The Dickinson press., 1888-07-14
WEEKS NEWS IN DAKOTA

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Four Salem saloonkeepers have been
arrested for violating the local option
law.
The Wateltown postofice now rates as
a second class office. 1t vas promoted on
The first of the month.
AT Mimic James Conllius stabbed and
Killed Lyman Moore in a drunken row.
Collins has a wife and three children and
his victim was a single man. Collins
says he did the deed in self defense. Both
bore good characters.
~ big Republican ratification meeting
was held at Jamestown, Judge Palmer
aud Ex-Governor Pierce being the prin-
cipal speakers.
The county commissioners of Fargo
will order an election on the question Of
the sale of liquor at that place on Nov.
IL. II prohibition is defeated the license
Is to be put ut $500.
The Deadwood hose company won the
4U yard race at Deadwood. beating the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, company four feet
III twenty-nine seconds, which broke the
worlds record.
Governor Church has denied a pardon
to John Oswald, a nephew of John Os-
valid, of st. Paul. Young Oswald was
tried in April, 1886, for the murder of
Patrick McWheeney at DEVILS Lake and
sentenced to the penitentiary for twelve
years.
Returns from the storm in the vicinity
of Mitchell, OAK, are being received and
show that it was destructive for a dis.
tance of two or three miles in width.
Two large barns were destroyed, a man
carried away in his house aud badly in
jured AMI a little child was killed in its
fathers arms while seeking shelter. Hail
stones five inches in diameter fell.
The buildings on the Milbank agricul.
tural grounds were wrecked in the wind
storm of Saturday.
DIR. Alloway, the territorial veterina.
rian, has been rendered the ~professorship
of veterinary science in the Brookings
agricultural college.
James Anderson, of New Hope town.
ship, near Aberdeen, who was convicted
at the December term of court of forging
school warrants and sentenced to on
year at Sioux Falls, died in the peni-
Tertiary a few days ago.
During November and December, 1887
and January, 1883, William Scott, RAPID
City, is alleged to have cut and removed
from public lands in Dakota 1903, 06O fee
of Norway pine. He will be prosecuted
criminally and to recover the value OF
the timber.
o. a.. Martin, a furniture dealer al
Hermosa, OAK, was robbed by highway
/ mon Yp0r that rIOCo CotJ,rJoy liz ,vo
accosted by n mar asking him to assist
another on a horse saying his leg was
broken. AS he stopped to raise the pros
trate man he was hit with a sand bag
When he recovered his watch and none,
were gone, as we'll as the two strangers.
Eight states cast votes as follows il
the Chicago convention: Colorado b
Delaware 6, Florida y, Nevada 6, New
Hampshire 8, Oregon 6, Rhode Island .
Vermont .. Dakota cast ~ votes. Thi
fact is very properly used by Dakota pa
pers as an argument in favor of Nortl
and South Dakota representing the thirty
ninth and fortieth stars in IL country
banner.
Seventeen arrests were made at SiOu1
Falls for selling liquor without a license
The Davidson county commissioner
have ordered another vote on local op
ton.
Dugal Shears was arrested Mt Nortl
Redwood on a charge Of criminal assault
on a ninc-year-old girl.
The Huron saloonkeeper who defet
Judge Spencer's injunction to sell n
more liquor was fined $3.50.
Arthur Blomhort, employed rs
brakeman on the illinois Central, wa
caught between the bumpers at Siou
Falls and killed.
The c%oroner's jury in the case of Ka
rets, charged with shooting O'Brien 8
Neche, returned a verdict of justif1abl
homicide.
lightning struck the residence of H
p. Hall, at Mitchell, dangerously injul
ing Mrs. Hall and doing considerabl
damage to the house.
Mormonism does not thrive at Olive
The people have satisfied their curiosit,
and now think that the elders had bette
move the church to some place where
will be better appreciated.
The Sioux Falls Granite ompan ht
been awarded the contract to furnis
Sioux Falls jasper for a new Methods
church which is to be erected at Blu
lington, Iowa. IL is said the propose
building will be the finest architectural
in the state of Iowa.
A man from Grand Forks went
Gilby to open a saloon, and was warne
by the citizens they were in need Of 4
such an acquisition to their village. 81
prominent residents TOOK him in chare
and marched him to the depot an
placed him on the Grand Forks train.
Mellon Bros, of Bismarck, are closin
up their banking business at that plac
Two new elevators are being erecte