The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-03
LAT NEWS 81 LMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic.
Happenings OF Note.
Telegraphic News Of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

EX-President Hayes will divides his
estate equally between his five
children.
Efforts which promise success are
making in Montana cities to drive
out the Chinese.
The Judge of probate at Owatonna
found a tiny baby in a basket in
front of his office door one day last
week.
The twenty-three cattlemen under
arrest in Wyoming for killing rustlers
were discharged, the cases against
them being dismissed.
A man with half dozen or more
wives is under arrest in Cincinnati,
charged with conducting swindling
operations through the mails.
A sick tramp was taken to a
hospital at Chicago. His disease was
pronounced small pox and the 625
patients in the hospital were exposed
10 the disease.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp, widow of
John G. Sharp, hero of the war OF
1872, died in Philadelphia last week.
Mrs. Sharp was within two weeks of
being us years old.
Padernal Peak, situated in the
wilds Of Rio Arriba county, New
Mexico, is now in a violent state of
eruption and is belching forth sui
phurous fumes and lava at intervals
Of about three hours, each lasting
about thirty minutes.
The most important mining strike
made for some time is that in the
Bohn shaft, at Leadville. A rich
ore body was struck about one week
ago, and established fact long sus-
pected, that the city f Leadville
rests on valuable silver deposits.
1t is just learned that James Frank
Black alias Frank Woodruff, who was
arrested on suspicion of being con-
nected with the murder of DR..
Cronin, died at the Lansing peni-
tentiary Oct. 10. Black makes the
seventeenth participant in the crime
or witness at a trial who have since
died.
The Capital National Bank Of
Lincoln, Neb., has failed. The
deposits amount to about S625, 900,
and of this amount between $3.50, 900
and s250,O0O are state funds, for
which the bond of the treasurer will
be liable. The capital stock is
$780, 900, all paid up. Cashier r.. c.
Outcalt stated that the assets would
protect the depositors, but there is
great doubt expressed as to the truth
Of this statement.
One of the most wonderful beds
of ore ever discovered in the west
has just been found by the Atlantic
Gable Consolidated Company, at
Rico, Col, which is prospecting the
camp with ,000-foot drill. One of
the finds is a body of galena and
copper twenty feet thick, another
of galena ten feet thick, and a bed
of pure iron twenty feet through. 1t
appears that this vast bed Of mineral
covers many acres, and in some
places is 100 feet thick.
Peter Brinkenstein of Bay City
Mich, is suffering with a broken
neck, but the attending physician
thinks he will recover. Brinkenstein
was night watchman in a box factory
and having occasion to climb to a
steam pipe over the boilers, he fell,
striking on his head. He remained
insensible for some time, and upon
recovering found himself unable to
move his head. He walked home,
however, and has remained there
ever since. Physicians who have
examined him say that two of the
vertebrae of the spinal column are
broken.
A little negro boy, five or six years
old, has wrought up the negroes, of
Little Rock, Ark, by giving nightly
of his knowledge. He
reads books Of all languages and
reads them correctly. He can turn
to any designated chapter or verse
of the Bible and read it as readily as
any practiced divine. He says Jesus
Christ taught him to read, and, when
asked who Jesus Christ is, says He is
the Son of God, but says he does not
know who God is. He is a phe-
wonder of astonishing
The house is packed
nightly by both whites and blacks
eager to witness the child's ability.
At an informal conference Of Chi
cago lawyers, at which the question
Of filling the supreme court vacancy
caused by the death of Justice
Lamar, was discussed. Alexander
Sullivan made suggestion that COM