Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26

Minneapolis butchers pay a city license.
Zumbrota will enlarge It's public school.


Surveyors are running a line for a railway
from La Crescent TO Witoka.
Fergus Falls merchants will endeavor to es.
tablish a monthly market day.
The Goodhue county prohibition conven-
| ton will meet at Zumbrota June -.
Sioux Falls has refused to grant a fran
chise to an electric light company.
Nine horses were stolen from the pasture OF
a farm living near Granite Falls.
Rev. r. Carson Of Eden was quite seriously
injured by being thrown from q buggy.
A site has been selected at st. Paul on which
will be erected the governors residence,
The Nicollet county republican convention
will be held in ST. Peter Saturday, June 20.
The court house at Alexandria was struck
by lightning on Wednesday and badly shat
tered.
The Republican congressional convention OF
the First district will take place 1T Albert Lea
August Is.
Rochester authorities have concluded to
erect substantial water-worksa and work upon
them will soon begin.
| Henrietta Bladrod was sentenced to nine
months imprisonment in the county jail at
Rochester for infanticide.
Rev. Samuel Gates, Of Luverne, has accepted
the pastorate Of a church in Elkhorn, Neb.,
and will remain there all summer.
The hardware store OF Thomas Flnny, at
Blooming Prairie, was burglarized Of $50 in
money and $50 In merchandise,
Sam Jones and Small will inaugurate a Sc
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Paul, on Tuesday evening, June -.
Four hundred dollars will be offered the 5th
Of July at the celebration in Luverne in
purses for trotting and running races.
Frank Roseman, Of Minneapolis, while pros
pecting for iron near Tower got lost in the
woods and is supposed to have persisted.
The Hastings school building is undergoing
a thorough examination, as doubts are enter
tanned of its safety. The prospects are that it
will be condemned.
The Manitoba railroad company has a sur.
veying party at work near the Dakota and
Minnesota state line, presumably seeking a
route to Watertown.
The farm hcuse of William Roscoe, Of Pepin
township, Wabasha county, was struck by
lightning Monday night and totally destroyed.
Loss, 1900; partially insured.
A German boy at work for Mr.. Thompson,
Of Ceresco, is afflicted with the CHAMBERS, hav.
ing contracted it in the same manner as Mr..
~Thompson's son Miles, who died last Friday.
The Fleming school house, near Benson,
was SO injured by lightning Saturday that il
will have to be rebuilt. At the same time Mr..
Phillips's barn was struck and one horse was
killed.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st Paul rail.
road will, according to a letter received by a
prominent citizen at Watertown, build this
Dakota division, to Egan.
The hailstones which fell last Saturday at
Swan Lake were as large as hickory nuts in
places, and In some places they were larger,
breaking some windows in A. Sharwick's
house and also in Barney Cox's new house.
The Republican central committee of Rock
county have called a county convention to be
held in Luverne july l for the purpose of
electing five delegates to the congressional
convention, which conyenes at Mankato
July Z.
The republican district committee of the
Forty-ilrst l. gisiatiye district composed OF
Becker, Clay and Wilkin counties, met at De.
troit have called the convention to meet al
Moorhead on Sept. IA, to nominate one
senator and representative.
Operations have been commenced on the
new Chicago and Milwaukee depot at Red
Wing. The old one is to be moved back and
the new one is to be erected In front Of it. The
building will be two stories high, brick-ve
neered and stone foundation.
Burglars entered the wagon shop of Hague
Christopherson Il Co., at Albert Lea, Sunday
night, broke open the money drawer, which
was empty, and made an attempt to open the
safe, but did not succeed. They were proba
bly, the came parties who stole Capt. Whites
clothing and money Saturday night.
At Winona recently Miss Verona Smith had
a narrow escape from a serious if not a fatal
accident. While walking along the street an
Infatuated steer, driven by a farmer, at
tempted to gore her, but the head of the ami
NAL struck a ~hitching post with such force as
to break it. Miss Smith was slightly bruised
and greatly frightened, but soon recovered.
Postmaster Whipple, of Winona, recently
received a communication from Supervising
Architect Bell asking Mr.. Whipple to sug-
gest a competent engineer to survey the site
of the new government building for drainage.
location Of main entrance, etc. Mr.. Bell rec
ommends an increase Of the appropriation to
S150,0OO. Mr.. Whipple turned the matter
over to City Surveyor John b. Fellows.
For some unaccountable reason the Farmers
alliance convention, called to meet ut Man
kato to nominate a candidate for congress,
failed TO materialalze. The convention was
called in a somewhat irregular order, the call
coming from the county alliance of Lyon
county, while A.. II. Bulls, the chairman of
the congressional committee, has issued no
call as yet. The calling Of the convention
was looked upon as a movement to give the
candidacy Of o.. B. Turrell a substantial boost
by a farmers Endorsement.
The Supreme Lodge Of the Ancient Order Of
United Workmen met at Minneapolis on the
18th inst. All Of the supreme lodge repre-
sentatives, headed by Supreme Master Work
man John A. Brooks, were present. Delegates
from grand lodges Of thirty-one states and
| territories and Ontario, TO the number OF 246,
are In attendance. Mayor Ames welcomed