Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-07
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The smallpox has appeared at Grand June
ton.
An a~rtesian well will shortly be sunk at JEFF
ferson.
Sapborn is to have a new grain elevator to
cost 81, 000.
Des Moines policemen are armed with dark
lanterns.
George Wise, postmaster at Hamburg, died
last week.
Bankers report business improving through
out the state.
Dubuque suffered from an $4,000 fire on
the 23d inst.
Cherokee citizens will establish a large cir
o~uiating library.
The lookup at Aurelia has not had an oc-
cupant this year.
The state militia will camp at Anamosa for
a week next month.
There are fourteen apiarics within a radius
OF five miles from Farley.
The Sac county fair commences September
IS aud will continue three days.
The editorial quill drivers of Iowa rus
ticated at Spirit Lake last week.
A'state Congregational convention is To- be
held in Des Moines in October.
Sanborn is to have a new grain elevator to
cost in the neighborhood Of $4,000.
1t Is now estimated that the cost Of the
Brown impeachment farce will foot up $40. 600.
Frank Toll, Of Clinton, was badly burned
10y the explosion Of a gasoline stove recently.
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library OF 1900 volumes, printed in raised
letters.
The wheat crop in northwestern lowe is The
best in quality it has been for a number OF
years.
The decoration work at st. Raphael's
IN the west.
An unsuccessful attempt was made Tues
day night to rob the store Of II. +. Bullens, of
Hamburg.
tn sweet corn crop is almost a failure this
year, much to the regret of the yariou. can
ming companies.
The plans for the new postolice building at
Des Moines are now before the cabinet await
inc their approval.
The first load Of new wheat marketed in the
state was sold in Hamburg at - cents per
bushel last week.
Three Dubuque BARRIERS have been arrested
for violation of the sunday law. A test ease
will be made of it.
VI. l.. Glenn, a Fort Dodge business man,
has decamped, leaving liabilities to the
amount Of 500.
Albert Rogers, OF Valley township, Polk
county, was drowned ia the Dcs Moines river
on the 22d inst.
An elev n-year-old burglar named Calvin
Stubb has been arrested at Nevada and sent
to the reform school.
The Democratic convention for the Sixth
congressional district has been called to meet
at Oskaloosa, Augustl1.
An Iowa farmer suggests that a fast tor
three days will cure any case Of hog cholera
that is not entirely out of the reach Of aid.
The summer season Of 1856 at the Metho-
dist camp meeting grounds at Bluff Park,
just below Montrose, opened "Wednesday,
a two yearold daughter OF Mr.. aud Mrs.
David Chrisman, of Sanborn, fen into a box
Of Stacking lime az Clear Lake and was
burned to death.
4 war is in progress between the boss and
journeymen BARRIERS at Dubuque over the sun
day cloa'ny question, the journeymen favor
ing the movement.
Joseph Brown, aged thirteen years, OF keo-
kuk, recently fell r. the top of a forty-foot
tree to the grou, ., but sustained no other
than temporary /! juries.
A Rock Rapids youth arises in his sleep
every night, and if not prevented will walk
into the country for miles, always returning
to his bed before sunrise.
The premium list Of the twenty-fourth an
nual fair Of the Union District Agricultural
society, to be held at West Liberty, September
IA, Is and 16, has been issued.
A Scranton young lady was stung on the
great toe by a honey bee last week. Her foot
and ankle have swollen and turned black, and
it is feared amputation Will be necessary.
A counterfeit 81 note is in circulation in
northwestern Iowa, OF the series OF 1890. 1t
$ poorly executed and easily discovered, be
cause of the paleness of the ink used in print
ing the figures.
Reports from fifty stations along the line Of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
road show that most OF the small grain has
been harvested with better results than had
been anticipated.
The veterans attending the convention at
Creston August II, Is aud 10 expect to con
sumo 1000 pounds Of hard bread, 5000
pounds soft bread, 10000 pounds fresh beef,
1000 pounds ham, and 400 pounds bacon.
a small boyengaged in hcrding sheep about
one and a half miles north of Bows, fred the
grass to see II ii would burn. 1t did burn,
spreading over a large territory and doing a
great deal OF damage to pasture lands and
grain farms.
Two lie girls, aged tx and ten years,
daughters Of Thomas Hart, OF Dunlap, were
seriously injured lately by a vicious COW. The
youngest one was tossed up in the air several
times, and the eldest, in her endeavors 10 aid
her sister, was considerably bruised.
The state capital building has cost to date
-, 7i5.094. This amount represents the az
grcgated expenditure covering a period of
fourteen years. It will probably require an
outlay of 100000 to finish the building and
properly grade and landscape the grounds.
A bootblack struck Sutherland recently and
proceeded to peaceably ply his trade, but a
coup of nouu tnuohc consolidated tfc nrnsouca