New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-26
DAKOTA NEWS.

mgs arrived at Yankton.
A camp-meeting at Lead City has
been obliged to finish it's session in
the Nd. b. church on account of cold
weather.
The DeadWood Touring mills will
begin grinding soon. Some 5000
bushels of wheat are on hand for a
starter.
The new city water-works pump at
Grand Forks has been tested. 1t
has capacity of 5000 gallons of
water per day.
Dakota papers are publishing the
law in regard to setting fire to the
prairies, hoping that some individual
will be benefited thereby.
The harvest home festival idea has
seized the inhabitants OF Spring Val
ley and the occasion promises to be
one of uncommon interest.
The mayor of Aberdeen has sentfor
a number of balls and chains, and a
chain gang will soon be doing duty
on the streets of that city.
A careful estimate made by an old
travelling man places the average
amount Of money left daily in Aber-
deem by travelling men at $3.50.
Three of the leading churches in
Yankton have excellent pipe organs,
a fact which cannot be noted by an
other Dakota town. says the Press.
A small herd of bufaloes swim
ming the Missouri river north of Bis
marck is the latest novelty reported.
No affidayits accompany the report.
At a meeting held in Yankton res
olution was adopted censuring the
newspaper correspondents Of that
city who give away the open secrets
of the community.
Two freight trains collided two
miles west OF Mandan. There was
considerable damage to rolling stock,
the engine and four cars being badly
smashed. No one was hurt.
Howard citizens offer any couple
who will get married on the fair
grounds the last day Of the Miner
county fair the following special pre-
miums, viz: Acook stove, set Of bed
clothing, suit of clothes, silver caster
and an elegant cradle.
The stock shipments from the
Black Hill ranges to Chicago and
Omaha are now in progress, and are
proving the heaviest ever yet made
in any single season. Not far short
of1O0,00O head have been shipped
out and the country is richer by
about So, 100000.
A prairie fire swept down upon the
bluffs southeast of La Grace at rap
id pace to within half a mile of town
when it was intercepted by Spring
river. People along its course by
hard fighting managed to save their
property, except in three instances.
Parties fought and back fired until 3
O'Clock in the morning Two men
became completely exhausted.
The prosecution for violation of
the local option law in Union county,
has developed a new feature in the
war. Sheriff Bovee of that county
arrived in the city with three prison
ers for the penitentiary, two Of whom
were sentenced for the violation OF
the localoption law, by selling liquor
with out a license. The names of the
local option victims are William Gil
len and John Teller, Jr. The former
was unable to liquidate fine of$2O0
and the latter $500.
The Insurance Company Of Dako-
ia, which has been in a precarious
condition for several months, was
knocked out by Judge Garland, who,
upon complaint of foreign creditors,
appointed A. NJ. Crosby, recently Of
Mankato, Mimi, receiver of the com
pany. The liabilities are about $780,
600, exclusive of the obligations in
CURED by the recent absorption OF
the Western Fire and Marine. The
assets are about $4,000. The com.
pany was always a rotten concern.
The county jail at Deadwood, is
full of prisoners, many ofwhom have
been sentenced to the penitentiary
for terms running from one year to a
life sentence. They have not looked
forward to Sioux Falls with pleasure,
but on the contrary they sigh for
outside, mountain air. They decided
to try and break Jail, and had succeed
ed in cutting partly through several
of the bars of the north side window
The sheriff made the discovery and
has consequently placed a guard in.
The corridor.
is. Alloway, territorial veterina.
ry surgeon, in Yankton investigated
the epidemic among cattle which has