Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-20
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There were thirty-nine deaths In Burlington
during February.
There is talk at Calliope Of forming q stock
company to build q $40, 600 hotel.
LeMars parties are talking Of building q
large Touring mill at Rock Valley.
Col. T. b. Kaufman Of Belmont, has received
back pay to the amount Of 90, 600.
Iowa Falls doesn't care so much for q Sol
diers' Home as 1t does for a canning factory.
Holstein has six saloons, each Of which pays
into the city treasury $50 a month In advance
The Grundy Center city council has pur-
chased two chemical engines at q cost OF
8 1880.
The Burlington Railroad company, It is re.
ported, will build q $75,OI9 hotel at Creston
this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Magill, OF lows City,
recently celebrated their sixtieth wedding an
niversary.
Rev. William sslter has been pastor Of the
Congregational church at Burlington for
forty years.
The salvation army has taken possession OF
Council Bluffs and made its first street parade
Tuesday evening.
David Rice, aged 81, and Mrs. r. M. David
son, aged 81, were licensed TO marry By the
clerk OK Lee county.
A colony OF Germans from Pennsylvania is
negotiating for a tract Of l2,G0 acres OF laI d
In Osceola county.
T. Poland, OF Spirit Lake, feels better since
he parted company with q tape worm eighty
three feet in LEI 9Th.
sanboin has twenty-ope citizens whose com.
bined weight is 4,75o pounds, the heaviest man
weighing 256 pounds.
The citizens of Denison will furnish desir-
able grounds and offer inducements for the
location Of the Soldiers Home at that place.
Mrs. Lewis St~oltenburg, Of Davenport, CON-
mitted suicide by taking the entire contents OF
a box of "Rough on Rats" She was insane
George l.. Maxfeld, OF Laurel, Marshall
county, was found dead In bed Sunday morn
ing. His death occurred from hemorrhsge OF
the brain.
<hANiSs SltNA,I 80 vi NhA5oh q poubk LLhl
Of 10, will this week leave for the Congo coun-
try, in the wilds Of Africa, as a Methodist
missionary teacher.
Harry Brownlee, Of Adair ccunty, claims to
be the champion pickle eater OF the state,
having devoured twenty-thrss fu!l-grown Gu
cumbers in four minutes.
A rewsrd Of $500 is offered for the return,
dead or alive, Of Ralph Hazlett, who mysteri-
ously disappeared from his home at Nashua
OF the night of February 9.
Rev. VIM. o. Rustin, for nine years IN charge
OF the CT urch at West Union, was formally in
stalled as pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church at Dubuque Tuesday.
NJ. NJ. Rice, Of Oska,o osa, wants the name,
company, and rank at the time Of discharge,
with the present postoffice address, Of every
living member of the 4lth Iowa infantry.
Ed. p. Seeds, who was removed from q pos-
tai clerkshlp on the Central road last spring
on account Of offensive pvrtisan ship, was on
Monday elected city solicitor OF Manchester.
At the election at Onawa on Monday only
eighty-seven votes were polled. h. Z. Mcrri-
son Yves elected mayor, Geo. Underhill re-
corder, and G. G.. Perking and W.. l.. Holmes
trustees.
John Fowler, o, Mason, claims b be the
eldest member of the G.. A. Il. In Iowa. He Is
81 years OF age and a ve'e'an o. three wars
Black Hawk war, Mexican war, and tho war
CT the rebellion.
At Burlington on Monday Charley Wyman
gave an exhibition Of his fine Workmanship
with a rife by breaking All out Of 500 glass
balls thrown into the air by hand at a dis
lance of twenty five feet.
In recognition of his services as head of the
city government for three years, friends Of
Mayor Claussen, OF Davenport, gave hin a
birthday token Wednesday in the form Of a
fine horse and carriage, costing $500.
The foundry Of the Union works at Clinton
was blown Town by the fe:cs wind which pre-.
vailed in that section last Thursday. The
building WAS O large brick structure erected
recently to replace the one destroyed by fire a
few months ago.
The rrohibitioniste Of Marathon caused a
drugstore WHICH FOIL WLlskf 10 CIo.o us
doors. Thirteen packages Of liquor found in
The store were taken into the street AMI de-
stIoJei. TIE remainder OF the goods were
packed up aad shipped.
Rev. Noah Trayer, the noted Amish preacher
living two miles north OF Kalons, Washington
county, died Wednesday from the effect OF an
explosion OF a gun barrel. The breechpin en-
tered his left eye and ives taken out at the
back Of his head, causing death In three hours.
Mayor Ernst Claussen of Davenport was SO
years OF age last Monday, and has been q resi-.
dent of the city thirty-three years. A large
number OF citizens took advantage OF his ami
verssry to present him with an elegant family
carriage, completely furnished and a superb
team OF horses.
One OF the features OF a wedding celebration
a. Sheriu's Mound, Dubuque COUNTY, was the
firing OF u cannon. On one occasion the can
non was prematurely discharged and Mat
Reitler, a brother in-law Ct the tride, was
badly burned about the face and neck besides
Hc!:: otherwise !c;::ed
An old settler, one Of the pioneers OF Cedar
Falls, passed away last Tuesday afternoon.
George Rsrick came to that place IN the fall Of