Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-09-28
South.
General
state
News III
Paragraphs.

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build q new station at Milbank this
year. but win enlarge and remodel the
present one.
a carpenter BY the name or DoheF
whose family resides in Bowdle, drop
ped dead at the farm Of Michael Del.
bert. near Artas.
The August report Of the bureau OF
vital statistics shows for the month
730 births; deaths, 243; marriages,
200; divorces. rs. and naturaIizations.
AZ.
The Catholic church in Alexandria
was completely Quilted by fire which
broke cut at 4.15 in the morning. The
loss will aggregate $1,000. No insur.
snce. Cause OF the fire is unknown.
At Hayes, fifty miles west OF Pierre,
Roy. the tive-year-old son OF George II.
Walker, was drowned in the dipping
tank at that place. He fell in while
playing and drowned before help could
reach him.
Dan Murphy, assistant division SUI
perintendent of the B. & nj. railway,
died at St. Joseph's hospital at Dead
wood as the result of an operation for
appendicitis He was a young man
and left wife.
r. w Brennan Of Lead City has just
returned from Denver, where he won
the fourth prize in the broncho bust
ing contest at the g. A. r. celebration.
He carries displaced shoulder and
numerous bruises.
The annual meeting of the Congre-
gational churches and ministers of the
Yankton association will be held in
Elk Point city Oct. and 4. The an
nual sermon will be preached by Rev.
d. ]. Perrin Of Springfield.
While attempting to light a coal fire
with kerosene Mrs. n. Egeberg, resid-
ing three miles southeast of Volga,
was so badly burned that no hope is
entertained for her recovery.
The site OF the new Great Northern
passenger station at Aberdeen will be
on First avenue, across the street from
the Park Place hotel II is expected
that work on the structure and tracks
into the city will begin at once.
r. A. Schumacher. living in Mime
sofa township, near Sisseton, lost q
big barn by FIRE, also hay and feed and
registered Percheron stallion valued
at $4,000. This is the third barn Mr..
Schumacher has lost in a few years.
Ludwig Pfaff, an early settler of the
southwestern part of Jerauld county,
was instantly killed by lightning while
he was working with a moving ma,
chine in his fields. One of his horses
which he was driving was also killed.
The annual meeting of the Sturgis
FIRE department was held last week.
Among other business transacted was
the election of chief and treasurer.
H. d. Berger was elected chief and Fl.
e. Perkins treasurer for the ensuing
year.
The five-year-old daughter of r.
Martins of Sisseton had a narrow es-
cape from death by being hooked by q
vicious COW. She was forced through
q wire fence by the animal. Her face
and body were horribly lacerated and
one arm was broken.
Charles Lundstrom OF Lee Heights
while visiting the mill at Pierre at
tempted to examine the interior work
ings OF the gas engine with lighted
match and was severely burned about
the head and may lose his sight from
the effects of the burns.
Great preparations are being made
for the Roberts county fair, to be held
In Sisseton next week, Sept 20 to %.
The Sisseton Driving Park associa.
ton will hold a big race meet at the
same time, and the Sisseton Gun club
will hold It's first annual tournament.
Floyd Mckinney, fourteen years or
age, is candidate for the state reform
school He is in jail at Deadwood,
charged with obtaining money and
goods under false pretenses. He has
been in difficulty several times, but
his last escapade will prove more seri-
Gus. His plan has been to 90 to diff
ferent stores, stating that certain
merchant had sent him to buy goods.
thus obtaining various articles. These
he would dispose OF later.
The first serious prairie fire of the
season has just swept the region south
OF Iona, in the southern part of Ly-8
man county, west Of the Missouri