Yankton County Newspaper Data
from "Dakota", Compiled by O. H. Holt, 1885 Transcribed by Karen Seeman YANKTON COUNTY. Dakota Freie Presse, Rep.......Yankton Dakota Herald, Dem............ Yankton Dakota Outlook (semi-mo.)... . Yankton
Press and Dakotaian (daily), Rep. Yankton
Press and Dakotaian, Rep....... Yankton
The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; September 6, 1893
Yankton, SD
(Transcribed as written by D. Donlon)
Minnie B. Sawyer
Minnie B. Sawyer was found dead in her bed at Yankton, S. D., having been brutally murdered by some unknown person or persons. She was strangled by a gingham waist tied about her neck and twisted in a hard knot under her ear, while her hands were held.
Aberdeen (SD) Daily News
April 4, 1896Yankton, S. D., April 4--John Wiggins, a war veteran and wealthy farmer, suicided on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River near here. He jumped over the bluff into what he supposed was deep water, but it was only two feet deep, and he then shot himself through the head with a revolver and was found sitting upright in the water.
Aberdeen (SD) Daily News, Tuesday, Aug 18, 1914
A Yankton man, Seymour Morrison, went to Fargo on a business trip, and while there was attacked and robbed by a negro. The robber got $22, and Morrison got a deep gash in the face, inflicted by a knife in the hands of the robber.
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