Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19
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Corn is two and q half feet high In Clinton
county.
A Masonic temple will shortly be built at
Madrid.
The reform school at Mitchellville contains
100 girls.
A Lehigh coal company puts out five hun
dred car loads daily.
Diphtheria prevails in a thickly settled vici-
mage near Glidden.
Persia is seeking to become the county seat
OF Harrison county.
A vein Of coal has been discovered at Marys
vile, Benton county.
Centreville has not had an arrest within It's
limits for five months.
3John ID. Harris, a miner, was killed by fall.
ing slate at Ottumwa.
The seventeen year locusts have made their
appearance at Davenport.
j. b. Harrison is raising 5000 chickens on
his farm In Lyon county.
The Railroad Section Foreman Is a new
venture at Mount Auburn.
Wolves are very numerous and troublesome
In portions OF Scott county.
The trustees Of the soldiers home will meet
ut Marshalltown on the 18th.
Boonsboro has a cornet band with a woman
at the small end Of each horn.
Burglars entered the postoffce at Elkader
and took $500 worth of stamps.
An emigrant wagon passed through Water
loo last week drawn by four cows
Cholera, or a disease resembling it, is taking
of hogs in the vicinity Of hardwood.
The only German Dunkard paper in the
world is published at Grundy Centre.
Glandered horses are causing some trouble
to the farmers in the neighborhood of Ottum-
wa.
Des Moines has $225, 900 OF outstanding
warrants, which are drawing 10 per cent.
interest.
There is a prospect Of a new depot being
built at Council Bluffs by the Union Pacific
company.
All the contracts for the S125, 900 court house
to be built at Davenport have been let to out
side parties.
The good people Of Cedar Rapids are seek
ing to expunge its only resort where gambling
Is carried on.
Newton Mcbride, Of Creston, lost three fin
gers of his right hand in a cylinder press one
day last week.
During the past year there were $500 hogs
shipped from Buchanan county, representing
a value OF $3.50, $50.
There Is n prolonged howl being heard at
Dubuque because COWS are allowed to roam at
will about the park.
Eight bulls belonging TO Carleton Kelly
of Sweetland, were instantly killed by light
ming one day recently.
Dickinson county farmers are being swindled
by the cloth peddler, who obtains notes on
promises of cloth to come.
Gen. Geo. Crook, the famous indian fighter,
will attend the veterans reunion to be held at
Creston August II, Is and 10.
Clarinda is happy over the announcement
that the Burlington road will build a large and
convenient depot at that place.
A pony kicked an ear of +. NJ. Anderson,
Of Fair1nont, recently, but a skillful surgeon
sewed it on in its proper position and it is
doing well.
The body of Henry Hayzlett, who was
drowned two months ago In the Cedar river,
near Nashua, was recovered one day recently
near Plainfeld.
The colored people at Oskaloosa have set
apart Sept. % as a holiday for the observance
OF the anniversary of the issuance of the
emancipation proclamation.
John Kruble, Of Vining, recently descended
into a well and cut his throat SO that he fell
into the water some ten or fifteen feet. His
body has since been recovered.
The annual camp meeting at Spirit Lake
will June % and continue eight
gelist, will have charge Of the revival services.
At oxford early Saturday morning a tramp
entered the room Of the Rock Island railroad
agent and at the point Of a revolver robbed
him Of $40 in cash and q pistol. The tramp
escaped.
John Oliver, Of Black Hawk county, who Is
seventy years old, has been as happy as a
Young husband during the past week over a
thirteen-pound girl. His wife is past fifty
years OF age.
The pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church
at Burlington is much annoyed by the infatua-
ton exhibited for him by a young female of
his flock, and she Is to be sent to the Mount
Pleasant asylum.
At Lawler, Chickasaw county, on Monday a
young man named McNally was thrown out of
a wagon in a runaway and fatally injured.
The wagon passed over his head, causing con
sussion of the brain.
John Glenn, Of Sherman township, Monona
county, planted a field OF corn May Z, and on
May 81, just "a days after, the corn measured
twenty -four inches in height, a growth on an
average of an inch a day.
Great Indignation is being manifested al
Pattersonville over the recent scandalous re
lations of a local physician with a milliner
The people gathered en- masse Tuesday ant
burned the doctor In effigy.
There Is some excitement at MarshalltowI
over the fact that the names OF several promi
nent politicians, lawyers and journalists o
Marshall county have been forged to applica
tions for liquor at the drug stores.
A company is being organized to work tn
alleged gold mine On the farm Of Christian
Shirk. near shannon, Carroll county. II |
claimed that the ore assays 81 800 per ton
DIR. Valentine, of Lenark, and Mr.. Shirk, tn
owner of the land, will hold three-fourths o
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