The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-20

human skin. 1t is the property of |
Capt. Ayres, of the 10th infantry, and |
was captured from Geronimo's band
of Indians. 1t is supposed to be
made from the skin of white men
killed during Geronimo's raids.
An avalanche swept down the
side in Ralzso, SLOGAN
district. near Spokane, and buried
two miners, James Switzer and
Martin Flaherty, under $50 feet of
snow. The men were Sacking ore IN
the Freddie Lee mine when they
heard a noise and, rushing to the
mouth Of the mine, it is supposed
they were swept away by the slide
before they could return to shelter.
Oliver Smith of Palmyra, Wis, is
young man and cripple. He has
been obliged to lie flat on his back for
the past five years. He has been told
that when he gets one million
cancelled postage stamps he can get
an invalid's chair which will enable
him to see more of life. 1t would
require but little effort for each one
to cut stamps from envelopes and
send them to Oliver Smith, Palmyra,
Wis.
The Chesapeake bay and all its
tributaries are covered with from
twelve to sixteen inches of ice, and
the oyster industry is at standstill.
Stock that is almost worthless bring
from $3.50 to S1.75 a bushel. All the
packing houses are closed. The ice
embargo is the heaviest for seventeen
years. 1t is feared that many of the
dredgers who have been frozen in,
miles from shore, have perished in
their frail boats.
1t is announced that Miss Virginia
Fair, better known as "Birdie," is
engaged to be married soon to Prince
Poniatowski, grandson of the late
King of Poland, Miss Fair is living
with her sister, Mrs. Oelricrs. She
is not quite nineteen years old. By
her mothers will has $500 year
income and in six years, when she is
| enty-fve, she will inherit $I5, ,0O0,-
900 in coin. From her father when
he dies she will get not less than
100000.
An interview with Helen H
| Gardener, the we'll known novelist,
created a sensation at Rockford, Ill.
She came west week ago to study
George Jacob Schweinfurth, the
bogus Rockford messiah, partially
from semi-scientific motives and
partially with a view to using his
peculiar institution in her literary
work. Miss Gardener has made a
close study of brain anatomy, and
after a long interview with
SchWeinfurth declares tnat beyond
all quest ion he is insane.
Much interest has developed in the
case of John Sollars, a cigarette
tiend, of St. Joseph, Mo. Monday
night, while engaged in game of
pool with some friends at saloon he
fell in a swoon. He was taken to his
room and has since been delirious.
He lies in bed and moves his hand to
and from his mouth as though he was
smoking, and fixes his lips as smokers
do when they blow the smoke from
their mouths. His friends and the
doctor say there is no possibility of
his recovering.
Charles III. North, who but there
years ago was millionaire pork
packer in Somerville, and one the
strongest bidders for the eastern
trade against Armour & Swift of
Chicago, was confined in the East
Cambridge house Of correction last
week for paltry debt of s603. The
sum in question was on an lndOrsed
check for John Hopper which was
negotiated at the Hyannis bank. He
neglected the matter and judgment
| WIS lOuIlu dSdlIlSU IlIl. hulOuS hll
his friends during his past prosperity
he could find no one who would 60
his bail.
Capt. Watkins, of the British bark
| Countess of Derby, from Genoa,
reports that an apprentice named
Samuel Collidge, aged nineteen, fell
overheard on December 10 and was
devoured by a shark. He appeared
in sight after dropping into the sea.
and, being a good swimmer, kept
himself afloat awhile. Capt. Wat
kins throw him life buoy, and pre-
pared to launch the lifeboat, but he
disappeared from view, and in a
moment an immense shark was seen
wrestling with an object in the
vicinity where the fellow went down.
No trace Of him was afterward seen,
although the vessel cruised around
for more than an hour.
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