Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-11

SIstpt.
Two horses died from sunstroke at Mankato
Friday.
The woods and meadows about Atkin are
burning.
There were thirty births In ST. Paul on TIE
list inst.
The steamer A. Booth was wrecked off Du
luth Friday.
Gen. Logan was entertained at Minneapolis
Thursday.
Work on the harbor OF refuge at Lake City
has been postponed.
Winona experienced a slight shock of earth
quake on Wednesday.
There are l,6l5 voting preciacts in the state
as establish ed for 1886.
The Rochester council has been e~njoined
from erecting water works.
w. ii. lIohl Of Hokah, has been arrested
charged with stealing a horse from John
Green.
An unknown tramp attempted TO outrage
Mrs. Bengt Anderson, who lives near Itch
field.
The real estate dealers Of the state will meet
at Morris on the 18th OF September to form a
state association.
II. W. Brown and II. b.. King, jewellers, do
ing business at 81. Charles, had a fight in
which Brown got his nose broken.
Frost fell at Austin Tuesday morning. Corn
is ripe and little damage was done. Al Roch-
ester it was nearly cold enough TO form ice.
Sunday night the store Of l.. A. Maltby,
postmaster OF Button, was broken into, the
safe blown open, and Sis, cash and stamps,
distracted.
James Henderson, a colored boy, Is under
arrest for stealing S342 from the safe of Row
land Reese and 1892 from William Hamlin at
Mankato.
The National Greenback county convention
has been called to meet at Austin Thursday.
September 9, the same date as the Prohibition
convention.
Charles Thompson committed suicide a: Wi
mona Monday. The day before he stole a
horse near Galesville, and it is thought fear
Of detection caused him TO take his life.
A siyteen-year-old boy named Lariamber,
near Fairmont, accidentiy shot himself through
the abdomen with a revolver. He will die.
He ran home, half a mile, after being shot.
The Rochester Post will be published AS a
daily on the four principal days Of the South
crn Minnesota fair-Tuesday, Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday, September II, Is, Is
and II.
Frank Clark seriously stabbed William Shaw
on a farm near MoOrhead. Both men were
members of the threshing crew. Shaw had
previously worsted Clark in a fist fight. Clark
is at large.
The Sunday schools of Mower county hold a
mass picnic at the county fair grounds, Aus
tin, on Wednesday. Excursions vii, be run
from Grand Meadow and other points, and
speakers from abroad will be present.
While a tiftcen-year-old son Of Mr.. w. III.
Matthews, of Custer, was cleaning a sulky
pillow he was kicked by a horse on the arm,
driving a knife through his throat back Of the
windpipe. His recovery is very doubtful.
A farmers convention for the Forty fifth
legislative district, To nominate candidates
for senator and representative, will be held at
Warren, September 2sth. The Norman county
farmers will meet at Ada, on September 18th,
to nominate a county ticket.
\ remonstrancc Is being circulated among
the business men Of Rochester PRAYING the
council not to close any contract for water
works at present, a. in the Judgment of the
petitioners no water supply is needed.
Half Of Kittson county was out fighting
prairie fires Tuesday and Wednesday. and the
village of Hallook was all excitement, the fire
approaching from the southwest, and the
town was in great danger until the wind
changed about 4 o'clock of the second day.
Much damage was lone in the county, but no
estimate can be made.
The body of John King, an old resident of
Hastings, was found Wednesday by parties
out hunting, three miles south OF there in a
corniield, where he had been working. II il
, presumed that he was overcome by the IN
tense heat last Friday, when he was last seen.
Decomposition had set in when found. He
leaves a family and several small children.
The coroner concluded that an inquest was
unnecessary.
The writ of prohibition issued by the ST..
pTcHlc court 10 restrain inc county CDllllIlls'
sioners Of Wadena county from ordering an
election upon the question Of the removal OF
the county seat has been discharged, and the
commissioners will meet on Wednesday, Sep.
tember |, for the purpose of granting a hear.
ing TO the petitioners. If it is decided that a
majority OF the legal voters and freeholders OF
the county have signed the petition the elec.
ton will be ordered.
Auoka is considerably excited over a daring
srobbery that occurred at the Manitoba depot.
Mr.. o. w. Young, the agent, after finishing
his monthly report and closing his business
for the day, placed the money, S599.9 o., in the
safe, locked ii and left for home. Wednesday
morning, upon returning &c the station, he
went to unlock the safe 3ud found the comb
nation set and that the bolt turned in his
hand. Upon investigating further he found
the papers and money gone, and no clue 10
the daring cracksman whe had made off with
the swag.
An unknown man about fifty years OF age
left Rochester on the $50 passenger train Sat.
urday and rode as far as Chester. where be
got of the train and spent the evening. IL
was boisterous and gave his name as John
Smith. Late in the evening he started up the