Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-21
Northwestern ITEMS


John Clements, Of Perry, was robbed OF 81.
500 by pickpookets in Kansas City.
Col. j. w. Hammond, Of New Sharon, Is d
! candidate for congress In TIE Sixth district.
A horri Die attempt Of a mother to murdei
her child was discovered at Fort Dodge April6
The Burlington slapped a mortgage on Tile
In Gage county last week to secure u loan OF
8 1900 coo.
p. +. Hardin, a Methodist minister, com
mitted suicide in Greene county by shooting.
No cause is assigned.
%terville, was killed at that place by a ruraSay
with an old and trusted family horse.
Westminster church, Minneapolis, has pre-
sented a $500 horse and phaeton TO DR.. Burrcl
its pastor, who was formerly OF Dubuque.
l.. A. Cobb, a leader Ia the temperance
cause I'm Iowa, and noted AS a lecturer, died
Sunday morning at his home In Waterloo.
The citizens Of Keokuk are holding meet
ings and ''resoluting' against the recent sal
airy grab made by the city council OF that
place.
Spatz, who has been arraigned for trial at
Dubuque, plead guilty to the charge Of biga-
my and was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary.
Brakeman Frank Linerod was thrown from
"A freight train near Boone April +, received
fatal injuries on the head. He was thirty
years old an. unmarried.
The grand jury at Ida Grove rcturned an
indictment against Editor Williams, Of the
Pioneer, charging him wiki libel. The result
is DO surprise to the community.
Patrick Logan, n pioneer resident OF Du-
buque, expired Tuesday, aged Asventy-three
years. He located In that city in 1912, and
during the past few years became an invalid
from palsy.
The Creston Advertiser reports that Mrs.
T. j. Potter. intends to make that place her
residence. Mr. Potter bad a large interest In
farms and Other property at Creston as well
as Ottumws.
The editor Of the Carroll Sentinel had O
fight with one Of his subs cribers last week.
The editor got whipped, out the subscriber
was fined $40 aud costs. On the trial the
subscriber claimed he had paid the bin in
poker chlps--gsve u ''stsck and u half OF
blues"
The dates OF the biennial festival of the
Upper Mississippi Turn-Brzirk to be held in
Davenport this year, has been fixed for the
I'd, 80, 4th and 5th Of June. Entertainment
will be given in the new Turner hall on the
% and 9th, and ,~xercises in the Schuctzci
park on the 81 and At
c. b. Guy, OF Postville, has invented 6
kind Of blizzard telegraph calculated for rs,
between neighbors on the prairies and frOu
school house to the nearest farm house. Il
consists Of "A small wire being he'd or
poles with handles ruY ming Town to grasI
and will slide sloug ON the wire as the person
walks.
A Dubuque freVan stole a watch In the ey
element Of a fire on April /. He hid hi
treasure in an ash heap, but was arrested an(
made to reveal its hiding place. When ar
raigned for trial he plead guilty to taking th'
watch, but claimed thathe was ouly playing
an April fool joke. But the justice couldn'
see the point OF the joke and remandcd hin
Jail for trial.
Two prisoners were pardoned out Of thu
Fort Madison penitentiary Thursday. One
ten years for obstructing a railroad train
had served a little over one-half his term
The other, Thomas johnson, sent from
Mills county, had served about one year OF
Twenty-Five months sentence for IA forgery.
Peter Shoesmith escaped from the Carroll
an,rnty mar hn,,aa Last vaoly uu1 uruu mn,
heard from until he made things lively at Tia,
home OF Chris Hahn, near AUDUBON. Mr.
Hahn, who with his family was sleeping in
the second story, was aroused by his wife who
told him that acme one had broken into The
house. After listening Il few moments Hahn
went down stairs and out doors, and proceeded
TO arouse the neighborhood. The Intruder
roamed in and out Of tue house but did nc
damage.
The supreme court has reversed a decision
OF the Jones county district court that ''givine
a drop OF whisky was q violation OF the pro
hibltory law. The supreme court holds that
the section referring to the giving away o.
liquor as unlawful does not mean the more
act OF giving liquor. but giving with the pur-
pose OF evsding the law and to eyadc the law.
At New Hampton, this state, Judge /. o.
Hatch, OF the tenth district, decided that a
county Is obliged to pay for the services OF
deputy treGsurers; that the law is mandatory
instead OF discretionary, and tina. the deputy
IS the proper party to bring action. The rul-
ing given in the case Of the ex-trcasurcr of
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