Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-07
Thursday, November 7, 1907.
NEwsY STATE NOTES.

Fire destroyed the Chicago s. North
western station. three boxcars aud
freight in the store room, at Parker.
The fire was caused by an engine
As the result of being kicked in the
stomach by horse the 8-year-old son Of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mas, who reside
on farm near Lebanon, is dead.
Governor Crawford has granted Il
parole 20 w. N. McFadden, sentenced
from Lyman county for eighteen
months on a charge of obtaining moEey
under false pretence
The state marking board is at work
on the papers of teachers, presented at
the October examinations in the differ
ent counties. Seven hundred forty.two
sets have been sent in, aud with the
average number passing, the shortage
of teachers in the state should be
relieved 20 IA certain extent.
Rapid City is to have Y NJ. G, a.
This was decided by "A mass meeting of
the younger element of the city, who
have invited the state secretary, Q A.
Carriell, OF Brookings, and the state
chairman, S. ID. Van Benthuysen, of
Mitchell, to come here and organize the
local association early this mouth.
Meetings will be held here on November
8, i0and II 20 assure large member.
ship
A murder has been committed near
Henry, twenty miles west of Watertown,
the motive presumably being robbery.
+. NJ Brown, misery bachelor, known
to carry large sums of money, was
found dead with a bullet hole in his
neck, passing downward through to his
back, He had been dead several days
when discovered The coroner's jury
returned verdict of murder by
unknown persons. Brown was about
80 years of age.
A wreck occurred OH the South
Dakota Central railroad at Arlington,
November LIST, resulting in the death OF
one man and considerable smashup OF
locomotive and construction train.
The train engaged in laying steel had
stopped for water before entering the
Yards and had no lights out A freight
following crashed into the engine,
derailing 1t and several cars. Joe Pal
vic, one OF the steel gang, was run over
and lived but n short time
Fire broke out Saturday night at 10 &c
o'clock in the second story of the Webt
building in Aberdeen, occupied
by Caleb Kelly's saloon on the ground
floor and Fletcher's photograph gallery
and Robert Woods boarding house on
the second story. The top OF the build.
ing was badly Quilted. Insurance about
1000 which will about cover the loss
on the building The saloon and photo.
graph gallery we're partially damaged,
covered by insurance. The loss to the
Woods boarding house will amount to
several hundred dollars
But for the feet that member of her
family happened TO be near enough to
give instant aid, Miss Carlotta Harris,
of Galena, would now be in her grave.
Miss Harris, the daughter of a wealthy
mining man, had been suffering from
throat trouble and in taking from a
shelf supposed prescription. she took
chloride of mercury tablets instead.
She swallowed the dose before she real.
ized her mistake aud almost immedi-
ately was critically Ill Her life long
hung In the balance, but emetics saved
her.
George A. Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls,
grand secretary of tn. Masonic bodies
Of South Dakota, has returned from the
big Masonic meeting at Washington and
announces that while in the national
capital he secured a charter of the new
consistory OF Maoons. For some time
Sioux Falls Masons have been working
under dispensation. The application
for the establishment of a consistory
there was resisted by Yankton Masons,
bat the Grand Secretary had good
case, and as stated, the application was
granted. This will make the third con.
sistory in South Dakota, the Others
being at Yankton and Aberdeen.
Word has been received from Sioux
Falls that their will most likely be nc
term of United States court in Aber.
deem the second term of this month