The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-05-30

Dakota
General
STATE
Nows In
Paragraphs

Hildor l.. Thompson, q freshman at
the state university at Vermiiiloh'
was drowned in the Vermillion river
while bathing.
The eleven-year-old son of Mr.. n
Mrs. Charles Culver is missing from
his home in Deadwood and has not
been seer for several days.
A furious rain and wind storm
swept Tyndall and vicinity last week.
causing considerable damage to farm
buildings and fruit trees.
At a meeting of the state board OF
charities at Plankinton it was decided
to retain the services Of 5. +. Young
as superintendent of the state training
school.
The sales OF capitol building lands
In the counties Of Hyde. Hand, Faulk
, and Potter during the past eek were
fully up to the expectations OF the com
mission.
Fire originating from an unknown
cause In the livery stable OF w. Mason
at Plankinton burned over most or the
block, causing an aggregate loss or
$l4, 900.
Peter Gross, a bartender, shot Tim
| Shaff OF Gettysburg in the arm during
a saloon row at Lebanon. Shat was
, the aggressor according to the stories
, Of those who witnessed the occur
renee.
A new state bank is to be estao-
lished at Vale, Butte county, in the ir-
| ~rigation section, to be known as the
Belle Fourche Valley bank. 1t is In.
corporated by Chicago and Dakota
parties and is capitalized at $4,000.
Articles OF incorporation have been
| filed at Pierre for the Fort Pierre Hos
yital association, with a capital of Slo,-
900, for the construction of a private
| hospital at that place. The incorpora-
tors are all prominent men OF Pierre.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed for the new state bank at Rec
Heights, with a capital of $4,000. The
| incorporators are w. T. Gardner,
Frank H. Gardner and r. w. Spiers OF
Rec Heights, and F. d. Greene of
| Miller.
The contractors who are to erect
the new depot at Pierre have set at
| rest all dispute as to the location of
| the buildings by beginning the excava-
ton for the structure on the site just
north of the old depot west or Pierre
| street. The building will front on
Pleasant drive.
Bertha Holder. a waitress in an Abb
! erdeen restaurant, is determined to
| kill herself, asd after two u~nsuccess-
full attempts blocked by persons near
by, she declares that she will yet sue
| coed If she has to starve herself to
death. She Is now held by the police
! pending an investigation.
The fourteen-year-old son Of Rev.
David Hofer, pastor of the Mennonite
colony at GAINESVILLE, was accidentally
| killed In the Mennonite mill at, that
| place. Young Hofer's clothing caught
In a shaft and he was dead when
found, having been drawn up and
around the shaft to almost instant
death.
A warrant Is out at Milbank for the
arrest of G.. F. Williams, a spectacle
peddler from st. Paul. 1t is charged
he has swindled a large number OF
people in that and adjoining towns,
selling them cheap and worthless spec
tacles for prices ranging from IS to
$25. The chief Of police OF st. Paul In
reply to an inquiry says that the man
Is not known in that city.
William Martin Shields, a resident
of Canton for the past twenty-three
years, died after a brief sickness. Ty-
phoid fever with heart trouble was
the immediate cause of death. He was
nearly 81 years of age and one OF the
most active and proficient members
of the local QUOT club. His father-in-
law, Elijah Clark Sears, who will be
102 years old next month, is quite &C.
tive and attended the funeral.
Arrangements have practically been
completed for the annual convention
OF the Charles Mix County Sunday
| School association. which will be held
at Lake Andes early in June. The con-
vention will on Saturday at.
ternoon. June l, and continue in ses-
sion until Sunday evening. June 2. An
interesting program has been prepared
10 rthe occasion. Every Sunday school
in the county will be represented by
one or more delegates, and the attend
ance is expected to be quite large.
While Carl Bechtold, Jr., and his
brotherin-law. William Schenkenberg-
er. of Java, were out hunting, a rifle
In the hands of the hitter was acciden-
tally discharged, the ball taking effect
In the back of Bechtold. The bullet
took a downward course, lodging in
the left thigh and infiicting a serious
wound. Efforts to remove the bullet
have thus far proven unsuccessful. 1t
Is expected that the wounded man will
recover unless something unforeseen,
such as blood poisoning. develops.
Two prominent Aberdeen business
men who recently made an extensive
trip through the country adjacent to
that city make glowing reports Of the
o~oc Dr1cnooko Ona 80 fha-H ~a;d.