Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-01-15
CHIPS AND SPLlNTERS.

Salient Points of Matters Considered
Worthy of Brief Mention.
A bold robbery was perpetrated on
Sunday night at the Rochester block,
Minneapolis.
The reported strike in the near future
of the Milwaukee system telegraphers is
unfounded.
The St. Paul Eye, a society newspaper,
has gone to sleep-for lack of sufficient
appreciation Of its merits.
Noah La Blie, of Minneapolis. drank
carbolic acid by mistake for other medi-
cine and died III horrible agony.
An unknown man, thought to be
George Ross, of Rockford, Ills. died in
his berth On a Santa Fe train, near Fort
Madison, Iowa.
Surveyor General Ash's report of the
timber cut in the Fifth district. Mime
sofa, shows $4,000. COO feet of lumber
sawed during the year, and 266 SOC, 900
feet in logs.
William Neville, an old resident of
Worthingtcn. Iowa, was walking on the
Milwaukee track, when he was run over
and killed by a train. He took no notice
OF the warning whistles.
The Illinois state auditor has issued
permit to Herman Felsenthal and Adam
Miller OF Chicago to organize bank to
capital stock Of 100000.
Two men, with loaded revolvers, held
up }. l.. Owens, a business man in the
Rochester block, at Minneapolis, easing
him Of the sum Of SIS. and successfully
making off with their booty.
Articles Of incorporation were filed at
St. Paul by the Alliance Elevator and
Milling company, of Sherburn, Martin
county, Minnesota. The capital stock is
not to be less than $1,000, nor more
than SIS. 200.
While out hunting near Burlington,
Iowa, a Lad named Tommy Grineu,
brought the lnuZzle of his gun in line
with companion named Wallace Bux-
ton, when it was accidentally discharged,
blowing Buxton's head Off
In General.
Capt. J. H. Thomas, director of the
American Sugar Refining company, died
at Boston Tuesday Of heart troubles.
The Duke Of Cumberland is travelling
about under the name of Baron Cl.l-
loden. a fact which does not add to his
popularity in Scotland
Joseph Lafon, the caricature sketch
artist, died at Butte, Mont, Monday.
after a few days illness of pneumonia
Mr.. Lafon was formerly of The New
York Graphic staff
Louis Nolmer. one of the Oldest drv
goods merchants Of Little Rock, Ark.
was closed by Il run OF attachments
Monday %gSreGatlng $4,000. Liabih-
tleS and a&Seat3 are about ?2J 600.
The Russian budget for the year 1891
eXhlbltS @n ,iimatcd surplus OF 81 49,
$40 ll@ estimates >nclule Us cxtraor-
dinaly expenditures $26. 10 900 for pub
hc works and sl2, ST., 800 for a1maments.
It is reported from the Congo state
that large quantity of arms imported
BY the Dutch Rotterdam company has
been disposed Of to Arabs in the interior
and they are recommending their slave
raids on the Dative population.
The Prince Of Montenegro, who is on
a visit to Paris. Is improving his time by
the purchase OF munitions of war for his
little but formidable army of mountain
eers. lie has secured quantity of
smokeless powder, and goodly number
Of Lebel rifles
The ascendancy of the French ambas-
sador at the Vatican is increasing 50 eyi-
IDENTIFY as to create alarm at the Austrian
court, whose influence at Rome has
heretofore been 11nriva]led. Germany is
also troubled over the growing ran
proachment Of her Republican enemy
and the papal see.