Griggs courier., 1894-05-18
News In Brief.

News I'm Brief.
Cavalier has organized No. base
ball club.
The contract has been let for new
city hall at Cando.
The state prison at Bismarck now has
two female prisoners.
Andrew Blewett has been appointed
surveyor general for the state.
Fargo is now talking seriously of do
ing some paving with cedar blocks.
U. s. Marshal Cronan, was hanged in
effigy by crowd of 200 or 800 men at
Devils Lake.
Willis A. Jay has been appointed
postmaster at Grand Forks, and M. A.
Westcott at Mayville.
c. H. Holden, Baptist state mission
ary. has resigned to accept pastoral
call at Alpena, Mich.
The State Firemen's association will
get 1000 from the state treasury for
the annual tournament.
Col. Miller says the militia companies
of the state show 430 men ready for
active service.
Michael Ryan, who escaped from the
penitentiary several weeks ago, has
been recaptured.
Prof. Pringle of Aurora, ILL.,, has been
elected superintendent of the city
schools of Grand Forks.
Jerome Vaughn and Martha Collins,
of Jamestown, were sent to the peni-
tetiory for adultery.
]. G. Perrault, formerly Catholic
priest was admitted to practice law
before the supreme court. He will prac-
tice at Larimore.
At the annual meeting of the North
Dakota Stockgrowers' association Dan
Manning was elected president and T..
II. Hager vice president.
John d. Wallace, of Drayton, has
been named as member of the repub-
lican state central committee from the
First legislative district, to succeed
Judson LaMoure.
Officers of the North Dakota veterans
are ''kicking" because of the date fixed
for the state G.. A. r. encampment con-
flicts with the Veterans annual meet
ing. An effort will be made to har-
monize the trouble.
Camp Hancock at Bismarck will be
closed as quartermaster depot, and
the buildings will probably be turned
over to the agricultural department to
be used as offices for the government
weather bureau.
The Neche Oak Leaf alleges that
three of the Pembina county commits.
sioners have been going over the coun.
ty records during the past three weeks
and have found so far some 500 cases OF
falsifying and the county at least cheat.
ed out of $500.
At Jamestown, freight train from
the east was coming into the city, the
hind end came crushing into the other
cars with great violence, completely
destroying two of the cars and killing
Brakeman Charles Pomeroy, of Fargo
The Cavanaugh brothers, arrested by
Marshal Cronan at Devel's Lake during
the warmest part of the strike. were
given hearing before U. s Commiss-
ioner Carathers at Grand Forks, and
discharged from custody, on the ground
of insufficient evidence.
At DEVILS Lake, Deputy Sheriff Stirl,
arrested William r. Evans, a mulatto,
for the murder of Ole Peterson, night
watchman at Townes, McHenry county.
Evans came down on the passenger tc
Rugby. from there on a freight. He
denies the charge, but is the person
whom Sheriff German, of Towner
wired to arrest.
A court house will be built at Hills.
boro. At recent meeting the citizens
committee decided to make a PROPOSE
ton to the county board to build a new
building, provided they were released
from their promises to remove the old
This was accepted by the county board
State Superintendent of Health De
Vaux has vaccine farm in operation
and has prepared a number of ivory
points with virus which he is sending
out through the state with complete di
! rections for their use.
Rubies have been discovered neal
Cando. Experts claim they are large,
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