Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-07-31
NORTHWEST NEWS.

Census returns just sent in by Super
visor Linderman gives the population of
Hudson, Wis. and town as $500.
Patsy Darlington, of Milwaukee, and
Jim Davis. of Wausau, fought at the
Illinois state line for the championship
of Wisconsin. Darlington >ras whipped
in nine rounds.
The Wisconsin Central has filed notice
of its intention to construct two seven
teen mile lines. in Wisconsin. one from
Marshfeld to Greenwood, and the other
from Ceylon to Lower Turtle lake.
Thomas Cullyford sold the Hotel St.
Louis, at Duluth. Saturday. and Mon
day received the money for the sale. It
was 100000 in spot cash. The Boston
Investment company is the purchaser.
E. D. Morris. chief engineer of the
Red Wing fire department, has rendered
his resi- gnation and it has been accepted.
The fire department has recommended
J. H. Webster, the former chief, to be
his successor.
At Aitkin, Mimi, fire broke out in
Knox's mill yard, where slabs were four
feet deep. The mill property and all
outhouses We're in great danger, but the
fire was finally brought under control.
About fifty men were at work fighting
fire nearly all day.
The Washburn- Crosby company has
secured renewal Of their lease of the G.
G.. Washburn mills. The Pillsbury-
Washburn company has gotten out an
injunction to restrain the owners from
delivering the lease. The matter will
have to be settled in the courts.
Near Sleepy Eye, Mimi, Anton Los
laben, a well-to-do farmer. was run over
by binder and had his back broken,
from which injury he died. He leaves
a widow and five small children. His
little boy. in trying to stop the horses,
was also run over, the sickle cutting his
right hand nearly off.
Officer Louis Harder. of the Oshkosh
police force, while attempting to arrest
Henry Ripple. a desperate character.
was shot and almost instantly killed
this evening. Ripple was captured after
a hard chase. and threats Of lynching
would have been carried out had it not
been for the intervention of the police.
Corporal Francis, of Company B,
Twelfth infantry U. S. A., while bath
ing in the Missouri river. at the mouth
of Bad river, near Pierre, got beyond
his depth and drowned before the eyes
of his brother soldiers. The troops
have been dragging the river for his
body but in vain. 1t is an old saying
that 1.-The Missouri never gives up its
dead"
The Collegiate Hoyt, the first steamer
of the American Steel Barge company.
was successfully put through trial
trip Monday and returned to Duluth
in the evening. She logged about four
teen miles per hour with great ease and
can add nearly two miles to this figure
when at her full speed. She handled
easily in thirty-mile breeze and was in
every way success. About eighty
people were on board.
The fast mail on the St. Paul road was
running at high rate of speed through
Kilbourne City, Wis, and the mail clerk
in throwing off the mail, struck truck.
knocking it under the swift moving
train, one car Of which was derailed.
Fortunately the trucks dropped into the
cinder hole in the bed of the track,
stopping the train only few feet from
the bridge across the Wisconsin river.
Had the train passed on to the bridge it
probably would have gone into the river
eighty feet below.