Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-11
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S'aIitl leNcI " prevalent IN ICES MONIES.
Des Moines now has four places Of amuse-
| ment.
A soldiers monument was dedicated AZ FL
dora last week.
Work has been commenced on the ~artesian
well at Cherokee.
A sliding, self-acting gate has been Invented
by a citizen Of cskaloosa.
The assessed valuation OF Sioux City Is 3d.
600, coo In round figures.
The Hardin county soldiers monument Is
completed and ready for unwilling.
The fare on the street ears at Clinton has
been reduced from 10 TO ) cents.
A militia company, with Maj. Bailey as cap
tain, has been formed AT sheldon.
Mr.. King, a painter, was fatally injured by
falling scaffolding at Dubuque Saturday.
The Iowa Soldiers aud Sailors Monument
association meets in Des Moines September :.
The Marshall county fair will be held at the
fair grounds In Marshalltown Oct. 4 to 5 in
elusive.
4. s~ix.story building, the first one in the
history Of the city, is being put up at Des
Moincs.
A very valuable team was stolen on the 25th
inst, from the barn OF Mr.. j. @. Esterly of
Defiance.
From 500 to ? 400 cans Of tomatoes are
being pat up daily by one canning factory of
Colncil Bluffs.
There sill hc a reunion Of the Fortieth reai-
ment, Iowa infantry, at Oskaloosa, September
-, ii and IL.
a moyemen for a monument 10 Rev. Had
dock has been started by the Sunday schools
Of Sioux City.
spark from q Milwaukee locomotive near
Farley burned fifty acres Of oats in stack, be-
longing to p. c. Murphy.
Within the past two weeks ninety-fve writs
Of injunction have been sworn out against
Dubuque saloonkcepers.
A scheme is now on root 10 raise a 5000
fund, called the "Haddock Fund.- for the
prosecution of the Iowa saloons.
The Ohio settlers ia Guthrie county held a
reunion at Guthrie Center last week. Every
township In the county was represented.
Sac City officers seized a large quantity of
beer, recently, that had been consigned by
Carroll parties to citizens Of that place.
Two barns belonging to J. j. Stringer, a
farmer near Strawberry Point, were burned
last week. Loss $500; partially insured,
There are eighty carloads Of grain in store
in Denison, and no car to ship it. The ship
ment for August will be about 125 car loads.
A building boom is in progress at Carroll.
No less than forty dwellings and business
houses have been erected there since January.
A man 10y the name of Devol while digging
a well at Bloomfield was being lowered when
the rigging CAV, way, letting him fall about
twenty feet. He escaped with a broken collar
bone.
John Wesley Hiner, a well-known colored
man of Keokuk, died Wednesday OF heart
disease. He was born in 1872, and went to
Kcokuk in ls4?, where he has lived ever
since.
Luetta Lyman, Of Ottumwa, is the smallest
full-aged woman in the country. She Is TWEEN
ty years of age, remarkably intelligent, and
has never reached the size Of an average four
year-oid.
The Waterloo city council Wednesday grant.
cl right of way to the Illinois Central com
pany for the extension of their road through
East Waterloo TO the mills. and work will
at once.
The academy building now in course Of
erection at Corning VI i'll be a fine edifce when
completed. 1t will be three stories high and
G0x60 feet in area. Brick and stone are being
uspl i'm ITS construction
Sioux City's conservatory Of music and art
school was formally opened Tuesday night. II
is one Of the fuest and best equipped institu-
tons in the west. First-class talent has been
secured in every department.
Two base ball climbs at Des Moines have
made arrangements TO play a match game Of
ball, the stakes being three kegs Of beer. TIE
loser must obtain the beverage in such a man.
ner that the state law will not be violated.
The Des Moines and Fort Dodge company
have placed ON all their passenger engines
what is known as the callicpe whistle. This
is done SO that the public will be able TO tell
the difference between passenger and freight
trains.
About twelve hundred bags filled with sand
are TO be thrown into the outlet of Lake Man.
ava at Council Bluffs. 1t IS expected that
this will raise the water several feet, besides
rendering it impossible for the Missouri river
to change It's course and swallow up the lake.
A farmer living about two miles from Sioux
Rapids, one very warm day recently, under
took 10 drive forty head IF hogs 20 that city,
but before the market was reached fifteen OF
the porkers had died from the effects OF the
heat.
Iowa City special September 2: Deputy
United States Marshal Ebinger was here to.
day and filed a command OF transfer of the
contempt case Of Collector Thompson for re-
fusing to testify In the whisky suits, to the
United States circuit court. Judge Hodges
was not here and the marshal went to Upton,
where he Is holding court, TO serve the papers
on him. This action makes the prohibition
brethren warm.
Waterloo Special Sept. ,: Last Thursday
afternoon Simon Clacy, Of Washburnc, ter
miles from this city, took his family to the
house Of his neighhor, Tom Doxey, to spend
the afternoon. As he entered the house h,
attempted TO steal a kiss from Miss Alice Ed,
( yards a rupl1au~hta pf Mr. Dgyav ub.ra