Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-09
DAKOTA NEWS.


Press.
THE streets of jamestown are now illu-
minated by electricity.
The Fargo board of trade have appoint
cd a committee to raise $4,000 to secure
the Catholic see for that city.
FERDINAND GROSS was thrown from
sleigh by a runaway team at Fargo and
sustained broken leg.
THE Central house at Grand View burned
lately. The guests barely had time to es-
cape with their lives.
A CARLOAD of Red River valley -four
was shipped from Fargo by the board OF
trade 70 the Mt. Vernon, ILL.,. cyclone suf-
ferers.
The scholars of the Aberdeen high
school are preparing anovel entertainment
to be given shortly. The main feature OF
the entertainment will be life among the
Sioux Indians. with the songs. dances, ETC.,
peculiar to aborigines.
WM. MARTIN. who shot Reardon at
Anaconda has been captured and bound
over to await the action OF the grand jury.
AN unknown man was found dead in a
shanty about four miles from Michigan
City. Nothing was found on his person to
give any clue to Identification.
THE Washburn county jail has very
lonely appearance. 1t has been two years
without an occupant.
IPSWICH has ladies' club called the d..
F's. Each member is under obligation to
gather and divulge dozen secrets at every
meeting.
The members of the Continental Hose
company at Fargo are fitting up club
room at their house which is to be pro-
vided with billiard and pool tables, chess,
cards, dominoes and checkers.
MISS Cora BELL FELLOWS will marry
Chaska. full FLOODED Sioux Indian. at
the Cheyenne agency, March l6. Miss
Fellows recently came from Washington
where she is highly connected. Chaska is
worthless Indian and Miss Fellows is
proud of her coming nuptials. Social Cir
cles are indignant.
The river is reported breaking up at
Fort Bennett.
horning cattle.
SCoTLAN creamery has resumed ope.
rations.
The editor of the Pukwana Press viii
take hay on subscription.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to have
Col. Plummer deliver his Tower Of
Babel" lecture in Columbia shortly.
The merchants of Britton have com
bined and decided not to sell goods TO
anything but spot cash to any one, NJ
| matter how reliable.
FoREpAUGH, the Snowman, is figuring
with Dakota farmer for the purchase O.
a 5-year-old COW, sixteen and one hal
hands high, weighing 1850 pounds.
ADAKorA paper says: ave have jus
received fresh supply of type and tn
sail bills or any other job work printed a
this Office cannot be excelled in any par
, ticular.
MISS ROSE, daughter of the Congrega
tional minister at Pierre, was severed
burned by gasoline stove, but she vii
recover.
THREE families numbering nineteen per
sons arrived at Gary last week from Illinoi
and will permanently settle, having pur
chased farms and stock.
+ Ed. LITTLE, a prominent man in min
ing circles and one Of the first discoverer
} of many Of the mines in the Black Hills, i
dead.
, THE recent official census shows tina
Aberdeen has population of 5.044. TIL
2 city has been redistricted into four ward
t to conform with the new charter.
QUIET meetings have been held at Gar
to canvass the subject of a north and sout
railroad. The one most favorably con
sidered is the Ortonville and Southern.
IT is reported by Rev. A. c. Turner, tn
. Baptist minister at Young, that he has jus
married Miss Carrie Lincoln, of Wabashs
Mimi, the wife secured for him by th
Chicago matrimonial bureau, to which b
had applied.
The following is extracted from the an
nual report of Bishop Walker Of the Pro
testant Episcopal church of north Dakota
The parishes and missions are 43 in mum
! Der; baptisms, infants, 131, adults %; con
frmations, ST. communicates, 6s3; MAJ
riages, II; burials, SO; Sunday -schoe
teachers, So; Sunday school scholar:
about 1863; contributions, $14,Ol623"
CASE which has been of great interes
to the whole territory came up and was dc
2 cided the other day in the supreme court
1t was to test the local option or prohibi
ton law passed at the late election, fo
: which sixty-four out of eighty five countie
voted. After much argument it was fin
ally decided that the local option law mus
reign supreme IN those sixty four coun
& ties, and that the liquor traffic must +
4 abolishedin those places, some of whic
3 depend great deal on the taxes collecte
from the liquor sale.