Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
Memorial Services for the Late Judge
Burt.
The Dubuque injunction Gases to be Car
ried to the Federal Court.
Ground Broken for the Government Build
inc at Keokuk.
Sullivan and Wyman, the Postofice Crooks,
in Custody.
Conductors on the Diagonal Railway
Bounced.

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spite the rainy weather that has prevailed the
total receipts amounted to about x3S, 900,
which pays all running expenses this year,
and with other funds on hand nearly pays all
OF the floating debt, including the cost OF the
grounds and permanent buildings.
CLINTON, Ia, Sept. 13.-Small grain is fine
in this section and 1t now develops that corn
will also be At If not above the average.
erosion, Sept. 8. -Several suits against
permit druggists for selling liquor contrary to
law are pending in this term of the superior
court.
Dies MONIES, Sept. 13-Lewis Apple, edi-
tor OF the Panoro, Iowa, Nidette, shot himself
through the head last evening with suicidal
intent, In a lumber yard at Panora. He died
at 8 o'clock this morning.
DUBUQUE, Sept. | The saloonkeepers
filed a SEQ cost bond and today moved TO
transfer Injunction cases TO the federal court.
Capt. Porter, ship carpenter, committed
suicide with landanum.
KEoKUK, Ia, Sept. 1.-THE work of exca-
waiting ground for the government building
tpIlliltDctilhl morning Win u IafGe force Oh
men and teams.
KEoKrK, Iowa, Sept. Hilary Nelson,
aged sixteen, fell while attempting to jump
from a box ear To another here last night, and
was run over. He is seriously but not fatally
injured.
CLINTON, Ia, Sept. IA. p. ~llosford, for
n long time a prominent business man OF this
city, died OF heart disease on Sunday at $50.
He was a prominent church and temperance
worker and always contributed liberal to his
masters cause.
erosion, Ia, Sept. 1.-THE state case of
White, arrested for forgery, was dismissed on
demurrer. A letter OF recommendation Is
not = forgery under the statute.
MARsHALLTowS, Ia, Sept. l4.-Six of the
seven conductors Of the Diagonal railroad
have been summarily discharged.
7. {. Eldredge, chief dispatcher OF the Cen
trail Iowa railroad, leaves tomorrow to assume
the same position on the Minneapolis and st.
Louis. His friends banqueted him last night.
The city council last night fully sustained
Mayor Ames in suppreseing the Salvation
army and refused to reinstate the obnoxious
policeman, Wright.
Diptheria is becoming epidemic among the
children and deaths occur daily.
DUBUQUE, Sept. l4.-Sullivan and Wynan's
innocence OF the Minneapolis and Northwood
postcfice burglaries WAS established, they
having been in the saltwater penitentiary
when the burglaries were committed They
are still held on the charge of conspiracy TO
burglarize the Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls
offices. 1t is believed that legal evidence will
prove insufficient, though they are doubtless
guilty. Sullivan has been taken to Clinton TO
prevent his communicating with Wyman.
The latter was examined this afternoon. Sui
Ivan will be examined September 81.
Dies MONIES, Sept. l4.-Governor Larrabee
has offered a reward Of $500 for the capture
md conviction Of the unknown parties who
murdered a man in Worth county, near
Moody junction a few days ago; also a re-
ward of $500 for the parties who have lately
been burning buildings at Emmetsburg,
CREsroN, Ia, Sept. l4-In the three days
trial damage case Of Sells VS.. Greenfield, per
NIT druggist, the Jury returned a verdict OF
not guilty with costs.
DEs MONIES, Sept. ia telephone mes
sage from GIinnell says the entire business
portion OF Brooklyn is burned from the eleva
tor to the Downing house. The fire is nov
sweeping westward.
LATER.-The Brooklyn ire is now undcl
control. The loss is $4,000, as follows
Holmes d Son, elevator; Drs. Conway II Bus
by, office; postofice; Geo. Phillips, store
Chronicle newspaper office; seed store
Holmes lumber yard and Office; John Smiths
shoe shop: Ed Smiths icwelry store; Talbot
law Office; Thomas grocery: Sharp * Smalls
household goods; Stober, harness shop: DR.
Carder, Office; DIR. Upton, Office; +. twin
agricultural implement and grain Office; Ia
Wilson's implement depot; First Nations
bank: A. Rollins barber shop; ID. +. Jones
residence: w. /. Holmes, two tenements
Poweshiek County bank: Sharp's agriculture
i'm element depot; A. Roman, store and house
hold goods; Jones * Co, furniture and store
w. |. Stephens, building. The fire originate
in the old elevator from sparks from the Ell
CINE.
CREsToN, Ia, Sept. 15.-Mrs. Miller, wife
a farmer living twelve miles south OF here
suicidcd by hanging Monday evening. Sh
called her husband from the field ~ suppe
At dusk he put the horses in the barn and o
going To the house found his wife hangin
dead. No cause is known.
MARsHALLTowN, Ia, Sept. l5.-The frs
saloon raid for several months was this morn
ing made by the sheriff. Only two were pulled
Montgomery Burt, of Tama City, WAS jaile
here for giving an indian liquor.
The city to-day notified the electric ligf
company that the street lighting contract vi
be- annulled for inefficient service.
2 DEs MONIES, Sept. l7.-George Hagemar
{ a young German, was instantly killed by III
the bursting Of an emery wheel at the Unio
Scale works at 10 O'Clock this morning. IL