Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-19
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Thomas W.. Fassett, OF Black Hawk county,
has received $1,000 back pension.
Eastern Iowa farmers who send 81 to pay
freight on an organ receive In return q 10-cent
mouth organ.
A firm from Watertown, Wis, offers to build
| a foundry aud machine shop at Algona for q
bonus Of $1,000.
A county seat fight IL among the probabii
ties in Wright county in the near future. Eagle
Grove is the aspirant.
The value Of the dairy products OF lows
since 1884 was $50. 90, 600, and that Of the
United States was $500 00, 600.
Miss Grace Wilson, Of Cedar Rapids, has
been selected by Emma Abbott as one of the
s~oloists for her company next year.
Mr.. Clark, OF Mount Pleasant, spent $4,000
sinking a shaft for coal, and then discovered
that his land had been sailed by some jokers.
DR.. VIII, OF Eagle Grove, last week removed
from the side OF b. w. Hilton a bu let that he
b d carried ever since the battle Of the Wilder
ness In 1854.
l.. B. Croker, Of Mendoza, H., recently re-
moved from the Office OF internal revenue col
lec.or for that district, has purchased Az ,1O0-
acre farm ne4r Algona.
L. Hasford's large frame barn near Nonti-
cello was destroyed by fire, together with over
one hundred tons OF hav, two cows harness
and ether contents. Loss, about $500.
Council Bluffs is said 10 have the inside
track for the location Of the much-talked.of
Connecticut clock factory, provided the enter
prise S established In any city west of the Mis-
sissippi river.
Alexander Fee rs tn, VINO vas once a banker
In Pitt.bur4, Pa, " en- his PERSONAL property
was valued al over SIC, 0C0, died in the Della
ware county poor house last week, where he
has been for seven years.
Cedar Falls has had sixty prosecutions for
violations OF the prohibitory law, commenced
during the present year, all Of which have
been appealed to the court. and not q dollar
OF the fac has been collected.
The city Of g Molnes invested $4,000 In a
quit claim q. ed to certain city lots, aud found
that the was not worth the paper.
The city is out just that amount by falling to
file the deed with the proper officer.
The Northwestern Farmers and Live Stock
Breeders association has been Incorporated.
The object is to furnish indemnity on the mu-
tusl plan TO is members for the loss Of their
live stock by death, disease CT accident.
In the late Methodist judicial conference, a.
Des Moines, the case Of Rev. J. III. Everly,
who was convicted by the Des Moines confer.
ence OF imprr dent and unministerial conduct,
was reversed, and Mr.. EVERY was reinstated.
Isaac Garmoe, a prominent citizen of Fort
Dodge, was arrested BY United States Deputy
Marsh hal HoIbrook, last week, on a charge of
sending obscene literature through the post
office to a widow lady named Mrs. Beatrice
Boyd.
A Hardin county jury, after being out forty
hours, fipped pennies 10 settle the case before
them, and msde their report accordingly, but
an alerS bailid heard the trar section and gave
1t away to the judge, who promptly set the YER
diet aside.
Navigation on the upper Mississippi closed
permanently for the season on Saturday. Tile
is an unusually early date for the closing
Only four times in thirty five years has the
r yer closel at Davenport as early as the 9TH
OF December.
The jury In the District Court at Jefferson
recently brought In a verdict Of guilty Of man
slaughter against Hugh McCaull, one Of the
striking miners at Angus, who was tried for
shooting n non-union miner in the riot a year
ago.
William Houck, of ROCKVILLE, made q british
and inhuman assault on two little innocent,
motherless girls in the absence OF their father.
IL was thought for a time not law would
quickly mete out his deserved punishment, but
conservative counse prevailed ana ne was
bound over.
A well known Burlington citizen has ap-
pended to his viii u bequest Of 500 to the
newspaper man who will write, at his de1.I,
the neatcst and best obituary notice, rs wife
to constitute the committee of awar1. The re-
porters are anxious that the clause be made
operative at once.
Hamilton Freeman: A nan named Elmore,
near Renwick, Humboldt county, has b en- en-.
gagged In the manufacture OF schweitzer ana
limburger cheese for the last ten years. Dur
ing the past year he has sold ten and a half
tons, the most OF which went to dealers in
Iowa, Dakota and Nebraska.
The railroad commissioner ilds that the ac-
cident to the stock train at Northwood on Oct.
80, In which the engineer and the fireman lost
their lives, and In which there was a great loss
of cattle, was caused by the violation OF the
special instructions aud rules for running the
train, the speed being thirty-five miles an hour
when the accident occurred.
Lvermore Gazette: James Devine, living
three miles north, lost q barn by fire last Mon
day, which WAS Get By his little boy who was
playing therein. A pair OF colts which were
Inside were consumed with the barn. In addi-
ton to this he lost all his hay and grain. His
insuraI &c expired about four weeks ago, and
the amount lost Is estimated at 5 90.
The Iowa State Improved Stock Breeders
associs;ion passed resolutions f~avoring a state
appropriation OF $4,000 to stamp out promptly
any outbreak OF pleuro-pneumonia, and a law
TO prevent the moving Of diseased swine, liv.
ing or dead; federal laws to stamp out dis
ease; also regarding fraudulent butter, tax
Ing range cattle and rescrving land for actual
settlers.
David Williams. a miner. while at work at