The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

field il. Kansas.
The Presbyterian society at Mitchell,
has engaged the services of the Rev. S..
E. Elliott, late of Apollo, Pa, for the
ensuing year.
The new depot on the grounds of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis and Iowa g.
Cedar Rapids railroads at Waterloo, is
nearly completed. The building is COX
60 feet, two stories, with O one-story
wing 2Ox30 feet. The water tank and
engine house will soon be finished and
ready for use.
Ground was broken in Tower City for
the Tower university.
The extensive railroad improvements
at Mitchell begun in September are now
we'll under Roadway, and will be com.
pleted in a few weeks.
Canton has in contemplation for next
year a new 40, 200 court house.
Tie 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
On account Of prevailing contagious
diseases.
After a session of eight days, the
United States grand jury at Yankton
was discharged. Thirteen indictments
we're 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 bullet
through the window of the Methodist
church, Mandan.
Building improvements In Madison
this year will reach 800, 900 and $75,-
900 in Alexandria.
The bank of Waterloo has failed. 1t
was a private bank, with limited capi-
tai, the owners-who succeeded o. @.
J. Shippers, last March being G. X.
Trampe and B.. G. Antornsen. The
National Park bank, New York, was it's
eastern correspondent. The failure is
reported as for a limited amount.
Sam McMaster has resigned his posi-
ton as superintendent of the Home
stake mines, in the Black Hills, to tra-
vel in foreign lands for his health. which
is reported impaired. His fortune is
estimated at from a million and q half
to two millions, all made in the Hills.
Ira N. Pardee writes from New York
The mission board of the M. E. church
has granted all I asked, $13, 800 for Da-
kota, and the church extension society
viii 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 pa,
$1,000 for the opera house for a Metho-
dist church block.
@. Cutting, a brakeman on a vest
bound freight of the Chicago, Millwau-
keo & ST. Paul railroad, was standing
on a car al Marion junction, when
the train 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.
volyed in o ~disgraceful affair in the
Wood river country, Black Hills, in
which q 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 a~ttorney with the avowed
intention Of killing him on sight, was
run oasoi the eenntryy by m ~incensed
populace.
A man calling himself Jackson, and
hailing from Granite Falls, MINI.
stole q team Of horses from Allison
Bros, Of Brookings. and took it out Of
town to q vacant farm house, put the
horses in the stable on the premises,
and slowed himself away in q cupboard
in the house, and waited for night. The