Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
MINNESOTA.

ling rooms In that city.
The Catholics Of Winona celebrated the
pope's jubilee Saturday.
AT st. Paul, Saturday, the cable line was In
operation for the first time.
The elevator at Ada containing 10000 bush
els Of wheat was destroyed by fire.
There were twenty-five sacks Of mail handled
ut the Pipestone Office last Monday.
Hans Wallin and Andrew Weston have been
adjudged insane and sent to st. Peter.
A severe snow storm prevailed pretty much
all over Minnesota Friday and Saturday.
Nicholas Larson had a finger crushed while
at work with the steam shovel at Oncota.
H.. n. South was on Saturday appointed city
marshal Of Wabasha, vice Samuel Myrictus,
resigned.
Duluth Is talking of establishing coal docks.
A fifty foot lot in Duluth was recently sold
for $500 per front foot.
The Improvements in South st. Paul for
the year just closed foot up the surprising
amount Of s., ISL $50.
Six lots in st. Paul recently sold for 81 CO.,
COO. a portion of the property is that upon
which the Ryan hotel is situated
Judge Croft has sentenced Sam Stevenson
to seventeen years Imprisonment at hard la
Dor for assaulting Lulu Espy.
Judge Seaule, at Fergus Falls, has sentenced
Eugene Lucy, the murderer of J. NJ. Gates,
at Henning, to states prison for life.
The Grow wing cooperative farm is de-
clared a failure and the mill has been sold
under foreclosure. Quarreling did the mis-
chief.
The Pipestone Baptists have just got the
basement Of their new church completed.
They are using it for sociables and church
gatherings.
Forty-siy passenger trains arrive at and de-
part from Duluth daily, exclusive OF special
and irregular trains. The total FIR the year
is rs, 100 trains.
A special election will be held at Luverne
January al to vote on the proposition to issue
bonds Of the village of Luvernc for the cree
ton Of a city hall.
Tim Barrett was convicted OF the murder
of Tollefson. The jury was out three hours.
II was mainly upon his own brother's testi-
mony that he was convicted.
nj. +. Mortimer, whose hotel was destroyed
by fire at Minneapolis a few weeks ago, has
made an assignment. His assets are set
down at s97, 800; liabilities, $40, l73.
From August | to December /, Ellsworth
parties shipped 337 ears OF grain, IL ears of
stock and ii ears Of hay. They also shipped
during the same time 5000 pounds Of butter.
The whole town of Hadley is out searching
Tor Mr.. AbransOn, IA prominent merchant of
that place. He disappeared Wednesday, and
nothing has since been heard or found OF
him.
ThcJordan Independent has changed hands,
w. +. BOSNIAN selling his interest in the
Journal to j. {. Kelley, brother of the editor,
and the paper will in the future run under
the firm name of Kelley Bros.
The sample room of F. NJ. Low and the Ste
venson foundry at st. Cloud were burglarized
Saturday night. A large number Of tools are
missing from the foundry, the securing of
which seems to have been the object Of the
thieves.
The board Of county commissioners of
Wabash organized for the year by ~elccting
Jacob Tenny, of Wabasha, chairman. Only
two liquor licenses, both in the village OF
Elgin, were issued. Last year there were
nine.
l.. j. Bertha died Wednesday at his home
in Winona of consumption. He was forty
two years of age. Mr.. Bertha was appointed
TO a position in the pension department at
Washington in 1886, but was compelled to
give up his position last spring on account OF
III health.
The Golden Nugget minstrel troupe, which
was organized at Rochester on Monday eve
ming of last week, disbandcd at Red Wing
Wednesday, being unable to pay expenses.
The mayor was obliged to furnish several Of
the member Of the troupe with tickets to st.
Paul.
Wednesday evening at s o'clock fire was dis
covered in Weaver's shoe shop at Barnesville.
The building, with contents, burned to the
ground and was a total loss, estimated al
$1,000. The printing office of r.. j. Taylor,
adjoining, was also consumed. Loss, about
1920; insurance in both cases unknown.
The fire started by an explosion of a lamp in
Weaver's store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philo B. Palmer, of Winona,
celebrated their thlrtieth wedding anniversary
Wednesday evening, about fifty couples being
present. Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer were married
in Winona on the evening Of January 3, 1853,
and were among the first couples welded In
Winona. A number OF old settlers who at
tended the wedding were present Wednesday
evening.
At a special term the district court
held at Fergus Falls a motion was
made for a new trial In the case
Of Eugene Lucy, convicted OF murder In
the second degree. Judge Searlc, after hear
ing the argument, denied the motion and sem
fenced Lucy to state prison for life. The
crime for which Eugene Lucy receives a life
sentence Is the killing OF James Gates at q
dance near Henning, that county.
An apparent thief OF youthful appearance,
who claims to hail from Milwaukee, has been
arrested at L.anesboro for a few petty burglar
les committed in the neighborhood. He Is
supposed TO be the man who entered a num-
Der OF stores in Preston Of late, and was fred
on by an employe in a store in Preston. He
returned the fire and fed. He went to Jail In
default of $500 bail to await the next term Of
court. He gave his name as James Young.