Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-29

is to be completed by February /, 1889.
The Omaha Bee has raised nearly S, 600 on
their subscription fund for the heroine school
ma'ams who suffered in the late blizzard.
The second trial of VIM. r. Harris, at Ere
mont, charged with assault with attempt to
commit rape upon a number Of little girls,
has ended as it did before, in the accused be-
ing found guilty. The jury were out forty
eight hours.
A girl scarcely fifteen years Of age was re-
ceived at st. Bernard's hospital in Omaha one
day last week, who is soon to become a
mother. She is from Irvington. this state, is
an orphan and has not a friend in the world.
She refuses to give the name Of her betrayer
or that of the family with whom she lived at
Irvington.
A family at Broken Bow hired two young
men to drive them to Ainsworth to take the
train for tho black Hills. On the way the
two girls of the family got mashed on the
drivers, and when they arrived at Ainsworth
one Of them succeeded in eluding her parents
and fed with the gay Lothario she SO much
adored.
During the recent blizzard 225 sheep were
buried In the snow at Harding's ranch, near
Atkinson, and were given up as dead. A few
days ago thirteen of them were found alive
but not very brisk. They had eaten the wool
from each others backs.
DAKOTA.
Scarlet fever is reported at Madison.
Mitchell will have fire alarm system.
The Minot Rustler is soon to be issued as
daily.
Roller skating is still holding its own at
Rapid City.
Mitchell has commenced to prosecute deal
ers in ''forty-rod."
L. G. johnson has sued John H. Drake, of
the Aberdeen Pioneer for libel.
An illustrated edition of the Black Hills
is shortly to be got out by Sioux City parties.
J. B. Varnum was appointed postmaster at
Gale, Campbell county, vice Andrew Lamen-
son, resigned.
The South Dakota Firemen's tournament
will be held at Huron on June 5, 8, and 8.
A number Of prizes will be awarded.
On Thursday Peter Odegard speared an
.eighty-ive pound sturgeon in the river near
the Manitoba bridge at Grand Forks.
The Harris Graphic, published OF Reveille,
Grant county, furnishes its readers with two
columns of m after set in German.
stuisman county has declared that the 60
pliers must 60. The county will furnish the
farmers with strychnine in sufficient quanti-
ties to destroy the pestiferous little animals.
There has been considerable ice packed at
Chamberlain this winter, and many car loads
have been shipped along the Milwaukee line
as far east as Plankinton.
The Journal is anew paper at Willow Lakes.
1t has for motto: ''Truthfully tell the prin-
ter the news you know, and be sure to pay
him as you go.'
A young girl Of Lead City ran away from
home and entered house of ill-fame because
her parents wanted her to marry a man old
enough to be her grandfather.
Matthew Appel died at White Lake Wed
pesday of old age He was the founder Of
White Lake, going there in the fall of 1880
from Waterloo, Iowa.
Another cold wave struck WATERFOWL We'd
nesday night. The thermometer registered
"A degrees below zero. They have had no
train on the Minneapolis and st. Louis rail-
way since last week Friday.
IOWA.
A Salem man captured wolf and thought
he would tame it. He had 1t tied to tree
with long rope while he made the expert
ment The wolf was not pleased with the
situation, and essaycd tn eat the man up,
who climbed the tree-thus one was tied and
the other freed.
The town of Lyons, is said to possess
eouple-man and wife-who, while they eat
and sleep In the same house, each does his or
her own cooking, and neither received assis-
lance from the other. Their religious belief
VIII not permit of divorce, and as the house
is owned jointly, both reside in it.
Better L. Edwards, a farmer, living about
mile west of Calliope, was killed Saturday
forenoon by the tumbling rod of corn shell
Ter which he was operating coming loose and
striking him in the breass below the collar
bone. His neck was broken ana death W as in
Simultaneous. He leaves a wife and small
child.
A barber by the name OF Jones came near
meeting his death in the railroad yards at
Creston Tuesday night. He was crossing the
tracks when an engine struck him, knocked
m down and run over his coattail, cutting it
1t wass close call.
A. F. Powell had his preliminary hearing at
Mason City and was bound over to await the
action Of the grand jury. During the day let
lers came in from severa, southern and west
ern cities making inquiries as to Powell, and
several charges are preferred against him.
The charge upon which he was arrested is
adultery
Men employed in boring well at the hotel
In Herndon struck gas at depth Of 125 feet
Wednesday. The noise made by the etcaping
gas was heard two niles away, and when
lighted the fame leaped at least thirty-fve
feet high. The citizens are elated over the
discovery.
A lady who lives in one of the suburban ad
ditions to Des Moines, and whose husband is
: travelling man, was visited by burglars Fri
day night. She compromised with them by
Offering to let them have anything they want
I'd except the baby,
Killed His Father.
CiSc1SSA4f, Feb. 17.--James Taylor, lad |
Of Is years. wss put into The covingfon, Ken
zueky. jail last night, with his mother. by
direction Of the coroner. The boy is charged
nth the murder Ct his father during a flght
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