Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-03
South Dakota.

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ltrade carnival.
The ladies of Iroquois have organized q
Dorcas society.
There are seventy-seven students in the
Washington Springs eminary.
Thieves broke into car of relief goods
1t Iroquois and stole seven sacks of Hour.
The Kimball Graphic says South Dakota
will soon be the banner poultry state of the
inion.
Canton Hobleit has been bound over to
the circuit court ut Doland on a charge of
norse stealing.
A lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen was organized at Grand
Forks last week.
A public spirited citizen of Sturgls mas
offered to donate site in that city Tor q
new court house and county Jail
Plymouth church, at Grand Forks, which
was damaged by fire November l0, has
been rebuilt and was reopened Sunday
State Examiner Blanchard inspected the
leaf mute asylum at Sioux Falls last week
and found everything in first class order
The early closing movement inaugurated
by the w. c. L. .. of Sioux Falls has been
successful and will so into effect j anuary l.
John Brake, of Deadwood, tried to stop
herd of stampeded cattle near that place
asst Friday and was run over and badly
INJURED
James Davis, living near Ipswich, was
thrown from his buggy by II runaway
lorse while returning from church Sunday
and suffered compound fracture of one
u his legs.
Mrs. Annie Olson died Friday at Yanl5-
on after a short illness, leaving little
aaby. Her scamp of u husband deserted
ler some time ago and the little one is
without father Or mother.
Specimens Of ore have been forwarded
from Alaska to the Rapid City school of
mines to be assayed, dispute having
arisen as to it's value Prof. q. e. Bailey,
Of the school, will act as referee.
Ole Olson, jr.. of Sioux Falls, claims to
he the first white child born in what is now
the state of South Dakota. He first saw
she light March ., 1860, on his fathers
Farm, eight miles west of Vermilion.
a mountain lion jumped on a toy named
McAuley near his home at Galena, and but
tor the timely arrival of Il party OF wood
huulers, who were attracted by the boys
cries, would have made short work of him.
A savage animal, dog and wolf, mixed,
bit little Pearl Sedgwick, Of kimball, in Il
terrible manner las week. The brute bit
off "a portion of the chld's scalp and
chunk out of her arm. The animal was
shot.
Sheriff Sundbaclz. of Sioux Falls, ar
rested VIM. Perkins at Pierre and took
him back to the former city on charge of
eppropriating SEQ belonging to Sioux
Falls saloonleeper for whom he worked
and skipped out.
S. c. Masters, of DeSmet, has invented
an instrument with which he can detect
the presence of any kind of mineral or vein
of water at any depth below the surface,
and tell the exact location, depth and ex-
tent of the vein
In addition to the Soldiers home a half
dozen other public buildings are in process
of construction at Hot Springs, among
them a sanitarium, to be run in connection
with the Hot Springs company's large
stone hotel.
4 new disease has broken out among
horses ranging on Dry creek in the Black
Hills. 1t has so far proved fatal in only a
few instances, but stoclsmen are neverthe-
less greatly alarmed, fearing it will be-
come more violent i'll form.
A disease resembling diphtheria has
oeen affecting Deadwood cats, and the at
:ention of the local physicians has been
sailed to it to determine as to whether it is
not the cause OF several cases of sickness
among the children who have been playing
With the felines.
The house OF John Slfen, near Rare
Butte, together with contents, was entirely
destroyed by fire last week. Silfen is
poor man with a wife and seven children
and the liberal people of Sturgis and vicin-
ty came to his relief and helped him out in
ais need.
The Pioneer says that Deadwood is now
owing to the success of the Iron Hill and
syndicate smelters and the possibility of
reducing ore as cheaply there as at Omaha
d. Kansas City, independent of railroads,
but that they will probably come soon, just
the same.
George Haigh, an aged Englishman, was
found dead i'll his bed at Bismarck Friday.
He had two sons living in England, but no
IcAdll'C III ILLS SOuAIIy. 4AC adu Uccu
resident of Bismarck eight years and was
much respected citizen. Old age and de,
bility were the causes of death.
Aliens tow mill at Centerville, one of
the most important manufacturing euter-
prises in the town, was burned to the
ground on the 10Th inst. The loss was
fully 3d. GO, with no insurance. The citi-
zens held meeting last week to devise
means to make good the loss and rebuild
the mill
Deadwood Times, 81: Representative
Clifford on Wednesday introduced bill in
the house granting right of-way to the
Sturgis and Fort Meade motor line across
the Fort Meade military reservation The
enterprise suggested is purely local, and
doubtless will be pushed to carly compile
ton.
Lehman, the murderer of Constable
Burns, of Custer county and who was a
short time ago found guilty and sentenced
to death, has been granted new trial by
Judge Nowlin on account of an irregular
ity in charging the jury. He is thought to
be insane, and will be examined Ly the
commissioners of insanity.
The diphtleria epidemic in the Heyd
settlement near Leola is now fully under
control. Out Of forty cases twenty-sis
deaths occurred, more than half children.