The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-09-19
Told In q Few Limos.

IHE Plcrro DanQ mas increased llS
membership to twenty-five.
LIGHTNING started a fire on Cheyenne
island recently, and it was only by hard
work that it was kept from burning over
the whole island. Jeff Sage lost about
twenty-five tons of hay
The harvest in Brookings county IS
abundant, ever the farmers themselves
being surprised at the yield. With this
result, and with prices so favorable, they
are correspondingly happy.
JOHN B%RUcKER, of Garden City, COM
mitted suicide by blowing of the upper
portion of his skull with a shotgun.
Family troubles are said to have been
the cause. He leaves q wife and several
children.
G. LARSON, the man who drives the
Pierre milk wagon, met with a painful
accident. His cart collided with a ny
drant on the hill, upsetting him and
breaking the two bones of his left fore
arm, besides badly bruising him.
A SETTLER named Hotoff, living sixty
miles west of Pierre, while en- route homo
from Pierre, drove off a steep embank.
mcnt ten miles out on the Bad river.
falling twenty-five feet. Hotof's skull
was fractured and several bones broken,
He cannot recover.
THE B%rookings agricultural college
opened its fall term with a very full at.
tendance, every room at the college be
ing occupied, and accommodations in the
city arc being secured. Though the de
mand for rooms is beyond expectation
all students will be cared for.
WHILE driving to Montrose one day
last week, the two small children of JOIN
Stevens met with quite an experience
In some manner the horses became
frightened and ran away. The little
fellow stuck to the lines manfully ant
kept them from running into the rive
over the bank, getting them turned JUS
in time. The little girl was thrown GU
however and received several severe
scratches and bruises. They had a mar
row escape.
IT is reported that an artesian wei
has been struck at the depth of twenty
two feet in Grand Meadow township
Minnehaha county. The circumstance
of the discovery were that a farmer hat
dug a common well to the depth O
twenty feet when he took a small augel
and sank it down on a sort of prospect
ing tour. He had just got his auge
down two feet when it sank quickly ant
on pulling it out a flow of water fol
lowed. This was piped and the stream
crcpt to the surface and is now flowing
without a stop.
Mrs. A. E. DICKSON, of Milbank, i
lying in a critical condition at her home
because of the explosion of a gasoline
stove. She undertook to fill the stow
tom l. "if, tho lrro, ;~LfoJ VII a..
explosion occurred. Rushing to tn
door she called for help and then raj
back into the kitchen to a " her child
Then her clothing took fire and she wa
horribly burned about the body ant
arms. When her clothing was removed
patches of charrcd flesh were torn away
81 saved the baby anyway"
TIE lakes and ponds in Stutsma1
county, N. d., and vicinity, are nearl!
all dried up. Last year was bad enough
in this respect, but this season is worse
1t is said that Arrowwood lake has only
a small stream running through it. Las
year it was an extensive sheet of water
There is very little water in Jim lake
and non in the river above the dam al
jamestown.
DIR. HILLS little son, of Gettysburg, :
years and 6 months old, while beinf
tossed on a blanket in play by some othel
little folks, with a slight choking HI
swallowed an iron staple, 2 inches long
by p inch wide, which luckily wen
down rounded end foremost and seem.
to have kept that position to the end O
the voyage.
The soldiers home at Hot Springs wa
to have been opened on the 9th, but tn,
board has found it impossible to have tn,
building completed and ready for occu
pancy before Sept. 20.
YANKToN is petitioning for the fire.
delivery of mails.
TROUBLE is brewing on the Crow Crcel
reservation. Two settlers named Balcl
and J%ankowski had some trouble owe
cattle which resulted in Jankowsk
humping Balch. Balch threatens t
retaliate, and Us both are determine,
men serious trouble is looked for befor
the matter is ended.
THE $25, 900 of school bonds issued b
Lowell, q suburb of Sioux Falls, ar
worthless because of failure to compl
with the law in making the proper pub
LEGATION of the election notice.
A LARGE flow of water was struck at
depth of $50 feet in the artesian we'll O.
the Wilcox farm, north Of the insan
hospital at Yankton.
Gov. MELLETTE has taken a drive GU
to Nowlin county, sixty miles west O
Pierre. accompanied by several promi
nent Pierre citizens. Petitions hay
been received asking the governor to OF
ganize Nowlin, as we'll as other reserya
tion counties, which accounts for tn
trip, he wishing to make a personal in
vestiRation.
JOHN YoE, of Gettysburg, had hi
right clayicle broken and received a sc
we're cash on the head by the overture
ing of a buggy. /.
"A BARN belonging to George Kerr
who lives four miles eastnf maremnn