Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
MINNESOTA.

Inc county Ixlr ~ 81, reter, Nlcouel couh-
ty, was largely attended. The display Of stock
VAS never before equaled.
The wedding OF Miss Libbie Williamson OF
Owatonna and Charles Blair OF Minneapolis Is
announced to take place early in October.
The free excursion train from Wilmar to st.
Cloud, asst Saturday, consisted OF eighteen
ears and q locomotive and brought over 1900
people.
The newly erected Catholic seminary at
Waseca will be ready for occupancy about the
18th Of September. The teachers are all from
Philadelphia.
about sixty members Of the Milwaukee
Leiderkranz, Including a dozen ladies were en-
tertained by the Minneapolis Harmonic
society last Saturday.
A harvest home festival for the parish Of
the Good Shepherd was held at the cathedral
Of Our Herciful Savior, Faribault, last Thurs.
day evening.
II. j. ONeiil, of Winona, sold 100, 900 bush
els OF barley Tuesday to Baltimore maltsters.
This is the largest sale Of barley by sample
ever rIadc In the west.
A. drunken man was assaulted at Breckin-
ridge Thursday by one OF his comrades rad
robbed Of s25. The robber escaped to Dakota.
U1icers are in pursuit.
A fire OF mysterious origin was discovered
Sunday morning beneath the rear stairway of
the Richardson block, Minneapolis, but was
~eItinguished with small loss.
The w. c.. T. L. state convention will be
held at Faribault, commencing Sept. IA, con
tinuing four days. Mrs. Caroline Buell. will
deliver an address Tuesday evening.
Messrs. f.. A.. and l.. S. Bean, proprietors
Of the Polar tar mills at Faribault, have
eased the Big Diamond mill at Norristown.
John Kenney, a halter from Oshkosh, was
attacked in an alley in Minneapolis on Sun
day morning. He was struck on the head by
a blunt instrument inficting a serious wound.
The Owatonua cornet band and the Parlor
orchestra will consolidate this winter, and
organize with the Home Dramatic clut for
the purpose OF giving a series Of entertain
ments.
F~arnsworth, who was shot recently at the
Merchants in ST. Paul, was a former resident
of Owatonna, and u brother OF H.. Farms
worth, baggageman at the Northwestern
depot.
Mr.. Paul Westerman, managero OF the North
western Bottling company, has taken into
partnership Mr.. Christ Lenmann Of Cincin-
natl, Ohio. The company has leased the Voltz
building, Faribault.
Loui Larson, ten years old, son Of Peter
Larson, OF Hastings, while seeking shelter in
a storm behind q heavy box, was instantly
killed, the box blowing over onto him and
crushing his skull.
At Window, on Saturday, A. l.. Miles was
instantly killed by the explosion OF a steam
threshing boiler. The engine was torn to
atoms. Miles was an Odd Fellow, Workman
and a member Of the G. A. +.
The residence of Street COMMISSIONS p. G..
Fogclstrom, in Southeast Brainerd, with its
contents, was burned to the ground Sunday.
The loss is about 81, 800. There is no iusuc-
ance. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Floritine Lintz went to Wabasha from Por-
~teryille, Wisconsin, after his newly welded
wife, to find that she had eloped with Fred
Middelsorf. She is a daughter Of Henry
Funk, who lives in Glasgow, Wabasha county.
The body Of an unknown man, badly de-
composed, was found near Pratt's place, two
miles west of Red Wing on Sunday by a
hunter. On the clothes were a picture, comb,
pocketboook and a receipt, dated Zumbrota,
from c. Hill to p. Reichtman.
Irf~l4 la.l. 49,, A.. -. ..o-;nol =. %
tend the band tournament at Red Wing,
Wednesday, September 20, namely; Cannon
Falls, Mazeppa, Vas, the Gate City and Fakir,
of Winona; the Harmonic, Of Lake City, and
the Ellsworth and Rochester bands.
As workmen were sinking a weldon the
farm of j. p. Dibble, a few miles south OF
Rochester, they came upon som timber
twenty-four feet below the surface. The tree
was several inches in diameter, was well pre-
served, and was overlaid by several feet in
depth OF dark soil.
A heavy thunder shower with a magnifcen,
electric storm passed Rochester a little before
midnight Thursday night. Three-fourths OF
an inch OF rain fell, accompanied by a smart
sprinkling Of hail. An ominous roaring was
heard during the passage Of the storm, but nc
damage was done about the city.
AS Deacon James \. Cook vas attending
services at the Congregational church in Aus
tin Sunday evening he was taken with a
stroke of paralysis. He was quickly removed
to a neighbours house, but lost consciousness
in fifteen minutes and died at IL 80. He was
sixty. five years old. He moved to Austin in
1857, when there were only six or eight houses
there.
A Republican county convention will meet
in Owatonna On Saturday, October =, to put
In nomination a full county ticket, including
a state senator and member Of the house, and
a commissioner for each district in the coun.
ty. The caucuses to select delegates to this
convention will be held Friday evening, Octo-
Der /, at 7 o'clock. Owatonna is entitled to
twenty-one delegates.
Fred Reichtman, of Pine Island, was called
to Zumbrota by a telegram to identify the re
mains Of a man found dead on Brecht's farm
in Hay Creek, supposed to be those Of his
brother, Peter Reichtman. The body is badly
dccomposed, but Mr.. Reichtman thinks 1t is
that Of his brother from a photograph and
pocketbook found in his clothing. Peter,