Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28
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Cumberland Masons will form a lodge next
week.
Dee hioines proposes to organize q cavalry
company.
The city physician Of Council Bluff receives
but $3.50 a year.
The discovery Of natural gas is reported
near Des Moines.
Wa against the Salvationists Is being
waged at Cedar Rapids.
A Magnolia canary bird died recently aged
twenty-five years.
Fire at Jefferson destroyed the residcnce Of
NJ. ID. McDufiie. Loss a, 500.
The 5000 school house being erected at
Marvena is nearing completion.
Prostitutes are not allowed the liberty of
entering the public park al Council Bluffs.
Track layers on the Des Moincs and North
western have reached Riceville, Mitchell
county.
At the Smith family picnic held at Webster
City, there were about one thousand persons
gathered.
The sumrner meeting of the Iowa State IIor-
ticultural society will be held at Ames Septem-
Der 3 and 4.
The business men OF Council Bluffs organ
lied an association for mutual benefit Mon
day night.
An effort is being made TO raise so 600 for
Mrs. Haddock, widow OF the assassinated pro-
h%ibitionlst.
The anthrax is now confined TO a single
farm, four miles from Sioux City, and the
danger Is over.
The Boone authorities have decided not to
license travelling frauds in the future to do
business in their city.
Harvest-home festivals are all the rage At
present. In some localities the day Of Thanks
giving has been observed.
The permit to sell liquor granted to Ayrcs
Il Ayrcs, Of Cedar Rapids, has been revoked
for violation of the Clark law.
Forty men are at work on the line OF the
Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas City road be-
tween Waterloo and Oelwein.
The Hon. NJ. V. cannon of Davenport has
resigned the presidency Of the iowa branch OF
the Irish National Land League.
The water-works now In course Of erection
at Independence will be completed and ,nc
ubhi Y q WI ihahheSlNlb hdJ.
Every person found on the streets Of Des
Moines late at night is locked up If not able
to give a good account of himself.
A large number OF cattle died last week In
Clark county of Texas fever, introduced
through cattle bought at st. Louis.
A young son of Dennis Kcefe, of Corning,
was kicked by a vicious mule last week, re-
ceiving a severe fracture of the skull.
Three mysterious disappearances have
lately occurred at Burlington, and the citi-
zens are becoming somewhat alarmed.
The baby boy of II. A. Olmstead, of Chero-
kee, fell from a second story window one day
last week, but scarcely received an injury.
A.. S. Davis of Des Moines failed in his at
tempt to enjoin the city from improving the
streets until there is money to meet the
bills.
A person has to live in Iowa thirty years
before it is possible for him to become a mem
Der Of the Henry County Old Settlers asso-
citation.
Some workncn while digging a cistern at
Muscatiuc recently struck the remains Of a
log house ten feet below the surface Of the
ground.
Considerable hard feeling exists between
the mayor and council OF Marshalltown. The
council claims that the mayor is too free with
his veto.
The implement house OF James O'Conneil Of
Harlan, and also the two adjoining buildings,
were destroyed by fire August 10. The loss is
from So, 900 to $1,000.
The Davenport bakers are az war, and bread
is so cheap in that city that there is some talk
of paving the streets with six-inch loaves of
Boston brown bread.
f.. s. Coyle, a railroad agent at Merrill,
eloped with another mans wife last week. He
also took $50 which belonged TO the company
for which he worked.
Col. Eiboeck, the editor of the Des Moines
State A..zieger recommends that the saloon.
keepers Of the state offer a reward Of $1,000
for the capture Of Haddock's assassin.
George Smith, a burly river man, recently
attempted TO ravish a little six year old girl
girl at Clinton. He was captured and bound
over to the grand jury in the sun Of 5000.
A little sen of Hans Larsons, of Spencer,
was chased b. some hogs one day last week,
and before he was rescued one hand was ter
ribly crushed and two fingers were eaten
off.
The Waverly Short Line has served notice
on the Illinois Central TO begin the work Of
raising the ~latter's track just beyond Waverly
to give the former line an underneath cross
ing.
An unmarried girl, sixteen years Of age,
living In Dubuque, became a mother last
week. Her soducer, who is the son of q very
respectable family, is also but sixteen years
old.
James Rodgers, a young man of Council
Bluffs, was attacked by "a couple Of dogs one
night last week and f~earfully lacerated before
%nelghGors could relieve him. The flesh on
one arm was completely toru off by the fero-
cious brutes.
Several Ottumwa attorneys engaged In pre-
pairing a petition to be submitted TO Judge j.
NJ. Love asking that the circuit judges
OF that district and other officers be restrained
from prosecuting the Ottumwa breweries un-
der the prohibitory law.
Wednesday evenings storm was very severe