Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-03

to take the place of the one recently
burned.
number of sheep in Clark county are
afflicted with tape worm. The herd have
been quarantined 10 keep the disease from
spreading.
The stock sheds at the Mitchell fair
grounds caught on fire Saturday from a
passing locomotive. About 200 feet of the
sheds were burned before the fire was ex-
! ting uished.
Two men at Rapid City fell with an ele
vator from the third story of building to
the basement and escaped with a few
bruises
member of the Huron Baptist church
had a horse stolen from hitching rack at
he church Wednesday night while attend
! ing prayer meeting.
L. b. Wilcox drove to Plankinton so fast
that he killed one OF his grade Pcrcheron
mares. Bc wanted to be in good time at
al Independent political rally.
The board of railway commissioners has
graded the small grains, which will be put
up in sample boxes aud furnished the ele-
vator and warehouse men throughout the
state.
John b. Lehman, who is under the sem
tence of death for the murder of Burns, in
Custer county in July, 1889, will be tried
before n jury TO decide whether he is sane
or insane.
regimental division of the uniformed
rank knights of Pythias will be formed at
the encampment of Custer. The division
recently formed at Hill City completed the
required number
One hundred and seventy-six delegates
attended the Sioux Indian T. NJ. {. A.
convention at the Yanliton agency last
week, A Sioux Indian w. c. Il. L. con-
vention is next in order
Sam Wilson, who abscondcd from Dead
wood and embezzled $500 from poor
widow, was captured at Chadron, Neb.
He went TO Casper, Wyo., where he lost
the money playing faro bank.
The 7-year old son of David Story, of
Osnabrocll, was kicked by horse last
week, from the effects of which he soon
after died. One of the boys kidneys was
rupturcd and had to be removed, but the
boy could not survive the operation.
The commissioners of Hutchinson
county have made the tax levy for the
coming year 5 I mills, which is less than
one-half the levy in any other county in
the state,
Railroads will not complain of Dakota
business this year" says the Watertown
Public Opinion. They haven't rolling
stock enough to haul off the surplus crop"
Travelling men say that the merchants Of
South Dakota are buying one-third more
goods and of better quality, than for three
years. They anticipate good trade as n
result of the magnificent crop.
Sioux City day will be the opening day
of the Planbinton grain palace and the ex-
ecutive committee has arranged with the
city council to have the fences set back q
rod or two to accommodate the crowd.
Huron Huronite: The measured wheat on
the Richards farm to be threshed d, weighed,
etc. in the presence of the public, ,threshed
out just ffty-three bushels and twenty
pounds 10 the acre of as fine Scotch fife
hard wheat as any body ever saw
]. NJ. Heustis, while returning home
from Washington Friday, had narrow
escape from being killed His team ran
away, throwing him over the dashboard.
and while in that position the horses
kicked him in the face, breaking several
bones. Small hopes are entertained for
his recovery
At Parker Saturday the jury in the case
of Peter Wall, charged with strangling his
llegitimate child at birth, brought in n
verdict of acquittal. Wall is Russian,
who last winter cohabted with his neice,
in the absence of his wife on visit, with
the result that the above charge was made
Although he is believed to be guilty, the
state failed to make n case against him.
Wall will probably lose no time in leaving
the country. as a great deal of Indignation
Is expressed by the Russians. who are of
the settled conviction that he should have
stated on good authority that delegation
of them visited him in Jail soon after his
arrest in the spring and told him in
plain Russian that if the courts did not
hang him, his own countrymen would do
SO as soon as he was at liberty.
The house of j. Renzesma, near Edger-
ton, was destroyed by fire Monday. Not
n thing was saved The mother was alb
sent at a neighbors, leaving 5-yearold
boy rocking the baby. Several matches
under the cradle rockers 1t is supposed
started the fire. The little boy carried the
baby to place of safety, and when the
mother reached home the walls were fall.
ing in.
Mrs. Gustav Boese, living near Madison,
has gone daft. She has been accustomed
to assist her husband at farm work and her
insanity is attributed to overwork and ex-
traordinary family duties.
AT C.aremont Friday a steam thresher
engine, belonging TO w. A. vilkers, ex.
ploded, blowing the engineer, Albert Chi
chester, sixty-four feet and breaking bis
eft arm and right leg His face was badly
cut and bruised and both eyes are closed.
His recovery is in doubt No one else was
hurt.
A. A. Jackson, of Whitewood. had safe
Of his own constr uction attached to the
wall of his building. 1t was i'm the shape
of closet and the other night n burglar
bored n hole through the building, and
reaching inside, secured $500. If his arm
had been little longer he could have
taken another roll containing $500.
A prairie fire started near Conde, and
Brown Hansen lost all his crops and
everything else he possessed.
A well authenticated instance comes
from Hanson county of a man paying with
this seasons crop not only the total cost
of his land. but also his expenses for the
year. Last year he bought at a mortgage
sale a half section for 81 500, and he has
now on hand in cash $500 realized from
the sale of this seasons produce-s5OO
more than the land cost him-and has
corn. potatoes etc, yet to harvest, and he
kept out of his small grain crop enough for
feed and seed. There are hundreds of in
stances In South Dakota where men have
OF this seasons yield.