The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-23
SOUTH DAKOTA.

| SOUTH DAKOTA.
a lively rate war is on among Aberdeen
mllkmen... Thirty-two quarts ofthe tactical
fluid are sold for ST.. - ~
Mitchell firemen are arranging for cele-
bratlon of the Fourth of July and grounds
have been secured on the Jim river
In boring an artesian we'll near Mitchell,
the Iowa Investment company struck
very strong vein of water at 5O7 feet.
A young fellow appeared voluntarily be-
tore Police Justice Hatlestad of Canton,
and confessed to having stolen five cigars.
He was fined So for each cigar.
Daniel Link was killed in runaway &C.
c1dent near Scotland. He was 70 years old
and one fthe substantial farmers of Bon
Homme county.
Frank N. Freeman, farmer living four
miles from Mitchell, lost his house and
barn and all their contents by prairie fire.
Loss $500; insurance 81 900.
Dan Ferguson, well posted miner, has
returned to Rapid City from the recent sill
yer discoveries on Squaw creek. He says
1t IS the best silver mine ever opened up in
that country.
e. Spangler, while at work on his farm
near Mitchell, recently, came in contact
with prairie fire and both horses were
fatally burned. Mr.. spangler narrowly es-
capped with severe burns.
Frank Westgate, living near Aberdeen,
shot and seriously wounded a neighboring
farmer named Mccormick, who was trying
to break into Westgate's house. Mccormick
| was drunk.
Owing to defect in papers served, Prof
FOSTERS now free at Sioux Falls. He is the
man who was arrested for having too many
wives throughout the country. The man
from Newport, KY, who claims to be Eos
ter's latest father-in-law says he will do
nothing further in the premises
Two of the three indictments found
against G. T. Salmer, of Vermillion for
keeping and selling intoxicating liquors
We're overruled, and the third was con-
tnued till next term Of court, because Sal
mer was suddeAly and singularly taken
dangerously sick.
The Perkins family of Howard, S. D.,
has had its first bout with Uncle Sam.
Mrs. Perkins was tried before the United
States circuit court on the charge of failure
to display her government license, and
acquitted. Her son, William Perkins, Jr.,
was found guilty of selling esprit levels"
without the necessary license; and fined
$3.50.
Farmers of Hutchinson and adjoining
counties have some Of them been worked
by party of Germen Jewish peddlers,
who sell cloth and take notes and mort
cages OF farmers. Their plan is to make
| purchasers think the, goods are much
/ oh
them at. The mortgages they fix up are
solid and will turn out to be Of better
quality than the goods. $751;.
-Four prisoners in the Pennington county
jail broke through the heavy brick wall and
escaped. The delivery was accomplished
while the prisoners were in the corridor aft
er supper. Lovett, the noted Wyoming
horse thief was one of the prisoners. He
had been at large evading authorities for
three years and was but recently captured
Sheriff Wilson is in hot pursuit and has Of
tered a reward for recapture, The names
OF the prisoners are: Lovett, Albright and
Johnson, all horse thieves and Bell, charged
with assault with deadly weapon.
WISCONSIN.
Angelica Bear, squaw in Door county,
claims to be 124 years old. -a
!. 1t is said that ducks are so plentiful at
/ Winneconne that they can be bought for
10 cents each.
/ Consul-General Guenther is interested in
a project to provide Oshkosh with another
fine row of flats. T.. ~ ~
Frogs are said to be very plenty on Fox
river marshes. One sport caught fifty fat
ones in very short time. ... 4 -.
1t is reported from Berlin that fourth
dividend will soon be paid to the Mather
bank creditors. 1t will be one of 10 per
cent.
Miss Lizzie Kirkland, daughter of James
Kirland, of Chicago, died at the residence
of her uncle, R. B. Kirkland, OF Jefferson
of typhoid fever.
Capt. Charles Howard Ford, who served
in the Tenth Wisconsin infantry, and after
ward as private secretary to Gov. Fairchild,
died at Redondo Beach, CAL, after a linger-
/ ing illness.
The Oshkosh Bicycle club now has thirty
members. The uniforms e been order
ed and are expected to arr. : soon They
consist of gray jackets and knickerbockers
and black caps, belts, stockings and shoes.
The Oshkosh Northwestern reports that
a storm recently drove the ice in Lake Win
nebago on the east and south shores with
great force, doing considerable damage at
Stony Beach. Many trees were broken,
some being torn up by the roots.
The section crews Of the Milwaukee road
at La Crosse struck for an increase of wages
from S11O to $125, which the company re-
| fused to grant. The foreman of one crew
STAYED, but the foreman Of the other crew
went. out.
Mrs Edward Segessmen, of Mt. Herod,
who has been under doctors treatment for
tuberculosis in Madison, for the past few
weeks, returned to her home restored to
health. The treatment was by means of
Koch's lymph. Is
William Smith, q young farmer living
near Spring Brook, ten miles from Eau
Claire was almost disembowled recently by
. neighboring farmer named Lee A long