Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-30
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The best hay brings Gil a ton In Burlington.
Wolves are troublesome IN Osceola county.
The fish hatchery at Anamosa is to be put In
good shape.
Ottumwa is working up q soldiers monu-
ment fund.
Cedar Rapids claims to pack more pork than
Cincinnati.
Council Bluffs will put up q starch factory
this season.
Blackleg prevails among young stock in
Clarke county.
Ell Perkins is announced TO lecture at San
born on the 9th.
Fire destroyed five business blocks at TIP
ton, valued at $780, 900.
Ex-Attorney General O'Connor has located
at Miles City, Montana.
Simpson college, at Indiauols, opened for
the winter term with 22l students.
Fort Dodge has voted a pa per cent tax for
a railroad from that place to Eagle Grove.
The Scott County Soldiers association has
completed q monument that cost $lo, 900.
The miners Of the Enterprise Coal company
are out on strike against 8 per cent, reduc-
ton.
On Jan. Z there were 800 convicts I'm To.
penitentiary at Anamosa, 2SS Of them being
men.
Charles Lee, OF Oiebolt, has fallen heir to
$1,000 by the death Of IN uncle In Massachu-
SETS.
The children OF the 8 salvation army at Gin
ton are commanded by a little girl aged ten
years.
The daughter Of G. G. Linnelle, OF DEBORAH,
was burned to death last week. Her age was
l2 years.
The school board at Lisbon has abandoned
recesses durin the forenoon and afternoon
sessions.
The Knights Of ythias OF Storm Lake have
organized a uniform drill corps with twenty
members.
In Keokuk there are 39S more females than
males. There are also 40 widows and los
widowers.
The grand jury for Mahaska county, in SEES
sion at Oskaloosa last week, found fifty In
dictments.
During December Manchester shipped 7S,440
pounds Of butter, 100, 200 poultry and 1850
dozen eggs.
Martin Coonan, who plated the old town of
Emmetsburg, died suddenly at that place last
Thursday.
The school house at Estherv.lle vas fired In
four places u few nights ago, but fortunately
the fires did not burn.
Nearly six hundred sacks OF mail, waiting
for a train for the west, were lying In the post
Office at Marshslltown Monday.
A Des Moines darby canvassed the city with
a paper In order to secure $35 to pay costs In
q divorce case wherein he was plaintiff.
Finch Il Haywsrd's warehouse at Dows, t.
gether with several thousand bushels o. grain,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000.
Mrs. ID. X. lincoln broke her leg by a fall
on the icy pavement at Fort Dodge on We'd
nesday evening while returning from church.
The water gas monopoly of Philadelphia has
purchased the Burlington ges works for $780,
900. Tire meters will nov fly and the ILLS
pile UP.
Michael schUlen fell in front o; a moving
train on the Fort Dodge and Des Moines rail-
way near Grand Junction and was Immediate
Iy killed.
Tae board OF supervisors of Warren county
refuse to grant permits to druggists to sell In
toyicGting liquors for medicinal and mechani-
cal purposes.
There IS a movement on foot TO secure the
passage of a law licensing telegraph operators,
engineers, conductors and other employs
holding responsible positions.
Robert Lowry, of LeClaire, died or the 20th
inst. At the time OF his death suits were
pending ag ainst him for breach Of prcmise Of
marriage, seduction and adultery.
The Baker BaIbed Wire works, at Des
Moiues, refuse to employ any members Of the
knights II Labor. The Knights Of Labor
have declared a boycott against patrons o. the
works.
into possession Of about $1,000 through the
good fortune and honesty OF an old friend
who failed some years ago leaving him In the
lurch as an endorser.
A man giving the name Of NJ. A. High was
arrested In Des Moines Thursday on q charge
of forgery and securing, under false preten-
ses, money from the Central Loan and Trust
company OK that city.
Mrs. Buchanan. Of Mount ULion, recently
repotted her house plants with fresh earth. In
q few days, when brought in contact with the
warm atmosphere OF the room, she discovered
the earth surrounding them to be alive with
young grssshoppers.
Senator Sutton, OF Marshalltown, will intro
duce In the state Senate a bill entitled: An
act for the better government OF cities, OF
which the following is a synopsis: 1t directs
the governor to take cognizance OF the viola
ton of any penal law In our cities and as soon
as he Is satisfied that the law Is openly and
continuously disobey ed he 10 to appoints COM
mission OF Inquiry To report to him, and who
shall serve at his pleasure aud under his d.
rection. Whenever the law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of Intoxicating liquors
is violated In any city or incorporated town,
the governor shall remove the mayor OF such
city or town and appoint his successor, who
shall serve at the pleasure OF the governor IN