Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04

Cherokee has no %to6oggan slide.
The srtesian well at Spencer IS now TO fec
deep.
Farmers get s. per ton for hay In Hardin
county.
davenport has ia saloons which pay the
1880 per annum.
The Abel house, at Abel, was destroyed By
fire Sunday morning.
Rock Rapids wants some one 10 build a few
more tenement houses.
Davenport has 173 saloons which pay the
city 81, 800 perannum.
The latter day saints are holding a protrac-
ted meeting Mt Kingsley.
The Sioux City postoflce handled 1854, 600
in money orders last year.
The mayor of Ottumwa sent seven tramps
o the stone pile Monday.
A Sac county man recently shot q jackrab.
Dit which weighed fourteen pounds.
A pianois a recent addition TO The cover
nor's reception room at the state house.
The Secret Temperance alliance will hold a
convention at Des Moines February 5.
Burlington plumbers are away behind In
their work, and the pipes are still freezing.
The Upton well ia 800 feet deep and being
lowered at the rate OF about forty feet a day.
Emma Rhoades, of What Cheer, tried u
suicide by taking laudanam, but was oumoed
out.
Phil Armour has succeeded u compelling
Davenport butchers to buy their meat OF
him.
The CRANE jury ut Denison some days agoin-
dicted every saloon keeper and druggist in that
place.
Davenport reports ffty-seven cases of dipth-
liberia and seven Of scarlet fever thus far this
month.
Joseph Vorwick, a teamstcr was killed by a
sandsllde at Fort Madison Monday, aged 60
years.
There was a big wolf seen providing around
near the Catholic cemetery Saturday at Mus
catlne.
Mrs. Ann Williams, of Seyastopol, Polk
county, has been adjudged insane and sent to
Mt. Pleasant.
Cedar Rapids liverymen had a bonanza
Sunday, as the day was delightful and the
%sleighing good.
A man named Elliott fell dead Tuesday at
Pacific Junction. He was visiting two mar
ried daughters.
The attendance upon church services in
Muscatine is said To be much more general
than formerly.
A potato race at the rink is what the Her
aid calss the attention of amusement seekers
at Council Bluffs.
Six plain DRINKS, and as many lodging at
the public expense, was the size Of it at Des
Nome Monday.
/. n. Ream, who was run over by the cars in
the switch yard at Burlington a few days ago,
was buried Tuesday.
Twenty enlistmcnts In the regular army
have bees made at the Davenport station
since it was established, December 3.
Dubuque was visited 10y a slight earthquake
on last Saturday evening. 1t lasted six sec
onds and was distinctly felt 10y many.
An exploration for n frozen water pipe on
Broadway at Council Bluffs Tuesday showed
that the ground was frozen to a depth of five
feet.
Mr.. Mart Campbell, while cutting ice at
Des Moines Monday, died in a moment and
NshIOui IL Dltlil'HN = " dlulllE. nc ltdNGs u
wife and child.
Morshall county IL on the up hill financial
ly. Treasurer Trcadwcll has just paid s., 900
of the court house bonds and 1000 OF the
poor fund bonds.
Davenport is having a serious time with
her court house. The walls have cracked
and the lone has settled and some fear that
the fine edifce is an irremidiable ruin.
Anton Heeb, the head OF the Hecb Brewing
company ut Dubuque, died Tuesday at the
advanced age Of seventy-seven years. lie
had been In the business since 1916.
Thomas Shocks, Of Cedar Rapids, was
thrown from his sled Saturday and suffered a
his residence and properly cared for.
Mrs. Wencil Balloon, of Cedar Rapids, has
become almost uucontrolably Insane. She
has six children and her great desire Is to
kill them and thus send them back TO God.
"A late capture OF Constable pierce, OF Dcs
Moines, consisted Of thirty-threc pint bottles
and eleven two-gallon jugs Of whisky, and a
large amount Of bottled beer and other stun.
Rev. Fred Harris caused quite a sensation
at Atlantic b. seyering his connection with
the VI. T.. church at that place and accepting
the passionate OF L Presbyterian church ut
LcnnoX, No.
Articles OF incorporation have been fled
the secretary of state by tho Lake View
Medical Spring society with a capital Of 81 $50
and the Sioux City Cat Meal company with a
capital OF $75.
The Warren county grand jury adjourned
without finding q single indictment. This Is
something new in the history Of the county,
and 1t might be added that there Ia not a sa-
loon in Warren county.
Ed Healy, Of Muscatine, was the victim OF a
severe accident last Monday. He was break
ing a young colt when in some way 1t turned
and kicked, breaking his right forearm and
bruising him up badly otherwise.
Burlington manifests "A pardonable pride in
the completion and dedication Of the new s3g,-
900 Presbyterian church at that place. 1t II
said to be one Of the most elegant church cdi
fees In the state, and what is better, il Is paid
for.
AT the great sleighing carnival at Omaha
Friday there was one individual in the Couu-
ell Bluffs party who attracted much attention.
He uae lrfyipp a 1iiapifatai fupla a+.a.haI I