Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-05-02
PROPRIETOR.
THE NORTHWEST.
NEBRASKA,

Broken Bow Is trying to secure the North
western road.
The Greedy News and Independent has
been consolidated.
ABeatrice fireman lost hand in oiling the
engine at the water works.
Eight thousand three hundred acres of
land in Cheyenne county sold in one day.
Mr.. Hildebrand, OF Pawnee City, we un-
derstand, has purchased the St. Paul Free
Press.
Plsttsmouth has organized o pontoon
bridge company with eighteen sections and
$4,000 capital
Prosseri s the name of the new town on the
Missouri Pacific road on the west side of
Adams county.
Charley Green, the Burlington white horse
blonde, is trying to scare the strikers of
Plattsmouth with threats of arrest for con-
spiracy.
The press OF the state is filed with cards of
thanks from the B. & NJ. to those who exert
ed themselves $50 sealously' for the COM
pany's good duriug the strike.
Arbor day was observed by appropriate ex-
ercises at Filley. The school yards were laid
out In proper order by committee and Rus
sian mulberry and ornamental trees planted.
The people, with few exceptions. generally
took part in the exercises, going home at the
close, feeling as II the day had been well
spent.
]. T. Daley, marshal of jackson was in
Dakota City last Monday trying to get COM
plant sworn out by the county attorney
against Paddy Keefe and Mike Mccormick
on the charge Of riot. It seems that Marshal
Daley was escourting one Mike Deloughery,
whom he lind arrested on the charge of steal
ing gold watch, from the calaboose to the
hotel when he was pounced upon by mob
with Keefe and Mccormick as leaders and a
desperate attempt made to free the prisoner,
In which they were unsuccessful. The mar
shall came OUT Of the fracas badly bruised up.
IOWA.
The saw mills Of Clinton are buzzing again.
Fort Dodge K. Of L. are said to be trying to
get 7. " Powderly to deliver Fourth of July
Grafton there.
A meeting Of the general freight agents of
the Iowa roads will be held in Chicago soon
for the purpose of the adjustment of freight
rates.
One day last week the three little sons of
John Evans, residing In Garner township,
Pottawattamie county, started out for hunt
and the first game they encountered was q
monster wildcat, weighing thirty pounds.
They had two good dogs with them and at
once commenced an attack on the untamed
feline. They had regular pitched battle,
lasting several minutes, but his catship was
laid out and the boys came off victorious.
Creston has young man who makes
business of walking the floor nights. He i'm.
AGNES that a woman who lives In town fire.
quently calls him, and he is powerless under
the spell, gets up, goes to his trunk, removes
his clothes and performs numerous and divers
other pranks, to the amusement of the guests
at the hotel where he boards. He is entirely
Unconscious Of being up, and when told of
his pranks claims that he is under the spell
of witchcraft.
DAKOTA.
Deadwood wants street sprinkler or less
dust
Samuel Hirsch, prominent business man
OF Hastings, committed suicide last Thursday
by shooting himself In the temple Cause,
temporary insanity and business troubles.
Heinrich Schmoeger, a German cigar maker
about seventy years of age, hanged himself in
his room at West Point last Wednesday. No
cause except destitute circumstances can be
given for the act.
Some farmers who left Mandan for Wash
ipgtsn territory few weeks ago are coming
back as rapidly as the can. They say that
things are overdone on and near the coast,
and the happy medium is in their opinion,
somewhere On the Missouri slope.
'Old Aunt Sally,n a colored woman aged
10 years. died at her ranch four miles from
dalena. "Aunt Sally" was a well known
character She claimed to have been the first
woman to enter the hills, arriving in 1874 as
cook for General Custer. She was known by
all old-timers.
The Grant county Democratic convention
elected delegates to Watertown as follows:
James G. Drake, Fl. J. Glassor, Henry s.
voIkmar, w. B. Saunders, John Douglas. c.
G. Requa. The delegates are uninstructed,
and will 60 to Waterfowl in behalf of peace
and harRyny in the Democratic party, but in
a contest between Church and Day will be for
Church. The following resolutions were
adopted: Resolved, That we heartily indosse
President Cleveland in that he has given the
country wise, conservative and business
like administration, and we especially com
mend him for the emphatic position be has
taken In behalf of tariff reform. Resolved.
That we also cordially indorse the admins
tration Of Gov. Church, and the position he
has taken in behalf Of equal taxation Of cor
perate and private property.
MINNESOTA.
Last Monday q ragpicker in St. Paul, while
poking among pile OF rags, discovered the
body Of an infant apparently month old.
A small rope made into moose was drawn
about the child's neck, indicating foul play
On Monday night a farmer named August
Kauke, residing near Aldrich, was seized by
two men, broughtbto the outskirts of vern-
dale, robbed, beaten to insensibility and left
for dead. He recovered sufficiently at 9
o'clock in the morning to crawl to the neare ST |
house. The owner, taking him for burglar,
shot him near the heart.
In speaking Of the state encampment Of
militia, the St. Paul Globe says: The prepa-
rations slre.dy making for the encampments
of the Minnesota militia indicate that the
out-of- door training which the troops will re
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