Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21
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Wheat is yielding ls 10 25 bushels per acre
in Olrnstead county.
Duluth wants = Gre boat fer tAe protection
OF her docks and shipping.
Brainerd has shipped 1900 bushels Of blue
berries thus far this season.
Farmers generally through the stats COLI
plain OF the scarcity Of swine.
Crops In Goodhue county are said to aver
age only ten to twelve bushels per acre.
On the 10th inst. terrible free were reported
TO be raging in the p~ineries near Perham.
Two half breed foot pads slugged Mr..
Wylie near Red River Falls and robbed him.
N. 8. Barney, OF Jackson, Is one Of the
heirs to Capt. Bsrney's estate Of 100000
Mr.. Sier, near Ortonville, find. that his
wheat averages thirty bushels to the acre.
A farmers alliance and peoples committee
Il. called at Wheaton 10 nominate county Of
GERS.
Mrs. Jerome Howard viii DO a candidate for
superintendent Of the Wilkin county public
schools.
John Behrs who shot Cre.s at Utica, has
been held TO the district court, Winona, in
1000.
The track layer. OF the At. Cloud and Will
! The road.
Violations OF the game laws are reported
from all part. Of tue state. A few arrests
have been made.
A 00-pouad anchor was recently found at
Ashland. 1t is supposed TO have been lost
there years ago.
DR.. George Kelley OF Montgomery, paid
sl7.65 for tie finn Of horserhippins the pro.
prietor OF the Star.
Marshall county asks the state to contribute
$4,000 for the relief Of the sufferers by the
hail storm OF July "A.
At Fergus Falls capitalists win bore for pc
troleum and natural gas, the surface indiea-
tons being good.
Numerou. farmers near Jackson report that
they are threshing tventy-f five bushels Of
wheat To the acre.
De Crafts new barns at Lake Eiysian have
been rebuilt since the fire on 4 magnificent
scale. The water supply i. perfect.
A comic opera company has been organized
at Montevideo composed of children between
the ages OF hve ana ten years.
The Kenyon Clothing company's store at
Kenyon, was broken open on the night OF the
10th and 800 worth Of goods taken.
A great many farmers in Traverse county
are said to have been compelled TO pay taxes
twice, because they lost the original receipts.
A team of horses, seized by Collector Guer-
nor for non-payment OF duties, mysteriously
disappeared from Crookston, and no trace Of
them can be found.
John Rommell, a Rochester butcher, has
gone under. His liabilities will probably
amount to $4,000. The assignee is Henry
Kalb.
A Holland syndicate has purchased ten
thousand acres Of land north OF Renville,
which they viii coavert into a large dairy
farm.
The total receipts for the month OF July at
the st. Vincent custom house were SIS, 800,
and the value of exports for the same month
$4,000.
The failure OF A. l.. Porter, the heaviest dry
goods dealer in Dodge county, created great
excitement at Kasson. Porter is one Of the
oldest settlers there.
Ba ley on the prairie near GAINESVILLE was
cut aud threshed this year as early a. the 10th
OF Jaly. This record is the earliest since the
settlement Of Minnesota.
Al Homer, just below Winona, there is only
three and half feet Of water in the Mississippi,
and the boys wade across. The steamers have
to go around through the sloughs.
Thieves blew open the safe Of Fri 3. Evans
at Garden City, at 2 O'Clock Monday morn
ing, but secured nothing Of any value for their
trorrle. The safe was badly shattered, as was
lie building.
William Summers, q farmer living three
miles from Montevideo, WAS thrown from a
load OF straw, and his skull so badly /. jured
that ne lived but a few hours. He leaves a
wife and one child.
The following postofices have been estab-
lished in Minnesota and postmasters appoint
cd: Essex, Otter Tail county, Samuel Tay-
lor, postmaster; Union, Blue Earth county,
Sarah A. Partridge, postmistress.
Henry Decking, Sr., living five miles north
west Of KenyoL, was thrown from "a wagon
and instantly killed. He drove too far out
Of the road in passing another team, causing
his wagon to be overturned down an embank-
ment.
John Eric k.on is in Jail at Morris, awaiting
trial for committing rape Oh Mary Peterson,
aged thirteen years. At his preliminary ex-
animation Erickson stated he could neither
deny ar admit the charge, as be was drunk
at the time.
Willie Truhn, a twelve yesr-old son Of Fred
Truhn, at Fergus Falls, Wa. dangerously in
jured Sunday while shooting pigeons by the
accidental discharge Of the gun, the contents
lodging in the right breast, He will probabl.
recover.
ID. |. Daney, a Spirit Lake grocer, has been
acquitted Of the charge Of selling liquor. 1t
WAS shown At the trial tina. the chief witaess
for the prosecution had bought cider and
poured whisky into II from a bottle he carried
In his pocket
Jare.ville Argus: During a residence OF
eighteen years, W. T.. Heath Of Freedom says
that in all that time no season witnessed an
earlier harvest than this year. With the e1-
ception OF two small stacks, his wheat was all
up in July. He finished completely Aug2.
A little daughter Of Peter Grotte Of Spring
Creek was burned to death one day last week.