Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-24
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the town schools have been closed.
A new postofice has been established dur
Ing the past week at Ernie, Floyd county.
Fishing by moonlight Is successful pas
time with the sporting men at Des Moines.
The incapdescent electric light plant at
Keokuk will be in operation in about three
weeks.
County Recorder Wiley Of Poweshiek coun-
ty Is dangerously Ill with but little hope OF
recovery.
Some Of the young men Of Orange City
have opened a free reading room In the Y. Nj.
T.. A. rooms.
The Western Iowa Horticultural society
will meet In annual session at Council Bluffs
Tuesday, December II.
A class OF twenty has been organized In
Cedar Rapids for the study o. Longieliow.
Rev. w. A. Pratt is the instructor.
A school boy II years old was taken home
from the streets OF Monticello last week be
cause he was too drunk to 90 TO school.
The annual business meeting of the Du
buque Travelling Mems association whl be
held In Dubuque on the evening OF December
81.
The Des Molnes Capital tells OF a IN
who is carrying around u dead babe wrapped
In an old carpet and Offering to exhibit 1t for
5 cents.
A reward Of S2a5 has been offered for the
arrest and conviction Of the person or per
sons who broke into the Bank of Nicola as
Thursday night.
In about a week the Illinois Central people
pie will occupy their new depot at Dubuque.
The express room will be used temporarily as
a waiting room.
1t is said that thirty-nlne stdents In the
Bible department of Drake university preach
more or less regularly within a radius OF sixty
miles from Des Moines.
Fred Hess, OF Fort Dodge, has interested a
number Of gentlemen of that town in a pro-
iect for establishing a summer colony at Oko-
boil, In Dickinson county.
Secretary shaffer Of the agricultural society
Is at present at work with his assistants pre-
pairing for the December crop report, which
will be the last one Of the season.
The Minister'S association Of Clinton and
Lyons met In the Congregational church at
Lyons last Monday morning and decided to
hold meetings once in two weeks.
Edward p. Hunter, chairman Of the Demo
cratic central committee, has accepted the
general agency Of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad In Des Moines.
Benjamin Dannatt, an old and respected
citizen Of Clinton county, died at his home
in Camanche, on Sunday, of dropsy and
asthma. lie was born in England in 1915.
G. A. Gillian of independence has been ap
pointed agent of the American Express com
pany at Cedar Rapids In place OF Clareuc'
Smith, who has q good position in view GU
west.
Gov. Larrabee has received notice to ap
. point a committee from Iowa to the centen
NAL celebration of the Inauguration OF George
Washington. 1t is to be held In New Yorl
April 80.
The thirty-frs session Of the Rock River
institute of Homeopathy was held at Clinton
last Wednesday. Some eighteen members OF
the society were present, among them Prof.
Il. Fl. Pratt, Of Chicago.
Articles of incorporation have been fled
with the secretary Of state by the Union Hotel
company Of Hull, with a capital stock OF
5000. The company will deal in real estate,
personal property, and will construct, lease
and rent hotel property.
A Burlington man has a curiosity In the
shape Of a mccking bird which he brought
from Texas about a year ago. 1t had at first
q dark gray color, out when 1t shed 1t changed
to q pure white. 1t is a great singer and
scores Of people visit the house to see the
strange songster.
A few days ago w. ID. Skinner Of Des
Meines, received silyerware and clothing
which had been stolen from his residence last
summer The goods were found by a bridge
repairer In q culyert On the Rock Island road
near iowa City, and were restored through
the efforts Of Superintendent Given.
An iowa Falls man has found out a new
swindling method. He sent money to friends
In England and in due time heard Of their
arrival in New York. Later he received a
telegram ostenslbly from them asking that
money be sent to Chicago to enable them to
get back to England, as they were i'll. He
didn't send 1t, and IA few days later they ar
rived. The telegram was the work Of
smooth swindler who had ingratiated himself
In their favor on the train.
A. Z. Elicit. Of Missouri, met with a great
misfortune at Iowa Falls last Saturday night.
He was moving to West Bend, To-, and the
car containing all Of his earthly possessions,
including household goods, a set of black
smith and carpenter tools, ten head Of cattle,
a team of horses, machinery, ETC., arrived at
lows Falls by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern at about s p. m. Leaving the
car for a few moments 10 make inquiry he re-
turned to find all In flames. Nothing but
the horses could be released and they were go
seriously burned as to be worthless. His loss
amounts to $4,000.
A sensations. burglary occurred at lows
City Sunday night. A young lady, a student
Mt the state university, who lives in Prof.
Curriers' house, was awakened by a noise In
her room. With difficulty she aroused her.
self, as the suffocating and sense benumbing
fumes Of chloroform filed the room. Her
indeed, had succumbed, AID was
entirely under the influence Of the fatal drug.
pom making this discovery, and the even
more startling one III at Immediately followed
that there was a man In the room, the young !
lady, as a matter CT course, screamed. The