The Dickinson press., 1884-11-29
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

field in Kansas.
The Presbyterian society at Mitchell
has engaged the services OF the Rev. s
f. Elliott. late of Apollo, Pa, for the
ensuing year.
The new depot on the grounds of the
Minneapolis 4 st. Louis and Iowa &
Cedar Rapids railroads ut Waterloo, is
nearly completed. The building is COX
go feet, two stories, with q one-story
wing 2oN30 feet. The water tank and
engine house will soon be finished and
ready for use.
Ground was broken in Tower City TO,
the Tower university.
The extensive railroad improvements
at Mitchell begun in September are now
we'll under Roadway, and will be COM
pleted in q few weeks.
Canton has in contemplation for next
year a new 100000 court house.
The Creel troubles have broken out
again at Devils Lake, and it is charged
that there is a conspiracy to drive the
lieutenant out of the country.
Rev. T. L. Riggs of Fort Sully, is in
Washington.
The Fuller Electric company of New
York has contracted to illuminate the
city of Mitchell with the electric light.
The public school at Gary is closed
OH account of prevailing contagious
diseases.
After a session of eight days, the
United States grand jury at Yankton
was discharged. Thirteen indictments
were found.
The trouble over the Foster county,
county seat was settled in favor OF
Darlington.
While the benediction was being pro-
nounced, some miscreant fired q bullet
through the window of the Methodist
church, Mandan.
Building improvements in Madison
this year will reach 800, 900 and $75,-
600 in Alexandria.
The bank of Waterloo has failed. It
was a private bank, with limited CAPT.
tai, the owners-who succeeded O. G.
j.. Shippers, last March being G. K.
Trampe and B. G. Antornsen. The
National Park bank, New York, was it's
eastern correspondent. The failure is
reported as for q limited amount.
Ira n. Pardee writes from New York:
The mission board of the M. d. church
has granted all [ asked, $13, 500 for Da-
kota, and the church extension society
will grant $3.50 cash donation and $3.50
loan to every new church built this
year. The church extension society
will help the Chamberlain people to pay
S $1,000 for the opera house for q Metho-
dist church block.
G. Cutting, a brakeman on q west
bound freight of the Chicago, Millwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad, was standing
on a car at Marion Junction, when
..' t-a.l backed against the car. He
fell between the cars which passed over
his left leg below the knee. He was
taken to Parker and leg was amputated.
He lies in a critical condition.
Burt Beers, who was recently in
volved in a disgraceful affair in the
Wood river country, Black Hills, in
which a companion was killed, and who
was sentenced to two months impris-
onment, was liberated a few days ago,
and arming himself, went in search of
the district attorney with the avowed
intention of killing him on sight, was
run outof the country by Oh incensed
populace.
A man calling himself Jackson, and
hailing from Granite Falls, Mimi,
stole a team of horses from Allison
Bros, of Broollings, and took it out of
town to a vacant farm house, put the
horses in the stable Oh the premises,
and slowed himself away in a cupboard
in the house, and waited for night. The
owners soon foundh him there and brought
him to town.
The centrifugal clothes wringer which
is run by steam at the hospital for the
insane about three miles from Yankton,
while going at an unusual rate of speed,
Charles Vandyke, head laundryman,
was struck in the side by a piece of
iron and probably injured fatally.
Maurice Fitzgerald had an arm broken
and two or three others were slightly
injured. The building was somewhat
damaged.
The official count of the Tenth Gar
go) legislative district shows Twomey
and Austin elected to the council, and
Stebbins, Oliver, McComber and Pugh
to the house.
Bob Roberts of Medora, we'll known
1 Bismarck, shot but did not kill Geo.
Haywood, who, had, j; is claimed.
threatened to kill him.
Among the visitors at the office OF
Emigration Commissioner Grant of the
Northern Pacific, IN st. Paul, was Miss
Emeline Ferlini of New York city.