Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-26

NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS. .



Wildwood-by-the-Sea-A !eviathan was
landed by the crews OF the pound fisher
les at this place after an exciting tive
hours tussle. in which several oc the sail.
ors were thrown into the sea. 1t is a g.
gantic specimen OF the deop-soa sunish,
and weighs LOCO pounds. The "sea-cow."
as sailors term It. has two immense fms,
with eyes as large as teacups and Il hui.
mIan-i.ke mouth aud ov~orhauging fore.
head.
Wilkosbarrc, Fa.-IAcra Is danger that
the borough of saltwater will be left with.
out enough voters To MI thu public Of
fees. The borough had forty-four quail.
fled voters. Many of these are employed
in a planning mill. which this week was
removed TO Berwick. and II number have
followed the mill. The borough has TWEEN
two public offices 10 ill. and less thar
thirty voters are left, while .ome of these
may st,ll remove.
.Arnes, Ia.-An extra freight on the main
line of the Northwestern had a wheel of a
furniture ear loose on the journal. The
wheel worked loose. left the track and ran
along on the ties for about twenty miles,
cutting of the tWo inside track bolts or
every rail joint in Its course. lnvestiea-
ton showed that the wheel had taken OF
nearly every track bolt from Nevada tC
Boone.
Lexincton. Ky.-Aitcr forty years con-
fcdoratc soldiers of General John II. Nor
cams command are receiving pay from the
federal government for horse taken from
them when they surrendered. pr. !. l..
Frazee and several other former confed.
! crates OF this city who surrendered &c
General +. II. llohson at Mt. Sterling,
~. L., -, Ike. hn. ttS. .aa.f,+ at,..l. :
for sl23.
Marysvine, kan.-Wm Grall bought a
l6-horso power engine and = SIX gang pillow
TO use In hvcaking 400 acres of land in
Logan county. He Will now doubl the
capacity Of his steam pillow by buying a D.
horse power engine and a iwalve-gans
pillow. The new ris will have u secder and
lister attachment behind the plows so that
the entire job can be done by going over
tho field once,
Pittsbure. Pa.-Citizcne OF the Lawrence.
willie district of P.ttsbure have complained
that the fumes from n big soap factory on
Hers Island, in the Allegheny river. have
killed all bird life In that section. and AN
Investigation has been ordered. III IL
asserted that cage birds for a mile sur
rounding the factory die within n few
days. Even the hardy English sparrows
have been driven away.
Salt Lake City. Utah.-A sign bearing
the words. Baby for Sale" displayed for
several days in front of n cottage in Wa
terloo, IL suburb. caused the arrest of Mrs.
Mueller BY an officer of the juvenile court.
I Al investigation developed the fact that
several persons had offered to buy the
child. onc woman Offering $50. but Mrs.
Mueller would not sell for less than SIPS.
Leavcnworth KAMA year ago Eiliy
Evans. the policeman. fell from n boat into
the Missouri river and lost HIS hat. and to-
day a catfish was caught In the river
which when cut open. gave up Evans hat.
The fish had swallowed the hat. The fish
weighed - pounds and was one of the
largest caught In the river in a long time.
Cumberland. Md.-The Rev. Thou.as y.
Alderton. aged tifty, of Great Cacapon, w.
Va, dropped dead from apopleXy while
preaching in the pulpit at Greenwich Zap
list church, at Reosmills. w. Va. He stood
nearly seven feet and weighed moro than
three hundred pounds. He had been a
preacher for twenty-five years.
New Brunswick, n. with both legs
and an arm cut off, Harry Machin, of
Trenton. laid upon a stretcher at the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad station here this
morning and smoked q cigarette He then
begged one of the railroad men to put Kim
out of his misery. He had fallen from a
freight train.
Irar worth. TEA large vampire hat
attacked the Rev. II. c. Jacquish while he
was sitting on the gallery of his home III
Marshall last night. and was killed after a
hard fight. The ba: measured more than
sixteen inches from tip to tip and had i
heavy coat OF hair over its body.
CE!caec.-Neison J.. Barnes car smoke
d $4,000 cigarette amy time he wishes. The
young society man has made a wager with
! his uncie-in-law, John NJ. Barker. the mil.
,ionairc ear builder, of Michigan city, tina
ne will stop smoking cigarettes. IL he
smokes one, he loses $4,000.
Austin, TEX Miss Bcttlc Murrei.. Of
Temple. Tex. while on her way to Chau.
tauqua, y. y. WAS bitten by a rattlesnak,
which was in her berth in the Pullman
AR. A physician accompanied her tc
r~hautauqua, where She is said 20 Ike in /;
serious condition.
Milwaukee. Nis.-Coloael J. II. sie3or o.
PIttsburg passed through this city wit:
the largest muskcllungc .ver caught in III,
, state. The fish weighed eighty pounds an,
, was caught near Tomdhawls. 1t is be
lievod the fish is 80 years old.
81. JoseNa. Micf.-To sri.e '.is mifs. wifi,
whom ne had quairclcd. Ira Livingston,
Forest I'm farmer. 20 years old, took
3 horse and buggy, a wedding present. drov,
{ to the woods. shot the horse. burned tn
buggy and killed himself.
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TOLD IN BRIEF.
Scrlin--Bavarian trains will acon b.
1 q, ,tiy,anl utt -p.i,A1A-- t,1a,yn,h,-
New York-Thlec deaths resulte'
from heat prostrations here yesterday
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