The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-10-08
LATE DAKOTA NEWS.
The Diana Monitor has been sold.

The Diana Monitor has been sold.
A prairie fire near Fargo destroyed
1,500 tons of hay.
Editor Mcconnell of the Carthage
Home is very low.
Judge Church holds court ut
Redfeld on the 2Gth.
Col. Price is advertised to speak at
Kimball on the 9th inst.
The Kimball Graphic appears in a
handsome new dress this week.
| Armour celebrated with bonfire
in the occasion of the first train into
the town.
VIM. Christie, of Dubuque, has
bought an interest in the Parker Mill
Company.
The st. Paul grand jury has indicted
Frank ]. Mead, of Mandan. the slayer
of Frank Farnsworth, for murder.
Bloomington Courier: Nick Oldham
has sold his ranch at the Mulehead
bottom to Mr.. Bouschey for $4,000
AT an early hour Friday morning
one-half of the business portion of
Wilmot, Oak, was destroyed by fire.
A. j. Macy, of Springfield, ID. T., is
the newly appointed postal clerk on
the run between Sioux City and Yank-
ton.
Mrs. Cook, of IIighmore, was bound
over to the grand jury Friday on a
bond Of $3.50 for larceny and harbor-
ing stolen goods.
The Plankinton and Bloomington
base ball clubs played recently at
White Lake, the score standing l3 to
IL in favor of the former.
TIE Malkinson murder trial at Mil
ler resulted in verdict OF man
slaughter. NLalkinson killed Il bar
tender named Garvey last March.
]. NJ. Quinn, of the Bismarck
Tribune, now on vacation, was re-
Gently married in Chicago, to Miss
Alice Writ, formerly of Bismarck.
| Pukwana Press, 20: w. A. Sherwin,
grain buyer at d. r. Putman's ele-
yator, left yesterday for Douglas coun-
ty. Geo. A. Frink, the. former buyer,
takes his place.
The wife of f. a. Kennedy, who
went to Sioux Falls from Blue Earth
City year ago, was granted divorce,
it being shown that he has been living
with another woman.
The Empire Harvesting Company
have concluded to move their terrific
rial headquarters from Sioux Falls to
Mitchell this fall, Mitchell being a
more central point for them.
The mail carrier between Castle
wood and Arlington hada fearful en-
counter with a savage bull dog the
other day. He was fortunately armed
and shot the brute, otherwise he might
have suffered serious injuries.
; The first annual fair of the Miner
county agricultural society has been 9
success. There were 800 entries and
1900 in premiums offered. There is
good display of cattle, sheep, hogs
and poultry; also vegetables, etc.
District Attorny Giaspel, of Stuts
mar county, rules that the recent law
of congress restricting county taxes to
per cent Of the assessed valuation Of
the county does not apply to the cur.
, rent expenses of a county, but to the
, unusual expenses.
A sixteen-year-old boy, Lewis
Magestad, near Volga, pulled gur
out of a hay-rack with the muzzl'
toward him, and as consequence, tn
> contents entered his left breast, tear
! ing around among the ribs and lungs
and lodging back of the shoulder.
, The Bismarck Tribune says: Th
pay rolls for all officers and men O
i the militia attending the encampmen
4 at Aberdeen have been received ant
r approved at the executive department
4 of the territory. The auditor ha
|. already begun issuing warrants fo
q them.
Il Potter county is suffering with
l. typhoid epidemic. Several deaths ar
reported and it is feared the sicknes
, will extend. The cause is attribute
r to the water at Gettysburg. Mis-
II Emma Nichols, superintendent OF til
v schools, died Friday. The citizens ar
J. badly frightened.
n Thos. McConnele, editor of th
Il Prairie Home, is SO i'll that there is yer
q little chance of his recovery. Mr.. M,
Connell is over 50 years of age, an
N while formeraly a man OF vigorol
d constitution, of late years the dec.ir
# in health has been rapid and dishear
I ening to the sufferer and his friends.
O. North st. Lawrence will most like
" he the crossing point Of the Milwauke
II road a deal is reported wherel
y Ives, Dexter & Co., of Chicago,
Lawrence Townsite company, pu
s: chased ef"Bunll' Seeker, for $500
W quarter section of land adjoining Il
ed townsite, which was decided to 9th
It's parties.
an Yankton Press: VIM. Powers h
1T, given the faculty of Yankton cole
to permission to supply the cole
m grounds with all the trees wante
;. from the Powers Il Dewey propert
Il on Smutty Bear bottom, and it is su
in gested that the citizens assist in IL
We possible way in the work of setti
!. !. :, them out.
"a On complaint Of the leading prohi