Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-08
wealth and prosperity to the coming

wealthSand prosperity to the coming
state.
Brooking's building and loan CON-
pany has just completed its fret years
work and the books show q profit of if-
ty-fye per cent. on every dollar invested,
Grading has begun on the railroai ex.
tension from Ipswich to Roscoe, in Ed
munds county, and it Is expected that
the road will be completed by August.
The body of the young man who was
drowned in the Sioux river last Sunday
was found Tuesday about thirty rods
below the place where the accident
occurred.
Mrs. Charles Plattner died at Scotland
last week, making the third death that
has occurred in that family within the
past two months. two younger sons and
the mother.
Miss Belle Dick, an employee of the
Sioux Fails Press office, and James n.
Woodruff, foreman of the Press news
room, were joined in wedlock on We'd
nesday, the 9th.
At an electlon in Altoona, Sphinx coun-
ty, the Srd, there was a close contest
between the license and anti-license PEG.
pie, the license ticket being elected by
a small majority.
Lorenzo a. Chase, of New Hampshire,
aged eighty-two years, has recently
settled in Hand county. He says he has
come here to renew his youth and grow
up with the country.
A lady aged elghty-two years died in
Hand county the other day, and the
local papers feel called upon to explain
that her early passing away was the re-
suit of an accident.
The new town at the. terminus of the
extension Of the Milwaukee road from
Ipswich is called Bowdle, after A. NJ.
Bowdle, vice president of the First
National bank of Mitchell.
At the recent term of the Grant coan.
ty court out of q number of applicants
fordivorce not q decree was granted
Judge Church evidently does not favor
looseness in that direction.
The recent social event at PIaAkidton
was the marriage of Mrs. Josephine
White to Mr. Geo. De Pue. The elite o
the town witnessed the ceremony and il
proved an occasion long to be remem
+ bered.
The Touring mill at Plankinton is rul
by steam which is mad from flax straw
and which costs but q little more thar
! half as much as when coal was used il
the engine and is fully as satisfactory ii
t EVERY way.
Miss Minnie BovSe, only daughter OIL
r Alderman Alex. Bovee, OF Elk Point anG
Mr.. Geo. Hasson, foreman of tht
I Courier office, were united in thu holy
bonds of wedlock at the home Of the
bride, last Thursday.
Mitchell Republican: While a party
OF Russian immigrants were waiting
down at the depot Tuesday their mum.
Der was increased by the birth of a baby,
of regulation size. This didn't delay
their journey though.
A double wedding occurred in the
Catholic church at Pierre last Sunday
morning. The contracting parties were
A. d. Hengle, Of Pierre and Miss Mary
Wairich, Of Minnesota and Ferdinand
Cramer and Mise Mary Schmidt. both
of Suiiy county.
Ed. r. Young 10 farmer living nea,
~Flandreau, last Wednesday murdered
his wife by outing her throat with s
butcher knife and stabbing her seyera
times in this breast, and afterwards cut
ting his own throat from ear TO esr witt
q pen knife. He lived several hour,
and Acknowledgements guilt, put CAV.
no cause for the horrible deed.
Milbank and Big Stone City in Gran
county, are pooling their TO
the purpose Of making the best use o
their natural advantages. There ar,
several springs of water in The vicipit,
of Big Stone lake which are said Il
possess great medicinal valu,
and the project is to build q huge SAM
tar,um and mako it the great health re
sort of the northwest.