The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-09-19

KIMBALL, BRULT
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rendered the position of dean of the Dako-
ta school Of mines.
The people of Nowlin county, now at
tached to Hughes county for judicial pur-
poses, have petitioned for the organization
of that county They are anxious to have
n vote taken in November.
The young people of Aberdeen have in
augurated what they call "straw rides"
The conveyance is common lumber
wagon with rack and plenty of straw,
and four horses to pull the load.
Philip Walters, Of Coppi fecshtls at
tempted to lift a heavy hayrack, and re-
ceived internal injuries, from which he
suffered the most intense agony until the
time of his death, three days after.
Fred Mintzlaff, the Sioux Falls butcher
who was stabbed by Tom Fisher, is I'm
proving rapidly and will be able to be
about in a few days.. No serious effects
are now anticipated by the physicians.
Three barges for the Pierre C8al Mining
and Tfanoportatioh company are to be
built at Bismafck They witt have n
capacity Of over 120 tons ench. The first
shipment of coal will be about AGO tons.
The Whittier school house, in the Tracy
district, Minhehnba cbunty, was struck by
itghtning Saturday evening. The chimney
was utterly demolished and the roof some
what torn, but the damage will be covered
by s75.
The coal shipments from Newcastle have
now Reached si1ty three carloads per day,
and the superintendent is confident that he
can by the lst of January increase the out
put 10 100 cars per day.
L. H. Haight, of Tyndall, has invented a
letter box to be used with the free delivery
system. The postmaster general some
time ago advertised for such a device and
Mr. Haight believes he has struck the dc
sired idea.
test case has been made to determine
the cohstitutionality of that certain act Of
the first Legislative assembly of the state
of North Dakota, known as "an act to pro
vide for the organization and government
of state banks"
Monday afternoon some boys playing
about the place where grading is being
done oh Mulberry street, Yankton, found
the corpse of an infant with the head
partly torn from the body. Coroner Roane
took charge of it.
Mrs. Henry Jassman, of Scotland, died
early Monday morning from the effects of
fall from chair Saturday that caused
premature birth. A husband and six
children the eldest ii years old are left
TO mourn her death.
Saturday nights lightning destroyed
both the arc ard incandescent system of
lightning arresters of the electric light
station In 9ankton, and matters were de-
cidedly interesting for the men IN charge
there for short time.
Indications are that Deadwood will be
livelier this fall than at any time since
1877. Frame buildings that have gone
begging for tenants for the past five or six
years are eagerly sought at u rental form
erly paid for brick buildings.
AT Buffalo park, In South Sioux Falls,
are three moose, two of which are very
promising roadsters. These will be broken
this fall, and by early winter they may be
seen pulling piano box buggy down Phil.
lips avenue at II 3-.nihute gais or better.
This is bad time of year for faro deal
ers. A Rapid City sport opened game at
tHill City pay day and lost 5000 in two
hours time. He sawed wood for supper.
at Merino, the terminus of the Burlington
and Missouri, the same day, two brothers,
Grahams, went up to the dealer of a game,
covered tho crowd with their guns, adj
ministered on, the bank 500, pocketed 1T,
backed out of the saloon, mounted their
horses and left.
Jacob Seer and two young ladies were
out walking in Scotland Sunday evening
when Gottlieb Pomarenska walked up to
them and grossly insulted the girls. Seer
| escorted them home and returned and
gave Pomarenska q we'll deserved pound
ing. Both parties were arrested Monday
morning, and Seer was fined 81 and costs
for fighting, and Pomarenska IS and costs,
amounting to SLAB, for using indecent
language.
young man named Miller, working on
farm near Glendale, N. D., was over
come by gas while descending into a well
| and fell a distance of fifty feet, striking on
his head. He was dead when taken out
The deceased was the son of prominent
farmer in Mcintosh county.
Peter and Conrad Miller were arrested
and imprisoned at Rapid City, refused a
| hearing for forty eight hours, and at last
were told there was no charge against
them, but that they must pay S2 for their
board and leave town. They have employ
ed an attorney and propose to maintain
their rights.
During the electrical storm of last week,
81, u of sc
was struck by lightning and entirely con
sumed, together with his buggy she'd,
buggy, three sets of harness, two sets Of
OK harness, five tons Of hay and other
articles.
The young sons Of John Reich and Jacob
Resner, of Scotland, were playing in the
yard Of the latter Tuesday afternoon,
when the former had tho end OF his thumb
cut clean off above the drst joint. Reich's
boy was holding a stick on block while
Resner's boy was doing tho chopping with
a hatchet, and miss lick cut the little fell
lows thumb off. The boys were only two
years old.
John B. Mass, of Deadwood, was going
home about o'clock Tuesday morning,
when hs fell into the clutches Of two foot
pu0HS WAos oPPtoaShiAB hsm ATOLu D00IHu,
threw him on his back, gagged him and
went through his pockets to the tune of
e27.50.
James Montgomery, young snsn work
ing on a now building in Grand Forks,
was assisting in the week of elsvating
some heavy stone to the upper stories and
his left hand was drawn into one Of the
large pullsys in such manner as to pre-
vent e1tricating himself. The first finger
and part of the second was pulled out on
tir.ly from the hand, the tendons being
drawn for distance of several inches.
George Parker, living six or seven miles
south Of Sioux Falls, left on Saturday for
Wall Lake on a hunting expedition. Tho
rain of the afternoon persuaded him to
conclude to camp all night on the banks Of
the lake. The lightning was terrific, and
in one Of the blasts sent down, Mr.. Par
ker's team was struck and instantly killed.
The team was valued at $3.50
North Dakota Is in peculiar. fiz with
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