Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
L. N. Griffin of Bismarck was ar.
rested, charged with assaulting NJ. P.
Motif, OF the Settler, Farmer.

L. N. Griffin of Bismarck was ar.
rested, charged with assaulting NJ. P.
Motif, of the Settler, Farmer.
At Aberdeen, fire destroyed the
store OF +. II. Willis, the billiard hall
OF P. Abelin and the Germania. Loss,
$4,000.
DR.. John R. Logan, a young physi-
clan OF Grand Forks, narrowly es-
capped asphyxation. The gas pipe
leaked in the room in which he slept.
Aberdeen Building and Loan associa-
TONS annual report shows that $685.
600 has been loaned for the construc-
ton OF dwellings during the past year.
A conservative estimate places the
amount that will be loaned during
1888 at S50,
A prisoner in the territorial peni-
tertiary at Sioux Falls, is a money
lender. He made a loan o. $500 re-
Gently on a farm in the vicinity.
The question OF the legality OF the
recent local option election at Sioux
Falls, which was brought before Judge
Palmer's court OIL a writ of c%ertiorari,
was decided in the affirmative. The
liquor men will take an appeal to the
supreme court OF the territory for
final determination.
Six persons persisted in the recent
storm in the vicinity of Faulkton.
Two little German boys, eight and
twelve years old, were out in the en-
tire storm and all through the night.
One of them is likely to lose a little
toe but otherwise they are all right.
At Mitchell, the wife of Eeverett
Smith, of the United States land of.
fee. died suddenly OF heart disease.
At Aberdeen, the Farmers Mutual
Live Stock asscUstioG., q STOCK Insur
arse organized last spring, is about
to wind up its business. Since Dec. 1
few of the members have paid their
assessments. The claims for losses of
stock now amounts to about $4,000,
and there is not more than 5000 with
which to meet them. No charges are
made against the officers.
The Hyde county treasurer has
turned over all his property to meet
any deficit that may be found in the
public funds by the examining COM
mittee now at work. There is a def
cheney, but how much is not yet
known.
Mrs. Fred Sassler, of Willoughby
township, near Gary, who became in
sane over the fate OF her two boys,
who were lost in the late blizzard,
died, and was buried a few days ago.
The boys sought ST elter in a school
house. taking their cattle with them.
and were saved.
At Aberdeen, the agent of an East
ern machine company closed a con-
tract for 200 drills with the Farmers
Alliance company. The transaction
involves $40, 0oo.
w. P. Crenshaw OF Fargo went to
Wapheton and attached the pro-
ceeds of the Richard Foote company.
He is the one who was horsewhipped
by Miss Fenton, the star actress OF
the company, at Crookston. Out OF
a 500 house Crenshaw secured $50.
The rest was pat out OF his reach.
Warrant was sworn out at Church's
Ferry by the wife of Neal McKeague
against Hillerman, who killed her hus.
band. The trial took place, lasting
two days, when ]. +. 0'Brien, attor-
ney for Hillerman, moved to dismiss
the case on account OF insufficient
evidence to sustain the charge.
A dispatch from Parker. says:
There were only nine deaths resulting
from the blizzard in this county.
About 200 cattle and as many hogs
persisted. This is given to correct the
exaggerated accounts Of the losses in
this county given by Eastern news
paper correspondents at Sioux Falls
and elsewhere.