The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-01-06
General.

General.
The membership of the New York
Driving Club is now 3Ol. The annual
dues amount to $500
Dan Creedon has gone To New Or
leans with Benny Falk. and will work
for the bookmaker at the race track.
Oscar AmeS has yearling by Joe
Patchcn which has shown quarter III
3J1-2 seconds on the rot.
1t begins TO look rs if Critic and
kid" Lavignc would have 10 20 East
! To get Il chance to box each other.
The banking and brokerage house of
the +. T.. ward company 1T II and 30
broadway. New York. WAS closed by
the sheriff Oh an attachment
ParScn Thomas CZzell distributed
! 1000 jack rabbits among poor people
who applied for them ut Denver.
| These animals were shot in the annual
hunt ut Lamar, Col.
/ Bob FitzSimmonS has bought another
, lion. raging $1,000 cash for it. Bob'S
I first lion crossed the dark river on 4
| live electric light wire at Cleveland Il
year ago.
benjamin Jordun. the English fcath-
Cr-wcIght who defeated Tommy White
has challenged Dixon. Solly Smith and
I PCdlar Palmer To box ut 10 pounds in
April for $500 side.
f.. W. White X Co. and Frank w.
White. manager of the White Catering
company. proprietor OF restaurants on
Fourth and Fifth streets, Cincinnati,
assigned to A. W. Goldsmith. Total
assets $4,000 total liabilities. 1000.
l.. t,N ,t,rl,y MT
seven Yale men. twenty-threh Prime
ton. twenty-:To Harvard. fifteen 'iri-
versity of Pennsylvania aud one Cor
nell man have been chosen on the AL
! American college football elevcns.
/ Joe Patchen. 2:0114 race record
! 2:Ol12l. has paced siXty-siX heats in
2:lO or better. He has taken part i'll
/ forty-seven races. of which hr won
! twcnty-threo: contested l9G heats,
| winning nicnty-scven.
| 1t is reported that Chicago parties
will soon establish Il photograph fact
/ DRY in MuskegOn. Mich. capitalized 1T
/ $1O0.OOO. Philip ID. Armour is credited
/ with being one of the principal invest
J UrS
Princeton athletes have been forbid
! den to take part in sports as the re-
| preventative Of any athletic club. Ilar
| ward was the first to pass this rule. and
/ the other big universities are likely To
! follow the good example set.
| The owners Of all the large and
/ prosperous mines in Cripple Creek
| made II handsome Christmas present
! to their employees by allowing full time
! for an idle day. The gift in the aggre
! cate amounts to about $4,000, divided
/ among several thousand miners.
/ At New York William Gottzyzcr and
/ Mrs. John Rice, dropped dead at mid
/ night while trimming Christmas trees
/ for their respective children. The g.
! ycar-old son Of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
/ Field Of KeypOrt. y. j., pulled Il light
! ed tree-over OH himself the same night
/ and was burned to death.
! Ben .Iordon. the English feather
! weight boxer who recently defeated
| tional Sporting Club. is coming To
! America. He has authorized San
/ Tommy White. Of Chicago at the Nat
! Austin To make Il match for him with
George Dixon Solly Smith or Frank
| Ernc. to take place in America some
| time in February. Jordon will leave
England up on receitp OF information
| that he is matched.
In the ring building OF the breeding
| barn on DR.. w. Seward Webbs extern
sive farm ut Shelburnc, VT. was held
| saturday night Christmas celebration
! unique in character and on Il scale
never before known in Vermont. The
| guests included all the employers OF
! Shelburne farm with their families. the
! adults in Trinity parish. and other
! friends in the village, making about
| 80 in all.
! Says Il friend of the wonderful little
! Welsh RIDER: michael never drinks
! anything hui tea ana ale He is Il
! great tea drinker. but seldom touches
water; and he never smokes never has
! smoked in fact II cigar or cigarette.
! He uses no vegetables. as they tend
! to fatten. and warns off all highly sea
! sOncd foods-chicken, game. pies and
| pastry. He regards coffee drinking us
also being bad
They have queer ways OF running
college football ut the University of
Michigan. Honey Stuart. the speedy
halfback and the best man in the uni.
versity team, suddenly left Ann Arbor,
and on investigation it was found that
Stuart had never been a bona fide
| student at the university. The fact
| developed that while he had attended
classes. signed the usual pledge in re.
gard to professionalism and WAS
to all appearances regularly enrolled
student. hc had never registered or
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