Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-04
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

DIAIAOlh NG We.
Eli Perkins is lecturing in tn,
state.
An artesian well has been, started
J at De Smet.
lroQuois is to have a new So, 0O(
school building this year.
Over twenty new buildings are nov
In course OF erection at Canton.
The Huron city council fixed the
salary of the city attorney at $1,000
for the ensuing year.
Lincoln county has raised the re.
ward offered for DR.. Fisher, the
alleged abortionist, to 5000.
Mitchell Odd Fellows celebrated
the 14th anniversary of their order in
the United States last week.
The summer term OF the State
Agricultural College will open May
10, and continue twelve weeks.
The Dakota river is said to be the
longest unnavigable river in the
world. 1t is yer 1000 miles long.
James Mccarthy was waylaid by
footpads at Sissetcn and robbed Of
$500. The sheriff is after the thieves.
Patrick Langdon, aged thirty years.
was drowned in a small creek in
Campbell county. He left a young
wife.
Whallon's new elevator, containing
$4,000 bushels of wheat, burned al
Westport last week. The loss is
heavy.
Frank Bordeaux, Of Minneapolis.
knocked out Chas. f. Morse, Of Jack
son, Mich, in a 20-round glove con-
test at Aberdeen.
Charges have been fled against
the register and receiver at Chamber
lain. Their terms will not expire
until February, 1895.
Watertown is pulling for an extern
sion Of the Canadian Pacific from
Hankinson, N. d., to Watertown,
Madison and Sioux Falls.
Burroughs Abbott of Columbia has
been appointed state statistician of
agriculture by Secretary Morton. 1t
is worth 5000 per annCm.
The report of the business done at
the Iroquois postoflice during the
past six months shows an increase Of
1904 over the preceding six months.
Fifteen hundred dollars has been
raised by the Huron Coursing club
toward securing the meeting of the
International Coursing association,
to be held next fall.
Judge Aikens has granted a divorce
to Christine Hekking Pfaff. The
divorce is the daughter of a famous
French painter, while her late hus-
band is a Bostonian.
George Maxwell, a brother of the
fourth assistant postmaster-general,
has purchased a section of land neal
Clark which he intends to stock with
thoroughbred horses.
Ed Wilson has been taken to the
state ~penitentiary where he will
spend his life for the murder Of Otto
SOlquist Nov. 10, 1892. The prisoner
is but twenty-five years of age.
Representatives of the National
Union Company are in the state
closing up business and shipping
stocks Of goods from the dozen or
more stores to Des Moines, Iowa.
While at Springfield Mo-, recently
Rev. Holp, of Watertown, was
rendered the presidency of Drury
college, but declined on the ground
that the work would not be c~ongenial
TO him.
Miss Katie E. Blosser, a talented
young musician Of Sioux Falls, has
composed and had published a 5-page
piece Of instrumental music for the
piano, known as Echoes from the
Sioux"
Rev. w. A. Lyman, who has been
pastor OF the Congregational church
at Vermillion for several years, has
received a call to become pastor of
the Jackson Park Congregational
Church, Chicago.
An honest and Woodworking colored
man of Yankton, who lost several
hundred dollars, his life savings, in
the infamous Scougal bank robbery,
has just died from the effects of
grieving over his misfortune.
The stories about Nj. III. Day run
ming away from Rapid City to escape
prosecution upon the charge of
ENLIGHTENMENT are baseless fabric
ations. He intends that tine authors
thereof shall be punished.
John j. Patten. who decamped
from Sioux Falls two years ago,
being about $1,000 short as deputy
Warden of the state penitentiary, has
returned to his family. The bonds
men have settled the shortage.
Two children of Peter Sjoblom, re-
siding nea Hermosa, died by poison,
supposed to be strychnine, which had
been left spread or the floor of a root
house by a former tenant. 1t got on
the carrots which the children ate.
James Speers, of Mitchell, shipped
AZ, 900 pounds Of popcorn to Brooks &
Co., a Boston commission firm, last
fall to be held for the worlds fair
trade. Last week Speers got word
that the firm had failed and that he
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