Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-15

sinking fund and bond interest, $4,000
for roads and bridges. and the balance,
S., 500 for current expenses of the county
machinery.
q ten year old daughter of Rudolph
Red wick, of Walsh county, vino was
playing in o field where q moving ma
chine was at work, was accidentally
strack by the sickle which severed her
foot.
Daniel Thriller, q German farmer,
who lives in Hutchinson county, was
thrown from q load of hay, the other
day, suffering q severe fracture of the
right leg. lie ia fifty years old and has
ten children.
Orders have been received at Mitchell
for all passenger conductors and brake
men IN the Milwaukee service to uniform
themselves. The company will furnish
the first suit to the brakemen. Con
ductors will bay their own
1t is claimed that the delinquent tax
list of Sanborn county has not been
legally published. The Woonsocket
News blames the county treasurer for
withholding the list until it was too
late to have it printed on time.
Bismarck journal: This land district
contains about $4,000 sections or square
miles, and includes the largest amount
OF tillable lands subject to pre-emptlon
and homestead entry which is to be
found now in any part of the United
States.
William Hall, OF Hartford end Miss
Lizzie Sprung, of Sioux Falls, we're
united in marriage by the Rev. j.. 81.
Mooers OF tho latter place, last Saturday.
The groom is a full blooded negro and
the bride a white girl, a sister Of Mrs.
Richard Lamb, of Sioux Fails.
Parker Era: Never before in the his
tory of Turner county has such general
prosperity prevailed as this fall, The
fields have filed the granaries of our
grangers to ~oyerdoWlng, and by the time
the corn is husked, every crib will be
filled and many new ones will have to
be built, and all this in spite of the
"drouth."
Two men employed as laborers or the
farm of Mr.. Barnum, near Valley City,
attacked a fellow laborer the other day,
kicking and pounding him shamefully
and robbing him of seventy dollars.
Both miscreants were arrested and one
was kept tied to the floor all night to
prevent bis escape. The wounded man
will recover.
The assessment of McCook county for
1886 is $1,51S,S31, and the tax levied on
said assessment for territorial purposes, |
including general revenue, bond interest
and also the tenths, of mills levied as q
special tax upon the counties south of
the forty.sixth parallel for payment OF
fhn ~ kIa constitutions n1r-
vention, is two-fourths mills.
Ever since the reported suicide of
Leander Bass, who was found hanRingin
an arteslan we'll tower at Gettysburg
some weeks ago, there have been rumors
of foul play. He was known to have re-
ceivea money from the east the day
before, aud the affair points SO strongly
to murder that Sheriff Lynch, with
Basis friends, is now ct Gettysburg in
ye%stigating.
A farmer named Hans Hileerson. living
MN miles north of MI. Vernon, was
struck by q special train of Milwaukee
officials Saturday night while crossing
the track or his way home in q lumber
wagon Both horses were killed, the
wagon was splintercd and Hilgerson
had his hip crushed, leg broken and was
injured internally. probably fatally. A
freight train had just passed and Hilger-
son started to cross the track, not MOTTO
ing the passenger following.
At the silver wedding anniversary of
the Rev. S. N. Griffith and wife Of
Casselton, which was celebrated last
Friday evening, there were present about
fifty friends of the estimable couple
Among the numerous presents received
were nearly one hundred silver dollars, a
silver headed cane, silver headed UNI
brella, silver watch and a thousand
dollars worth OF cancelled notes. obliga.
tioDs that were incurred some time ago.
consequent upon the destruction of
much of their property by fire.
The granary of John Five. near Cas-
%selton, caught fire the other day while
his. three little children were playing in
it. Atwo and o half year old boy, eight
hundred bushels of wheat and several
hundred bushels of oats, as we'll as the
granary and barn were burned. The
mother of the child made every effort tc
rescue him bat was unable to do so and
was compelled to watch her loved one
burn to death. The other two children
were saved. 1t is supposed the fire
must have been started by matches il
the hands of the children.
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