Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-13
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Pensions granted: Wm. b. B. Way,
0liyet; Henry Il Burns, Worthwhile,
The saloon men at Grand Forks iesr
prosecution for violating their %iniupc-
tione.
In the district court at Grand Forks,
Mira. Loretta Tanner was granted an
absolute divorce from Cornelius Tanner.
The third republican candidate for
superintendent of schools of Cass coun-
ty is Rev. Samuel NJ. Griffith, of Oass
county.
Thrashipg throughout Hughes and
Sally counties has begun. and it Is now
found that wheat has a general average
of fifteen bushels per acre best quality.
The cellar excavation Of the Plenix
hotel at Highmore is being made rapid
ly, and soon on the site of the burned
National house will appear q commo-
dions brick structure.
A fire ten miles west Of Redfeld des-
troyed the barn OF Frank FenholZ. -Four
horses, 400 bushels of grain and fifty
tons OF hay were consumed. The fire il
said TO have been started by steam
thresher.
The Dakota editorial association met
at Yellowstone park and elected the fol
lowing officers: President, George w.
Hopp, B~rookings; secretary, George
Sohlosser, Blunt; treasurer. b. M. Viii
liams, %Flandrau.
j. l.. Cotton, OF Burlington, has been
arrested for libel. The case grows out OIL
publications by the Burlington Reporter
refsoting on the character of P. A. hav-
ervold on accoant of his "~stayinR by
Melvin Grigsby in the late Wstertowr
convention.
George Dixon, o son OF a wealthy
Sioux Falls merchant, arrested at Aber
deem for burglatizing, and who confess
ed his crime, was discharged from Gus
tody, no mi appearing to prosecute
His father went to Aberdeen from Siou,
Falls and induced the complainant tt
drop the prosecution.
For the last week prairie fires hav,
been raging fieroely in the Bismsrcl
locality. The grass IS considerable,
higher and dryer at this time of yea
than yer before. A vast area Of prairi,
ls covered by the fire. There is an un.
confirmed at Bismarck that
family has fallen victims to the flames
Monday night a large barn on Benson
farm, three miles from Cassleton burned
consuming 10 horses, a few head OF cattle
grain, farm machinery, and fatally burn
ing q farm hand who was taking care c
the stock. A lantern was upset in til
straw, and the flames spread so rapid
that nothing could be eaYed, and it We
with difficulty the unfortunate man es
capped alive. He is SO terribly burned b
can not live.
Clay county, Dakota, will again oc
cupy q place in the exhibit department
of the Sioux City corn palace. Col
kidder will have charge Of the display
The display last year was handled b.
this gentleman and 1t was a grand one
It was Ccl. .Kidder's corn that took th
first premium. II was q new kind O
corn and produced seventy bushels t
the acre for three years on the colonel
farm near Vermillion.
Interest in the Hamilton divorce cas-.
on trial at Aberdeen, eliminated Mon
day wber Mrs. Rose Hamilton, {
Winona, took the stand. ehe is a yer
attractive, if not a beautiful woman
modest and ladylike in appearance, On
gave her testimony in a direct and con
vinoIng way. She hotiy denied intimac
with plaintiffs witnesses, detailed Ham
ilton's desertion of her and bis offer {
$3.50 if she would consent to q divorc,
Under o long and severe cross-examint
tion her testimony was unshaken.