Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-21
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and Is manifesting increasing vigor.
Owing to an overflow on the ice at Lake
Pepin, it Is not strong enough to permit teams
to cross.
The Herald says that the Duluth shipping
capacity will be increased this year by over
5000 tons.
According to a recent statement Of the city
comptroller, the bonded Indebtedness Of Du-
luth is s496, $50.
Rev. DR.. Smith who left the NJ. f.. church
to found a Peoples church preached his first
sermon on Sunday.
Last year Minneapolis had 375 more births
than deaths. The total number OF births was
2,793, and the deaths 2,41S.
A detachment OF the Salvation army under
the leadership of Maj. Fishblatt has com
menced its labors In Duluth.
Senator Davis has Informed the Duluth
chamber OF that he will introduce a
bill to make Duluth a port Of entry.
squatters are rushing to the government
land office recently opened in Cass county,
and fully 200 families have taken claims.
D'h. liaNhNt sulNlNitu III MlUupdDOliS on
Wednesday last. Want of employment and
despondency are assigned as the cause. II
used morphine.
T. j. Brayton, the Lake Park mailearrier,
abandoned his sleigh Saturday and came In
leading his team. He reports the snow terri
bic on the prairie.
Congressman Line has been unable to find
any charges OF file in the department at
Washington against Christianson, Of the
Redwood Fulls land office.
An abundance OF water has beo. found al a
depth of seventy-four feet at Adrian. A large
force pump will be applied and the well used
for extinguishment of fires.
The Wisconsin Central has given notice to
the Northwestern freight association of n re-
duction on rates for hard and soft lumber be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth of Is
cents per 100 pounds.
An ARRAY occurred at Marystown on New
Years day. Two factions of Low Dutch and
Rhinelanders got into a free fight, and Der
nard Heller, an innocent spectator. had his
skull fractured with a beer key. He cannot
live.
Andrew b. Johnson, OF Morris, who has
been suffering for years with dyspepsia.
attempted suicide by taking strychnine after
first successfully testing its power upon his
dog. The mans life was saved by prompt
medical treatment.
Bishop Ireland preached a very interesting
sermon on temperance at st. Paul last Sun
day morning and rccounted the good the
Father Mathew Temperance society had done
since its organization.
Lew II. Dodge, widely known among north
western railroaders, is dead, having been for
some time afflicted with pulmonary disease.
lie was formerly a Manitoba passenger con-
ductor, and subsequently on the Northern Pa
cific, having run the first train on the st.
Paul and Northern Pacific on the extension
OF the road from st. Cloud to the Northern
Pacific main line at Brainerd. He was, sew
eral years ago, married to Miss Julia Kennedy,
OF st. Paul, who died within a year of mar
riage. His relatives lived at Michigan City,
Indiana.
After the solemn services in the church of
st. Wenceslaus, of New Prague, on Sunday,
some 1000 persons gathered In Topka's hall
to bid adieu to Rev. Father ITCHY, the local
priest who started Manday for Europe. The
various societies OF the place. and also the
village board OF trade, presented the reverend
father then resolutions of esteem and good
wishes, and also a beautiful gold-headed
cane with "A Latin inscription. Father ITCHY
has been at New Prague seven years and dur
ing that time, has left many proofs Of his
zeal for religion, education and rood order.
He intends now to visit his aged parents in
Bohemia. and also to present Pope Leo XIII,
500 as a jubilee present from the New PRAGUE
congregation. He expects to return In about
tour months to his congregation. Rev.
Father Hanak, OF Wells, accompanies him to
Europe. Father ITCHY is well known in st.
Paul, having had charge of the Bohemian
congregation in that city for several years.
Speaking of the Minnesota high license law.
Governor McGi said: at is the solution of
the temperance question:: it's benefits are
already appreciated by the people, and it
would be impossible to change the high
license of Minnesota today He spoke of
the financial feature OF the Minnesota law as
one OF it's many admirable features, and criti-
cised with considerable severity the discrim-
ination OF the New York proposed law be-
tween beer and whisky, saying: ''They
annul the law beforehand. It is doubtful if
any one in the state IL better able to Judge of
the general effect Of this law with respect to
drunkenness than Bishop Ireland, and | have
therefore, quoted hin at some length" What
the operation OF this law may be in st. Paul 1t
Is OF course difficult to say. But the number
OF applications already made is misleading as
to the number of license which will be taken
out, from the fact that time yet remains for
the saloonkeepers to determine whether or
not they will continue to sell under the new
law. 1t Is probable that there will be more
than 800 licenses taken out in this city, where
heretofore there have been $50 saloons.
One hundred leading church people of the
Twin Cities were present at the meeting of
the Methodist Social union, in the parlors of
the Merchants Wednesday and Rev. J. +.
Smith,, OF the Central Park church, read a
paper entitled, "Woman's Political Rights"
which created . very lively discussion. AL
though the speaker did not advocate the
ballot as a right Of woman, the whole CUES