Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-10-23
NEWS BREViTiES.
In the Northwest.

John Selden, a well-to-do farmer Of
1ruax Prairie, Wis, was run over and
killed by the west-bound passenger on
the Northwestern line Monday after,
noon, few miles west of Eau Claire. !
Work on the new St. Louis and Supe-
rior Terminal railway and the northern
end Of the Duluth, Red Wing and South
ern was begun Monday at St. Louis
near Duluth by the Duluth Construction
company.
The village council Of Pipestone,
Mimi, ordered some time ago an elec-|
tric light plant,a part of which has been
received. An injunction has been
served on the council by some Of the
prominent business men forbidding fur
ther action.
The funeral service over the remains
Of the late Hon Gordon E. Cole We're
held at the Cathedral of Our Mercifdl
Savior, at Faribault. Tuesday afternoon,
ut 2:3O. The G.. A. R., National guards. /
Shattuck cadets and the common coun-
Gil Of the city formed part Of the pro-
cession.
A freight train from the east on the
Northwestern was run into by another
freight coming from the same direction,
at full speed, down grade, near Owa-'
tonna, Minn. The caboose and four or
five cars We're smashed to splinters. No!
one was in the caboOse at the time.
The engineer and fireman narrowly es-
capped with their lives.
At Foley Station, Mimi, the men EN-
ployed by the Great Northern in laying
steel rails on the St. Cloud and Hinckley
branch became dissatisfied with the food
given them in the boarding cars and
attacked them, completely wrecking tie
cars and smashing tie contents. Thirty
OF the prominent ones in the affair were
discharged.
There is a mystery connected with the
death Of Minna Huddle, whose body
was found in the river at Des Moines,
that bids fair 10 develop in sensation.
The cOroner'S jury has been at work on
the case all day, but have not yet
reached a conclusion. The body has
not the usual appearance Of having been
drowned, and there is suspicion of
death from foul play.
Delegates to the national convention
of the Christian church are arriving in
large numbers at Des Moines. and it is
expected fully 1000 will be in attend
ance when the meeting opens. An in
formal meeting of the Women's Board
Of Missions was held presided over by
Mrs. Maria P. Jamison. The evening
was given over to social intercourse and
returned missionaries.
The officers who went into the
country. near Mitchell, S. D., to arrest
Sam Perkins on a warrant charging him
with burglary of safes at Bridgewater
and Olivet recently, found their man,
who. feisling to go into a bed room to
change his clothes, adroitly skipped out
Of doors, secured a horse and made his
escape. Perkins, it is thought, has been
quietly pursuing the avocation OF safe
cracker all his life.
j. 3. Sutphin, of Duluth, owner of
the old Powder River Cattle company
yards, located on the Omaha road about
seven miles south Of West Superior. is
rebuilding the sheds and barns which
We're destroyed by tiIe over 4 year ago.
Mr.. Sutphin is making extensive i'm
provements i'll the shape Of buildings for
storing feed, sheltering sheds. barns,
etc. and will operate the plant on a
large scale.
The ninth annual meeting of the
synod Vt Iowa Pirsbyterians closed
Monday at Burlington. after five days
session. The committee on temperance
reported, regretting the causes thar dur
ing the last year have brought about
serious reverses in the onward march of
temperance, specifying the recent orig
inal package decision by the United
States circuit court at Topeka and Il
similar decision by Judge Stoneman, OF
Iowa.
Foreign.
Russian advices are to the effect that
the cholera has extended from Persia to
Bagdad, and is destroying many VIC
Tins.
Advices from South America state
that the Chilians are indignant at the
French government for aiding the no.
torious Dreyfus claim and are prepared
to oppose a firm resistance to French
aggression.
A sensational trial is in progress in
Warsaw, three prominent silk MERGERS
being accused Of swindling various mer-
chants out of sums aggregating a mil
lion marks. There are 214 witnesses to
be examined.
The Prince of Wales is making him
self very popular in Vienna. Though
indefatigable in performing social du-
ties. he has found time to visit nearly