Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-10
DAKOTA NEWS.

corporation.
Payday in Lead City puts s175, 900
gold in circulation.
Walsh County is going TO try the ex-
pertinent Of poor farm.
Seventy five cars of stock were loaded
at Fargo ON Tuesday and sent east.
The papers of kingsbury County have
raised their advertising rates Ola county
business.
The middle of December is the time
get for the beginning of hog killing Mt
Sioux Falls.
"Minnewaukon is the Indian name .or
Dakoas great Inland sailed sea, known as
Devils Lake.
The territory is being canvassed in the
interest Of the Dakota Gazetteer and Bust
ness Directory.
The railroad depot at Sanborn was
burned OH the 23d ult. The loss is several
thousand dollars.
The Red River at Fargo in frozen
over, the ice ranging from eight to twenty
eight inches in thickness.
The snow drifted into the dial gearing
OF the town clock at Sioux Falls, the other
day, and stopped the machine.
A creamery and feed mill combined,
Improvements just at present.
-Four dances and wedding was GER
tainly Thanksgiving celebration enough for
town the size of Sioux Falls.
"A prairie fire in Sully County de-
stroyed q number of tons of hay belonging
to the Bruner Bros, of Carson.
- Robert Lee, colored man, fell dead
Mt his homo ut Sioux Falls the other night.
Heart disease was the probable cause.
Jack Brewer, it is reported, broke into
John Persons house at Brownsville, on
Saturday Of last week, and stole 5000.
Brewer is still at large.
Mrs. Joseph Hazeltine, Of Sanborn,
was lost in the blizzard of Monday night,
and when found was so badly frozen that
her recovery is doubtful.
A little son of c. W. Sale, of La
Moure County, s years old, with On OK
team, plowed 2G7 miles, and took care of
the team most of the time.
Fred II. Carruth, the former humorous
editor Of the Estelline Bell, after roughing
it for two months in the Black Hills coun-
try, has returned to Estelline.
During the wake over the body of a
young man named McCann, at Sioux Falls,
a few days ago, the house accidently caught
fire and the corpse was burned.
Charles Harrington, laborer, was
robbed of $45 in money, gold watch and
other valuables, at the Western House at
Bismarck on Thursday evening last.
The freeze-up on the upper Missouri
gives the villagee of Wheeler and LeBeau
tho winto, company of tho ste"mars Minnie
Herman and Tompkins respectively.
The item to the effect that the Home
stake employs 5000 men is disputed. The
fact seems to be that less than 1000 men
are employed by the company named.
A lady at Lead City, while fooling with
pistol the other day, discharged it, The
contents struck her in the wrist, nearly
necessitating the amputation of her arm.
Business was entirely suspended for a
while at Sioux Falls the other day, to give
the business community chance to GET
even with each other through the spatter-
ing SNOWFALL.
The 3-year- old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Pringle, near Bridgewater, obtained
bottle of strychnine. on the 18th, and
drank portion of the contents. 1t died
in short time in great agony.
Two children named Wcisal were
frozen to death ten miles north of Manden.
while looking for lost stock. Two young
men, brothers, named Sims, We're frozen
to death while returning from work.
Hon. f. NJ. Ziebach, who has long had
his application on file at Washington as
Gov. Pierces successor, has at last with
drawn from the race. His application has
been withdrawn, it is said, in favor of NJ.
II. Day.
The Iron Hill mill shut down yes
terday, having been in operation eleven
months, turning out quarter of mil
lion dollars. The stock, which six months
ago sold at 81, now goes begging at forty
cents.
Bert Lilly was not the choice of the pa
rents of Caddie Otis for husband, but
Caddie and Bert arranged the difficulty hy
an elopement, the first genuine sensation
of its kind that Suly County has had since
its organization.
The elevator Mt Sheldon collapsed
scattering $4,000 bushels of wheat over the
ground. 1t is reported that the elevators at
Buttzville have both started to split open in
consequence of the immense amount of
wheat stored there.
The vote of the Fourteenth Legislative
district elects to the council F. j. Washa
baugh and S. p. Wells, and to the house
John Woisemuth, John d. Patton and
A. S. Stewart. The councilmen served
in the last Legislature.
eight more suits have been commenced
at Highmore against the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Company for dam
ages caused by prairie fires. Three losses
have been settled. This leaves about thirty