Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
IOWA.

Keokuk is to have a starch factory that VIII
employ between 200 ann 300 people.
A young mems Republican club at Jefer-
son starts Off in a healthy condition.
&. r. Notson will start a paper at Hamburg
his week to be called the Independent.
Algona has had over 800 cases Of measles
his winter and hasn't got through yet.
John Letter ran a hole-in-the-wall at Gran
Willie and now languishes behind the iron
FI,-.e at Red Oak Friday morning burned q
occupied by C.. :. Moore as & res
John F. Organ, Of Melrose, Monroe county,
tried for the murder Of young Baker, has
been acquitted.
The Bellevue Leader says that Hon. W. A
Maginnis, of that city, is threatened with
total bliadness,
4 young lady was assaulted on the streets
OF Dubuque Thursday night by q tend in hu-
man form, but help was attracted by the
Young lady's cries, and he made good his es-
cape.
There are only two points in the state
where a person can stand and be fifteen miles
from "a railroad. One is In he Northwestern
part OF the stat. and the other in the north
eastern.
The pest house at Ottumwa was fired by
some unknown parties Thursday night and
totally consumed. The house was occupied
by a smallpox patient, who was rescued and
taken 70 u house near by.
Charles II. Covey. a young man, for many
years a resident of Moulton, Appanoose
committed suicide by shooting, at
Bethany, Missouri, on the "a inst. Finan-
cial trouble led to the commission OF the sui.
cilal act.
The coroner's Jury in the case of Mrs. Les
ter, who died very suddenly at Sioux Center
on the morning of February l3, has found
that she came to her death from dislocation
OF the neck feloneously at the hands OF Il per
son or persons unknown
VIII Albaugh was arrested "A few days at
Columbus Junction, charged with firing a
barn northwest Of Clifton early in January.
It will be remembered that "a number OF cat
tie and horses persisted in the FIRE. Albaugh
was taken TO Washington and lodged in jail.
II. s. Brown, wife and six children and a
hired man, OF Mason City, were poisoned on
Sunday evening while at supper. Mr.. Brown
and one of the children are dead. The rest
were supposed to be beyond recovery Monday
night. No cause was known bat an iuvestiga-
tion will be made.
A dissoiutc woman named Mcdonald was
found fatally shot IN Il d~isreputable house in
Des Molnes on the morning Of the 9TH. Sht
accused May Tullison- another woman Of Xix
character, with whom she had trouble, viii
doing the shooting. The latter is under AZ
rest. but denies the crimes.
\ report comes from Merceline shat a mar
named Dick Harness called on a young lad,
named Jackson to learn why she had giyeI
him the shake" During the conversation
that followed, Harness used language tina
caused the young lady To become very angry
and she procured IA butcher knife and at one
proceeded TO convince Harness that 1t wa
dangerous 10 use sach language in her pres
encc.
There are now $40 inmates Of the indie
pendence insane asylum, against $50 in Jan
uary. OF this number 40 are men and "a
women. In February ~ were admitted, j
men and : women and - re-admitted. Tw,
of the number discharged had recovered an
6 improved. The daily average under car
during the month was 500. of which numbe
1886 were women.
Constable Pierce Of Des Noines, and al
assistant named Mercer, whom he has i'm
ported from SiouE City, Wednesday fternoo
seized The enttre stocks Of +. J.. Stubs an
j. s. Mccormick. wholesale liquor dealers
for alleged Illegal sale of liquor, The propri
etors were elected and the premises are il
the possession Of the const1bles. Pierce |
ander bail to appear before the grand jury t
answer to the charge Of biackmail.
The district court at AnaInosa is eng zee
upon a highly sensational case, that OF Mis-
Alta Doad VS.. W. {. Joslyn for breach o
promise of marriage. The parties belong t.
two of the most prominent families Of Ana
mosa. The complainant is "A handsome bru
nctte Of -, very intelligent, attractive anC
popular. The defendant N q widower, age,
~, the son Of an old physician and a man o.
excellent reputati) III and great popularity
The defendant denies altogether having
pledged his VOWS to the fair plaintiff.
John Wedel, a young unmarried man, CO..
mitted suicide Monday night at The home
his widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Nrdel, in
Hinsdale, several miles northwest ( : Ieokuk.
He was found lying In bed at 5 O'Clock in tine
morning, IA hole in the right side Of the head,
midway between the eye and ear, and his
hand on the trigger of the revolver. One OF
his brothers heard the shot and supposing
burglors were around and that luhn had sho..
at them, went to John'sr room aud called, but
got no answer and vent to his " room. II
is supposed the young man committed the
deed while l~aporing under depression OF
spirits, as he was suffering with Brigh.'s dis
ease OF the kidneys and the doctors said the
disease was incurable.
Quite a sensation was created at the Palace
hotel ia Iowa City by the strange actions Of "a
lady STAYING there. About two or three days
ago a woman came 10 Mr.. Brewington's and
requested something TO eat and offered her
services in return. Although she acted rather
queer, Mr.. Brewiugton did not like to refuse
and sent her To the Kitchen To wash
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