Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-03
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0A NAo low W.
Jailed.
1t is probable thss Logan will have another
newspaper.
The state industrial school at Eldora con-
tains 340 boys.
The ladies OF Sheldon are working up public
library scheme.
Boone county has 600, 7S5. "a loaned out as
school fund loans.
There are only 434 licensed and registered
dentists in the state.
Illinois parties talk Of starting . WOODEN
mill at Rock Rapids.
The ekatiug rink at Algona has been con-
verted into a livery barn.
There are now $40 BOYS confined In the IN.
dustrial school at Eldora.
The retiring city treasurer at Council Bluffs
has held the office for eight years.
Tie postofice and contents at Armstrong
Grove, Kossuth county, was destroyed by
fire.
Il is estimated that the loss In Greene coun-
ty from hog cholera alone viii foot up fully
$4,000.
A Clinton youth was fined IS and costs for
kicking the captain Of the Salvation army in
that city.
Forty young men In Upton have been ar
rested for gambling and bound over to the dis
{ ict court.
The p~oor-bouse Of Linn county, at Cedar
Rapids, had forty-nine inmates during the
winter months.
There are vacancies In the paval cadetships
at Annapolis from the Third, Fifth, Sixth and
Tenth Iowa districts.
M. Haddix, engineer Of the water works
at Burlington, had HE arm caught IN the ma
chinery and horribly msngled. :
Eight saloonkeepers OF Angus are In jail at
Boone, serving out sentences imposed for vio-
lation Of the prohibitory law.
The Young Mems Christian association at
j Fl 4rson has q theron ghly equipped gymna-
s!um, with al active membership OF forty.
The Dubuque Daily Times has been sold to
II. B. Raymond and H. A Patterson. OF Chi
csgo. The transfer was made on Wednesday.
L. d. Fairburn, chief clerk Of the Illinois
Central railroad at Cedar Rapids was accident
ally drowned while hunting On Monday after
noon.
The wife OF George Fouster, of Breda, forged
his fathers name to a note for 1850, cashed It.
and started westward. The woman 10 only
eighteen.
Mrs. Kate Hogan OF Lettsville, recently re-
ceived t. telegram from Dublin apprIs.ng her
CT the death Of an uncle, from vhom she in
herits something like $4,000.
There was tried recently in the district court
at / Dubuque an action TO recover damages
against the father OF a boy who tied a tin can
to the tail Of a COW Of the plaintiff.
Mrs. N. j. Burk, OF Grundy Center, has just
completed a worsted quilt which contains H.
297 separate pieces. Some time ago che fiu-
ishe | q cali 90 quilt containing 1903 plece 8.
A Des Molnes syndicate rlc ,ntly purchased
. Pact Of suburban pro- erty containing Fix
teen ares, paying for 1t $40 600. A year ago
the same tract could have been purchased for
5000.
Rev. Thompson, pastor of the Baptist
church st ShellSurg, was taken 10 the insane
asylum at Independence. He has been hold
ing a series OF REVEALS, and was overworked.
1t lie bell we'd he will recover after a rest.
Sam Collins, a boy employed In the press
rooms of the Dubuque Telegraph, on Saturday
evening had his right foot caught in the folder
attached to a press, and before he could be ex-
tricated the foot wss badly crushed. lie will
probably be permanently crippled.
At Boone last Saturday, Judge Miracle, in
granting two writs OF habeas corpus, decided
that O saloonkeeper must have a credit Of
1888 per day allowed on bis fine for each days
Imprisonment, and cannot DO kept imprisoned
perpetually unless his fine is paid in money.
James Armstrong, sixty eight years, jumped
from behind q pile OF ties on the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids q Northern railway, near Wal
ker, yesterday, and threw himself under the
or CINE OF a passenger train. His head was
severed from his body. His divorced wife lives
at Cedar Rapids.
Articles OF Incorporation of the Wisconsin,
Illinois and 0 Bridge company have been
fled at Dubuque. The company proposes to
build a steel bridge across the Mississippi one
mile north OF Dubuque, and is backed, 1t is
alleged, by the Chicago, Burlington and
Northern railway.
The heaviest and most destructive snow
storm that has visited Dubuque In the past
five years began there Sunday afternoon ard
continued I'll late Monday morning. The
snow fell to g depth OF over two feet and drift.
ed until fences were hidden from view, and
several frail buildings fel. under Is weight.
The Dubuque Glitter s~'committee Thursday
telegraphed the legislature that In addition to
the l0c-acre farm, valued at $40 per acre, Du-
buque would give $i0,0 900 II the Soldiers
Home was located there. General Manager
Harris, Of the Chicago, Burlington & Northern,
states that his company will also give $1,000,
and more IL necessary.
A mysterious shooting affair occurred at
Des Moines on the 18Th. A woman giving tho
name of Jessie Carter, but whose real name
was Jessie Scarry, was shot by a woman
named May Foster. Both women were in
rnatae Of q house ~ prostitution ard i~e.icy.y
Is supposed to have been the cause. The
rounded woman die d In a few days after the
shooting. The Foster woman was arrested.