Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Henry Willard is still worth half mil.
lion, and is only 4s years old.
Rumor has 1t that the Rock Island will
parallel the Manitoba.
There are ninety. eight life prisoners in
the Kentucky penitentlary.
The anti.m onopolists, greenbsckers and
democrats of Nebraska have fused.
A seat in the New York exchange has
been sold for go, 900.
Edward Dayis, aged Is, and Miss Fan
ME Neims, age II were married at Athens,
Ga.
The Northern Pacific railroad lost 900
cords Of wood by fire near Perhsm, Mimi,
last Monday night.
Eighteen steers are now being fattened
at Shelbyville, Ind, for big barbecue.
All will be split and roasted at once.
A stroke of lightning split open hollow
tree, at Chasta, CAL, revealing . skeleton
and clearing up murder mystery. I
Jacob Stein, postmaster at Reno, 1ovs,
shot bis wife dead last week and then su.
icided. Supposed to have been insane.
Samuel ]. Randall was nominated for
congress by the democrats of the third
Pennsylvania district.
Mr.. West, who built the million dollar
hotel IN Minneapolis which bears his
name, died few days ago IN Cincinnati,
after q protracted illness.
Queen Victoria is fast approaching 800
pounds In weight, and the eye of the dime
museum world is upon her.
1t is estimated that the corn crop OF
Iowa this year will be 300. .000, 900 bushels,
The Nrgest ever known in the Hawkeye
state.
The total amount collected in New
York state for the Garfield monument is
e9, ,629. %, which will be forwarded to the
national committee.
Postmaster General Gresham will euc-
ceed Judge Drummond, and Frank Hat.
ton will advance to Gresham's position
Oct. l.
1t is estimated that Minnesota and De.
kota will contribute sixty-four million
bushels OF spring wheat for its quota Of
the worlds supply.
Minneapolis reports her shipments Of
-four for the past twelve months at 4,s14,
424 barrels, an increase Of 20 per cent.
The deaths By cholera in France num-
deaths to cases ID salu TO Ue TemsrKuDIy
high.
A man in northern Wisconsin realized
se, 900 last year from his orchard Of crab
apples. This fruit would grow in the
James river valley to astonlsh the natives.
Private letters from northern Iowa state
that potatoes are rotting in the ground,
and that they will only realize about half
the usual crop this year.
1t IS gwen as the opinion of J. Ellen
Foster that the temperance people should
drop the political movement headed by
st. John.
1t is alleged that what was left of the
body Of private Henry, of the Greeley
party, has been stolen from the grave, In
spite of the opposition of the guards at
the cemetery.
The flood loss to Chippewa valley will
aggregate $4,000, 900. Five hundred busi-
uess houses and one thousand homes suf.
fered by the flood in Eau Claire.
1t is stated in Portland that Northern
Pacific directors will advise the stock.
holders against a lease of the Oregon
Navigation Company.
James and Eliza Kelley, colored, were
re- n arried the other day at Leavenworth,
Kans., after having been separated thirty
dve years. They were slaves and were
sold apart by = cruel master. ST
Near White Cloud, Mich, fire destroyed
McLsne's saw-mill, twenty houses occu-
pied by employes and over million fee,
of lumber. Loss &25.0O0. l5
A desperate named Frank Jones whs
went through the streets of Wellington,
Kansas, q few days ago firing into houses
with q Winchester was taken out of jail
the following night and lynched.
Since the great IRE q. Mitchell there
have been two more discovered and ex-
tinguished. lncendisries are at work
and the city council have ordered the
special police to shoot down any person
iscovered in the act of firing building
The bible society has determined tc
to stop putting bibles in railroad cars
One of its officers said: "Of q thousand
distributed, we believe but ten were read
while three hundred we're 50 mutllated ..
to be worthless, and four hundred ste.
leu."
When Sitting Bull was asked At New
York what NEST impressed him since
reaching the white mans country, he re-
piled that the whites went on the streets
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