The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-15

bolic acid and swallowed the liquid.
A physician was summoned and her
life was saved.
While in a frenzy of temporary in
sanity, Robert Swaney, age 20 years,
a prosperous farmer living II miles
west of Hitchcock, cut his wife's
throat and his own Wednesday morn
ing at about 10 o'clock. He had been
jealous of his wife, it was known, and
for two OF three weeks had not been
entirely himself. However, there was
absolutely no reason to expect the
act that resulted in the shocking death
of himself and his wife and left his
three little children without father or
mother.
Fred Taumann, aged 81, son of Fred
Taumann, ST., a prosperous farmer
residing near Java, was probably fatal
ly injured, and Fred Spiry, vice presi-
dent of the German State bank, and
Fred Weisgram were seriously injur.
ed while firing an anvil in celebration
of the Fourth. They had just fired
two charges and Taumann ran to the
anvil to load it up again, pouring
powder from a two-pound sack he was
carrying, when the explosion occurred.
He was smoking a cigar at the time.
Whether a spark from his cigar fell
into the powder, or whether there was
a spark of the old charge left smolder-
ing in the anvil is not known.
With impressive ceremonies in
which the Right Rev. Thomas O'Gor-
man, bishop of Sioux Falls, and twen-
ty priests from various sections of
South Dakota participated, the Aber-
deem Sacred Heart parachial school,
costing 500 900, was formally dedicat-
ed. The school has been in use for a
year, but the dedication has been post
poned until this time.
When starting out after the cattle,
the little 10-year-old daughter of Dug
las Carlin, a farmer living near Manila
was thrown from her horse and her
foot becoming ~entangled in one of the
saddle stirrups, was dragged some dis
lance by the frightened horse. Ruth,
the little girls sister, made several
attempts to stop the animal but was
each time driven back by the vicious
kicking Of the animal. When the child
was finally rescued, she was uncon-
scious and lived only an hour and a
half.
For some years Joshua R. M. Hofer,
a well known citizen of Freeman, has
contended that an old violin which has
been in his possession many years is
one of the famous Stradivarius makes.
The correctness of his claim was con-
firmed when a prominent eastern
musician and authority, while in Free
man inspected the old violin and stat
ed that it's manufacture was as claim
ed by the owner. Hofer has at diff
ferent times refused offers of $1,000
for the old instrument. The musical
expert stated that the old violins now
are worth from $4,000 to $40,0
Because of the coincidence of his
taking the same train for Rapid City
upon which an Indian woman named
Mrs. Bareback travelled, Clement
Whirlwind Soldier, a Sioux warrior
belonging on the Rosebud reservation,
was arrested as he stepped from the
train at Rapid City on a complaint
from the reservation that he was elop-
ing from the reservation with the In
dian woman. 1t developed that the
Indian woman was accompanied by
her little girl and was provided with q
ticket for Rushville, Neb.. while
Whirlwind Soldier had a ticket to
Deadwood. Thus their arrival in
Rapid City on the same train was .,
coincidence. and the authorities. after
securing the facts set forth. had no
other ecourse than to release the
Sioux warrior.
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