Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Told in a Few Lines.

The Pierre band has increased it's
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 Brookngs county Is
abundant, even the farmers themselves
result, and with prices so favorable, they
are correspondingly happy.
JOHN BRUcKER, of Garden City, COM
mitted suicide by blowing off the upper
portion of HE shull with a 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 collded with a n.y.
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 home
from Pierre, drove off steep embank-
mcnt ten miles out on the Bad river,
falling twenty-five feet. Hotoff's skull
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.
WHILE driving to Montrose one dav
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 we'll
has been struck at the depth of twenty-
two feet in Grand Meadow township,
Minnehaha county. The circumstances
OF the discovery were that a farmer had
dug common we'll to the depth of
twenty feet when he took small auger
and sank it down on sort of prospect
ing tour. He had just got his auger
down two feet when it sank quickly and
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 stop.
Mrs. A. e. DICKSON. of Milbank, is
lying in a critical condition at her home.
because of the explosion of gasoline
stove. She undertook to fill the stove
tank with the burner lighted when the
explosion occurred. Rushing to the
door She called for help and then ran
back into the kitchen to save her child.
Then her clothing took fire and she was
horribly burned about the body and
arms. When her clothing was removed
patches OF charred flesh were torn away,
and during that awful ordeal she said:
81 saved the baby anyway"
4 THE lakes and ponds in Stutsman
county, n. d., and vicinity, are nearly
all dried up. Last year was bad enough
in this respect, but this season is worse.
1t is said that Arrowwood lake has only
d small stream running through it. Last
year it was an extensive sheet of water.
There is very little water in Jim lake,
and none in the river above the dam at
Jamestown.
Dr.. HULL's little son, of Gettysburg, 2
years anu nlonths Ola, Whllc being
tossed on blanket inplay by some other
little folks, with a Slight choking he
swallowed an iron staple, 2 inches long
by "a inch wide, which luckily went
down rounded end foremost and seems
to have kept that position to the end of
the voyage.
The soldiers home at Hot Springs was
to lave been opened on the 9th, but the
board has found it impossible to have the
building completed and ready for occu-
pancy before Sept. 20.
YASkroN is petitioning for the free
delivery of mails.