Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-10-18
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Springs.
Some miscreant tore down tho corner
stone to the college foundatiss ~ Barley
recently and stole the tin boz that was
placed in It.
q commercial man by the namo OF Cor
don was robbed the other evening at May
VILE of a mileage ticket, gold watch and
SIS in currency.
l. L. Whitbeck, city editor Of the Dead
wood Times for the past six years, has
severed his connection with that paper and
gone to Chicago.
A threshing machine fire occurred at the
September 90. The loss on machinery and
grain was 81, 900.
Andrea Dirks, of Marion Junction, on
September "a was thrown in front of His
wagon from u load of grain and both legs
crushed at the thigh.
Clarence Vance, a youth aged between
II and Is, fell down in q fit at the Grand
Central hotel, Deadwood, Thursday after
noon and died that night.
Seven meetings of the K~ingsbury County
Teachers association will be held in diff
ferent parts of the county during the
months of October and November.
John White, of Bear Gulch, 1tsently
took a gold nugget from one of the placer
claims in that district that weighed forty
nine penny weights and six grains.
The Alliance Publishing company =
the state farmers alliance have purchased
a site in Huron and will Immediately COM
mence the erection of u magnificent brick
block.
"A negro and O white woman from near
Medary, in Brookings county, secured a
license and were married at Flandrau last
week. And still they say this is a civilized
country.
A colored barber by the name of Green,
at Sunday dinner at IA hotel in Sioux Falls,
drew a razor and attempted to carve
Warren Wyant, against whom he had a
grudge.
The board Of directors of the Madison
Chautauqua association has decided TO
fence the grounds, enlarge the hotel and
make other improvements before next
summer.
John Bromass, of Butler, Trail county,
he's just children enough for a ball team.
He has been married ten years and has
nine children, aged respectively !, 2, 8, 4,
B, g, Z, 8, and Q.
Victor Catani, a we'll known resident of
Turtle River, vas repeatedly struck over
the head with a fork handle Monday by
an Italian who was working for him,
fracturing his skull.
The board of agriculture presented Sec
rotary Downey, of the state agricultural
society, with 800 in addition to his salary.
This was in recognition of his services in
connection with the recent fair.
A seam threshing outfit belonging to
Leonard & Sorenson started "A fire in the
stacks belonging to Mr.. Smith, living a
few miles south of Arlington. The sepa.
rator and about $500 worth of grain were
destroyed.
A statement just prepared by d.. c. N.
Hewett, secretary of the state board OF
health, shows that the percentage of NOR
tally from diphtheria in the state among
males during 1858, was 4S.6 per cent. /;
among females, 51.4; in 1889, among males,
400: among females, 60.4.
The Ancient Order of Humility Is In a
very prosperous condition at Sioux Falls.
Burglaries are becoming a common
thing at Grand Forks.
The following is the democratic ticket of
Pennington county: State senator, J. S.
CAN'T; sheriff, ID. G. Robinson; treasurer,
z. b. Mccarthy; register of deeds, ]. P.
Black; states attorney, W. o. Temple;
auditor, G.. p. Title; clerk Of courts, II.
A. Piper; county Judge, Levi MCGEE cor
oner, DR.. Il. w. Jones; surveyor, Oscar A.
Kicker; assessor, p. c. Davis; superin-
tendent of public instruction, Mrs. A. ID
Talent; commissioner, First district,
James Brennan.