The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

! Prince w. and Charlss III. Nickerson,
brick commission merchants OF New York
| city have made an assignment to Caleb
| Kneyalls and Elihu b. Frost, with pre-
ierences OF S35, ,657. ..
The four.naster schooner William
| johnson, OF Somers' Point. N. j., Capt. r.
| Il. Rsec, Of Lynnwood, N. j., was launched
at Camden, Me-, lew days ago, entirely
| finished She In ! So feet long and 1913 net
tons and will be towsd to Belfast to load
ice.
} Gen. Jubal NJ. Early has just sent his
check Tor $1,000 to the Lee monument
board to deiray the ex penses incident TO
the unveIling OF the statue OF Gen. X. 4.
lee on Mas 90. An urgent invitation is
| to be sent Mrs. Jefferson Davis to be pres
ent at the unveiling.
A Pan Handle enRinser discovered q lit.
tie child seated on tie against tho rail, as
his train was running into Hartford, Ind.
| q few days aeo. Climbing down on the pi.
lot he succeeded in pushing the little one
| out OF the way Of the engine with bis loot.
| The child was badly frightened but unhurt.
A petition has been presented to the
town clerk OF Hayward, Wis, asking that
the question Of Incense or no license. be sub.
mitted to the voters at the coming cleo
| ton, the lst OF April. The Prohibition
element is quite strong. but II 10 thought
not strong enough. although both sides
will do considerable herd work,
Senator Pettigrew, in a letter to gen.
tleman in Chamberlain, s. D., states em.
| phatically that the bill providing for an
| Indian school at Chamberlain will become
law during the present session nt con.
gress. As the bill appropriates Ste. 900
| for the school it will be a great teDe6t TO
| the city.
In the case brought up from the circuit
court Of Rock county, Wis, the supreme
court decided that the Bible had no place
| in our common schools. The opinion was
unanimous. The case originated at Ed.
gerton, where suit was brought to compel
| a school district hoard TO prohibit teach
ers from reading the Bible to scholars.
The subscribers to the stock OF the pro
poseu Providence r. l., base hall club, at a
recent meeting, voted not to accept the
| Franchise offered them by Manager Brae.
kett, Of the New Havens. President Allen
reviewed Providence's disastrous expert.
ence with the National league, and IL was
voted to keep out OF professional base ball
| for the season oil 1890.
On tho 18th inst, workmen succeeded in
opening the Denver & Rio GraRde South
ern route over Cumbers mountain after
many weeks OF labor. The snow for miles
along the track was from ten to thirty feet
deep, and at points tifty. Section houses,
| stations and other buildings have been
| buried Tor weeks. Citizens OF Durango aud
other towns In the southwest part OF the
state were getting do~n to short ratious.
Coal oil gave out month ago.
The North Star Iron company, OF Balti
more, Md, has been Incorporated for buy
| ing, selling, mortgaging leasing, inprovinC
| and disposing Oi. or otherwise dealing in
lands containing iron ores, partly in that
state and partly In other states, and for
developing the ga me, and for procuring ior
market lumber, mineral and other products.
! The corporation is to have capital oi
So, 900, 900 divided into so, 600 shares o
800 each. Interpretations OF the company
are TO be carried on in Maryla and In
| Minnesota.
The suit OF the Metropolitan Exhibition
company OF New York city, against John
M Ward, for an injunction to restrain the
1 defendant from playing baseball for Others
| than the plsintff, was before Judge Law
| renee in the supreme court on the 24th
| inst. Besides local counsel, Col. Rogers,
OF Philadelphia, who represents the league
| was also In court. At the close of the
plaintiffs case the defense moved to dis
miss the complaint. Judge Lawrence re-
served decision but intimated that he
| would follow the action OF Justice O'BrisI
| In cham bers, it being conceded that all the
testim ony had been produced before Judgt
0'Brien.