Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-09-28
South.
Dakota
General
State
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The Milwaukee company refuse to
build a new station at Milbank this
year, but will enlarge and remodel the
present one.
A carpenter by the name of Doher
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
200; divorces, rs, and naturalizations,
As.
The Catholic church in Alexandria
was completely Quilted by fire which
broke out at 4 :15 in the morning. The
loss will aggregate $1,000. No insur-
At Hayes, fifty miles west Of Pierre,
Roy, the -year-old son of George H.
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. & M. 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 a 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 a 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, 3 asd A. The an.
nual sermon will be preached by Rev.
y. j. Perrin of Springfield.
While attempting to light coal fire
with kerosene Mrs. H. 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. 1t is expected
that work on the structure and tracks
into the city will begin at once.
T. A. Schumacher, living in Mime
sofa township, near Sisseton, lost q
big barn by FIRE, also hay and feed and
| a 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
The was working with moving ma
chine in his fields. One of his horses
which he was driving was also killed.
The annual meeting Of the St.-gis
! fire department was held last week.
Among other business transacted was
the election of chief and treasurer.
H. d. Berger was elected chief and H.
| e. Perkins treasurer for the ensuing
year.
The fve-year-old daughter Of T.
| Martins of Sisseton had narrow es-
cape from death by being hooked by
| vicious COW. She was forced through
|
/ and body were horribly Iacerated 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-
tion will hold big race meet at the
same time, and the Sisseton Gun club
| will hold its first annual tournament.
Floyd Mckinney, fourteen years OF
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 rian has been to go to diff
ferent stores, stating that certain
luCl CldllL udU SSuC Hill W Duy SOOuOy
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-
man county, west of the Missouri
river. 1t destroyed much hay and ma
chinery and some buildings. The fire
started at point southwest of what
| is known as Nogi's butte, and swept
northeast to the crest of Bijou Hills,
where it was checked by back-fires.
| The wind then suddenly changed to
| the northwest and drove the back-fire
| southeast nearly as fast as man
could run, the green grass burning
| like stubble. For time it appeared
that Frank Fulyider's property would
be burned, but by hard fighting it was
saved. The fire reached within forty
feet of Garfield Anderson's house. Al
Ralston lost 200 tons of hay, mower.
a rake and other machinery.