Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-20
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Anoka is to have a new boot and shoe fac
tory.
Scandinavian newspaper is TO be stxYte ! at
Warren.
Three new railroads will be built into Man
kato this year.
A calf without eyes Is the wonder Of the vi.
cinity OF Amboy.
Owatonns capitalists are talking of building
a new opera house.
A new postofice named Fremont has been
created In Wioons county.
Rev. Fl. W. Brown, the Evangelist, received
1862 for his labors at Mortified.
The cornerstone Of the ladies' boarding hall
at Owatonna will be laid In q few days.
The Manitoba restaurant at Sank Center
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, 4OO.
Farmers in Lac OUT Parle county will open q
cooperative produce exchange at Watson.
The corner stone OF q new school building
to cost $50, 100 is 10 be laid In June at Shat
tuck.
So far this winter about II, 900, 900 feet Of
iuulucE uoNc bCtu U1Ahcu Ou tuc uIluustCLc
river.
Traverse county farmers are preparing to
organize an alliance In every tow In the
county.
A company with capital OF $4,000 will
soon begin the manufacture OF harvesters at
Fddley.
The Mansion house at Hastings has been
closed on account Of all attachment against 1t
for debt.
The bicycle club of Winona gave a ball
Tuesday night, the last until the Lenten sea-
son is over.
A strike OF Minneapolis street car men has
been averted by the companies granting an in
crease of wages.
The general store OF Sommermeyer & Hue.
bener, at Marietta, burned. Loss not known
insurance, $4,000.
-Four thousand eight hundred and sixty.two
books were taken from the st. Paul public
library during February.
By an act of Congress the name Of the Ma
tional Bank of Winons is TO be changed ID the
First National Bank Of Winona.
The Thompson boys were sentenced at Fair
mount to one years Imprisonment for placing
an iron rail across q railroad track.
No-llcense towns Are being flooded with cir
culars from Chicago houses urging the intro
duction of rock and rye compounds.
A st. Paul capitalist is trying to organize q
$50, 900 stock company for the purpose OF
bringing to Wilmsr a large clock factory.
Rev. Mr.. Shutter, pastor Of q Baptist church
at st. Paul, has Withdrawn from the denomi-
Gus views.
Charles Moldenhsuer, an employe at Simp-
sons mill In Owatonns, committed suicide on
| Sunday morning, March Z. He was very in
temperate.
Propositions are under consideration By the
Luverne board OF trade for the establishment
OF a silk factory at that place, a TX mill and a
clock factory.
All the property recently owned by the Lit
tie Falls Live Stock company has been decided
In trust to s. B. Mcconnell, OF the st. Paul
Trust company.
The real name Of Clarence Gray, who was
hanged 10 Nevada last week, is believed To be
Isham Collins. His relatives are said to be
wealthy and to live in Minnesota.
A gentleman living near Edgerton has been
very successful In some experiments with
blue grass, and thinks Minnesota will soon
equal Kentucky as a blue grass country.
Charles soderland, employed in the Pelican
Roller mills at Elizabeth, was horribly
mangled yesterday while oiling machinery.
His right arm will probably have to be ampu-
tated.
A special land agent has been through the
towns OF Belle Prairie and Fort Ripley, ard
recommends the cancellation of sixty. five
homestead entries. Patents granted six years
ago are now placed in dispute.
The gross receipts of the postofice at st.
Paul for the year 1886 were $lS7, 957 "a, and Of
Minneapolis $lS6, COS, 81. There are only
eighteen postofices IN the state whose gross
receipts were In excess OF S5,CC0.
The board of trade of Hokah decided by Q
unanimous vote to offer q bonus OF from 81
900 to IS, 900 to any person or persons who
should establish at that place a manufacturing
business requiring a capital Of from $4,000 to
$50, 900.
Miss Minnie Johnson has accused ID. A.
Webb, Of Brainard, with the paternity of her
unborn babe, accomplishing her ruin by prom
ise OF marriage. On Monday Webb was mar
rled to another young lady, and he is now
spending his honey moon In durance.
The city council Of Winona on Monday even
ing unanimously decided in favor Of the estab-
lishment of a free public library. THIS is q
preliminary step to the transfer Of the large
and valuable collection Of books now In the
possession o; the Library association.
By the premature discharge OF a blast a few
days ago, Gus Johnson, a laborer employed
on the Chicago, Burlington ~ Northern works
above Hastings, will lose the sight Of both eyes
and probably the use Of both hands. His Eyes
and face were filled with powder and dirt, and
the flesh was blown from his hands, leaving
the bones bare n places. He was taken 10
Mtnneanolis for treatment.
The citizens along the line OF the proposed
Austin, Maakst) ard st. Cloud road do not
regard the APPOINTMENT OF w. NJ. Campbell ~