Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15

ioOLu dDOve. oN
wA threshing engine, b~elonoi,o 20
WIN. chapman at work on = FRS ~
u Hv from Aberdeen, exploded iost
m~euhesday killing the owner and in
Jurlng several Others.
III drunken row at Doland Satnr-
uay night, a farmer named Dearhorp
mas seriously stabbed. Cbas. Rarn-
aaro d restaurant keeper. was
arrested for the deed.
Jonn Albright, a brakesman On tho
urcat Northern, was crushed while
ear in the Aberdeen ward
o9 saturday last, and the amnutation
VI an arm Will be necessary.
The Yankton pontoon bridge has
ouen completed and opened 10 the
puolic. This will give Nebraska far
tiefs better facilities for marketinp
'heir grain and other farm products
Inc Pioneer Electrical companv Of
aoerdeen,. has disposed of ali lis
interests In the Black Hills. includ-
ing Ihe electric light plant at Lead
~ Ine Mineral Belt Railway and
Light company.
MATT Gering, formerly of Elk Point
VINO VIII DE remembered as having
furnished a good deal of fun ar fer,
,ilorial democratic conventions. is
Ihe democratic candidate for attor-
hey general in Nebraska.
charlie Bates, who had the con.
tract Tor marking the boundary
the austral and boreal Dako-
Tds, mas now h precise length OF the
iine the states. 1t is 36O
miles and 1875 chains.
Prof; Row superintendent Of the
SIOUX rams .ic schools,
Cn11 oherea over 1900 pupils en-
Iolleu, an Ia ease over the same
mohlh last year of nearly 100. There
= an increase of twenty in high
Inc South Dakota NJ. E. conference
Tor 1892, will be held in Madison he
ginning October 10, and Continuing
one week. The deliberations of the
Dody Will be presided over by Bishon
toss, and the meeting will be held in
the Presbyterian church.
After four days examination in the
Justice court John Weeks, postmaster
iiauu county, was nelQ
10 the grand jury in 500 for rape, his
yictin being a ~l9-year-old girl named
Den1orth. All are well connected.
Weeks being a married man.
Gov. Mellette has appointed G. w.
AlnSworth, superintendent of the
reform school, a delegate to the
national convention to be held in
Des Moines, Iowa, on the 2lst, in the
interest OF the Hcme and Employ
ment Association for Children.
The annual meeting of the South
Dakota Dental Association will he
held in Huron, beginning Sept. q and
continuing three days. A meeting
or the State Board of Dental Exam
liners will be held at the same time
for the examination of candidates for
certificates to practice in this state.
The state convention of the prohi-
DitiOnists OF South Dakota will be
held at Sioux Falls, Sept. II, instead
OF Aberdeen. Hon. George G. Christ
ian, OF Chicago, will speak Tuesday
n Wednesday evenings, Sept. 13 and
IA, and the Baileys, the famous jubi-
lee singers, will sing.
The Dayton case is again before the
courts at Aberdeen. Jas. G. Reed as
executor of the estate of Mary /. Day.
ton, asks the circuit court TO set aside
a certain deed dated Sept. 20, 1885,
~purporting to be signed by May L.
Dayton, deciding all the Dayton pro-
perty in Brown county to Maria b.
Nell.
/ The material for the newspaper at
Dell Rapids has been ordered and is
now on the way. The company was
organized with 5000 capital and is
known as the Dell Rapids Publishing
company. The paper to be established
is to be known as the Dell Rapids
Tribune. w. q. Nisbet will handle
the quill, according to reports.
The Avenue house, a three-story
frame, collapsed at Deadwood and is
a total wreck. Two guests, Miss
Williams and Miss Cooper, were
| unable to escape and were carried
down with it, but escaped serious
injury. A teamster, who was
the falling building, was injured by
falling timberS about the head. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Red6eld Observer and Journal
have been consolidated, and now
| belong to a stock company. The edi-
t~or-in-chief of the new paper will be
| O. S. Basford, postmaster at Redtield,
| and S. B. Milton, formerly proprietor
| of the Observer, will be the local
| editor. Geddes & Ransom, formerly
| proprietors of the Journal, have pur-
chased the Watertown News.
The corner stone of the Masonic
temple at Milbank waslaid last week,
| the ceremonies being conducted by
the local lodge under Tispensation
from the grand lodge of the state.
| The building will be % feet front by
| 100 feet deep, and three stories high.
| 1t will be brick, with the front TRIM
| med with brown stone. The building
will be ready for occupancy about jan
uary l.
The Mordecai divorce sensation
| continues to attract the entire atten-
| lion of the colony at Sioux Falls.
| Mrs. MordecSstill holds the fort in
her husbandy residence and refuses
to surrender to the three maiden SIS
tiers and the housekeeper, who were
left i'm charge by the husband previous
| TO his departure for his old home in
| Charleston, S. G. The sisters will not
furnish Mrs. Mordecai with her meals
or allow her to use the closets or bath
room.
Rev. C. e. Hager, who has been
pastor of the NJ. Il. church In Madison
during the past five years, has re-
ceiyed a call from the Lincoln Park
M. e. church, Chicago, which he has
decided to accept, and has assurances
! that the Illinois conference Will APP
noint him to the charge. A Chicago
minister will probably be appointed
| to the Madison charge, an application
having been made for n appoint
ment either to the 1ankton or Madl-
son church.
The story is abroad, says the Press,
that a physician who lives ten or o
miles from Sioux Falls, who is gener-
aIlv accredited with being a member
of the colony, had made arrangements
To be married last Wednesday evening
ut $40. but owing to the failure of the
Judge who presided oyer his case 10
sign the decree OF divorce for wnich
he applied, the marriage has been
nostponed. The doctor, it is further
declared, will marry a Minnehaha
county farmers daughter.
The south Dakota Building.
Architect Dow and Col. II. III.
Brown, says the Sioux Falls Press,
have returned from Chicago, where
thu