Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-14
South Dakota.


n the Plankinton reform school.
The Newcastle News is the latest addi
tion to Black Hills journalism.
A public library on the stock OMAR,
plan Is being organized at Pierre.
Wolves are killing off the stock in the
vicinity of Loretta. Bon Homme county.
The commissioners of Lawrence county
have appointed Samuel Cushman auditor.
Mrs. J. IL. Cannon, of White Lake, was
IA djudged insane and taken to the Yankton
asylum last week.
Clark county is overrun with wolves. &
W. Parrott, "a farmer near Raymond, had
nine sheep killed last week,
Il. q. Cummings, of Media, suffered q
compound fracture Of his right leg by his
horse stumbling and falling on him.
L. b. Casey, senator from North Dakota,
s a farmer and has never befor : held an
Office, except that of county commissioner.
brakes dry goods store at DeSmet was
robbed last week of fur coats and other
articles to the value of several hundred
dollars.
Jesse Crow, a small boy living at Link
rostoaice in the Black Hills, was choked to
death last Thursday by a Gshbone lodging
in his throat.
When the weather is clear the people of
Mansfield, seventeen miles away, can dis
tinctly see the electric lights on the streets
of Aberdeen.
Last week a hunting party from Fort
Meade killed the largest deer ever shot in
the Hills country. 1t weighed 6O) pounds
when dressed.
Butte county claims that by next year il
will be better irrigated and have more
miles of ditching than than any other
county in South Dakota.
The house and contents of Engineer Conk.
in, of the Minneapolis and Manitoba, at
lBarnesville, was destroyed by fire Friday
Loss, about 81, 900: no insurance.
d. w. Barnum, of Plankinton. who had
one of his legs taken off by a Milwaukee
train in May, ISIS, is suing the Milwaukee
road for $1,000 damages.
Lettie Tonneson, a Rapid City domestic,
was terribly burned about the face and
head by upsetting a pint of grease on the
kitchen stove, which blszed up, enveloping
her in the flames.
Otto Gunderson, an inmate of the Yank-
ton insane asylum, escaped from that in
stitution one day last week and is still at
large. He was sent 10 the asylum from
Aberdeen in April, 1855.
Monday Bert Kenny, a Sioux Falls car
penter, fell from a barn a distance of
thirty-five feet, striking on his head and
fracturing his skull and being otherwise
badly injured. He may recover.
Irish Charley a Pierre bagnio keeper.
was terribly burned the other night while
doing the gasoline act in lighting a fire.
The skin was all burned off his face, hands
and breast, and he is not expected to re-
cover.
A man named Johnson is working out u
fine of : 5 for stealing a chestnut from in
front of a fruit store in Deadwood. They
haven't had n minstrel show in Deadwood
for some months and chestnuts are
way up
Ed Primer, of Tilfori, Saturday narrowly
escaped death by a falling tree. He was
driving his wagon past tie tree, which had
been cut half way through, when the hub
struck it and it came crashing down, one OF
the limbs striking him on the head and
causing a serious wound.
4 storekeeper at Link postofice in the
Black Hills, who has his eye on the s50,C0D
reward, recently bound with ropes and
kept in his cellar for two days an intinerant
Methodist minister under the impression
that he was the m~uch-wanted Willie Tas.
colt. The reverend gentleman finally
proved an alibi and was released.
While drilling a hole in the wall of the
DeSmet mine at Central City Saturday
morning Joseph Whitfood, a miner. was
struck on the head by a dislodged rock
and precipitated TO the bottom of the cut.
n distince of over 1 o feet, striking a piece
Of mining machinery snd sustaining in-
juries from which he died two hours later.
A well at Clear Lake made a record fer
tse.f last week. First a colt tumbled in
and was rescued uninjurned; the next day
another colt fell in and broke its leg and
had to be shot, and the succeeding day an
other colt and a calf tried their luck to-
gether, the colt escaping and the calf being
drowned. The well is twenty feet deep.
The people of Vermilllon are deeply
grleNeu at the ueatn OF PROFESSOR EDWARD
Olsen, who met his fate by jumping from
the seventh floor Of the burning Minneapo-
lis Tribune building. He was much loved
by the entire population, and il is through
his efforts that the university has arrived
at its present state of perfection.
A party of drunken toughs broke up a
dance at the Park hotel at Rapid City, by
throwing brick bats through the windows
at the dancers. The gentlemen in the
dancing party sailed forth, and after
humping the sidewalk with four of the
hoodlums until they were tired, handed
them over to the police. They paid Sl1
apiece for their fun the next morning.
In a quarrel Friday at IN. g." Flats,
Fall River county, j. p. Lawrence shot
Chris Trudy in the stomach. The weapon
used was a Winchester rife and the wound
is expected to prove fatal. Lawrence, after
the shooting, took refuge in q house and
defed arrest. The latest accounts say the
sheriff of Lawrence county has been sent
for and an armed posse has surrounded the
house to prevent the escape of the muir