Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-17

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Mrs. Brewer and child were SO badly burned
in a tenement house fire in Clinton Friday
that they died Saturday.
Ackley has good reason To crow over the
fact that the town is out Of debt and has a
surplus in the treasury.
The Davenport Daily Times has issued a
sixteen page edition which is highly credltable
to its enterprise and public spirit.
The tenth annual contest Of the high school
association Of eastern Iowa will be held at
Newton on Friday evening, April 81.
DEBORAH has a big sensation ON hand in the
way OF "A divorce In high life, the parties
being rome other than Banker EASTMAN and
wife.
All the schools in Denison have closed ,his
week on account Of a proclamation by
the mayor to prevent the spread of scarlet
fever.
Forty-nine young gentlemen and two
young ladies graduated from the college OF
Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Febru-
AIRY %.
John Willeford died at Mt. Pleasant re-
Gently from drinking chemical cider, which is
sold in some OF the Iowa towns as a substi-
tute for whisky.
Mrs. G. s. Wakely, OF Cherokee, who sued
the city of Dubuque for 5000 for personal
injuries sustained by a fall in that city, has
been awarded $500.
A young couple boarded the train at Col
umbus Junction Saturday morning and were
married on the platform by a justice while the
train was running to the next station.
DR.. j. A. Scroggs, one Of the professors in
the Keokuk medical college, has been appoint
ed surgeon and assistant manager of the rail
way employees association in New Mexico,
with headquarters at Las Vegas.
DR.. Cory, of Toledo, died Wednesday, the
sth. His wife, who was i'll, requested that
the funeral be postponed until she was dead,
and on Saturday they were both buried.
1t is rumored that the Chicago and North
western talks Of taking up the track between
S~tanwood and Upton and putting in a branch
frou Mechanicsyille TO Cedar Bluffs to CON
meet with Iowa City.
The managers of the Iowa State university
modestly ask the legislature to appropriate
$50, 900 for the purpose Of purchasing "a base
ball ground for the students. The Atlantic
Telegraph suggests the appropriation OF afew
dollars for saws and bucks and let them cxcr-
else on the university woodpile.
Labau Hammer, Of Marshalltown, ageG ~
years, was licensed 10 marry Mrs. Bculah T..
Pcrisho, aged & years. Mr.. Hammer, who IL
quite eccentric, said that "Bcu!ah' was the
way the name Of his bride was spelled in the
bible, but ne refused to marry Beulah until
She promised to leave of the h. man who
kick on a little thing Ike that doesn't deserve
q bride,
Major Alien, OF Mason City, has secured
the contract for building 100 miles extension
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul from
Chamberlain, Dakota, through the Black
Hills. The people along the line In IOWA and
Dakota feel jubilant over the extension.
Should the sioux reservation vest OF Cham
bcrlain be thrown open 70 settlers there viii
be an exodus from all along he line.
A bad collision occurred this morning on
the Iowa Central, two miles north of lIaml-
ton. Both were heavy trains and were going
at a very rapid rate when they colli!cd. The
engineers and Grcmen on both trains saw
their danger and iumaad from their trains
inst IN time TO escape death, Two Of the
brakemcn, Williams aud FErgeson, are IA
tally Injured. The two engines and nineteen
freight ears are piled up in a worthless heap,
The dispatcher at Marshalltowu was ct fault,
forgetting a will train that was running north
OF Mdrshalltown.
Maud Mcdonald was found in her room,
over 1921 East Fifth street, Des Moines, bleed
ing from a wound in her breast, caused by q
pistol shot. She sent for Officer Johnson, TO
whom she said the was sitting in her room
last evening when May Fullison came to her
door with n revolver in her hand and said TO
her, your time has come, , and shot her
through the top Of the right lung. The
officers arrested May Fullison at the Miller
house and took her TO the city jail, but she
dericd any knowledge OF the shooting. The
police .hink there is more than May mixed W
In the affair, and are using their best efforts
to ferret the matter out. The accused Is a
young girl Of bad repute andi is said she had
an old grudge against her victim.
Quite an excitement was created in the 'Q''
depot at Abba Tuesday night by the discovery
OF q young woman dressed in mans clothes.
1t appears that Miss Florence Hough, o young
woman about ~ years of age, formerly q
school teacher, living at S~ielrose, took Il !ntc
her head to dress in male clothing and 90 70
Chicago Oh a lark. Tie railroad detective at
the depot discovered her sex while she was
purchasing a ticket. He arrested her and
took her la q hotel, where the sheriff and de-
~tective searched her, fading Sl31 and a gold
watch. TIN sheriff took her in charge, made
her don her proper clothes and took her,
heavily yelled, 10 her home at MelrOse. The
girl appears Ia be modest, is rather good look
ing and feels keenly the position she has
placed herself In, returning home sadder but
wiser.