Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-14
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Clinton citizens have formed a prohibition
league.
A young mems social club has been formed
at Harlem.
A Presbyterian church is to be organized at
Schaller.
A nail key factory has been established at
Burlington.
Sutherland business mon are putting up a
large elevator.
The trotting grounds at Napoleon are near
y ready for use.
The Northern Iowa normal school has been
located at Algona.
A reunion will be held this fall by the Four
tcenth Iowa infantry.
A large cave, full of stolen goods, has been
found near Cordova.
A system Of sewerage is to be adopted with
in a short time ut Leon.
The new postofice building at Marcus is
fast nearing completion.
A half-ton grindstone was placed in a Cal
Hope foundry last week.
Upton now furnishes a mineral spring as
an attraction Ia summer rcsorters.
A terrible storm Saturday night ruined all
the corn in the vicinity of Templeton.
The Humboldt county fair will be held at
Humboldt September - to 30 inclusive.
A man named Barnett, in Clay county, was
drowned while bathing in East Okoboji lake
The annual meeting OF the Hotel Keepers
association will be held at Davenport August
II.
c. II. Bulls, IA prominent attorney of Sicl-
don, was found dead in his bed Tuesday
night.
An effort is being made in Dcs Moincs to
hold a reunion Of Mexican veterans in the
state.
The normal institute at Newton was in SEES
sion last week with an attendance Of 325
members.
The Second congressional district Republi-
cans will hold their convention in Davenport
August 10.
The Dubuque Herald is for Judge Couch as
Democratic congressional candidate in the
Third district.
Oskaloosa capitalists will establish a shirt
factory which will furnish employment to
nearly seventeen persons.
LNt ipoN' ''Ioltb. IINElt al btF
Moines Monday night and held for murder
committed in Ohio.
a ten days camp meeting Is to be held in
Elm Park, Storm Lake, commencing Friday
evening, August 20.
A piece Of petritied wood was found in a
gravel pit near Cherokee one day last week.
1t weighed 100 pounds.
The Democia ats of the First congressional
district Will meet In Burlington on the 10TH
inst, to renominate Ben uall.
The Black Hawk county institute will con
vene at East Waterloo on the 10th of this
month for the thirteenth time.
John Van Nalkenburg takes TWINS place
as candidate for the Republican congressional
nomination in the First district.
Auditor Brown finds the new insurance law
so complicated that he has not yet authotized
any companies TO do business under it.
The Iowa Prisoners Aid association is the
name OF an organization whose object Is the
encouragement Of reformed criminals.
The Sioux City, Bismarck and Fl. Benton
railroad company filed articles Of incorpora-
ton in the Office Of the secretary of state.
The thirty-scyenth annual fair Of the Van
Buren, County Agricultural society will be
held at keosaqua, beginning September IA.
Ed. Moore the suspected murderer of Mr..
and Mrs. Search, near GAINESVILLE, Wis, form
now resides.
The depot of the Minneapolis and st. Louis
at Fort Dodge, was struck by lightning Sat
urday night and burned before assistance
could be reached.
Two little boys-Charles Stout, aged ten,
and Ezra Robinson, aged seven-werc buried
alive in a sand pit Saturday at Selma. Both
boys were dead when found.
Hon. NJ. Miller has concluded to obey Cleve-
lands last order to the letter, and has resigned
his place on the state central committee. He
is succeeded by NJ. w. Beach.
Henry Koeherly was arrested at Minden for
attempting to shoot Miss Forencrow, OF the
same place, because she declined to receive
his attentions as a sutton.
John Parker, a twelve year old son Of Sam
uel Parker, a farmer living near Des Moines,
disappeared from his home about the 18th ult.,
and no trace Of him can be found.
A Waterloo father shut his ten year old son
in the loft to the barn, where it was SO close and
hot that had not the authorities interfered the
boy would soon have been smothered.
The telephone keyboard and instruments
have been taken out Of Bedford because the
enterprise didn't pay. Bedford papers attrib-
ute the failure to the high rates charged.
Mr.. O.. g.. Van Wrinkle, who is managing
the lIilleary farm south of Burlington, cnt
so bushels of wheat from nineteen acres OF
ground last week, and wants to hear from
some farmer who can beat it.
John O'Malley who resides in Dallas county
s said to be one hundred and twelve years OF
age. He says he distinctly remembers TIE
Irish revolution Of 1898, and describes the
landing Of the French on the coast OF Ireland
to help the Irish agains, the English.
Mrs. Fred Hanback,, of Princetown, Scott
county, was badly gcred by a bull while herd
ing cattle, in her husbands absence, recently.
James Dougherty heard her screams and with
the aid Of a pitchfork, drove the bull away.
Mrs. Lamback's leg was broken and she re-
ccived serious injuries.
A serious stabbing ARRAY occurred on a
farm between Waterloo and Cedar Falls
Wednesday afternoon. Lyman Eldred and
Sylvester Downing quarreled over the right to