Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-29
MINI ESOTA.

The forbidden slingsho. IL again the rage
aan ong the small boys at Worthiugton.
The Republic says that people In Jackson
COUNTY refuse s25 per acre for lake shore
property.
4 society il being organized In Duluth for
the prevention Of cruelty to animals and
children.
Fox the first time in their history the -four
mills in lie Sueur and The Minnesota valley
Will beunable to get a hone supply OF wheat
for the wear.
The Sank Rapids Sentinel learns that there
are a numbcr OF farmers on Rich Prairie who
nave wheat in their granaries OF the crop Of
three summers gone.
The Star sass that the bright outlook for
building and real estate business next season
ia Pipcstonc continues 20 grow. 1t advocates
the revival Of a chamber of
The chinch bug which afflicted Beliyidere
and vicinity have mysteriously disappeared
during the past three weeks. No effort VIII
be made to discover their whereabouts.
There have been sixty-four births and fifty
six deaths IN Rochester since the list of Janu.
airy or eight months. Forty-four Of the sixty
four deaths occurred at the insane hospital.
Peter Munson, near Watertown. had a
team OF horses, buggy and harness stolen
Wednesday. The thief's name is supposed
to be Charles Colberg, who is about a wears
Old.
Judge Matheison brought To Hallock large
pelican that he captured near his place,
The bird measured nine feet from tip TO tip
OF its wings, and is called a monster Of It's
kind.
Indians from the White Earth ana Red
Lake reservations are invading the vicinity
OF Halloch and slaughtcrirg moose. elk ana
carriboo. steps are being taken TO protect
The game.
". Larson, a clerk in a store at Wiimar.
appeared at the store last Monday in a Dem
ocratic hat, Ills employer tut his foot
through the lat and the }oung man resigned
his position.
i son Of George Osborn. a farmer Twin.
fifteen miles northwest 81 Fairmont. had BIZ.
arm torn oil at the shoulder IN a ,hreshipg
machine last Saturday,, from the effects CT
which ne died in a feH hours.
Col. Jcwett. who made an extended trim
among the pine lands In Tie northern part Of
the state, says that for fix consecutive DAYS
and nights he did not zee a human being and
that hc slept on the ground every night.
a chimney sweep at Rochester went into a
tony saloon and offered to let any one throw
billiard balls AZ HIM for ) cents a throw. A
party commenced throwing and the third ball
went through a So plate glass window.
The farmers In the vicinity Of Maukato
have OF late been paying more attention TO
wool growing, and the entire amount market
ed there this season will aggregate over $50
600 pounds. The price paid / is 90 cents.
The editors OF the state tapcrs that went
on the 500 excursion are giving glowing and
generally very interesting accounts OF the
tour. They are united in pronouncing 1t the
most enjoyable add profitable the editorial
association has ever had.
Sheriff lloi hins, of Big stone county, had
the change racket tried on him by a fAkir on
a Northern Pacific train west Of Fergus
Falls, HIS revolver brought the fellow to
time. II" admitted that he made 8 business
OF working that game.
Lightning struck a barn on the White farm
In Sterling and shattered It quite badly.
Keith was standing near and received
a terrible shock. He was thought to be dead
for several hours, but was finally brought to.
lie Sueur Sentinel; Nearly all the corn in
this section that will make = crop is now
t,rapfinally gafa from frost apl ,n,,h iS Ioiy,,
and cut this week. A big corn and a
big pork crop will place most Of the lie Saeur
county farmers ali right, Notwithstanding the
very poor wheat crop.
Sam Mcfarland, a convict sentenced to the
saltwater penitentiary for seven years for
manslaughter, and who bad passed three
years Of his term at the prison, was pardonea
Saturday by Gov. McGill. Mcfarland Is a
and has been in poor health most Of
the time since his confinement, his lungs be-
ing affected.
The death Of Mrs. Baumgarten In Horton
township, Stevens county, was strange. She
had staked the COW TO grass, and, 1t il sup
ed, the COW had in some way struck her
with It's horne. The woman was found lying
on her face in two or three inches Of water,
l~ifeless. The COW had eaten off nearly every
OF clothing,
Joe Chwialtowski, the Polander boy who
lodged In the Marshall county jail, await
ing trial at the next term OF court for the
OF his uncle, was allowed by the sher-
III TO go a short distance from the jail for a
pail of water and FORGOT Ia return The |