Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-16
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organized 81 IeMars.
There were forty.eight deaths In Burling-
ton during the month OF January.
II Ia rumo.ed that Armour will establish q
retail meat depot In Fort Madison.
The glucose works at Marshalltown ground
1877, $50 bushels OF corn last month.
The Des Noines cotton mills now has
seventy looms and Is making 5000 yards OF
cloth per day.
An S5-year-old mar at Hamburg last week,
wss fined $2s and costs for beating his young
wife.
Oxford Junction suffered a loss OF $SO,UCo
by fire last Tuesday. The loss 10 mostly
covered by insurance.
1.-THE telegraph thinks that as an advertiser
Dubuque's high bridge is almost q match Tor
Sioux City's Corn Palace.
A little child of Postmaster Stevens at
| Pleasantville was badly scslded Last Tuesday
| by tipping over a kettle OF hot water.
Farmere in Webster county are consider
ably wrought up over the appearance OF
pleuro. pneumonia among the horses.
The case against George w. Ashton, county
superintendent Of Boone, who was indicted
fer seduction, has been dismissed.
There are thirteen members in the stone
gang at Burlington. Every one OF them Is
| convinced that thirteen Is q very unlucky
number.
A farmer named Roy, living near Barnum,
| has caused the arrest OF a young nan named
| Black on the charge OF seducing che OF his
daughters.
s. p. Lambern, a prominent Cass county
farmer, is lying very low with blood poison
ing, caused by a slight scratch inflicted on his
arm by a barb wire fence.
The Industrial West, a paper published al
Atlantic, has suspended publication. A
chattel mortgage was the cause.
A glove manufacturer has located at
Oskaloosa and viii employ thirty III the
manufacture If heavy mittens and gloves.
There are now 600 members enrolled In the
National Travelling Mems Protective union
with headquarters at Burlington.
The Demccrat-Gszette claims that not
| more than half a dozen arrests have been
| made In Davenport during the past three
weeks.
Harry Miner OF Cedar Rapids shot himself
| in the leg last Friday While cleaning a re-
| volver. No serious results from the wound
are anticipated.
The Courier announces that the boot
| Logging and hole IN the wall business Is get
| ting 10 be rather unhealthy In Ottumwa and
will be more so from this time on.
The county recorder Of Des Nome county
reports that in no similar period during the
last two years have the real estate trans
fers equalled those OF the thirty days just
passed.
Chas. Meyer, jr., a shipping clerk In the
store OF L. d. Randall & Co, at Dubuque
committed suicide last Monday evening b,
shooting himself. Dependency was thu
cause.
A subscriber to the Des Moinee Leader
having failed to receive his paper for 6evera
mornings, sought the aid Of the officers, VIII,
gathered In the thief. He was fined $40 snC
costs.
Vinton has another newspaper and It 4
called the Benton County Teacher. 1t is
monthly, and Is devoted 10 the interests o
the teachers OF Benton county. 1t is editel
au' published by G. B. Marine.
The Nonpareil says "a Council Bluff
.,ri estate agent threatens to send out owe,
H.; country the photographs Of til,
"Qr and Northwestern local dcpots. In The
name of common humanity VIZ protest agains'
such an outrage"
Polk Wells, the desperate who Is serving
life sentence at Fort Madison for the murder
OF his guard, has sent TO Gov. Larrabee hi:
third and last instGllment OF the manuscript
of his autobiography, pages TAI to $40, inclu.
Give. He desires that the governor publish
the story to serve as a warning to others, and
that the proceeds be used in educating his
children.
The Farmers Shipping association doing
business at Aurelia voted last week to admit
persons not engaged in farming TO member
ship. 1t Is said that the merchants OF Azure.
liza will take stock In the association and
work for its success.
One OF the heaviest mortgage foreclosures
probably ever made in Webster county is at
present In process Of termination. The mort
gage was given by the Fort Dodge Coal com
pany on all its mine property and lands in
the county to W. c. Oakley, trustee, for S57,-
900.
A tramp who once before worked out his
sentence on the stone pile ut Marshalltown
returned to the city Monday and asked to be
run I'm again. He said he wanted to work
but could find nothing to do. After debating
the matter the authorities bought him a ticket
to fresher fields.
Keokuk has a perpetual motion crank who
proposes to produce q five horse power ma
chine (which consumes nothing, therefore
costs nothing to run H." II properly secured
notes amounting TO $1,000, coo are deposited
in a bank, to be turned over to him when the
machine Is completed.
A practical joke was played on the Masons
at Hampton. A lodge of Royal Arch was
being established, and expecting to work late
they ordered a late supper. This coming to
to the ears of the Knights OF Pythias they de-
tailed number e~qualing the Masons' order
for supper and vent In and ate the same and
decamped.
The state board Of health has reports from
many places IN lows indicating a large NOR
tally from puerpersl fever. In one locality
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