Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-10-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The average salary pala Iemsie scnooI
teacher in Vermont, is @5.ol week.
The inmates of an lrsane in Pennsyl.
vania, have organized full brass band.
The new game Of Photographic whist
has carried fashionable circles by storn.
The national debt u only twelve times
as large a. that Of the city Of New York.
The lawn tennis epidemic threatens to
break out into national c,nvention next
year.
Newark, N. J. has young woman's
club of thirteen members. pledged not to
kiss young men who use tobacco.
Three thousand i've hundred head Of
cattle have arrived at Fort Yates from
Nionrara. for Indian beef
A COW on the farm OF John Yard, near
Trenton, N. ]. was regularly MIXED by
snake and seemed to enjoy it.
Stephen A. Douglas, son of the great
senator has taken the stump for Blaine
and Logan.
In Milwaukee, during the past year,
3,73s arrests were made, 379 Of them be-
ing women.
Tennessee Mormons are accepting the
Gentle suggestions about hunting new
homes.
The st. Louis Dispatch says to-
bacco chewing is becemng habit With
many women in that city.
Ten Of the most advanced courses in
Harvard college have but one man in
each.
General Grant Is being groomed as
dark horse for the mayoralty swespstake
of New York City.
Another expedition for Cuban inde-
pendence is reported quietly organizing
IN New York City.
The public schools Of Faribault and
Albert Lee. M1nn., are closed on account
of scarlet fever.
Leavenworth, Kan, donates $40 acres
of land and @50, 900 In money to the SOL
d,ers' home, to be located there.
Hills, the defaulting cashier of the
Sioux City, Iowa, railway, lost 5000 at
one time playing poker.
Mark M. Pomeroy, the famous Brick
Pomeroy of war times, has just been in
dicted by . grand jury on charge OF
embezzlement.
darrison, the "boy preacher" sabout
to open campaign in Chicago. The
"boy" preacher now kicks the beam at
about 33 years.
A Baltimore dude has eloped with a
gypsy girl, and the girls rowing friends
feel outraged that they viii hang him
on sight.
Paris leaders Of fashion say that black
gros grain silks, OF the richest quality,
will be the coming costume for oil occa-
sions.
Judge Marcus P. Norton has been ar
rested in Boston on charge Of swindling
hotels and passing worthless checks.
Elder Oliver, Seventh.day Adventist,
Of Brown county, WIS, was drowned at
Hastings, Minn., while on visit to his
parents.
Chinese telegraph messages are sent in
figures. each word being represented by
certain number, and the receiving
operator translates the figures into words
A diphtheriatic child in Baltimore
coughed in the face of DR.. Melville, and
he died of diphtheria himself few days
later.
Benjamin Valentine, author Of the Fitz-
noodle papers in Puck, has sued the pro-
prietors of that publication for $50, 600 for
breach of contract.
The Cincinnati Times Star protests
against the bad taste of committing sui
cide in public park, where the corpse
Is likely to annoy premenaders.
Joe Bogard, . negro, hanged at Lonkc,
Ont, was cut down after being suspend
ed forty minutes, and came to life while
his father was taking the body home.
The late Secretary Folger could never
disregard an appeal Of distress, and there
are numbers Of poor women now in the
department who owe their situations 10
him.
General Custer's widow 10 living very
pleasantly IN New York, but still mourns
the loss Of her late husbands watch,
which some wretch stsle during slight
nre in her hat the other day.
A man IN Albany bet that he could get
the signatures Of ten highly respected
citizens asking the governor to hang .
leading clergyman, and ven without diff
Guilty, - net one Of the signeo insisted
on reading the paper.
Rev. G. w. Freeman, Of Elk Point, wss
the first Baptist missionary in Dakota and
organized the hrst church. he has been
| here fourteen years, and came when there