Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-08
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publication.
Keokuk will spend $1,000 in improving hel
parks this year.
An s1.msyor Of Creston has gone into tn,
circus bosiness.
Burlington, having eight mail carriers, has
applied for two more.
Storm Lake will soon organize Q boat clut
with q c.pital Of $4,000.
J. K. Mckenzie of Omaha has started
stone yard in Sioux City.
Muscatiae will build Q new jail to accommo-
date her increasing business.
Frank Tabor and Charles Miller have pur
chased the Waverly Democrat.
OF the l6,4S9 persons residents Of Guthrie
county, / 800 were born In Ohio.
Over two thousand saloons have closed
since the Clark law went into effect.
The Sheldon publicschool teachers are re,
qulred to do the work OF the ~janitor.
A meeting Of the railway agents of the state
will take place at Des Moines May IL.
1t is reported that l. N. Kldder, q prominent
Boone attorney, viii remove to st. Paul.
Luverne, In Kossuth county, is now without
q saloon, the FIRST time since the town started.
Cows have been given the freedom of the
city OF Des Moines. The capital ls going to
grass.
Ten tons OF machinery for the new paper
mi. Council Butts were received asst sat
urdsy.
Rev. Mr.. Marshall has been pastor of the
years.
j. II. Shinn Is under arreet at Irwin charged
with an attempted outrage on a lady seventy
years old.
build q system Of sewers In Cedar Rapids will
be voted on May
Mrs. Cslcord got judgment for sl3l recently
against a Denison saloon-keeper for selling
liquor TO her husband.
Geo. F. Brown, q postofice clerk at Ham
burg, has absconded, taking with him abou,
S2z5 Of government funds.
The Creston public school trustees are de.
batting the ACCESSIBILITY Of prohibiting gum
chewing during the hours OF study.
Lightning struck the German Catholic
church In Des Moines Tuesday night and
knocked CT $500 worth Of the sp.re.
A. Scoysl, of Grimes, Polk county, met with
a severe accident on Friday, while engaged
with a farm hand driving fence posts.
The chief OF police Of Keokuk has issued an
order that all gambling houses In that city
must close at once and remain closed.
Mrs. Herman, of Promise City, Wayne coun.
ty, during a sleep walk on the railroad track,
was pitched into the ditch by an engine.
The assessor Of Franklin township, Greene
county, reports that 1900 worth Of hogs
died OF cholera In that township during the
past year.
The Dubuque bar will sntsgon'ze the bill
providing for the holding OF terms OF the cir
cult and district federal courts at Cedar
Rapids.
A farmer living In Lincoln township, Pot
tawattsmie county, recently sold his wife TO
his hired man for 81 so. The wife and hired
man have gone east on o tour, while the far
mer is selling his property and viii remove to
Texas.
Sheriff Mcdonald Of Woodbury. county had
q thrilling experience with a runaway team
last Sunday. Himself, wife and two children,
injury, but the horses, buggy and harness
need considerable repairs.
Romia Gominsky died at Des Moines Sstur.
day evening from locsjaw. Ten days before
he had been swapping q toy pistol and . piece
Of cap Jew out and imbeded itself In his left
thumb. After a week locsiaw supervened
and death finally resulted as above stated.
Harry Pattie, Of Webster City, travelling
salesman for a Dubuque firm, committed SUI
eide on the 9th inst, by shooting himself.
He lad been partially insane for some wee s.
He had always been temperate and borne a
good reputation, but gambling is said to have
been the cause OF his troubles.
A physician at Des Moines prescribed the
use Of beer for o lady In one OF the leading
families Of that city, who Is In poor health, and
an tK pressmsn was employed 70 deliver two
cases Of bottled lager at the house. An anx-
jous informer ard constable followed the wag-
or, and, as the goods were about TO bs deliv-
cred, he seizsd the same and took the express
man in custody. The latter gave bail, but the
beer is still In court
A lady residing at Council Bluffs has had
the lock jaw for several weeks, during which
time she has been unable 70 eat anything.
Her attending physician has kept her from
starving By injecting mali moun Of liquid
food into her stomach. Her tongue Is drawn
back 30 abruptly that the under part Of I,
seems ready TO be torn, and is black in appear
ance. The sufferer does Rot, however, appear
10 be In great pain, nor much concerned about
the result Of her & Fiction.
William Tabke, Of Sioux City, under vent 6
surgical operation Monday that relieved him
OF Q hard cancer and a portion Of his leg
When only q child lie received q severe burn
the scar Of which extended from the heel tc
the thigh, and which had contracted so as u
draw the limb nearly double. He is IS year.
old, and Il he escapes the dar gers that always
beset such an operation, VIII pull through II
good shape, and although minus . leg, vii
also be rid Of one Of the most painful an c
lions that fall 20 tho lot Of mankind.
The Davenport Democrat ssys the Clarl
prohibition law In that city Is already . dead
letter. This Law makes the possession Of
government license primA fscie evidence Of VI