Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-09-20

are now anticipated by the physicians.
Three barges for the Pierre Coal Mining
and Transportation ompany are to be
built at Bismarck. They will have n
capacity of over 100 tons each. The first
shipment of coal will be about AGO tons.
The Whittier school house, in the Tracy
district, Minnehaha county, was struck by
lightning Saturday evening. The chimney
was utterly demolished and the roof soms
what torn, but the damage will be covered
by SIS.
The coal shipments from Newcastle have
now reached sixty three carloads per day,
and the superintendent is confident that he
can by the LIST of January increase the out
put to 100 cars per day.
/. H. Haight, of Tyndall, has invented n
letter box to be used with the freedelivery
system. The postmaster general some
time ago advertised for such a device and
Mr.. Haight believes he has struck the de,
sired idea.
A test case has been made to determine
the constitutionality of that certain act of
the first legislative assembly of the state
of North Dakota, known as IAN act to pro
vide for the organization and government
of state banks"
Monday afternoon some boys playing
about the place where grading is being
done on Mulberry street, Yankton, found
the corpse of an infant with the head
partly torn from the body. Coroner Roane
took charge of il.
Mrs. Henry Jassman, of Scotland, died
early Monday morning from the effects of
n fall from a chair Saturday that caused IA
premature birth. A husband and six
children, the eldest II years old, are left
TO mourn her death.
Saturday nights lightning destroyed
both the arc and incandescent system of
lightning arresters of the electric light
station in Yankton, and matters were de
cidedly interesting for the men in charge
there for a short time,
Indications are that Dead wood will be
~livclier this fall than at any time since
1877. Frame buildings that have gone
begging for tenants for the past FIVE or six
years are eagerly sought at II rental form
crly paid for brick buildings.
At Buffalo park, in South Sioux Falls,
are three moose, two of which are very
promising roadsters. These will be broken
t,ls fall, and by early winter they may be
seen pulling a piano box buggy down Phil
lips avenue at a g. minute gait or better.
A young man named Miller, working on
a farm near Glendale, n. D., was over
come by gas while descending into a well
and fell a distance of fifty feet, striking on
his head. He was lead when taken out.
The deceased was the son of a prominent
farmer in Mcintosh county.
: Peter and Conrad Miller were arrested
and i'm prisoned at Rapid City, refused II
hearing for forty eight hours, and at last
were told there was no charge against
them, but that they must pay 81 for their
board snd leave town. They have EN- ploy-
ed an attorney and propose to maintain
their rights.
During the electrical storm of last week,
the barn of Silas II. Pratt, of Pennington,
was struck by lightning and entirely con.
sumed, together with his buggy shed,
buggy, three sets of harness, two sets of
OK harness, five tons of hay and other
articles.
John b. Mass, of Deadwood, was going
home about / o'clock Tuesday morning,
when he fell into the clutches of two foot
pads, who, approaching him from behind,
threw him on his back, gagged him and
went through his pockets to the tune of
$3.50
This is a bad time of year for faro deal.
ers. A Rapid City sport opened a game at
Hill City pay day and lost 5000 in two
hours time. He sawed wood for supper.
st Merino, the terminus of the Burlington
and Missouri, the same day, two brothers,
Grahams, went up to the dealer of a game,
covered the crowd with their guns ad-
m1nistereu on the bank $500, pocketed II.
backed out of the saloon, mounted their
horses and left.
Jacob Seer and two young ladies were
out walking in Scotland Sunday evening
when G ottlieb Pomarenska walked up to
them and grossly insulted the girls. Seer
escorted them home and returned and
gave Pomarenska a well deserved pound
ing. Both parties we're arrested Monday
morning, and Seer was fined 81 and costs
for fighting, and Pomarenska IS and costs,
amounting to Sll.45, for using indecent
language.
The young sons of John Reich and JAG b
Resner, Of Scotland, were playing in the
yard Of the latter Tuesday afternoon,
when the former had the end OF his thumb
cut clean off above the frat joint. Reich's
boy was holding a stick on a block while
Resner's boy was doing the %chopping with
a Ratchet, and n miss lick cut the little fell
lows thumb off. The boys were only two
years old.
George Parker, living six or seven miles
south of Sioux Falls, left on Saturday for
Wall Lake on a hunting expedition. The
ain of the afternoon persuaded him TO
conclude to camp all night on the banks Of
the lake. The lightning was terrific, and
in one of the blasts sent down, Mr.. Par
ker's team was struck and instantly killed.
The team was valued at $3.50.
James Montgomery, a young man work
ing on a new building in Grand Forks,
was assisting In the work Of elevating
some heavy stone to the upper stories ard
his left hand was drawn into one of the
large pull, eys in such "a manner as to pre-
vent extricating himself. The first finger
and part of the second was pulled out en-
tirely from the hand, the tendons being
drawn for a distance of several inches.
Professor Hemingway, superintendent
of the Newcastle coal mines, has just re-
turned from the east where he had exten.
sive experiments made in cooking the New.
castle coal, and every test was satisfac-
tory. The highest testimonial was from
the Cambria Iron and steel works, OF
Johnstown, Pa. The expert men of the
Cambria works pronounced the Newcastle
coke equal to that made by the Frick
Coke company, which Is everywhere
recognized as the finest made in America.
As a result of these tests Professor Hem
ingway has ordered and is having set III
100 coke ovens.
North Dakota 10 in a pee uliar fix with
reference to a state levy for state tax g.
The constitution provides that the legislat
i've assembly shall pass a law for raisir :
revenue, but the legis AZURE neglected to
pass a law for such purpose, and the ques
ton now is as to what can be done. tt
old territorial law empowered the state
board of equalization 10 fix the rata. and
the territorial law prevails where no stat,