Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-05
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ster City, has failed for about 5000.
There are now 1926 stations under control of
the Central Iowa Grain Buyers association.
Rev. Mr.. Groat, formerly Of Humboldt, has
accepted q call to the Baptist church Sioux
Rapids.
Briggs Il Carlson, dealers In general mer-
chandise at Madrid. have failed with liabilities
at $4,000.
The Jobbers and Manufacturers association
OF Dubuque is negotiating with eastern parties
for a rolling mill.
The city Of Council Bluffs, with q popula-
ton Of Is, 900 souls, has not a single manufac-
tory which gives employment to afty men.
L. X. Reiner has been sued by Miss Maggie
parties live in Keokuk and a special dispense
ton had been procured from Bishop Ccsgrove
for the marriage.
The Davenport Gazette says that MIR. w. T..
Wilson, Of LeClaire, is the champion husker
in that section. In one day recently, between
the hours of 6 O'Clock in the morning and G in
the evening, he husked 133 bushels of corn
and put 1t in the crib.
The girls who are connected with the tele-
phone system in Davenport, Rock Island and
Moline have unanimously agreed among them
selves to discontinue the use OF slang over the
wires. A 6ne Of ten cents to be imposed for
every violation Of the rule.
"A Mason City disdatch says that w. V. Lu-
cas-, formerly state auditor and well known In
Des Moines. has paid Mrs. Sally Bush, OF that
city, $57S so, the amount Of damages re.
covered agai lst him for libel while he was
publishing the Cerro Gordo Republican.
A family named Graham living In Avoca In
dulged in q family row a ew nights ago. The
ting him In the face. The young man is ser
iously hurt, and the wound may prove fatal.
The assailant was arrested and released on
$400 bail.
John z. Benedict, near Burlington, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through the
head. Benedict was one Of the persons charged
with stabbing and killing q young man named
Reed at a spelling school in that neighborhood
about ten years ago, but the charge could not
be sustained.
John Richardson, a farmer owning a large
amount OF land In Harrison county near Mis-
souri, Valley was lately adiudged insane and
taken TO Mount Pleasant to the insane asylum.
His insanity was caused by financial troubles.
On his way to Mount Pleasant in the cars he
showed by his actions that his insanity was OF
the most violent nature.
Lawrence X. G. Ter Host, a Hollander, just
discharged from the army, was robbed In
Council Bluffs Sunday night Of about 800.
He had served In the regular army three years,
belonging TO company B. Ninth infantry, but
served as a musician. He was discharged on
the Goth Of this month at Fort Blidger, Wyo-
ming. He had, when discharged, about $500,
and bought a ticket to Omaha, intending to 60
to his home in New York.
In the Carroll county District Court at the
late term, much interest was manifested In the
case Of a farmer named Kennedy, charged
with for cry. He had a hog killed By a neigh
Dor, and in settlement the slayer OF the por-
cine, gave Kennedy a note for 6. This was
altered to $500 and put into the bank. The
case was sharply fought, but the jury found
Kennedy guilty, He is a prosperous farmer,
who has heretofore borne a good name.
George Stevenson, the muiatto who shot &.
w. Cutler, a white man, dead near Fonda, on
the 18th inst, hanged himself in bis cell in the
Fl. Dodge jail Sunday. Stevenson was a tenant
Of Cutler, who boarded In Stevenson's family.
Stevenson charged Cutler with making indie
cent proposals to Mrs. Stevenson, and ordered
him from the house.. A row followed, In
which Stevenson seized a guu and shot Cut
Ter. He then surrendered himself. Stevenson
once lived at Joliet, H., and was q native OF
Shrewsbury, Mass.
Geo. Diddy, OF Belvidere, Monona county,
was the other evening visited by a stranger
who begged for a few days work, but as he
could get along without help he allowed the
stranger 10 depart. He learned a few mo-
ments after his departure that the stranger
was his brother, John Diddy when he had not
seen In ten years, who had come from Cell.
fornia to make a visit, choosing this method
TO see whether or not he would be recognized
Mr.. Diddy finally concluded that he could
care for the stranger.
Judge Brewer of the United States District
Court has rendered an Important decision 10
the case Of Washburn & Moen vs.. The Grin
nell Barbed Wire company. A decision was
made last spring sustaining the validity of the
Glidden patent and the right OF plaintiffs to
coutrol 1t. 1t was decided at that time tina,
the master In chanctry should determine the
amount Of damages to be paid. He fixed the
sum at $4l, $50. The defendants excepted and
argued the case at II G last term Of the Fedora
Court in Des Moines. Judge Brewer in his de-
cision now reduces the amount from BAL, $50 to
about 81, 900, stating that while that amount
Of damages was probably too low, he would fix
the royalty which the company should pay
hereafter at a figure which should be large
enough to compensate.
Rules and regulations adopted By the state
board OF health to prevent the spread of con
tagious diseases
Rule 1. Every person entering any public
school of Iowa must give satisfactory evidence
OF protection by vaccination.
Rule 2. The fact of vaccination and protec
ton must be entered with each name on the
school record, and on transfer and promotion