Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-23
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tLlNIoN, Ia, ott. H. ii polltCdl Sath-
paign is very warm here. Dolliver spoke last
Monday night to an immense O'Meara meet
ing. Saturday night Jerry Murphy spoke.
Tonight Kirkwood speaks, and tomorrow
night Lyons will speak.
The city is about to be illuminated by cleo
trieity.
Two new street railways are to pe con
structed.
DUBUQUE, Oct. 1l.-Albert Class, aged four
years, opened his mouth TO yell at a dog. A
grain Of corn passed through his wind pipe
and lodged ia the lung, producing death from
commissions.
KEoKUK, Oct. 13.-John +. Bryant was
found guilty at Kahoka, Missouri, Of murder
ing Elijah Lee at Alexandria, Missouri, last
February. Lee had gone To see Mrs. Bryant
from whom Bryant had separated.
KEoKuK, Oct. l3.-A keokuk Constitution
special says Isaac Caroline, "a farmer near Ian
caster, Missouri, succeeded last evening in
blowing of the top Of his head at bis home.
No one was present AT the time. Tho sup
posed cause Is insanity. His wife had just
returned from the asylum and was at her
fathers.
The third annual reunion Of the Tri.Statc
Old settlers association was held here to-day.
The meeting was held AT Gibbons opera house.
Addresses were delivered by Mayor A.
G.. ADAMS, Of Burlington; Judge
J. NJ. Love, of Keokuk, Judge Edward John
ston, Of keokuk. Hon. James +. Martheny,
of Springfield, H., Judge George q. Wright,
Of Des Moines, and others.
DEs MONIES, oct. IA. II. Perry, a de-
f~aulting book keeper of the Eureka Coal
company, voluntarily returned from Canada
with Deputy Marshal Burns. 1t is said that
he was tirea Of Canada and wanted either TO
90 to the penitentiary or be acquitted.
last night. More is needed.
a rtockman going from Illinois to Missouri,
whose name was not learned, had his ltg
fractured by switching cars at the yard this
morning.
Major Anderson, fusion candidate for con
gress, spoke last night.
DUBUQUE, Oct. l5.-Thc house OF Otto Wes-
terman, "A farmer in Norfolk township, Della
war" county, was burned this morning. His
crippled wife persisted. Wcstcrman's neigh
bors rescued his children. 1t is suspicioned
that he burned his house to destroy his wife,
having, il is alleged, been intimate with his
hired girl.
DEs MONIES, Oct. 15-The supreme court
this morning adjourned until Tuesday.
DuBUQUE, Ia, Oct. 16.-The coroner's jury
found that Farmer W~estermyer Of Delaware
county killed his wife and then burned his
dwelling. Lynching is threatened.
Four thousand voters have registered.
FoRT DopGE. Ia, Oct. lotto often had
a preliminary examination at Fonda ycster-
day. He confessed that he killed John Schon
at his home near Pomcroy, in Calhoun county,
on the night of September %. His reason for
doing SO was he wanted Schon's wife. Often
at one time was employed by Schou, at which
time an improper intimacy sprung up between
the two. Mrs. Schon told often to Kill her
husband, then they would get married. Often
is twenty years old; Mrs. Schon Is forty.ivc.
Mrs. Schon pleaded not guilty and was dis
charged.
DUBUQUE, Oct. l6.-Stewarl Johnston in
dicted for cruelty to the inmates Of the poor
house, has resigned, and Chairman Schmitt,
Of the board of supervisors, was appointed
manager. Johnston's sister was appointed
atron.
Iowa Cry, Oct, 16.-Registration passed
of quietly. There is a very full registry, but
the indications are that the vote win not be
as full as last spring.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Oct. lG.-One hundred
and forty-fiye were naturalizel during Octo-
her in the superior court and two thousand
two hundred and thirteen were registered up
10 noon to-day-about two thirds Of the vote.
OTrCMwA, Ia, oct. IL Two thousand and
two hundred were registered. The registry
promises TO equal an average vote Of the city.
CUSTER, oct l6.-At noon today l.l50
voters registered-about threc-fourths the
usual number of voters.