Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
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road.
Keokuk's new hotel will be opened January
Is.
There are mine literary societies in Ossa-
loosa.
There are 4,4es school children ia Sac
county.
Cherokee has been made a division on Hae
Central.
The Nonpareil predicts a real estate boom
In February.
Newell parties shipped fifteen carloads OF
cattle last Monday.
stor, county disposed Of 169 marriage
licenses during 1881.
]. w. otley, a prominent Des Moines eth
zen, died on Monday.
Henry Schmidt win be hanged at West
Union ON Friday the 18th.
Davenport has invested 81 100000 in i'm
provemeats the past year.
John Riebock, OF Manson, raised 1000 hush
els Of corn on seventy acres.
Judge Wright, of Des Moines, Is confined
TO hfs room with Rheumatism.
A coal company will begin operations at
Oskaloosa soon after New Years.
Hardin county has been called on to pay
S3,I1a.37 as costs in the R~ainsbargcr trial.
The Dubuque First National bank has de
clared a semi-annual dividend Of ; per cent.
Black leg Is causing the death Of many cat
Gle In the vicinity southwest OF Auburn.
Dewitt people are happy nov that its dozen
saloons are In the throes Of dissolution.
Kingsley grain men are getting very Inn
patient on account Of the scarcity of cars.
The colored people regulated themselves on
'possllm during the holidays at davenport.
A little daughter OF W. H. Leathers, Of
Maplcton, had her arm broken by a fall a few
days ago.
The execution OF Schmidt, the Fayette
county murderer, is postponed until the 18th
of January.
Shorty who attempted torun a gambling
house at Hawarden, has been arrested and
placed under $500 bonds.
Two thousand drummers paraded the
streets of Davenport last Wednesday clothed
In straw hats and linen dnsters.
The Masonic building association OF Stuart
has filed articles Of incorporation with the sec
rotary OF state. Capital, 5000.
The Orphanage home at Council Bluffs has
lost by death an average Of one a year since
its establishment five years ago.
Fifteen hundred head of cattle have been
dehorned In the southern part Of Osceola
county during the present winter.
The Shelby District Agricultural associa-
tion has paid all its debts and has q balance
of sexenty-fve cents In its treasury.
The completed tax list Of 0'Brien county
shows the total value OF real estate to be
s. ,405, 1886; personal property, S209,s45.
Wolves are becoming quite troublesome in
Hardin county. The supervisors are being
urged to increase the bounty on scalps.
The total valuation of Boon county is 81
612,0l9, and the total tax is $i4 ,340.49, an
syerage assessment OF IA trifle over 3 per cent,
There were 1876 marriage licenses issued IN
Cherokee last year. 1t will now be in order
for the old maids to beat this record If they
can.
New and extensive gravel beds have beer
discovered at Council Bluffs. A company has
been formed for the purpose Of utilizing
them.
Petitions are being numerously signed ask
ing the approaching legislature to enact a Law
prohibiting passenger trains from running OF
Sunday.
The NJ. f.. church people at Burlington arr
building an elegant parsonage in that city. Il
will be completed during the present confer
ence year.
Two colored individuals had a fight the
other day In Des Moincs, and when arraignet
gave their name as Ed. Lincoln and FREQ
Douglass.
The governor has issued his annual circnlal
requesting a statement Of the gross receipts
of the various railroad companies operating
in the state.
The officials and members Of the fire de
partment at Des Moines called on Mayor
Phillips in a boGy and presented him with u
gold headed cane.
Rev. Henry Elliott Mott has accepted a call
to the passionate of the First Presbyterian
church at Dubuque. The gentleman is from
Newburybort, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Caspar, Of Musservllle, while
handling a skillet OF boiling lard fell and
spilled 1t over her person last Saturday even
ing, scalding her arm and face frightfully.
a procession consisting Of 1000 colored
men paraded the streets of Muscatine Monday
last. They halted ia front of the News Office
and gave three lusty cheers for the Journal.
Sunday night John Parks, u laborer at the
Rockford farm near Cedar Rapids, fell
through the floor over the office. He was I'M
conscious when picked up and reu. ..incd sc
for an hour, when he died.
Attorney General Baker questions the cor
rectuess of Judge Stoneman's decision dcclar
ing the registry law unconstitutional. II,
doubts that 1t is n material abridgement OF
any mans right TO vote.
Articles OF Incorporation have been filed
with tho secretary OF state by the March,:
shipping association. The corporation Is Il
do a general purchasing and shipping bust
ness, with a capital stock < OF $4,000, place OF
business Marcus, Iowa.
The Zion Baptist church, (colored), a.
Council Bluffs, is being all broken up in con.
sequence of internal Cissensions. When
Brother Buckner went to preach on Christmas
the deacons rose and fired on him bodily. The
courts are now trying to find out who is Il
blame.
William A. Daniel, the driver Of a delivery
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