The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-02-24
THE NORTHWEST.

The NORTHWEST.
DAKOTA.
Ayoung girl Of Lead City ran away from
ONE and entered q house Of ill-fame because.
her parsnts wanted her to marry a man old
enough 70 be her grandfather.
Matthew Appel died at White Lake Wed
nssday Of old sge. lie was the founder of
White Lake, going there in the fall Of 1880
from Waterloo, Iowa.
The burglars who entered q bank at Tower
City last Wednesday night by pryipg open
thu door and were frustrated before securing
anything Of value, were arrested Thursday at
Buffalo Ey Deputy Sheriff Raymondand taken
TO tho county jail at Fargo. Their names are
james Carroll, james Buchanan, James Dunn
and James Sullivan, probably alias.
Another cold wave struck Watcrtown We'd
nesday night. The thermometer registered
y degrees below zero. They have had no
train on the Minneapolis and st. Louis rail-
way since last week Friday.
Secretary Quiglcy, of the board of trustees
OF the Yankton Insane hospital, has received
the Official notification Of the approval of the
approval of tho plans for the additions to the
hospital building aud Of the forwarding of the
plans to the board by Gov. Church. Advcr-
Using for bids for the construction will com
mence at ence, and the contract will he let US
soon as possible under the law.
Three little children Of David Rudolph, liv-
Ing three miles from Noorchcad, had a mar
row escape from being devourcd by wolves
while going home from school. When asl,ort
distance from the school house five wolves
made for them. The children turned and ran
for the school house with the wolves pursuing.
barely reaching shelter. Wolves are numcr.
Gus, and when in packs become very bold, and
have no hcsitancy in attacking persons.
Indians on the DEVILS Lake reservation arc
getting wealthy. During the last year the
t,5OO Sioux in the vicinity Of the post har-
vested 5000 bushels of wheat, for which
good prices were obtained. 1t is a splendid
wheat country, and each year the crops will
increase in proportion To the settlement of
the arabic lands Of Dakota. And as long as
the Indians are probably employed in agri-
cultural pursuits no trouble need be looked
for from them.
Gamblers have been arrested at Sac CITY.
Oskaloosa has u young mems democratic
club.
Burlington horse,ncn have u race course on
the river Ice.
A successful Catholic fair closed at Attain
tic on the sth.
Tho Iowa Press association will meet at Os-
kaloosa in May.
The Herald predicts a big building boum
for Dubuque this year.
Atlanttc's starch factory will be completed
and running by May 1.
The canning factory at Davenport packed
100000 cans during 1887.
There arc 126 new cases on the
court docket at Davenport.
The Governors Greys will give an elegant
ball at Dubuque February 10.
The literary people of Maurice have turned
TIER attention to mock trials.
Hank Hall, e saloon:st at Wahoo, attempt
ed to force an entrance into room occupied
by Miss Perky, a young lady photographer.
Miss Perky fired four shots, which alarmed
tho neighborhood, and Hall was captured and
locked up on the charge of ATTEMPTED out
rage.
Charles w. v. Benedict, the young maj,
carehtin Chicago Wednesday night with q
lot OF burglar tools in his possession and who
was thought to have had something to dc
with the Smell murder, is wanted at Marshall
town, where bis father is proprietor of a mill
and Is worth $4,000. 1t appears that Bene.
clct was q member OF u gang of burglars who
have been working Marshalltown of late.
About u week ago they broke. into q vain,
store and among other things stole y GLACIERS
diamond with which they cut u pane of glass
from the window of a drug store which was
entered and robbed. Benedict was arrested
and the diamond found on him. He wa
sasen to Marshalltown by the sheriff.
Geo. I. Williams, editor OF the Ida County
Pioneer, Is tho proud owner of u genuine
grounding. On the End inst. lie concluded
he would test to his own satisfaction the well.
known grounding superstition. So lie and
others kept watch of the entrance to the
ground-hog quarters on the day in question,
and they certify that his hogship came out,
and after carefully looking about, staycd out.
Perhaps his coming out on that day was pure.
~ accidental.
NEBRASKA.
-Four gamblers, a bunco man and three
high-kicking sisters, are registered at the
Dakota county Jail.
Fremont has added o horse ranch and clec.
trio lights to her industries. The i~srcyiyal
bearing early fruit.
Plattsmouth is getting ready to snap some
OF tho factories %loatinL around the country
IN search Of bonuses.
Two more postmistresscs have been an.
pointed for Ne~braska-Fannie Dustin at Dus.
tin, aud Mrs. Libby at Libby.
A Superior paper has the following item
FOUND on our streets, January 2s, one full
grown grasshopper, alive and kicking"
Tho machinery for the Edgar canning com.
pany has been purchased, and the company
expects to be ready when business in that line
opens up.
Ed Maher, an agent for the German Insu.
rance company at Wisner, after having col
lected premiums to the amount Of $l,0oO
skipped to parts unknown.
Nebraska City has two damage suits on her
hands. In one OF them the plaintiff fell
through q defective sidewalk, and in the 9th.
Or woman fell over an e%mbankmcnt.
Attorney Scott, Of Omaha, ruflcd the
feathers of Judge Marshall, Of the Dodge