Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-02-02
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

A railroad wreck occurred near Screyen,
La. One man was killed and another
seriously injured.
A new creamery with capacity of 200
pounds day is to be started in Alexan-
dria. Dak., April 1.
A snow plow was thrown from the
track at St. Johnsbury, VI, and one man
was quite seriously injured.
A caboose jumped the track at Housa-
tonic, Mass, and fifteen men were in
jured, though none fatally.
Senator Stanford reported favorably
bills for public buildings at Omaha,
Neb., $1,200,0OO Portland, Ore, $780,
900.
The Bankers Mutual Relief associa-
ton, of Aberdeen, has been notified to
show cause why it should not be sup
pressed.
Radforth's jewelry store and the Wa
verify hotel, at Winnipeg, Man., were
damaged to the extent of $4,000 by fire
Sunday.
It is said that Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, is getting small presidential bee
in his bonnet and he may yet have quite
boom.
Senator Butler will champion Dakota's
cause in the senate, and will make full
and carefully prepared speech which he
has prepared.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
charges directly that the opposition to
the ratification of the Red Lake and
White Earth agreements comes from the
"pine ring'' and the whisky dealers.
A passenger train on the Burlington
& Missouri road was wrecked near
Cambridge, Neb, Saturday, by mis-
placed switch. Several passengers were
slightly injured, but no one was killed.
The prospects for the opening of the
Sioux reservation in the spring is inspir-
ing all with bright hopes for prosper
GUS year. Parties living near Mitchell,
who keep thoroughly posted as to the
progress of the bill, consider its passage
a sure thing.
Two million shingles burned in lum-
ber yard fire at Winona, MINI.
vice-President Potter, of the Union
Pacific, is very sick, and all visitors are
denied
Rev. David Lathrop Hume, the oldest
living graduate of Yale, died at Buffalo,
aged 50.
Flandrau, OAK, was out of coal from
Jan. IA to 81, and only one mail arrived
during that time.
James Redpath, the historian, was
stricken with paralysis in New York and
is said to be dying.
! Fraudulent wearers of Legion Of Honor
badges in Paris have had their uanes
stricken from the rolls.
The blockade on the Southern division
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad was raised Sunday. ,
For the last seventeen days there has
only been four days that trains on the
Hastings q Dakota road have run west
of Bird Island.
W. H. Briscoe, of Milwaukee, is in St.
Paul trying to arrange for match, with
fourounce gloves, between Frank Sid
dons, OF Milwaukee, and himself
At a meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the International Range associa-
tion at Denver, COL, it was decided to
hold the annual meeting from March 90
to 81
The chamber of commerce building at
Peoria was damaged $4,000 by fire,
and the Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph offices were damaged by smoke and
water.
Seymour & Curtis, proprietors of an ex-
tensive department store at Minneapolis,
Mimi, Saturday made an assignment to
j. G. Wymonds. The liabilities are
So, OC0; assets estimated at $e5,000
Eugene Cummiskey, New York sport
ing reporter who crossed the ocean to see
the battle, says that it was not fake,
but that Jake lost because he had no one
but Charley Mitchell to stand up for his
rights, and because the referee did not
20 his duty.