Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-31
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
IOWA.

The Governor is inspecting the peni-
tentiaries.
Dubuque is to have new German
Savings Bank.
Wolves are reported numerous along
the Des Moines River.
The total improvements of Clinton for
the year amount to SAIL 200.
-Des MONIES County farmers are losing
hogs by the score through cholera.
The "Pansy Band" is the name of n
Presbyterian social club at Davenport.
"A new military organization at Coun-
Gil Bluffs will apply for admission into the
State militia.
The diphthcria epidemic ut Dubuque
has apparently ceased, only five cases hav-
ing been reported in two weeks.
The sawmlls at Lyons, Clinton
County, employ 6s3 men, at an annual cost
of $224,O0o.
An incandescent plant of seventy five
lights has been added to the electric light
system of Marshalltown.
The third annual session of the
County Surveyors of the State met at Des
Moines on the 18th inst.
The Curtis Coal Company is the name
of q new organization at Ford, Warren
County. Capital stock, $3.50
The City Auditor of Des Moines re-
ports total estimate Of the general fund
for the ensuing year of S126,431.12.
Mr.. Tracey Wattles, of Savannah, Da-
Wis County, was drowned in the Mississippi
on Monday night last, while skating.
The Salvation Army meetings at Coun-
Gil Bluffs are SO we'll attended that larger
meeting hall has become necessity.
John Taylor, while chopping in the
woods near Cedar Rapids on the 10th inst,
found four snakes comfortably basking in
the sun.
In spearing fish at Des Moines on the
18th inst, some boys pulled out the body
of a s. months old fntus, fastened to an
iron wrench.
Mrs. Anna Andras, of Tabor, has
availed herself of Uncle Sans offer of 16O
acres of land to whosoever will dwell
thereon, and will hereafter reside in Colo
RADIO.
The total assessment of the four tele-
phone companies in the State, made by the
State Board of Equalization on the 9th
inst, amounts to $116,2SO, and the total
tax, $3,4S8.40.
Mr. George Entwistler, business man
of Des Moines, had two ribs and his
shoulder badly dislocated, on the 9th inst. !,
by falling down an elevator shaft dis
lance of nine feet.
james Mackin was accidentally shot by
John BOIL near Davenport on Sunday last,
while hunting. An entire charge of buck
shot went into Mackin's right shoulder and
neck. He is out of danger.
The Grand Jury in session at Council
Bluffs, on the 18th inst, discharged ten
prisoners from the county Jail, held for q
murderous assault on G. Price, of the Mil
waukee Road, in that city last June.
The Charity Blacks is the name of q
theatrical organization at Des Moines,
composed of benevolent people, who are
giving nightly performances to raise money
in aid of the Orphans Home of that city.
Moses Hull, editor of the Nep
Thought, was arrested at Des Moines on
the 10th inst, on q charge of criminal
libel. A.. ]. Minor, Chicago book pub
Usher, is the complainant. He refused to
advertise in Hull's paper, and the latter de-
nounced him as swindler.
The gentlemen of the Broadway NJ. E..
Church Of Council Bluffs have started an
innovation in the church sociaLle business
They will give m oyster supper without
any assistance from the sisters of the
church, and they promise to use oysters in
the preparation of the soup.
DAKOTA