Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06
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A snun factory has been started at Boone.
Tams county is overruu with hog cholera.
Creston pays is mayor 3 salary OF SO a
year.
Waterloo win vote q tax TO establish q free
public library.
a company is being organized at Creston to
prospect for coal
Twelve ~saloonkeepers are drying out In the
Marshalltown jail.
An effort is being made at Council Bluffs TO
organize q musical union.
Edward Clark, q Burlington fsh peddler,
committed suicide last week.
The citizens Of Malvern hays organized q
Town Impio vemert company.
The estimated expenses Of the schools Of
Burlington for 1856 is $4,000.
The grain mon or Sutherland In toe last SIX
months shipped 457 cars and stock.
Marshalltown has withdrawn police protec-
ion from The Salvation army meetisgs.
The Touring mill at Missouri Valley last
| year consumed 1900 bushels OF wheat.
It .s said that Iowa has A, 900 tenant farm.
ers, ap average Of about 40 to each county.
Cherokee county has at present s65,0c0 Of
school money loaned TO farmers in the county.
Not less than five hundred persons will leave
Clay county In the spring TO work upon rail
ioEs.
The new opera house at Washington has a
seating capacity Of nine hundred and cost
s3s, 900.
Cedar Rapids city council Is composed OF
eighteen Aldermen-two from each OF the nine
wards.
New coal discoveries have been made near
Collins, Story county, and jefferson, Greer
county.
New coal discoveries have been made near
Collins, Story county, and Jefferson, Greer
county.
j. {. McCauslsnd and wife, Of McCsusland,
Scott county, celebrated lheir golden wedding
recently.
An Earring doctor has been arrested fol
stealing q human skull from a drug store II
that place.
An Ackley man has jus. shipped three thou
sand muskrat skins to Europe, TO be used IL
making kid gloves.
Thomas a.. Fitch and wife, Of Waterloo
aged respectively SO and IS years, celebrated
their golden Wedding last week.
One night recently dogs got into a fock O.
sheep belonging to q farmer near Cresco ant
killed ffty-four OF the animals.
Franklin Prentis, CT Beloit, claims to be N,
Oldest settler in Crawford county. He located
In Crawford county in the spring OF 1Si9.
Nuscatine has entered suit against tn,
Rock Island for over &2s, 0C0 damages for fail
ure TO grade . street and establish mschin,
shops.
J. c. Pates, who stole Q o. an OF horses anG
a sle'gh at Bloomfield q few weeks ago, wss
convicted and sentenced TO the penitentisry FOL
four years.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road company will complete the work II build
ing q double track through Iowa on It's MAR
line this year.
The Iowa Soldiers home would be accepta
~ ~ SlhISuotibDNb DuIilURlOD, IOIihA, DcI-
~ferson, Carroll, Spirit Lake, Sioux City enc
other points.
Lewis Intermill, q brakeman on the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, was run over ly ht'
train and instantly killed at Lake City on Tues
day. BE caught his foot IN a frog.
Prohibition pumps are fashionable In Des
Moines. Worked by bsrtenders, beer comes
out; but let an officer Of the law take a hand a
the pump and only water comes forth.
The discont!nuance Of Lee postonfce, Fl
Union county, has been ordered, IN conse
quence OF there being no candidate for post
master. The Office paid a salary Of s.,
year.
Polk Wells, the notorious murderer" and
bank robber, who 10 serving Il life sentence II
the Fort Madison penitentiary, has written &
book about his life and trials which Is now II
the hands OF the printer.
Large quantities of black walnut timber are
being cut IN Fremont county and shipped &c
Liverpool, England. The wood Is Of the finest
quality, and is sold at $50 per thousand feet
as 1t stands In the timber.
Walter FITZGERALD, who was sent to the re
form school two years ago for the killing Of q
young man IN Grand Meadow township
Cherokee county, died two weeks ago. His
death Was FASTENED by the horrors Of his crime
c. J. Campbell, Of Des Moines, has q very
old document In the shape Of an almanac. II
Is Of Irish origin, was published In 17lS and
has been handed down for two generations.
It's owner value 1t a. highly As be would q
small farm.
A msn giving bis name % Johan Emil Booge
was arrested at SAiiX last week for the fradu
lent possession and use OF . draft for tsS2, be.
longing to The j E. Booge Packing company
at Sioux City. The above name IL supposed to
have been assumed
The new railroad bridge over the Mississippi
river at Keithsturg, Hfty-eight miles north OF
Davenport, is completed, and the first train
crossed on 1t last Monday. The bridge proper
is 2, 055 feet in length. The superstructure is
Of iron and steel. IL is . truss bridge with q
swing draw.
JACOB Mum, who has lived IN Linn Grove
Linn county, for more than forty years, called
ct the bank in spriDeville, the other day, with