Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-02

An Odd fellows lodge Ia 10 be organized at
Little Falls.
A church is to be built at South Mills, Wa
SEGA county.
Samuel Recm aged 81 years Is the oldestman
In Wrigh. county.
The Manitoba railroad branch survey
touches the east part OF Hawley.
Citizens OF Skree talk OF prosecuting 8. w.
Bronson for starving horses to death.
The Roberts County olling mill at Browns
Valley has been completed at q cost of $ll,-
OOO.
The Laird Norton company has bou bit co.
10000 TO pine stumpage In Pine county,
Of II. G. Ferguson OF saltwater.
William Dalton, OF Zumbro, while out rab.
bit hunting, accidentally shot himself In the
left breast, making q serious wound.
r. d. Holms, president OF the Dairymen and
Stock Breeders association. says a movement
Is talked oil 10 secure the next convention for
Owatonna.
Since Father S,olz took charge OF the Catho-
Nv 20 ~ iva NAhef 'bACO ObtL dEOS
$4,000 of the debt on the church has been
cleared away.
Rev. William Williams, lately OF Pierre,
Oak, is about taking charge of the Presby-
terrain churches as Chester and Oronoco, sup
plying each pulpit on alternate Sabbaths.
Judge s. c. S.monds passes the ernine OF
the Probate Court for st. Croix county over to
Ray 8. Reed on the 10th Of January. Hk has
filed the office with credit and satisfaction for
eight years.
The affairs Of the Northwest Land company,
Of Moorhead, are being closed up, and tie
property thereof divided between Messrs. s. G.
Comstock and A. A. White, who will also dis
solve partnership.
The gradual recedence of the line OF availa-
be fuel timber near Rochester is slowly
throwing wood out OF the market as fuel, and
IN consequence more coal stoves have been
put up this year than in any previous fall.
Work on the state high school building at
Owatonna has been discontinued fer the win
ter, as the builders consider 1t unsafe to lay
the foundations on account OF the cold. The
foundation walls are about half completed.
There IL a project on foot at Monticello Of
cutting a sl%uiceway through from a point near
Rollins island, in the Mississippi, to the up-
per end OF Janney's mill pond, thereby secur-
ing enough water power To run any amount OF
machinery.
A scsfrolding at the new mill at Granite
Falls gave way, precipitating Charles Friberg
to the ground, twenty feet. He struck upon
the back of his head ON the rocks and ice, cut
*ng a bad cash. He will probably recover.
He has q family In Willmar.
Lyman Matthews, one OF the oldest ~settlers
In Blue Earth county, was recently fatally In
jured near Butte, Mont, by bein thrown
from q horse over q precipice. Mr.. Matthews
was favorably known in Mankato, and one Of
the first residents Of lie Hitler.
Charles Durgin, Of Brockway, was arrested
upon complaint Of Charles Berry, of Rlce's,
charged with abducting his step-dsughter,
Annie Vogel, for immoral purposes. When
arraigned Durgin presented a marriage license,
showing that he and the girl, who is only
about thirteen years Of age, were married.
A Mrs. Held, Of New York Mills claimed
that &. Kimberlin, Of that place, had traduced
Der, and last Sunday che enticed him into a
store and, drawing q revolver, made the gen
tleuan get down On bis knees and retract al
be had said or expected 10 say. Subst quently
the woman was pat under bonds 10 keep the
peace.
c. W. Had)ey OF Owstonna, In looking over
the papers IN a Law office formerly occupied by
j. b. Searle, found the following discharge
papers: Lafayette Howe, Company Z; Philip
Weaver, Company Z; w. w. Fl rrison, Com
pany r; Christopher Miller, Company +, all OF
the First Minnesota Infantry. The persons
named or their Leirs can secure the same by
proving property.
st. Peter special: Patrick Noore, who has
been a resident Of this and lie Sueur counties
for the past thirty years, was found lying
on the floor OF his shanty Wednesday morn.
Ing dead. He was a bachelor and had ala avs
lived alone. II is supposed he died OF apo
plexy. He was "a years old, and has no rela-
tives In this country. Report Gays he has
willed his property to the Catholic church,
which consists OF $500 In cash and 24) acres OF
land over the river in lie Sueur county.
Henry Ruhberg, an old and much-respected
citizen Of Kasson, attempted to commit suicide
by shooting himself with = revolver. lie en-
tered the blacksmith shop Of Andrew B0her,
formerly occupied by himself, and while oil In
the chop were busy, placed the deadly weapon
to his head just behind the right ear end fired
It Is surprising that death was not instantane.
Gus. Mr.. Rubberg was about 90 years of age
and universally respected. 1t Is thought that
business aud family troubles had go weighed
upon him as 10 cause dependency, impellinR
the rash act.
As Mr.. Knute Bake, a well-to-do farmer,
living but q few miles north Of Kenyon, was
returning from Faribauit, his team suddenly
became frightened when crossing the rsilrosd
track north o. Kenyon aud started TO run
away. He got them under control, however,
and al vent well until he came within about a
mile Of his home, when his team sprang 20 run
again, throwing Mr.. Bake and his daughter,
who was with him, both out OF the wagon, two
Of the wheels passing over his head sod killing
him instantly. The probability ia that their
first jump threw both him and bis daughter of
their seats and they had no further control
over them. His daughter was not seriously
injured.