Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-01-26
KBIEF BITS OF NEWS.


ton for the improvement Of the harbor
at Superior, Wis.
The president and secretary of the
Philadelphia Base Ball club have bought
the grounds for 500, 600.
Letitia Mccullough, widow of the
tragedian, John Mccullough, died Sun
day morning at Philadelphia.
A meeting of the officers Of the Mime
sofa Association of Trotting and Pacing
Horses will be held at the Merchants Jan.
%.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Muldrow denies that he is to be trans
ferred to the head of the public lands bu-
reau.
Leslie Moir, the high jumper says he
is open to jump any man in the North
west running Jump for any amount
over $500 to $500.
The harbor at Boston is almost entirely
frozen over as far as the narrows and the
ferry boats and steamers have great diff
Guilty in proceeding.
Frank McHugh and Tom Hanley, two
feather-weights, fought near Cincinnati
Monday. Hanley was knocked out in
the tweIty-first round.
It is stated by old members of the corn
and -four exchange that the grain trade
of Baltimore has never been SO much de-
pressed for twenty years as it is now.
Gen. Greely was before the committee
on appropriations on Saturday to urge
immediate appropriations for the estab-
lishment of signal service stations, prin-
cipally in the West.
The new Methodist church was dedi-
<ol Foil
day, Rev. E. L. Eaton, of La Crosse,
preaching the sermon. The church cost
sc, 900, and is free of debt.
1t is rumored at St. Cloud: Mimi, that
Hon. H. C. Waite and others are endeav-
there for the location of postoffice. St.
Cloud needs such building.
The senate committee on public lands
has reported favorably on the bill forfeit
ing all lands granted to railroads in all
cases where the roads are not now actu-
ally completed and in operation.
Judge Bryant, of Wisconsin, assistant
attorney general for the postoffice depart
ment, denies that he is to be transferred
from the postof1ice department to the
general land Office, or to any other posi-
ton. -... ..s
The National Democratic convention
may not meet in New York after all that
has been said. New York has no hall
large enough to accommodate the con-
vention except Madison Square garden,
and the acoustic properties of that are
bad.
1t was stated Sunday at Philadelphia
that already 700 of the weavers, who will
not be involved in the present strikes,
have pledged themselves to contribute 81
per week each from their earnings for the
support Of weavers now OF strike.
The licenses of sixty-six hotel and sa-'
loon-keepers and nine wholesale liquor
dealers in Lancaster, Penn, expired Sat.
urday night, and the nroprietors rnl be-
compelled to stop selling until the first.
of April, when the court will grant IL
censes under the new law.
David Whitmer, at Richmond, Wis, ),
the last one of the witnesses to the Book
of Mormon, is now in dying condition,
but still bears testimony to the truth of
the Book of Mormon and the Bible. He
left the Mormon church because of its.
members departing from the faith as he.
believes it.
The long fight between the river and
lake and the seaboard vessel owners and
officers about the methods of steering
vessels is likely to be left in an unsettled
condition by the board of supervising
inspectors. So much difficulty has been
found in making any general rule that
1t is probable that the board will now re-
peal the rule adopted last year, and leave
everybody free to manage his vessel as he
desires in this particular. =