The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-26
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

The subcommittee of the Missouri
River congress met at Yankton and
set July 7 to 8 as dates for the next
congress to be held here.
Michael Gully, a pioneer resident
of Aberdeen, is dead of pneumonia.
S. ]. Fellers of Groton, an early set
tier of South Dakota, is dead.
While attempting TO place a heavy
piece of meat on a rack in the butcher
shop at belmont, David Renecke lost
his balance and, falling, was himself
lmpaled on the sharp hook. He re-
ceived severe injuries.
S. M. Totten, manager Of the Yer
million telephone system for the
Northwestern company, has asked to
be relieved of his duties as manager.
1t is likely that a successor will be
named in a few days.
The mutilated body of Ed Nelson,
an AlcestGr butcher vas found lying
along the c. & N. w. side track by a
brakeman. It Is thought to be an &C
cident, but the coroner's jury may re-
veal somethi.g different.
The store of William Gross at Pol
lock was entered by robbers, who Sc
cured $40 in bills and silver, an $85
fur coat and a large amount Of dry
goods. No locks were broken, and it
is presumed the burglars had a skele-
ton key.
Frank Lillibridge is dead at a hos
pital in Pierre, from the effects of a
severe cold which developed pneu-
He was well known to all the
members of the recent legislature,
been in charge of the supply
room at the state house during the
Session.
Mr.. w. o. Thompson, for many
years cashier of the First National
Bank of Vermillion, has given it out
he expects to remove with his
to Chicago within the next two
months, or about May /. He has pur-
an interest in a manufacturing
concern there.
When the United States land office
closed last week it ceased to exist in
Mitchell, after a period of over TWEEN
years. Register Burns load
ed up all the fixtures and furniture
Of the Office and shipped to Gregory,
where the new Office was opened for
business this morning.
The third annual meeting Of the
South Dakota Conference Of Charities
md Corrections will be held at Sioux
Falls April 14-15. Among the nation
ii speakers will be DR.. Graham Tay-
or, the Chicago settlement worker;
Johnson, secretary of the
national conference, and DR.. A. A.
Wassman of Iowa City.
:
Destroying 5000 bushels of corn
ind oats, the second incendiary fire
which Hudson has suffered in recent
months consumed the Reliance eleva-
or. The smell of kerosene was plain
y descernable when the blaze start
I'd and no other cause can be as
than that some firebug is at
work.
William Stager, editor of the News
It Bucyrus, and his family had a
narrow escape from asphyxiation,
caused by gas leaking from a coal
stove. Mr.. Stager was awakened by
he mewing of a cat in the room and
barely able to reach the door. which
threw opeE. The rest of the mem
,ers of the family were unconscious,
,ut he managed to revive them.
F. Mellinger, well known at Dead
wood as a contractor, Is lying at ST.
Ioseph's hospital at deaths door, ow-
ng to a peculiar accident. Mr.. Mel
niger was employed at the automo-
pile garage and was working on a
adder not six feet from the ground
when the ladder gave way. At the
he was holding a hammer in his
hand and in the descent the weapon
struck his head. fracturing the skull.
lie also received other serious in
|uries In the short fall.
The county commissioners of Clay
county win have to pay Auditor Theo-
dore Anker $500 per year after the
of June. A bill In the last
legislature. which became a law. gives
auditors that salary where the assess
ed valuation Of his ccounty is more
than $500, 900. The taxable property in
Clay county for 1908 totals $~4.862,277.5
The county board reduced his salary
two months ago on the basis Of POP
which would have given Anker
but $1.2S5 per year.
For a taste Of old times w j.
sheckles OF Puma, an old time resi-
dent OF that section, win start next
week overland for Cheyenne county.
Nebraska to make his permanent
home on a ranch he has been improv-
ing there for the past two years. Mr..
Sheckles who will pe accompanied