Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-05
Dakota.

Springs is being pushed rapidly.
Attorney Geo. Cooper, of Hand county,
Is known as - weeping willow Of the
Jim.''
Elkton, the gate city Of South Dakota,
possesses one of the finest Masonic temples
in the west.
The citizens of Letcher are talking Of
building a mill to be operated by ~artesian
well power.
Huron now hobs up with a radish nine
teen inches long and thirteen inches in cir
eumference.
Amos Cummings, correspondent of the
New York Sun, is describing the Black
Hills for that paper.
The little daughter Of A. Misenholder, OF
Parkston, was kicked in the face by ahorss
and seriously injured.
Hankton is afflicted with dissgreeable
odors and the board of health is trying TO
find out what causes them.
A Rapid City widow, on the shady side OF
40 and the mother of six child is suing
an attorney of that place for breach OF
promise.
tlShhh ohuiNtEshTy VI II oouNh Do
kota Baptist convention and ministerial
union will be held at Mitchell October 3 to
6, inclusive.
Terraville mourns the loss of one of its
leading citizens. r.. Laurence, n grocer,
has disappeared and left debts behind him
amounting to 5000.
Three little children Of Editor p. J. Bentz,
of Woonsocket, were poisoned by drinking
water in which gasoline oil had been spilled.
They will recover.
At Rapid City "a young mqrried woman
found a burglar In her house and, instead
of screaming, made n dash at him, nearly
causing him TO faint.
The Indians from the Santee agency will
have a big time at Flandreau September
q. A picnic, base ball game and other
sports are on the list.
Fifty tons of very rich tin ore, the pre-
duct of the Willow Creek tin mines, near
Rapid City, have been shipped to Swansea,
Wales, for reduction.
Clayton McCabe, of Ashton, was acct
dentally shot in the left eye by "a companion
named Wooley while on u hunting excur-
sion 10 Sc~allerwool lake,
A White Lake man has invented a burg
lar proof door and window fastener which
can be carried in the vest pocket and fas-
tened in position in half n minute.
Samuel Gabriel, a Norwegian, has been
missing from Yankton for some time and
the authorities think that he has been muir
dered and his body thrown into the river.
In a bar-room fight at Rapid City DIR.
Jewett was stabbed in the abdomen by a
tough character named West, who is held
to await the result of the DOCTORS injuries.
a runaway horse in Rapid City dashed
into n grocery store ~throughthe front door,
and after ~prancing around among the
goods for awhile made its exit through the
bach door.
A couple of Indian boys attending school
at the Santee agency became tired of ''book
larnin'" AID lit out for their home In the
taken back.
The farmers of Miner county are being
compelled TO dispose of large quantities of
stock on account of the shortness of feed,
fearing that they would not have enough to
carry them over the winter.
Three convicts were added TO the family
now at the Sioux Falls penitentiary. They
came in from Deadwood in charge of
Sheriff knight, of Lawrence county. Two
of them are men and one a woman.
Chas. p. Needham, n prominent member
of the Masonic fraternity, and a resident
of Omaha, was stricken down with paraly
sis while on a business visit to WATERFOWL,
but is slowly re covering.
Burglars and lightning struck the town
of Armour one day last week. The former
went through the residence of E. X. Ellis,
making a clean sweep, while the latter did
up two colts and a calf belonging to MI.
Keston.
The Minnehaha Canning of
Sioux Falls, gives employment to from IS
to 100 men. The company put up l25, 200
cans of corn in the short time they have
been running, and expect next year to put
up 1000, 900 cans of corn and 500, 600 cans
Of tomatoes.
Michael Mcintyre, of Rapid City, was
arrested for intoxication and put to work
On the street to work out his fne. He Sc
cured a rope and attempted to hang him
self, but was discovered and prevented
from making away with himself. He has
been adjudged insane and will be taken to
Yanhton.
A stranger got up a pulling match in
Chamberlain, on which he wagered that
his horse could pull d bag Of sand attached
to the end of a rope 1000 feet long. The
horse pulled the bag, and the stranger
pulled twenty silver dollars out Of the
pants pocket Of Nj. Hall, Of Chamber
lain.
Lightning came down the chimney Of
Mayor Ellios's residence at Deil Rapads,
hustling around = little, and then went
through the window, taking sash and all
with it. Peter Christian, living about a
mile and Q half from town, also had a visit
from the electric Huid and suffered the loss
Of three colts.
The Russian thistle Is becoming a terri.
BILE pest in some portions Of the state. At
a meeting held in Bridgcwater to devise
some means ct keeping 1t from spreading,
it wa resolved to burn or destroy all such