Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-08-23
! BRIEF BITS or NEWS.

BRIEF BITS or NEWS.
Edward Aronson, business manager Of
the Casino at New York, died at his
home Of consumption Of the bowels.
Daniel Lyons was hanged In the yard
of the Tombs prison, New York, for the
murder Of Joseph Quinn, July s, 1887.
The drop fell at precisely 7:15 q. N.
Gouverneur Morris, the only son Of the
famous Gouverneur Morris, died at Bar
low-on- -the-S Sound after protracted i'll
ness.
Lewis Kohilman has been appointed
deputy collector of internal revenue at
Heretofore it has been necessary for
brewers and cigar manufacturers to
transact business with the Wausau Office.
The sale of the Stewart mansion to the
Manhattan club, of New York, has again
fallen through, one Of the heirs refusing
positively to consent. The club offers
1915, 900, which they think is all the
property is worth.
Twenty -four wholesale liquor dealers
Of St. Louis have formed q corporation
for the erection of gigantic distillery
which will oppose the whisky trust.
Senator German is said to have re-
fused his old place on the Democratic
executive committee. because four years
ago the president was unwilling to
recognize all the pledges for preferment#
which German had made.
The freely circulated reports that the
senate tariff bill won.d reduce the duty
on sugar 33 per cent, and that on lumber
so per cent, are not correct The rate
on these two articles have not as yet
been determined upon.
The senate committee on finance he's
not as yet given much attention to trusts,
but it is possible that subcommittee,
with Mr.. Sherman as chairman, will be
appointed for that purpose.
Dakota Doinrs.
The Masons of Aberdeen will erect 4
$40, 900 opera house and Masonic hall
President Cleveland has signed the bill
giving two additional justices to Dakota.
The journalists of Aberdeen have or
ganized press club with fifteen active
members.
Trail county, according to the assess
ment roll OF 1853, has nearly 81, 600, 600
invested in horses and mules.
Surveyors are now locating a line OF
railroads from Mandan to the Black
Hills, supposed to be q branch Of the
Northern Pacific.
At Aberdeen team hitched to bus
ran away, knocking down a deaf man
and injuring him internally. The driver
was thrown off but was unhurt.
The time of enlistment of the military
company of Crank Forks having ex-
pired, the entire company re-enlsted and
and were sworn in by Capt. Deyer> s5a
Minnesota Matters. ";
Willie Warner was drowned in the
river at MankatO while bathing
The frosts in the vicinity of Ada have
done injury to the wheat, the grain turn-
ing black.
w. D. Hillyer, Of Marshall, claims to
have voted for sixteen different presiden-
tial candidates.
A 7-year-old son of George Morchilden
was killed at Red Lake Falls by log
rolling on him.
DR.. F. A. Robinson, of Elbow Lake,
who accidentally shot himself while
hunting Saturday, died from his injuries i
Marshal Holt, of Winona, was kicked
in the face by horse, fracturing the
jawbone and knocking ont several teeth.
The Brainerd board of education has
failed to borrow $35,OOO Of the state
school fund for building purposes, and
the project will be abandoned for the
present
Hon. E. Norton, Of Winona, while at
Chicago, bemphatically denied that Frede-
rick Weyerhouser was working for the
formation of large Northwestern lum-
Der trust.
G. H. Fairbanks, of Anoka, was acci-
dentally shot by a companion while hunt
ing. Seventy-five bird shot lodged in his
face and arms. The wounds are painful
but not dangerous.
The city council of Brainerd voted
81. ZOO to aid in the purchase Of the fair
grounds, part of which was to be paid to
j. B. Thompson, who was allowed sew
eral hundred dollars for assessing the
county. The mayor vetoed the ordinance
and an injunction was issued to stop the
payment, but the checks had been dated
ahead and Thompson had them cashed
and is now on the Pacific coast
Cable Clicks.
The steward of the British ship Doven-
boy Hall, who was sentenced at Liver
pool to be hanged for numbering his cap
tain during voyage from San Francisco
to Liverpool, has been respited.
Harland & Wolff, one of the prominent
shipbuilding firms in Belfast, have closed
their yards owing the fact that part of
their employees struck work The action
OF the firm affects 5000 persons.
The bill passed by the Uruguayau par
lament reducing the duties on alcoholic