Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-14
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Frank Connors, aged nineteen years.
was suffocated in well on the L. G.
Demele farm. eight miles northwest of
Huron.
Fire at Vermillion destroyed the
home of William Gremmes, entai:lng a
loss of $500. The origin, of the are is
a mystery.
While on his way home on horse
back Ole E. Aaberg was fatally in
jured at Hot Springs by his horse fall
ing on him.
William Todd of Yankton. brother OF
Chief James Todd Of the Yankton fire
department, died at the age of forty
seven years.
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The roller mill at Waubay owned by
Herman & Knistle burned last week.
The loss is $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The origin of the FIRE is not known.
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There are still fifteen schools of
Jerauld county without teachers. The
total number of schools is fifty. The
cause of the scarcity has been too low
wages.
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John Milks, a student fireman on
Engine No. 268, was killed at Volga.
He was cleaning the ashes from the
firebox when another train backed
into them.
A desperate shooting ARRAY occurred
at Rapid City. Frank and John Graves
were seriously wounded. Ed Wallace
was placed in Jail, charged with the
shooting. All were colored
After nearly forty-eight hours of N.
tense suffering as the result of drink
ing a quantity OF I've, the eighteen.
months-old daughter of Mr.. ana Mrs.
o. T. Hanson Of Sioux Fails is dead.
Fire at Parker destroyed the Chica-
go & Northwestern depot, three box
cars loaded with freight and the store
room. Fire was caused by an engine.
The loss to the railway company Is
$4,000.
The twelve-year-old daughter OF
Henry Dethlefson, farmer of Aurora
county, was thrown from a wagon and
Killed. The wheels Of the wagon
passed over the girls head, crushing
her skull.
Miss Malta Stangland, daughter of
Hans Stangland, farmer of Airing
ton, drank a bottle of carbolic acid ana
died before medical services could be
summoned. She had been in i'll health
for some time.
While drilling block holes in the
5O0-foot level of the Homestake mine
and making tests for rival machine
companies, Dominic Ronchetto and
William Niva, miners, drilled into a
missed hole and were injured by the
explosion, the former seriously.
The first prosecution in that vicinity
is in progress at Pierre under the law
that makes it an offense to start a
prairie fire. Henry Krohnmiller was
arrested on complaint of one Of the
losers of hay in the prairie fire of last
Sunday evening and is having his
hearing.
Information has been received at
Oacoma of the fatal shooting by acct.
dent Of Sioux Indian named Eagle
Hawk, who was member of the res
ervation Indian police force. The 10
liceman was handling his six-shooter
when 1t was discharged, the bullet en-
tering his body.
A wreck on the South Dakota Cen
trail railroad at Arlington resulted in
the death Of one man. The train en-.
gagged in laying steel had stopped for
water before entering the yards. A
freight following crashed into the en-
CINE, derailing it and several cars. Joe
Palvic, one of the steel gang, was run
over and died soon afterward.
The University Choral club has re-
organized for the winters work pre-
paratory for the musical festival next
May, at which time the second annual
concert will be given. The cantata,
Gods Own Time" will be sung by the
club; also ''The Holy City," and a
chorus OF 100 boys voices will be
heard in a selection. The club is I'M
der the direction of Emory w. Hobson,
formerly of the Cincinnati Conserva-
tory of Music.
In a wreck on the Northwestern
railroad between Deadwood and
Pierre. near Box Elder. William Wal
lin, a brakeman, suffered broken leg,
while Conductor Delehanty and Brake
man Gerbing were both cut and bruis-
ed. The wreck was caused by a sec
ton of the train, which was a freight,
breaking away, and when the engineer
slowed down the loose section crashed
into the train. Wallin was hurt in a
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