Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-04-29
GENERAL NE WS.

ary.
| A Michigan man has bust of Llncoll
made from the pulp of macerated green
backs.
1t rained all yesterday at Yankton ant
last night severe snow storm closed th'
programme of the day.
The investigation of the loss of the
Oregon resulted in decision in favor o.
the officers of the steamer.
A. bill has been introduced in the Ken
lucky legislature forbiddlng members to
accept free passes on railroads.
A street railway association has been
formed at Saltwater, Mimi, with a cap
ital of 100000 The road is to be built
Immediately.
The corLer stone of the Vandcrbil
college of physicians and surgeons, was
laid the other day IN New Y York with very
impressive ceremonies.
Fifty manufacturers of brass and iron
steam, water and gas materials in New
York have formed a union to protect
themselves against strikes.
Editor Pulitzer has started on q Euro
pean trip and editor Dans Is exultlng in
the thought of his rivals condition when
sea sickness shall claim him tor its own.
Mary Anderson is now on her way from
San Francisco to fill her New York en-
gagement. She has been away thirty one
weeks and her receipts have been in the
neghborhood of s350,000.
Prof. w. d. Whitney is editing new
dictionary for the Century company,
which Will cost s25o,o0o and be finished
in 1889. Radical changes will be made
in the spelling of many words. ..
John L. Sullivan and Charles Mitchell
have arranged for an eight round glove
fight, to take place in Chicago, June 7th,
the winner to take Is per cent. and the
loser 25 per cent. of the receipts. -.
The presence of jefferson Davis and
dedication of q monument to the dead
confederate soldiers at Montgomery,
Alabama, yesterday, brought out one of
the largest crowds ever seen there.
A Washington special asserts that DR..
Ames' withdrawal as candidate Tor the
Minneapolis postotfice had string to it;
that he has not yet sent for the papers in
his case, and many think he is still can
dldate.
In sinking pits in Bladen county, N.
G., workmen have come to massive walls
of stone and cement at great depth be-
low the ground. There is no record of
any building having been built there
within generation.
Mary Anderson will buy stock ranch
in Nebraska. 1t IS expected that LIBERAL
ly disposed Westerners will cheerfully
pay 81 seat to see Mary try to ride the
gladstone broncho or feed the coy four
year old steer with taffy-toIu.
New York special: John Kelly's
health does not improve as his friends
could wish. In fact, he is worse than he
was some time ago. While there is no
lmmedl ate danger, his condition is such
as to occasion his relatives grave appre-
hension.
BY the break of the levee at Helena,
Arkansas, Tuesday, some two hundred
houses were inundated. The river is
eleven inches higher than ever known is
still rising, threatening one of the great
est calamlties ever known 10 the cotton
region of the Mississippi valley.
Eight English boys, whose ages range
from twelve to fifteen years and who are
known to have been convicted of crime
in England, arrived in New York recent
ly, having been sent out by the chairman
of the Industrial School of Bristol, whose
intention was to lnflict them as charges
upon the New York authorities. They
will be returned at once.
Alexander Peckham, of Sun Prairie,
Wis, aged twenty-four, was sentenced to
ten years in the state prison for abetting
his COUSIN, Eddie Peckham of the same
age, IN raping Lena Spade, aged fifteen,
while taking her home in sleigh from a
ball at Peckham's school house on the
morning of February %, 1854. Eddie
escaped and has never been caught. The
Peckhams are sons of wealthy and in-
tluential farmers IN this country.
The grand jury i'll St. Louis has indict-
Ell commission merchant for selling
bogus butter.
"Three Little Inps from Sheol'' is the
title of a song composed and sung by
Harvard students.
Excitement on the Deadwood mining
exchange continues and stocks fluctuate
from fifty to sixty per cent day.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
road for the first seventeen days of this
month show an increase of about CSC, 900.
The largest Krupp gun ever made has
been mounted in Germany. 1t throws q
shell weighing nearly eight hundred
pounds.
As result of booming things on pa
per, all the towns in Wyoming along the
Northern Pacific are crowded with
tramps.
A summer school of liberal theology is
being established at Chautauqua, N. Y.
Rey. DIR. Thomas of Chicago will be one
of the lecturers
The Chicago city council last night
unanimously adopted resolution ofsym-