The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-09-24
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
l~nteresting News Items from M
over the state.

fannie Slater of Tyndall died OF ty-
! nboid fever. \ 'arge number III tnat
| city are atti .ctcd with the disease.
The Cavour crcamery at Huron, to-
| gether with q portion of the machlh-
cry, has been destroyed by hre.
George III. Perry, proprietor or the
Occidental hotel, Aberdeen, TOOK q
| dose of carbolic acid. accidentally, ana
died from the results.
John III. Haigh of Cavour township
near Huron, was seriously staDDeu III
| the right side by another boy, uDD
Fitch. living in the same nelShDof-
hood. Fitch is in Jail at Huron, wait
ing for the result Of the wounds.
| Haigh is in a very critical condition.
Fire in an abandoned shack south or
Aberdeen set fire to the building and
spread to an adjoining wheat nclu.
Citizens in large numbers turned OUT,
but the fire was net subdued until IL
had destroyed several acres or gram
in the shock and the building where IL
started.
Mrs. Oscar .JammisOn. who resides
| ten miles south of Huron, was acct
| dentally killed while assisting her hus-
band in putting up hay. She was
driving n team hitched to a hay rack,
| when one Of the whifiietreeS broke ana
| she was struck in the stomach by the
| end of the doublc-tree. Death result
ed in half an hour after the accident
Hugh cHrrOn of Pierre has been adj
| Judged insane. About a year ago he
was working IN Chicago and became
infatuated with a teacher III the
| schools of that city, who was several
years his senior. She finally left the
| city to escape his attentions. and he
| started out to find her, visiting Oma-
ha. New Orleans, Tampa, Havana and
| New York.
Mrs. SOphronia Lucas. wife OF eX-
Congressman Lucas, Comnandant or
| the soldiers home in Hot Springs,
died at the home Of her daughter at
Garner, Iowa, from cancer. She vas
at the time of her death, matron OF
| the soldiers home AID department
treasurer of the woman'S relief corps
| Of this state. She was greatly eloved
by sill the inmates of the home and q
Idle circle of friends throughout tn,
city and state.
Mrs. Michael Ryan. aged seventy
| years, wife of Ii OF the pioneers or
Union county. was run over by a Mill
| woukee switch engine and two freight
| cars and died of her injuries. The ac-
cident happened in Il peculiar way.
Mrs. Ryan was crossing the track
when her shueString caught in some
way and tripped her, and before she
could get out of the way the cars
lacked up, mangling her as related
above.
A peculiar accident happened pear
LangfOrd recently. by which Tom
| Ferguson. aged fourteen years, nearly
/ lost his life. There WIS a ~tifteen-foot
| dry well on his fathers farm, filled
| with weeds. and Tommy thought it
would be great fun to set fire to the
mass, so he went To the bottom OF the
well and lit n match. Instantly the
flames filed the we'll. and only by SUI
perhuman eXertions was the boy res
cue1, being frightfully burned on the
Head, legs and aru
The state auditors office at Pierre
received a relic of old time Dakota
Territory. 1t is in the shape OF Il ter
ritorial warrant issued to $. Nj. Crooks
and dated May ;, 1863. 1t is for SER
vices training for public defense, and
payable out Of any fund apportio1ed to
the territory by the general govern
ment for the maintenance of the terri
torial militia, and bears the name Of
Justus Townsend, territorial auritor.
The warrant was sent in from Clar-
india, Iowa, by w. s. Caldwell. who
found it with another of the same date
among old papers belonging TO his
father-in-law. The warrant not for
warded is for 500 for services of $. NJ.
Crooks as first lieutenant of Company
Z, Dakota militia.