Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-03-11
SOUTH DAKOTA.

The town hall az Reville Is to be en-
arged
The Rapid City Journal has donped a
aew dress
The Thompson murder ial cos,
kingsbury county just 81, 600
| The Lake Madison Chautauqua assem-
| ,ly will open this year July and close
July ~.
The grocery firm OF Dirks s. Schmidt
II Marion function, has been "losed by
he sheriff.
Stephen Flick one Of the pioneers OF
he pioneers OF fankton, WAS stricken
With paralysis and died aged ~ wears.
The barn of Fred johnson at Dell Rap.
DIS, including nine horses including two
,aluable imported stations was burned.
| A man named Anderson viciously at
lacked another named Rose with q hatchet
n the Milwaukee yards at Aberdeen, cut
ling him severely
Henry Kahn shot al and attempted 10
! kill Edward PHO, at Sioux Falls, but the
bullet flew wide OF the mark. Jealousy
aver a woman was the cause.
| Three boys named James keating,
! Arthur Mccall and George Stensen were
sentenced at Aberdeen TO the reform
school at Plankinton for committing petit
larceny.
George :. Engle, attorney general of
he territory Of Dakota under Governor
'hurch, who was arrested al Aberdeen on
charge of insanity, was discharged,
here being no cause 10 suspect him in
ane.
The contract for the placing of the
boundary stones between South Dakota
nd Nebrask has been let to Samuel {.
shelton, Of Springfield. :. d., for 81, $3.50
There will be 564 posts, made of Sioux
falls granite.
The third annual exhibition of the
southern South Dakota District Fair as
ocistion, embracing Yankton, Hutchin-
on, Douglass and Bon Homme counties,
will be held at Scotland, :, D., September
9, 20, 81 and -
Geo L. Turner, for the past seven years
'hief train dispatcher at Huron for the
Dakota Central division of tine Chicago
md Northwestern railway. has resigned
and o. H. Taylor, of Winona, has been
iamed to fill the position.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the vi
Unity OF Pierre and great precaution is
,eing taken to prevent II from spreading.
The Indian school has been Quarantined
IN account OF the disease having made its
.ppearance among the scholars Of tina; iE-
! ,titution.
/ J. r. Crow, formerly well-knGwn
newspaper man of this state, having been
It one time located at Sturgis is now asso-
dated with j. =. Busnelt in editing the
interstate Gazette in Chicago, a monthly
ournal devoted 10 the industrial inter.
,sts of the country.
One OF the most attractive exhibits 10
,e made By South Dakota at the world $
air will be the various grasses indigenous
% the state. There have been gathered
| .lready between i25 and i50 varieties,
angling in heighth from the buffalo grass
II one inch in length to the swamp grass
hirty-three feet long.
Bowdle Pioneer: About the middle Of
ast November big hog in some way got
,uried under a hay stack belonging Ia
/ Commissioner Merriman. She weighed
/ 80 pounds at the time. Last Friday her
Sorkship was discovered by George samp-
! ION, and to his surprise she was alive and
veil after her Information Of ninety days
/ duration.
AT a meeting Of the woman's worlds
lair commission, held at Huron, arrange
nents were made whereby Mrs VIM Duff
daynie, the superintendent, will visit
numerous cities and complete the colIeC-
lion of articles for exhibition. Ii is the
desire OF the commission To have all the
articles arrive in Sioux Falls by the Goth
II March. They will be classified and
,atalogued and shipped To Chicago for
arrangement in the state building A,
The conclusion of the exhibition all arti-
.les will be returned 10 their owners
ssas sSe Aom ana
.ill be equal to that OF any of the north
western states.
A war of determination is on between
he local electric light plants at Fargo.
For several years the Fargo gas and
electric company has furnished light to
,hat city and Moorhead at what seemed
abnormal prices. Recently a new com.
,aHy applied t. the city council for a
| .harter, and il was thought il was in a
| sair way to secure the contract for the
.ity. The new company cut the old com.
oany's prices, and made schedule just
ialf as high as formerly. Now the old
company has cut prices below the new
,ompany's schedule, and the outlook is
hat before the war ends Fargo will be
| lighted free Of charge. W, +. Ball, whe
agent for the new corporation, says his
,lant will put in bid, and prices w.il be
/ urther lowered