Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-16
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held in this state.
Several large sales OF pine land are partly
completed about saltwater and will be re-
ported In a day or two.
During the past week OH ears OF lumber
we're shipped from Minneapolis, the best
weeks record for five years.
Yoiander q Johnson's brewery on Riverside
avenue, Minneapolis, burned do~n on Thurs
day.
A barn belonging to Edward A. Te~s, near
Hutchinson, WAS burned. Loss, $l,4O; in
sured, $500.
The commission to select a site for a second
state prison visited Pipestone Saturday and
took a look at the q%uarries there.
During the last twelve months there has
been M increase In the membership OF the
First VI. T.. church at st. Paul OF los.
The lumber business on the st. Croix Is
very brisk at the present time, most OF the
mills being unable TO fill their orders.
At the annual school meeting at Faribault
G.. w. Batchelder, A. ID. Keyes, and ). Is.
Wilson were reelected members OF the board.
A. G. Larson, n prominent citizen Of Wa
coma, died suddenly one day last week. The
deceased crossed the plains with Gen. Sully in
1862.
On Monday night the Luger Lumber com
pany's warehouse at Wabasha was discovered
to be on fire, Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Articles OF incorporation OF the German
Evangelical Lutheran Grace congregation, of
Good ne, have been filed with the register of
deeds.
Stephen Smith, OF Faxon, nominated by the
Sibley county Republicans for county treas
urer, refuses to accept, owing to a press Of
private business.
A two-weeks-old baby was left on the door
step OF the residence Of J. Peter WirrIgs,
Mankato, last Saturday evening. 1t is a lit
tlecirl and In a healthy condition.
The Bird Island mills, owned by Kcoke
Bros, burned Wednesday afternoon together
with their residence and barn. The loss win
aggregate 5000, with no insurance.
At a meeting at Albert Lea a committee was
appointed to solicit subscriptions to the
WOODEN mill bonus. About $3.50 Of the 81 900
was secured at this meeting.
llt bululu duu hbullpbA AilloA toih
pany ha. laid forty miles Of track from Hawley
to Red Lake Falls and expects the entire line
to be completed by November 1.
The painters are finishing the inside work
Of the State school b4.ihngs, at Owatonns,
this week. Two large rooms in the north cot
tage are fitted up for school rooms.
The remains OF Stephen Hamlin, a former
resident Of %Faribault, who recently died at
Braiperd, were brought to the former city
Monday and Inferred In Maple Lawn GENE
terry.
The new fountain for the Summit Avenue
park, st. Paul, has arrived and been put in
place. 1t is Of unique design, with innumer-
able little cupids about it, and adds much to
the beauty of the place.
The livery stable Of Duncan Mckenzie was
also found to be ablaze. Nine horses and a
large number OF carriages and harness were
destroyed. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 1880.
Both fires are believed to have been incen-
diary.
The remains of w. j. Nytcs, master of the
who died at Stockton Sunday, passed through
Winona yesterday, and were escorted from
the Northwestern to the st. Paul depot 10y a
delegation Of Winona Masons.
The Winona County Medical association
held its quarterly meeting Tuesday afternoon,
at DR.. Staples office. DR.. j. w. Scott Of st.
Charles, and DR.. Boyd of Lewiston, were pre-
sent. DR.. Boyd will read a paper at the next
meeting.
A. 7. BRYANT, of Medford, one OF Steele
c|ounty's pioneers, died Wednesday morning
OF disease Of the liver. Mr.. Bryant was well
and favorably known and His demise will be
the cause Of much regret, especially among
his fellow townsmen, where he was a leading
citizen.
Fire caused by a prairie fire, which is sup
posed to have been started from sparks from
a locomotive on the Moorhead and Northern
road, destroyed about sixty tons OF hay be
longing to Peter Lamb, ~fifty-ive belonging to
Charles Brendemuhl, and ten tons belonging
TOP. II. Lamb, near Moorhead.
Prairie fires started last week In the neigh
borhood OF the Old Crossing OF the Red river
In Wilkin county, and swept across mile at
ter mile Of vegetation into Grant county and
on to Tintah, where the grassy Pomme de
Terre river finally stopped its progress. 1t is
stated that at least one-half the hay In the
line OF the fire was consumed.
The death roll At Waseca named two proni-
inent persons last week. The first Was Mrs.
c. Wood, an aged lady living with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Arentson. Mrs. Wood was one OF
the first settlers OF the county, and follows
her husband, Deacon Ezra Wood, who died
last October. The second was Mrs. G.. w. Cut
Ter, who died very suddenly Thursday evening
from some affection Of the brain.
Sheriff Lenfest has returned to Anoka from
Bridgman with Andy Irwin, whom he arrested
and holds on a charge Of grand larceny. r.
vim, with Schimerhorn and Hannel, stole a
pair Of oxen from Bossert's hotel in 1885,
and took them to Minneapolis and sold them
and were arrested there and taken to Anoka,
but all broke jail. Schimerhorn was recap
tured and is serving a year and a half term
In Stillw irwin will be tried In Fcbru-
airy.
On a government claim a few miles east
Brainerd, Sunday, a settler by the name Of
Davenport killed two men named Policy, ia
thcr and son, in a dispute about the claim.
Davenport fed, leaving his wife at the cabin,