Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-27
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at South Ottumwa.
Aresident OF Des Moines recently paid $500
for a pair OF German carp.
Epizootic in q mild form has broken out
among the horses at Ottumws.
An otter Weighing twenty-nine pounds was
killed near Keokuk on Saturday.
A bootleg prohibitionist Is going through the
state selling cures for snake bites.
The clerk Of the C ,urts Of Scott county is-
sued twenty marriage licenses last week.
The order Of knights of Labor In Dubuque
has a membership OF over seven hundred.
DR.. J. A. Ellis was frightfully mangled by q
Rock Island train on q crossing near Dee
Moines.
The young daughter of J. j. Hurries Of Os.
ceola fell into a tub Of scslding water and was
scalded to death.
The Bohemian oat swindler victimizsd the
farmers Of Pleasant township, Lucas county, to
the extent OF 80, 200.
Baxter Whiting of the Napoleon bank, died
In Fiorids, whittier he had gone for his health,
on Tuesday.
A Cherokee minister ofiiciated at one mar
riage and two funerals inside OF three hours
one day last week.
Il. G. Bixby, formerly manager Of the skat-
ing rink at Marion, has been arrested on the
charge OF seduction.
Clear Lake wants q Touring mill. There is
only one mill Of any consequence within q ra-
of twenty miles.
Since the special delivery service began last
October, ga special delivery letters have been
received at Davenport.
The salvation army, which has been at Du.
buque foT about six weeks, has succeeded 10
making eight converts.
Mrs. Sarah j. Moore, postmistress at Taylor,
Potta wattamle county, is Sc years OF age and
is en- ,ying good health.
Eight saloonkeepers Of Angus are In jail at
Boone, serving out sentences imposed for v.o-
lation Of the prohibitory law.
Sheep In Washington county are dying
rapidly with catarrhal fever. One man lost
fifty from that cause In a few days.
DR.. Ball, a ~well-known physician of New
London, WAS found dead IN his bed one morn
Ing recently. Heart disease the cause.
The Germans Of Ottumwa will start a school
OF their own In which their children can be in
In the language Of the fstherland.
David Gavitt of Hopkinton, aged SIS years
walking on the railroad track Tuesday
morning, was struck by en- engine and serious
ly II jured.
At Ottumws Marion Mace has brought suit
against John Huber, claiming damages OF
$4,000, for the seduction OF his wife and the
of her affections, causing separa-
ton Of the family of Mace.
d. Parker Of Humboldt has invented and
a system OF photography for the type
by means Of which a fairly rapid opera.
tor Of the csligraph can write abou. 200 per
cent. faster than with a pen.
The sensation at Keokuk is a horsewhipping
case. Mr.. Cheyilllon went to the theater with
Miss Ogier, and Mrs Chevillion waited az the
door for them, and with q horsewhip castigated
husband. Separation has followed.
Melissa z. Harrison died at Dubuque Friday
morning from the effects OF a paralytic stroke.
She was one Of the oldest settlers OF Dubuque,
locating there in 1888. sho owned e large
amount Of valuable property In Dubuque.
Keokuk is having trouble over the special
business, and a case was recently
decided by Judge ~Jeffries, OF the Circuit
Court, against the city, where the defendant
had no noice from the city Of intent to make
the improvement.
Jordon Lawyer, q farmer OF Lscon, H., on
his way to Nebraska with stock, wasrun down
by An engine In the yards at Burlir gton, Tues
day night, and instantly killed, his body being
cut In wo. He was about S. years OF age and
married, but has no children.
In q drunken brswl at Cedar Rapids Satur-
day night George Foust killed his brother,
John Foust, by beating out his brains with a
pin. He then left the body on the
railrosd track, where 1t was discovered by the
engineer OF a switch engine.
OTTO Hycis, editor Of the Workirgman's
in CrestoD, laid in wait for 3. W..
Brewster, editor OF the Advertiser, and as
Brewster emerged from his Office, Hycks made
a fierce assault upon him. The night before
Brewster had published a chapter in Hycks
The church members Of Avoca have been
progressive euchre and one OF the
most prominent members OF the Methodist So
ciety has been expelled. Tue affair hes ere
ated a sensation. Some OF the members up
hold the Amusement, while others regard It as
very sinful.
There Is not. and there has not been, an
open saloon IN A~ppanoose county since July 4,
1884, at which time the prohibition law went
into effect. There is no. a drug store ia Cen
.terville which handles spirituous or vinous
either directly or Indirectly. legiti-
m ately OF illegitimateiy.
One OF the oldest soldiers Twins who served
the rebellion Ia David Averill, of Sib-
ley. He was born in Westminster, VT, Febru-
airy 6, 1903, where he lived for many years. de
went west, and early In the war enlisted in
Company A, Thirty-seveuth Iowa, served
to the end, and !s a strong, hearty
man
Mrs. Christine Redeker Of Davenport, q wo-
m N 81 years OF age, made a desperate effort
TO commit suicide Sunday morning by hanging