Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-25
THE NORTH WEST.
NEBRASKA,

The Red Cloud Street Railway company Is
laying track.
Omaha has 241 saloons and all but sixteen
Of them have paid up.
The Masons of Fremont have planned q
temple to cost 1000.
Diphtheris is prevalent In Scribner.
Nebraska City has voted to invest $4,000
In sewers and 500, 900 in paving.
Counterfeit silver dollars are camping on
the trail of the boom in Nebraska City.
new bank with an authorized capital Of
$500, 600 has .een incorporated in York.
The recent school census in Lincoln shows
about $500 children Of school age.
w. M. Daley a Burlington and Missouri
switchman at Omaha, lost leg on Wednes-
day evening.
Nine saloons are assured as the safety
valves of Hastings exuberant spirits the
present year.
Chadron has voted SIS, 900 in bonds for the
purpose Of supplying the town with system
Of water works.
To date 1,917 dog licenses have been issued
In Omaha and the total number is expected
to run above 1900.
The eldest daughter of Gen. J. G. Cowan,
Of Omaha, died on the 10th, at the ago OF IA
years, of heart disease.
A party by the name Of Smith has bought
the old Courier plant in Logan and is going
into the Democratic newspaper business.
The Missouri is swallowing acres of land
near Peru and threatens to chew up several
small farms before its hunger is satisfied.
W. Il. Mahoney, from st. Louis, has sue
eeeded E. D. Gerrans as rnarsger of the
Western Union telegraph office at Lincoln.
The proprietors of the Lindell hotel at
Lincoln are very anxious to renew their
acquaintance with G. st. Angelo and wife,
who, for week or more past until Saturday
night, had been stopping at that hotel.
Angelo was selling some fancy art work and
his wife claimed to be a clairvoyant On
Saturday night the couple steslthily evacu-
ated their quarters at the Lindell, leaving an
unpaid board bill behind.
The people Of LeMars are making strong
effort to secure the Sioux City and Northern
railroad.
The residence Of Robert Leisner, of Fenton
township, Kossuth county, was recently struck
by lightning.
Fort Dodge K. of L. are said to be trying to
get T. v. Powderly to deliver a Fourth Of July
Grafton there.
A6-year old son of Geo. Huthluff, Of Fort
Dodge, was severely scalded by turning over
kettle of hot soup.
Rev. Il. o. Pratt, of Marshalltown, has I'M
earthed procuress in that city and is going
to have her punished.
1t is said that the heads of families who
work in Omaha and live In Council Bluffs
represent population of 1000.
The grand jury of Ida Grove returned an
indictment against Editor Williams of the
Pioneer, charging him with libel.
The final round up shows that the legisla-
ture passed 1Os general laws, 40 legalizing
acts and 26 appropriation bills.
The saw mills Of Clinton are buzzipg again
The new Lutheran church in Sioux CITY
will cost $4,000.
The artesian well at Cedar Rapids is down
to depth of 1,O5O feet.
The artesian well at Boone is down about
600 feet. The work is now in sandstone.
The state railroad commissioners are inves-
tigating the New Hampton bridge disaster.
Cherokee would like to be on the line Of the
proposed Spencer-sieux City branch of the
Milwaukee road.
A FIRE Sunday night in the wholesale gro
Gerry building at Oskaloosa resulted in loss
Of SO, 900 on the stock.
Scott county farmers are busy with their
spring sewing. The barley acreage will be
much larger than usual.
Mrs. Narcissa Angler died at the home of
her son near Storm Lake on the 9th, at the
age Of So years, months and days.
Rev. Milton II. Dysart died at Bloomfield
en- the 9th, in the 73d year Of his age. He
had been minister nearly fifty years.
DAKOTA.
Students in the Dakota university will fit
6t up steamboat and make summer trip to
New Orleans.
Black Hills tin, the product Of Custer
county mine, is now quoted in the Chicago
market reports.
The amount of government money handled
FER day in the Deadwood postofice will aver
age nearly $4,000.
The Sioux Falls Granite company is doing
fine business. 1t expects to have $50 men
en- the pay rolls by May 1.
Mrs. Carter, who for several years been con-
neeted with the Avenue hotel Of Deadwood,
died Monday after brief illness.
Some farmers who left Mandan for Wash
ington territory few weeks ago are coming
back as rapidly as they can. They say that
things are oyerdone ON and near the coast.
and the happy medium is, in their opinion,
somewhere on the Missouri slope, where they
can take the best advantage of the coal that
as to be found whereabouts.
Mandan has spook and is proud of IT, A
man named Lansing died in 1881 in house
which has been vacant every since. Those
who pass the place in the nighttime see strange
lights fitteripg about In the deserted rooms
and hear crowns and cries of distress. One
farmer who had the courage to look in the
window declares that he saw Lansing. with
his face as pale as death, lying on bed In the
room.
Mark D. Scott, writing from Helena, M. T.,
under date OF the 10th inst, to his father Mt
Sioux Falls, says 1t took half a dozen Black
Hflis friends about eighteen hours to convince
the police authorities of that town that he
was not Tascott. At least he was imprisoned
that lengthsof time before securing his re.
lease. He further states that he is greatly