Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-08


Franchise has been granted for an electric
light plant at Northfield.
Theresa Pettipiece was fatally burned in a
fire at Red Wing Tuesday.
Sank Center has voted s., 900 uoIds for the
construction of a new brick jail.
An epidemic Of diphtheria kas beer raging
at Aitkin during the past two weeks.
Revival meetings are being held this week
In the Baptist church at Rochester.
A club Of Minneapolis checker players
downed the ST. Paul club Saturday night.
The Retail Merchants Protective asso
citation at Winona is now thoroughly organ
lied.
George Hart was sentenced from Fergus
Falls to twenty years In the penitentiary for
rape.
The school facilities of Pipcstone sre to be
increased by the addition Of another depart
;nent.
Geo. Spoettel, , s~witchman, had a foot
crushed while coupling cars at st. Paul Tues.
day.
Thc chamber Of at st. Cloud is
making TN effort TO locate a creamery in that
city.
Rose Lapinski, a IL year old girl at Lake
City, has been committed tothe reform school
for burglary.
The marriage OF Fred Vilke and Miss
Phillipi Rost was the prominent society event
at 81. Peter the Goth.
Work has been commenced on the new Uni
tartan church at st. Cloud. 1t will cost $l2,-
600 when completed.
Harvey Perry, a hotel proprietor Of Kasota,
has abscondcd leaving several creditors to
mourn his departure.
A turkey buzzard few against a show
window in Duluth last Monday and destroyed
$50 worth Of plate glass.
Burglars ra!ded several business housee at
Owatonna last Thursday morning, but did not
capture anything of value.
Prof. Brown, principal OF the high school
at Sank Center, is very low with pneumonia
and It is not expected to live.
Philander Chamberlain, a prominent citizen
Of Hastings, died last Wednesday of heart
trouble. He was - years old.
C.. A. Langrim, editor Of the Preston Times,
has been acquitted Of the charge Of criminal
libel. The jury was out only five minutes.
Two young Hltu, TuWdTu anu Wllllam
Kitchell, were drowned Tuesday while skat-
ng on the Chippewa river near Montevideo.
Several attempts have been made TO burn.
the Gustavus Adolphus college at st. Peter
A close watch is now being kept for the evil
doer.
Two separate parishes have been created In
the Catholic church at st. Peter to satisfy the
Earmap an1 Irteh cyaalipn lament ~ tba
church.
The evangelical ministers Of Winona have
effected an organization aud VIII meet once a
week for social, intellectual and moral pur-
poses.
Robert Arola, on trial at Fergus Falls for
killing his father, was found not guilty be-
cause OF insanity. Such a verdict was ex-
pected.
The Merchants Cooperative Chemical and
Spice company at Pipestone has issued GER
~tifcates of stock and will soon be ready for
business.
The Waltham cheese factory at Austin has
finished It's first season of manufacture. Dur
ing the four months it made -, 0C0 pounds Of
prime cheese.
The grand jury at the last term of court In
Mobiles county recommended the county com
missioners to provide for the building of a
new court house.
Stevenson Bros. & Co.'s foundry and ma
chine shop at st. Cloud was destroyed by fire
last Friday. Loss, about $4,000, with but
little insurance.
In the district court at Window last Mon
day W. W Frost was committed 10 jail at
Mankato for four months for selling liquor
without a license.
Nellie Olson, a 10 year old Norwegian girl,
dropped dead al the Grand Pacific depot at
Moorhead last Sunday night. Heart disease
was the troub q.
The oatmea4 kill just completed at Waseca
will b, In operation soon. Owing to the
scarcity OF oats in that vicinity some will have
TO be imported.
The Mower County Agricultural society
finds on its final settlement that a small bal
ance is left after all bills connected with the
annual fair were paid.
A large barn containing about eighty tons
Of hay, the property of James Fitzpatrick
near Rochester, was consumedby fire Monday
night. The origin OF the fire Is not known.
A fire caused by spontaneous combustion
burned a barn owned by Jared Benson at
Anoka. A valuable COW, a pair OF twinc calves
and some chickens were roasted to death.
Waseca citizens are manifestlng considera-
bic interest in the builIing of the new line Of
railroad known as the st. Paul ana South
western. They hope to reap rich benefits.
John McElligut Of Fountain, aged - years,
hiss been sentenced to the reform school dur
iLg his minority for indecent assault upon
the person of Alice Cummings, Syears OF age.
A man identified By a letter in his pocket
as George Seioert attempted suicide at Brain
erd Saturday night. He had cut his throat
from ear 10 car, but 1t is thought be will re-
cover as the cash is not deep.
Albert Odell, section boss Of the Manitoba
road at Fergus Falls, while riding on a hand
car Saturday vas run down by a freight train
and died soon after from injuries received.
A companion jumped and saved himself.
A musical festival wiil be held at st. Cloud
commencing December ; and lasting five
days. Before the convention closes several
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