The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-09
THE CITY.
LOCAL RREVITIEs.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
Or. Brown of Lake Preston was in the
city to-day.
Bread making is made economical by
the use of Dwight's Flour.
The COW killed on the track last night
belonged to Thos. Burrell.
Vida Munger was a passenger for
Canton on a short visit to friends.
Weather report. Showers tonight;
Saturday fair. Cooler tonight, north
vest winds.
NPlowing has quite generally begun
since the heavy RAIN and the ground
turns up in fine shape.
Judge Holdridge has just secured for
Mrs. Nellie Thomas a divorce from her
husband, Mahlon Thomas.
Arrivals on the evening train were E.
Kramer from Chicago, D. D. Holdridge,
Esq, from Sioux Falls and G. W. Bag
ley from the east.
Mrs. J.J. Craney returned this morn
ing from Letcher where she was in at
tendance upon the deathbed Of her
brother, J. J. Ryan.
McGlllivray Bros. have begun to clean
up and arrange their store for the new
stock which they will put in there in
about a week or ten days.
Y VIM. O'Connell, formerly OF Orland
township, this county, now Of Baraboo,
Wis, arrived on the evening tram to
visit former friends and neighbors.
Ed Baldwin Of the east side Of the
county threshed lO2 bushels of oats
from two loads the other day. Good
evidence OF we'll headed and we'll filled
grain.
John Larkin received a telegram this
afternoon from John p. Coffey of Free
port, ILL.,, stating that they had lost their
little 7 months old boy who had been
sick for some time.
NJoseph Mcdonald and bride returned
Vast evening from Yankton where he
and Miss Mary Agnes Smith were united
in wedlock on the eth inst. by Father
Link. Joe is receiving the congratula-
ti0ps OF a host OF friends. The young
couple will start housekeeping Monday
in the E. p. Mueller house in the west
part OF town.
The abundance Of water as we'll as
crop in this county is noteworthy as the
following problem, solved by A. H.
Marsland, will show: He says there are
800 barrels Of rainwater in the ladies'
hall, Normal school, cistern. The hall
accommodates 60 girls and this allows Is
barrels of water to the girl. Why the
Deacon should have figured this all out
we don't know unless he intends to give
each girl her share of water "all at
once" ~
Geo. F. Root, the noted musical COM
poser Of Chicago, who died suddenly at
Bailey's Harbor, Maine, will long be re-
membered in every Christian home in
the land for the beautiful tunes and
melodies he has written. DR.. Root was
cousin Of the mother OF A. E. Fuller Of
this city, but no n looking at AL
would for a minute suppose there was
anything musical or poetical about him,
and yet the Roots were a musical family
\ throughout.
A telegram was received last evening
by j. J. Fitzgerald from his wife at
Letcher, s. D., stating that her brother,
J.J. Ryan, died at $50 p. N. Deceased
was until quite recently q vigorous man,
in middle life. He leaves a wife and five
children mainly grown up. His trouble
was q liver and kidney complaint. The
remains were taken to-day by way of
Sioux Falls to Luverne, Mimi, the fam.
lily home, for lnterment and Mr.. Fitz-
gerald left on the morning train with
his little daughter to join the funeral
cortege at Sioux Falls this afternoon.
Tomorrow or Monday Mr.. Fitzgerald
will return with his wife as far as Pipe
stone and thence proceed to Chicago to
Icy in a large stock Of fall goods.
\ REV. W. J. Cleveland of this city to.
day received a dispatch from the secre-
tary of the National Indian Rights as
sociation, headquarters at Philadelphia,
requesting him to proceed to Jackson's
Hole, Idaho, and make a personal inves.
tigstion Of the recent Bannock Indian
troubles there for the Information Of the
association. The Indian Rights ~associa.
ton is Independent of government con.
troll, composed Of philxnthropically in.
clined persons, whose mission is to bet.
ter the condition Of the American Indian
without regard to tribal relations, and
see 10 it that they are accorded thei,
rights by the government and officers N
the immediate control OF reservations
etc. In the case Of outbreaks like the