Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-05-04
soUTH DAKOTA.

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II. T. Mulligan Of Dell Rapids mas
sold his confectionery and restaurah
business TO Fred Phster OF Fiandfean.
The cement works at Yankton a
started up with forty employees. Last
year the product amounted TO Sy"'VVV.
Prank Bower died at Sioux Falls re
Gently from injuries received Dy mis-
taking gasoline for kerosene ana usihs
It for kindllng a fire.
Tbe Bangor Methodist congregation
dedicated their new church Mt that
Mace sunday. and raised SIoI, whlch
cleared the debt due on d chnrch.
A Faulkton dealer, in two days. sold
over $500 worth Of farm machinery 10
farmers living in the vicinity or that
town.
Ms. John Conway, mother of James
Conway. proprietor Of the fremont
house AT Elk Point. died at her home,
north of that city, OF heart fallure.
Byrd Jones. OF the Pierre National
Bank. and Miss Laura Madsen, daugh-
daughter of T. Madsen, a prominent
stockman. were married at Pierre.
A new dry goods store has been
opened AT Yankton by Fred A. klop-
ping. who is well known in state mer-
camille circles.
Wheat seeding in all parts OF South
Dakota has been rushed since its COM
meucement. about the 10th inst, u
ia now nearing completion.
Ole Paulson of Dell Rapids has been
awarded the contract TO build a new
store building for Rhine x Co, or thai
place, at a cost OF SS,6l9.
George D.. Meikeljohn. assistant sec
rotary Of war. owns a whole addiuon
10 enc OF South Dakota's best towns
GToton.
Mrs. Minnie Omeg. who died last
week at Vermillion, anne 10 America
Ga 1858. locating first at Sioux City,
but has been a resident OF Nermiliion
since 1860.
u. X. Pearsons Of Chicago has prom
ised Iankton college 10000 In June,
next year. providing all outstanding
debts against the college are paid on
at that time.
Erick Olson died at Madison, aged
fixty-seyen years. He is said 10 have
W I'D < hEtAA tAlt AArA - AAAAN 49,
Dakota Territory. locating near Yer
million in 1858.
The graduating class Of the Tyndall
high school viii contain eight mem
berS. Nina Cotton, frankie Davis, Ella
EadS, Fred EadS, Myrtle Forrest. Lyd-
Ia RavaS. Martha SWEET. John Hahn.
A. q. Young. one of Brcokings' o
prominent citizens, was stricken with
partial paralysis while loading freight.
He is suffering severely. but his ply
stefan has hopes Of his recovery.
The Campbell County Abstract com-
pany. at Mound City, with a capital
cf S2.ooo, has been incorporated. ln-
corporators, C.. W. Eckert. Elizabeth
y. Clay bourne and Maud A. Stewart.
The Minnehaha Mining company. at
Sioux FAILS, with q capital OF $4,000,
has been Incorporated. I~ncorporators,
J.. T. Hamilton, III. III. Keith and II. e.
Trask.
Jacob Skor. a young man working in
the creamery at Milbank. had his
right arm caught by n revolving shaft,
breaking it in several places. Ampu-
tation will probably be necessary.
New settlers continue 10 arrive 10
all parts of the state. The influx this
spring has been very large. and IL is
expected that mex fall the incoming
OF new settlers will take on the pro
portions of a stampede.
The jury in the case Of r. A. Tubbs,
mayor of Alcester. charged with send
ing obscene literature through the
mails. returned a verdict finding the
accused guilty OF seven out Of the eight
eounts in the indictment.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary OF state for the
Carr Mining company. at Pierre. with
a capital of S1.oo0.0o. Incorporators.
Frank MCGEE, X. l. Squire and Rufus
s. King.
Rasmus Sorensen was drowned in
Vermillion river, near Nermiliion. He
fell from a bridge and was drawn un-
der by an unusually swift current.
His body has not been found, and
probably never will be.
The rarkston creamery. in March,
received $4,000 pounds OF milk. for
which $1,000 was paid. the farmers
receiving IL IL cents per pound for
butter. or 80 cents per 100 lbs for 1
eper cen milk.
"a movement is on foot TO secure a
pardon for James Pettyman. who was
convicted OF rape in the circuit cour,
at Clear Lake. and sentenced by Judge
Andrews. In June. 1897. 70 five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Postmasters appointed in South Da.
kota: DeGrey. Deuel. county Mrs
Eliza Chandler. vice Henry Jones. re.
moved; Little Bend. SuIly county. J.
w Oswald, vice Joseph b. Binder, r.
signed.
Col j. p. Megrew. formerly com
mandsnt OF the South Dakota Soldiers
home. but more recently in charge OF
the soldiers home ut Lafayette. Ind.
IL again out OF a job. the trustees OF
the latter institution having placed an
other IN charge.
AT b spring term Of court for Han,
county, held at Miller. b. T.. Anderson
pleaded guilty 10 misappropriation OF
funds Of Inland township while treas
urer OF the same. and was sentenced
TO one year in the penitentiary a
Sioux Falls.