The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-09

name. The object Of his visit was to meet
his wife, who arrived from Chicago and pro.
ceeded with her husband to Banff next day.
The body of Samuel Josephs, travelling
agent for NJ. & A.. B. Moses, New York, was
found in the lake at Marquette, Mich. The
while in unsound mental and hysterical con.
dition.
IA stone weighing about 1000 pounds fell
from the third story Of the court house at
Chicago, making the fourth or fifth one which
has fallen from this building within q few
years. A few hours previous to the accident
a huge rock fell from the fifth story ofa house
on Clark, street, grazing the head Of ohm
Burgess, who was on the sidewalk. M
The published story to the effect that the
town Of Findlay, O., is in danger of being
blown up by q subterranean explosion Of
natural gas in the not very distant future is
discredited by biologists. Prof. G.. K. Gil
bert, of the geological survey, said that he
would question the story having any founda
ton from the name of the geologist alone.
Druggist Whitney of Des Moines, Iowa was
searched recently in q new fashion. Under
directions Of . lawyer the searchers employed
instrument through the druggists rear win
dow and secured an instantaneous view of q
party al..drinking together in couples and
groups. This photographer is likely to have
quite a sale for his pictures.
VIC. White. who was shot at Bird Plain,
Mimi, was not 50 badly wounded as first re-
ported. DR.. Murphy Of st. Paul was called
Parker is in Jail at Beaver Falls. He says
that when White was at his (Parker's) faith
er's house in Hudson, Wis, two weeks ago
he applied opprobrious epithets to his dead
wife and her mother. Mrs. Parker For that
and his treatment of his wife, he shot him.
The building inspector of st. Paul issued q
permit to The Pioneer Press company for
story building at the corner of Fourth and
Robert streets. The buildingi is to cost $780,
600, and the inspectors fee on the permit
amounted to $327.5O. In comparison
az to size The Pioneer Press building ia
to cost more than any building ever erected
the most costly building ever constructed in
the city. ~" ~g
The grasshopper question at Perham,
Mimi, is still unsolyed. Millions of small
ones have Matched out the past two weeks
on land that was plowed last fall and this
spring. The full-tedged ones are beginning
to lay their eggs. The Dir is full of the hop
pers, which fly a few miles and begin to eat
in q new place. 1t is now q little over four
weeks since the bounty was offered and DUR
ing that time 1874 bushels have been
caught, paid for and buried. The work Of
destroying them viii be kept up.
Two squads of Indians from the White
Earth and Leech Lake reservations ore pick
ing blueberries, the one at Twin lakes, the
other at the thoroughfare between the upper
and Gulll lakes, two or three miles apart and
twelve or fifteen miles from Brainerd, MINI.
One day a burly Indian from each squad
came to Brainerd, and, having procured
whisky, started for their camps bent on q
fight. Near Gull lake they set upon g half
breed teamster 9Th Hallett, who is trad
ing With the Indians, and with knives and
bludgeons nearly killed him. Other Indians
interfered or he would have been murdered.
Growing out of this q bloody fight ensued
among the Indians themselves.