Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-15
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Daven port has 24O saloons.

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Cedar Rapids INDUCES In pie sociables.
Ashton Lutherans will build q new church.
There are 7oS old soldiers in Boone county.
Cherokee has q Farmers Alliance assocla-
ton.
Boone servant girls are striking for more
pay.
An opera HOUSE, is on the tspis In Charles
City.
Sheldon thinks Of holding . shooting tour
lament.
A large beaver was recently killed at Cedar
Rapids.
In some places about Cherokee frost is two
feet thick.
J. Seeman has been appointed postmaster
at DenisoL.
Afemale barber does q rushing business at
Dubuque.
sigourney will shortly build a sl5, 600
school-house.
There is talk OF establishing a German pa
per at Council Bluffs.
Clarinda has decided 20 invest $4,000 in a
wsterworks plant.
Horse thieves are uncomfortably numerous
In the vicinity OF Creston.
A clock two hundred years old is owned by
Mrs. Garretson, Of Creston.
A paying vein OF coal has been found at
Iowa Center, Story county.
Rev. A.. c. Stillson, of Ottrmwa, is an en-
thusiastic lover Of the bicycle.
Twenty-Five cyclone caves are in course Of
construction in Council Bluffs.
One-halt Of the inmates OF the Linn county
jail are ssloon-keepers by trade.
Davenport has contributed $1,000 to the
cyclone sufferers at Coon Rapids.
George Turner, Of Bedford, ate three dozen
raw eggs on a wager. He Is q hog.
John Finn, of Waukon, was tried and &C.
quilted Of illegal voting on Thursday.
Page county veterans will hold q two days
reunion some time In the near future.
A club and reading room has been estab-
lIshed by the business men Of Spencer.
The Council Bluffs high-school building will
be lowered forty feet to get 1t on grade.
A Massachusetts gentleman will shortly
establish 9 starch fsc:ory In Msrshalltown.
Mayor Chapman, Of Council Bluffs, &C.
casionally assumes the role OF a policeman.
Scott county distributed $3.50 worth OF food,
fuel and clothing among its poor last month.
James Ozark, q seventeen year old lad OF
Des Moines is said to be an hsbitual drunkard.
Capitalists are trying TO get a charter for a
new street railroad through the Des Moines
city council.
Fire In the Fuley Il Loetcher Manufacturing
works at Dubuque caused damage to the
amount OF 1880.
Several prominent gentlemen Of the legal
profession at Waterloo propose to nominate a
non partisan judicial ticket.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Hull have unitedly been
chosen pastor of the newly-organized church
Of the Spiritual Era at Des Moines.
Boys under sixteen years OF age are not al
lowed on the streets after dark at Burlington
without the consent Of their parents.
The Augustsna college at Des Moines is
about completed. The building and grounds
will cost in the neighbornood Of $4,000.
An enterprising farmer has started a mush-
oom patch near PASSPORT, opposite Nebraska
City. He fnds a ready sud p. Profitable marke,
for his fruit"
Des Moines builders complain OF the search
ty of hard brick. Several are said TO have
contracts for louses which they cannot finish
because Of the famine.
A couple Of tramps undertook to run the
town Of Rock Valley the other day, but the
citizens turned out with baskets full Of eggs
ahd put them to flight.
The internal revenue collections in the state
for April amounted TO $2tS. l59sS. Prohibl
tlon does not appear to affect Uncle Sans
business IN the least.
Keyston, station on the Chicago, St. Paul
and Minneapolis road twenty miles from Go.
dar Rapide, was wiped out by confagratior
on Saturday morning.
On Wednesday Matt Joyce, 3 merchant OF
Emmetsburg, was shot dead By Z. j. Larkin,
city marshal. The trouble grew out OF a dis
pute about an old account Lark!n owed Joyc,.
Several large farms In the neighborhood OF
EpSnCcT Will Ictuhlu uAwOIhcu Iulb year, DC
the owners have hired on. TO work on the new
railroads that are being built IN Nebraska and
Dakota.
Mrs. John B. Thorp has commenced suit at
Lansing against four saloon-keepers for lam
ages for the d ,ath OF her husband. She claim
$40, 600 each for herself and two children, tl20-
900 In all.
A large number Of farms IN the vicinity Of
Spencer will remain uuworked this year, the
owners having hired out TO work on the new
railroads which are being built in Nebraska
and Dakota.
As illustrating the force OF q small or ct
falling from a distance, q shot dropped from
the dome Of the state capitol at Dee Moines
made a clean, neat hole through the inch glass
floor In the rotunda.
The soldiers home commission reached Des
Moines Monday evening, having made q trip
Of observation 10 the several towns competing
for the location. A ba lot was taken soon after
their arrival and one own In each congress
sional district got one vote.
The existing difficulties at Davenport Re.
tween Deere & Co. AMI the grinders and pol
ishers, thirty In number, were settled Monday,
the company acceding to the demands OF the
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