The Dickinson press., 1888-07-28
WEEKS NEWS In DAKOTA

Sturgis City has finally made arrange.
ments for u street Car line between that
city and Fort Meade.
The Christian church of Dakota held
Its third annual session at Sioux Falls
last week.
5 5. Hopkins, Il well-known farmer
near Huron, dropped dead as he was pre-
pairing for supper.
Brick and stone are already ON the
ground for the erection of a Masonic
block at st. Lawrence.
Huron is e~ndcavoring to organize a
stock company for tho establishment
there of II large brickyard.
e. w. Ainsworth, of Watertown, has
been elected superintendent of the terri
torial reform school ut Plankinton.
Two freight trains collided at Town.
send. on the Northern Pacific road,
wrecking both engines and twelve cars.
No n was hurt.
+. a. Fletcher, in jumping from a
Northern Pacific train at Fargo, fell un-
der the wheels and Mad both feet cut of
abqye the ankles. But slight hopes of
his recovery.
Il. II. and S. w. Jacobs, president and
cashier respectively of the National bank
at Madison. were taken to Yankton by
United States Marshal Maratta, charged
with falsifying accounts with intent to
defraud creditors.
While several boys were bathing in the
dltch by the railroad track two miles
east of Howard, the twelve year-old son
of Henry Bruins was drowned. The boys
were running n race, when he fell into an
overlooked well and was dead before he
could DO taken out.
The county commissioners of Millbank
will submit the question of selling liquor
In that place to the voters at the election
this fall.
Oliver Babcock, of Lakota, attempted
suicide by stabbing himself in the neck
and breast with a pen knife. The wounds
are not fatal.
2 year-old child of S. NJ. johnson, of
Huron, drank a quarter of an ounce of
pruisic acid found in q photograph gal
lery and died in great agony.
The experimental farm at BrookinRs is
raising 800 varieties of potatoes. 1t also
sports a field of corn, a portion of which
was planted every day for thirty days.
A lady 80 years old made proof of resi-
dence on a quarter section of land in
Brule county one day last week. This is
the second 160 acres she has proved up
on.
Henry Schweinforth, of Yankton, while
shaving himself O couple of weeks ago.
slightly scratched his face. Blood poison
resulted, from which he since died.
DIR. S. G. Hill, of Fargo, has recovered
the dental instruments stolen from his
office some few weeks ago. They were
found ut the Minneapolis Dental Manu-
featuring company, who purchased them
from q man who stated he was going out
of the business.
A fight occurred among a gang of
tramps at Grand Forks, during which
one OF them cut a companion with a
razor and then fed, stopping at the house
OF MIR. Leason, where he became involved
III Il light with al employe, gouging out
an eye n biting out a piece of the I'M
fortunate mans cheek. Tho tramp was
arrested and placed in Jail.
Judge Spencer has sustained the tenn
pornry injunction on the saloons at
Miller.
There are now sixteen county prisoners
i'll Jail at Deadwood awaiting trial. Court
convenes Aug. z.
Victor Steiner, charged with murdere
ing William Stevenson, was bound over
for trial at Bismarck.
RnrNnu E;r~o~,n an $500. ~
found dead in the bushes near James
town. Intoxication and exposure are
thought to have been the cause of death.
Some of the Bremen farmers trimmed
OF the leaves that were badly torn by
hail. The corn SO trimmed is coming on
beautifully and showing q great supe-
riority over that not trimmed.
n. +. Anderson, a harnessmaker of
Ncrmillion, narrowly escaped lynching
Friday night by enraged neighbors. He
is accredited with being a wife-beater,
and escaped the intended punishment by
ficctncss of foot.
Postotfice Inspector Stuart has arrested
DR.. J. C. White, late postmaster at Car
bondale, ten miles from Deadwood.
charged with embezzling funds amount
ing to $500. He was taken before United
States Commissioner W.. H. Jones and
held for trial.
a man named Booth, a brakeman on
the Northern Pacific road, was taken to
the hospital at Fargo in a frightfully
mangled condition. He was coupling
cars Mt Glyndon. and his foot becoming
fast in a frog the cars backed over him,
cutting the right leg off at the thigh and
crushing his body.
Frank Leneils fell from n boat into the
Missouri river and was drowned.
sturgis has two opium joints. The
citizens claim to have no use for them.
The Grand Forks creamery pays from
+ $1,000 to 81, 500 a month to farmers for
cream.
Six saloonkeepers were fined $500 and
costs each for violation of the liquor law
in Pembina.
The Hand County Fair association are
fitting up the grounds and race track. 1t
will put in additional buildings soon.
a large two. story house arrived In
Aberdeen overland from Ipswich last
week. 1t was drawn by twenty horses
aud ook only two days to travel twenty
five miles.
Ground has been broken at Grand
Forks for the new $3.50, 900 hotel, to be
incloscd this fall. The building is to be
modelled after the style of the Ryan hotel
in st. Paul.
y The farmers convention of Spiuk
co'.nty was held at Redfield. The nomi-
nces of the Prohibitionists for sheriff and
district attorney were endorsed.
The attorney general has called the at
tention of the house to the injustice Of
compelling witnesses to appear and tes-
tify before United States courts in the
territories at the present insufficient rate
of compensation, ST. s. per day.
Dakota Ministers.
JAMESTOWN. OAK, July 25.-The Meth.
odist ministers were in session ill day.
The election OF officers resulted as fol-
lows: Rev. IL. G. Bilbee, Fargo. presi-
dent; Rev. b. NJ. Spur, Valley City.
secretary.