Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-01
Minnesota

lof prison LABOR the cOnyicts at saltwater
will be placed at work for the state.
A military company is being organized at
Chaska.
Incendiaries are abroad in the land near
Faribault.
The boys in Freborn county have only to
August % to take the bounty on pocket
g~ophers.
The borers for natural gas near Mankato
are now drilling In red granite and are salts
fed that gas cannot be found.
Charles Fiticld got out # bed In his
sleep at Preston last Wednesday night and
Tell down stairs sustaining serious ininr!es.
AT Winona All dogs have been licensed. A
good many have been killed or given to farm
ers to avoid the tax.
The ~artcsian well at Benson has reached &
depth OF Il little over 500 feet and they are
still drilling in solid rock.
The dates Of the Wright county far have
been changed to september 2J-2s. This is the
same week the Meeker county fair VIII be
held.
Farmers AZ Plckercl lake have lost alto
gether over 700 pigs and scores Of chickens
and turkeys which have been taken by
wolves.
The large dome on the Carleton college ob.
seryatory is now completed. 1t Is thirty feel
In diameter; Is made Of iron steel, and weighs
%, 900 pounds.
Arthur Howard, porter at the st. Louis no
tel at Crookstar, got tired Of living any more
and atteu pied suicide by swallowing the con
tents Of a bottle of laudanum. But he did
not quite succeed.
The Hokah Chief reports a large serpent or
fish in Lake Como and says 1t is AT least 100
feet long and that for twenty feet back of its
head large scales cover he body, some Of them
aslarge as hay scales.
An effort is being made to secure the free
delivery OF United States mails in Fairbault,
which under the law Is accorded ONLY to cities
OF 10000 population or whose postoflces do a
business exceedH 500 0 annually.
+. g.. Persons Of the town OF ST. Charles
was seriously injured by an infuriated bun a
Few days ago, He managed to crawl under a
oarbed wire fence and get away from the an
imal or he would have been killed outright.
Tie Red Wing IRE department viii not, in
all probability, contest for any Of the prizes
at the Minneapolis tx position. They do not
think the prizes large enough.
The Lake City Sentinel scys that II the
farmers bad sown more flax and less spring
wheat they would be In a. better frame OF
mind today and their pockets would feel bet.
ter after threshing. 1t is a crop that never
The Evangelical praying band from Mime
apolis is composed OF six members, three la
dies and three gentlemen. AT Alden and
FREEDOM, where they have been working the
past few weeks 120 souls have been CON
verted.
Mrs. d. B. Davis, at Dodge Center. found a
large lattlesnake among the peanut shells ]
hat the children kad left in the grass
n the yard by the house only a few
minutes before. He was at once dispatched
and found to have five fun grown ~ratsle.,
With q sixth started.
w. u. Ladd, the prohibition lecturer of st. :
Paul, held a meeting in Montgomery under
circumstances There was no pro-
ahIi LlOsL ~ luc dLlltnct {
vent out frequently TO drink. A tin pan I
acket Wa kept up outside, and articles of
'alue were stolen from his buggy.
The gas company now has a Well about $50
deep at their location near Freedom. and :
work is still progressing. 1t is intended to I,
'ush things until 1000 feet at least are !
cached, unless Gas lie large quantities is J
'ound sooner. {
The Bell PLANE Herald says the extensive l
packing and Strengthening houses in st. Paul
will rovolutionize the pork market Of the state F,
md slaughtered hogs will not in the future !
,e the feature which they have been In the !,
)ast. >
One day last week $500 and valuable papers q
we're taken from the Office safe OF H.. T. Bev- t
ms at Morris. George b. ~Spooner, who had {
,een doing some work in the office, was ar |
and confessed the theft.
The Taylor's Fall News says OF the destruc- :
ion Of the Lutheran churcA at Center City BY q
that the massive bell that hung In n
he tow IS totally destroyed, being a mass of $
Id metal. All that could be seen Of the /
organ was a few bolts and pi, ees Of {
ron. The organ cost about 81 400. /
Though a heavy crop, hay Is likely to be no :,
than last season, says the Litchfeld /,
Independent. A great portion OF the marsh .
lay seems destined to remain uncut on ac- !
cunt Of high water, besides which thousands c
Il tons cut during tie past ten days has been '
'adly Injured or destroyed by the wet T
!
The idea that chinch bugs had been de- :
by the long cold rains Of esrly spring /,
reeves 70 have been y mistake, saws the Fari-
Democrat. They are just as lively and c
as ever, and having disposed of the /
pring wheat are now after tie corn. It IL [
cry evident that growing spring wheat must |
e discontinued in this section for q few years. |
Last sunday a number OF boys ranging In !.
ge from II years 10 - were seen coming .
Iome from Lake Charlotte more or less in = a
tate of intoyication. one carried a faucet I
to a beer keg and another had the f
1ugs, while still another had to be assisted f
v hi. comrades to keep him in a perpendicu
ar position. We have heard that such pro |
eedings have been carried on for some time, :
the Long Prairie Argus. .
Reports OF the condition Of the spring /,