Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-18
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Ufunuy county ; potato crop IL Il iailurc.
Marion, Linn county, has q woman horse
thief.
The Burlington Hawkeye has donned a new
robe.
Muscatine business men have formed a fair
association.
One hundred fairs will be held In this state
before December.
A sliding. self.acting gate has been invented
by a citizen OF Osksloosa.
Davenport pays $l5, 40 for electric street
lighting; gas cost her Sll eco.
George Dugsn, a Davenport man, was killed
py a fall IN 81. Paul last week.
The levee in Burlington swarms with rats
too large for terriers to tackle.
James Rabbit was drowned while bathing
In the Missouri river at Sioux City Sunday.
At Oskalooss September Is, i6 and II, will
he held the reunion OF the 40th Iowa Infantry.
The new Methodist church at McGregor was
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on the
29th ult.
The new Congregational church being erect
ed at Fort Dodge will be ready for dedication
by December &c.
No arrests have been made as vet Of the par
ties implicated in the murder of the Rev. Had
dock al Sioux City.
Great complaint coKlcs from Davenport con
corning the poor material used in the paving
going on in that city.
A Des Moines business man has brought
suit against the keeper of a gambling houset to
recover So lost at faro.
One night recently burglars entered the
house of David Hess, stock buyer, at Nora
Springs, and secured $3.50.
The Woman's Standard is the name OF a
new paper at Des Moines, published in the in
terest OF woman suffrage.
Charles A. Schubert was instantly killed at
Esrlville September 8 while working In the
Hawkeye Tool company's factory.
The seventh annual fair Of the Northwest
ern Iowa Agricultural s%o"icty is to be held at
Sheldon September l6, /, aud Is.
Gustav Raynor, Of Millburn, was attacked
one day last week by a vicious bull and terri
bly, injured. His breast was almost cased in.
A nine-year-old son Of Mr.. Thoren, OF Wa
%terloo, died a few days ago 0. lockjaw, occa-
stoned by cutting his foot on a CHICKEN bone.
Several farmers In Grundy county have re-
ported that this season they threshed out
from scventy-fve to ninety bushels of oats to
the acre.
The Republicans of the Tenth judicial dis
trict nominated for district judges II. r. Reed
OF Howard, and II. {. T. Granger, Of Allama-
kee county.
H.. Grass is a justice of the peace at Fonta-
nellie. When a farmer wants to try a COW
case before a Fontanellc justice he is told to
90 10 Grass.
TIE lake at Creston is now so low that il
looks like an ordinary toad pond. Two weeks
more Of dry weather and the toads will have
to emigrate.
'Old Tobe,' = horse that went through the
war with Company c, First lows cavalry, was
at the Waukon reunion. He is thirty years
old and his coat is as white as snow.
$1,000 suit has been commenced 10y a
lady against the proprietor Of the Kirkwood
house at Des Moines for damages in falling
through the elevator shaft.
The Hill creameries, fourteen In number,
were sold recently at Springfield. Robert
Wright bought the entire number for 81 ,0'0,
which is 81 200 above the mortgages.
Carroll recently settled a $4,000 lawsuit by
the payment Of 500. Had the suit been ear
ried out, the attorneys fees would have cost
tie city more than the amount settled for.
a farmer suggests that if il is desired to get
rid Of willows they should be cut down some
time IN September. This is the only time OF
after being cut off.
There is a plan on foot in Dubuque 70 build
a second system Of water works, with the
basin on the bluffs near the city. The entire
system will cost in the neighborhood of $225,
600.
Charles A. Schubert, a wagon manufac
turer Of Earlvillc. was instantly killed on the
81 inst, in that village, while operating a
circular saw. A piece of timber which he was
shaping struck him ever the heart, producing
instant death.
A burglar was discovered in Wctherilrs
store, In Carroll, one night recently, and in
order 10 make his escape smashed a plate
SldSs WlHhON III the olpEt lIONI anu Jul1ptu
through. The damage to the building
amounted to $l25.
>. ~. Nichols, a telephone line rcpairer, fell
from the top Of a twenty-five foot pole near
Summitville recently to the ground below.
Fortunately he alighted on his feet, sustaining
no more serious injury than the fracture OF
one Of the bones of his left foot.
A Storm Lake preacher recently prayed the
Lord to either change the heart Of the Univer-
salist minister OF that city or kill him. In his
sermon following the prayer he prophesied
thai the Objectionable brother would be re-
moved within thirty days.
A fatal ~acch'ent occurred on Tuesday to
Charles Rogers, Of Harris Grove, Harrison
county. He was going Town hill On a load OF
hay, when the tongue broke which frightened
the horses and jerked him of the load head.
foremost producing conclusion of the brain
and also severe injury to his chest.
The Iowa Prisoners Of War association met
at Des Moines on the Sth. From President
Russell's report it seems these are probably
$4,000 prisoners Of the last war still living. 4
strong and touching appeal was made to pen
sion the former inmates OF southern prisons.
1t was decided to hold the next meeting in
connection with the next Grand Army en-
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