Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21

A Des Nome. gas company has sold ont to
a Philadelphia syndicate.
The cars on u Des Moines street car line are
manufactured at Waterloo.
Goudy & Co., Marion merchants, have
failed. Liabilities, -, 300; assets, 81, 500.
gymnasium is to be put up in conaec ton
with the public schools Of Cedar Falls.
Miss M. Cole jumped from the cars between
Shenandoah and Keokuk and was killed.
Kansas Mcdonald, 3 Centerville gil, has
been acquitted of the charge of infsnticide.
August is considered the bes, mon til In the
year IN this state for the planting II ever
green's.
a fire at Fort Dodge damaged three frame
stores on the public square TO the extent Of
about $1,000.
Track layers on the Des Noincs and North
western have reached Riceville, Mitchell
county.
John Weliing's orchard Of 1000 fruit trees
near Cedar Rapids, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 81, 200.
Attorney General Baker says the new reg
istry law applies only to cities Of the first and
second class.
Strange Bros. 81 Hudson, of Sioux City.
are cutting their grass lands and putting up
about : coo tons of prairie hay.
Injunction suits were brought against five
firms at Esthervillc last week, alleging that
they were violating the prohibitory law.
Two quite prominent citizens OF Plum Hol-
low were arrested in Dcs Moines 10y a police
man who mistook them for sneak thieves.
Three young ladies OF Council Bluffs donned
mems clothing and went Of On a lark. Their
parents bailed them out tue next morning.
The month of July wa. the dryest on record
in Iowa for twenty-five years. No rain has
fallen at Iowa City for scventy-eight days.
The ~tri-state old ~settlers' reunion will be
held AZ Keokuh Wednesday, October ~. The
pioneers OF Illinois, Missouri and lows viii
be present.
During the week ending Tuesday noon
there were thirty-six real estate transfers re-
corded in Sioux City, representing a value Of
sl3O,6l7.50.
The Republicans Of the Sixth district have
nominated Hon. John A. Donnel Of Keokuk
county, for congress. His competitor will
- llh'iN ~ iph a. ID weaver
The lowest bid for the erection Of the sol
diers' home at Marshalltown is $40, 600 higher
than the sum available for the building, ne
cessitating a modification Of the plans.
Mrs. Otto Schmid, of Dubuque, while PIE
nicking near a bluff was struck on the back Of
the head by a rock which rolled from the top
Of the bluff to the bottom, and received fatal
injuries.
Some one in Clinton one night recently be-
came angered at the tresspasses Of a predatory
gang OF geese and slew twenty-one Of them,
leaving their decapitatcd bodies in a heap in
front Of "A church.
While at a picnic Mt knights Springs, near
Dubuque, last Sunday morning, Mrs. Otto
Schmid was fatally injured 10y a stone which
was rolled from the hilltop by some careless
boys.
The husband OF Mrs. Adelia Becttger, who
WAS supposed to have suicided by jumping
from the Mississippi river bridge at Daven-
port, has been held for the murder OF his
wife.
The Fairfield anne NJ. Il. McCrackin &
Co., proprietois, have been compelled to shut
down owing 10 financial embarrassment. Liza
hiiities are said to be 100000 more than the
assets.
cJudge James Burt, Of Dubuque, died at his
home in the Key City on Monday evening,
aged scventy-six years. He settled in Du-
buquc in 1876. The bar passed appropriate
resolutions.
The First Iowa infantry met in reunion at
Davenport Thursday, in commemorative Of
the twenty-hfth anniversary Of the battle of
Wilson'S creek. Ex-Gov. kitkwood delivered
an address.
A sharp named Hanleyg formerly Of Clar-
india, is travelling through the state working
Odd Fellows lodges. The journal OF that
place says he is not an Odd Fellow and warns
all lodges to beware OF him.
Hancock's elevator, containing 8, 600 bushels
Of grain, burned Saturday night at Oakland.
The Avoca Are department responded to a call
for help and succeeded in combining the fire to
the elevator. Loss on building 5000.
Harry Gilmer, formerly OF Dee Moines, the
principal witness in the anarchist trial at Chi
cago, is a son Of Secretary Gilmer, who was
killed by the explosion OF the big gun on the
Princeton, Of Fortress Monroe, during .he adj
ministration Of President Tyler.
Lawrence McGarvey, OF Eagle township,
Black Hawk county, was attacked by highway
men last Sunday while going home, and
robbed of the fine horse that he rode. The
animal was recovered, but the robbers es-
capped. Mr.. McGsrvey was not badly injured.
The Iowa G.. A. r. has 316 posts and a mem
bership Of 1900. Last year the mortality was
only seventy three-a marvelously low record
for a class Of men who we're subjected to the
privations OF the most destructive war ever
known on the continent. The department is
in a sound condition financially, having on
hand 81, 140.24.
At Anita, Sunday, just after the Rev. A. A.
Whitmorc had pronounced in the pulpit Of the
Congregational church the words: at Is true
we have passed from death unto lifc,' he fell
dead, presumably from heart disease. He was
sixtv-nine years old, and had formerly been
pastor Of the church in which he died. a wife
and six children survive.
A strange freak Of nature, a result Of the
dry season, i. attracting attention. About