Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-06
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A tape worm museum has been started at
Davenport.
Nv. Charles Hale, has been installed dean
OF Davenport.
Calhoun county has nearly 1900 dogs &C
cording to official returns.
Sheldon has twenty.on ono men whose COM
bined weight 10 4 400 pounds.
The Burlington postsface handled cola, O3O
pieces of mail matter during 1885.
Waverly has . Aongolian lsuudrymsn who
answers to the nAme of Yum Yum.
Hog cholera 10 making frghtfu havoc
among tho swiac OF Warren county.
Tho county-seat location still bo.hers . good
many Of the citizens Of O'Brien county.
The trustees OF the insane hospital at Clar-
india ask for $3.50, OC0 to complete the build
Ing.
The board Of supervisors Of Cass county
have purchased l6o acres OF land for a poor
farm.
The Council Bluffs papers complain OF the
utter worthlessness Of the city's Ere alarm
system.
Rev. T. j. Mackey, of Council Bluffs, lect-
ured on tho subject Of journalism Sunday
evening.
The estimated corn crop Of Montgomery
county for the past year Is over 800, COO
bushels.
Jack Karney,a Lyon county trspper, has
taken nine beavers from the Lutte Rock river
this season.
A fne stock breeders association with a
capital Of $1,000, has been organized IN Hum
boldt county.
A convention OF the leading colored men OF
the state has been called to meet of Des
Nome, March Q.
All the saloons q. Independence closed VOL
unfairly on Wednesday, the proprietors fear
ing prosecution.
In an ARRAY with . miner at Eddyvilie, Fri
day night, the editor OF the Record at that
place was fatally stabbed.
The board Of supervisors OF Fayet.e county
found Auditor Spears short In his accounts
and removed him from Office.
The new Presbyterian church at Ireton will
be dedicated next unday, Rw r. Graham,
OF Omaha, conducting the exercises.
David Russell, one OF the pioneers of Chero-
kee county, died at his home in Pitcher town
ship on the 10th inst aged II years.
The great railroad bridge at Ke!,hsburg,
over the Mississippi, will be completed In a
few weeks. The total cost will reach $500, OOr.
George Haikes and WILDER Norris, showers
OF counterfeit In Davenport, were sent to the
pen for two years each, buttered with a fine Of
800.
Convicts on retiring from the penitentiary
this winter sre given in addition TO the Gus
tomsry turnout suit an overcoat and o pair Of
mittens.
Peter Dutell sued the town OF Missouri Val
ley for 5000 damages caused by q defective
sidewalk, but the jury brought IN o verdict for
the town.
A Wabash freight train ran into a car Of
horses On a crossing at Council Bluffs last
Saturday, and killed and Injured several OF
the animals.
While descending the stairway a. bis resi-
dence In Dubuque, Bishop Hennessy fell and
broke his leg. The accident will lay him up
for some lime.
William thompson, a well known grocer Of
Davenport, assigned yesterday. Liabilities,
$l2, coo; asseta, $4,000. The failure Is q
great surprise In business circles.
Senator Carson has introduced & bill into
,ha ,nryalat,ra ran,i~tax ~ ~o.tIo, ,vbo lnsa
hogs by cholera or other contagious diseases
to either bury them or burn them as once.
A bureau FOR securing situations for teach
ers In lows has been established. The com.
mittee having charge of the matter Is compos-
ed of five members from different parts OF the
state.
Ex-Gov. B. F.. Cue, of Des Moines, Is for.
mulstiog plans for a reunion Of sll the living
old Legislators Of the state, the reunion TO be
held in Des Moines come time during the pre-
sent winter.
During the twenty-five weeks that the
Spencer creamery was in operation in 1885 It
turned out 1875, 400 pounds Of No. l butter and
paid out for cream $l4, 10 and for labor In
making $4,000.
The wife OF an emigrant gave birth to a baby
In q passenger train snow bound st Van Horn,
the other day. The little fellow was christened
Blizzard. Tho passc-gers made up y hand
some purse f.r the little stranger.
Da. snport has a family OF musical prodi2ies
IN Masters Charles, Robert, B;rjam.n, Roy
and FRANK Msrkee. The eldest Of these Is not
over l2 and the youngest but years Of age,
and all ere admirable performers on stringed
Instruments.
Eighty feet OF the electric light tower being
built in Davenport tumbled to the ground,
Tuesday. The accident WIS caused by the
breaking OF a guy rope. Fortunately the men
were at dlaner when the collapse occurred,
and no one was Injured.
The Ice 10 twelve - fifteen inches thick In
the river at Davenport, vet IL ia not safe 10
cross on II, as the swift current has cut a num-
Der Of air holes In It. The river ia eleven feet
above low water mark "a condition which has
not been witnessed there In n.dwinter In
twenty years.
A couple Of weeks ago Cora Seymour vas
supposed to have suddenly died while reading
In a school room at Osceols. Physicians ex.
pressed doub. that dsath had actually taken
place, aud on Monday the body was placed In
a v,rit AZ naa Moipas uhara patch "a Eaat n