Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-27

i6G SUISrnSIcial mouse al htohuh was Soh
| siderably damaged by fire Saturday.
A Mrs. Conrad, of Dubuque, paid a $50
fine for threatening to kill her husband.
The mayor Of Davenport wants the dogs
killed or muzzled during warm weather.
A farmer named Henry Parsons, living
near Hamilton, suicided last Friday morn
ing.
An excursion party Of Davenport has leased
an island and will fit 1t W as q summer re
SORT.
1t is reported that Ex-Governor B. F. Gere
will start an agricultural paper at Def
Mofnes.
There is a 17-year-old girl at Keokuk who
is completely bald and she doesn't wear a
wig either.
John Brady, a stubborn tramp, lived nine
DAYS on bread and water at Cherokee rather
than work.
The farm house Of Fred Weiss, two miles
from Ruiebeck, was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day morning.
The trustees Of the reform school at Eldora
are inspecting plans for the contemplated
new building.
I'll. ID. Sherman, state dairy commissioner,
reports dairy business as very good in all
parts of the state.
An Alabama snake charmer has struck
Odebolt and among his victims is the editor
Of the Chronicle.
A base ball umpire at Sac City had four
teeth knocked out by a man who objected to
one OF his rulings.
During his last trip over the state Bishop
Cosgrove, OF the Catholic diocese OF Dayen-
port, confirmed 4Ss children.
The people of North Des Moines vote on
the question OF bonding the city for a water
works system on the Goth inst.
The city council OF Grinnell has hired a
man to go about the city and trim private
shade trees to suit public taste.
Prospects for a bountiful harvest In Wright
county were never better. Wheat viii average
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Carroll business men have adopted an en-.
velope with a map on the back showing the
superior advantage Of the town.
Lisbon A. Cox, Of Keokuk, has been ten
dered a position on the geological survey a
Washington by Secretary Noble.
A colored man confined in jail at Keokul
for drunkenness almost succeeded in buttinf
out his brains against the stone wall OF hi
cell.
G.. Z. Peterson was seriously injured Frida,
near Mondamin by a train on the Sioux City
and Pacific. 1t is thought he canno re
cover.
The Modarn Uoodmap ~ Corpcil RIuff
and Omaha are arranging to hold an old
fashioned picnic at Council Bluffs within
short time.
Eddie Dougherty, George Gtnse and Yves
ley Hoppers, three young incorrigibles Of De
Moines, were taken to the state reform
school Thursday.
The twenty-seventh annual fair Of thu
Union District Agricultural society will b.
held at West Liberty September 10 to Is. The
catalogue is out.
W.. p. Cordet, of Monticello, who wa
seriously injured at Minneapolis last Sunda,
Dy being knocked off a car, died from tn,
effect OF his injuries Wednesday.
A Knights of Pythias lodge was organized
at Union Wednesday night. Delegates were
present from Iowa Falls, Marshalltown
Eldora, Alden and Gruudy Center.
The Vinton Eagle would like to see the
proposed industrial home for the blind 10
Gated In Vinton, but kept separate aud dis
tlnct from the college for the blind.
The Davenport Democrat speaks with
pride OF a $1,000 package OF bank notes that
has lain In q bank there for sixteen years,
untouched except when counted four times a
year.
Joseph Kvetensky, a Waverly merchant
has confessed judgment and the sheriff Is
~disposing of the stock. Kventensky's creei
tors will realize only about 40 cents on the
dollar.
A Dubuque young lady called another Du.
buque young lady a %'cbippy," which was
promptly resented by a sounding whacS over
the head with a broonstlck. The case is now
in court.
TIE new Methodist church at Burlington
will be dedicated Sunday, Augusta 4. Bishop
Thomas Bowman, d. D., chancellor OF De
Pauw university, OF Indiana, will conduct
the dedicatory services.
Nephi North is supposed to b. living In
the vicinity Of Council Bluffs. A lady Il
there searching for him, 1t is said, 20 apprlse
him Of the fact that "a auut If his has died
In Illinois, leaving him $1,000.
Emma Lin5erfeli, % years old, died IN
Keokuk Saturday. She had been all iavaiid
for twenty years, and during All that t!tne
hal rot walked or TALKED, being treated and
cared for az Il she was an infant.
An exaerlmeat IN the growing OF wheat
and oats together Is being made near Bel
mopd For sores equal seed OF OATS and
were slwed this sprrg, and today ID IS
j doe looking piece Of gran. IT, is claimed
that It will stand up better aud longer and
the berry Of both oats and wheat VIII be
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