Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-20
NEWS o. THE NORTHWEST.
IOWA.


church OF Scotland In his work.
A Waterloo veteran began his one hun
dred and first year on January /, In the pro-
vince Of Parons, Brazil. The Germans as
sembled to do him honor, and put a crown Of
laurels upon his head, which is not yet bald.
Charles Hoffbauer, OF Davenport, was on
the Cd inst. tined $500 and committed for vic.
latng a temporary Injunction prohibiting him
from selling liquor, this being the first In
stance Of imprisonment In Scott county under
the prohfbitory law.
DR.. ID. 8. Aboru, who has had headquarters
in Helena, Mont, for his Aborn house lottery
scheme, turned up IN Des Moines or the 3D..
He denies the published report that he had
left the ticketholders in the lurch, and de-
clares hat the reason he left Helena was that
the Legislature just closed passed an at pro-
hibitipg lotteries and gift enterprises, and that
he was compelled to seek headquarters else
where; that he has located a. Boise City,
Idaho, and will conduct the business from
that point, and that the drawing will GER
tainly take place July 80, or the money will
be refunded to the ticketholders.
A shocking tragedy occurred at Cedar Rap
ids Wednesday morning. James II. Gibson,
an escaped patient from the Nebraska insane
TO the asylum. Gibson eluded the officer a
the Northwestern depot, whittier they ha(
gone to take the train west, and went straigh1
down to the Illinois Central freight depot,
He stood near the track watching the engine
there switching. He waited until the freight
car had been coupled to the engine and the
brakeman had mounted the car. Then when
the engine and cars came backing down and
before any warning could be given he DELHI
erately lay down on his back, placed his head
on the track and In q moment 1t rolled over
on the inside OF the track, cut of entirely
from his body by the wheels Of the cars.
The following lows postmasters have been
appointed: Agency, Wapello county, j. T.
Reynolds; Ainsworth, Washington county,
William A. Walker; Angus, Boone county,
Harvey l.. Thomas; Brighton, Washington
county, Isaiah Newkirk; Garfield, Black
Hawk county, Daniel Z. Metcaff Charleston,
Lee county, William NJ. Bassett; Chester,
Howard county, Frank Freemire; Clarence,
Cedar county, Lagrange Tiffany; Delaware,
Delaware county, Martha Kingsley; Dickey,
Bremen county, George Nofus; Eddyville,
Wapello county, John NJ. Ryan; Eldon,
Wapello county, f. r. Roland; Fred
eric, Monroe county, C.. Church
Harper; Keokuk county, j. c. Jackson
Havelock, Pocahontas county, Samuel H.
Gill: Hedrick, Keokuk county, Orson A. Dur.
frey; Kalona, Washington county, S. f.
Parker; Keota, Keokuk county, Finley NJ.
Smock; Lawrence, Pocahontas county,
Charles f.. Herrick Let's, Louisa county, A.
j.. Weaver; Lockridge, jefferson county, A.
&. Smith; Lynnville, Jasper county, W. w.
Dryden; Milton, Van Buren, county, Clara
Edmundson; New Sharon, Mahaska county,
David Vail: Nipa, Washington county, Jacob
+. Hicks; Olive, Jones county, A. J. Burke,
Ollie, Keokuk county, George Mckinnis
0ssian, Winneshiek county, Ole s. Thomp-
son P~uckwood, Jefferson county, j. II. Muir
ply; Pleasant Plain, jefferson county,
I. f. Embry; Calmly, Cherokee county,
Aaron G. Smith; Richland, Keokuk,
IouhA1y ~ 'aiNs &ihCAhNSli wy SaiIicuh
county, William I. Condron; Ruthven, Palo
Alto county, William H. McCune: st.
Charles, Madison county, A. l.. Wood
Salem, Henry county, r. l.. Donaldson
South Flint, Des Moines county, A. f. Dodds;
Stanton, Pottawattamie county, b. NJ. Hol.
land; Stratford, Hamilton county, Claud
Dec; Stiles, Davis county, A. G.. Wright
Talleyrapd, Keokuk county, A. b. Rock
T~hornburgh, Keokuk county, Leman A.
Woods; Tracy, Marion county, &. f. Huckle
berry; Vincennes, Lee county, Ferdinand W.
Griffith; Volgas, Clayton county, James Z.
son; Washta, Cherokee county, J. r. Mowrer.
Mr.. Edwin Hlndley, a resident Of Des
Moines, has just found among his old papers
q valuable historical document Of ante-reVo-
lutionary days. 1t is q legal paper issued
during the reign Of George H., ordering tn
arrest OF a virginian gentleman for debt
Mr.. Hindley found II in the court house Of
Diwiddie county, Virginia, just at the close
Of the war. 1t was laid away and overlooked
till recently. The old document reads as
follows: George the Second, by the grace OF
God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
king, defender Of the faith, etc, to the sheriff
Of Diwiddie county, greeting: We command
you that you take Charles Paythrep, adm.
etc, Of VIM. Paythrep, deceased, II he be
found within your bailiwick, and him safely
keep, so that you have his body before your
justice Of your said county court at the court
house Of said county, on the second Tuesday
In August next, TO answer Robert Glover OF
a plea OF debt for zoe and money damage OF
eco. And have then and there this writ.
Witness, George Nicholas, clerk Of said court,
at the court house aforesaid, the 14th day Of
July in the twenty-seventh year Of our reign.
George Nicholas" On the back Is an entry
which shows that the command was "duly
executed by Governor Hayes. August, 1888"
On a farm a few miles north OF Prescott,
Adams county, resides a man named Kline, a
local preacher, who has just closed a success
full forty day fast. He claims he was impelled
to do thisb by a vision or command from God.
For the first ten DAYS he ate a little solid
food for the remaining thirty days nothing
but sweetened water passed his lips. Kline Ia
a native OF Ohio, about 35 years Of age, rather
Dllterate and belongs to the Church Of God.
Mary consider him a crank, but publ, opln'
ion Is about evenly divided as TO his sincerity,