Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31
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george wise, postmaster at Hamburg, dice
last week.
An l. o. .. r. lodge will shortly be formed
at Ashton.
A motor line depot is in process of erection
at Dubuque.
A starch ~factory win be established at At
lantic this fali,.
A state musical festival will be held at Cleal
Lake I'm August.
A new Catholic school was recently estab.
lished at Hospers.
organ OF the socialists.
A. Todhunter marshals the prohibition
hosts against the saloons OF Carroll.
Col. V. b. Swearengen (greenbacker), has
been appointed postmaster at Sidney.
Bicycle-riding has been forbidden on the
streets by the mayor OF Marshalltown
Tho Iowa State Sunday school association
will meet at Charlton July 2S-9. All workers
in the vineyard Of y)uth are expected.
Hereafter the business places at Pottsville
are to be closed on Sunday by mutual agree
mcnt.
Csdy Dyer was drowned while bathing in
the Mississippi river at Dubuque Tuesday.
His body was recovered.
Mrs. Norton, Of Lynnville, was so seriously
injured by a runaway on Sunday evening that
she died at 1 O'Clock Monday morning.
The department Of Iowa, Grand Army OF
the Republic, will leave for the national en-.
campment at San Francisco on July 26.
Twelve young men of Coon Rapids have en-.
tered into a written agreement to boycott a
young lady of that city for a period of q,
year.
Charles Hurdy, while insane, wandered
away from his home in Des Moines and was
found in a cornfeld near Eldora In nude
condition.
A fierce war between boss and iourneymen
BARRIERS is raging in Dubuque over the Sunday
question, the journeymen wanting the shops
closed Sunday.
The water in the river at Des Noines has
become remarkably warm lately. The Their
mometer on various occasions registered from
50 to S6 degrees.
The wheat crop Of Lyon county is the best
for years, both In quality and quantity. The
only small grain that seems to be affected by
the drouth is flax.
Ashton young ladies carry rawhides for the
purpose Of cowhiding ~insolent youths who
stand on street corners and make insulting
remarks to them.
Some men and boys have been heavily fined
and thrown into jail at hamburg for fishing
in the Nishnabotna with traps, seines, etc,
contrary to the law.
The dry weather has had a bad effect on the
onion crop in Scott county, which usually
reaches 400, 600 bushels, but which this season
viii be a total failure.
Waterloo's system Of waterworks was com
pleted and tested and found to work satisfac-
torily. They are of sufficient capacity to irri-
gate 81, 200 inhabitants.
s. b. Kelrer, city license collector Of Des
Moines, has gone to Minneapolis and st.
Paul to further investigate city license and
other municipal affairs.
Old Dick, a dog that has made the quarters
occupied by the Ottumwa fire department his
home for several years, is dead. His friends
gave him a decent burial.
Charles Daniels, engineer at the Dubuque
pillow works, had his left hand smashed BE-
tween the cumrod and guide recently. Am
p~utation was performed.
4 new skeleton boat has been purchased by
the rowing club at Des Noines, and with it
the boys expect to secure several Of the prizes
offered at numerous regattas.
September /, . and 3 are the dates on which
the Eastern Iowa Veteran association will
hold its eighth annual reunion on the fair
grounds, in the city OF NaQuoketa.
A little daughter Of August Klcmp, of
MaYfeld township, Bremen county, was
thrown from a load OF hay by the sudden
starting Of the team and had her neck broken.
A large bean became lodged In one Of the
lungs Of a three-year-old daughter OF William
Miller, Of Cherokee county, one day last week,
and after three days Of terrible suffering the
child died.
Jacob McQuittv, a colored man near Farm
ington, was overcome by the intense heat in
the harvest field and became a raving maniac
and was taken to the insane asylum at Mount
Pleasant.
The firm OF William Hill & Son OF Spring
vile, near Cedar Rapids, one of the largest
creamery firms In Iowa, failed for $4,000
Wednesday, the cause being a depression OF
the market by the introduction OF butterine
and oleomargarine.
During fifteen days ending une 80 LOAF
applications for liquor were signed in the
town of Allison. The quantity ranged from
half a pint TO three quarts each, making an
average of one pint for every man, woman
and child in the town.
AT the farm house OF D.. l.. Evers0n, in Stan
ton county, Sunday night, Everson quarrelled
with Fred Davidson, an employe, and shot
him in the bowels. Both were under the in
Auence Of liquor. A physician was called and
he thinks Davidson's wound Is fatal. They
had been engaged In playing cards.
3nTh searchers for c. s. Keller, the missing dry
goods merchant Of Dubuque, recovered his
lifeless body in the water near Noore's mill,
not far from the p,.ce where Mrs. Senator Al
lison met a suicides fate a few years ago un-
der similar circumstances.
An exciting occurrence took place on a
street in Des Moines one day recently, when
five teams, hitched to wagons, ran away all at
the same time. Happily but few people were
on the streets at the time. and the runaWays