Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-28
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Malignant diphtheria has appeared at spen-
Ger.
There is a case of small pox reported at
West Liberty.
Clarinda's artesian well is dowu nearly
I.200 feet and In Trenton rock.
j. b. Ball of Cedar Rapids, aged 20, was
found dead in his bed last Sunday morning.
Andrew G. Riggs was in the Glenwood jail
on charge Of horse stealing, but he escaped
Sunday.
The Judges OF the supreme court Will meet
at the state house about September i to fle
decisions.
For the quarter ending June 30 it cost S66,
1867 to support the insane patients at lnde-
pendence and Mount Pleasant.
The postofilce at Lucas was burglariTed
Friday night. Seventy dollars worth OF
stamps and $40 In cash were taken.
George B. Hamilton was tried before a Des
Moines justice Monday for purchasing a cigar
ON sunday, bat Judgment was reserved until
some law points are argued.
Upton has given up hopes FOR artesian well
water. Having driven 2,700 feet into the
bowels OF the e nth at an expense Of about
$4,000 it IS still without a flow Of water.
Perry Summers, a farmer near Fairfield and
Hugh Copeland, an employeat the guard lock
OF the government canal eight miles south OF
Keokuk, were killed toy lightning Sunday.
The case Of the Turney boy, who was so I'M
justly sent 30 state prison two years ago from
jackson county, Is again coming to the front
and the hlgrsnt wrong demanding 10 be
righted,
A. W. Seymour OF Alta was arrested Tues
day morning, charged with forgery. There
are forty charges against him which may be
used, mostly with the state Insurance com
pany business.
James Tolstrop, a farmer OF Jackson town
ship, shelby county, tried to commit suicide
the other day because his hired man had sued
him for wages. He shot himself through the
body just over the heart, but at last accounts
was still living.
w. w. Thompson, who was fined so heavily
b. Judge Kline for selling whisky In Belle
PLANE, and who lost his case In the supreme
court, has skipped the country and left his
bondsmen In the lurch.
Ole Stone, a young man living twelve miles
southwest Of lIawarden, near the Swede
church, was kicked In the forehead by a horse,
Tuesday, fracturing his skull so that the
brain oozed out. He died the next day.
A large mineral deposit, which when ground
and mixed into oil makes a splendid red
paint, has been found near Munroe, Jasper
county. A company has been formed and a
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Des Moines.
The manager Of the George Hamlin com
pany had a controversy with John Dolph,
publisher Of the Eldora Ledger, last Friday
and offered him $25 to go ont IN the street
and repeat a remark he had made. The
newspaper man went right out and made his
speech, but to his5intense disgust did not get
+he money or the humping thatwas supposed
be the alternative.
Talking about queer names, there Is a man
tSLellsburg who ~rejoices IN the name OF o.
evilbliss. He Is married and owns a cot
age at Clear Lake, where he is spending a
happy vacation with his wife. There is moth
ing in a name, after all.
Several OF the residents In the vicinity OF
Fairview cemetery, Council Bluffs, complain
that during the warm weather an unsavory
smell is noticeable from the graveyard. They
are talking OF petitioning the council to re-
move the cemetery farther out OF the city.
Rev. John Hayden OF Liberty township
Jefferson county, was killed by & train on the
Rock Island road Tuesday evening. He had
apparently sat down on the track TO rest and
fallen asleep. He had been a Methodist min
lister for forty years and was four years pre-
siding o.Ier Of the Des Moines district. He
was elected to the state Legislature from the
First district In 1868 and served one term.
Charles Myrick and William Sharp quar-
relied at Odebolt Wednesday. Sharp was
stakeholi Ter in a small bet that Myrick had
won, and, as he ciair.s, IN a joking way re-
fused to give up the stakes unless Myrick set
up the cigars, whereupon Myrick struck at
him and he struck back with an open pocket
knife in his hand with which he had been
whiting. The blade entered Myrick's body
just below the arnpit, inficting a serious
wound and severing an artery.
President MCGOWAN OF the Davenport Lend
n manu- CluO mas bttH dshtd " tAc Sidit Ia
Dor commission to assist in the preparation
of the blank forms for collecting information
from working girls and women as to wages,
hours Of labor and general conditions. This
information is desired by the state bureau Of
labor statistics for the purpose OF recommend
ing measures which shall he for the benefit
Of every woman who must earn her own
living.
While tearing down the Oldest brewery in
Des Moines last week the workmen found
some beer that is more than 81 years old. At
one time a well was dug close by the suildirg,
the shaft going down by direction az u water
witch alongside the cellar. A strong flow OF
water was obtained ard 1t burst through the
wall into the lover cellar, which contained
watts Of beer sealed. II order to stop The
ovcr1oS the cellar was walled up and the well
filed snd the watts OF beer remained buried.
IL. c.. Henderson, a respected citizen Of
Council Bluffs, fen through a cellar door on
the oh inst. and di.located his neck. He
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