Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28
MINNESOTA.

a White Cross society.
The young ladies OF Alexandria take daily
swimming lessons.
The young ladies of Alexandris take daily
swimming lessons.
The st. Croiy river was never SO low as nov,
say old settlers at Saltwater.
The Kandiyohi County Expositcr Ia, sas-
pended publication.
Near Pine Island, $50 bushels Of wheat were
threshed off seventy acres.
Peter s. Decker has been commissioner
postmaster at st. Nicholas.
In Medicine county the wheat threshes out
| seventeen bushels 10 the acre.
An electric light ordinance has again been
vetoed 10y the mayor Of Albert Lea.
Sherburne county's wheat yields is from
seventeen TO twenty-five bushels to the acre.
The Sunday agreement Nil not be observed
by Minneapolis BARRIERS during the exposi-
ton.
Money has been raised to cut a canal
through the island from Minnciska to Buffalo
City, Wis.
James G. Clark, of Browns Valley, will
'alaye his poems published by d. Lathrop Il
Co. Of Boston.
The Erie Telegraph and Telephone company
are trying TO get certain rights from the
Winona council.
The prohibitionists of Faribault will meet
in convention TO nominate a county ticket
September 4.
There is no hotel at Marshall. Ope was
b,r,.J lpup laet u,rinr and th,, snnonI aud
last failed a week ago.
Mrs. John Soderlin, Of Lake City, returning
from funeral in a buggy, was killed by her
horse running away.
DR.. George Kelley of Montgomery, paid
81. 65 for the f"n of horsewhipplng the pro-
prietor of the Star.
A scarcity Of nIckels and pennies is causing
a great deal OF inconvenience to the business
men Of Minneapolis.
T. Ii. Kelley, of Owatonna. was elected
mayor of that city Tuesday by a majority Of
loo over his Democratic opponent.
A little daughter of Mrs. Kaisa Johnson,
near Alexandria, was burned to death while
trying 10 start the kitchen fire.
On Capt. Newcomb's farm, in Clay county,
the machine measured out ISL bushels Of
wheat from fourteen acres of land.
A vein OF gas has been struck by the drill in
the Argyle ~artesian well at a depth of eighty
feet. The gas burns with a blush light.
A dredge boat is to be put on the Red river
between Moorhcad and Grand Forks, and a
snag boat between Moorhead and McCauley-
vile.
The prohibitionists Of the Fourth congress
sional district have asked s. f. Crockett, OF
Fargo, d.. T., to be their candidate for con
gress.
saltwater Democrats are hugging the belief
that the Republican postmaster of that city
will be succeeded within sixty days by a
Democrat.
Murray and Jackson counties have county
scat removal questions, and agitation has
commenced in Mobiles and Rock counties for
a change.
A three-year-old daughter Of Gustave Moll-
man, of Chaska, was killed while playing in a
granary, 600 bushels Of heat giving way and
burying her.
Miss Alice Mott, daughter Of Hon. II. a.
Mott, Of Farihault, has been elected and ac-
cepted the position Of principal of the North
field high school.
The principal witness to appear for the
prosecution In the trial Of John Erickson, at
Morris, for raping Mary Peterson, will be the
prisoners mother.
An industrial fair will be held at Red Wing
September 2S.30 inclusive. A band tourna-
ment and firemen's tournament will occur at
tle same time and place.
Large parties Of hunters are daily leaving
Minneapolis and ST. Paul to create havoc
among the prairie chickens, which are numer-
Gus In all parts Of the state this year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morse, wife of Elisha Morse,
of Minneapolis, died Monday. She was a
prominent member Of several religious socie-
ties, and was noted for her deeds of charity.
w. X. Sanford, a tramp, shot and killed
Hugh Dolan, a bartender at Brainerd, on Sat
urday. The quarrel grew out Of q refusal Of
Dolan to sell him liqr n, giving him % cents
to buy it elsewhere.
Since the refusal OF Judge Wilson, of
Winona, to make the race for congress, Judge
1NSEH"Ni3 VI o"o1ouilo,i 10 NPNhN' "a " :"
candidate. He has a large following In his
own city.
Frank Kramcr's steam threshing engine set
fire to the strawstack on the farm OF Daniel
Neeo, near st. Charles, Tuesday. They got
out the separators, lost the straw carrier, and
the whole setting was burned.
The surveyors of the Burlington and North
ern road have reached Rochester from Winona,
and are camped in the suburbs. They are
running the line straight from Marion to that
city, and state positively that the line as at
present surveyed will run through Rochester.
John Zolih, living on the south branch of
Two rivers, Kittson, county, found in the craw
of a tame duck a piece Of pure gold in the
natural state, which the fowl had undoubtedly
picked up along the river. Mr.. Zolif is an
old California miner, and says the specimen is
"a good one.
Gov. Hubbard has not yet decided to per-
manently remove from Red Wing. When he
sold his residence there he received In ex-
change as part payment the old Hoyt property
on the corner of Fifth and Franklin streets,
and he may take up his residence there. Be
sides, the governors chances OF a third term