Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-06-02

There are very few wild flowers in
bloom as yet and the school children
did not succeed in getting very large
collection.
It is rumored that j. w. Jones has
sold the Herald plant to an Omaha
party who will open up newspaper
ON grand scale.
Mai. Anderson and j. w. Jones took
the b. & NJ. train Sunday evening for
Sheridan, Wyo., where the major will
deliver the Memorial day address.
The Hatchet haye arranged to have
the electric motor formerly used by the
Herald set up in their Office and will
hereafter run their press by electricity.
The Mesdames r. F. and A. b.
Connor in company with Mrs. DIR.
Houghton and Mrs. H. A. GODDARD will
leave next Saturday for an extended
visit to the Worlds Far.
Rev. Anderson obtained two out of
six prizes offered by one Of the leading
journals Of the NJ. E. church for ar
tlcles on subjects connected with
church work, for which he is $40 richer.
Gorton, the Custer county man who
is charged with rape, has surrendered
himself to the authorities and is now
in durance vile. He says the whole
thing is case of spite work and there
is not the least foundation for it.
Rev. E. e. Frame delivered a very
fine memorial sermon to the old SOL
diers at the soldiers home Yesterday
afternoon from the text "What mean
ye by these stones"2 He dealt in q
practical way with the reasons for OBJ
serving memorial Sunday.
One of the neatest bits of advertising
we have seen for some time is the sou.
venir cards gotten out by the Minerva
trunk company of which Mrs. A. B.
Connor of our city is secretary and
business manager. The company be-
lieves in letting the world know that
they live in the prettiest place on earth
and so furnish nice view of Fall
river.
The Death of u. s. Marshal, Cyrus
G. Fry at Deadwood on Saturday last,
under such peculiar circumstances, IS a
stunning blow to his many friends in
this locality. The Marshal has been
accustomed to take doses of anti-pyrine
to ease the fearful headaches to which
he is subject and had taken two doses
of ten grains each, for that purpose.
The effects on the system seemed to be
those of morphine, but the remaining
powder showed that no mistake had
been made by the druggist and it is
not thought he had taken morphine at
all. A gentleman who came down
from Deadwood last night says that
the deadly drug had been prescribed
by physician, but this the papers
deny. He leaves wife and two child.
rem at Vermillion, s. D. to which place
the remains have been taken for
interment.
On Saturday night a colored man
bearing the euphonious name of Bev.
erly Fields after filing up went to
Kitty Buttler's house near the schnol
house and commenced to abuse her.
She Immediately set IN and downed
him and slapped him about the face in
good shape. and he got up and left, as
she Thought. She locked the doors and
stepped into neighbor's when Fields,
having found an axe, went to batter
ing down the doors and went in and
tried to chop open her trunk to get a
gun to shoot her. He was caught in
the act. and Night Police Cordy Cur
tiss took him to the county Jail. He
was brought before Justice Kanable
this morning FOR hearing, and in the
marshal's absence the Judge let him 90
to the closet in the rear of the building.
Having once got on the outside he
made break for liberty down the
back alley, and has not since been
heard from. Judge Kanable has a
coat and vest on his hands that he is
in quandary how to dispose of.