Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06
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Impure water Is causing considerable sick
ness al Adrian.
August Lusso killed q 400 pound bear near
Grove Lake last week.
1t Is claimed that the new directory OF st.
Cloud will she Y 3, 500 names.
The Ppestone cornet band %reorganzcd last
Thursdsy with fourteen mt mbers.
The Democrats at Cannon Falls had eighty
signers at the first meetin. OF their club.
Insurance and fruit tree ag-nts are getting
in their work In the vicinity of Jackson.
The Town hall at New Trier was burned last
Thursday. Loss, $1,000; insurance, 5000.
The business men Of Mapleton are getting
up a fair and stock show to occur October II.
Howard Lake expects to seclre from the
east q factory for the manufacture Of scales.
Seventy-fve Of the fastest horses In the
Northwest have been entered at the st. Cloud
fair.
All the candidates for governor OF Mime
sofa have been Invited TO speak attne Murray
county fair.
TIE members OF the G.. A r. st Duluth
have collected $500 for the yellow fever suf-
fercrs IN Florida.
-Four couples were married In Red Wing
last "Wednesday, and II wasn't much of q day
for weddirgs either.
Rooert Grady accidentally shot himself In
the breast at Red Wing last THURSDAY, while
cleaning a revolver. The wound is fatal.
Complaints are rife at Luverne that tho
apple crop is being consumed by the small
hnys nf he town Tho upral1 rar,vnp,.nIa
a dose OF county jail.
A IRE at Mantorvillc last week, the first in
two years, burned the barn Of Dr.. Flood, the
finest In the place.
The Osakts Observer says the Prohibition
club at Nelson has taken In nearly all the
voters, alost of them converts.
John johnson, of Moorehead. report. that
head the farmers have ne wheat that will do
FOR seed.
The foundation Of the new Y. N. G.. A.
building ~ Brainerd is nearly completed, and
is erection will coIaacnce at once. The
entire cost OF the building will be about
5000.
Every effort is being made by the citizens
o Zumbrota 10 induce the Duluth, Red Wing
& Southern to run its line through that vii
lage.
The Adrian Guardian remarks that it is
doubtful If Noble county with ever have a
creditab'e fair until Adrian puts her shoulder
to the wheel.
The Brainerd papers state that Hon. G.. +.
Kindred and family are going to leave Brain
ED and go to Washington territory TO reside.
Judge w. A. Flemin., OF Bralnerd. was
married on the 10Th at Peoria, III, to Miss
Florence Foster, n former teacher At Brain
erd.
Arthur Bender Of Stephen, in Marshall
county, WAS taken 10 81. Peter last week de-
mcnted, A. the local paper suPposes, from
hard work, poor cookery and much study over
religious matters.
The eighteenth ANUS fair Of kicollct
county opened Friday afternoon and closed
Saturday afternoon. It was placed on the
list a. a success.
The Young ladies' OF the jackson school IL
Duluth have formed an anti-slang society,
and it costs five cents for any member 10 use
a slang expression.
A breach of promise suit has been insti-
tuted IN Fillmore county. Anna X. @ikkink
Of GreenleaftoD, sues James C.. McNee OF
Bloomfield, claiming 5000. 1t promises 70
be IN interesting case.
At Linwood, while Mr.. and Mrs.. Ridge
were out riding, the latter raised her paras0l,
causing the horse to run, throwing them out.
Mrs. K. struck a tree, breaking her neck.
In Humboldt township, Kittson county,
Farmers Z. Glow and Fred Rad were struck
by lightning In the field. Rad was kt LED aud
Glow psralyzed, bat finally recovered.
Max Cook, Of Hawley township, Clayton
county, met with the misfortune last Friday
of losing by fire bis barn and granary, fifteen
or twenty tons OF hay and two horses.
Pa'ties at Sleepy Eye are buying potatoes
at 20 cents a brshel and shipping in carload
lots to Cleveland, 0. The crop IS immense
and The quality unusually good.
The Masonic fraternity Of the state has
been petitioned By their brethren In Florida
to raise funds for the yellow fever sufferers.
The order intends to respond literally.
Wolf Schmid, Of Springfield, was out chick
en- hunting with a merry party Sunday and
| stopped tie entire charge Of one % The guns
with his right foot, requiring amputatiou.
Edward Ross struck John TTulo, an OLD
man. st Wabasha last Wednesday. In the
evening about fifty Of the citizens took Ross
from his house and applied a coat of tar and
feathers.
A Young man named Nelson at Clear Lake
while dclirious with typhoid fever, arose from
his bed Ut about . O'Clock 8. m, while those
who were caring for him had dropped asleep,
| aud wandered SWAY and was not found until
The day afscr, eight miles from homo In Saa
tiago.
Farmer A. Kennedy, near Euclid, in Polk
| county, four months ago buried his IS year
old daughter Katie, and last week his house
was struck by lightning and his Ii year old
daughter Maggie was Instant; killed. Mrs.
Kennedy ana her IA year old daughter Flora
we're severely injured and other members Of
the faulty were quite badly stunned.
Miss Hattie Wheeler, who lives on a farm
pear Pipestone, narrowly escaped death last
Wednesday. She HAD built u 6re In the cook
stove for the purpose OF getting supper, when
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