Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-17

. NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS


New York-A one-inch lotlet and q
fiye-inch lotlet were sold at auction
The strips are on the site OF the Penn
s%ylvania railroads. tunnel station
When the railroads brokers bought the
surrounding land he tiny lotlSts nae
been left out of the deeds by ., mistake
In the surveys. They comprise 4 inches
nv 9s.9 feet and / inch by 100 feet.
Bidding began at $500 on h smaller
lotlet. Charles A. Com and Herman
F'romme ran IL up to 81, 800. Mr.. Cone
got It. He represented the railroad.
He got the larger iotlet for $4,000.
Atlanta, Ga.-Robert Langiey's fall
are to greet his young wife WITH a kiss
when he returned TO his boarding house
resulted in Mrs. Langley being arrest
ed on a charge of thrashing her hus-
hand. 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 a drunk near Grant
Park. The cause OF the scandal was
a large wild cherry tree loaded with
fruit. Some OF the birds were in fight
ing humor, others grew maudlin, while
still others got dead drunk and were
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, but became blind about a year
ago. Her husband, Andrew Donaldson,
survives her, hale and hearty at the
OF 92.
Boston-Each wearing a tag marked
Portland, Ore, u. S. A." three little
girls, the eldest not more than IL years
old, arrived here unaccompanied on
the Cunard line steamer Ivernia from
Helsingfors, Finland, the present seat
OF serious revolutionary disturbances.
Iittleton, Colo.-Thomas Walsh's au-
tomobile, while filled with a party OF
Denver people, had a narrow escape
from collidlng with a 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 SUI
preme court OF the District of Columbia
from paying the sum Of $25, 60, represent
ing the proceeds of government bonds TO
John f, Green and William T. 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
day roaming entirely and completely
naked over the beautiful island of Lafay-
rite, In the Schuykill, above Roxborough,
apon which they had been 'm~arooned."
Their boat with their clothing drifted
away while they were in swimming.
Berwick, Pa.-Carrying the head OF a
gicious dog, who bit him severely and
which II is believed was mad, G. w. Shan
aon left today for the Pasteur Institute in
New York. where, II 1T is found by an ex-
animation OF the head that the dog was
afflicted with rabies. shannon win 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-
er's jury that the excitement caused by
the raid brought about McCormick's
death.
Edinburgh-The Wine Trade Review"
gives four words which have been regis
tered as designations OF whisky. They are:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "Agaphy-
on, "Sempermicklement," and 'Skabrig-
.dantyfuge."
London-A wife, 1914 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 Il years old.
L~ondon-Gerald Buncombe, the Cam
bridge undergraduates, whose heart was
sewn up with twenty stitches nearly a
fortnight before, died at the West Kent
hospital. Cambridge.