The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-17
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

and forty-four lives were lost.
More than s1,500,O00 has been
cleared this season by TWO Chicago
firms which control the lard market.
The Maine house of representatives
has passed resolution that Mr..
Blaines remains should rest in Maine
soil.
High water in Pennsylvania rivers
caused great damage and many
families were driven from their
homes.
A new region has "broken out" in
Kansas and many of the converts are
deserting their families to follow the
apostles.
Griffin won the featherweight
championship at Coney island in the
seventh round, Murphy being
terribly pounded up.
! The Johnson and Cole factions in
Tennessee have opened up hostilities
which have already resulted in the
killing Of three persons.
The county judges of Case county,
Missouri, who have been imprisoned
for eight months for contempt of
court, have secured their release.
Anarchists Mold and. Beuer were
found guilty of being accomplices in
the attempt made to murder
Manager Frick, the jury being out
only ten minutes.
Jack Clifford, the Homestead strike
leader charged with the unlawful
killing of p. j. Connors during the
famous barge battle on July 6, was
acquitted last week.
The Kansas state senate passed a
resolution to submit the teoual
suffrage amendment to the consti-
tuition to vote of the people by a
vote of thirty-two to five.
c. r. Carter who while under
sentence of death escaped from the
Springfield, Mo-, jail after numbering
the jailor, was recaptured after
marrying woman worth $4,000.
A special to the Lincoln Journal
confirms the report of the killing of
Two Strikes, his two sons, and White
Face Horse by Indian police while
resisting arrest for the murder of
four white men.
Congressman-elect Cannon and
State Senator Bacon had a personal
encounter in the Leland hotel at
Springfield, Ill. Cannon was
knocked down from a blow. Bacon
escaped with a scratch.
The shoe district of Boston was
visited by disastrous fire, the scene
of the contiagratlon being the So
called Green building, 275 to 2S5 Con-
gress street. The total loss is es-
timated at upwards of 100000.
The jury in the case of Charles w.
Gardner, the "Parkhurt's agent -
found him guilty of extortion. 1t
was charged he received money from
a keeper of disorderly house to
secure it's safety from police inter-
ference.
A taxidermist of Lake City, Mimi.
has puppy with double body from
the shoulders back. 1t has eight
legs, the four hind ones being per-
feet, but two of the fore legs, though
Of full size, are crooked against the
side Of the body.
A gang of about twenty union men
boarded the steamship Signal at
Seattle, and put pistols to the heads
of four non-union sailors and a
watchman. and under threat Of
death took them away. This is the
result of troubles between the coast
seamens union and non-union sailors.
A sensation has been created by the
announcement that eighty students
attending the college of physicians
and surgeons at St. Louis, had left
for home On account of the sudden
death of three students. The ex-
citement was intensified by the report
that the deaths were caused by what
is feared is typhus fever.
The coveted contract for the
exclusive sale of beer on the worlds
fair grounds in Chicago was secured
by Pabst Brewing Company, of
Milwaukee. Pabst beer will be sold
at eighty-seyen different places on
the grounds and will be on sale in
every building. 1t is estimated that
$4,000 barrels or 100000 worth Of
beer will be consumed.
While Emmett and Eugene Robin
son were passing adisreputable resort