Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-28
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.


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A large wolf was run over and killed by
a passenger train near Rockwell City.
An old lady named Mrs. Wheeler was in1
Stantly killed at Allison by being thrown
from a buggy.
Hay is cheap in the eastern part OF the
state, timothy selling at s. per ton and
clover bringing only 81 per load.
Marshalltown will ship 800 feet Of Iowa
marble TO Boston, Mass, to be used in
building the new library building.
A 13-year old son of Peter Keller, Of Fort
est City, lost a leg while jumping ON %
freight train at that place Saturday.
The st. John g. Clay Aour mill at Cedar
Rapids will, when completed, be one of the,
finest structures of the kind in the United
States.
Scarlet fever has broken out at EddyvilleA
and the mayor has issued a proclamation to-
parents to keep their children off the
streets.
George Montgomery, of Upton, will have
three years steady work at Anamosa for
Assaulting a weak minded girl named Lucy
Wheelock.
Audubon Journal: The CHECKER may CHG
with all his might and the mocking bird
Ufner-AuA the Iowa crop. it takes
youthful burglars, were sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the Fort Madison
penitentiary at Marshalltown Saturday.
a burglar entered a Cedar Rapids resi-
dence and logged off all the eatables he
could lay his hands on. Plenty Of valuable
articles were within reach but they were
not touched.
"A Muscatine editor sent a bedbug 20 q
brother editorin Illinois, wrapped upin an
exchange. The Illinois man sent word back
that he would like to exchange, but "there
were no bugs on him.
Frances, the 3-year-old daughter Of Mrs.
Moody, housekeeper for L.. A. Mcconnell,
Of Clinton, while playing in a yard adjoin-
ing the residence Wednesday evening fell
in a cistern and was drowned.
The burglar shot at Ainsworth the other
day has had more than fifty shot extracted
from his person and some sections Of his
body to hear from. The people of Aims.
worth so loaded for burglars.
Burlington is kicking for anew jail build
lns, The other day a prisoner had o
laundering for liberty, and, like Artemus
Wards prisoner, a brilliant idea struck
him. He opened a window and walked off
Griuue,i is rising like a phoenix from its
ashes, a short time ago a large portion Of
the business part Of the city was laid low
by FIRE. Now there are a dozen large and
handsome business blocks in process OF
construction.
One Of John Harrig's boys, OF Gilberts.
vile, wilhelm the engine room Of the cream.
cry Of that place, was caught and killed by
one Of the belts. lie was crushed to q
jelly, He lived six hours afterward in an
unconscious state.
Mrs. Randleman, Of Carlisle, in the
shades OF evening stopped to pick up what
appeared to be a ribbon from her kitchen
floor. The object appeared to be a frisly
4year old rattlesnake, which she finally
succeeded in killing.
One Of the sailors Of the man-o,wai
Trenton, recently wrecked on the coral
reef at Samoa, passed through Hull tho
other day on his way home to Philadelphia.
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scription Of the awful event at Samoa.
Commissioner Of the blind asylum al
Vinton call the attention Of the governor to
the fact that the asylum is much in need of
Improvements in the way Of manufactures,
dormitories, etc. The institution is also in
need OF more teachers. There were ninety
eight inmates during the last year,
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into the house Of Mrs. Lynch and secured
So at the point OF a revolver, He then
went 70 another house and ''held up'' four
men for So. He cautioned them not 70
leave the house before morning, and they
carried out his instructions TO the letter.
a fence between the Mulligan and Klock
families, living near Sheldon, resulted in
young Klock filling the body of old man
Mulligan with bird shot. He was rebuked
by his father for not giving Mulligan the
benefit OF both barrels Of his gun. Father
and son were arrested and bail fixed IA $500.
Byron Peer, a farmer living near Scran.
ton City, has TOO much wife. He came from
Wisconsin a few years ago, and under pre-
tense of being a single man married the
NuhSurIE u a NtdlGIy ldF.ncf. SATURDAY
Mrs. Peer No. l appeared on the scene and
now 'there are heaps Of trouble on Byron's
mind"
Antonio Di Pompa, of Des MONIES, i
wanted by the United States authorities
for violating the internal revenue law. ID
Pompa flled up l0-ceat cigar boxes with
rtvvofers' and palmed them of on the Dec
MoIneltex for the genuine article. He was
also implicated in a murder in that city
last winter.
AT a wedding party in Clinton the guest,
were poisoned by eating pressed chicken
The groom went into spGsms and acted lGk
a crazy person. As the bride was partly
responsible for the cooking of the wsddint
supper the future outlook Of the groom
from an epicurean point of view is, to So:
the least, a trinc cloudy.
Taking q pump out of a twenty-foot vel
at Washington a toad was seen swimmin,
around on the surface. How long he'd
been in the dark there, in that bored wei
liEed with three-foot tile, no one knows,
nor hnxV he rot I'm thara Ha ayfdantlu