Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-07-02
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

June 10th, Mrs. L. NJ Karcher. Of
Ortonville, presented her husband with |
three fine and well developed girl babies
weighing respectively five, seven and
eight pounds. All are doing we'll.
One hundred thousand dollars damage |
was done in the vicinity Of Beresfoid
Saturday by terrific wind, rain and
hail storm. Every bit of grain in q
territory of sixty square miles was
destroyed. The lowlands are all under |
water.
Over 600 delegates attended the South
Dakota G. A. r. encampment at Hct
Springs last week. Gan. Woods, OF
Chicago, and Ex-Governor Van SAINT, of
Minnesota, were in attendance. War.
rem Osborne, of Yankton, was elected
department commander The next
encampment will be held in Sioux Falls.
The supreme court handed down a
decision in the Woonsocket license case
in which it holds that to allow the
issuance of liquor licenses in a town
requires majority of all the votes in
the town. In Woonsocket, with a vote
of 275, 1877 being cast for licenses and
one less against license did not carry.
Legal license requires majority of the
total vote of town to carry.
The desire of several small boys of
Redfield to write their names in q
cement sidewalk which had just been
laid and before the cement had hard
ened cost the parents of the lads an
aggregate Of about $40 The sidewalk
was completely ruined by the Soys and
had to be relaid. The boys were
arrested and taken before local justice
who required the amount of the dam
ages
Watertown voted upon the PROPOSE
ton Tuesday to issue additional bonds
in the sum of $50, 900 for the purpose or
constructing another school buildings
rather building ward school and max,
ing liberal additions to the central
building. Coupled with this is the pre-
position to vote new bonds for the pui
pose of redeeming the school bonds
issued twenty years ago, no sinking
fund ever having been provided to
liquidate the outstanding bonds.
An accident with fatal results occurred
at Wagner, Charles Mix county, the
victim being Henry Buchols, resident
of that place. While aiding in handling
a piano at a railroad depot the true k
upon which he was standing was tipped
over, throwing the entire weight of tbs
piano upon the unfortunate man. He
suffered two serious fractures of the hip
and thigh aud received internal injuries
which resulted in death TWEEN ty-four
hours later. He is survived by widow
and six children, in addition to other
relatives.
The little town of Pukwana, in Brule
county, about fifty miles west of Nit
chell, Oh the Chicago Milwaukee & st.
Paul road, was nearly wiped out of
existence Saturday night by the visi.
tation of tornado which covered an
extent of about quarter of a mile
wide. wrecking everything in its path.
The storm struck Pukwana about II
o'clock, and Notwithstanding the vii:
Layers were sound asleep and had no
warning no person was seriously
injured The tornado came from the
northwest
The Northwestern passenger train
headed north was wrecked on Saturday
night four miles this side of Houghton,
and the engineer and fireman were hurt.
The train struck large herd IF cattle
just after rounding a curve at the point
mentioned, killing five head, one of
whom got under the engine. The result
was that the engine and the mail car
were thrown from the track and rolled
down ten foot embankment. Engi-
neer Mike Murray, of Huron, was badly |
scalded, and the fireman, whose name
has not been learned, sustained a broken
collar bone. Neither is believed to be |
dangerously hurt. They were taken to
Cakes.
Three deaths are reported from the
reservation country about twenty-five |
miles northwest of Chamberlain. A
family by the name of Casters settled |
on claim near Van Metre. The wife
was in the last stages of consumption,
and was taken to hospital at Pierre
for treatment. After remaining there
short time the physicians advised the
husband that his wife could not be
cured. Mr.. Casters started to drive
back home, when his wife became much
worse. Stopping at roadhouse his
wife soon died. The daughter of Mr..
casters and Mrs. Ritter, with whom
she was stopping. started to drive from
Van Metre to the claim, upon learning
that her mother was being taken home.
Reaching Bad river they attempted to
ford the stream, not knowing how deep
1t was. Getting half way into the river
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