Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-03
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There are sixty open saloons In Burlington.
Des Moines is again agitating a union
depot.
Cedar Rapids has but one saloon in opera
Oskaloosa is putting in q fine alarm tele-
graph.
A union depot is being talked OF at Des
Moines.
Mrs. Col. P. Cad Bryan died at Cslfax, aged
50 years.
A female base ball club is being organized
at Ashton.
The Des Noines Morning Local is q new
publication.
Dubuque is to have a pontoon bridge across
the Mississippi.
The Catholics Of Woodbine are talking Of
erecting q church.
The Iowa National Guard fraternity has
been incorporated.
Senator Clark, Of Page county, will speak at
Storm Lake, July 4.
The attorney Of Tama county receives a sal
ay Of 81 900 q year.
J. g. Adams, OF Prairie City, killed himself
with choral hydrate.
The Masons of Davenport have decided to
build a $4,000 temple.
The next Bohemian convention will be held
In Cedar Rapids in 1891.
Bellevue citizens are agitating the erection
OF a soldiers monument.
The Burlington high school turned out six
teen graduates this year.
Perry, on the Goth and Both OF June will
have u iremen's tournament.
The Pattersonville postoffcc has been
changed to the name Of Hull.
The Thirty-ffth Iowa infantry will hold a
reunion at Muscatine Sept. 30.
A company is preparing to prospect for coal
in the neighborhood OF Red Oak.
A horned owl was captured one night re-
Gently in a chicken coop at ABBOTT.
A normal school building is going up at
Madison, and will be ready by fall.
Cedar Rapids reports that Omaha capitalists
will start cement and tile works there.
The corner stone for the monument TO Chief
Keokuk, at Keokuk, was laid recently.
An epidemic Of pickpockets are giving con.
siderable trouble 70 Des Hoines police.
The Newell roller mills at Storm Lake
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000.
The brothers Of the monastery near Du.
lost 700 head Of hogs last week by cholera.
Moonlight excursions are being enjoyed
these nights by the citizens Of Burlington.
The Wilton Hose company captured s265 In
prizes at the recent Dubuque tournament.
The next annual encampment Of the Second
brigade /. n. G. will be held at Oskaloosa,
July ~.
A young son Of George Prescott, of Fred
ricksburg, was drowned in a swill barrel ont
day last week.
The postofice inspector has found a short
age in the accounts Of the postmaster al
Angus of s1S9.
Hans Henck, seventy-two years old, a well
known citizen Of L.cClaire, committed suicide
by hanging Friday.
Mrs. Rachel Huff, a Des Moines widow, re
covered 81 500 from a brewer for selling beer
to her ''dear departed"
Horse thieves are becoming very numerous
in Pottawattamie county, and vigilance com
mittees are being formed.
The Marshalltown Driving Park association
has hung up g., 1000 in purses for It's July run.
ming meeting, on the LIST, End and Sd.
Sioux City capitalists will combine an opera
house and chamber of in one build
ing, which will cost complete $4,000.
Tn Widow Van Colt met with i'll success in
awakening a godly feeling in Sheldon, and she
went away sorrowing to Emmettsburg.
The survivors Of the First lows infantry
will observe the twenty-irst anniversary of tn,
battle of Wilson'S creek at Davenport Aug. 10
At Cherokee, Monday evening, three bust
ness men, who were rushing to their homes il
order to get into their cyclone caves, fearing
an approaching storm, were struck by a fall
ing sign, and all Of them were seriously In
jured.
Mrs. VIM. Dodds, for over thirty years 8
resident Of Pleasant Grove township, De
Moines county, died suddenly Of apoplex,
last week. She was the mother OF sixtecl
children, all but two Of whom are living.
Lightning struck a house in Rockwell Cit,
and demolished most of the furniture. G.. w
Randall had his hand on the door knob at tn
time and the electric current ran up his arm
and down his body. Strangely enough it lief
no mark upon his body, but his feet, which
were bare, were horribly blistered.
n. s. Noble, Of Anamosa, while ~cleanin!
some fish, about five weeks ago, scratched hi
thumb, just starting the blood. The wount
was regarded too trivial to need attention, bu
blood poisoning ensued and on Saturday |
was found necessary to amputate the arm
above the elbow in order to save Mr.. Noble
life.
The family Of the late Governor Eastman
have erected a monument in the cemetery a
Eldora to his memory. 1t is more than min,
feet high and weighs over three tons. 1t bear.
the inscription composed by him, for the Wash
ton monument: Iowa-The affections of hel
people, like the rivers of her border, flow to an
inseparable union.
Muscatine mill hands swear to the follow
ing snake story: The head of the snake was
poised over a foot above water, and its body
was visible In curves for 10 or II fee behind
The head was about the size Of a mans double
fist, and one of the witnesses describes 1t as
looking like a blueracer's. Its head turned
from side TO side, sometimes with open mouth,
and the boys say that it made a ripple and
swell in the water as 1t moved along, like the
passing Of a skin.