Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-04

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Granville parties are putting up a livery
stable.
Grapes are selling at three cents in southern
Iowa, and are in small demand at that.
Track laying on the DUBUQUE and North
western road commenced at Dubuque We'd
nesday.
The depot burnt recently at Denison is be-
ing rebuilt.
A party Of gypsies are e%ncamped near
Dubuque.
A Burlington job printer has been given no.
tice to print no more imitation currency for
advertising purposes.
DR.. w. L.. Began of Hamburg, was thrown
from a buggy recently, and both ankles dis
located and the ends of the bones broken.
The first steel barge on the Mississippi,
made at the Iowa Iron works, at Dubuque,
was launched by Diamond DO Reynolds.
The soldiers OF Clinton are preparing t. go
In a body to the veterans reunion at MaqGo.
keta September l, and a great time is expect
ed.
The Des Moines broad guage street railway
has commenced the construction Of tracks
liOll VIC chil~ IAN GlOuuAiS W lit Wy
limits.
A gang of thieves has recently been broken
uo In Council Bluffs, which was made up of
boys ranging in age from ten to seventeen
years,
In "A great many places in the eastern part
Of the state farmers are already feeding hay to
their cattle.
The pumping capacity Of the engines to be
placed in the Independence water works build
in. is 1000, 900 per day.
The Iowa college at Grinnell gets a bequest
of 1000 under the will OF Phil Carpenter, the
Chicago pioneer, who died recently.
It is stated that the glass works contemplate
erecting q factory on land given them on
the Lyon farm near the fair grounds at Des
Moines.
The state veterinary surgeon has been sum
moned to examine several horscc near Jolley
that are supposed t suffering fron an at
tack Of CHAMBERS.
Mr.. Micah French, a soldier OF the war of
lSl2-l4, and who is ninety-four years Of age,
was am ing the veterans who gathered in re.
union 1t Crestop.
AL Orange City cow fell into a well ten feet
deel one day last week. She was rescued by
means of a stout rope and pulley and was
found TO be uniniurcd
A Des Moines negro gIdertDok to lemolish
a forty-siy-pound Watermelon one day recent
ly, but gave it up after disposing OF twenty
two pounds: An cmetic saved his life.
The Harlan mill was shut down last week
by a fifty-pound catfish getting into the race
and being forced against the gates in such a
manner as to close them, thus shutting of the
water supply.
The dead body Of Henry Wolfe and his
houschccper were found on the Goth inst, on
tie bed in Wolfc's cabin near Cedar Rapids.
It IS supposed that they suicided hy taking
poison.
Gustav P%aulson, aged forty-nine, committed
suicide at Davenport August 20 by hanging.
He attached a rope TO IA cross beam. less than
five feet from the floor, and literally strangled
TO death.
John Garvev, q farmer living north OF Sioux
City, was held up 10y footpads while returning
from town. Finding no money on his clothes
they contented themselves with the groceries
in the wagon.
A quack doctor, going by the name OF Pick
EFT, visited Union professionally last week
His actions were SO outrageous that q body Of
citizens visited him professionally and be
on the evening of August 10 the residence
OF Jacob Gus.il, near Bonneville. sas entered
by burglars who carried of papers aud mort
cages TO the amount OF SIS 600.
Frank Reed was run down by the police Of
Des Moines last week and Gagged. He Is want
ed IN Colorado for murder and a reward of
S35,O go is attached to his capture.
Simon Classy. living near Washburn, was
accidently shot Wednesday afternoon. A
neighbor's girl was handling a revolver when
it was discharged and the bullet took effect
in his body, inhicting a fatal wound.
Deputy Marshal Burns, Officer Ell. Smith
and Detective Ed. Johnson, all Of Dcs Moincs,
recently effected the capture Of Frank Reed,
wanted in Colorado for horse stealing and
murder, and for whom a reward Of $500 has
been offered.
A party OF siyty-fve Of the leading gentle
rlen and ladies of Clinton and Lyons, the
guests of Mrs. Artemus Lamb, went to the
caves, ten miles from Maquokcta, in Jackson
county, Wednesday, and had an enjoyable
time.
The state fair premium list contains the fol.
lowing special notice: "All propositions for
games of chance, including wheels and sales
Of pools for the races, will bs rejected by this
society. Gambling of every nature and form,
and wine, beer and other intoxicating liquors,
will be excluded from and about the fair
grounds
Ralph jenkins, Of Persia. was riding on a
separator one day recently when the team
started to run, tipping the machine over in
such a manner that tx fell partly under it.
His lower iawbone was broken and two ribs
were Knocked loose from the spinal column
1t was at first thought impossible for him to
recover, but at present his condition is quite
favorable.
Railroad employees who live in Des Moines
have formed n N~on-Swearing Knights asso-
citation. The order has many good features,
among which is an obligations 10 abstain from
the use Of profanity and to render assistance
to any brother who may be thrown out OF en-
ploymcnt from any cause whatsoever. The
Initiation fee is only one cent and the assess