Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-10-22

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1T is estimated that Spencer win
ship 10, 600 tons OF baled hay this season.
1t is probable that Toledo and Tama
City will be connected by street rail.
way.
Council Bluffs has sold "a. 900 moro
of its paving bonds. leaving but eS0. .000
unsOld.
Rudolph Nolte. one Of Dubuqus's
,a|asst a1fIlaEs dlad e sPofls &c I,
No les Shan 6liss z : III
Constable in Council Bluffs are around
seeing their friends.
Britt boasts Of itself 10 hay market
Farmers have received e85,000 for hay
in that market this season.
"A fine portrait of Hon. ]. X. Graves
is to be presented to the J. x. Graves
Fire Company Of Dubuque.
g. w. Thompson. after separation
of eleven years, has resumed the editor
ship Of the Dunlap Reporter.
Our Arch Club is the name Of
Des Moincs Hebrew organization that
has just dedicated club-rooms.
Young Bros, agricultural implement
dealers, of. Des Moines. have failed. As
sets, 90, 900; liabilities, 35.664
Since the 1st of March there have
been 115 cases of scarlet fever in Daven-
port and 50 cases Of diphtheria.
The Capitol Hotel at Des Moines has
closed its cuisine department, and II now
only maintained ~ lodging house.
There were 800 deaths in Davenport
for the year ending Oct 1. The popu-
lation of Davenport II placed at 81. 900.
Tho Des Moines Capital says it seems
strange that the thugs operating in that
city cannot be apprchended and cap
tured.
DIR. Frisbie has Just entered upon
his fourteenth year as pastor Of Ply
mouth Congregational Church In Des
Moines.
The court expenses in Des Moines
County from Oct /. 1883. to Sept. 80.
1884, As reported to the State Auditor:
Total l3.916.4O
Mrs. Lon Wright who disappeared
from Spencer, was found = week later In
the river by her sop Charlie. Tho Cor
oner's jury returned verdict Of suicide.
The receipts Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at Fort Dodge
for the year ending Oct 2. amounted to
&17470. and the expenditures 70 e17S b.
Mrs. Andrew Byerly, N elderly
lady, dropped dead In Anamosa while
carrying some cabbage from wagon to
the house. 1t is supposed her death was
caused by rupture of the heart.
Prisoners in the Burlington Gala
boose do not have soft thing. Tho
sheet.iron floor Is the only place pro-
vided for them TO sleep. The Hanksys
says this Is inhuman and calls for cots.
John B. Roberts, painter. has dis
appeared from Toledo, explaining In
letter left behind that financial EN-
barrsssment was the cause. But the
gossips Of the town allege another caase.
"A fire In the yards Of the Chicago
Lumber Company at Council Bluffs, re-
suited in loss Of about 1869. A pair
of horses, belonging to J. w. Leo. ware
90 badly burned that they hsd 70 be
shot.
Henry Jamison, : bookkeepcr at
Glenwood, in the grocery house Of G. il
Dyer, put pistol to his head and shot
himself dead. Tho surmise Is that the
trouble with Henry was that he Ind
been crossed In love.
Sarah Cox has filed : petition In the
Circuit Court Of Lee County for divorce
from Geo. Coz. Tho couple were mar
ried in Lee County thirty three yeazs ago.
and nine children have been born 70
them, al OF whom are living. and six Of
whom are past their majority.
"A half-witted man named Tom
Tyron, fell on raft at Keokuk. while
fishing and was drowed. After trying
for some time to get his body out Of The
water with grab hooks his nshllne WAS
pulled up. and with II his body. His
coat sleeve had caught on his own hah-
hook.
"A young man named Roberta ~
assaulted In most brutal manner q
Council Bluffs tAe othsr day " Dill
Wyko6. Roberts = nov n vssy M
zeal condition from ~ effects 81 NJ
beating. Both parties were undef the
influence Of liquor whcn the trouble be-
ran and sv,at that tha anuaa ~ ~