Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-25

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Spicer has been given the charge of the
work and has been allowed $4,000 as a
sum TO finance the matter through
Kenneth Kinsler, 6 years old, son of
the manager of the Aberdeen creamery,
was terribly scalded while playing
about the creamery The floor was
being scrubbed out and the dense steam
hid the boy from the sight of the work
men engaged in the cleaning up pro-
cess. One Of them threw a pail of
scalding water on the boy, burning him
terribly from the hips down.
But for the prompt action of some Of
his fellow workers, Supt. o. H. Brown,
of the Golden Reward Mining COM
pany's mill at Deadwood, would have
met death by poisoning. In making
some tests with cyanide solution Mr..
Brown accidently swallowed some of
the fluid through glass tube. He was
nearly dead when discovered by the
assayer, who applied heroic treatment
and saved Mr. Browns life.
Ernest A. Poore, st. Paul stenog-
rapher AMI the son-in-law of j. Howard
Taylor, of Columbia township, one of
Brown county's most prominent farm.
ers, met terrible death at Columbia
early Saturday morning by throwing
himself under the wheels of the first
car of the passenger train, south bound.
HIS body was cut into fifteen pieces,
his head was nearly severed from his
body, both arms and legs were cut off.
A stranger was taken to Yankton one
day last week for medical treatment,
who was found by Milwaukee section
hands at James River with badly
gashed head. With his head sewed up
he was able to give the name of August
Bork, of Henderson, Mimi, but no
details of the accident which so nearly
cost him his life. He said he had been
drinking and is inclined to the belief
that ne got on train somewhere and
fslloff
A settlement has been effected by the
aothorities of Moody and Minnehaha
oDunties in the matter of the allow
x e of the claims for expenses incurred
mann in the state circuit court of Moody
county on a change of venue from the
circuit court of Minnehaha county All
bills for witness fees, etc., in connection
With the trial have now been audited,
and show that the expenses of the trial
aggregate the sum of $6,SS0.6S
With the aid of a surgeons knife
Henry Anderson, of cen tennial, was
relieved of wierd assortment of
sunk" that for two years past he has
been unconsciously carrying in his left
log. Anderson, who is rancher, was
building ditch, when he was injured
by an explosion. Ever since then he
ISIS been suffering. When the surgeons
oDened the leg at st. Joseph's hospital
y. Deadwood, they took out a chisel,
several nails, a screw, three good sized
- anks of wood and piece of tin.
The Public Opinion company has been
Organized in Watertown, with the fol-
lowing incorporators: A. w. Ransom,
| 81. Cory, H. f. W. Schaler, H. l.
Hopkins and Colonel Lee Slower. The
espital is $50 900, with the privilege of
Increasing to $4,000, to do general
frinting and publishing business.
dessrs. Ransom and Cory, who for
f.teen years have been the publishers
VI the Daily Public Opinion, are the
principal stockholders. The new COM
sany expects to increase the facilities of
the plant to meet the growing demands
So the community with press dispatches
"A view at no distant date.
During the storm Saturday Mr. and
Mrs. George Rabuck, who live several
miles southeast of Redfeld, had vivid
exhibition of the danger Of using the
telephone during an electrical storm
Mr. Rabuck stood in door beside the
phone talking TO his wife who stood
about four feet away directly in front
of the phone. When the bolt struck
the wire the flame shot out of the
receiver into Mrs. Rabuck's face and
while it did her no harm 1t was rather
warm for second. Had any one been
using the phone at the time the bolt
would doubtless have been fatal Keep
away from your phone during storm
The first through train over the new
extension Of the Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st. Paul railway between Chamberlain
and Rapid City, reached Chamberlain
on the return trip at 100 a. M, July
22nd, covering the 220 miles in some-
thing less than eleven hours. From
; Chamberlain to Kadoka the train was
In charge of Conductor w. A. Rand and
Engineer Will johnson, with engine
|, No. 6O4, and from Kadoka to Rapid
City Conductor Smith and Engineer
Bradbury had charge. The trip was
satisfactory in eveiy respect, and devoid
of q mishap Of any sort. 1t is expected
, the regular service will be started some
time in August.