The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-07
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

A site has been secured at West
Superior for a 100000 bushel elevator.
Augusta. Ca, was visited last week
by the heaviest snow storm in five
years.
Mrs. Reynolds, widow of Diamond
10 Reynolds, has b"queathed the sum
of $3.50, 900 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 scandalized because her
picture has appeared on beer
calendar.
Orange Judd, senior editor of the
Orange Judd Farmer of Chicago and
a pioneer western journalist, ageo 70
years, died last week.
| Mrs. Albert Park and her child
were badly burned by the explosion
of kitchen range in Worcester,
Mass, on Thursday last.
Tillie Power, while drunk smoked
a cigarette in bed, in Birmingham,
Ala. The bedclothing caught fire
and she was burned to death.
| Palmers Theater 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 s1O,OOO,O00 additional
preference bonds.
The will of eccentric Ralph Butter
field who lived the life of recluse in
Kansas City, has just been opened.
His estate, some 100000, and valu-
able geological collection is left to
Dartmouth college.
A 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 Bastel recently.
| The first and final account Of the
estate of the late Congressman
Samuel j. Randall, shows that he
left property valued at s789.74, while
| the fees of undertakers and
physicians who attended him were
81, ,194.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 advertisement.
| 1t is reported on good authority
that wealthy syndicate of sporting
men are about fo start athletic
club in the immediate vicinity of
| New York, which will be a
formidable rival Of the Coney Island
and Crecent City and Olympic
Athletic Clubs.
Ralph Dennison, a barber of New
Hampton, recently fell heir to
100000, and yesterday 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
building was one of the finest edu-
cational institutions in the state. 1t
was unoccupied at the time of the
fire. No cause is known for the fire.
QJOhn 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. He has
been identified by the wronged
woman.
Liel Lesbtoynski, a Russian Jewess,
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 1863,
which would make her 14 years
old.
The extensive mill property of the
Saginaw Lumber company, located
near Spokane, WASH, was burned
about year ago. Last week two of
the most prominent citizens of that
town, e. A. mccarthy and BENJAMIN