The Irish standard., 1886-08-28
NORTHWESTERN NOTES,
Drum Lummon stock is now quoted
at s45 yer share of $40.

A company has been organized tc
work the milestone quarries at Buffalo
Gap, Oak.
Prairie fires in Troy township, Sully
county, Oak, burned over 1900 acres
of ground.
The College eff Montana is preparing
to establish a department of chemistry
and metallurgy.
The steamer Rosebud was sunk al
Katie Kountz bar, Mont. The cargo il
supposed to be all right.
Senator Wolfe of Iowa, has returned
to the state treasury his back salary fo1
the impeachment trial recess.
Mayor Wallber will probably use his
influence to further the project to estab.
lish cable line of cars in Milwaukee.
John Thompson, sporting man, who
was formerly an extensive cattle dealer
in Montana, committed suicide at Port
land, Or.
The 3-7-87, Helena's mysterious So
ciety, the offspring Of the Vigilantes, has
decided to make the bummers move on,
or else they will find themselves in trou-
BILE.
A. P. Foster, of Plainview, MINI. has
secured stalls for the exhibition at the
Illinois state fair at Chicago of his we'll
known Jersey cattle and Percheron
horses.
w. x. Parker, Late Of the Cham
berlain Register, and A. j. Waterhouse,
district attorney for Dawson county,
Oak. have bought newspaper at Santa
Anna, Cal.
Jack Devereaux, the man arrested at
Sioux Falls, Oak, for highway robbery,
waived examination Tuesday, and was
committed to await the November term
of court.
The residence Of Attorney w, A.
Wilkes of Sioux Falls, OAK, caught fire
Tuesday and was put out after burning
out the chamber and roof. The fire was
set by children playing with matches.
G. III. Andrews, who had charge OF a
raroe ranch in Nebraska. took a number
of blooded horses and absconded. He
was arrested at Sturgis, Oak, and COM
mitted to jail.
Major Adams, of the Second regiment,
denies having criticised Gov. Pierce for
calling the Aberdeen encampment. He
simply gave his understanding of the
law without rejecting on the governor.
Mart McCourtney, with several aliases
who was incarcerated at Neillsville, Wis,
Sunday evening for theft, broke Jail
Monday afternoon and escaped to the
woods. Several parties ere one his
track.
The grand jury was called in Milwau-
kee to consider the river nuisance, and
were charged Monday by Judge NAL
Tory. The Judge arraigned the authori-
ties for allowing the river to be polluted
in violation of the law.
The Worthington correspondent OF
the Pioneer Press autographed that the
Mobiles county delegates to the state
convention are uninstructed; and it is
understood that they have different pre-
ferences.
J. E. Pierce, pioneer settler of Win
dom, and president Of the agricultural
society, was thrown by a horse Monday
evening while driving cattle and danger
ously injured. It is believed, however,
that he will recover.
Forest fires in Lump Gulch Mont. de
stroyed 30O, 900 feet Of lumber and some
sheds. and then rushed into the timber
over the side of Sheep mountain, and at
the last account had burned a pathway
mile wide and about four miles long.
The Milwaukee Land and Iron COM
pany filed articles of Incorporation at
Madison, Wis. Tuesday. The capital
stock is $4,000. The company owns
fee of $500 acres of land on south range
in Ashland county. The incorporators
are John A. II. Imsey, B. G. Lennox,
George A. Schroeder and Henry T,
Lloyd OF Milwaukee and Charles N.
Gregory of Madison.
As several young men were driving
rather recklessly ont Of Ellsworth, Wis,
Monday, James O'Toole, one of the
number, fell from the wagon, one wheel
striking him in the side inficting injur-
les which resulted in his death Tuesday
night Of last week. His mother went to
Ellsworth Wednesday night to take
charge of the remains, which were in
tered in the Catholic cemetery at Pres
colt ednesday.