Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-10-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

cape Race, Newfoundland, over six miles
long.
The round trip expenses Of an Atlantic
passenger steamer run from 140, ,0O6 ,u
$40, 600.
just sixteen years ago the interest on
the national debt was sl43, ,0oo, 900 year
1t is now e5s, 900, 900.
Il. G. Bunner, editor Of Puck, is cle'.
ical looking young man, with eyeglasses
and black side whiskers.
According to the new directory Of Du-
buque, the city has population. OF 3,O0r
"a gain Of 10, 600 since 1880.
The potato crop in Minnesota is serious
ly affected by the wet weather. Not more
than half crop is expected.
There are $40 Young Mems Christian
Associations. with los, ,l37 members, own
ing s3,95e,675 worth Of real estate.
In Bodie, CAL, the other day, father
and son met who had net seen each Other
since the latter was baby, thirty years
ago.
A Georgia man recently killed his horse
In an outburst of temper, and then ble~
his own Grains out through remorse fc'
the deed.
There are three daily newspapers, "a
weeklles and two monthly newspapers
published IN Manitoba and the Canadian
northwest.
About 600 German newspapers are pub
lished in the United States, Of which
about so per cent are issued in the ives
ern states.
1t is thought the death Of Cadet Strong
Of Oregon, at the naval academy, was the
result of injuries received while he was
being hazed.
Mr.. F. J. Haynes of Fargo, on invita-
ton Of the Governor of Wyoming, takes
charge Of the Wyoming art exhibition a,
New Orleans.
For the past week over 1000 tons ri
coal per day have been taken west I'VE,
the N. P. from Duluth.
Eleven graves in Jamestown, O., ccn,-
etery have been violated. and sreward Ct
$1,000 is offered for the apprehension Of
the rt surrectionlsts.
OF the $40 places in Palestine mention
ed in the Bible, 430 have been identified,
l32 Of them recently, by the Palestine ex.
piorng expedition.
Since July . = drought has prevailed in
lower East Tennessee, North Georgia and
North Alabama, and al farming interests
are seriously imperlled.
Minnie Palmer has sued Fox, OF The
Police Gazette, for e55,Ooo, claiming that
the paper nisrepresented her relations
with John Rogers, her manager.
One of the greatest curiosltles in Japan
Is the wonderful variety Of coins tina: a,e
used daily. In some instances 1t takes
1000 pieces to make dollar.
Surgeon Billings has Gulteau's bones
under lock and key at the national :neG'-
cal museum, and hereafter will not gra'
ify the morbid desire to see them.
A Lewiston, Me-, lady was married a,
9 a. m. Friday, and was dead in her bridal
dress at noon the same day. She had
been hopelessly i'll for long time
The high license law Of Illinois has re.
duced the number of saloons from $4,000
to 5000, while the revenue from licenses
has increased from $70o, 900 to a, SOC, 900.
Horse thieves have had q very unfav-
orable season in Montana this year.
large number have been killed by low
boys, and now the Indians are hunting
them.
Horse thieves from Montana have been
driven into Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. Half hundred of the lawless
gentry have been lynched during the past
,ix months.
Although the national banks are rapid
y increasing in number, the circulation
s as rapidly decreasing, and is now less
han $500, ,ooo,0 900, the smallest it has
sVer oee0.
Samuel J. Tllden is credited with hsv-
ng contributed 475, 900 to the Democratic
fund; Rssswell p. Fowler,
$500; Addison Hammack, 425, 900, and
august Belmont s25 200.
Fred W. Cohen, drummer for . jewelry
louse iEsulted a Fort Worth. Tex. plrl
Ehen fifteen Of the young men o! the
lace entlced him into room and gave
I'm forty-tive Iashes with . buggy whir.
Hlllheuse Raymond owns the best horse
such III Montana. He ewns $50 head OF
looded horses. His fence enclose 10000
cres of pasture land, AMI he IL now max.
IS preparations to enclose 10000 acres
lore.
Aesistank nn~oco1