Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

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Mrs. Mcmahon, the woman who was so
b~rutally treated by her husband in Buffalo
county a short time ago, Is in q critical
condition.
The Catholics of Dell Rapids and vicin-
ity are contemplating the erection of n fine
church, which will cost $500 when
completed.
The Elk Point Courier is now issued
under new management, Mr.. Ross retiring
and c. F. Mallahan and l. p. McClarren
taking charge.
The st. Lawrence and Miller Tariff Re-
form club is now fully organized. Meet.
ings will be held at st. Lawrence and
Miller alternately.
An electric light plant will be erected at
Aberdeen TO furnish light for the streets of
the city. The plant is to be completed
and in operation within ninety days.
George Webb, jr, working with n fence
gang on the Milwaukee near Huron,
slipped and fell off n hand car under full
Roadway, receiving severe injuries.
Rasmus Nelson, u section hand at Aber.
deem, was arrested for attacking his wife
and child with n butcher knife, and driving
them away from the house at midnight.
= Turner County Herald: With present
prospects, the crops raised this year on
land being broken within n two mile circuit
of Hurley, will add at least $4,000 to the
circulating medium In Hurley this fall.
1t is feared that Florence Kimball, aged
L., youngest child of ex-City Auditor
George Kimball, of Vermillion, has be-
come insane. Her mother Is now in the
asylum at Yankton.
The boiler of a Burlington freight ex-
ploded near Deadwood, while going ut the
rate of thirty-fve miles an hour, killing
the engineer and fireman and badly injur-
ing the head brakeman
The case against James Teller, of Nc
Cook, for drawing sl23 from Dakota
county, Nebraska, for forty-one fox
scalps, is to be prosecuted. 1t has been
hanging fire since 1890.
+. A. Brown, representing the Brown
County Immigration bureau, has gone &c
Chicago to confer with the railroads in re.
gard to running a number of harvest ex'
cursions into South Dakota this summer
Something over 80, 900 pounds of -four
will be shipped from Whitewood for the
purpose of aiding the starving Russians
About 10000 pounds will be sent from
Deadwood some time this week.
Owing to the bottomlcss mud which does
not allow of wood haulers bringing in
their daily supply of good, that article is
at n premium in Deadwood. In fact n cor
ner has been gotten on the article by one
man, and as n wood has gone
up to Is. 20 per cord. AT Lead the moder
ute sum of IS per cord is asked.
Elmer Oliphant, of Elm Creek, In the
Black Hills, who tried to wreck an Elk
horn cattle train some time ago, has beer
sentenced to tho penitentiary for three
years. The grand jury rendered a true
bill against him in the afternoon, he was
tried and sentenced at once and before
Monday he will be behind the bars.
John Treber. the Rapid City alderman
who was arrested in Berlin for having de-
serted the German army a number oi
years ago and who was released through
the Intervention of the United States gov
ernment, sailed from Southampton on his
return home Wednesday of this week.
II. A. Lincoln, a farmer residing neai
Howard, has n curiosity. Recently che
killed a tame duck and upon opening the
gizzard found that it contained nine nails
different sizes, all pointing the same way.
and oil in the same place, stuck in the
gizzard about half their length, perfectly
solid. When:he killed the deck 1t was
fat and hearty.
A corps OF jew ~peddlers ave infesteu
the vicinity Of Artesian and hired all the
available rigs of the livery stable for the
purpose of going out among the farmers
They will undoubtedly unload hundred,
of dollars worth of their worthless goods
on them for three times their worth.
W. ii. Haugh, n Redfeld youth who got
stuck on the stage and went out for n triI
through the Black Hills with the May
Louise Aigen company, has sickened o.
his Job, returned to Redfeld and will enter
the college of that city for the study o.
the ministry. The theme of his first ser
mon will probably be "Wh t l Know
About transforming"
The first electric car In South Amer
lea appeared on the streets of Panama OF
the 9th of last month.
The Alliance Hail Insurance company
of South Dakota, has gone into voluntary
liquidation. 1t was gently assisted by it,
officers, who during four years of exist
ence, drew out of 1t the sum of SAC, 752. 81
Less than 60 per cent of its losses have
be n paid. 1t would appear from thai
alliance men arc some of them made o
tie same sort Of clay as other and com
moner mortals, and are not above being
'in it, for the profits to be occurred.
The latest within Of the owners o.
dogs is to make them wear shoes II
the house for the purpose Of protecting
the polished floors They are made o.
chamois, with leather soles.