Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-01
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which meets every morning.
The fire at Stanton Sunday night destroye,
property to the amount of $l3, 500.
There will hove to be more sheds put up TO
the state fair, as all the stalls in the clever
horse barns are now taken.
A cloudburst at Ottumwa Wednesday morn
ing neatly drowned out the Wapello county
fair and made sad havoc In the city.
Prof. p. 8. Hull, who died at Banning, Cal
~ifornia, several weeks ago, was one OF the
first white children born In Calhoun c0unt,
A horse al Keokuk died of fright last Tues
day. 1t was standing near a boiler when
steam was blown of, and making one juml
fell dead.
Theodore J. Rolling, one of the leading
business men Of Marcus, was found dead In
his bed last Saturday morning. Heart dis
ase was the cause.
The Swedish settlement know as Swea In
the northern part of kossuth county numbers
abont 500 souls and Is in a very prosperous
opdition.
Crcston Will have a baby show Mt their fair.
kfne silver table set, In elegant case, will be
awarded to the p~rettiest youngster under =
ears OF age.
May Clark, an employe OF the Pauly house
at Burlington, committed suicide Wednesday
evening by taking carbollc acid. She had
quarreled with the cook.
The Cedar Rapids water works ~reioices In a
second ~artesian well and will not have TO use
henceforth the Cedar river water, whose puri.
ty is Of a questionable character.
A laborer employed In repairing the roof OF
the Illinois Central round house at Waterloo
THURSDAY morning fell from the roof into a
circular pit In the center Of the house, strik-
ing on his head and shoulders. He will die.
Ben Most, "A laborer u orking on tho New
berry farm, was killed near Cassvilie, Du-
buque county, Wednesday. He was intoYi-
Gated and was caught On a trestle bridge.
Five trains passed over him, cutting the body
into bits.
The Pottawattamie county board Of super
vlsors will order the Chicago and Northwest.
ern railroad bridge over Pigeon creek, north
OF Crescent, removed, unless the plling which
obstructs the creek shall be drawn and the
bridge differently arranged.
The work of swinging the first span across
the river on the Council Bluffs and omah
bridge has been commenced. The work Is be
ing pushed forward as rapidly as day and
night work will DO it, ana within sixty DAYS
the bridge M be completed.
Popular feeling at sheGandoah would not
allow the burial OF Frank Gallup III the prom
neut lot of the Gallup family in the center
of the cemetery, and so the body was buried
in the potter's field.
Any one knowing the present whereabouts
OF Frank Spitzka viii confer u favor on his
wife ~ telling him she wishes to see him.
Also send his present address to Mrs. Clara
Spitzka, Atlantic, 10.
People of Clsrinda bored for water and
found 8 vein Of good coal Of considerable
thickness. The people Of Burlington are In
no danger Of finding anything that lies more
than three feet under ground. SO says the
Hswkeye.
A man named Russell, near Rodman, Palo
Alto county, had one hand badly shattered
by the premature discharge OF his gun q week
ago last Sunday, and II has since been ampu-
tated at the wrist.
The Burlington Gazette r~ejoices over the
act that there are over fifty places In that
ity where a glass Of cool lager beer can be
had without making the purchaser feel like
he was a p~erjurer and a sneak.
On the 10th OF June the postofice at Paris
Linn county, was robbed, and last Friday a
nadia ~ o1n+has onptaipjpp coma NJ tho |
stamps stolen was found under a log in the
woods six miles north Of Cedar Rapids.
Two men named Kelly had been drinking
ogether at Fort Madison all day Friday and
sturday morning one Of them was found
dead in the outskirts Of the city with his
throat cut. The officers are In search Of the
other Kelly, who Is supposed TO be the muir
derer.
A Muscatinc woman went to sleep with a
water melon rind tied on her face to improve
her complexion. A burglar entered the room
that night, saw the apparition In bed and was
80 frightened that he was paralyzed, and was
found In That condition In the morning. He
has since become a raving maniac.
An entirely new feature for Iowa fairs will
iiliohhNSu at ~ NcuheF Aai
next month. The management have arranged
for q grand barbecue on the grounds. A.
choice u steer as car be purchased In the
county will be roasted whole, and all who at
tend the fair will be invited to the feast.
A. NJ. Bruce, a creamery man OF Ringgold
county, claimed to have been robbed several
weeks ago Of 81 900, a considerable portion
of which belonged TO other parties. The
other day just az he was starting on a trip TO
he was arrested. and had 500 on his
person. He paid the claims against him
A teamster named Williams, while attend
Ing 10 his horses at Dubuque last Monday,
kicked IN the face by one of them and In
some manner thrown under the animals feet,
horse tried to stamp him, when Williams
pulled out his pocket knife and stabbed him
twice In the side. Assistance anne In a short
time and the injured man was taken 30 d
physician, who dressed the wounds In his
1t Is thought the horse will die. The
door Of the stall was all over blood when as
sistance reached Williams.
State Auditor Lyons has received a letter
from a prominent citizen of Marshslltown
asking whether the Michigan Farmers Field
nd % rdap Seed cptpnapy which thu writer