The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-09-16
i'm SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
over tho State.

The residence of +. NJ. Hol5roOk,
manager of h Glover Hill cheese fac
tory in Theresa township, near Huron,
burned recently. Loss, about 1000.
The Republican judicial convention,
embracing the counties of Minnehaha,
Lake. Moody, Lincoln, McCOok and
Union, was held at Sioux Falls, and
Judge Jones was renominated.
James GertsOn. an old settler living
five miles north of Kimball. took Il
dose of strychnine and ended his life.
Domestic affairs had not been running
smoothly in the family for some time
past. An inquest will be held.
cussed by Tyndall. The power is to
be furnished by the large engine in
the city mills. and it is reasonably GER
tain that the plant will be in operation
by Dee. /.
Mrs. A. f.. Butler, wife of n plomi-
nent stOckman of Pierre, was found
dead ia bed. Death was caused 10y
| apopleXy. The remains will be taken
to her old home, Norwood Park, H.,
for interment.
When William Anytime, living near
| Miller. returned home from town, he
found that his fifteen-year-old Or
phans' Home boy had set fire TO the
stacks and barn, destroying consider
able stock, and then run away on n
fine horse.
The state auditors office reports that
the delinquent taxes due he state
from the various counties on the lSt or
July. 1897, amount to a total of SILL
220. 1G, as against S446, 154.S0 Tor the
| same late last year. This leaves n
difference in the amount due of S3J,-
534 GA in favor of the state this year.
boom that speaks eloquently of the
return of prosperity. Among the
buildings now under constr lction are
n hotel and n large store building. be-
| sides several smaller structures. The
town was nearly wiped out of exist
ence by two disastrous fires last year.
The adiutant general of the state
arsenal in Pierre. about GOO 5o-cali-
Der rifles 70 the United States arsenal
at Rock Island. Ill. These rifles have
been in the hands of the Sons of Vet
Grams, and have been called in under
| the provisions of Il recent act of con-
gress.
A harvest hand, who was travelling
with and feeding a tramp. was robbed
and beaten nearly to death by his
| tramp companion in Villas. He recov-
| cred his money, but is suffering from
a broken Jaw and is badly bruised
about the head. The tramp has not
been caught, but the sheriff is after
him.
Il W. ,NAx,- ID,a.Irvtnrsnp rhtr.h which
was nearly completed ut Marion juno
ton. was burned recently, together
with two barns. For n time ii looked
| as though the town would be wiped
| out. The fire is supposed To have
| originated from smoking in the build
ing. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
No insurance. %
At Buffalo Gap an ~eastbeund cattle
train was stopping on the main line for
water, when Il second cattle train. ut
full speed. dashed into the rear end,
completely demolishing the caboose
and killing 4. A. Vaughan, a promi-
nent business man of WhitewOod. The
| engineer and fireman jumped and es-
capped. Vaughan was alone in the car
at the time.
4 bold attempt was made at opening
Wood Bros store at Milbank by two
burglars. When Night Waterman
sam Merry came up, one of the men
ordered him to hold up his hands and
fired. the bullet going through Merry's
hand. Merry pluckily Knocked the re-
volver from the robbers hand, grabbed
ii and fired four shots at the two as
they ran. The men got away. A lot
OF gamblers and toughs infest the
town.
The great government artesian well
recently struck ut the Lower Brule
| Agency. is on the rampage, and after
belching forth coal, sand and other
substances. became partially chOked
up. II is feared that Ii will be neceS-
sary to reduce it i'm order TO make the
well again flow freely. When first
struck the well forced n solid siX-inch
| stream nearly twenty feet above the
| top of the casing.
Gov. Lee has appointed commission
| ers to the national congress ut Lincoln,
| Neb.. Sept. 2S to 30: =. A. COchrane,
A. Il. Saunders. Bookings; o. III.
| Mann. Ofebojo; James Nj. Ward,
| Rapid City; G. A. Trip. Hillsview;
as delegates to the national congress
| mt Allegheny i'm October, n. f. Phil
lips. Sioux Falls: G.. w. AinswOrth,
| P%lankinton; George w. Kingsbury,
Yankton; Mrs. Anna Simmons, HUI
ron. /.
BY the latest yerification of figures
I'm the matter of railroad assessments
II has been discovered that, on ac-
count of an error i'm former calcula-
tons. there is still n further raise Of
| sS.2t5, carrying the total increase
within n few dollars of $4,000. The
| difference is due to an error in former