Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-18
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In u railroad collision at Dow City on thr 2nd.
The Central Iowa has a record OF not a
single passenger being killed in the past ten
years.
s. p. SINNERS barn, in Sanborn, was
burned on the 3Oth ult. Loss, $1,000; in
surance, $500.
The governor has reappointed DR.. John &.
shradcr. Of Iowa City, a mcmbcr OF the state
board OF health.
Over 100 persons united with the several
churches at Washington as the result Of the
revival at that place.
Judge Brennan granted perpetual injunc
tious against a batch of ~saloonkcepers at
Clinton Monday.
Rev. Van Wagner delivered a sermon at
Crcston sunday night on Newspapers and
Newspaper Men"
Only three indictments were found BY the
grand jury Of Linn c0unty at the present term
Of district court.
Thomas Lily was badly injured at Cleye-
land Monday while blasting in a coal mine,
but he viii recover.
Two parties were arrested at Muscatine and
I nlltu III tdNil LOT NlsNNlbllE lNlI@ibb9 ~ '
ices sunday night.
The third annual convention Of the lows
state assembly Of the knights Of Labor met
at Des Moincs Tuesday.
Oskaloosa is going to have a coal palace,
whatever that is. Coal palaces are not com
men where coal il 81 a ten.
The Charlton Patriot wants g.. W. Eusley,
IF that place, named as Mr.. Collins successor
on the railroad commission.
The piers for the new bridge across the
Cedar river at Waterloo axe finished. When
completed the bridge will cost $32, 0OO.
Mrs. ID. p. Cox, of Clinton, dropped dead
from paralysis last Monday. She was an old
resident Of Clinton and highly respected.
Eighteen patients have been transferred
from the independence insane asylum to the
asylum attached to the Mercy Hospital at Du-
buque.
Cedar Falle II TO have "A system Of water
works. The money is raised, the contract
let, and the work is to be completed by June
10Th.
Another effort Is being made In Cherokee
county to secure the pardon OF John Fire
slime, sent to the pcnitentiary in 1852 for in
ccst.
Conductor Stewart. Of the Chicago, -.
Paul and Kansas City road, was instantly
killed by a rcar-end collision near Marshall
town Friday night.
The public schools nj Washington have
been closed on account Of the prevalence Of
scarlet fever, aud all public meetings have
been suspended.
Two freight trains collided near Atlantic
Tuesday morning, completely demolishing
both engines. Engineer Gray was seriously
mjuad and will hardly recover.
1t is said that Grinnell never had a drinking
saloon, and a suggestive fact is that no one
from there has been sent to jail, the poor
house, or the pcnitentiary for twenty-cigh'
yeprs.
Mrs. Walter G.. Parsons, Of Burlington
who went to Chicago 10 have a tumor re-
moved, died from the effects Of the operation
She was twcuty-throe years old and had been
married four years.
The Y. NJ. G. A. building in Cedar Rapids
will bc 10 feet on First avenue and As feet on
First street. 1t will contain two store-rooms,
be three stories high above the basement, and
bui Of brick, with terra Gotta trimmings.
1t Is reported that the Julien house, in Du-
buquc, has been sold to a stock company who
viii rebuild the old part Of the house. The
purchasers are said 10 be c.. f.. Wales, l.. ID.
Stout and b. +. Linehan, and the considera-
ton $G2, 800.
The $4,000 residence Of Henry Price, q
jeweler of Des Noines, was destroyed by fire
Monday. The furniture was mostly saved.
The house was insured for 81, 600.
Having run Bohemian oats about as far as
they could, the swindlcrs are now booming
Swedish oats as the next humbug. Farm.
ers will do well TO let them alone.
Mrs. David Sprague was badly burned al
Clear Lake Sunday, her clothing being ignited
by a gasoline stove. Her husband happened
to be present and quenched the flames.
Seneca Morgan, "a prominent Fremont
county farmer, was found dead in his yard
with the back Of his head beaten in. He was
IA bachelor and lived alone. The cause Of his
death is a mystery.
Dubuque mas passed an ordinance pro
hibiting the safe Of watcred or adulterated
milk. Also one requiring all sleighs to be
provided with bells 10 prevent accidents To
pedestrians.
Ira Miller and two young ladies were sleigh
riding near Garden Grove Thursday. aud
while on a bridge the horse became fright
ened, throwing the whole party To the depths
of the ravine, a distance Of twenty feet. The
horse was instantly killed. The young ladies
were badly bruised, but will recover.
A young Bohemian girl at Cedar Rapids has
been detected OF swindling in sauer kraut.
Her mode of operation was visit the residence
and deliver ) or 10 cents worth Of kraut and
inform the ladies that their husbands had
sent it home, for which they were 10 pay 81
cents, The scheme worked all right till she
struck a widow who gave the snap away. The
girl is under arrest.
Fan" Burns and james Foster, the alleged
Tiskilwa, Illinois. hank robbers who have
been in jail at Clinton, were given over to De
~tectives Mapkenstein and Foley by the district
court, as the application for a writ OF habcas
corpus has been withdrawn. The detectives
linked them together and drove with them to
Fulton, Illinois, where they took a train for
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