Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-09-27
All Over the state.

The Pierre band has increased ito mem
bership to twentv-one.
Injunctions have been served on thirteen
of the saloons at Lead City.
Tie prospects are that Chamberlain's
cement works will speedily materialize in
good shape.
The Lead City Herald has employed a
pugilist by the name of Gallagher as one
of it's local representatives.
Rev. Geo. A. Mcintosh, pastor Of the
Presbyterian church at Mitchell, is TO re,
sign and move to his former home in Indi-
ana.
Howell, a hotel thief, is under arrest in
Bismarck. He was in the act of robbing
a guest of clothing. He claims he was
trunk.
Aberdeen elevator, recently de-
stroyed by fire, is being repuilt. X is
claimed that it will be the largest elevator
west of the twin cities.
AT the great gold medal contest at Lyons
Thursday evening Myrtle Crawford, of
Craig, won the medal, Celia Fritts, of
Lyons, was second best.
Slechta Brothers, OF Gam Valley, have
made an assignment to j. c. Marshall.
The general business depression brought
about by the crop failure, is given rs the
cause.
George Underv God, of sturgis, was hit
in the jaw by a horse last week and had
two or three teeth knocked out. The horse
did not kick him, but struck him with its
head.
The soldiers home at Hot Springs was to
rave been opened Tuesday, but the board
has found IL i'm possible TO have the build
ing completed and ready for occupancy
before September 20.
Lightning started a fire on Cheyenne
island recently, and it was only by hard
work that It was kept from burning over
twenty-five tons of hay.
A barn belonging to George Kerr, who
lives { ur miles east of Claremont, was
burned Wednesday morning together with
eleven horses, seven of which belonged 10
Mr.. Kerr and four to a %neighbor.
Oscar Shubert, of Washington Springs,
met with a severe accident on Friday
evening. He fired a gun at a hawk, but
hit Oscar. The gun burst, blowing of
half of the index finger of the left hand.
J. A. Wakefield has transferred the
Mitchell Republican to Wakefield & Dean,
its former proprietors. Tie inability of
Wakefield to make the payments for the
Office is said to be the cause for the trans
fer.
A sensation was created at Memo last
week when the people of that place learned
that Peter Flemmer, bookkeeper for Heb
& Seydel, 53 years of age, had eioped with
his adopted daughter, between 10 and Ii
years old.
John Brucker, of Garden City, commit.
ted suicide Friday night by blowing off
the upper portion of his skull with a shot
gun. Family troubles are said to have
been the cause. He leaves a wife and sew
eral children.
A little 7-year-old son of ID. n. Kinkade,
of Castalia, met with a painful accident
recently. The little fellow was carrying
his smaller bi o her on hIs back, and while
running with him fell, breaking. the thigh
bone of his right leg.
c Larson, the man who drives the
Pierre milk wagon, met with a painful &C
cident last week. His cart collided with q
hydrsnt on the hill, upsetting him aud
breaking the two bones in his left forearm
besides badly bruising him.
A party from Buffalo Gap recently made
the trip down the Cheyenne to the Mis-
souri, and down the latter stream To
Pierre, q distance of 304 miles. They were
ten days upon the river and encounters
many shoals and rapids.
The 1~2-year-old daughter Of G.. B.
Barnes, of Sturgis, was attacked one even
ing recently near the half way house while
hunting cows by q tramp, who attempted
| to take her ear rings. Her screams at.
tracted the after ton Of . gentleman driv-
ing by, causing the tramp to seek shelter
in the brush aud escape.
The crop Of 1890 in Brookings county is
the largest in the aggregate Of any ever
harvested, and when the favorable prices
are taken into consideration 1t makes q
particularly favorable business outlook
ProHting by the experience of the past, on
nearly every farm are found diversifed
crops and diversified Industries, and with
. year a. generally favorable as this, It 10
bound to leave the farmers in bsttsr fnan'
eiai shape than for Years
Charles Fahrenwald recently sustained
severe injuries because Of . rotten bridge
across . dry rum about ten miles northsast
Of Ysnkton, On . country road. He WA
driving homo and wAss HE . sAd