Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-30
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The Cedar Rapids postofice will be made a
first class one July /.
A Knights of Pythias lodge was instituted
at Paullina last week.
Adjutant CASTOR reports Isl men at the
soldiers home at Msrshalltown
Des Moines claims to have the best enforced
Sunday law OF any city In the state.
Five hundred street lamps are being placed
along West Broadway at Council Bluffs.
The new iron bridge across the Cedar river
at Waterloo was opened for travel last Mon
aay.
The jury IN the trial Of Peters, for the muir
der Of Rankin st Sheffield brought In a verdict
Of not guilty.
The citizens Of Grundy Center are consid
cring the question Of erecting a speakers and
band stand on the court house square.
A prominent member Of the Muscatine cat
tie company says that the recent rise IN stock
has made that company $4,000 richer.
The Louisa County Agricultural society an
sounces that the dates OF holding fits fair this
fall have been changed to August 70 to 81.
A recent arrival at LeMars from Cornwall,
England, is seven feet and one inch In
height, and Is said TO be an expert wrestler.
The Sibley board OF trade is now ready to
receive propositions from any manufacturing
enterprise that may be looking for u loca-
ton.
The Cherokee county board at its last SEES
sion voted to give the people OF that county
the opportunity to say whether or not they
desired new county buildings.
The employee Of the Robinson n Hit bus
and street car company at Waterloo are out
on a strike, their demand for weekly payment
OF wages instead OF monthly being den ed.
Charles ID. Palmer, OF Council Bluff
one OF the graduates OF the West Point
military academy this year. In a class OF
nearly six hundred he stood number seven.
In North Clinton is a saloon next door to a
snake show. II a fellow got two or three
drinks In that saloon and then entered the
show what would he imagine was the matter
with himi
The state board Of health Is receiving com
plants and inquiries in regard to the ice sold
In the cities Of the state. 1t Is claimed that
some of 1t was taken from stagnant ponds
and in some cases from ponds receiving sew
,rage.
The international Typographical union, in
session at Kansas City, has approved of the
strike Of the Dubuque Time printers. This
will enable the printers to receive benefits.
The physicians at Council Bluffs attribute
the healthful condition of the city TO the baby
tornadoes that sweep the poisonous gases out
Of alleys and back yards into the general at
mosphere.
The Council Bluffs Nonpsreil Gays: "Court
has adjourned, and one by Que the saloons
are opening up again for business, and from
all appearance the fight viii have to be gone
over again"
A letter received at Sinclair's packing house,
at Cedar Rapids, recently, and coming from
Belfast, Ireland, was addressed "a follows
'Sinciair's Packing House, City Of Rabbits,
State Of Iowa, america"
Nevada is without a hotel. They have q
estaurant run by a lady who is a hustler, and
1t Is alleged takes 80 cents from an unsus-
pecting and innocent travelling man for a
meal that could be bought in Chicago for Is
cents.
Agent Lake, at Des Moines, has finished
the payment OF the quarters pensions falling
within his jurisdiction. The amount paid out
Is over $500, 600, and the number Of pensioners
Is %, $50. The present pension roll is 80 per
cent. greater than two years ago.
The new landlord OF the Hotel Orleans at
Spirit Lake J as insured a hit this season by
~ingi,, 49,, -oA. w.i,I, Ssx,,. - T,,,o. -
Chicago, for the Tomaso mandolin orchestra
from June 20 to September I. The mandolin
orchestra has been the swell society fad in
Chicago this season.
The Hotel Slavery at Des Moines is being
visited daily by numbers OF visitors, though
II Is not now In readiness for inspection. But
the interest taken In the magnificent new
structure is so great that Des Moines people
can hardly wait until the opening day.
Imogene, eight miles northwest OK shenan-
doah, is excited over the discovery OF mineral
water, which, II is claimed, possesses supe-
rior medicinal properties. Patients are al
ready focking to the healing fountains. The
water has been submitted to a chemist for
analysis.
Secretary Kennedy, Of the state board of
health, has written a letter to the city author
tiles OF Des Moines urging them strongly TO
have published q monthly health statement
OF the city. DR.. Kennedy says that the i'm
preston is current in some places that Des
Moines is an unhealthy place, especially for
children.
A boy named Fred retrie, 12 years OF age,
has been detected in an attempt at house
sreaking at lows Falls and arrested. He con-
fessed not only to the crime charged. but adj
nitted having broken into other business
buildings during the past few months. Judge
Weaver decided that the reform school would
improve his morals.
The motor railway trouble with the Nil
waukee line is a live issue in Council Bluffs.
Public sentiment Is somewhat divided on the
matter, but the Milwaukee Is receiving a
eneral run Of sharp criticism. There are not
wanting a number Of citizens whe think that
an overhead or elevated crossing should be
made over all the tracks.
Seven Of the Creston physicians unite In a
tatement that the pond ice sold In that city
Is all right, which has been forwarded to the |
state hparJ ~ health n, tha nthar b,,1 A.