Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
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SanDOrn Is advertising Tor u good kOur
mill.
The public library OF Burlington has 1850
readers.
Skunk river is so low that it can be smelled
a mile inland.
Wires for the electric lights are being strung
In Cedar Falls.
Franks, a Dubuque butcher, is under arrest
for cattle stealing.
Nutting parties are the fashionable thing
now at Burlington.
A Caxton circulating library has been
opened TT Dell Rapids.
BWoodbury county's floating debt has been
reduced to about 800.
J. C.. lIogin, a prominent business man OF
Sigourney, died last week.
John Evans, a Logan attorney, has been
convicted Of embezzlement.
The Cslliope creamery turns out $500
pounds OF butter every week.
The Calliope creamery turns out $500
pounds of butter every week.
The Beat 'em All barb wire factory at Cedar
Falls began operations on the 10th inst.
The fifteen year-old son OF Mr.. Hall, OF
Smithland, was thrown from a colt Saturday
and killed.
The Northwestern Iowa conference of the
Methodist church will meet at Webster City
September %.
Des Moines society is al broken up over
the elopement Of a well known business man
and a neighbours wife.
The American Glucose company works at
lows City have closed down, throwing out OF
employment 100 hands.
The Eleventh district Democratic convrn-
ton to nominate a congressman Is called to
meets al Lcmars, Sept. 30.
Otto Nobling, a hardware dealer at West
Side, inade an assignment Monday. Assets,
$500; liabilities, $1,000.
Mary Sheridan. wife of Bartholomew Sheri-
dan, one of the oldest settlers Of Dubuque,
died Sept. q of heart disease.
At Cascade q young man named Crowley
tied the hands OF an old German lady behind
her back and outraged her person.
a plan is ON foot To locate about 100 fami-
Lies AT hardwood III the western part Of the
state, where "A religious colony will be insti.
tutcd.
Q A Cherokee dealer last week figured up his
profits On soda water and ) cent drinks for
the season, and discovered that he was over
$500 ahead.
One night last week some scamp broke into
Christ church, in Burlington, and stole tn,
silver communion service and the fine Bible
that lay on the pulpit.
Thomas Whcelock committed suicide neal
Mason City. He had considerable wealth an,
lived in. elegant style. What prompted til,
fatal step is unknown.
On the night OF the 9th inst. a span Of larg,
barn, in Rhodes. A reward Of 800 is offered
for the capture Of the thieves.
The internal revenue collections for the
Iowa district during the month OF Angus
amounted to Sl9i, 235, "A, Of which amount
Sl16, 1850 was for spirits and $S,5e1.25 fol
beer.
Bishop Perry, OF the Episcopal diocese OF
Davenport, was presented with IA statI, made
Of wood from the noted cathcdrals Of st. Da
vid in Wales and lambeth in England, il
honor Of the tenth anniversary OF his ordina
ton.
At Keokuk is told a hair-rising ghost story
in which it is stated that the spirit of one Ton
Connery, a brakeman who was drowned in tn,
canal last spring, makes regular midnight Wis
~itations to his old haunts, mach to th~edisgus'
Of his former companions.
A real old-fashionel game Of base ball, was
played recently between two Davenport clubs
one made up of married rlcn and the other 81
single. AT the end Of ths seventh inning, ant
after four hours OF har,l labor, a score of - t
% had been accumulated In favor Of the sin
gle men.
The female prisoners in Polk county iai
made a desperate attempt to escape confine
ment one night last week. They took a can
die and burned a board in the ceiling SO tha'
a good sized hole was made in the floor OF tn,
treasurer's Office above. They did not sue
ceed In getting the hole large enough To IS
cape.
While switching In the rain at Hancock.
Lewis Brown, a new brakeman on the Carson
branch Of the Chicago, Rock Island and Ps
N'hN ANYWAY "At'iHPtNN h""hN O. NoulihS
and got his hand crushed between the draw
bars of the cars. Part OF the hand has since
been amputated.
Over 100 good citizens OF Maquoketa re
Gently, becoming incensed at the manner OF
life carried or in a den OF iniquity, attached
hose to a hydrant and turned a stream OF
water into the building. The inmates left IL
a hurry, and only returned the next day tC
pack their goods and place them on tn,
train.
Thomas Wheelock, an old ard respected cit
izen Of Upper Grove, Hancock county, set
fire to his house Sunday night and then shot
and killed himself. The house and contents
were valued at e., 500, and were all destroyed
His wife had commenced action against him
for divorce and alimony, and this is supposed
TO be the cause OF his deed.
The Burlington insurance Company, OF Bur
lington, Iowa, offers a reward OF 800 for tho
best practical design for a tornado cave, plane
to be submitted TO the company on or befor,
December 10, when they will be forwarded,
unopened, to Lieut.. Finley, Of the United
States Signal Service, Washington, d.. c.,
who will pass upon them and a~djudicate the
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