Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-17
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
IOWA.
An even hundred fares will be held in
Iowa this fall.
"A fair association has been organized
Al Nuscatine.
A Law and order league has been organ
lied At Red Oak.
The onion depot project ct Dubuque
has been abandoned.
"A third street railway has been put into
operation ut: Ottumwa.
Cholera is carrying off hundreds of
hogs in Cass county every day.
\, The Clinton Street Car company has
cut the price from 10 to cents.
A new lodge of the knights of Phythias
has been organized at Cedar Rapids.
The Hardin county soldiers monument
is completed and ready for unwilling.
"A new 1900 pound hose cart has been
purchased by the Dubuque department.
The mayor of Auscatine, is waging
vigorous war on the gamblers Of that city.
The first si1 story building evererected
in Des Moines is now in course Of construc-
ton.
. j. w. Coffin, of Oskaloosa, has been
granted patent cna sliding, self-acting
gate.
A gymnasium is TO be operated by the
Cl,.:e 0f
Davenport.
&C. w. Rohland. an Illinois man, was
run over by the cars at Davenport and
fatally injured.
The Beat En- All Barbed- Wire COM
pany are moving their works from Waterloo
to Cedar Falls.
An extensive prairie fire was started
near Farley recently by sparks from pass
ing locomotive.
Dubuque County will vote ia October
on a proposition to erect court house at a
cost of 100000.
For the first time in the history of Des
Moines the river is SO low that no water
flows over the dam.
The Marshal County fair will be held
at the fair grounds in Marshalltown Octo-
Der to inclusive.
Within the past week ninety five writs
of injunction have been sworn out against
Dubuque saloonkeepers.
"A valuable trotting horse named Sum-
mer was run into by o careless driver at
Corydon and instantly killed.
Great complaint comes from Daven-
port concerning the poor material used in
the paving going on in that city.
Vol Hammer, veterinary surgeon at
Burlington, suicided by twisting q rope
around his neck until he strangled.
"A 9-year-old son of Mr.. Thoren, of
Waterloo, died Of lock- jaw, occasioned by
cutting his foot on chicken bone.
Much excitement has been occasioned
at Newton by the discovery of oil in a we'll
thirty five feet deep, dug for water.
A Des Moines business man has
brought suit against the keeper of gam
bling house to recover $3.50 lost at faro.
-Getson Raynor, of Milburn, was at
tackled by vicious bull and terribly in
jured. His breast was almost caved in.
The first steel barge on the Mississippi,
made at the Iowa Iron works ut Dubuque,
was launched recently by Diamond 10 Rey-
nolds.
The pharmacy permits of several Des
Moines druggists have been revoked be-
cause of their selling liquor contrary to
law.
"A Des Moines constable recently ar
rested bartender as he was in the act of
drawing cork from a suspicious looking
bottle.
Raymond & Campbell, the Council
Bluffs bridge builders, have closed u con-
tract for a steel bridge over the Platte at
Denver.
Carl Hepner, Council Bluffs counter
feiter, was captured in Omaha recently and
considerable spurious coin was found upon
his person.
Mrs. Griffith, of Keokuk, fell upon a
broken sidewalk recently and fractured a
couple of ribs, besides receiving severe in
ternal injuries.
Mr.. Charles S. Tibbals, an old and
very much respected citizen of Dubuque,
committed suicide by drowning in the Mis-
sissippi river.
A little daughter of Clay Wicker, of
Clarkson, got hold of small box of con-
centrated I've and was fearfully burned.
She may recover.
"A bank is to be established at Dyers-
vile, which will bear the title Of estate
German Bank" and will have paid up
capital of $25,000.
The police made raid on Silver's
gambling house in Ottumwa recently and
captured 101 bottles of beer, three jugs and
a bottle of whiskey.
DAKOTA.
Hot Springs is enjoying a perceptible
boom.
Huron wants pork-packing establish.
ment.