Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-06-23
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
NEWS OF THE STATE TOLD IN TERsE
LANGUAGE.

Many Items of Interest Gathered From
Reliable Sources-An Era Of General
Property is the Universal Verdict.
The city council OF Madison refuses to
pay extortionate rates for street lights.
The Brule county bunk recently closed
it's doors owing to the failure OF the
Union Stock Yards bank at Sioux City.
Willie Hammer, OF Herman S. D., aged
10, and Miss Gay Pye, aged 10, students
in the state normal school ut Madison,
were drowned in Lake Madison, a few
days ago. Both bodies were found.
Feax are entertained that a farmer
boy named Newell Baker living near Gary,
g. D.. is drowned. He went fishing two
miles from home, and ut last accounts
bad not been heard from, although two
days had elapsed.
Washington Springs is NOW n full fedg-
ed Incorporated town. The board of
trustees consists OF ]. II. Woodburn,
chairman; +. w. Whitney andH. j. Wal
lace. j. X Freeland is clerk and ii, C..
Stephens is marshall.
L. Kari, Of Yankton, s. d., who was
severely injured in Kansas some two
months ago by falling sixty feet in q
mining shaft, has 80 far recovered that
his physician has decided lie can be
S!rQught home with safety,
All d the Indians on the Sisseton
reservation will celebrate the Fourth Of
July at Sisseton, s. d. Thecitizens have
purchased 20 beef for the great Indian
feast. A. large number OF Ckppewasirom
White Earth, MIMI, will be present.
A lew days ago the supreme court
denied the writ OF error asked in the
Thompson murder case from kingsbury
county and affirmed the finding Of
the circuit court, Which found the prison
er guilty and imposed the death penalty.
DonaldE. Higbee, astudent OF Yankto9
College, was drowned about six miles
from Yankton in the James river a few
days ngo. He was one of n surveying
party and started to swim tleriver with
q chain when lie was taken with cramps
and went down.
j. A. Perlcy, O prominent Fix Point,
s. d., horse raiser recently received prob
ably fatal injuries IRON u %maddened
broncho that he was trying to rope in
his corral. The horse reared and jumped
full upon him, tearing the ribs from the
spine andinficting other serious wounds.
A2-year-old child OF a German family
named Fay, living northeast Of RedReld
has been missing several days. When
last seen the child was playing with d
dog near the river. The river has aeen
dragged and search made evpr since. hut
the child had not been found ut last ne
counts.
The Governor. has issued u rrquisition
for DIR. Fisher, Of Canton, who was
captured at Doniphan, Mo. He is want
ed for murder. ns the result os n criminal
o%peration practiced upon Miss Minnie
Oleson, OF Canton. The crime was COM
United about q month ago aud the
doctor has been u fugitive since that
time.-
Commencement exercises ct the South
Dakota university mt Vermillion were
held a few days ago, in accordance with
the programme recently published. The
bachelor degree was conferred nron ten
students by j. w. Shannon OF Huron.
president of the state board. on behalf of
the state. There are no higher degrees
in this institution.
new board OF trustees for Redfeld
college has been elected as follows: Rev.
Burtt Of Huron, Stevens of Faulkton.
Wooi of Aberdeen, Robbins OF Ashton,
Loomis Of Columbia. G. A. Wood OF
Milbank. w. w. Taylor. Charles II. Kut-
newsky. C. w. Gregory. Thomas Sterling
and II. B. Hassel OF RedReld. There are
four new members.
Clark boasts Of having more bicycles
and cyclists than any other city of it's
size in the state, there being nearly 100.
Everybody rides, both young and old.
Many pleasant trips awheel are o n
teiipldteu uuTIHr VIle summer. Some OF
the young gentlemen have cultivated
considerable speed and are open to
challenges from amateurs from any
| point in the state.
The executive committee of the Inter.
national Coursing Association has Motif.
ed the Huron local committee that the
next meeting Of the association will be
held in that city in Oc!.nlnr. For this
event great preparations will be made.
Representatives, Of cou-s:nr clubs from
all parts OF Europe and tie United States
will be here. Arrangements will be made
to accommodate 1900 to 1000 people.
The safe in the p~ostofice at Springfeld,
s. D., was blown open a few nights ago
but the party did a bungling job and did
not ecure any booty. The postofice
had just been turned over to the new
postmaster. George Mead, who had re-
moved oil of the money, thinking that
the building and safe weretoo i~nsecureto