Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-07-26

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PARAGRApAIc NEWS.
Chicken-pox is carrying OF from ten 70 {
twelve children per day in Valparaiso.
The National association Of retail boot
and shoe dealers is in session at u
Rochester, N. Y. About 200 delegates
are present.
Captain Moore, Of Cleveland, Ohio, has
purchased of the American syndicate the
Kingston (Ont.) Iron and Copper mines
and is preparing to erect extensive
smelling works.
George Alfred Townsend has agreed to
write the life of Levi p. Morton for
Philadelphia publishing house.
Gen. Harrison is flooded with applica-
tions from political clubs for dates upon
which they may call to see him.
A petition is being circulated at Co
lumbus, Ohio, praying the governor TO
commute Blinkey Morgan's sentence to
imprisonment for life.
It has been agreed by the roads west
Of the Missouri river that thirty-foot
stock cars will be used as basis in COM
putting rates on range cattle. ss
The consolidation OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Richmond and Allegheny
will take the latter road out of the courts
and discharge the two receivers
The investigations of the grand jury
into the recent race troubles in Critten-
den county, Arkansas, have resulted in
the finding of eighteen indictments
against the negroes implicated.
A recently issued circular declares the
principles of the American party TO be
the restriction of immigration, an educa-
tiOnal suffrage, extension Of the proba-
tionary period at least to fourteen years,
protection of the public school system
and ownership Of American lands by
American citizens only.
George B. Rose of Little Rock on Sat
urday, for 50, 900 of the Little Rock and
Memphis railroad bonds, transferred to
the Little Rock and Memphis company, as
reorganized, the entire. road bed, ties,
rolling shops, easements, fran
chises, ETC., of the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad, from the town of Hope
field, in Criltenden county, Arkansas. to
Little Rock, also the belongings OF the
Memphis and Little Rock road in the
state of Tennessee n
Minnesota Matters.
Johnson's hardware store at Cannon
Falls was robbed of $500 worth of goods.
The safe in the general store Of Ale
man q Lukens at Taopi was blown open
and 1926 in money and valuables taken.
The Milwaukee depot at Zumbrota was
entered by burglars, but the midnight
mechanics received but few dollars for
their trouble
The staff OF The Duluth Daily Demo
crat has been made up, A. Dewey being
general manager and the force from The
Brainerd News being retained.
The house of Joseph Hickman, of
Princeton, was struck by ightning on
Saturday, and Mrs. Heckmf and Miss
Ida King were badly shocked. Miss King
was partly paralyzed.
lows Items.
Muscatine and Clinton will have addi-
tional bridges across the Mississippi.
It is claimed that $4,000 of damage
was done in Palo Alto county by the re-
cent storm.
Davenport has set next August as the
time when she will have her electric rail
way in operation.
Dakota Doiags.
The millers Of Northern Dakota held
meeting at Fargo and formed an associa-
ion.
An electric light company has been or
ganized at Brookings and the machinery
will be ordered at once.
Yankton people have had surprise,
occasioned by streaks of colored vapor
apparent in the stream of water thrown
out by the artesian well. Natural gas
was the conclusion arrived at.
A man named Booth, brakeman on
the Northern Pacific road, was taken to
the hospital at Fargo in a frightfully
mangled condition. He was coupling
cars ut Glyndon. and his foot becoming
fast in frog the cars backed over him,
cutting the right leg of at the thigh and
crushing his body.
G. F. Balch, switchman at<Fs-go,
kept hotel at Macon, Mo-, ekyen yeaia
ago, and during his absence one day a
boarder took a/,team of horses and
Balch's 9-yeapold daughter, and he has
heard nothing of them until few days
ago, wien he learned his daughter was
IN San Antonio, Tex, and will at once
send for her.
wisconsin Waits.
Lightning struck the house of Fred p.
Kopf at Neillsville, and his son, aged l3,
was killed.
Austin cCracken, of Markesan, Green
Lake county, has lived in the state sixty
two years and the county f1fty-two years.
A signal service is to be established at
Chippewa Falls, sufficient funds for that
purpose having been secured by private
subscription.
J. NJ Hagerty and A. S. Crawford,
arrested at Ashland last week for the
theft of a team of horses, heve been dis
charged, Hagerty proving he had a bill Of
sale of the horses.
Miss Lucy johnson, daughter of Capt.
C. r. johnson, of Black River Falls, died
suddenly at San Francisco, CAL, while
attending the convention of the National
Teachers association.
Peter Rembel, of the town of Polk,
Washington county, will ask the govern