Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

safes, ranges, etc.
The Burlington mayor by a veto prevented
the transfer of the water works In that city
to eastern parties.
Henry Dement,, OF Dubuque, was recently
killed at Johnston, N. Y. His death was the
result Of an accident.
An eleyen-year.old son Of l.. G.. Towne, OF
Creston, was recently run over by a loaded
wagon and injured for life.
Mrs. Carver, her daughter, granddaughter
and eat-granddaughtcr, were photographed
in a group recently at keokuk.
The location Of the Second brigade encamp-
ment to be held in August seems to be be
tween Waterloo and Marshalltown.
Mr.. w. l.. Parks, a civil engineer belonging
at Iowa City, and well known all over the
state, was accidently shot and killed in Mon
tana recently.
Sundays rain was pretty general over the
state, and AS a consequence the crops Of small
grain are looking so per cent. better than they
did a week ago.
The state university Of Iowa has accepted
The Hornaday geological collection, and will
have it carefully mounted and cared for. 1t
Is the finest collection In the west.
Joseph IIaney, living about five miles south
of Wilton, was recently gored by a vicious
bull in such a manner as to cause his death in
thirty minutes after he was rescued.
A heavy bail storm passed about six miles
north Of Atlantic at O'Clock Monday after
noon. The storm was six miles wide. AL
crops were injured from 10 to so per cent.
The postoffice at Hamburg was robbed on
Monday morning of "A tin box containing be
tween 800 and $500, while the postmaster
and employees were watching a circus parade.
The trouble which has so long existed in
the university circles at Iowa City over the
removal OF DR.. IIenrichs from the chair OF
chemistry has again broken out with renewed
vigor.
a committee Of safety has been organized
at Burlington, whose object is to guard, pro
tect and advance the interests of the city, ant
TO be 4 self-constituted advisory board of the
city council.
John and William Level, of Vinton, on Sat
urday got into a dispute about some furnitur,
and a bloody Row ensued. John inflicted prob
ably fatal wounds upon his brother William
with a club.
The bondsmen Of defaulting Treasurer
Ruggles Of Carroll county have been com
PEELED to make good S24, 200, the amount OF
his deficiencies.
Alice CnnLa IA. ta n1sbpAa GIRL who p1ppat
with her fathers coachman at Pittsfeld
Mass, is well known in Keokuk, where she
once lived. Her brother was a travelling
salesman for a Keokuk house.
The fast mail train on the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy last Thursday made the run
from Burlington to Pacific Junction. %;
miles, in four hours and forty-two minutes
an average Of fifty miles an hour.
A fellow by the name of Griffith, living
near the Barclay township line, Iowa City,
who had deserted his wife to live with a pros
titute, was presented with a coat of tar, sane
and feathers and given two days to leave The
county.
Sunday a boy named Calf, aged seventeen
living a few miles east of Nevada, attended {
camp meeting, and while returning home LAY
down by the track and went to sleep. He wa,
run over by the cars and crushed beyond rec
ignition.
The malt house in Black Hawk, -four mile.
west Of Davenport, owned by J. Lehakind ant
operated by Seeler Bros. was totally destroyed
by fire Sunday night. Fourteen hundred
bushels of barley and 5000 bushels Of NAL
were burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, s., 200
DIR. Hessc, a veterinary SUI. geon at Dyers
vile, and Matt Colts, a harnessmaker of tn,
same place, recently had a dispute about
woman, and in the alteration Colts STABBED
Hcssc -four or five times with a dirk knife, anC
the doctor retaliated by biting Colts lowe
lip of.
A young man has been canvassing Boon,
county for picturesque America" taking fol
the same notes from the ladies he visited
These he sold, and it has been discovered
that the notes represent much more than the
value of the book and that the agent was
fraud.
Father Brazil, a Catholic priest, late Of Des
Moines, at his death, willed $40 900 for the
purpose Of founding the st. Ambrose hospita
In that city. The designs Of the donor are
being carried out by the trustees. The hos
pital will be open alike TO the unfortunate OF
every class or denomination.