Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27
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The cost Of the State Legislature is s69s pc
week.
Osceola has been made a city OF the secon,
class.
The Salvation army IL to tackle Council
Bluffs.
Cedar Rapids 10 TO have the Edison incan
descent light.
A nrst national bank has bosn organized g
Eagle Grove.
The Hawarden packing house is running
day and night.
Algons proposes to 90 into debt for q $40,
600 court house.
There are seven candidates for Mayor Al
Missouri Valley.
At Council Bluffs the regulation fine for vags
Is $35 and costs.
Montgomery county has one township in
which there Is no church.
There are 2l2 saloons and other places H.
censed to sell liquor In Davenport.
A Methodist church, to coat s13,O00 Will be
built at Indianola this year.
A Des Moines man died last week from the
effects Of having tooth pulled.
A Pennsylvania man will start q creamery al
Audubon to use the product Ct 600 cow
A WOODEN and q planning mill will be added
TO Creston's industries the coming spring.
At a recent fire at Osksloosn all the acces-
sible hydrants were found to be frozen Up.
Mitchell county has another saloon war
but tho red.eye gets there just the same.
Creston is to have anew depot IS feet wide
and $50 feet long, including an eating house.
Independence has a one-Srmed man who can
saw, split and pile up over q cord OF wood In a
day.
At a rabbit hunt at Star, Marion county, one
party brought In twenty-s!x and the other fifty
four.
There were twenty days in the month OF
January IN which no trains arrived at Storm
Lake.
Ottumwa Is 70 have q home minstrel enter
tainment for the benefit OF the soldiers monu-
ment fund.
Preparations have been made for holding a
union Sunday school convention at Woodbine
Feb. 20 and 81.
Three creameries in Madison county pay to
the farmers from $l25, 600 to $50, 900 annually
for milk and cream.
Dubuque claims to have a jobbing and man
ufacturing business OF $l6,COO,O0O and &c.
coo respectively per year.
In twenty-five raids or saloons in Des
Moines $40 worth Of bulge WA captured at q
cost OF 1895 to the taxpayers.
Mrs. Henry Geise, Of Davenport, took a dose
Of laudanum to ease her paiLs and give her
sleep. She was successful In both.
The fourth annual convention Of the eastern
Iowa and western Illinois bee-keepers' ascot
alton will be held at Davenport, Feb. 18th and
18th.
At Keokuk during the year 1885 there were
1868 arrests made by the police force. Fines
and fees aggregatirg Sl,599.4S were col
iected.
There were 1573 persons arrested at K"o-
kuk during 1885, Of whom 436 were drunk rs
uKuun aud UIooAuciiy, dhu iohipo VI va
grants,
The citizens OF Angus have found city gov
ernment an expensive luxury, and are clrcn-
lating a petition to have The charter Of the city
revoked.
The aged wife Of Col. Granville Moody, who
q few weeks ago reached the fftleth anniver-
sa,y Of her wedding day, died at Mt. Vernon
last Friday.
Mrs. Bridget Flanagan, while at work 10 q
laundry at Davenport, bad both arms drawn
between the rollers OF a large mangle and fear
fully lacerated.
Mrs. Bridget Flanagan, while at work In a
"l,undry at Davenport Monday had both arms
drawn between the rollers OF o large mangle
and fearfully lacersted.
TIE chief feature Of the %coroner's conven.
ton In Des Moines last week was n post nor
TEN examination OF q game dinner washed
down with champagne.
The common council at Dubuque voted IN
animously In favor Of an ordinance granting
the Chicago, BurliDgt IN and Northern road
the right Of way into the city.
A twelve-months-old son Of O. NJ. Davis, Of
Galland, Lee county, was choked on a piece
OF meat Monday and before medical assists nee
could arrive the little sufferer died.
Hon. Augustus Anderson, representative
from Hamilton county, has introduced a bill
In the Legislature to provide for a monument
to the memory OF those msssscrcd at Spirit
Leke In March, 1857.
The Dubuque Union Depot company has
purchased a site for a union depot 10 be built
this year. 1t is the block on which the Illinois
Centrsi's freight depot now stands, and the
consideration was 100000.
n. A. Burroughs, for many years a resident
OF Waterloo, has deserted his wife ana gone to
Salt Lake City, where he viii join the Nor
mons. For about twenty years Burroughs
has been a minister, preaching the doctrine Of
Adventisn.
Quit. q stir wss created at Elliott last week
because the authorities Of the Presbyterian
churci. attempted to tear down and take away
the church building, which was erected about
four years ago, and which has been closed for
the last year or more.
Richard Barlow, aged 81, OF Council Bluffs,
was adjudged insane Monday, and ordered to
be taken to the insane asylum at Mount Pleas
ant. His insanity was brought on from the