Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-18
MINNESOTA.

a camp OF sons OF veterans Is being organ
lied In Rochester county.
he population OF Holt county.
The Toboggsn club OF Rochester has a
larger membership than last year.
The mercury in Pipe Stone county shrunk
to % degrees below on Wednesday.
The county commissioners at st. Paul are
talking Of selling a part OF the poor farm.
The Shakespeare club Of Rochester has re-
organized with q membership Of twenty-five.
The Norwegian Lutheran church, Roches-
ter, clearct ger go by the lecture last week.
At Red Wing, A. X. Helgslien, indicted for
burglary, was found guilty In the third de-
gree.
Sleepy Eye will undoubtedly add . brick
yard to it's numerous business enterprises In
the spring.
A Bohemian named Helgelion is In Jail AT
Red Wing fer attempting to influence a Juror
with whisky.
Hillstrand, who left st. Cloud two weeks
at Ashland, Wis.
Lester Sunderland, OF Minneapolis, won tho
prize for being the best speaker in the orator
ical contest at Owatonna.
The Lewiston council recently adopted an
ordinance forbidding oil persons from loaHng
about the railway depot.
Lyman l.. Lord, one of the oldest and most
respected citizens Of Austin, died Monday,
aged seventy-fve years.
st. Cloud citizens entertain a belief that be-
fore the year 1887 closes three new railroads
will pass through that town.
A. b. Poehler, son of Henry Poehler, of
Henderson, has taken charge of the Sibley
County Independent newspaper.
Frank Dixon, while coupling cars at st.
Charles, had his arm so badly crushed that
eight pieces of bone were taken out.
The 81. Paul chamber of commerce has su.
thorized its secretary TO secure the annual
statistics of the city for publication.
The ice on Lake Pepin will now average
about ten inches in thickness, and is being
crossed by heavily loaded teams.
The missionary society of the Congregation
al denomination spent $4,000 in aid Of the
deserving poor in this state last year.
The lumber cut at Cloquet during the past
season aggregates Sc, 200, coo feet of boards,
1000 900 Hath and q, 0OO, 600 shingles.
A committee has been appointed to secure
candidates for the vacant pastorate Of the
Congregational church at Lake City.
Arrangements have been made by C.. 8.
Randall whereby the Simmons refrigerator
will hereafter be manufactured In Winona.
A valuable colt belonging to Aaron Ander-
son, of Salem, ran against a pitchfork In the
stable and died from the effect Of the wound.
Rev. j. 5. Sheriff., for q number of years
pastor of the Litchfeld Presbyterian church,
has become editor OF a ST. Paul Presbyterian
paper.
AT the close Of the quarterly meeting Of the
Minneapolis Y. NJ. G.. A., Wednesday even
ing, the new gymnasium viii be formally
opened.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Winona Harvester company Monday
evening the old board Of directors were re-
elected.
The seventh incendiary fire OF the last few
weeks was discovered Monday night in . box
I'm John Salisbury's coal shed on Third street,
Winona. 1t was extinguished without an
alarm
The Winnebago Indians had a big pov-wow
Wednesday night on the island opposite Ho-
mers's. Three deer were eaten and a big dance
INDUCED in.
A son Of j. II. Bsuman, OF Springfield, while
handling a revolver, accidental y shot himself
through the head. The wound 1t is feared
will prove fatal.
The funeral Of James Edwards, the fireman
killed by the railroad accident at MILFORD Sid
ing, was held at the Congregational church,
Sleepy Eye, Sunday.
The Rochester premium list for the comm
poultry show includes a prize for the young
lady who will kill a pullet and put it in the
best marketable shape.
Mr.. Marshall, OF Atwater, has a dog, and
the dog upset a lamp which set the house or
fire, and the destruction Of the Louise was pre-
vented with great difficulty.
The new church of the Secsnd NJ. f. German
society, Minneapolis, was dedicated Oh Sun
day. The church starts clear of debt and with
$500 In the treasury.
The Phoenix Hook and Ladder company
Red Wing, arc making grand preparations fol
their annual mask ball to be given at tn
Casino, Wednesday evening, December 10.
A Women's Relief corps Of the g.. A. II. Il
being organized in Rochester and vicinity
The object of the association Is to afford re
| lief for the widows and orphans of soldiers.
The Sleepy Eye Lodge /. 0. o. f., No. SO
has elected the following officers; N. g., Ale,
Blanchard; v. g., Christian Anderson; sec
rotary, w. b. Hill; treasurer, Paul Jacobson
A couple of lawyers INDUCED in a fist dgh'
In Justice Wade's court at Fairmont the Other
day, but the good justice stopped the fight
though a little gore followed the 6rst round
The party of deer hunters who went up int
the norther2 part Of the state two weeks az,
from st. Paul and vicinity returned Monda
without any deer. The weather was too col
for the sport.
The Red river valley drainage conventieI
will meet at Crookston on Wednesday mex,
when reports will be read showing the entir
feasibility Of the plan Of drainage proposed b
the July convention.
The fire engine at Wells was frozen u
solid for several days, aud the Advocate wise
ly insists that this sort of thing should b
prevented, as the engiue might perhaps b
A uantpl for usp some AaV