Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
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Des Moines.
There are 500 colored voters IN Mshasks
county, nearly all coal miners.
Steps are being taken to organize q woman'i
Relief corps at Sac City.
Luverne, in Koseuth county, Is now without
Q saloon, the frst tim since the town started.
In Elk township. Buens Vista county, 1850
hogs have died from cholera during the past
year.
The engine house at Dyersville, valued at
$500, wss totally destroyed ~ fire last Wed.
ncsdsy.
At Des Moines BARRIERS are fined $50 or are
imprisoned thirty days for working on Sun
day.
Straw is an unknown article in the Daven.
port market. There is none to be had at any
price.
The residence of Hon. D. N. Cooley, at Du-
buque narrowly escaped burning Wednesday
evening.
Mortgages and divorces will be the principal
business OF the circuit court In Carroll county
at the coming session.
Senator Whiting OF Monona county will
plant GAO acres to corn this year. Last year
he raised SO, 900 bushels OF corn.
Two bogus check men have been arrested at
Council Bluffs. When arrested q bogus check
for 81, $50 wSs found In their possession.
Fred Drcscher. Of Burlington, was assaulted
by an unknown man Thursday night and
| ctabbaI L. thn aA III A.
doubtful.
Tony WiprermsD, aged eight years. while
playing on the river bank at Waterloo Wed.
nesday evening, fe into the river and was
drowned.
A three-year-old daughter of Lon Cohen,
living near Mapleton, was bitten by a rattle
snake one day last week, and 1t is feared tina,
she viii die.
Nearly 300 Of the ladies OF Davenport have
signed o petition asking the merchants Of that
city to close their stores at 6 p. m. In order to
relieve the clerks.
Farmers Of Scott county are alarmed over
the discovery OF millions Of grasshopper eggs
which are ready to hatch out on the approach
OF war; weather.
An Ackley saloon. keeper, convicted Of vio-
lating the prohibitory law several times, was
fined In the aggregate 5000 and sent to jail in
default Of pa, ment.
heir to $4,000 in Scotland. The announce
ment OF the "bid'' was followed by the usual
'Do / hear any moref"
At Burlington the other day, Charley Wy
man, with q small rife, broke 963 glass balls
out OF 200 which were tossed from the hand
ut a distance Of fifteen feet.
A Miss LOOMS, Of Nora Springs, took car
bol'c acid with suicidal intent one day last
week, but a physician vigorously applied a
stomach pump and she Is now recovering.
The Salvation army people OF Clinton had a
circus Of their w Sunday evening, and a
number OF the warriors were arrested and
put into the calaboose for creating q disturb
once.
Tuesday night, w. Fl. Mehl, a freight brake
man on the Burlir gton road, fell from his
train and wss run over and instantly killed
near Stanton.
Charles Reagan. a we'll TODD farmer living
near Scranton. was killed b. carbcnic acid gss
Wednesday afternoon in attempting to cletn
out a we'll in his stock yards. The well YVES
about sixty feet deep.
! Cedar Rapids is % .ssible from 81 counties
In the stste Of Iowa without q change OF cars.
There are also 1913 cities aud towns In the state
| urhtab h.ua Jiracf Avn m ,,pfoattOp NTH GaJap
Rapids without a change.
COMMISSIONS Faira,l reports that he Is out
81 Ola 63 by the failure OF the legislature to re-
imburse him for money and lime advanced the
state perft citing and maintaining Iowa's tx-
hibit o. the New o leans exposition.
At Council Bluffs on Thursday, while son @
boys were playing around an old unoccupied
house, they found n partly decayed human leg
lyiDg on the ground 1t is thought somebody
got into ap unpaved street and pulled the leg
off.
Charles T.. Hancock, junior membs y OF the
Wholesale grocery firm of John T.. Hancock d
Son, of Dubuque, aud Miss Marie Young. q
daughter OF W. j Young, a wholesale lumber
merchant of Clinton, were married at Clinton
Wednesday evening.
Col. G. W.. Mabepeace, OF Dunlap, who was
recently placed In custody ia Harrison county
to await the action OF the grand jury for EN-.
bezzlement, has been indicted for the same
offeuse by the grand jury OF Crawford county,
and ia now In jail at Denison.
RI. Rev. Bishop Cosgrove, Of Davenport, re-
turned home from bis tiip to Rome, last Thurs
day. He was warmly welcomed back by all
classes OF citizens. An address Was presented
to which he ~feelingly responded, followed by a
reception at the Episcopal residence.
Mrs. o. Barton, OF Canton township, Ben.
ton county, has given birth to three sets OF
twins inside of four years. The oldest Will
not be four years old until October Of this
year. The twins are all living, and the last
addition makes an even dozen children in the
family.
Henry Lucas, one Of the most respected ctti-
zeDs Of Powesheik county, died at his home
near Ewart on Monday. He was o colored
man, but was In comfortable circumstsuc noes
owDing a fl &c farm. He was born q slave, hu,
while young obtaired his freedom. He had
lived In Powesheik county for twenty years.
Amysterious case OF disappearance Is baf-
ling the Ingenuity of the Des Moines police,