Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
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otto Carlson or hastings was taken TO the
insane hospital at Rochester last Tuesday.
A case Of diphtheria is reported IN Clinton
township, Rock county.
The new steam heating apparatus for the
| court house at Albert Lea is now In operation.
The Lutheran high school opened at Albert
Lea on the 1st inst. with appropriate exer-
cises.
The general store Of Reem q Snow In Cham
plin vas burglsrizcd Thursday night Of 80
In cash.
The orthodox ministers Of Minneapolis are
considering the university religious ques-
ton.
Mrs. Godfrey Boehmc, OF Minneapolis,
dropped dead at a fair in Turner hall last
Sunday evening.
j. w. Johnson's hotel at Anoka was de-,
stroyed by fire last Monday night. Loss,
$500; insurance, 1900.
Railroad Agent ruesdell gayea baked coon
aud squirrel pie banquet TO party friends at
Albert Lea Thursday night.
James Russell, a prominent farmer OF Rock
Dell township, Olmsted county, died last
Sunday at his home after a lingering attack
Of lung trouble.
Jacob Needer, Of Duluth, swallowed a dose
Of carbol!c acid last Monday by mistake. He
supposed that it was medicine, He died in
great agony.
James Lynn and Thomas French were con-
victed Of selling adulterated milk at Red
Wing. A motion for q new trial has been
made, on the ground that the verdict Is con
trary to law.
Interest is increasing in the chicken bust
ness at Winona. A number OF new and ex-
pensive poultry houses have been built there
this season, some Of them costing as high as
$500.
William Law, car inspector at saltwater for
the Omaha road, was severely burned about
the face ard head last Friday through the de-
f%ective working Of a gasoline stove which he
wcs Lighting IL a car.
Mrs. Bergman, who lives near Mantorville,
was riding In a wagon and in passing over a
bridge, by some means was tipped off the
seat onto the rocks below, breaking one wrist,
a jawbone, and causing internal injuries that
threaten TO terninste fatally.
Risky Barnett, proprietor Of the Peoples
theater at Duluth, became engaged in a dis
pute with Frank Hayes over some women and
Barnett pulled a gun aud shot the latter in
stomach. The bullet was extracted and the
wound is not considered dangerous.
Dave j. Thomas, % years Of age, while
working in a we'll rear Msnkato Thursday
yrya q r.n 49, - f~.i IL, -,n ,rn lou
cred, and when within twenty feet Of the top
Thomas let go and dropped to the bottom,
When the body was recovered life was extinct.
An Ellsworth correspondent writes the
Red Wing Republican: 1.-The entire family
of Abel Olson, living a few miles ont Of this
place were poisoned. One child Is dead and
the other members Of the family are In a
dangerous condition. Foul play is sus-
pected,"
Joseph Kospau, an old settler, aged %
years, living three miles west Of Fergus Falls,
committed suicide last Sunday. He built a
fire by the river bank, took the butt eft a
muz2le loading shot gan, stack the barrel into
the fire aud held the pther end against his
head until the gun exploded. He was killed
instantly.
Ed Regan, Of Deer Creek, made a bold al
tempt to steal & horse attached to 8 sulky
which was hitched on the streets OF 81. Cloud
Thursday afternoon. He jumped into the
sulky aud drove up street. John Hileter,
coming up the street a few moments later,
failed 10 find his animal where he left 1t, and
looking around saw the outfit going up street
on the dead run. He called to q policeman,
and the two gave chase Immediately with the
! chief OF POLICIES buggy, and after an exciting
race of half a mile captured the thief.
Thursday night between 2 and 3 o'clock
the postofice at Anoka was broken into and
robbed of $ll.4 In stamps and money. Sew
eral hundred dollars in currency and stamps
would have been taken from the safe had not
the robbers been frightened and taken to
their heels. As it was they drilled a hole 10
the safe but did not succeed in blowing it
open. Their mode OF entrance was through
q sky light in the roof. The sSylight was
protected by large iron bars; these were pried
apart far enough to admit the body CT a man,
and ne slid down to the floor On 8 clothes
line. He leaned out the money drawer and
then tackled the safe, when the police APP
peared on the scene, but, finding the building
locked and everything quiet, they moved
away, when the burglar or Burglars made
themselves scarce through a back window.
No clew to the thieves has been obtained.