Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-23
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Ahe scnooA teA VI cOEy county this year Is
$4,000.
Rose Doyle committed suicide at lansing by
drowning.
Hawarden's improvements for the year 1885
amount to s23,5o9.
John Shipley was frozen to death near GRAY
ity, Taylor county.
Ex-Msyor Giles Turner, Of Dcs Moines, died
OF pneumonia on Thursday.
The drug store Of Charles Mills, at Boone,
was damaged 5000 by fire.
The new paper mill in Council Bluffs will be
In readiness for work Feb. /.
Indianola has q man who runs a free bus to
all funerals and public meetings.
The subscriptions to the Parnell fund In this
state up to Jan. ~ were nearly %. O
Marshall c%ounty's new grand jury has IN.
dicted all the saloon keepers of that county.
The stage upset three times In making the
trip between Doom and Rock Valley one day
last week.
Forty-eight arrests were made In Davenport
during December, and lo4 tramps were given
lodgings.
There were AL marriage licenses issued in
Story county during the year 1885, against Ia
the year before.
Henry Teri, OF Creston, while delivering
coal on Saturday, was overcome with the cold
and died Sunday.
The fremont house site at Dubuque has
been purchased by a wealthy syndicate, who
will erect a fye-story brick block.
The ferry boat at Dubuque has been ice
bound on the east shore since Sunday, with no
immediate prospect OF being liberated.
A Rock Valley man has a clock that is l65
years old. The works are made Of wood and
1t is a good tlmekeeper, despite Its great age.
o. r. Coon, American express agent al
fernando, 35 miles north Of Des Moines wss
mitted suicide.
The transcript OF evidence in the RI an muir
der case lately tried In Greene county covers
six hundred pages Of legal cap paper, and con-
tains over 500, 600 words.
A Council Bluffs special says, DR.. Cross,
convicted of murder in the FIRST degree for
killing DR.. McKune has secured a new trial
through the supreme court.
Henry Hartman, living near Wapello, lost
thirteen head OF cattle In twenty-four hours
last week. He is unable to tell whether 1t is a
case OF plague or poisoning.
A large meeting Of bankers, merchants and
business men Of Dubuque was held recently
to take action for the construction of a wagon
bridge across the Mississippi at that point.
During the year 1885 the Council Bluffs fire
department answered twenty-six alarms,
twenty-one Of which were false. The total
loss by fire during the year will not foot up
ever $500 600.
The Cedar Rapids board Of trade is agitatiny
the question Of opening up the marble quarry
located about fifteen miles south OF that city
The stone is susceptible Of q high polish, and
TIE deposit 1. believed TO be valuable.
The executive committee OF the State Tenn
perance alliance has issued n call for a meet
ing TO be held at Des Moii.e s at 10 O'Clock a
M, January 81, for the purpose Of consulta-
ton and more thorough organization.
William Cook, q farmer, was found frozen
to dea'h a few miles from DIS Moines on Sun
day. On going home, ne lost his way, and
Of his own house when overcome with the
cold.
Ar employe Of the Northwestern road, whose
name is not given, attempted TO outrage the
IL. year old daughter OF p. e.. Granger, of Ha-
warden. She knocked the fellow down Will a
milk-stool and screamed go loudly that help
came, but the brute escaped.
Coal has been discovered At Victor at a
dep h Of 300 feet, and that place will soon
nave a coal mine. The prospectors claim the
$1,000 which ths commits sioners some years
ago offered TO any one who would find coal In
paying quantities in that county.
The jury IN the case OF Nate Rhnsbarger,
for the murder of his father in-lsw In Harden
county, rendered q verdics OF murder In the
first degree, snd fixed the punishment at i'm
prisonment for life. Ra nsbar1er was a men,
Der OF . gang OF desperadoes, two Of whom
were lynched at Eldors last summer.
The colored man killed by the cars at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Thursday Of last week, and who WAS
supposed to be Edward T!dham, proves to be
some other person, as Tiidhsm is alive and liv-
Ing in LesvenwoYth, Kan. The man killed
could not be identified, and bis remsirs were
shipped TO the medical department Of the State
university.
the Prohibitionists have called a state con-
venti n 10 meet at Des Moines on the 2l5t.
This convention will determine what is neces-
sary ~ make the prob bitory law more effect
i've, and bring sll possible influences to bear to
induce the Legislature to adopt their sugges-
lions. A strong license lobby will also be at
work, and what the vesult may be is hard TO
conjecture.
Christian Thompson, OF Mineola. Mills
county, being lonesome In his bachelor home,
went to Council Bluffs to find a wife. Making
his wants known ~ a friend, he was intro
daced to u Miss Sorenson, q domestic In q
clearinghouse &c, and, as be liked her appear
ance and she wanted q home, the necessary
arrangements were made. and they were mar
ried at once.
Louis Delisle, o farmer, residing ten miles
from Council Bluffs was frozen to death on
Saturday. he Was thrown out Of his wagon
by his team running away, one wheel passing
over his breast. He was unable to reach a