Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-10
IOWA,

A Catholic church is to be built at Esther
vile.
The Argus is the latest newspaper ventur,
at Ashton.
There are ffty-six relief corps of the G. A. X
In the state.
Oskaloosa Is to have new gss works and
paper mill.
Fort Madison is soon to have Q new potter,
establishment.
The Sheldon barber shops will hereafter be
closed on Sundays.
An opera house to cost Sos, 900 will DO bull
at East Des Moines.
The Catholic society at Kingsley will build q
fine church this year.
A calf was born at Spencer last week which
has neither eyes nor tail.
The Christian denomination will build a S.,
600 church at Spencer this year.
A new town named %Lefingwell has
been plated In Audubon county.
The state Turner society will hold IT'S annual
meeting at KeokuK on April Is and 26.
A scheme to build q three hundred barrel
roller Touring mill is on foot al Waterloo.
The skating rink at Algona has been remod-
eled and is nov in use as a dry goods house.
An effort is being made to establish a pork
packing house on a large scale at Burlington
By the accidental discharge OF a gun George
Robinson, Is years old had his arm torn off OF
Thursday.
The Dewitt council has passed an ordin-
ance forbidding barber shops to do business
on Sunday.
The new $l9. 900 school house to be built al
Algona this year Will accommodate i've hun
dred pupils.
Eight ~saloonkeepers of Angus are in jail q,
Boone, serving out sentences imposed for VIC
lation Of the prohibitory law.
A little boy aged 5 years named Willie Hart
man, was killed while crossing the railway
track at Belle Plain last week.
A small boy had his leg crushed In the rail-.
way turn table at Madrid a few days ago, and
died from the effects of the iojury.
Robert Rawlings, aged S years, of Persia,
Harrison county, had his left forearm taken
of in a corn shelter q few days ago.
The conviction Of Sam Rlgg OF Hardin, who
played Mormon with his WIFE sister, has
been approved by the supreme court.
8 8. Smith, of Burlington, sues TO recover
$4,000 OF Christian Geyer, proprietor Of the
Union hotel Of that city, for selling Smiths
minor son liquor.
Pattersonville voted on incorporation last
week, the measure carrying by q majority OF
ten. 1t was also decided that the name OF the
incorporated town shall be Hull.
At a debating society held near DIN, Jones
county, some rough threw an ink bottle and
struck the president Of the meeting, B. +.
Stout, in the forehead, inflcting an ugly
wound.
While on their way to q wedding party near
Wall Lake last week, Mr.. and Mrs. Gsbel dis
covered that their little baby was dead. 1t
had been wrapped up too closely and was
smotherec.
Frank Smith has brought suit against the
city of Fort Dodge for injuries sustained by o
fall In au alley on account of an obstruction
placed there by a city officer. He wants &c.
600 damages.
Judge Traverse fined Martin Dooiev of OF
tumwa 500 for contempt OF court for disobey-
ing al In junction restraining him from selling
liquor. In default Of payment he will have to
serve Ave months In jail.
A farmer OF Sheridan township, Carroll
county, went hunting last week. his gun being
'loaded for bar" He captur I'd his game,
however, and that evening he had a new son-
in-law, and All hour later the son-in-law was a
father.
Fl. NJ. Hoxie, vice president and general
manager Of the Missouri Pacific railroad, and
who is now so strongly fighting the strikers on
that line, is q native Iowan, and was brought
up at Fairfield. he was known on the road as
Hut Hoxie.
In the case of w. Fl. Whitsett against the
In the district court at Oskaloosa, for damages
in the loss of a leg while in the company's en-
ploy, the jury fonnd a verdict for the plaintiff,
and awarded him $1,000.
ohV1iD piptncI; Vi MhunlhR, uhS just ubu n
large beetle extracted from his ear which
crawled In there twenty. four years age, v lille
Mr.. Ginther was on the battle fields Of Ken.
lucky. His hearing, which has been imperfect
during the time, is now as good as ever.
Two "Bohenjan oats" %swindlers, named L..
p. Waters and V. e.. Tuttlt, were arrested at
Charlton. and made TO disgorge two notes for
500 and $3.50 each, given by John Funk and
w. 7. England. They were released on per.
sonal bonds CT 81, GOO each, ard skipped the
country.
II Is stated that q new own will be laid out
on the Milwaukee road about half way be-
tween Akron and CalliCp to be known by the
name OF Garnetville. The railroad company
will soon put In side tracks and stock-yards,
and an ei.v Ator Will be built during the com.
ing summer.
Fourteen years ego Louis Resene, Of Paulina,
deposited $500 IN a Chicago bank, and shortly
afterward the cashier skipped, leaving the de-
positors out In the cold. Last week Mr..
Reeene was notified that payment was being
made to old depositors and that he would re-
ceive what was due him.
The general topic OF conversation among the
gossips of Calliope for the past week has been
tho y,Nv, nnan ~. ha tptaA Hhfa -ank In Hka