New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
DAKOTA MENTION.
Condensed Happenings Throughout
Both North and South Dakota.

Condensed Happenings throughout
Both North and South Dakota.
The farmers of northern Dakota
are complaining of too much rain.
A. J Force, Of Sioux Falls, had a
leg broken by an unruly COW.
The city council of Jamestown has
reduced the city liquor license from
$500 to $500.
There are eighteen candidates for
the stewardship Of the Jamestown
asylum.
The kick of a horse broke the jaw
of VIM. Wilkins, a C Columbia farmer,
in two places and knocked out his
front teeth
! A Grand Forks man has had his
| license as a hackman taken from him
on account OF the profane language
used by him.
| The great flow of water and gas
from recently bored well near jeff
erson is causing excitement in that
| locality.
! Cows are dying in the vicinity OF
Eldora. The cause is supposed tobe
from the poisonous myrrh in the
pastures.
A young man employed in q saw
| 4 : -
mill near Rapid City, fell against a
saw while in motion, and his right
leg was cut off above the knee.
The summer term of the Bookings
agricultural college has opened and
will continue for three months. The
fall term opens September 4.
J. 3. Neil, of Yankton: applies for
a divorce on a charge Of cruelty, and
his wife applies for a divorce on the
grounds of adultery.
Thomas O'Brien, of Sioux Falls
who was sentenced to four years
imprisonment for highway robbery,
has appealed to the supreme court.
The new city directory at Aberdeen,
now being compiled, will show pop
ulation of Z 1000 people in that place.
an increase Of nearly 1900 in less
than two years
Blunt, SO the Advocate says, is well
represented in the basement of the
court house at Pierre, four of it's
rushing" citizens being boarding
there at the county's expense.
In the county seat case Judge
Crofoot granted a stay of proceed
ings for three days for Aberdeen to
perfect a second appeal to the SUI
pre- me court.
A quadruple wedding took place at
Standing Rock May 81 Theparties
were tour Sioux girls and four young
warriors They were married by a
Catholic priest in the presence OF 500
Indians.
The appointment of Pruitt as post
master at Gettysburg has been re-
voked and his commission withheld.
The present postmaster, Francis, is
an old soldier and will serve indeh- 4
nitely.
The Press says that if everything
pans out right Sioux Falls is to have
q distillery with a capacity offs, 900
bushels ofcorn daily. There are on
~ two or three distilleries in the
country with as large an output.
The Yankton Telegram says it is
cold day that does not produce
one or more capitalists ready to put
down a pontoon bridge at Yankton.
1t should be made public that only
one bridge is wanted.
The youngsters of Howard have a
novel way of waging war on the
l.gophers. They choose sides, forming
in two clubs and kill for prize.
Fifteen hundred gophers were killed
during one contest.
A young fellow named Walker, of
Springdale, while fooling with a
loaded reyoler at Crow Creek, &C
cidentally discharged the weapon,
the ball, a 44-caliDer, en- tering The
right eye of Miss White Head, a belle
I of the Sioux tribe, who was standing
near, and passed entirely through
her head. She is still living.
The Yankton college was visited
by w. B. Pinkerton and Charles N.
Ransom, delegates sent out from the
theological seminary of Chicago to
turnthe attention of Western college
students to home and foreign mis-
sionary work. They are visiting the
religious educational institutions of
Dakota on this mission.
In three runa way affairs four per-
sons were injured at Yankton. Rev.