Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-04-18
NEWSY A NOTES.

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the political loaf at Piesre this winter is
working. Its first fruit is a democratic
victory at Yankton.
John Kane, the railroad man shot at
Marvin, Grant county, by Lawrence
Roach on February IL, died at st.
Luke's hospital in Aberdeen, from the
effects of the wounds.
Peter Lynch, of Brentford is under
arrest at Mellette charged with
attempted criminal assault upon the
seven-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. @. Mclaughlin of that place
There is some talk of lynching him and
he was taken out of town.
The state marking board has COM
pleted the work of marking papers from
the March examinations for the teach
ers' certificates and finds that about 60
per cent of the applicants passed.
These papers contain nothing lower
than the second grade applications, the
third grades being passed by the county
superintendents.
Sibil jackson. the nine year old
daughter of the Huronite Monotype
operator, fell in the river where the
sewer empties in last week and was
rescued by Captain Jensen, of the Sal
walton Army who happned to be near
at hand. The young lady received a
good fright along with the wetting also
q lesson. Only for help being at hand
a different story would be printed.
Edwin Oster, aged s, is dead as the
result of terrible injuries received by
being kicked by a horse on the farm Of
Adolph Schlepp in Walworth county.
The blows from the horses heels frac-
tured the boys skull, broke his lower
jaw bone in several places and paral-
yzed his left side. Notwithstanding
his terrible injuries the boz lived
several days in horrible agony before
death his suferlng.
The commissions of school and pub.
lie lands has just distributed $22, 706 81
among the various educatinnal institu-
tlons of the state The Aberdeen nor
NAL received 1884 80; state university
s ,342. SO agricultural college IS, 1889. "a;
school of deaf mutes 81, 751 SO; reform
school 81. 222.74 Madison normal 81 1885,
IL; Spearfsh normal 81, 148,81; North
ern hospital $1,024.56; blind asylum
$717. 60; school of mines $432 so.
The town council of Viborg on the
evening of April 2 opened the bids
for the purchase of bonds in the sum of
$4,000 which recently were voted at a
special election for the purpose of pro-
viding funds with which to construct a
municipal system of waterworks at
that place. The bonds will be due in
twenty years from the date of their
issuance, and will draw interest at the
rate of 3 per cent per annum, payable
annually.
The authorities of Gregory county
have again arrested DOC" Wilson,
who was one of the principals in a
recent fierce hand to hand battle at
Sully Flats, and who seriously cut
Charles Meyers, the other party t the
contest, on the legs with a knife.
Meyers condition has become 80 ser.
ions that it was deemed best to again
take Wilson into custody. He was
originally arrested soon after the fight
but released on bonds.
DR.. j. p. Foster, nov in the employ
of the United States bureau of animal
industry, has been assigned the counties
of Sphinx, Hand, Beadle, Jeruld and
Sanborn for inspection work and he is
at present engaged in inspecting herd
of cattle in Hand county. DIR. Foster
reports the condition as regards to
scabbies, greatly improved over last
year and thinks it will be but a short
time before the herds of the state will
be free from this desiase.
While at work on the temporary
bridge of the Milwaukee railroad at
Mobridge, Stanley Jennick lost his bal.
ance and fell into the Missouri river
and drowned. Other workmen went to
the rescue, bat failed to reach him in
time. The dying man waved a fare
well, then sank. Follow workers
charge the boatman with cowardice
because he refused to row into the
swift current. 1t is reported that he
said the drowning man would have
upset the boat and both gone down.
Supt. g. G. Mason, of the James
River division of the Milwaukee road
and a resident of Aberdeen, will devote
his exclusive time to his duties as one
OF the executors of James Henry
(Silent) Smiths estate, and has
resigned his position with the Milwau-
kee road. Smith died recently in Japan
while on his wedding trip around the
world. Mason will leave for New
York on the 10th, by which time, it is
expected, a copy of the will, drawn by
a London solicitor, will have reached
New York. Mason and his family will
from Aberdeen to New York.