The Dickinson press., 1884-06-28
Dakota Territorial News.

president.
Dakota Territorial News.
A herd of fifteen buffaloes has been
seen in Faulk county.
A. P. Marvin of Douglas county lost
four valuable horses by lightning.
At Cooperstown $50 tons of buffalo
bone are awaiting shipment.
The penitentiary at Bismarck will be
completed Sept. 1.
A postofice was established at Lud-
den, Dickey county.
The Canning News saysa wolf in that
vicinity has killed many colts and young
cattle.
Col. w. G. Plummer, late of Fargo,
is to be editor of the Bismarck Tri-
bune.
The child born on the Sioux Falls
race track the other day has been named
Sue F., after the city.
Buffaloes are reported swarming
over the ranges west of the Black Hills,
and hundreds of cattle mingle with
them.
Near Keystone, all eight-year old
daughter of Mr.. Mcdonald was struck
by lightning ndkilled.
The Fourth Of July will be celebrat-
ed at Ordway by laying the corner stone
of the new Methodist university.
Troops will be sent from Fort Penn
bina to protect people living in Rolette
and Cavalier counties against q band of
horse thieves.
Mr.. Nels Larson, a Washburn settler
was run over by his WI team. while re-
turning from Bismarck and killed.
w. w. Sumner. while on a hunt in
the Knife River valley beyond Bismarck
accidentally shot himself in the thigh,
dying after amputation had been per-
formed.
Fred Evans of Deadwood is deliver
ing on contract, fifty yoke of oxen at
Cheyenne river agency, ten yoke at
Brule agency and 700 heifers and forty
bullsa at the Grow agency, Montana.
During a recent storm at Mandan
showers of fish fell from one to five in
ches in length, many Of which were
gathered alive and placed in an aquari-
UNI.
Lightning struck the public hall at
Thompson while the company was en-
joying a dance, about two-thirds Of
those present being knocked down and
all considerably shocked.
j. G. Ansley of Liverpool, Ohio, who
shot George Gibbs Of Bismarck, was az
raigned and remanded to jail to await
the result of the shot. The ball was re-
moved from Gibbs neck and there is n
hope for his recovery.
During a storm near Mayville,
several granaries were blown down,
and in n place o seeder was blown a
quarter of q mile across the field. A
barn partially completed west Of Port
land was moved from it's foundation.
Mrs. George Wilcox, living near
Clyde post office in Kingsbury county,
was killed by lightning while stand
ing by the stove preparing the evening
meal.
A Nj. Blackman, living neal Vox
Populi, while assisting a neigh
Dor with an unruly COW, received a kick
in the abdomen which caused his death.
The suit against L. A. Foote, former.
lycashier of the bank of Kimball, charg-
him with having embezzled $172 of a
depositor's money, resulted in his
prompt acquittal.
White and Widner, of the defunct
Miner county bank, have been arrested
at Howard on a charge Of embezzle-
ment. George R. Farmer, q depositol
Institutes the suit.
A six-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tufts, living neal Graft on, found
X bottle of strychnine, and took some
of it with fatal results.
Clement Horde, living near Madison,
died instantly while working in d field
at the age of fifty-three years.
L. D. Rolph of WEIGH has a COW
which gives fifty pounds OF milk daily.
Nels Rivitt, a Frenchman about fifty
years of age, dropped dead about three
miles south of Marvel as he stepped
froma raft of logs which he and a
partner were floating down the Red
river.
A picnic party from Bathgate
comprising some 'twenty-one persons,
were fishing on the Pembina river,
eight miles north of Walhalla, Thursday
when q boat containing the daughter Of
Col. Grandy was upset, and the young
lady was drowned. Her body has not
been recovered.