Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-04-02
TIMELY TOPICS.

Important Events of the Day Concisely
Chronicled.
The wheat movement is falling off in
the Northwest, with smaller receipts all
around.
Dana Child, nephew of Senator E. A.
Child, aged 16 years. was killed at
Glencoe. Mimi, while jumping from a
moving train.
Construction of the Kewaunee Green
Bay & Western railroad is under Wy
between Milwaukee and Green Bay, The
terminal points.
J. H. Ackerman. telegraph operator
of the Northern Pacific railroad at
Staples. Mimi. suddenly disappeared
Sunday morning. and his where. butts
is yet unknown. He was secretary of
the |. O. 0, F. lodge at that place.
The women of Berlin. Wis, will
make another attempt to vote at tho
coming election. Having been informed
that the Ripon women voted last fall,
and expect to do SO again this spring,
they see no reason why their votes
should not be accepted.
Governor Burke, of North Dakota,
has appointed the following commission
sion to compile the laws: Hon.
R. NJ. Pollock. Casselton; P. H. Rourk,
Lisbon, Maj J. G. Hamilton, Grand
Forks. 1t is underste cd that John F.
Philbrick, of Bismarck, will be clerk Of
the committee.
The question of the electric street rail-
way for Winona. Mimi, is now in the
balance. Ii the Thomson Houston COM
pany, Of st. Paul, can get the extension
of franchise from seventeen to forty-two
years they will change the present horse
power to the electric system, otherwise,
it is reported, no change will be made.
Over one hundred families have al
ready emigrated to Pipestone county,
Minnesota, this spring and more are
coming every day. The most of these
newcomers hail from Illinois and the
central part of Iowa. Many new farm
houses are now in course of erection in
all parts of the county.
In General.
The census shows an increase Of
1865, 13S in the population of Germany.
Large quantities of diamonds are re-
ported to have been discovered in North
l.adland.
Returns show that almost everywhere
the Parnelltes have been successful in
the elections for poor law guardians.
The summer residence of j. NJ Con
stable, OF Arnold. Constable d Co., at
Orienta, n. Y. was burned The loss
on building and contents aggregates
1926, 900. The cause Of the fire was
defective tlue.
The Lynn. Mass, morocco finishers,
who struck seven months ago. met
Tuesday night and decided to continue
the strike. Five hundred OF the / 100
men who went out originally are still
unemployed.
The house committee on state affairs,
in Michigan. has decided to favorably
report bill reducing telegraph rates
from % cents to 20 cents for ten word
messages, and from 2 cents to cent for
each additional word.
A Berlin dispatch says that consider
able numbers of Germans have gone to
take service with the Chinese and Jap
anese fleets. China has ordered several
war vessels from German builders, and
Japan has bought number of torpedo
boats in Germany.
A singular case before the English
privy counsel relates to the immense
estate of the late rajah of Andol, in
India, who left all his property to the
support and maintenance of his family
idol. From this the two wives, who
thought they ought to be the idols
appealed.
From Wurtemburg comes news Of .
determined onslaught on the Socialists,
said 10 have been prompted by the old
king himself, whose marital relations
have been made the subject of severe
reflections in Socialist publications
abroad. -