Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-07-12
DAKOTA ITEMS.

AleAaluTla Is plnlnS IOr q circus.
Yankton is having u potato famine.
War is being made on the saloon
keepers of Dell Rapids.
e. e. GrisM old has moved his Jour
nal from Dell Rapids to Sioux Falls.
The Plankinton Standard is running
four columns of mortgage sale notices.
There must be more room made for
insane patients, as the Yankton asylum
is full.
a banquet. was given to Judge Car
land Friday evening by the bar of Bis
marck.
The county commissioners of Davis
on county have ordered another cleo
ton on local option.
Never before were crops SO promising
throughout Faulk county as they are
at the present time.
Richardson, the Canton rape iiend.
not being able to furnish bail, is now in
the Sioux Falls Jail.
Sioux Falls Stonemasons are on a
strike. They want ten hours pay-S4
for nine hours work.
The building and improvements in
Sioux Falls, for the first six months
of 1888 foot up S654.550.
The most severe thunder storm for
years passed oyer Moody county Satur-
1n1, ~ o,n1.nI-
The terrltorialSunday school conven-
ii n meets at Mitchell this week. Five
hundred delegates are expected.
The annual meeting of the South
Dakota Pharmaceutical Association
will be held at Huron, August 21st and
22d,
A child of Alf Carleson. of Taylor
township, Hanson county, was killed
by the flying timbers of a barn in the
storm of the Fourth.
One hundred men are now at work
on the waterworks at Watertown, and
dirt will soon fly on the motor line from
the city to Lake Kampeska.
The job of building the new school
house at Parker has been let to Lenord
& Cooley. of Sioux Falls for $500
The highest bid was $1,000.
JOB Scobey, formerly of Brookings
once partner of George w. Mathews
and president of the territorial council
when the capital removal bill passed in
1883, is how the business end of the
Farmers Voice of Chicago. The Voice
is a bowling free trade sheet.
Thepeople of Elkton have purchased
ten acres Of land near that town and
have entered into a contract to deed II
to Mr.. Alsip as soon as he shall have
burned half million brick. He is {
practical brickmaker and claims tht
clay the best he has seen in Dakota.
A heavy wind storm struck Howard
Miner county, at one clock Saturday
morning. Several buildings in tn,
country were blown down, trees broker
and other property damaged, 1t was
| followed by a heavy rain and some hal
but not enough to damage crops to an,
extent.
| a young man ut Grand Forks TIL,
other evening went back into churcl
to find Il parcel. The gas had beer
turned off insecurely and when hi
lighted a match to find his bundle al
explosion followed that blew him int,
the street and greatly damaged tn
building. Strange to say, the young
man was but slightly injured.
i Labor day was celebrated in Siou.
Falls Saturday by the knights of labo
and the county farmers alliance hold
ing joint celebration. The attendanc
was large and the parade was lon!
one. In addition to the farmers an,
knights Of labor in line there were tn
stonecutters, printers, cigarmakers AM
bricklayers who belong to unions.
a very sad accident occurred in Spen
Ger on the Fourth. A party of voun,
men were firing revolvers in the all
Henry Leuth, a merchant, was one 0
them. The chamber of his revolve
caught, and in trying to fix it tn
weapon was discharged. The bulle
crossed the street and struck Mimi
Book, aged 1G, entering the a.bdome
and lodging near the back bone. Med
cal aid was summoned, but there is n
hope for her recovery.
AT a meeting of the county commis
sioners of Cass county Friday pt
tition with over two thousand signi
lures was presented. asking that til
sale of liquor be again submitted to
votes of the county. The petition wa
granted and an election ordered, to L
held on Monday, Nov. II. The p,
:, tition was circulrted by those VIII
favor high license, and the commi
sioners have pledged themselves, is prt
hibition is defeated. to tix tho liccns
III $3.50.