The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-04-20
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No service at the Presbyterian church
tonight.
"Twelve years ago to-day = says::the old
settler mot on the corner), 1--WE had just
such a blizzard"
G. M. Klotzbach expressed to-day q
handsome Irish setter, to his brother
George, ut Independence, Iowa.
Snow three feet deep is reported to
day in Minnesota and Iowa, freight trains
being blockaded and passenger travel
badly delayed.
In addition to his display gallery
which is now completed and being filed
with goods, M. J. McGillivray is embel-
fishing his store with new papering.
Fred Kurth has moved his cigar fac
tory into the room lately vacated by w.
F. Besrmaa, and is setting things in
order to furnish the boys an attractive
place to buy their cigars.
One of the neatest and most useful
pamphlets on the worlds fair grounds,
buildings and modes Of travel ID the I'll
Illustrated Guide, Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway, recently is
sued. 1t is brimful OF information on
everything pertaining to the grounds.
Clerk OF Court Preston is introducing
a very c~ommendable feature OF book
keeping into his probate court record in
the form Of a tabulated statement OF
the financial standing Of each case re-
corded. 1t costs him q good deal OF
extra work, but is a neat as well as a
very great convenience in reference. 1t
is quite ar~tistically done too.
Hicks's weather prophecy is being full
filed with q vengeance to-day. Besides
the heavy n storm reported from
Iowa and Minnesota, comes the news
that the heaviest n OF the year has
fallen at Fargo and other points in North
Dakota, and by the way it strikes in here
since noon it would indicate that South
Dakota, ordinarily the land OF sunshine
and bananas, is not to be overlooked.
Yankton Press, II: On q dray bound
for the Milwaukee depot to-day, was a
big box and on that box was Q boy. The
dray turned a corner, the box turned
partially over and the boy turned q
.somersault, landing fiat on his back on
terra frma. He arose with difficulty and
hobbled away with too little breath in
him for breathing purposes. He seemed
to have had a sufficiency of excursions
on drays.
What people want to know is what it
will cost to reach Chicago during the
Worlds Fair. Agent Larkin has re-
ceived his tickets and instructions. The
fare for the round trip from Madison to
Chicago win be $26.65; children between
five and twelve years OF age half price.
Tickets will be sold from April rs to Oc-
tober 81, good to return until November
IL, 1893. Passage going or coming must
be continuous and tickets not good on
'llmited" trains. Leave all trunks at
home and take as little baggage as pos
sible.
Emmett Rice, living a few miles north
Of the city, brought IN yesterday the
scalp OF a she wolf which he had shot, to
the county auditors Office to be ldenti-
fed for payment OF the % bounty. To
day he returned with the scalps of four
whelps several weeks old which he and
his neighbors had dug out OF the den.
They had to dig forty or fifty feet in or
der to reach them and found in the den
the remains Of turkeys, chickens, pigs,
lambs, rats, bats, cats, mice and every
conceivable animal which frequents
these prairies.
Pierre Capital, IS: One Of the anus
ing incidents Of the election to-day oc-
cured at the fourth ward polling place.
The judges Of the election got rather
smart and intended to have some fun
with the ladies. When they commenced
to vote they asked their ages. The first
lady fiarsd up in a second and politely
informed the judges that she was old
enough TO vote and beyond that it was
none OF the judges business. The second
lady asked gave him much the same
answer, and after that there was no
more such questions asked. You can't
fool the ladies when you commeacaAto
quiz them about their ages.
Walter Boswell and Chas. Braham
alias "Charley the Cheney" two OF our
city sports, ere to-day arrested by
Chief Of Police Davis and brought be.
fore Judge Holdridge for examination
They were brought up on the charge Of
playing scraps" contrary TO the ordin-
ance Of the city in such case made and
provided. A continuance until 3p. m,
was asked and granted on condition d
furnishing q bond for S100, for which
the lads passed yer q one hundred dol
lar bill to the Justice and walked ont
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