Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-18
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Madison has a flourishing athletic
club.
Work is being pushed ON the Indian
school at Flandreau.
An opera house costing $40, 900 is to
be built at Elk Point.
Coates Yankton tank line has been
removed to Sioux Falls.
The Southern District Fair at Scot
land will be held this year Sept. 9th
TO 9th.
Rain Wizard Ward, of Sioux City,
tried to make it rain at kimball Sat
urday.
Judge Aikens, of Sioux Falls, has
left for Troy, n. Y, to be gone for
several weeks.
Fire damaged the Park Place Hotel
at Aberdeen last Thursday to the
amount of s400.
J. 5. Struble, an ex-congressman
from LeMars, Iowa, has invested in
200 acres of Potter county dirt.
A company is forming at Canton
to erect a first class roller mill and ele-
yator combined, with acapital of $50,
600.
Hans Erickson, republican nominee
for county commissioners in Hyde
county, was killed by lightning last
week.
The Mitchell city council has order
ed the streets labeled and the houses
numbered to provide for free postal
delivery.
Counterfeiters have been trying to
work several Vermillion stores with
spurious silver coin, but not very sue
cessfully.
J.. S. Clevenger, n of the Brook
ings merchants, died very suddenly
at his store. The case of death is not
fully determined.
DIR. Sherman, for nine years a prac-
ticing dentist at Huron, died last
Thursday. He was a prominent and
highly respected citizen.
The Sioux Falls council is planning
to set apart a day during the state
fair to entertain the mayors and coun-
ellis of surrounding towns.
The 16-year-old son of j. Guldwick,
living near Wakonda, took a drink of
carbolic acid by mistake last Friday
and died in twenty minutes.
At Laagford on Saturday, Rowland
A. Z, Williams, a hardware mer-
chant, committed suicide, it is sup
posed in a fit of temporary insanity.
A debt of Si31 on the NJ. e. church
at Hartford was raised by subscrip-
ton On the day of its dedication,
which ceremony was held asst Sunday.
DIR. Billiard of Forest City, claims a
franchise of the ferriage at Forest
City, and is arresting all who are
found boating on the Missouri river
at that place.
The mineral paint mine in the Two
Bit gulch was sold for $4,000 To
A. d.. Alden of st. Louis, who will
begin to take out mineral at once and
build a large factory.
The Sioux Falls public building
will now be pushed along a little as
the sundry civil appropriation bill
which passed carried an item of $751;
900 for that purpose.
Eva Rust, aged IA, the daughter of
Frank Rust, and Cornelius Jarvy,
adopted son of Pat Connolly, aged IL,
were drowned in the Sioux river at
Elk Point while bathing.
A number of gentlemen met at
the court house inWatertown Satur-
day and organized the Codington
County Horticultural Society, which
starts out with nearly fifty members.
Henry Engle, Of Salem, while hunt
ing last week, attempted to carry a
loaded gun in a cart. In some way ii
was discharged, both barrels entering
the back of his head causing instant
death.
Hiram Brotherton, a p~ostofiice clerk
at Madison, was drowned in Lake
Manawa, near Omaha, Neb., last
week where he was spending his yaca-
ton. The deceased was only seven
teen years old.
Presiding Elder +. A. Burdick of
Aberdeen has been organizing a COM
pany to baild and operate an electri-
cal railway between Deadwood, Lead
City, Terrayille and other points in
the Black Hills.
A number of tramps and thugs have
followed the large influx of harvest
hands into the state and in some
localities are making considerable
mischief. At Aberdeen several cases
of highway robbery are reported.
Hutchinson county is looked upon
as most promising for a county seat
fight. Olivet has been the county
seat for twenty years but is not on a
railroad. Memo, Parkston and Trip
are aspirants for the new location.
w. G. Smith, a blacksmith, of
Pleasant Valley, five miles east of
Tilford, committed suicide last Sun
day by hanging. Smith was just
recovering from a spree. His rela-
tives live at Wilton Junction, Iowa.
A gang of seven harvesters met a
German farmer named Karl Fassett
on the road near Aberdeen and robbed
him of $l0.27, but magnanimously
returned the twenty-Seyen cents.
Four are under arrest charged with
highway robbery.
Lead has not less than 5000 pOpula-
ton, and strange as it may seem, has
not a harness shop or a place where
repairing of harness is done, except at
shoe shops, in the city. Neither have
they a wagon or carriage dealer. Mil
lions await some fellow in these lines.
Nose Kaufman, of the Sioux Falls
brewery, was fined So and costs before
Justice Allen last week for laying
violent hands on Roger Brennan, an
attorney of Egan. His honor did not
appear to place avery high estimate
on the professional dignity of the
legal gentleman.
r.. b. Moss has bcenappointed post
master at Moss City, Custer county;
ID. l.. Hawkins at Belle Fourchc,
Butte county, vice Ill. A. Giles
removed: +. w. Anthony at Dudley
Fall, River county, vice l.. II. True
man; j. Nj. Mil, postmaster at
K%ranZburg, resigns, and recommends
Charles M. Kranzas his successor.
Ground has been broken for the
Corn Belt exposition building and
from this on preparations will pro-
gress at IN active rate. The cordial
cooperation of over twenty counties
in what is known as the corn belt is
assured, as well as the official back
ing of the Corn Belt Real Estate
association and the substantial aid of
the railroads.
VIM. Smith, "a Northwestern brake
man, committed suicidea Piedmont,
by hanging himself. The act
was deliberately planned, Smith
not employing the old method OF
jumping off some freight car, went
into a barn, tied the rope about his
neck and then grasped a leg in each
hand and held tfem up from the floor.
In this position he was found a few
hours later. Smith was crazed by