The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-03-09
IAE NORTHWEST.
DAKOTA.

too small to accommodate the regular attend
ance.
hotel and general store were burned at
Lcdgcwood Friday. Loss, $1,000; partially
insured.
Horsemen at Aberdeen will enter their
s'hyers'' at the respective trotting meetings in
the northwest.
j. 7. Potter, of Sturgis, was attacked by .
cross dog and lost the best part Of . good pair
Of pants In the fight.
The citizens Of Gladstone are considering .
plan for a cheese factory, and the farmers in
the vicinity are sowing wheat.
Orderly Sergeant Williams, Company H.,
N. g., was awarded q gold medal as the best
drilled member OF the company.
Alonxo Lansing, aged 10 years, was frozen
to death within two blocks of his house ut
Beatrice. lie fell In q fainting ct and per-
ished while in that condition.
The clerk at the Union house, Coopcrstown,
has rugged up a sleigh with sails, and now
transports the travelling public from the depot
to that popular hotel.
The recent official census shows that Alb
erdcen has a population of 5,O44. The city
has been redistricted into four wards to con-
form with the new charter.
The gteamer Terry, of the Power line is
frozen in a few miles from Pierre. Capt.
Woolfolk has arrived to arrange forhcr safety.
The river is liahle to open any day.
President Brush, of the Dakota university
at Mitchell, who is in Washington, has secured
a donation Of 5000 for that institution from
Sanafor Sfanfprd nf California
Various Dakota towns are taking n grim de-
light in offering sympathy and aid to the bliz-
zarl sufferers on the Atlantic coast. This lie
what might be called generous sarcasm.
NEBRASKA.
W~ashington's birthday was generally celc-
bratcd throughout the state.
Many people are immigrating from the
neighhorhood Of Story City to Washington
territory.
The daily Ottumwa Democrat, which sus.
pended some time ago, made It's appearance
again Tuesday morning.
The teaching OF science in the Marshall.
own high school by the experimental method
is proving a decided success.
The second nnual meeting of the South
western Iowa Berkccpers' association will be
held at Red Oak March 6 and q.
John Mcclure, u deaf and dumb man, was
run over and killed Wednesday at Davenport
while walking OF the railroad track.
The Creston Advertiser complains Of the
number of young girls who are nightly found
promcnading the streets of the town.
A resident of Little Sioux found an infant
only a few days old on his from doorstep
Sunday evening, left there by some unknown
party.
A valuable horse was stolen Thursday from
the barn of A. +. Robson, living near G,es.
lam. Fifty dollars reward is offered for the
capture Of the thief.
The coroncr's jury investigating the wreck
ct Cotton rendered e verdict that the accident
was caused by the carc!cssncss of the conduc-
tors anil engineers.
Creighton has dramatic company COM
posed of home talent. They are making dates
Tor several own In the state in the interest
of a fund for L.oic Royce.
The second trial of VIM. F. Harris, at FIRE.
mont, charged with assault with ATTEMPT to
commit rape upon q number of little girls,
has ended as 1t did before, in the accused be.
ing found guilty. The jury were out forty
eight hours.
John l.apaohc, cx-trcasurer of Colfax coun.
ty, has disappeared with about 5000 of the
county funds. He has a weeks start Of the
officers and is probably in Canada by thi.
time. He left for Lincoln on the 18th, .osten.
sibly To pay the county's share of the state
taxes. There are forty-two signers on hi,
bond and they will have to make good hi,
loss.
IOWA.
z. III. Smith, late manager of the On.ahs
Republican, has resigned his position ant
gone to Denver. The Republican is travelling
a very rocky ROAD. Domestic troubles hay,
been sappipg its vitality.
Mayor Alexander, of Hastings, ia an oficia
of sand and gail. He took a policeman ant
went oHt the other night and pulled a poke
hole, hauling in five professional gamblers
who were fined from $40 to so each.
The enthusiastic citizens of Superior Wed
nesday night illuminated their town wi.hbon
fires and doomed the cannon on receiving til,
Information that the Northwestern roat
would build to that place.
Dr. Stalker, state veterinarian, has received
Information of the existence Of a contagiou.
disease among cattle near Derby, l.uca.
ounsy. The disease is supposed to be HYDRO
ho,ia.
he Burlington IIawkcyc is receiving con
tributions for u relief fund for the Writ fam
lily, who are sufferers by the horrible TRACED,
of February Ii. They are in destitute cir
cumstanres.
The Fort Madison Gem City says that {
stock company has been organized with a cap
tai of 100000, and that all the shares hat
been readily sold to lay out a town in Illinoi.
opposite that city.
DIR. Cory, of Toledo, died n short time ago
His wife, who was i'll, requested that hi,
funeral be postponed until she had expired
She died a day or two later, and both husband
and wife were buried together.
The Kings daughters of Dubuque ouictl,
set about remodeling and decorating the base
ment Of the Methodist church recently. and
before their elders knew it they had one oftht
most beautiful Sunday school rooms in thu
ststc.
Tae Norfolk News says that o newspaper
man is the only man who is expected to d,
business at a loss in order to boom the town
A. I. Scott, the Grand Island horse thief
has temporarily closed his career If wicked
nees. Judge Norval dispatched him to thu
Linco Din pcnitcntiary for two years.
MINNESOTA.
Moorhead has comm need work on theil
artesian well.
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