Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-02
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The CougT .g~ationalists at Hawthorne, Mont
gomery county, have . lady preacher.
Stephen Burke, q hard-working Eldora
man, has been allowed $3.50 back pension.
z. T. Shepard, Of O'Brien county, gets ST.
200 back pension and IS q month hereafter.
The convention of county school superin.
tendents will be held at Dies koines December
%.
The postoflca ct Neoga has been discontinu.
ed. and all mail for that Office will be sent to
Council Bluffs.
A. H. Barnes b Son, carriage makers at
Grinnell, have failed. Liabilities not stated,
but said to be heavy.
Charles Sbesrer, q promising young son of
Henry Shearer, q farms at Prairie City, COM
mitted suicide with . shotgun.
The Supreme Court decides that local
boards Of health in cities have the power TO
prohibit hog pens in the limit Of the city.
A movement Ia ON foot to close up a por-
ton Of Perry creek at Sioux CITY. The work
would cost $4,000, and reclaim O large tract
Of land.
lows has about 49, COO school houses, valued
at about Gil ,C0O,0OO. There are nearly 500, 600
children IN the public schools and $4,000
teachers.
Fred Rub, Of Dubuque, is the owner OF an
educated horse that walks, PAGES, trots or gal
lops at the word OF command, making all the
fonr motions at the viii Of the driver.
Pleuro- pneumonia has developed among q
large herd Of cattle near Lancaster, and the
state veterinarian has ordered the Y lling
four head and tie quarautiniug Of rest.
Hsrlanites are enthusiastic over o proposed
new railroad, from Defiance Oh the Milwaukee,
to Harlan, aid then Shelby on the Rock Is
land, and terminating at Silver City, on the
Wabash.
Ma or Taylor, OF Crestop, ia getting ready
to start out about the first OF April with q cir
Gus. II Is to be called Taylor's Creston Combi-
nation, aud will require seven cara for trans
portation.
john Conner, the father OF the unfortunate
brakeman killed in the late Northwood acct
dent, has Instituted suit against the Burl.ng-
ton, Cedar Rapids b Northern railroad CT IN
rany for $4,000.
An effort is being made by the people Of
Greenfield to induce the Rock Island onpany
TO extend their Winterset line TO that place, so
that they may be ia direct communication
with the Des Mo!nes markets.
Every year the German colony at Ackley,
the members OF which came from Freeport,
H., make q trip to the cd home In q body,
generally chartering . special for their use.
This year nesriy $50 PEOPLE made up the party.
Mrs. Alvina Flanh1e, of Davenport, has en-
tered suit In the Circuit Court for Is, 900
against Claus Behrens, a grocer, claiming that
he damaged her husband, Peter Flanbue TO
that extent by selling him intoxicating liquors.
Des Moines special, 25: The Supreme Court
has set aside the verdict and sentence of hang.
ing In the case OF DR.. z. d. Cross, for the
murder OF DR.. McCune at Council Bluffs, on
the ground of erroneous instructions Of the
lower court.
Miss Julia Kesisr, q school teacher Of Ben
ton township, Cass county, was fatally, and
Miss Kate Williams seriously, injured by a
oSo"oy VOL hNoA NAhiSa hhhuoy hhsab-
suit of fast driving By fast tsys or their way
to revive i meeting.
Miss Bertha Ahrens, OF What Cheer, goes
out as a missionary TO Lukfata, Indian Terri
tory, under TIE auspices OF the freeGmen's
board OF missions OF the Presbyterian church,
and is supported By the Ladies' Home Mission
airy society Of Iowa City.
AZ a shooting match held at Audubon a few
days ago, a young man by the name OF Frank
Sheridan WAS fooliug with a shotgun, when 1t
was accidentally discharged, the entire charge
taking effect in the back OF the head, scatter
ing his brains on the ceiling and walls Of the
building in which he was at the time of the ac-
cIdent.
Gee. Taylor, OF Waverly, is the OVID o q
seveI-eights bred Shorthorn cow with fol-
lowing record as a breeder: Inside Of three
years and ten month"; she has had seven living
heifer calves, five Of them opening their eyes
IN this world within the last ,wenty-three
months aud seven days, the last pair arriving
last Tuesday night, being the third pair OF
twins. The cow originally cost Mr.. Taylo
$33, and be has realized from the sale OF the
calves $40, aud counting herself and de.
ecendants that he still owns, the number Is
nine, and he says 40 man can buy the lot for
$500.
Representative Murphy, Of Davenport, will
offer three important bills soon. One appro-
PIRATES 81 1000, 600 to begin the construction OF
the Hennepin canal; tn second prohibits the
employment Of convict labsr on public works
or the | ting Of contracts to @ nployers Of con-
Wet labor. The third bill is OF very great i'm
portance TO all applicants for ensions. The
bill makes the fact Of q mans enlistment pre-
sumptive evidence : at he was physically
sound when he entered tina arm 1t used tn
be customary for the ension Oh g to require
Cd applicant to prove his dlsa iity did not
exist before his enlistment Every man be.
fore enlistment had to pass a thorough ex-
animation before the government surgeon,
and to be certified TO a. OF sound heath and
constitution. That bein the fact 10 is pretty
hard on an old soldier TO ask him TO prove
now that twenty-five years ago he was a well
man.
The following list OF Inventions OF Iowa
women ia reported In fron the New Orleans
exposition. All have been patented:
Fly screen door attachment by Phoebe X.
~Lsmbourne, West Liberty.
Photograph album, Viola j. Annie, Spen-