.
In report to the Commissioned Of the
General Land Office. George w. Fair
chi d, Deputy United States Surveyor, of
Nebrask,, says all the agricultural lands
IN that section have been fenced in by
cattle men. Their ranges extend for hun
dreds of miles, aud wire fences, inclosing
all desirable public lands, and even water
courses, are posted at intervals with
notices threatening death 10 any person
opening them. Herders assert they hold
these lands under the desert land and
timber culture law. The result is COM
piete check to persons seeking to make
homestead settlements.
The Cincinnati Price Current has reports
from tho winter wheat belt, indicating a
good average condition in Ohio and Indi-
ana, fairly good promise in Illinois, with
some damage by frost in Missouri, and by
dry cold winds in Kansas; but the loss in
any district is not irreparable.
Andrew Peterson, an avowed polyga-
mist lis on trial at Salt Lake City for
registering and voting in violation of the
Edmunds law, Seven polyga mist are on
the jury, who swore that they believed
polygamy was revealed, and that they
would obey God rather than Congress.
In barn in Pittsburg Thursday night
Jack Davis and Jim Conners fought
seventy-two rounds with hard gloves, for
5000 silver cup. Corners taking the
trophy. The pol ce raided the barn and
captured Davis and a number Of specta-
tors.
While insane ut Oakland Cal. Wednes-
day night, Mrs. John Schaefer cut her
own and her baby's throat. When the
husband saw the corpses he also attempt
cd suicide, and u lady was SO shocked at the
CORY scene that she became q having ma
MAC.
Mrs. Georghna Grimm, whose elope-
ment with a colored hod carrier at Erie
was prevented "Wednesday, met her lover
after she had escaped from the officer, and
both went TO a minister's house and were
married. She was discovered Thur sday
In the house of negro and imprisoned.
The first Presbyterian church at Lock
port, N. ", was burgarized Wednesday
night $3.50 of Sabbath school funds
being purloined. The robbers secreted
themselves while the evening prayermeet
ing WIS IN progress aud we're locked IN bv
the sexton departing With their plundor
by rear door.
A sulphur explosion Friday in the Ia-
terprise colliery, near Mt. Carmel, Pa,
killed three men and badly damaged the
woodwork Of the mine.
Michael Toney, 10 years old. was arrest
ell at Mt Carmel, Pa, Friday. while
changing switch with the intention Of
wreckins an approaching train.