The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-05-04
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Broken Bow IL trying to secure the North
western road.
The Greedy News and Independent has
been consolidated.
ABeatrice fireman lost q 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.
Plattsmouth has organized q pontoon
fridge company with eighteen sections and
10000 capital.
Prosser 10 the name Of the new town ON the
Missouri Pacific road on the west side of
Adams county.
Charley Green, the Burlington white hols.
blonde, IL trying to scare the strikers OF
Plattsinouth with threats OF arrest for con-
epiracy.
The press Of the state is filed with cards Of
thanks from the B. & NJ. to those who exert
ed themselves s'so sealously" for the com
pany's good duriug the strike.
Arbor day was observed by appropriate ex-
ercises at Fillcy. The school yards were laid
tut In proper order by q 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 a. IL the day had been we'll
spent.
j. T. Daley, marshal of Jackson was in
Dakota City last Monday trying to get a com-
plant sworn out by the county attorney
against Paddy Keefe and Mike Mccormick
on the charge Of riot. 1t seems that Marshal
bailey was escourting one Mike D%eloughery,
whom he hud arrested on the charge OF steal
Ing q gold watch, from the calaboose to the
hotel when he was pounced upon by a mob
with Kecfe and Mccormick as leaders and q
desperate attempt made to free the prisoner,
In which they were unsuccessful. The mar
shal came out of the fracas badly bruised up.
IOWA.
The saw mills Of Clinton are buxsing again.
Fort Dodge X. Of l.. are said to be trying to
get T. v. Powderly to deliver q Fourth of july
Grafton there.
A meeting Of the general freight agents Of
the Iowa roads will be held i'm 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 a
monster wildcat, Weighing thirty pounds.
They had two good dogs with them and at
once commenced an attack on the untamed
feline. They had a regular pitched battle,
lasttng several minutes, but his catship was
laid out and the boys came off victorious.
Creston has q young man who makes o
business OF walking the floor nights. He i'm.
AGNES that a woman who lives In town fro-
4uently calls him, aud he is powerlcss 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 10 entirely
unconscious Of being up, and when told of
his pranks claims that he is under the smell
-of ~witchcraft.
Deadwood wants a street sprinkler or less
dust.
Samuel Hirsch, a prominent business man
OF Hastings, committed suicide last Thursday
" shooting himself in the temple. Cause,
temporary insanity and business troubles.
Heinrich S~chmoeger, q 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
irgtsn territory = few weeks ago are coming
lack 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 tho Missouri slope.
"Old Aunt Sally" q colored woman aged
% years, died at her ranch four miles from
Galena. "Aunt Sally" was q we'll known
character. She claimed to have been the first
wolna 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 Watcrtown as follows:
James Z. Drake. II. j. Glassor, Henry 8.
N"ikmar, W.. B. Saunders, John Douglas. g.
Il. kequa. The delegates are uninstructed,
aed will go to WATERFOWL in behalf Of peace
and harmyny 10 the Democratic party, but in
contest between Church and Day will be for
Church. The following resolutions were
adopted: Resolved, That We heartily indorse
President Cleveland In that he has given tho
country a wise, conservative and business
IKE administration, and We especially COM
mend him for the emphatic position be has
taken III behalf of tariff reform. Resolved,
Tcat We also cordially indorse the adminla.
tratfon OF Gov. Church, and the position he
mas taken In behalf Of equal taxation Of cor.
perate and private property.
msNEsoTA.
Last Monday a ragpickcr in st. Paul, while
poking among a pile of rags, discovered tn.
body Of an infant apparently a month old.
A small rope made into a moose was draw
about the child's neck, indicating foul play.
On Monday night a farmer named Angus,
: Ksuke, residing near Aldrich, was seized b,
VOL men, brought to the outskirts of yern.
dale, robbed, beaten to insensibillty and LIFT
for dead. He recovered sufficiently At g
o'clock In the morning to crawl to the neare ST
house. The owner, taking him for a burglar.
shot him near the heart.
In speaking Of the state encampment Of
militia, the st. Paul Globe says: The prepa.
rations alresdy making for the encampment.
OF the Minnesota militia indicate that III.
out-of-door training which the troops will re
ceive this year will be more thorough than