Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-30


bud agency has been received as a pupil at
the deaf mute school at Sioux Falls.
Miss Nellie Hodge, of jamestown, was
successful in lighting a fire with kerosene.
She will be all right in a few weeks.
The Danish Baptist church at Daneville.
which was destroyed by fire last April, has
been rebuilt and was dedicated Sunday.
a barn containing 1000 bushels of corn
belonging to Jacob Welk, living near
Memo, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night.
Harry Melton. charged with robbing the
Fargo postofice, was Saturday bound over
TO await the action of the United State
grand jury.
A playful dog jumped on the little 4year
old son of Mr.. Howard, of Manchester,
and knocked him down with such force as
10 fracture his arm.
George Mcklin, an old resident of the
Black Hills, was crushed to death by the
caving in of the bank of "a tin mine near
Hill City last Friday.
Fort Meade has "A new postInaster.s An
drew Capri has been appointed TO succeed
Noi iAHohi AZ pOSN NiouNi aAN pO0NAhuSNNAf
who has removed from the fort.
The Commercial club, of Sioux Falls,
composed of business men of that city,
have decided to erect a So, 000 clubhouse.
The house will be built Of jasper.
James Hanson and Peter Johnson, OF
Gettysburg, started last week from Potter
county in a small boat, intending TO navi.
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Minnesota, the fourishing little city in
the northern part of the Black Hills, il
making an effort to secure better mail
facilities with the outside world.
Don Jenhfns, OF white I-.L~, IssA-l .s
a pocketbook containing 5000 one day last
week. Sad to relate he found an owner
almost as soon as he found the money.
Eighteen inches of snow fell in some
portions of the Black Hills. At Deadwood
the fall was twelve inches, with the Their
mometer registering three degrees above
zero.
The Harvey Peak Tin company has
bonded the Fairplay group of mines, 10
Gated on the Tenderfoot, five miles north
west of Custer. The group embraces SIX
teen claims.
o. j. Bixby, of Alexandria, special agent
of the postofice department, has returned
home after a chase across the Atlantic to
Copenhagen, Denmark, in search of a reg
istared letter.
A Swede named Otto Nelson was taken
TO the Yankton asylum from Lincoln county
last week. He had been an inmate of an
asylum in his native land and was thought
to have been cured.
William Fowle, living near Lake George.
while burning "a frebreak on his claim last
week, lost control of the flames and a large
quantity of hay and other property in the
vicinity was destroyed.
In IA quarrel about the removal of some
dirt from a street in Sioux Falls, Chief of
Police Donohoe assaulted F. w. Pettigrew,
brother of the senator, arrested himself
and paid IS and costs in the police court.
As the result of a twenty-one days hunt
ing trip four Spearfsh nimrods bagged
fourteen blacktail deer, ffty-nine antelope,
three wolves, four silver-gray badgers and
a bald eagle, measuring six feet from tip
to tip.
Newcastle last Tuesday underwent its
first city election, and on that day also cell
ebrated the first visit of the iron horse
within it's limits. No end of enthusiasm
prevailed and the city celebrated both
events in grand style.
Fred Faller, of Armour, was thrown
from his wagon one day last week and
dragged at the heels of his horse a distance
of half a mile. He sustained fractures of
both legs and one arm, besides being seri-
ously injured internally.
While blowing on his farm near Media
last week James Smith met with an acct
dent which has since proved fatal. The
piow-share struck n stone, throwing the
handle up with such force as to fracture
two ribs and cause other internal injuries.
He died Tuesday.
Thomas Devine was arrested at Fargo
Sunday for entering the room of Daniel
Anderson, a guest at the Merchants hotel,
with the evident intent of robbery. Not
finding anything of value he proceeded to
relieve his injured feelings by attacking
Anderson, who was in bed asleep, and Civ
Ing him an unmerciful pounding. He was
captured by the hotel clerk. He will stay
in jail till he works out a fine of 500 and
costs.
Oswald Kendall Miles, the young English
man who bamboozled the aristocracy Of
Fargo so beautifully last summer while
sailing under the title of Earl Morris, and
who was taken back to England by a de
tes.ive ON a charge Of einbezzing money
from a london brokerage firm where he |
was employed IA a clerk. was tried the
other day, found guilty and sentenced to I
eighteen months OF hard labor by a London
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