Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

tIVlty.
Bishop Gilbert will visit Sank Centre on the
9TH prox.
Minneapolis druggists are not satisfied with
the new pharmacy law.
Schuyler is divided In five districts for fire
alarm.
A panther has been seen lately near Mar
%rillville.
Toud City is struggling under a load of
gambling dens.
Fergus Falls seems sure Of securing the in
sane asylu
Scarlet fever Is causing = number Of deaths
at Owatonna.
Hastings Scandinavians have organized q
Good Templars lodge.
Nuskrsts arc unusually numerous this win
ter In Houston county.
The undertakers of Minneapolis have
formed an association.
A Cornell man has made 500 gallons OF mo-
cases this season.
The monthly payroll for the st. Paul school
teachers amounts to $4,000.
The st. George Snow Shoe club Of st. Paul
is getting under way for the season.
Several private telephones are being put up
In Granite Falls by an eastern company.
Henry j. Dane has been appointed post
master AT lie Sueur, vice John NJ. Farmer.
Montevideo people stuff cotton WOO in the
key holes and play checkers during a bliz-
card.
A double force Of men are now at work on
the Cannon Valley railroad, Mankato, work.
ing day and night.
Mrs. Julia IL. Bevans, formerly of Red
Wing, died at the home of her sister, ia Emer-
son, last Wednesday.
The Winona city council, at a recent meet
ing. authorized the finance committee to ne
gotiate a loan of $4,000.
County Attorney-elect b. ID. Smith is the
fist person elected to an Office in Blue Earth
county born In the county.
Kasson was without any mail from Tuesday
to Friday on account Of a snow blockade on
the Winona IL st. Peter railroad.
The stage drivers are having a hard time Of
1t in the back counties, where the mails are
not now carried with their accustomed
regularity.
is SOlDg VI Inhht All dIltsldu Ntil OH luuu Z
Gently purchased.
William Haskell and Walter Rudd, boys OF
fourteen years, were drowned in Lake indie
pendence, near Maple Plain, Thursday, while
skating.
Gen. William Booth, commander OF the
worlds salvation forces is expected to visit
Minneapolis.
Rochester merchants have donated $50
worth Of prizes for the prize winners in the
poultry show to be held in that city next
month.
Prof. T.. Chilcoat, for over a year superin-
Saturday. The remains will be taken to Dan
Vile, Ill.
The Mankato Linseed Oil company con-
sumed this last season All, 900 bushels Of
fax seed and made 1,000,0 600 gallons of oil
and about ) 100000 pounds of oil cake.
The Omaha road took out 1875 second. class
passengers from Minneapolis Tuesday night,
most of whom were Swedes and N~orwegians
returning to Europe to pass the winter.
A channel has been cut through the ice In
the river at Red Wing, and the ferry is run
ming. The ice in the bay is about four inches
thick, and the skaters are enjoying it.
The Hastings Tobogganing club has been
thoroughly reorganlzed, and everything is
now In a fair way to make this seasons sport
one of the best ever known in that region.
lie Sueur Sentinel: lie Sueur is perhaps the
largest primary poultry market in the state,
and Tho yrio.o ,aiI Tho ,aot xvanly a,p Crnpp
a half to a cent per pound higher than in
Mankato.
The council of Owatonna passed an ordin-
ance prohibiting dogs from running at large.
The dog belonging to G. w. Hadley, author
OF the ordinance, was the first to be put into
the pound.
Sank Centre Herald The Manitoba com
pany is advertising for lies along the North
ern road, offering from 3 TO 5 ents more
than last year, and pron.4!ug inspection ev-
cry thirty days.
The company IF Minneapolis End Milwau-
iron mine has organized, with John Paul
son, Minneapolis, as president, and {. A.
Avery, Milwaukee, secretary.
The literary society Of the high school, Man
kato, have engage DR.. Sperry, Of Mortified,
to deliver In that city I'm the near future his
celebrated lecture on the "Canons OF Colo
RADIO" The receipts will be applied towards
"A new piano the society is DESTROYS of pur-
chasing.
At u dance in Montgomery Wednesday eve
ming a fight took place between Bohemians
and Irish, I'm which clubs, knives, revolvers
and other weapons were freely used. Several
were seriously injured and broken heads were
numerous. Considerable bad feeling exists
and further trouble anticipated.
Breckenridge Mercury The late survey of
the Req river valley for drainage purposes
cost Owe. 4. 900. Wilkin %county's portion of
the amount is abou. 500. Mr.. Hill, Of the
Minneapolis and Manitoba railway, pays one
half "f he vGtire bill, which leaves about &c.
&c Tor the valley and 1850 for our county to
pay.
There died az Mendoza one day last week an
Indian woman Familiarity known to the white
citizens as Lucy. She was almost as well
known to the inhabitants of ST. Paul and
the earlier settlers she was generally called
'La-ti'' (her LODGE, and was the wife OF the
celebrated Chaska who saved the life OF Mai
George ii. Spencer, late United States Indian