The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-12-17
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GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

CnlcagO UnleFeS are even rOODlng
the corpses in the morgue.
A company has been incorporated
in Maryland to insure against thefts.
All the railroads from Puget Sound
to Chicago are cutting rates nearly
one-half.
Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, widow of
Diamond Jo," has given $3.50, 600 to
Chicago University.
At Brookfeld, Conn, Otto Graft,
a Swede, formerly a shepherd in Scot
land, died of sheep-rot.
At Webb City, Mo, bed of sub
terranean fire was struck at the depth
of 1863 feet in the zinc region.
Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis
brewer, it is rumored, will soon open
his $1,000 hotel at Dallas, rexas.
The Warner Observatory at Roch-
ester will probably be removed to
the Ozark mountains or some noun
tain in Colorado.
The youngest man in the coming
Nebraska senate will be Charles H.
Clark, of Omaha, who is twenty-threc
years old. He waa born at Bellevue,
Nebraska.
Chicago is filling up with tramps,
vagabonds, paupers, crippled beggars
and peddlers, and thousands Of
unfortunates seeking work for which
there is.no demand.
The daughter of Mrs. Solomon Levi,
who keeps grocery on Elm street.
Cincinnati, fred the building. In it
sixty people were sleeping, all of
whom were rescued.
Mrs. Fannie Adams of Little Rock,
Ark, has confessed that she muir
dered her husband on November %.
in order to marry George Williams,
who furnished the pistol.
Billy Mole, carpenter, of Omaha,
Neb., has been Sir William Mole,
Bart, of Mollin Manor, North Mollin,
England, for twenty years, and didn't
know it until month ago.
Between Dwight and Buda station
on the Illinois, Iowa and Indiana
Railroad. the United States Express
ear safe was robbed of $1,000 by some
one while the messenger was absent
from the car.
The great event of the week in Des
Moines will be the meeting of the
Iowa State Travelling Mems Associa-
tion, it being the largest society Of
the kind in the world, having a mem
bership of 5000.
It is reported that Senator David
B. Hill has been rendered the position
of general counsel to the Equitable
Life Assurance society at salary of
$4,000 and is considering it favor
ably. He refuses to talk.
Charles Brathcn, street car con-
ductor Of Minneapolis, shot George
+. Kellar, cashier, and Michael Mon
tague, clerk of the Mohahan Bot
tling Company, because hewas thrown
out of the place while drunk.
The wreck Of the government
steamer John T. Burlington, which
was sunk by William Anderson's guer-
rilla band in 1864 in the Missouri.
near Rockport. Mo-, was uncovered
by blast in a sand bank and two
kegs of gold taken from it.
Six safes belonging to as many
different firms in the big office build
ing corner of Washington and Dear
born streets, Chicago, were blown
open Friday night and ritied by bur
glars. The building is within one
square of the city hall and police
headquarters.
The big Worlds Fair whaleback
steamer, Christopher Columbus, prob
ably the most noteworthy lake vessel
ever built, was launched Friday from
the yards of the American Steel Barge
Company at West Superior. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed the event.
Mrs. Mcdonald, of Eau Claire, Wis,
who is charged with cutting the
thrOats of her husbands team of
horses, was unable to appear in court
to answer to the charge. Her physi-
clan states that she has become in
sane since her arrest, and it is doubt
full if she will recover in some time
1t is stated that she has confessed to
her husband.
The Mediterranean -four moth has
in nearly all the Touring
mills of California and has already
become an alarming pest. All efforts
to eradicate them are unsuccessful.
The moth spins strands of silk in
great quantities, which not only
gets into the flour but clogs the
SO badly they have to shut
down temporarily. The moth
propagates very rapidly in that
climate and disastrous results are