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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
YOUNG DAUGHTER OF
MILLIONAIRE ElOPES

Wilmington, Del, Dec. 23.-Miss,
Madeleine Dupont. aged 20 years, the.
oldest daughter of Alfred !. Dupont,
the millionaire president of the Dupont
Powder company. eloped from here to
Washington with John Bancroft, q
years old, son of John Bancroft. Sec
retary of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons
company. The couple were married by
Rev. DR.. ID. c. Mcleod, "A Presbyter-
ian minister.
A further sensational feature is that
the bride, after the ceremony, wrote q
letter from Washington to her mother
Mrs. Bessie G. Dupont. the divorced
wife of Alfred /. Dupont. in which she
said she would not have eloped had
her mother shown her proper sym
pathy. a disagreement with her moth.
er. it is declared was the direct cause
of the elopement.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
FARMER SHOOTS
DiVOnCED WIFE:
THEN KILLS SELF

Hot Springs, s. j., Dec. %. Temporarily
Insane from Jealousy 7. B, Lock, prom
'ncnt farmer, followed his divorced wife
10 her home at Marietta, a few miles
west Of Edgcmont and last night muir
dcreG her, after which he ended his own
life by sending bullet into his brain
Three weeks ago Mrs. Lock secured
divorce from her husband H. Colorado,
leaving there Immediately for South pa
kota. and marrying q man named Collins,
Of Marietta Her first husband soon found
out her abode and followed her. He plead
ed with her 70 give up Collins and return
10 him but she refused. He then shot her
Sheriff clark. Of this city, was called 20
tho scene Of the murder and suicide early
IhIs mNrninE.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
WOMAN CHARGED WITH
ASSAULT. SECURES BOND

Fairfax, :. D., Dec. 2S.-Mrs. Irene
Forgraves. who several weeks ago was
arrested on the charge of attempting to
Kill her husband, and who for some
time was in charge of the sheriff here,
in default of bonds for her appearance
at the next term of state circuit court.
finally has secured a bond and beer
Attorneys representing her appeared be-,
fore Judge T.. G.. Smith. of the circuit
court, and made an effort to have her.
bond reduced from s.. 500 to 81 600. Fall
ing in this they now have secured a.
bond in the sum of $500 from Sioux
Falls bonding company. and this has,
Nseu approved.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
HcoDoo HANGS OVER
RAPID CITY MILL

Rapid city s. D.. Dec. 21--Fire that
may have been of incendiary origin
completely destroyed the sawmill OF
the Rapid city Lumber company. situ-
Box Elder creek. The fire win cost
the company about $4,000. as there was
no insurance on the property. This is
the second time since last spring the
mill has been destroyed. The spring
flood carried IL away and wrecked the
hniIdinnr
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
WIFE APPEARS ON
EVE OF HUSBANDS
WEDDING TO ANOTHER

Huron. s. D.. Dec GA young man,
Bishop by name, came to this city three
or four months ago and became em-
ployed in a local barber shop.
IL seems that Bishop had a wife,
whom he left upon coming to Huron.
While here he met young womani
and they became engaged, the mar
riagc To take place at Christmas time
Everything was running along
smoothly until a few days ago when
a woman, claiming TO be Bishops wife.
appeared on the scene.
He thought IL best TO leave the city.
taking with him Il lot of BARRIERS ma
terial and jewelry upon which he had
no claim
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
JOHN MITCHELL Is
SUDDENLY TAKEN III

indianapolis, Dec. 23-John Mitchell
was taken seriously i'll today while at !
tending a joint conference Of miners
and coal operators. He complained OF
pains i'm his side where the recent op-,
erations for Assesses We're performed,
n priest and a physician were sum-
moned Later, after examination,
Mitchell was pronounced in serious
though not necessarily critical condi-
ton
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
PHYSICIANS OF WATERFOWL
DISTRICT ELECT OFFICERS

Watertown, S. D., Dec. 23.--The dis,
town district elected the following of
ficers for the ensuing year: DR.. l.. c.,
Hill, of Watertown, president; Dr.
Sherwood, of Dubuque vice president:
DR.. Vaughn. of Castlewood secretary!
and treasurer, Or. Campbell, of Wa,
tertown, delegate to the state meeting
for three years; DR.. Tarbell, of Water
town. censor for three years The meet
ing was followed by a big banquet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

1t is reported that Glasgow engin-
eer has produced a small rotary tur-
bine engine, little more than a foot in
diameter, capable OF developing forty
horsepower. only two blades are used.
The new turbine is TO be fitted on
hoard an experimental torpedoboat. and
the inventor asserts that ii viii pro-
duce a speed hitherto unknown.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The annual report OF the asylums
committee of the London county coun-
ell states that I'm view of the recent
steady decline in the rate of increase OF
London pauper lunacy, and of the pos
sibility that there may cease To be an
Increase, II is doubtful whether it will
be necessary to take steps. at any rate
now, toward the provision of an elev-
enth asylum.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The Universalist church in America
embraces 945 parishes, possessing
church edifices and other property to
the value of 100000. There are 72S
elergymen and $4,000 communicates.
-Four colleges, three theological semin-
aries. schools OF law. medicine. den
tistry and engineering. and several
academies are supported by the de-
nomination, and these have in all near
ly 5000 students.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

While repairing the road between
Talous-les- Vignes and Conde-sur-
Marine, France. workmen found two
horse skulls of unusually large dimeu-
sions. The skulls were still very hard
and, from all indications, the horses
were buried there hundreds of years
ago
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
HOMESTEADERS AND
STOCkMEN AT WAR.

Presho S. D., Dec. 23.-Trouble
has again broken out between
homesteaders and stockmen in
this vicinity, the latest episode
in connection with the warfare
between the two elements being
the shooting and killing of sew
eral horses belonging to ole Ket-
tleson, rancher.
Kettleson claims he makes a
practice of keeping his horses in
side "A fence, so they cannot
trespass upon the land of adjoin-
ing homesteaders. The willful
shooting of stock has occurred
more than once recently in this
part of the state, and efforts now
are being made to ascertain the
identity of the person or persons
who shot Kettleson's horses. so
they may be prosecuted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
TRAPPERS REAPING
HARVEST IN DAKOTA.

Watertown. s. D., Dec 23-Musk- :
rat skins to the number of 2.500
were brought into town yesterday
by a farmer living up the Sioux
river. and sold for Is cents apiece.
netting nearly S400.
Trappers say that fur bearing ami
mails have not been so plentiful I'm
this locality for ten years as they
are this winter, and they are doing
an immense business
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

One of the serious propositions for
the people of Canada TO solve is the
fuel supply of the future. Not pound
of coal of anv kind has ever been dis
covered in the province OF Ontario III
she older part of the province the TIM
Der is practically exhausted. The gro
tesque-looking stump fences. the last
remains OF the once gigantic pine for
ests, are now being replaced with wire
fences and the stumps converted into
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
MAIL SERVICE FOR
MANY DAKOTA TOWN 5

Arlington. $. d., Dec. 21.--Mail service
over the South Dakota Central road
from Arlington to Sioux Falls will be
established January |. The postofiice
department has made arrangements for
the service and appointed a mail clerk,
VINO will make his headquarters i'm this
city Several towns along the Central
have so far been getting their mail by
means OF rural routes from post offices
10 to IL miles distant. and one or two
of them have had no mail service what
ever
The towns that will be served by the
new arrangement viii be: Cotton
Chester, Wentworth, Rutland, Nunda
Sinai and Arlington
The road is now nearly in shape TO
extend passenger service north from
this place TO Badger, Lake Norden and
Hiatt. and il IS understood that as soon
as the passenger run is extended the
mail service will follow, probably being
applied as FAR as Watertown by spring
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

New York. with 100000 population,
had been adding to it's total i'm the
three years preceding 1905 at the rate
of 100000 year. Philadelphia with
a little less than 100000 population.
had Increased at the rate of 10000 q
wear.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The bishop of Bristol. England. in
addressing an open air meeting of rail-
road rnen observed that he was a
workman, only he did not get his Sat
urday afternoons. and never got a
Sunday off
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Lead and tin can be obtained very
pure. Good brands of commercial lead
contain 1906 per cent. lead, and are
often even purcr. Lead is the purest
metal which is made commercially.
Good brands of tin are 1913 per cent.
plire.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Henry H. Ashton, a Virginia city
capitalist, has in his library. richly
bound in crushed Levant, those early
volumes of the Virginia City Enterprise
to which Mark Twain contributed.
The faded pages contain innumerable
specimens OF the famous writer's
quaint humor. Mr. Ashton often points
cut the first paragraph that Mark
Twain wrote on his arrival in Virginia
City. The paragraph runs:
"A thunder storm made Beranger q
poet, mothers kiss made BenJaniin
West a painter, and salary or slS
week makes us a journalist.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
WANTS TO RAISE THE
EtEb NJ r

Plankintoa. s. D.. Dec 21.-The busi-
ness men of Plankinton have taken hold
OF the matter OF petitioning congress
for an appropriation for drilling an ar
tesian well on the shore of Fish lake,
a body of water near here.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Red seems to be the most popular of
national colors. if Gags may be used as
criterions. OF the twenty-five leading
national flags nineteen have red IN
them. No other color is so much used.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The first envelope ever made is kept
In the British museum
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

John Burns is said to have the best
working library OF any member of the
English house of parliament.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

There are no newsboys In Spain:
women sell newspapers in the streets.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

In the farms OF Norway durins
planting and harvesting time more
women than men are seen in the fields
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The library of John Burn. M. Pa
fills three small rooms AS boy he
sacrificed himself TO collect books
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

London uses $4,000 tons OF sugar an
nually for jam making.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The publishing house of the Ameri-
can Presbyterian church did a busi-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

One hundred and fifty firemen are
employed on some of the great Ameri-
can liners.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

In Cairo at the present time there is
an endowment expressly for the lodging
and feeding of homeless cats.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28
HEN, WITH BROKEN
LEG, CONViCTS THIEF.

Watertown. S D.. Dec 23-
Through the medium of a hon with
4 broken leg. the states attorney
Of Codingtou county has run down
a chicken thief who has given his
neighbors considerable trouble for
some time past The outcome was
the conviction .n police court Of
Peter Schaak. young married
farmer who paid $50 for his petty
deprgdatious
During the trial the state pro-
duced an old hen that wore "A big
band3Ee on one OF its legs This
hen one of the witnesses swOre
had been her property The deputy
sheriff found the hen IN the de-
fcuddnts possession a day after a
big bunch of poultry disappeared
from farm home near the
Schaak place
The hen with the broken leg was
the sole means OF Identifying the
stolen property
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

IN his hook, WORK IN Great Cities"
the bishop OF London writes! You
have often not only 60 learn but TO
practice what may be described as the
foot and door trick. II Is ruination to
the boot and sometimes hurts the toe,
but Il consists IN rapidly but quickly
passing the foot in the moment the
door is opened, in order TO secure, az
any rate, a few minutes parley." AS to
what may happen he writes: After
long hesitation IL win be opened by u
little girl about half "A foot; and tncn
You win hear distant voice from the
wash tub in the rear, Well. Sally. who
is itY Then Sally win answer al the
top OF her voice. Please mother. it's
religion You Will require all your
presence OF mind TO cope with that"
The time came, however when every
door was thrown wide open to welcome
"our bishop"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Soap has been known to the world 70.
1900 years
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

-Four hours hard thinking exhausts
the ordinary person as much as ten
hours Of manual labor
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

With the exception of Britali; auo
America, there are no two countries :"
which the mile is of equal length.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The sultan OF Turkey is the pro-
prietor OF fine geological garden.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

or Mr. Gladstone's careful methods
of reading a writer says: III ocular
demonstration be required, one has only
TO visit Hawarden and see how his
books which he generously bequeathed
for the use of all who are interested ia
his favorite study, are marked and am
alyzed and queried-to be sure that his
convictions were based on the most
thorough knowledge Even where his
sympathies did not follow. he studied
before he condemned. There lies be-
fore me, as / write. his copy Of Well
hausen's History of Israel OSS5) The
margins abound in neat pencil annota-
tons marks, queries. butts acute OBJ
jections and references TO other books,
concluding (after his methodical GUS
tom) with an index 10 the points he
wished to remember"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

In recent article in the Street Rail-
way Journal on Transportation Facili-
ties In South America" II is stated that
transportation is so difficult over the
mountains that the coal imported into
Bolivia for the railways own use costs
about $50 ton. Abundant timber
grows In the mountains within fifty
miles of La Paz. but transportation is
80 difficult that trolley poles and lum-
ber for building operations are brought
from Oregon, "a distance OF thousands
of miles.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

Giving evidence at Marylebone, "A
young constable said he found "A dag
ger on "a man he had arrested "a
What" Mr.. Plowden asked as the con-
stable held the weapon up TO view
why call il a dagger? 1t has not the
slightest resemblance to one" "Well,"
faltered the constable, "a sheath knife
Mr.. Plowden: Yes. Now. try i'm flu
ture TO be less picturesque in your des-
criptions. You can not be too matter
Of fact I'm the witness box. ! dare say
you have leanings toward poetry In
your nature. but you must stife them
In the witness box"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The bootblacks on the Lackawanna
,erryboats wear a sign on their caps
reading, Boys are forbidden TO solicit
customers" They don't. But young
italy has devised an ingenious method
of compliance with the law. The boys
stop directly i'm front of a man with
sun shoes. and give a shrill, inquisi-
i've whistle which seems TO express
pained surprise that any respectable
,ommuter should be seen in such a
condition. That whistle often does the
business.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-12-28

The library of John Burn M. p
fills three small rooms. AS q boy he
sacrificed himself to collect books.
The publishing house of the Ameri-
can Presbyterian church did a busi-
ness of over $70G,0o0 the las: year.
In Cairo at the present time there is
an endowment expressly for the lodging
and feeding of homeless cats.
The sultan OF Turkey is the pro-
prietor OF fine geological garden.
-Four hours hard thinking exhausts
the ordinary person as much as ten
hours of manual labor.
-------------s-~s-s-
One hundred and fifty firemen are
employed on some OF the great Ameri-
can liners.
There are no newsboys in Spain:
women sell newspapers i'm the streets.
The first envelope ever made is kept
In the British museum
London uses $4,000 tons OF sugar nm
nually for jam making.
Soap has been known to the world fol
5000 years
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-31

Come, boys, and bring your girl to
the rink Saturday night.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-31
OPERA THAT IS
WHISTLEABLE
The isle Of Spice Has
Tuneful Numbers That
Catch the Bows

3. c. Whitneys company Of 10 peo-
pie will b. seen at the Temple theater
Wednesday. Sept. 4. in the musical
extravaganza, the Isle of Spice" THIS
production comes comparatively
known to a great many theater goerG
through this section of the country
II is said this extravaganza created
a sensation in Chicago, where it ran
for % weeks. It was then produced
in Boston. where it delighted The mu-
sic-loving audiences IA weeks and
thence to New York city. At the Ma
iestic theater, in which place it quick
" established itself as a prime favor
lite among the metropolitan theateT
goers for a number of months. Abst-
Lutte novelty is claimed for the cor
struction of this musical mixture, and
the chorus numbers are sad to be
marvels of stage invention.
The musical numbers are Of the
singable, whistleable kind, and therS
lie no doubt but what the most catchy
Of them will be heard on the. streets
long after the engagement here.
! Among the most attractive features OF
the isle of Spice is PONY ballet"
composed of IL little girls, not weigh
| ing over 1000 pounds for the entire
lot, who do some very clever work
throughout the entire performance.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-31
Friends to Study Religions.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.-Mem-
bers of the Society of Friends are
looking forward with much interest to
school for religious and social study
which they have arranged to conduct
for two weeks, beginning tomorrow, at
George School in Bucks county.
This will be a new venture on the
part of the so-called liberal section of
he society in the United States. The
proposed school is, however, a natural
sequence to the revival that has been
in progress among the Quakers of this
branch for several years along the
lines of religious. philanthropic and
educational activity. The purpose of
the school is to inspire and equip
members Of the society for practical
and effective work in the presentation
OF the quaker message to the world,
whether it is in the line of distinctive
ly religious. educational or social en-
deavor. The arrangements for the
school have been made under the d.
rection Of the general conference COM
mittee for the advancement of Friends
principles. =.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-31
Feathers for FaII Hats.

The ostrich plume. which, this sum-
mer, has been the favorite trimming
aside from flowers. will be used to a
great extent on all fall hats. 1t will
be taken from the summer hat and put
on the next one, possibly dyed another
color. A heavy beautiful feather
shows of to the best advantage when
it sweeps across the crown from right
to left and hangs gracefully over the
left ear. Particularly handsome are
the white ones, with shaded tips Of
shell pink or pale lemon. or those of a
dark color growing lighter at the end.
FLORENCE FAIRBANKS.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-31

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. S1.-At the
Newcliffe hotel today Miss Marie I'm
schuld Edle Won Melasfeld, daughter
of the late imperial and royal Austrian
field marshal Lieutenant Wenzel Un-
schuld Ritter Won Melasfeld. was mar
red to Henry Lagard. vice president
of the University of Music and Dra-
matte Art in Washington, d. c.
The bride is gifted musician ana
formerly held the post of court pianist
to the queen of Roumania.