The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-10

NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS



NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS
New York-A one-inch lotlet and u
tivc-inch toilet We're sold n auction.
The strips are ON the Site of the Penn
sylvania railroads's tunnel station.
when the railroads brokers bought the
! surrounding land the tiny lotl-ls i4@,.
been lctt out OF the deeds 10y " mistake
in the surveys They comprise inches
bv 9S.9 feet and ! inch by loo feet.
| Kidding began ut $500 on the smaller
lotlet. Charles a. Cone and Herman
Fromme ran it up 10 $1,000. Mr.. Cone
got it. He represented the railroad.
He got the larger lotlet for $1,000.
Atlanta. Ga.-Robert Lansley's fail
ure to greet his young wife with Il kiss
when he returned to his boarding house
resulted in Mrs. Langley being arrest-
| cd on Il charge of t~hraShing her huS-
band. The evidence was to the effect
that when Langley did not kiss her
Mrs. Langley attempted TO force him
to kiss her.
Atlanta. Ga.-Four hundred jaybirds
got ON a bird of Il drunk near Grant
Park. The cause of the scandal was
a large wild cherry tree loaded With
fruit. Some of the birds We're in fight
ing humor, others grew maudlin, while
SUN otIlclS ssol dSsid VI biih oiiA VI
easily captured.
Middletown, N. Y.-Mrs Mary Dom
aldson is dead at her home in Bethel.
She was 100 years old. Mrs. Donaldson
was active until a few days before her
DEATH, bat became blind about a year
ago. Her husband, Andrew Donaldson,
survives her. hale and hearty at the
age of 80.
Z pncto,-ESooh 1tronyin ~ t0y n, yIr cd
Portland, Ore. U. S. A." three little
girls, the eldest not more than ~ years
old. arrived here unaccompanied on
the Cunard line steamer Ivernia from
Helsingfors. Finland, he present seat
of serious revolutionary disturbances.
Littleton, Colo.-Thomas Walsh's au-
tomobile, while filled with a party of
Denver people, had a narrow escape
from colliding with q Santa Fe passen-
ger train. Now there is a Waterman
at the crossing at Mr.. Walsh's expense.
Washington, d. C.-The secretary of the
treasury has been %enjoined by the su-
preme court of the District of Columbia
from paying the sum of $500 represent
ting the proceeds of government bonds to
John f. Green and William I. .Gaynor, on
the ground that these men bought the
bonds with funds embezZled from the gov
srnment The injunction was asked by the
department Of justice.
Philadelphia, Pa.-The simple life in its
simplest form was experienced by four
young men who spent the greater part of
4 day roaming entirely and completely
naked over the beautiful island of Lafay-
cite. In the %Schuykill. above Roxborough.
apon which they had been 'marooned.'
Their boat with their clothing drifted
away while they were in swimming.
Berwick. Pa.-Carrying the head of a
sicious dog, who bit him severely and
which it is believed was mad, c. w. Shan
aon left today for the Pasteur Institute in
New York, where, if it is found by an ex-
animation of the head that the dog was
afflicted with rabies, Shannon Will under
go treatment.
Greensboro. ky.-Within five minutes
after the police raided his saloon for pur-
pose of arresting the players in a poker
game. Scott Mccormick died of heart dis
ease. "A physician testified at the coron-
cr's jury that the excitement caused by
the raid brought about M~cCormick's
death.
Ediabursn-Thc Wine Trade Review"
gives four words which have been regis
tered as designations CT whisky. They are:
Observation-Disclosures" "Agaphy-
on. "Sempernlicklement," and "Skabrig-
dantyfuge."
London-A wife. 1919 years old, obtained
a separation. with 10 shillings a week ALI
mony, at the West London police court.
She had been married ten months, and
her husband is 81 years old.
L~ondon-Gerald Buncombc. the Cam
bt9ige undergraduate. whose heart was
sewn up with twenty stitches nearly n
fortnight before. died at the West Kent
hospital, Cambridge.