The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-05
q RREvHraE IN.

Remember the popular Sunday dinner
at the Hotel Madison tomorrow.
VIM. Ryan, OF Badns, is in quite feeble
health, the result OF tuberculosis.
Judge Jones has ruled in recent Sioux
Falls criminal cases that q city cannot
appeal from it's own police or city justice
court.
All members OF Madison lodge /. O. o.
F. are requested to be present this even
ing to transact important business re-
lative o degree team.
Rev. Alex. Brown, of Glasgow, Scot
land, who breaches in the Presbyterian
church tomorrow, departs on his return
journey to the old country Monday
morning.
J.J. Fitzgerald received q telegram
last evening from VIM. Tobin at Wash
ington stating that he had been confirm
ed as postmaster at this place. Mr..
Tobin will return Monday.
The Epworth League committee es-
pecially desire all who engaged tickets
to insure Mr.. Miller's lecture to call
early at Frank Smiths, where the board
is placed, and secure good seats.
The funeral OF the remains Of the two
year old daughter OF MI. and Mre. Chas.
Blackstone took place this afternoon
from the M. e. church. Many kind re-
membranes Of love and sympathy were
shown in the floral and other tributes.
WATERFOWL Public Opinion, 8: DIR. H.
Dean, the veterinarian, has established
an Office in the building first door south
Of the Massasoit hotel. The doctor ex-
poets Mrs. Dean to arrive in the city
some time next week.
Prof. g. w. Dougherty, Of Wlnfred, is
said to be the coming populist candidate
for superintendent OF schools of Lake
county, next fall. MFR. Dougherty il a
gentleman by education and experience
well qualified to fill the position.
Pierre Free Press, 3: Gersham Jones,
who was at one time a conspicuous
figure upon the ~streets;of Pierre and a
well known newspaper man formerly
connected with the Journal, has taken an
agency for the Collier Publishing
company.
A decree OF divorce was recorded to-
day IN the clerk of courts office in favor
OF Florence M. Mott, OF Sioux Falls, as
against Merritt ] Mott, her late husband.
The couple were married in New York
City, April 8, 1883, and the decree was
granted for desertion.
The state land commissioner is busy
selecting 10000 acres OF government
land in the northwest counties OF
the state to help make up for
the 100000 acres selected within reser-
vations which the government now re-
fuses to be taken for indemnity pur-
poses.
Bicyclists OF the city are greatly in
terested in a race which ia to take place
this evening between Geo. Ackley and
I'll. I'll. Holdridge. 1t will be a handicap
race on bicycles from the Baptist church
to Lake Madison. Holdridge having 40
rods the start. The start will be made
about o'clock.
An attempt at petty larceny was nip
ped in the bud last evening by a gentle
men in this city who going to his barn at
q late hour discovered two matches
struck at the the door Of his neighbours
wood shed. Quietly slipping up to the
building he caught q thief throwing out
wood preparatory to taking it away and
suddenly checked his operations.
The culprit. who vas u man OF family,
begged ~pitteously not to be exposed and
with q vigorous admonltion never again
to steal wood from an unprotected
woman, he was allowed to depart and
names are withheld.
Our High school correspondent a
nounces that there will be no graduating
class this year owing toa change in the
course OF study made by Prof. McClenon.
one year more being required to CON-
plete the Latin the English course of
study. In place or the graduating ex-
e~rcises, an entertainment will be given
by the departments uf the city schools.
The trees that were planted on Arbor
Day are budding out nicely and appear
az Il they would grow, but around Gen.
tral school q fence il needed to protect
the trees.
Pierre Journal, 8: @. L. Travis, OF
Pierre, 10 here this week. He has
travelled over b great portion OF South
Dakota and Is thoroughly convinced
that the peoples party will triumph in
the coming contest with the greatest
majority that any party 9 CARRIED
the state.-Campbell County Courier.
"That's q good deal like the trottlng
horse Charley used TO own when he
lived in Miller. Ia describing him to
his friends one day he said: sI1l tell