Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-17
MINNESOTA.

HlUc.
The new directory OF Minneapolis shows
49, 70 names.
There are eight alliance organizations in
Waseca county.
st, Cloud Is enjoying a magnificent Inn
provement boom.
digging snake root.
The Sleepy Eye Sons Of Veterans have
formed a drum corps.
Mrs. Margaret Brady, Of Spring Valley, has
been granted q pension.
The Brainerd journal died last week, aged
two months. No lowers.
VIC. Harrington of Nunday, was drowned
while bathing on Friday.
A one armed man recently packed 10000
shingles in ten hours at Anoka.
A gang OF wheat thieves has been unearthed
by the Moorhead chief Of police.
Clay and Cass counties are said to have the
best stands OF wheat in the state.
John Timens was recently murdered In a
house Of prostitution at st. Cloud.
A particular green worm is stripping the
foliage from trees about Hendrum.
The Daily Journal, Of Brainerd, has sus-
pended after running two months.
William Harrington, Of Albert Lea, was
drowned In Linn creek on Saturday.
w. w. Boswell was the name Of the man
shot by Henry Bowers at Toward Lake, Tues
day.
The corner stone OF the new Catholic Or
phan asylum, at Minneapolis, was laid Sun
day.
Sanford votes this week on a proposition to
issue S., 800 in bonds to aid the new railroad
in securing right-of-way.
A destructive hail storm last week passed
over about the eastern portion Of Todd coun-
ty, doing 30 per cent. damage.
The conversion OF the Preston Democrat in
to n Republican organ leaves Fillmore county
without a Democratic paper.
A store belonging to John McGinty, of Wa
verify, was destroyed by fire Wednesday morn
ing. Loss, 81 200; insurance, 81 200.
The Freedom Norwegian Evangelical Luth-
eran congregation &c LIBERATED the twenty fifth
anniversary OF their organization at Albert
Lea Friday,
Bracket & Co. Of Granite Falls, sold 700
head of cattle to Iowa parties last week for
$25, 900. 1t is the largest sale ever made in
that section.
A son OF Xavier Brainner Of West Newton,
NieDllett county, aged nine years, was
drowned In the Minnesota river Monday eve
ming while bathing.
Marshall county farmers have spent a deal
Of money for drainage, and are rejoicing over
Ia. organization of the Red River Valley
Drainage association.
l.. o. Tollerson, of Nedalia, was fatally in
jured recently by being struck by a bucketf full
Of dirt which fell from the mouth Of q well to
the bottom, where he was at work.
Rev. G, A. Hampton, who recently resigned
the pastorate Of the Presbyterian church at
Rochester, expects To remove to Macalestar
station, near st. Paul, in the fall.
LA young woman of Austin, whose character
Is not Of the best, was recently visited by a
delegation OF forty prominent ladies, who gave
her two days in which to leave the commun-
it,.
The grading on the Pelican Rapids branch
Of the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
railroad has been begun on the north end of
the route, in the Town of Maple Bay, in Polk
county.
Lyman Meads, q lightning-rod peddler from
Minneapolis, fell down stairs al Basscrt's
hotel, in Anoka, on Friday and produced con-
cussion of the brain, from which he died
shortly after.
Ao Tnk, r,gr,n ~ Knlanr ,n, u.;.., ~ IL.
a barn raising a few days ago, a falling tim
Der struck him breaking his leg in two places.
He Is over seventy years Of age, and the in
jury is a serious one.
Miss Lille Gale, a school teacher in Edner
district near Hutchinson, proved herself a
heroine one dark night last week by riding
alone eleven miles during a driving storm in
search Of a physician for a dying friend.
Ortonyille is all torn up over a sensational
elopement case. A Mrs. Bonticon, and Ed
ward L. Foreman, a married man, left for the
east together on Wednesday. The deserted
pletely Frustrated.
A well-dresscd man appeared at the Green
Bay hotel in Winona, Friday morning, carry
ing a baby, which he requested the landlady
to hold a few minutes until he went down
after his wife. He has not vet returned, and
the little stranger IL being cared for by stran-
gers.
Mrs. Mutzler, Of Perham, on Tuesday morn
ing arose to discover the whereabouts of her
children, whoa ahe had sent to make a fire, as
she was sick, and not finding them in the
kitchen she presumed that something direful
had happened TO them, and running out into
the yard sne fell dead from fright. The III
dren had gone to milk the COW.
A terrific storm ragged through the southern
part of Wright county, commencing on Sat
urday night and continuing TIL Sunday morn
ing at I O'Clock. Mr.. Erdmann, q German
aged about 20 years, was killed. The house
In which he lived was shattered to pieces,
and the lightning which passed through bis
body blackened his remains as II they had
been charred By the fire. The house Of Johu
Quinn, Jr., OF Wavefly, was steuck, knocking
of the chimney and wrecking the building.
The lightning struck a few feet from Mr..
Quinn, but no one was hurt Wheat Is badly
lodged where it is heavy, but the crop being
generally light stands tolerably well.
New Richland special, July Z: At about Z
O'Clock last evening Henry Young, a respect
able young mar Of this place, deliberately