The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-09
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
interesting News Items iron M
over the state.

YanktOs agency.
The teachers annual institute WAS
| held at Miller, the peihS
202.
No liouor. even for medicinal pnr-
noses. can now be gotten at Miller, the
| drug stores having failed TO get per-
mitS.
OF the apportionment OF the ih'cics.
| on the permanent school fund Tor io'"
Readle county receives S2,5o3."o ior
| her 2,i9i school children.
4 f~ve-year-old hoy playing WIN
|! matches caused the total destruction
| of the barn and cattle shed on FRANK
| Arnold's farm. seven miles east ol
| Huron. Loss, $500, with no insurance.
Anna Waterman, aged thirty-two, a
nurse at the Canton hospital, commit
ted suicide 10y taking s~trychnine. De
s~pondency in a love affair is supposed
10 have been the cause.
A two weeks institute, attended by
nearly 200 Beadle county school teach-
ers, was held at Huron. Twenty-ohe
diplomas were awarded TO those com
pleting the common school course.
An apuCrtionment of the balance OF
10000 acres to the Springfield normal
school has been made. The land Sc
lected is principally in Hyde county.
This completes she total apportionment
or 10000 acres for that school.
a company, consisting Of Prof. J.. Il.
Todd, state ~geologist; l.. w. Ellis, #.
NJ. Vinson, Il. :. Payne. f. J. Wallace.
i. A. Jordan and NJ. Eckhart, students
&c the university, have gone on a geo.
logical expedition TO he Black Hills.
The creamery at LangfOrd is receiv-
ing on an average $500 pounds OF milk
per day: at Britton, 800 pounds; at
Newark, 1900 pounds. making 22,IoO
pounds of milk received daily. All the
creameries are paying well. n the
pessimists, even, say there is money in
butter.
A serious accident occurred to Anton
Hackel's little girl al Tyndall. She
was playing in the yard near her faith
er, who was moving. In some uneX-
plainable way she got in front OF the
sickle, which cut off her right leg near
the knee and terribly lacerated the
other.
Up 10 the present there has been re-
ceived at Pierre for this year about
175.OO0 pounds of wool. The greatest
amount for any one day was 5000
pounds. The shearing is all lone and
estimates o place the increase over
the clip of last year at about 80 per
cent.
Arrangements are complete for the
proper care of all who attend the Pop
ulist state convention at Huron on July
IA. The Chicago Il Northwestern rail
way gives a special rate of one fare
for the round trip to those attending
the convention. Chairman Null says
he expects loo or 1900 people there
at that time.
The tw~o-year-Old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Patrick Connolly. living three
miles east of Elk Point. got a kernel
Of corn in its windpipe and choked to
death before medical aid could arrive.
The residence Of James Frisbee at
Carthage was struck 10y lightning in an
electric storm and was quite badly
wrecked.
The United States civil service COM
mission will hold an examination on
July % at Aberdeen, Huron. Mitchell.
Sioux Falls and Yankton. 1t is to ill
a vacancy in the position of farmer al
the Cheyenne river agency at a salary
of $50 per month. and TO establish a
register Of eligibles from which selec-
tons may be made for filling any other
vacancy III this position at any of the
Indian agencies in South Dakota.
1t will be a matter OF interest to
know the names and present places Of
residence Of living e~X-governors of Da-
kOta territory. They are: Newton
Edmunds. Yankton: Ardrev !. Faux,
IanktOn; John :. Burbank. Washing
ton, D.. c.: John l.. Pennington. Ok
ford, Ala: Nehemiah G.. Ordway,
Washington. II. c.: Gilbert A. Pierce.
Minneapolis. MINI; Louis X. Church.
Tacoma, Wash.
The drowning season opened at Big
Stone lake with n most narrowing ac-
cident. A. l.. Jones. a hardware
merchant Of Butter. and Rev. w. ].
Williams, the NJ. +. Church minister
at Bristol, were drowned about five
or Sin rods from the shore and n mile
o Il camp grounds. They were
out in n small boat with Geo. Sher.
wood, Of Picrpont. Messrs. Sherwood
n Jones were sitting i'm the back
end and Rev. Mr.. Williams ut he on RS.
The boat dipped water on several oc-
c"sions and fnally sank. Williams
and Jones started to swim to tho
shore, but became exhausted. and
sank to rise no more. Sherwood bupD
TO the boat and was rescued. Mr.
Jones leaves n wife and two children
Rev. Mr.. Williams. who was ATTENDING
the camp meeting. was a young. mn.
married man.
The Missouri at Vermillion threat
ems to raise havoc with bottom lands
AT the present the main channel rms
near the Nebraska bluffs. about four
miles from the city. During the flood
of 1SS tho riyor c,, -. Ho'N