The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-10-27

Dakota
General
State
News I'm
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Sheriff Charles Wright has appoint
ed James A. Dickson as his deputy in
place of Ed Hileman, resigned.
Mrs. Elmer Washburn, who was stab
bed five times by her drunken hus-
band in Vermillion, is a Yankton girl,
and was Miss Maggie Won Eschen.
H. M. Remen Of the firm Of Remen
& Lokken of Violin, general merchan-
| disc dealers, has sold his interests to
liver Berke, and the firm will be known
now as Lokken & Berke.
Articles of Incorporation have been
| fled for the Citizens State bank OF
| Lane, Jerauld county, with a capital
| of 5000. The ~incorporators are l.. }.
Grissinger. F. McCurdy, Ole Johansen
and others.
Sheriff Huley of Potter county took
from the Jail in Pierre F. D.. Miles, who
is wanted in Potter county for an at
tempt to defraud a bank by a wire-tap-
ping scheme. Miles goes back to
Gettysburg for trial.
John Tanner, who was so frightful-
| ly mangled in the cylinder of a thresh-
| ing separator, resulting in the amputa-
ton of his right leg, died of his ln]u'
| ries at Salem. He was about 25 years
of 2 and for several seasons had
been in charge of the separator.
Work on the foundation of the new
| capitol is being delayed on cou or
the inability of Contractor Lepper to
! secure men. The chances are that the
work will not be completed by the
contract time of Nov. Is, and without
favorable weather until a later date, a
part of the work may have to go over
until next spring.
A fatal disease has broken out
among G.. A. Smiths horses at Bath
Five died in three days. The last one
was taken sick while working with the
plow and died three hours later. Inc
local and state veterinarians are In
yestigating, but could discover no
cause. and the farmers stables a
beer thoroughly disinfected.
County Judge Hute has been unable
to find any property in Brown county
subject to the inheritance tax law
which went into effect July /. Under
the law widows inheriting less h a
$40, 900 and children inherltlng less
than $4,000 are exempt from taxation
under the law, and no man possessing
property enough to leave his family
more than those amounts has dice in
Brown county since July l.
The Gen. A. A. Humphrey G. A. r.
cost of Millbank is sending out clrcu'
lars to other posts announcing that
they will present the name OF Col. N.
l. Lothian of Millbank for department
commander at the next encampment.
Col. Lothian has long been prominent
in Grand Army affairs and has held
many positions in the organization.
He was a member of Company G, Fifth
Minnesota volunteer infantry.
The new college Carnegie library,
the main building of which has cost
ST, 900 to complete, was formally open
ed at Yankton before a large audience
by President Warren and other mem
bers of the college, assisted by Senator
Gamble, representing the city. The
building. which is a magnificent home
for the college library Of 10000 vol
umes. will have, when completed, two
large wings to cost about $1,000 more.
The ~three-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Dell Newell, who reside on
a farm in Aurora county, was playing
in the barn with her little brothers and
sisters when the structure in some
way caught fire. All succeeded in es-
Gaping but the little girl, VINO met
death in the flames. Before the fire
could be ex~tinguished the barn and it's
contents, including thirteen head OF
horses and cattle. were burned. n
members of the Newell family are
Frustrated with grief over the loss of
the little one.
Plans are under way to greatly en-
large the scope of the annual flower
show which has been given in Aber-
deem for the past two seasons by A.. w.
Voedisch. Heretofore the show has
been confined to Aberdeen. Next Sep
TENDER it is planned to give a flower
and vegetable show in which the peo-
pie in every county in the northern
half of South Dakota will be asked to
compete. The show will be held in the
new auditorium holding 1000 people,
which. is now in process OF erection.
What came near proving a fatal &C
cident befell ID. G. Campbell, a Wolsey
merchant and prominent citizen of the
west side of Beadle county. Return
ing with a friend from a hunting trip,
one of the guns was accidentally dis
charged as the buggy jolted over a
railway crossing, the charge striking
Mr.. Campbell's shoulder, inficting an