Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
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Calhoun has eighteen lawyers.
InliAnola is to have electric light.


I~nlianols is to have electric light.
Calliope 10 negotiating for Q wooden mill.
Dyssrt IL prospecting for an artesian well.
The Anoks grange has surrendered lite
charter.
Muscatine will celebrate her fitieth birth
day on July 4.
A whistling ghost is one Of the curiosities
Of Pacific City.
An Odebolt mar bagged 1876 ducks In one
days hunting.
Alton expects to put up $4,000 worth OF
building this year.
There are 1921 ex-soldiers, sailors and
marines in the state.
The factory girls of Dubuque have Joined
the Knights Of Labor.
MouRt Auburn homes are connected by
telegraph instead of by telephone.
At Burlington the gas company hes reduced
the price Of gas to 81. per thousand feet.
The chief of police at Council Bluffs wears
a handsome gold star, the gift Of an admirine
friend.
The Morning Sun quarry has just turned
cut a asgstone 8 by 20 feet in size, said to b.
the largest In the state.
Mrs. William Tooth, Of Bows, was elected
school director by 100 majority. There vii,
be tootin In the Dows schools now and then.
Gillespie Is the name OF q new town started
IN the northern part Of Benton county. 1t Il
likely TO become quite a manufacturing point
A new coal mine has recently been dis.
covered near jefferson. The vein found II
over four feet in thickness, and the people
thereabouts are highly elated.
During his absence at church, the house Of
r. Austensen, q farmer residing near Kenyon
was entered and $40 taken. Six suspects
are under arrest for the robbery.
Over $40O In counterfeit coin has been dis
covered In circulation at Plano, Appanoost
county. The officers are Of the opinion tina
the counterfeit was manufactured at Plano.
A meeting OF the Iowa jewelers. associa
ton will be held in Des Moines April l4th ant
18th, and preparations are already being made
for the reception OF this important gathering
Dubuque county has 424 ex-soldiers, sailor
and marines now living within Its borders
Polk county haze LAP, the highest number o
any county in the state, and Emmett Al, IT,
lowest number.
At HOLDER, . small town a few miles soutl
OF Breda, IN Saturday, Frank Hoelker,
young boy, was smothered In an elevator. NJ
one knew OF his condition until he had beer
dead for some time.
The editor Of the Booneshoro News is tn
proprietor of a saw mill. He turns all bore
over to his sawyer who gets them into q tus
sic with the buzz, when they lose interest II
all subsequent affairs.
At Msrshalltown l G. McVev shot at Geo
B. Lincoln, q book-keeper. Lincoln was sus
pected by Mcvey Of improper intimacy will
his daughter. McVey was arrested but re-
leased on bail. Lincoln was not hurt.
A peculiar disease has appeared among tn
appear by the animals foaming at the moutl
and grinding their teeth. What the disease 1
no one can cay positively. The disease Is IA
tai In almost every instance.
The employees OF the Northwestern shops a
Clinton, on Monday, raised a purse Of 800;
for the relief Of the family Of their late fellow
workman, Hans Holgerson, whose death or
Saturday left his wife and three children IL
circumstance making such aid most timely.
George and Ed. Burrows, of Bows, were
1 hondlInp nv plt VVtpobautar - II n ubap tho nm
was accidentally discharged, the ball striking
Ed. In the back near the spinal column, theI
going upward, lodging near the base Of the
brain. There is slight hope Of his recovery.
Al Des Moines, officers searching for con,
traband liquors and beer, entered Mrs. Ander
sons boarding house and found the landlady
in bed, and by her side a beer keg. They very
urgallsntly removed the contrsband goods
without giving the lady time to don her ward
robe.
There is q 'dead -lcck" in a case on trial be.
fore Judge Henderson q: E!dora. The defend
ant had no other property and his safe wa,
seized, and he refuses to give up the combina
ton, and the prosecution emit find out wha'
is In 1t. The defendant Is P. Melting, a sa
loonist.
The Mexican veterans at Des Moines are
making preliminary arrangements for theiI
national reunion aud are looking forward te
having a grand, good time. Word has beer
received from General Lew Wallace that ht
will be present, as will other distinguished
soldiers Of that memorable war.
August Heelsburg, a young German ffteer
years Of age, a resident OF Barclay township
Blackhawk county, was killed Monday after
noon. He was 8 tesmster, his horses ran
away. and he was thrown down into the wagon
His head was smashed by striking on q piece
Of timber. He died Immediately.
On Tuesday night, q lamp exploded in tht
hands OF Mrs. McFeeley, OF Creston, sc tier.
ing the oil over her clothing and burning hel
In the most horribl. name her HUSBAND
was absent and her children were asleep, ant
she was either unable to rouse them or did no
wish 70 frigbtsn them. When she was found
she was unconscious. The doctor says sb,
cannot recover.
On Thursday morning the discovery wa,
made that q horrible murder had been commit
ted at Chsriton. A bachelor named Charlel
Archibald lived alone near the c., B. s. Q de
poi. ii hss Sce. known that he had q cons!d
cradle sum Of money boarded away about ht
premises. Early IN the aforementioned
morning Archibald's body was found In q par
&t.lI - 80 L. IL .