The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-10

relieved from teaching at the end of
the present term until his appeal is
acted upon by the synod.
1t is reported on good authority
that the executive board of the
knights Of Labor has finally decided
on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls
for the location of the new head
quarters of the organization. Colum-
bus and Baltimore were the other
places considered
The jury in the case of DR.. r. II.
Jones at Dallas, Texas, brought in a
verdict of guilty and gave him a
life sentence. In October last at a
confederate reunion Jones killed W.
G. Veale, charging that twenty-three
years ago and before he married her,
his wife was outraged by Veale.
The jury in the case of Robert J.
Beatty, charged with being an ac-
complice in the Homestead poisoning,
| brought in verdict of guilty on all
six indictments after being out only
seven minutes. Beatty almost broke
down, but in few minutes recovered
his self-possession. He was locked up
again in default of $4,000 bail.
Another great telescope, the third
largest in the world, has just been
completed by Warner & Swasey. Of
Cleveland. The Instrument was con-
structed for the new government
naval observatory of Georgetown
Heights, near Washington. 1t has
three motions of speed, operated by
clock work--one for the stars, one for
the sun one for the moon.
| While cleaning an old cellar on
East Main street in Independence,
Iowa. a skeleton was found under
the basement floor. The building
has been occupied for saloon purposes
for thirty years, and foul play is
suspected. The general surmise is
that some stranger was murdered
for money. The limbs were severed
from the body above the knee.
The noted geologist of Paris,
M. Lagrange, who is making scien-
tiflc researches in the valley of the
Santa Cruz, Arizona, has made the
astounding discovery that biped
lizard, stegosaius hither to known
among the rocks of the Siluman
epoch, is again living, there being
specimens in the valley thereabouts.
The only change in the creature is
in the size: otherwise, the pre-his-
toric and modern creatures are
| Identical
Maud Potter, aged eighteen, and a
member Of ono Of TOnica's most
| prominent families, obtained a
divorce from Frank b. Williams, a
travelling man. Miss Potter, in
spirit of fun, she says, accompanied
| Williams to LaSalle last summer.
| While there he produced a marriage
license, which he had obtained in an
adjoining country without her con-
sent, and induced her to 60 to a
justice office and get married. She
thinks he hypnotized her, for while
she did not have any desire to be
married she did not have the power
to resist him. After the ceremony
she rushed out of the Justices room,
caught a train for Tonica and never
saw Williams since.
The Northwestern Miller has
taken pains to look up the interior
wheat stocks of the nOrthwest-tha
is, wheat which is tributary to
| Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior
and on the best of authority states
they amount to between 22,OO0,O0O
and $4,000, 900 bushels. These figures
| do not include the stocks already
stored at Minneapolis, Duluth, or
| Superior, but consists only Of grain
stored in country houses. Brad
streets last week represented these
stocks at 9,350,0 bushels. Adding
Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior
stocks, these figured are swelled to
between 100000 and 56,000,ooO
bushels. On February l, 1892, the
aggregate northwestern stock was
80, 100000 bushels, and in 1891,
22, 250, 900 bushels.
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