Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12

The grain buyers OF Luverne Will give a
banquet next Monday evening.
Henry George VIII speak In st. Paul before
the chambe Of commerce January Is.
The new rooms of the Y. NJ. c. A. at Beat
rice were dedicated last Monday night.
The German speaking elemegt Of the Cath
Ollie church at st. Peter will erect a new
church edifce.
A meeting for the purpose OF organizing a
farmers alliance will be held In Heron Lake
next Saturday.
The Farmers Warehouse company In Lake
Crystal has ceased operations. An $500 at
tachment is the cause.
W. j. Agnew, a prominent Spectator at
Plattsmouth, has become insane. Business
troubles is the cause.
The city council at Litchtield has granted
eight liquor licenses, but refused to license
elk billiard and pool tables.
The dance houses at Tower were ordered
closed last Wednesday night. Over sixty
girls will be compelled to leave the city.
The West Duluth Light and Water com
pany has filed articles Of incorporation. Cap.
ital stock, $50, 900; headquarters at Duluth.
The society event o: the week at Anoka
was the wedding OF Peter IL. Wickland anu
Miss Sophia Johnson, which occurred last
Wednesday evening.
The News offers ne chronos, but advises
any one who really wants to build a paper
mill to inspect the advantages offered for
such an institution at Duluth.
j. A. Newell, formerly a school teacher
Mankato and afterwards engaged In ne rs
paper work at st. Paul and Fergus Falls, has
opened a law Office at Mankato.
Nike Connolly, living near Lansing, was
quite seriously wounded in the groin last
Thursday while out hunting, the result Of an
accidental shot from . revolver.
Theron p. Bali, one OF the early settlers Of
Mower county, died last Tuesday in Red
Rock. He was s. years old. Thirty years ago
he was Austin's nrst blacksmith.
A washboard and notion factory of Berlin,
Wis, has eff -rcl to move to Howard Lake
provided 1000 can be raised as a bonus. The
money will probably be donated at once.
In the district court at 81. Cloud last
Thursday Judge Sear!e sentenced eleven pro-
prie'ors Of blind pigs. The penalty in a ma
jority of the cases was $50 days IN jail ami $50
fine.
The Rock county people who went down 70
Texas a few days ago have organized what
they call a "Luyerne Colony" aud have issued
a circular setting forth the alleged merits q
Crockett county.
The Winona wagon works after having
been shut down two weeks started up again
the day after Christmas for another years
run with a good lot CT orders booked and
prospects for a better season than ever.
Mrs. A. J. Wright Of Tecumseh met with
an accident Sunday which nearly resulted
fatally. Some one had been using gasoline
in a cup and placed It rear the water pail
Mrs. Wright thought It was water and was
going to use 1t about tie stove when IL took
fire, badly burning her face and right arm.
The committee appointed to confer upon
the ACCESSIBILITY Of a fire department at Hast
ings has reported favorably and the recon-
incubation has been adopted by the city
council. The men will receive 30 cents an
hour for actual service aud the names OF
twenty-five fremen viii be placed on the town
books.
Charles Northrup, a cook employed in the
Northrug's camp, was shot al Cloquet and
fatally wounded Wednesday night while out
side the camp buildings. The bullet was fred
from a Winchester rife, and the deed is
charged to a gang Of tramps lately driven
from the camp by Northrup when they were
attempting to steal some blankets and sup
plies. Northrup died some hours after the
shooting, and officers are in pursuit OF the
tramps. Ncrthrup was yell known, and was
a peAccable and quiet man.
Erwin Hall of Miltona committed suicide
Monday by shooting himself through the
heart. He was getting ready to visit relatives
in The southern part Of the state, and ex-
pected to start that morning. As his wife
went to get a pail Of water be asked her II
she would take good care Of their child If any
thing happened to him. She said she would,
and had had gone but a few steps from the
house when she heard a shot fired. She ran
back and found her husband lying on the
floor, gasping, with a revolver beside him.
The ball had passed through his heart. His
business affairs were in bad shape, but no
other cause for the deed is known.
Mrs. Jacob Ieins committed suicide at an
early hour Monday morning at her home in
Duluth. In company with her husband she
attended an entertainment given ~ the Con-
cordia society the evening before. and while
there became jealous OF his attention to an
other woman. Upon reaching home she went
to the kitchen and, returning In a few
moments, said: ''There I've done it: I've
taken a dose Of strychnine." Medical aid
was summoned at once, but too late, and the
unfortunate woman died within half an h our. |
Mr.. Zeins Is an attache Of the California |
wine house, and those who know him assert
that there was never any cause for his wife's
unfortunate jealousy. They had been mar
ried but seven months.
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