The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-03-02

ana opera house has been let for. 10 O0. 1t
is to be completed by February l, 1889.
The Omaha Bee has raised nearly 5000 on
their subscription fund for the heroine school
ma'ams who suffered In the late blizzard.
The second trial Of VIM. F. Harris, at FIRE.
mont, charged with assault with attempt to
commit rape upon . number OF little girls,
has ended as 1t did before, in the accused be-
ing found guilty. The jury were out forty
eight hours.
A girl scarcely fifteen years Of age was re-
ccivcd at st. Bernardo hospital in Omaha one
day last week, who is soon to become y
mother She is from 1rvington. this state, is
an orphan and has not a friend in the world.
shc rcfuecs to give the name of her bctraycr
or that Of the family with whom she lived ut
%lrvington.
A family at Broken Bow hired two. young
men to drive them to Ainsworth to take the
train for the black Hills. On the way the
two girls Of the family got mashed OH the
drivers, and when they arrived at Ainsworth
one of them succeeded in Guiding her parents
and 1cd with the gay Lothario she SO much
sdored.
During the recent blizzard 2a2s5 sheep were
buried In the snow at Harding's ranch, near
Atkinson, and were given up rs dead. A few
days ago thirteen of them were found alive
but not very brisk. They had eaten tho wool
from each others backs.
DAKOTA.
Scarlet fever ia reported at Madison.
Mitchell will have a fire alarm system.
The Minot Rustlcr is soon to be issued as =
daily.
Roller skating is still holding It's own at
Rapid City.
Mitchell has commenced to prosecute deal
crs in "forty-rod."
l.. q. johnson has sued John II. Drake, of
the Aberdeen Pioneer for libel.
An illustrated edition of the Black Hills
is shortly to be got out by Sioux City parties.
J. b. Varnum was appointed postmaster at
Gale, Campbell county, vico Andrew Lamcn-
son, resigned.
The South Dakota Nrcmcn's tournament
will he held at Huron on June 5, q, Z and s.
A number Of prizes will be awarded.
On Thursday Peter Odegard spcarcd All
cighty-ive pound sturgeon in the river near
the Manitoba bridge ut Grand Forks.
The Harris Graphic, published at Revcillc,
Grant county, furr ishcs its readers with two
columns Of matter set in German. 4.
StuisMan county has declared that the go
piers must go. The county will furnish the
farmers with strychninc In sufficient quanti-
tics to destroy the restifcrous little animals.
There has been considerable ice packed at
Chamberlain this winter, and many car loads
have been shipped along the Milwaukee line
as far east as Plankinton.
The journal is anew paper at Willow Lakes.
1t has for q motto: "Truthfully tell the prin-
ter the news you know, and be sure to nav
him rs you CO."
A young girl Of Lead City ran away from
home and entered a house Of ill-famc because
her parents wanted her to marry a man old
enough to be her grandfather.
Matthew Appel died at White Lake Wed
ncsday Of old age. He was the founder OF
White Lake, going there in the fall Of 1880
from Waterloo, Iowa.
Another cold wave struck Watcrtown We'd.
ncsday night. The thermometer registered
"a degrees below zero. They have had nj
train on the Minneapolis and st. Louis rail.
way since last week Friday.
IOWA.
A Salem man captured a wolf and though,
he would tame 1t. lie had it tied to a ire.
with a long rope while he made the expert
ment. The wolf was not pleased with til,
situation, and cssaycd tn cat the man up
who climbcd the trcc-thus one was tied AM
the other trced.
The o Of I.yons, is said to possess .
couplc-man and wifc-who, while they ca,
aud sleep in the same house, each does his OF
her own cooking, and neither received assis
tancc from the other. Their religious belief
VIII not permit of q divorce, and as the house
is owned jointly, both reside in it.
Better l.. Edwards, a farmer, living about q
mile west Of Calliopc, was killed Saturday
forenoon by the tumbling rod of a corn shell
Ter which he was operating coming loose and
striking him In the brcass below the collar.
homo. His neck was broken ans death was in.
stantancous. lie leaves u wife anil small
child.
A barber by tho name OF Jones came nca,
meeting his death in the railroad Yards a,
Crcston Tuesday night. lie was crossing the
cracks when an engine struck him, knocked
M down and run over his ~coattail, cutting II
. It was clcsc call.
A. +. Powell had his preliminary hearing al
Mason City and was bound over to await the
action Of the grand jury. During the day let.
lcrs came In from scvera, southern and west.
ern cities making inquiries as to Powell, and
several charges arc preferred against him,
The charge upon which he was arrested 1.
adultery.
Men employed In boring q we'll at the hotel
In Herndon struck gas at . depth of 1915 feet
Wednesday. The noise made by the etcapine
gas was heard two miles away, and when
lighted the flame leaped at least thirty-nve
feet high. The citizens are elated over the
discovery.
Alady who lives in one Of the suburban I'D.
dttions to Des Moines, and whose husband II
. travelling man, was visited by burglars Fri.
day night. She compromised with them 4y
Offering to let them have anything they want.
ed except the baby,
Killed His Father.
CINCINNATI, Feb. Thames Taylor, q lad
Of ID years, was put into the Covington, Ken.
lucky. jail last night, with his mother, nv
direction Of the coroner. The boy Is charged
with the nurler Of his father during . fight
between him aud his mother last Monday.