Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-05
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS

\ site has been secured at West
fora 100000 bushcl elevator.
Augusta. Ga, was visited last week
by the heaviest snow storm in five
years.
Mrs. Reynolds. widow of Diamond
10 Reynolds, has bcQucathcd the sum
of $3.50, 600 To Chicago University.
Lieutenant Perry has written to
st. Johns to engage ship for the
proposed arctic expedition next sum-
mer.
Mrs. Potter Palmer and the Chi
cago 400 are scandalizcd because her
picture has appeared on a beer
calendar.
Orange j add. senior editor of the
Orange Judd Farmer of Chicago and
q pioneer western Journalist. agcG 20
years, died last week.
Mrs. Albert j Park and her child
were badly burned by the explosion
of kitchen range in Worcester.
Mass. on Thursday last.
Tillic Power, while drunk smoked
a cigarette in bed, in birmingham,
Ala. The bedclothing caught fire
and she was burned to death.
palmcr'S Thcatcr in New York was
damaged by fire and water Friday
morning several thousand dollars
worth. 1t is thought the fire was
incendiary.
President Mcleod denied that
there was any truth in the story that
the Reading Railroad Company
would issue sl0,C00,cOO additional
preference bonds.
The will of eccentric Ralph iinttcr-
field who lived the life of a rccluse in
Kansas City, has Just been opened.
His estate. some 5000, 600. and 4 valu-
able geological collection is left to
Dartmouth college.
\ mob Of citizens at the town of
Luling near New Orleans. Thursday
night took Adam Grispson and Lewis
Fox. negroes, from the Jail and
hanged them. The negroes murdered
Samuel Bastcl recently.
The first and final account of the
estate of the late Congressman
Samuel j. Randall, shows that he
left property valued at s7S9.1i. while
the fees Of undertakes and
who attended him were
Sl,l94.l5.
j. a. Burbank of Richmond. Ind.
is the owner of a fine gold watch. OF
which he was robbed by the James
boys in Arkansas about twenty years
ago. He was at that time governor
Of Dakota. After the death of
Jesse James he recovered the stolen
property through an advertisements.
1t is reported on good authority
that wealthy syndicate of sporting
men are about TO start sa athletic
club in the immediate vicinity of
New York. which will be
formidable rival of the Coney Island
and Crccent City and olympic
Clubs.
Ralph Dennison. a barber of New
Hampton, recently fell heir to
100000. and yesterday a check for
the amount reached him. 1t is said
TO be the largest draft ever
presented for payment in northeast
ern Iowa. and not a bank in that
part of the state could cash it.
The high school building in
Marshalltown, Iowa. was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning. Loss
100000: insurance $4,000. The
was one of the finest cdu-
cational institutions in the state. 1t
was unoccupicd at the time of the
fire. No cause is known for the fire.
J.)ohn Shown. for some time
employed as superintendent of bridge
repairs for the Chicago. Burlington
and Kansas City railroad at Farm
ington. To-. has been taken to Topeka.
Kan. to answer to the charges of
train wrecking and rape. lie has
been identified by the wrongcd
woman.
Licl Lcsbtoynski, a Russian Jcwess.
who died in New York Saturday
from old age, was certainly one of the
oldest women on the earth. if the
statements SHE made were true.
She once told her relatives that she
was born in Odessa. Russia. in l76S,
which would make her 124 years
)ld.
The extensive mill property of the
Saginaw Lumber company, located
1ear Spokane, WASH, was burned
llout year ago. Last week two of
5he most prominent citizens Of that
Town, E. A. mccarthy and Benjamin