Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-25
BRIEF BITS or NEWS.

Over 5000 commercial travellers called
upon Gen. Harrison Saturday.
| Col. R. NJ. Pulsifer, for years propri-
etor of the Boston Herald, was found
dead at his country home in Kensing-
| ton.
1t is officially announced that Lord
Dutferin is invested with the titles Of
Marquis of Dufferin and Ava and Earl
of Ava.
The surplus in the treasury Saturday
at the close of business was $72. .s35 $50,
against $S8, ,O4. .291, October 18th, and
$92, ,S53, 759 October 9th.
Miss Maud Harrison, the actress, will
be married to James A. Carson, pro-
prietor of the Columbia theatre, Chicago,
Thursday night.
The synod Of the Iowa Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary society
! with 200 delegates in attendance has
just closed its session at Clarinda.
Arrangements have just been made by
which the Cincinnati club secures Beard,
of Syracuse, Bug Holiday, of Des
Moines, and Cyclone" jim Duryea, Of
St. Paul
The Russian steamer Archangel and
the Glasgow steamer Neptune collided
in Christina bay and sank. The captain
and seventeen of the crew of the Arch
angel were drowned.
The negotiations of the Rothschild
syndicate with Premier Tisna concern
ing the conversion of the Hungarian
loans have been concluded At Paris. The
operation of the conversion affects loans
to the amount of million of forms.
Britton H. Hill, one of Missouri's
leading jurists, died at st. Louis fro0
brain fever. He was - years old, was
born in Milford, N. j., educated at
Ogdensburg, Y. Y, and admitted to tho
bar in Albany in 1889. He came to st.
Louis in 164l.
The Rand Avery company of Boston.
whose assignment was announced Spt-
urday night. have resumed work, tn
400 employees having agreed to wait
another week for their pay. The assign
ment was caused by the firms inability
to meet notes amounting to $4,000.
1t is reported in naval circles that
the dynamite cruiser vesuvius now at
Cramps ship yard at Philadelphia,
was struck by the coal barge which
played such havoc with the Baltimore
and the line shaft of the vessel seri-
ously impaired. The exact extent of
the damage is not stated.
Dakota. 49,
c. ]. Kissner, a prominent Fargo hotel
man. was fatally injured in an elevator
at his hotel, the Columbia.
Considerable excitement prevails over
the discovery of a ealena ore mine in
Grand Forks county. The specimens::Of
lead submitted to Professor Montgomery
are pronounced excellent, and it is said
the quantity is abundant
Wisconsin.
The Murphy Lumber company, Of
Green Bay, has been organized with
a capital Of 41,5OO, 600.
Baptiste Demarrer. ON trial at Hay
ward for the murder of Joseph Polin,
was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
F. and T. Scherder and Albert Sud-
heimer have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the murder Of
Albert Benlow in Washora county in
June.
Minnesota.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at Tower
Saturday night. and twelve inches at
Ely.
Indians are making their annual tour
after stone to the Pipestone quarries.
1t is estimated that the lumber cut in
Minneapolis this season will be 325, ,VOO,-
600 feet.
Two Soldiers Under Arrest for DesertieA
Escape After Fatally IajuriAE the
| Guards.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 90. Thomas
Lynch and a man named McCurdy, two
soldiers under arrest at jefferson bar
racks charged with desertion, escaped
Saturday night after fatally injuring the
sentries, Privates Welsh and Kennedy.
Lynch chopped Kennedy down with an
axe, while McCurdy beat Welsh. over the
head with his own revolver, which he
wrested from him after desperate
struggle.
Good humor is the health Of the son
sadness it's prison. The humor of your
blood is not good; drive it out with War
ner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, and thus
drive out the sadness that holds You its
prisoner. 120 doses, 81. All druggists
keepit.