Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26
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market with strawberries.
Jennie Ray eleven years Of age was drowned
at Rockford Sunday evening.
Hon. Lafayette Young has purchased the
Des Moines Capital and will edit it.
Mrs. John McElroy, Of Eden, committed
suicide Friday by taking morphine.
The Great Council Of Improved Order of
Red Men will meet at Davenport July 10.
The total enrolment at the Des Moines
schools for the year just ended was 1851.
: There are about 5000 Sunday schools in the
state, with the number rapidly increasing.
The establishment Of a hospital at Des
Moines is talked Of by the Sisters of Mercy.
Ashton, with a female base ball club, is
bnstling around for an opponent worthy Of
her willow.
the mayor Of jefferson has issued a procla-
nation ordering the muzzling of all the dogs
In that city.
A fire at Muscatine destroyed 2, 100000 feet
Of lumber, a lumber mill, a factory and several
residences Saturday.
The Republicans Of the Sixth congressional
district have selected Newton, july g, as the
place and date Of their convention.
Henry Killian and James Ward were
drowned a; Muscatine while out with four
companions in a skiff Saturday afternoon.
A Cedar Rapids man charged his guests so
cents each for their supper at his silver wed.
ding, and the guests retaliated by hiding their
gifts.
While engaged in target practice at Greeley
Saturday afternoon, John Lewis accidentally
shot and killed the target marker, Art Hay
wood.
George J. James, a Shellburg merchant, fell
through a trap door In his store into the Gel.
lar, Saturday evening, and was very badly in
jured.
A Cherokee county farmer was recently fined
Sl and costs for violation Of the law in allow
ing dead animals 70 lag ON his premises TN
buried.
A Red Oak dentist jerks teeth by steam
power. IL the victim survives he climbs on
the neck Of the operator and caresses the folds
Of his ear.
Thirteen head OF imported Welsh cattle,
valued at 10000, were received at the Sykes
farm, near hardwood, Lyon county, one day
last week.
Two goats entered the Lutheran church at
Fort Madison last Sunday and created such a
disturbance that the services were temporarily
suspended.
Two brothers named Mccormick got into a
fight ut Breda over a pillow, when one struck
the other on the head with a club causing frac-
ture Of the skull.
Grant paIp.r nf Carcnp hoe hoop,,n ,in
lently insane. Overwork and anxiety on ac-
count Of poor prospects is supposed to have
caused the trouble.
+. NJ. Clifford, of Edna, Missouri, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at lie Claire
on Saturday. He fell overheard from the
steamer Abner Gle.
The corner stone OF the new Methodist
church at 1ndianola was laid Monday with APP
propriate ceremonies. An address was deliy-
red by Gov. Larrabee.
The postmaster at Rock Rapids is the only
Republican postmaster remaining I'm office In
the Biz Four counties Of the state, Lyon,
Osceola, O'Brien and Sioux.
At Traer, Monday evening, while taking a
cartridge out of a revolver. Arthur Everts shot
lis Sld its, tLt bdIl pdssllS through
his liver. He will probably die.
A base ball tournament will be held at Des
Moines July 3, 5 and d. One feature will be "A
game on the last day between the Chicago and
st. Louis clubs for a special prize of $500.
A precocious girl Of Marion county, at the
time lacking eight days of being eleven years
old, recently gave birth to a fully-developed
male child, and both are alive and healthy.
Colonies of wood-eating ants have been dis
covered at work on the stills OF several Daven-
port houses. They are twice the size of a
common ant and sport a bill like a gimblet.
Some wretch at Abbott, Hardin county, is
disabling valuable horses by cutting their ham
strings. The fellow will get something worse
than ham stringing If the enraged horse own
ers can catch him.
The body Of an unknown man was found
hanging, Thursday morning from a water
tank at Merrill. He had climbed up and
jumped of and died from ~strangulation. He
was thirty years old.
Charlton is to have a treat unsteady in the
shape of a weeks convention, beginning July
IL and closing Friday night, the 18th, with a
concert betting the festival. Prof. ii. S
Perkins Of Chicago is to conduct it.
a Davenport firm Of carpenters last week
made a bracket sixteen feet long and twelve
feet wide, and now they want to know how to
get it out through the eight-foot door of their
shop.
l.. j. Whipple, Of Creston, undertook to
break a mustang pony. The animal suddenly
commenced bucking, and he was thrown with
considerable force to the ground. One ear
was completely torn III, AID his left shoulder
blade broken.
A little babe, Supposed to be about eighteen
hours old, was found in Barclay township,
Black Hawk county, in the road. The little
unfortunate, who did not have a stitch Of
clothing on, was tenderly cared for by the
parties finding it.
They have had n funny lawsuit near Luz
verne, in Kossuth county. 1t seems that a
butcher at Luverne was asked by a farmer if
he wanted a fat COW, and answering affirma-
lively said he would be out in a few days to
get her. Upon going out the butcher found
that the farmer had no fat row and had only
been giving him wind. With this as a basis
the butcher brought action against the farmer
and got a judgment Of IS against him.