Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-10
.nkato has q debt Of Sl47,CO0.

Work OF the Shokopee mills has com
menced.
new mining company has been organized
In yerndsle.
GAINESVILLE girls have organized an anti
slang society.
The Red River Valley presbytery will meet
at Warren April 8.
For more than two months the Scott county
jail has been empty.
Grand Army post No. 1is was organized al
Heron Lake Tuesday.
An effort is being made to revive the Moor
head Farmers alliance.
The sheds at the cement works at Msnksto
were burned Thursday.
Evangelist Henry Plant lie holding q series
Of meetings at GAINESVILLE.
A branch of the State Farmers Alliance has
beeuorganized at Brainerd.
Farmers In the vicinity OF Granite Falls be-
gan sowing wheat last week.
Twenty-Five women voted for members Of
the school board at Heron Lake.
Wolves have been numerous IN the vicinity
OF Wabasha during the past few weeks.
H. Z. Stevens will begin the publication Of
daily pc per at Brainerd the first Of May.
The prohibition Knights of Labor of Man
kato have put a city ticket in nomination.
Three car loads of wagons were shipped
from the Shokopee Wagon works last week.
The Free Masons OF Albert Lea are raising
funds to erect a Masonic Temple this summer
Minneapolis parties are trying TO buy the
the farmers warehouse recently built at Belle
PLANE.
A heavy flow Of water was struck at a depth
Of thirty-hve feet In an artesian well sunk near
GAINESVILLE.
Il. Holbrook, q prominent citizen Of New
R!chlsnd, died from hemorrhage Of the lungs
on Wednesday.
Dogs got into a field belonging to Auditor
Shanks, near Fairmont an killed thirteen
sheep before they we're discovered.
D. Stewart, the Owatonna man who threw
away his crutches under the stimulus of prayer,
is reported to be suffering from q physical re-
lapse.
8. Olson, Of Cyrus, Pope county, seventeen
years of age, has invented a combined hay
rake and cocker, for which he has refused
Sl5, 0C0.
The Merchants hotel at Carver was burned
Wednesday morning. Andrew Swenson, an
old man, and an unknown man were burned
to death.
Lumbermen claim that they have been
badly treated by citizens of Crookston, aid
are boycotting the place as they return from
The woods.
Peter Nelson, at Amboy, has sued the Omaha
Railway company for S., 900 damages for In
juries caused by alleged carelessness on the
part OF the company.
The bill to authorize the construction Of a
pontoon bridge across the Mississippi at Red
Wing was reported favorably by the house
committee On N
Luverne has subscribed nearly 81, coo toward
the siL king o an ~artesisn well, and 1t is IN
derstood the city council will add another
thousand to the enterprise.
1t ia claimed by the friends of low license
that the action OF the village council OF Sleepy
Eye in putting the license up TO $500 is caus-
ing trade to leave the place.
The high school Of Lake City Is listed as
first class, and It's graduates will be admitted
to the state university without examination on
presentation OF their diplomas.
An IS year old son OF Xavier Lemey, Of
| CyopHatrp haa taap pnissinr from hama fnr
about two weeks. No cause is known for his
a~bseace, and foul play is limited at.
Three Swedes while cutting wood near the
Mile Laos reservation, were attacked by a
dozen drunken Indians with drawn knives.
They managed to escape, however, without
serious injury.
Lred Gentermont ind Joe Shear were ar
rested on Wednesday at Dodge Center for
stealing clover seed from Fairbanks elevator.
They were taken before a justice and gave
bonds In the sum OF $500.
The divorce case Of Shook Va. Shook at Luz
verne was tried In Chambers before Judge
Perkins. shook charged bis wife with adrl-
terry, but withdrew the charge and changed It
10 cruelty anu LcOmpalDluIy.
The farmers In Big Stone county have re-
Gently taken to the alliance organizations with
considerable vigor. There are now about seven
OF them In the county, two OF which, with
large membership, were formed during the
past week.
lltor Lsmphere, Of the Moorhead Evening
News, has Issued an extra edition OF his paper,
giving o history Of Moorhead and Clay county.
The Illustrations are of considerable merit,
while the statistical information will prove
very valuable to future historians.
Capt. Corrigan, OF Cleveland, and other
Cleveland parties have bought dock property
on one Of the slips OF the Duluth Improve
ment company and have already begun work.
They will build two lime kilns there. THY
will freight limestone up the lake.
A syndicate has been formed In Owstonna
to donate q building cite, 66xl22 feet, on
which to erect q large brick hotel and a promi-
nent builder has agreed TO build In the
spring. At the same lime II Is expected that q
G. A. f. memorial hall will be built.
For refusing to drink with them, Richard
Elliott and David Prayle assaulted John Har-
per, An old man at Fergus Falls, breaking two
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