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THE CITY. LOCAL BREVITIES. B. E. Beers returned to Easton, Minn. I. D. Smith was a passenger for Iowa points. Miss Laura Fuller went to Vilas on the evening train. John Miller went to Flandreau on a visit to old acquaintances. S. E. Baldwin always keeps a good supply of Dwight's flour in stock. The town has been billed to day for Lemen's circus which shows here September 3. Weather report: Fair, followed by increasing cloudiness to-night and Friday Warmer to-night and Friday; southerly winds. New wheat begins to move. One car load came east to-day from Artesian, two carloads from Howard and six were sent out from Flandreau. Arrivals at the Lake Park are: Court Boyd, Huron; L. P. Comstock and D. Webster, Aberdeen; John Stewart, Minneapolis; W. H. Tarbox, La Crosse. In the advertised letter list last evening, the name of J. E. Tanner appeared when it should have been J. E. Tamer. There are several letters in the postoffice for the gentleman which will be sent to the dead letter office unless called for within the regulation time. Rev. W. J. Cleveland received a telegram last evening announcing the death of Willis Leiby who, it will be remembered, spent some time with his wife in the family of Mr. Cleveland last spring. He died at Hamberg, Pa., among friends, and was the victim of consumption. Iver Hyland of the north east part of county who returned from the asylum at Yankton some two months ago IS again partially violent and in charge of Sheriff Fox. Judge Williamson to-day notified the asylum authorities of his condition and he will probably soon be cared for. Mitchell Republican, 12: "Miss Marion L. Krom has just finished a course of study at the Cook County Normal school, Chicago. She is now visiting with friends at Perrysburg, Ohio." Miss Krom was a graduate of the Madison Normal school, class of '93. Train Dispatcher H. R. Wood and as sistant, J. E. Hickey, have control of the wires at the depot to day and John Moore started for LaCrosse. Mr. Wood says there will soon be a change in time table and an abandonment of mixed trains, which will be very agreeable to the traveling public. Langdon, N. D., dispatch, 14: A. H. Garfield' the Aberdeen, S. D., music dealer who eloped with 16-year-old Bessie Moore, of that city, arrived on the 6 o'clock train last night and at once hired a livery rig aud started for Manitou, Manitoba, about 35 miles ditant, on the Northern Pacific railroad. Garfield had shaved off bis beard and appeared fearful of arrest. Six local wheel sprinters took a spurt to Wentworth and back-a distance of 16 miles round trip-last evening. Martin Johnson was handicapped 8 minutes as against Harry Hunt and SIX minutes as against the others-Wm. Rae, Ivan Hubbell, Bert Holdridge and Frank Smith. The riding was fast and furious, Rae coming in ahead in 56:57, with the others close behind, except Smith who "bust" his wheel in a rut two or three miles from Wentworth. Johnson, however, made best time, 55:35. Some of the boys were pretty badly spavined and ringboned when they returned and have needed considerable rubbing down to keep them limber since. Pierre dispatch, 14: The receivers of the First National Bank of Redfield, and of the Gettysburg State Bank, accompanied by their attorneys, Vice President Fitch, of the Northwestern Mortgage Trust Co., and W. W. Taylor, have been attempting for several days to come to somr kind of an agreement in regard to some of the lands turned in by Taplor in settlement with the state. They failed to accomplish the purpose for which they came here. Just what they expected to do they do not divulge. but it eus. pected that they were attempting to get some of the property losse thatit might be used as proceeds of the Redfield bank. The attorney general, evidently 'could not see any object to be attained by the state in releasing an attachment, neither did the receiver of the Gettysburg bank care to let go his hold on the property in his possession, and what on the surface
