Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-27


barn, granary and windmill by fire. Loss
5000.
The root TO the ~. Paul panorama buildin,
is completed and the structure is now %entirei,
enclosed
The warehousemen Of Sleepy Eye complain
that they cannot get cars for shippin!
wheat.
The water works company Of Rochester 1
is going 10 make an ~artesian well on land re
Gently purchased.
1t is under consideration TO extend 10 Min
nesota the free delivery service TO cities 0
10000 inhabitants.
A counterfeit union clgarmakers' label ha
appeared on the st. Paul market. It'll though
TO come from st. Louis.
Rev. J. ID. Nelsenius, Of Anoka, goes t.
Ashland, Wis, this week as pastor Of tn
Swedish Lutheran church at that place.
Miss Sophia Rosendahl died at Albert Lei
a few days ago from criminal NAL practice
The author of the crime has left the country
The Freeborn county commissioners at theil
recent session at Albert Lea, invited bids FOL
the construction of the proposed new cour
house.
The new roller mill at Pennington latel,
completed, owned by Jacob Leuf, has com
menced grinding. The mill cost sl2, 800, the
town giving a bonus OF $1,000.
John Eckman, Of Kasota, a foreman II
Breen's stone quarry, while on his way hom'
stumbled and rolled down the embankmen
into the Minnesota river and was drowned
Edgar Fronney, "A farmer near Friberg
Otter Tail county, while riding accidentally
discharged a gun loaded with bucsshot, tn,
charge entering his breast. He will probabl,
die.
A Milwaukee locomotive pt Pine Stone
struck the wagon attached tC a team driver
by Albert Huntley of that place, completely
demolishing the wagon and seriously ~iniurine
Huntley.
j. ID. Cottrell, a well-known member of the
Minneapolis bar, died Monday, after an i'll
ness of several days duration He was forty
five years old, and stood at the front rank OF
his profession.
Assistant United States Engineer Davenport,
is making an examination Of the Red river be
tween Moorhead and Fergus Falls, with a view
to the improvement OF navigation as well as
the establishment of reservoir systems at The
heads Of the two rivers.
The house Of j. Pappenfess, Ia st. Joseph
township, near st. Cloud, was burned to the
ground and the occupants barely escaped with
their lives. They took refuge in the granary
and were nearly frozen to death.
The district court at Mankato will be KEEP,
busy during the present term. The criminal
docket is very large. The trial Of Max Krolik
for attempting to burn the Mankato hotel Is
attracting a good deal of attention.
The following are the marriages of the week
at Anoka: George i. West, Of Wright county
to Miss Florence Holt, Of Anoka; Samuel
Ridge, Jr., to Miss Isah p. Gaslin; j. A.
Wright to Miss Mertie Tilton, and Joseph
Faherty to Miss Mary Murphy.
John Murphy. yardmaster of the Winona
q st. Peter railroad, in Winona, was knock.
ed dow by the cars and both legs cut of
recently. He cannot live. He has a wife
and three or four children. He was for two
terms an alderman from the first ward.
John Kelly, living ten miles southwest OF
ST. Charles, had a serious runaway, in which
his wife had both legs badly broken, one little
boy had his skull fractured, and another had
his collar Done and one arm broken. 1t Is
thought that the woman and one boy will
die.
Lake Park Golden Shcaf: The house OF
Ole Nygard caught fire and burned to tn,
ground, together with the furniture AND
household goods. They saved nothing ex
cept what clothing they had on themselves a
the time. There was but a small insurance
on the building.
Capt. Hays reports that the boats on the
upper Mississippi are preparing to go into
winter quarters. During the past season no
a single explosion or accident Of any kind
causing injury to the person or loss Of life OF
property has taken place. The total number
Of steamers inspected in the fifth district IL
PA.
Anton Landhauser, a fourteen-year-old
boy of Millerville, Douglass county, went UP
stairs in his house to smoke. There was a
keg of blasting powder in the room and it is
supposed he dropped the unextinguished
match into 1t. An explosion occurred, and
SO badly injured was the boy that he died
soon after.
Peter Holm, who resides In Lake Prairie,
was bur2c1 70 death Monday. His wife went
out &c &c the chores, and 1t is the supposition
that while size was out he vent TO kindle the
fire, and in som VA his clothes caught fire,
and before help reached him he was burned so
badly that he died In a very few minutes. He
was a blind man.
Mankato Review: TIL st. Peter Tribune Is
authority for the statement that the Omaha
company intends TO straightcn its road be-
tween st. Paul and Sioux City. We under
stand that distance and the stoppages Incl,
dent to crossing will be obviated by an ex.
change of tracks with the Chicago and North
western between Kasota Junction and st.
Paul.
Mrs. Barbara Pelwaka, probably the oldest
person in this state, died at the home of her
son in West Chatield. She would have been
LOG years Ola next March. Last winter she
brought in corn from the crib, shelled it and
fed it to the chickens quite regularly, In spite
OF the snow and extreme cold, and the present
season has tended a sorghum patch and helped
at corn husking in addition TO other work
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