Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-18

twenty bushels to the acre.
The Goodhue county Prohibition conven-
ton meets At Zumbrota September 81.
Joseph Howard, one Of the pioneer settlers
Of st. Cloud, died Of dropsy September 8.
The September term of the district court
for Meeker county convened at Litchfeld on
Tuesday.
The Winona Independent company, with a
psid-up capital OF so, 600, has filed articles of
incorporation with The secretary Of state.
The Poles living in the vicinity Of Winona
have organized a company with a capital Of
$4,000, and will open a general merchandise
store.
The sta. e Institutions at Faribault, FOR the
deaf ana the blind opened on the 5. Both Of
these institutions open with a full attend.
ance.
A Minneapolis party offers TO erect a $50.
600 hotel at Winona for a bonus OF So, 800.
All but & 5000 of the amount required has
been raised.
A son OF Mr.. Fitzner, living near Winstead
lake, was thrown from his wagon on a pile Of
fence posts and fatally hurt, IT, team becom-
ing manageable.
Ellsworth has been made a freight division
Of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern road, and shops and a round house are
being built at that place.
4 burglar tried TO break into the house of
q. s. Hawkins, at Red Wing, Monday evening,
but was frightened away. No one out Mrs.
Hawkins was home at the time.
The residents of the village of Lakeside have
voted unanimously to incorporate, and the
matter will come before the county commits
sioners at their next session.
The Republicans Of the Seventh district, at
Fulda, nominated b. VI. Low for state repre-
sentative, to succeed b. w. Brown, recently
nominated for state senator.
During the past month there were thirty
five deaths in Duluth, against twenty-nine in
July. This was the largest number in the his
tory OF the place for a single month.
Miss Kate Field will lecture at the Grand
opera house, Rochester, on Saturday, on "The
Mormon Monster" for the benefit Of the Con-
gregational church's pipe organ fund.
Duncan, Gamble IL Co., Duluth, sold to
Hartford, Conn, parties for shipment there
SOC, 900 feet Of lumber, and TO Toledo parties
100000 feet. They will go forward by lake.
The fourteenth annual fair OF Meeher coun-
ty opened Tuesday under very unfavorable
circumstances, owing to the heavy rains that
have prevailed for several days, and were still
continuing.
Patrick Collins, aged eight years, was shot
In the abdomen at st. Paul by another boy
named Eolsom. The shooting was accidental,
but It shows the folly Of parents allowing chill
dren to have deadly weapons.
Company II, OF Litchfield, has purchased an
elegant silver water litter and goblet, which it
will offer as a prize at the rife contest be-
tween the First and Second regiments at Fort
Smelling next week.
A farmers convention for the Forty-fifth
legislative district, to nominate candidatesfo for
senator and representative, will be held at
Warren, September %. The Norman county
farmers will meet at Ada on September - to
nominate a county ticket.
The body Of an unknown man was found in
a clump Of willows in the northern part of
Cottonwood county one day last week. His
skull was crushed by a blow from an instru-
ment resembling II hammer. No clue to the
murderers.
Ole Olson, of Mazeppa, was robbed last
week of the sum Of 5000. The thief took out
a light Of glass, entered the window and took
the money from an old chest in which D It was
concealed. No trace Of the thief has been
found.
Al Rochester a number Of suits have been
brought against the city recently for damages,
Mrs. Hun!r,-rey claiming 1000 for injuries
sustained from a defective sidewalk. Three
suits for damages received at the recent Bear
creek bridge disaster aggregate $1,000.
The regular meeting of the board Of trade If
Red Wing was held Monday morning. A com
munication was received from saltwater in
regard to the proposed railroad from this city
to Duluth, that the citizens of that city would
be willing to cooperate with Red Wing in the
building Of such road.
Superintendent J. II. Lakey, Of Wahasha,
by building a dam from the Minnesota shore
to the lower side Of the p~ontoon drawbridge
of the Milwaukee road at Reeds Landing, has
succeeded in giving sufficient depth of water
at the draw for the largest boats. Where
there was but a few inches Of water there is
now a depth Of some thirty feet.
Frank O'Brien, a young and very popular
druggist in the employ of F. NJ. Cable Il Co.
and Ii. j. Spencer & CO., died Sunday morn
ING at the Brainerd sanitariun Of a compiled
ton Of brain and other diseases. The mother
and n brother arrived from FOND du Lac,
Wis, just at the last moments of conscious
pess, and will take the remain with them to
their Wisconsin home. The deceased leaves a
wide circle Of friends at Brainerd and also at
Milwaukee.
The water In the Chippewa and Eau Claire
Is rapidly receding to its normal stage, and In
q few days raft navigation Is expected to be
attended with the former difficulties expert
encei nearly all through the season. Lum-
bermen are anxiously awaiting the approach
and result OF the usual fall rains, which Is
nearly the usual time for putting in an ap.
peaiance, so tina some estimate can be made
Of the prospective log cut for the remainder of
the saving season.
Leech Lake special: The Northwest Indian
commission arrived at Leech Lake agency, via.
Brainerd, late Saturday night. The Indians
y oominu I'm from their amman spaLornnt