The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-10-30

Dakota
General
State
News I'm
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>NA~ 49,
on Dec. 4 for the murler of Fred Sam
~uelson, near Speartish, on Aug. I las.
Upon entering a plea of guilty for
horse stealing at Vermillion, T. B.
Mitchell was sentenced to five years
at hard labor in the state prison.
Mitchell's home is in Sioux City.
Mrs. Permelia Hubbell, whose death
occurred at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Hyde, in st. Lawrence, was the
oldest person in that section of the
Northwest, having celebrated her 103d
birthday last July.
Reports from Clear Lake tell of an
the spreading of typhoid fever. New
cases are being reported every day,
and the authorities are still at sea as
to the cause of the epidemic.
The sixteen-month-old son of John
Reedy and wife of Huron has died
from scalds received by the overturn-
ItJS, VI a " " " y ot thS SuDpSi
table. Mr.. Reedy is a conductor on
the Chicago & Northwestern road.
The stock in Fem Brothers candy
factory at Sioux Falls. estimated at
$25, 900, was damaged to the extent OF
$4,000 by fire. The building, which
belongs to George r. Blackman, was
SorocnI Tn tho amount of 60 EaO The
losses are covered by insurance.
A number of society ladies of Gettys-
burg proved themselves heroines by
taking off their underskirts and
aprons and giving them to the men
with which to fight a prairie fire.
They thus aided in preventing serious
damage being done, and played an inn
portant part in saving a great deal of
property.
The east end of Brookings county
is ~harboIing a fire fiend. John Welsh
was the first victim. losing his house,
barn and 2ranary. with all their con-
tents. Next day the fend set fire to
the buil@iugs of Henry Portrait, who
Lost his all. A number of isolated
straw piles and hayStacks have been
mySteriously fred, and farmers are
alarmed.
While leading his COW home from a
pasture at ilearfsh, Pete Lundgren,
an aged man, met a singular death.
Lundsren had wrapped the rope
around his wrist. and when the cow
D&lAvu sic toprled the Old man over
ana dragged him ON distance before
In aGiE& on his abdomen. Two hours
later lie died from internal hemorr-
base.
The trial of the ease of Herbert f.
Murphy against the Chicago. Rock
ISLAND Il Pacific Railroad company for
@l5,CC0 famages Tor an injury to one
OF lis feet while IL the employ of the
company as br KEENAN,, came to an
end Ut Sioux Falls, when Judge Car
'anI directed a verdict in favor of the
defendant on the ground of contribu-
tory negligence.
That prairie fires are still a menace
even in the thickly settled parts of
the state is shown by two fires that
ragged last week, n east of Webster
which swept the country bare of hay,
and IN many cases entered fax fields,
and the other east of WATERFOWL, be-
tyvnnn poTpic Goodwin an1 kranc.
burg, which has caused a heavy loss
in hay and farm buildings.
Sheriff Moss and States Attorney
Maxwell are back at Belle Fourche
from Lennon, one of the new towns
in the northern end of the county,
where they conducted some speak
easy raids and made other arrests.
At Moreau they took into custody Ira
Merrill, the postmaster, and George
DAILY and John Dwyer, all of whom are
charged with selling liquor without q
license.
Sheriff Trathen Of Deadwood has
zone to Butte, Mont, with a warrant
for the arrest of Mrs. Margaret Bow
man, charged with kidnapping the
five-year-old daughter Of J.. M. Ellis
of Lead. 1t is alleged that the woman
was given the care Of the child en-
porarily, and when the father wished
to put the girl in school the woman
refused to give her up and left the
%country with her. The child's mother
is dead.
The new Holland Christian Re-
formed church building, situated in a
Hollander community, in Hamlin
township was dedicated last week.
Many people from the surrounding
country were present. The services
We're conducted in both the Dutch and
English languages, and a collection
was taken to pay a balance due upon
the cost of constructing the new
church. The new church edifice is
one of the finest of its kind in that
portion of the state.
Tie Methodists of Pierre have just
Aho .:1,or 10 ry ~