Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-06-26
Dakota Territorial News.

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four valuable horses by lightning.
At Cooperstown $50 tons of buffalo
bone are awaiting shipment.
The penitentiary at Bismarck viii be
completed Sept i.
A postoffice was established at Lud-
den, Diekey county.
The Canning News says wolf in that
vicinity has killed many colts and young
cattle.
Col. W. @. Plummer, late Of Fargo,
is 10 be editor of the Bismarck Tri-
bune.
The child born on the Sioux Falls
race track the other day has been named
Sue f., after the city.
Buffaloes are reported swarming
over the ranges west of the Black Hills,
aid hundreds of cattle mingle with
them.
Near Keystone, an eight-year old
daughter Of Mr.. Mcdonald was struck
by lightning andkilled.
The Fourth Of July viii be eelehrat-
ed at Ordway by laying the corner stone
Of the new Methodist university.
Troops will be sent from Fort Penn
bina to protect people living in Rolette
and Cavalier counties against a band Of
horse thieves.
Mr.. Nels Larson, a Washburn settler
was run oyer by his own team, while re-
turning from Bismarck and killed.
w. w. Sumner, while on a hunt in
the Knife River valley beyond Bismarck
accidentally shot himself in the thigh,
dying after amputation had been PER
formed.
Fred Evans of Deadwood is deliver.
ing on contract, fifty yoke of oxen at
Cheyenne river agency, ten yoke al
Brule agency and 700 heifers and forty
bullsa al the Grow agency, Montana.
During a recent storm at Mandan
showers of fish fell from one to five in
ches in length, many of which were
gathered alive and placed in an aquari-
nm.
Lightning struck the public hall al
Thompson while the company was en-
ioying a dance, about two-shirds Of
those present being knocked down and
all considerably shocked.
j. O. Ansley of Liverpool, Ohio, who
shot George Gibbs of Bismarck, was ar,
raigned and remanded to jail to avail
the result of the shot. The hall was re-
moved from Gibbs neck and there is nc
hope for his recovery.
During a storm near Mayville,
several granaries were blown down
and in one place a seeder was blown
quarter Of a mile across the field. A
barn partially completed west of Port
land was moved from its foundation.
f. Fl. Deyaux, county physician, wa
arrested at Valley City on charge Of raw
ishing a fourteen-year-old inmate o
the country poor house named Chris
tine Collins, who it is claimed is slight,
If not wholly demented.
A Mr.. Blackman, living rear Vol
Populi, while assisting a neigh
Dor with an unruly COW, Received akicI
in the abdomen which caused his death
The suit against L. A. Foote, former
" cashier Of the bank Of Kimball, clIarg
him with having embezzled $172 Of
~depositor's money, resulted in hi
prompt acquittal.
White and Widner, of the defunc
Miner county bank, have been a~rrestet
at Howard on a charge Of embezzle
ment. George r.. Farmer, a depositol
Institutes the suit.
A six-year-old daughter Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Tufts, living near Graft on, found
a bottle OF strychnine, and took som,
of it with fatal results.
Clement Horde, living near Madison.
died instantly while working in a field
at the age of tifty-three years.
l.. D.. Rolph Of Welch has q COW
which gives fifty pounds Of milk daily
Nels Rivitt, a Frenchman about fifty
years of age, dropped dead about thret
miles south of MARVEL as he stepped
froma raft of logs which he and 9
partner we're floating down the Red
river.
A picnic party from Bathgate
comprising some twenty-one persons,
were fishing ON the Pembina river,
eight miles north OF Walhalla, Thursday
when a boat containing the daughter Of
Col. Grandy was upset, and the young
lady was drowned. Her body has moi
been recovered.
An Indian mc-nd has been opened al
Page, near Tower City, in which were
found the skeleton OF a man in a sitting
posture, facing the east, with two more
skeletons, making a group, all in the
same position. One skeleton had the
stem of apipe in its mouth. The re-
mains OF a dog and a horse were also
unearthed, together with a curious
shaped stone, covered with figures.
Several groups of skeletons we're found
also a well defined wall as If the ground
had deem removed TO an unknown depth
and filed with soil,