Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-09-17
Told In u Few Lines.

membership to Twenty-Five.
LIGHTNING started fire on Cheyenne
island recently. and ii was only by hard
work that 1t was kept from burning over
the whole island. JEFF Sage lost about
twenty-five tons Of haM
THE harvest IN Brookings county IL
abundant, even the farmers themselves
being surprised at the yield. With this
nas,EoIir s,EoIrya Baatthkk. tEihh b III Earden City, com
mitted suicide by blowing off the upper
portion of his skull with shotgun
Family troubles are said to have been
the cause. He leaves wife and several
children.
c. LARSON, the man who drives the
Pierre milk wagon, met with painful
accident. His cart coliided with a hy-
drant Oh 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 home
| from Pierre. drove off steep cmbank-
ment ten miles out on the Bad river.
| falling twenty-five feet. Hotoff's skull
was fractured and several bones broken.
| He cannot recover.
The Brookings agricultural college
| opened its fall term with very full at
| tendance. every room at the college be-
! ing occupied, and accommodations in the
city are being secured. Though the de-
mand for rooms Is beyond expectation
| all students will be cared for.
4 WHILE driving to Montrose one day
last week. the two small children of John
stevens met with quite an experience.
In some manner the horses became
frightened and ran away. The little
fellow stuck to the lines manfully and
kept them from running into the river
over the bank, getting them turned just
in time. The little girl was thrown out
however and received several severe
scratches and bruises. They had mar
row escape.
1T 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 farmer hat
dug common well to the depth o
!, . twenty feet when he took small augel
and sank it down on sort OF prospeet
ing tour. He had just got his auge
down two feet when 1t sank quickly an.
on pulling it out flow OF water fol
lowed This was piped and the strear
: crcp, to the surface and is now fiowln
: without stop.
Mrs. A. Il. DICKSON, OF Milbank,
: lying in critical condition at her homs
because Of the explosion Of gasolin
(, stove. She undertook to I'LL the STOW
II tank with the burner lighted when III
* explosion occurred. Rushing 70 "
r door she called for help and then IA
X back into the kitchen to save her chill
IL
re horribly burned about the body an
m arms. When her clothing was remove
&c patches Of charred flesh were torn ava
ir and during that awful ordeal she sal
ly II saved the baby anyway"
20 THE lakes and ponds In Stntsms
is county. N. d., and vicinity, are near
~ all dried up. Last year was bad enoua
50 in this respect. but this season is wors
ne 1t IL said that Arrowwood lake has on
u a small stream running through 1t. La
wear it was an extensive sheet Of wate
as There is very little water In Jim lax
a. and none in the river above the dam
er Jamestown.
- Dr.. HuLL's little son, OF Gettysburg
a. years and 6 months old, while bel
~ tossed on blanket in play by some 9th
~ little folks, with slight choking
% swallowed an iron staple, 2 inches To-
=. hy y inch wide, which luckily we
~ down rounded end foremost and seel
- to have kept that position to the end
s. the voyage.
= THE soldiers home at Hot Springs y
~ :, to have been opened on the 9th, but
:. - board has found II Impossible 70 have
i, building completed and ready Tor ocs
3. i,ancy before Sept. 20.
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