Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-22

andria next month.
John Lindquist's house at Anoka was
burned on Thursday.
Sprouts Of corn have made their appearance
In Blue Earth county.
The Omstead ounty school teachers have
organized an association.
Mayor Porter OF Rochester would like to 10
. candidate for congress.
Ginseng gathering has become q profitable
business aiound GAINESVILLE.
The establishment Of q government fish
hatchery is talked of 1t Duluth.
Winona has perfected arrangements to
build O 800, 900 hotel this summer.
William NJ. Campbell has been confirmed
United States marshal Of Minnesota.
Anew line Of ELF vators is to be built along
the railroad In Lac qui Parle county.
Tramps and Migrants VINO stray to Ovation
ma are given employment by the city.
L. 8. Cuttin will build the largest hotel In
southwestern Minnesota at Plpestone.
The streets of Owatonns are to be lighted by
electricity for $40 per light per month.
The farmers alliance are considering the
opening Of o general store at Sleepy Eye.
Hall ard rain did SOM damage to growing
small grain the other day In Freedom county.
Anthony Hsrty and Luke Sturm, Of Barnes
Vile, have invented a locomotive spark ar
roster.
Ortonville, on the Big Stone lake, has been
selected as the place for the summer epcsmp-
ment OF the Grand Army boys this year.
The store OF c. FL. Kicker, of Excelsior, was
entered by burglars, Tuesday night, the safe
was blown open and 81 1000 in money taken.
The Albert Lea council has raised saloon IL
censes and the keepers refuse to pay the rise.
The question will probably be decided by the
courts.
The prohibitionists of r )ck county will hold
q convention to select delegates to the state
prohibition convention to nominate state Off
GERS.
Mrs. Sophia Mathiason, OF Pennington, was
adjudged insane Thursday by the Judge OF
probate and committed to the Rochester asy-
lum.
Grace Episcopal church, destroyed by the
tornado at Sank Rapids, will be rebuilt soon.
About one thousand dollars has been raised
for the purpose.
The delinquent tax sale In Dakota county
amounted to about %, 800, about everything
being sold. X. g. Jefferson Of st. Paul was
the principal purchaser,
The street car drivers at Winona struck FOX
increased pay, the first OF the week. The ma
jority CT the strikers returned to work at the
old price, on Wednesday.
A man who gave his name as Howard De
Witt, from Window, inn, committed sal
eide by poisoning near Grafton, Neb. He was
about nineteen years OF age.
DR.. John Knaus OF Moorhsad was thrown
from his wagon during a runaway WedDcs-
day. He alighted on his head, receiving Sc
we're cuts and internal injuries.
The school directors OF Martin township,
Rock county, have decided to build q cyclone
cellar to furnish q place of safety for the
scholars In time OF wind storms.
Price Peterson, found guilty Of an assault
with intent to Kill j. G. Hickman, at Alex
andris, April 8, 1886, was sentenced to the
penitent!aIy at Saltwater for ten years.
Charles Ploof,oi Spring Valley, fell beneath
q construction train, four miles from that
place, on Thursday, and the wheels passed
over both legs. His injuries were fatal.
The Southern Minnesota Sheep Breeders
and Wool Growers association will hold q
! public shearing on the farm OF Milo Matteson,
near Eyota, on Tuesday, May 25, at 2 o'clock
p. n.
j. v. Brewer has sued his brother, W. c.
Brewer, for On interest In The Saul Center
Tribune, of which the latter claims to be sole
proprietor. The csse is In the United Ststes
court.
The stof m on Wednesday afternoon did i'm
mense damage to growing crops In the neigh
borhood Of New Ulm. A team was blown of
the bridge across the Cottonwood into the
river.
G. Young Of Cedsr Rapids, Iowa, has been
appointed by the trustees Of Jay Cooke &
Co., who failed In 1875, to sell 33, GOO acres of
Minnesota land at auction IN Chicago on May
20, 1885.
The Swodes ard Norwegtans working In the
gravel pit near Window on Monday struck for
81 so per day OF ten hours, or SIPS per day Of
eight hours. The men say they VIII lot let
any one else work unlf IS they get the wages.
1t is expected that Gen. Sanbcrn will be the
orator on Memorial day at Owatonna, for
which extensive preparations are being made,
the camp Of Sons OF Veterans, the company Of
state militia and the drum corps Of fifteen
members lining In the procession with the
post.
Henry Bomsta, of the Town OF Lake LILLIAN,
IN q ft OF delerium tremens hanged himself on
the 18th OF A,ril. SO many rumol s were ai )at
"a to the cause OF his death that the coroner
tx,umed the body or Thurday and aaother In
quest was held. I; was shown that his des.h
resulted as stated.
1t is thought that Steve Norman, n we'll
known farmer at Fergus Falls, has committed
suicide. His body was found on the fair
grounds Tuesday. A note founo lying nesr
him informed his wife that he felt uuwelI, and
hoped he would soou be better. He leaves a
Wife and two children. No wouDds were
found on his body, and 1t is supposed that he
swallowed poison.
The Stoux Falls Brewfpg company Ia intend.