New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-28
DAKOTA JOTTINGS.

The Aberdeen Electric Light com
pany will commence suit against the
city for unpaid bills.
There are at present eighteen pris-
oners IN the county jail at Grand
Forks.
Thecounty seat struggle in Deuel.
county has been settled in favor of
Gary
1t is rumored that a rival town is
to be plated a short distance south
Of Onida.
sealping railroad tickets is be-
coming a remunerate business in
DeadWood.
-Four new Baptist churches will be
dedicated in south Dakota during
the present month.
/ Alexandria thinks she would be all
right ifshe only had an artesian well
for protection against fire.
Now for a new courthouse, . is
the cry of the people of Hand coun-
ty. The building will be erected at
Miller.
The electric light works Of Sioux
Fallsnow have acapacity of$15, 900
incandescent and thirty-two arc
lights
A residence belonging to Thomas
Scaryille was destroyed by fire at
Groton. Loss, about 5000; insur-
ance, $500
Among the advantages held forth
to induce people to locate at Bis
marck is the pportunity to pure hase
five bath tickets for 81.
Geo. R. Lanning has sold out the
Egan Express to Mrs. M. A. Foster &
Son, and retires from the newspaper
business owing to i'll health.
1t is reported the city council at
Sioux Falls will be asked to pass an
ordinance forbidding the hitching of
teams to telegraph and telephone
poles.
The Argus-Leader says that a
mammoth brush and broom factory
is now an assured thing for South
Sioux Falls Machinery will be in
operation by the LIST of June.
A Sioux Falls lady recently adver-
tised in Philadelphia for a nurse girl
"to go to Dakota" She received
twenty-eight applications for the sit
uation.
The First National bank of Column
bia has given notice that it will sur
render it's charter the LIST Of January.
The Bismarck N ational bank dropped
the national. from it's name some
days ago.
Children are children nowadays.
An Aurora county youth who took:
his best girl to, a show the other
night Indignantly spurned an 0 ffer to
go in at half rates, and insisted on
paying as much as the biggest man
in the house.
A wagonload of fireworks in the
parade at DeadWood recently by
some mysterious means became
ignited. The display was. brief but
brilliant. Though rockets and ro-
man candles were discharged nevery
direction no one was,hurt.
B. b. Pay, who helped to survey
this country, and was at one time
United States deputy marshal, now
living in he,western part of Brook
ings county, lost his house and con-
tents. by fire.. Lost, $4,000; insur-
ance,. $1,000.
Reports from prairie fires in the
northwestern townships of Brown
county show that active fighting on
the part of settlers saved most of
the farm buildings in their course.
The burned district includes a large.
area ofsparsely settled land.
A warrant was issued at Garry for
the arrest of w. B. Enos, of the firm
OF Enos & Ballet, as the incendiary
of the late fire in that place. Mr..
Enos moved out of town for his home
in Minnesota, and requisition papers
will be necessary to get him there for
trial.
The case of Pat Devannah VS.. the
city of Jamestown, in which the city
is sued for $15, 200 damages alleged
to have been sustained by Devannah
by reason of falling into a ditch which
the city had dug, but not properly
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