Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-16

baih. NOW luiS want "a
The citizens II Heron Lake are considering
the question Of organizing a board Of trade.
The council OF MankAto has adopted plans
for a $500 pump house to furnish power for
water works.
The board OF education Of Winona has de
cided To engage Superintendent V. G. Curtis
for another year at S2,5O0.
Tracy has voted bones to the amount Of
$1,000 FOR the purpose Of securing the Min
nesota Northern railroad.
The large Touring mill Of j. Schpmek al
Blue Earth City vas totally destroyed by fire
last Tuesday. Loss. $1,000.
Mrs. Catherine NJ. Smith, the first white
woman in Winona, who has lived there for
forty years, died last week.
Seven graduates from the theological de-
partmcnt Of the Red Wing Seminary will be
ordained At the annual meeting Of the Hauge
synod.
Now that Duluth contemplates having Il
G, 0O0-barrel four mill West superior win out
strip her with one whose capacity win be
& ,00l barrels.
Twenty-Five persons were immersed In Lake
Agnes at Alexandria Is g result Of revival
meetings that have been IN progiees there for
the past three weeks.
Arrangements are about completed for the
Waseca assembly, 'The Minnesota Chautau-
qua Dr.. Talmageand Other noted lecturers
vii be IA stt -%H!dnpe.
Sewers 20 the amount Of s?2,OCo. grading
amounting he $?lo)0 and storm sewer, to the
amoaat Of $4,000 are emo1g the projected
improvements 81 HalCai,
Jaac- Hubbard, u u.rNin, DIX couatg,
ci'i recently n the axe Of l02. lie was the
oldest rlau IN tieckrr county, and probably
the oldest il the state. lie had lived lear
Darwin 8 long time.
The Cornerstone Of the Nov sl00.0 900 court
house at Winona VIII be laid with appropriate
ceremonies on June p, under the auspices OF
the Masonic order. All the secret aad civil
societies VIII be invited to participate.
The corner stone of the new Winona Sl00,-
% coart house viii be laid with appropriate
ceremonies on June Is, under the auspices of
the Masonic order. All the secret and civic
societies will be invited to participate.
Ii. ). Locke uas sued ID. w. Bruckart at
st. Cloud for malicious libel in the sum Of
$4,000, He claims that Bruckart was the
source OF information Of an article which ap-
peared in a morning paper in reference to
him..
Brainerd may lose possession Of It's fine
park. Recently il has been rumorrd that the
property had been listed for taxation as not
owned by the city, and hcuce alarm, which
culminatcs in action BY the council to assert
rs rights.
Suit has been commenced at Pennington
by c.. 7. Carpenter, editor Of the Tribune,
against the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. Damages are claimed for "A failure to
deliver a message sent from Pennington to
Browns Valley IN JUNE Of last year.
Thc large barn on Albert Smiths farm,
about a mile east Of It. Cloud, vas completely
burned Friday night. Besides the bulldog,
four horses, i've sheep, a shepherd dog and Il
quantity Of grain and machinery were
burned. Loss 5000. The tire /, supposed to
be OF inccudiary origin.
The Mankato Coal Oil ard Mineral com
psny has recently employed the services of
John :. Bohcr, Of Ia; %ioryille, to prospect for
gas on the property OF the company In the
vicinity OF Menneopa Falls, which has re
suited In finding unmistakable indications OF
natural gas.
One Of the spiightliest and most energetic
men in hnoka is w. ;. Ring, who was born in
Orange county, Vermont. June 80, 1900. He
started in with Tie century, and according 10
present prospects he bids fair to hold his own
until its completion.
w. Is. slime, clerk Of the court for Murray
county, was arraigned last Friday at Fonda
before b. w. WoolstcncIcft, justice, and was
bound over to await the action of the grand
jury upon a charge OF enlightenment made
against him by the Warder, Bushnell & Gless-
ner company.
heV' '. Hf"ry Long, pastor OF the Preshy-
terian church Of Currie, was arrested for rid
ing his bicycle on the streetat Tracy recently.
This is the second arrest Of the Kind that has
been made since the wise lawmakers of the
village OF Tracy got together and enacted the
law prohibiting the riding Of bicycles on the
public streets.
Peter Anderson, 4 dissipated shoemaker, of
Wlnona, was arrested recently for threaten
ing to kill his sick wife and children. He |
locked the house up and-told his sick wife to !
for dcsth, intending to Kill her ~
pouring Kerosene down the poor womar's
throat. She escaped and gave the alarri in
time TO save the chilx' from any ~ treat
The trustees Of the Albcrt Les lutheran
high school have resolved TO put rp a build
ing to cost about $l5, 900 and decided To open
the school November | next. Prof. Swenson,
O. .'ohn Hopkins university, tas been secured
as principal, ard the other teachers have
secured. IT rs expected by the trustees
that a new $4,000 hsn viii be added TO the
Albert Lea college this summer, and be in
fof the fall term OF the institution. I
On the 2oth Of April, Michael Mcfarland OF
Bolin township, steele county, and Patrick
Dunnigap, together with a man named
Wright, all Of whom had been drinking
left New Richland, Wright going on
ahead with his team. When near New Rich
land Mcfarland drove past Wright, and In
formed the latter that Dunnigan had fallen
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