Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-11

WIN. jacobs, VINO was injured by ice falling
on him Tuesday at Duluth, died On Wedpes-
day.
The city school teachers Of st. Paul received
their pay Thursday. 1t took $4,000 to pay
them.
st. Paul claims tina. its death rate for De
cember is the lowest OF any city in the United
States.
Three births, three deaths, and Fix marriag-
es were reported at the health office Thursday
at st. Paul.
George G. Brown and Eva Evans, of 81.
Paul, were married in the ice palace ON
Wednesday.
Minneapolis hopes at last to make some pro
gress with the steel arch bridge, for which
materials are arriving.
H.. w. Burbank, a bachelor and settler, was
found dead in his bed near Windom. The
cause Of his death is not known.
The Worthirgton Advance has only heard
OF five lives being lost in southwestern Mime
sofa during the famous blizzard.
Bernard Bickners was examined before Pro
bate Judge German at st. Paul, and being
found insane was committed to Rochester.
Fourteen more applicants for liquor license
in st. Paul paid 81 900 each at the city treas
ury Thursday, making sixty who have paid
thus far.
Vim. Mcfarland, a once prominent actor,
having played with Macready, Forrest and
Booth, died in jail at Minneapolis on Wcdnes-
day.
1t is said tina: there is n great deal Of sick
ness in the lumber camps in the neighbour
hood Of Tower. Lung trouble is the chief
ailment.
A fire, causing a loss Of SIS, 600, occurred nj
Browns Valley Thursday morning. The
block containing Barrelc Bros. hardware store
was burned.
The Register says, ''Rcy. T. d.. Hudson has
defined The call to Lake City, al which his
congregation at Mankato are very much
pleased
Instead Of 700 saloons in -. Paul last year
it is estimated that 30 viii supply the demand
this year. and they will pay $1,000 each for
the privilege.
The witness fees and travelling fees Of
jeremiah Staplcr, who came from New Bruins
w ~ A'FAii. it AAA- filAl't9 'hHN Il lfblNAAl,
were Sl4i75. They were ordered paid.
Work has been commenced on the necessary
building for "A thrcsliirg machine factory OF
Minneapolis. They expect to op,r-
ations soon aud will employ 900 hands.
The sash, door and blind manufacturers Of
Minneapolis have held a meeting and ratified
the action of the Chicago conference, which
advances the scale about 3 per cent.
Archie Brown is now on trial at Duluth on
a charge Of abduciing Miss Mary Paul, aged
sixteen years, for immoral purposes, and the
evidence thus far is very damaging against
the defendant.
Ii. W. Pease died very suddenly in Pipe
stone Sunday evening of typhoid pneumonia.
lie was an Old resident of southwestern Min
nesota and at one time presided over the
Methodist church at Luyerne.
Thursday the Earle Manufacturing com
pany, Of Minneapolis, filed a certificate with
the secretary of state, showing the amount OF
capital stock Of the corporation to be $4,000
Of which $4,000 was paidin.
Four persons boarding with the family Of
Mr.. Lawson at Duluth. narrowly escaped
death from inhaliug gas from coal stoves
Wednesday night. One OF the victims was
just able TO open the windows and doors.
Luyerne il to have u town hall and engine
house. \ special election for the purpote Of
voting on a proposition to issue 5000 in
bonds for the building was held Tuesday, and
the vote was unanimously in favor OF the
bonds.
A raid was made on a poker den in jackson
Wednesday night. The players left so sud
denly that they forgot theiL hats, oyershoos
and other articles too numerous 10 mention,
and in the great rush to get through the door
some of the glass went along.
Chief Justice Gllnllin has decided that
Wholesale liquor dealers are not obliged TO
take out the 81 900 license demanded under
the law from retail dealers: and Judge Won
denburg Of the same court has made a de
cision sustaining the constitutionality Of the
state liquor law.
Worthington Advance, 81: Two Young
ladies were walking up Tenth street on Iuee-
day, when two hoodlum boys planted them
selves in the middle OF the sidewalk and did
not move. The young ladies came up and
each took a lubbcr by the collar and eluag
him of the walk.
County Treasurer Sullivan. Of Shakopee.
has purchased the large stone in that county.
1t is the largest boulder known, being about
40 feet long, 80 feet wide and forty feet high
above ground. Mr.. Sullivan VIII nave the
same excavated for exhibition purposce.
The village OF Tower saw a strange sight
on Thursday-that Of two men drawing a
corpse on a tonoggan. The body was that Of
Tom Mulhollin, an explorer, aged 40. He
had been looking up a claim about thirty-fye
miles northeast Of Tower and had frozen both
feet while crossing a lake. He managed TO
get to the shanty Of a man named McDcrmott
and there died last Monday after considerable
suffering.
A fire broke out January l6, In the store Of
ex-senator W.. y. Sergeant, Of Albert Lea,
causing damage amounting TO several hun
dred dollars. 1t occurred before 9 O'Clock in
the evening, and while numerous people were
on the street and passing the large uncur-
tanned windows Of the store. Mr.. Sergeant
had Just left a citizens meeting when he dis
covered the fire. He quickly gave the alarm
and after u hard fight with his own hands put
il out. incited bv a few indicative personal