Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-14
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
IOWA.

49,
Grinnell's Y. Nj. G. A. has 200 members.
Eldora firemen fave o grand ball this week.
Fort Madison ships many horses TO st.
Louis.
A. Tama county hen has Iaid an egg ! oy
inches.
Blairstown has again struck coal at a depts
of 156 feet.
There is talk of building q new opera house
at Grinnell.
Sac City is eating strawberries raised within
its borders.
Davenport has been granted an additional
letter carrier.
The Spatz bigamy case Will be on trisi AT
Dubuque April9.
It IL unlawful TO catch fish with a seine In
Iowa waters before Jure Is.
Grinnell has appointed a committee OF hNe
TO organize a board of trade.
Some Of Fort Dodgc's business men are
agi'atiug the drainage question.
The Davenport base ball club is looking Tor
2 red headed. left-haudcd pitcher.
There are only fifteen marriagca'le men in
both houses Of the Iowa legislature.
Fort Madison's bridge toll is botilcring the
Illinois ne,ghbors who consider it too high.
The Twelfth Iowa infantry viii have its
annual reunion st Waterloo April 3 and =.
A Dubuque drcs.maker has departed from
her home leaving d string of weeping credi-
tors.
Sportsmen at Fort Dodge says that WILD
ducks and geese were never moreplen'y than
now.
Mrs. Cathaylnc Echo was crushed 10 death
By adummy ON the Union Pacific at oman
on Monday.
O'Brlen county teachers win hold the next
annual meeting Of their association at Priu-
CHAR April 81.
They have a good deal Of trouble IN con
victlng .Icndcre against the proh!bitory law
in Marshaltown.
Baskerville has a society called THE Rope
! Holders 1t is not a yigiiant committee, as
might be supposed.
Greenfield home talent win render David
the Shepherd Boy at the [. p. church OF
that place on April 81.
A Pottsyille man let a span Of horses starve
w uthlus illo 'ANhHN '"' 'H'' ~
poor to buy feed for them.
There are $500 holders Of government
liquor licenses and 40 holders OF state per
mits to cell liquors In Iowa.
1t is said that Emmett Is the only county Ia
the state which has a point within It's bounda
rlcs fifteen miles from a railroad.
The articles of incorporation Of the cooper
alive Dairy association Of Greene county wer,
filed with the secretary of state Friday.
William johnson has for thirty years beer
foreman in the Mount Pleasant Journa
efics.
A Dubuque woman took what she supposed
was a spoonful Of medicine, but was linimen
composed OF scouite and belladona. A ply
stefan saved her life.
The receipts for the Sioux City Postofic
tyr the year ending March 81 amounted I
$50. 022 90, an increase over the correspond
ing period last year OF ST., COO 80.
Two freight trains came to a terrible coll
sion Of Marshalltown Sunday, badly smashinI
one of the engines, bruising a man in one q
the cabooscs and killing twelve head OF cat
tie.
A Young man signing himself John F. Ber
nard, and claiming to represent the Diehol'
Safe and Lock company, was arrested AZ Wa
tcrloo, charged WITH having forged the nam
0 G. w. Colburn, agent At that place.
Thomas Calvin, esq, father Of Prof. sam
uel Calvin, of the state university, died a
his homo in Ncwtouyiile, last Tuesday, age
50 years. He was born IN Scotland, end hn,
been a resident Of Iowa thirty three years.
The case Of Frank Carruth ". Chicago
Burlington and Quincy Railroad company t
recover 10000 damages on account OF tn
death Of George Foster, killed In 1854 at Pa
citlc Junction, was decided IN favor OF tn
defendant by the federal court at CouncI
Bluffs.
Last week the official plant Of Riddle.
~sub-addition to Council Bluffs was cut out q
book X, in the recorders office, with the ded
icatiou certificates filed with it. The pag
was cut out and stolen. The plat covers a
the ground in question here the motor lin
is to cross the railway tracks on Ninth street
The celebrated Billings case AT Wavcrly
again ~ ought before the public. IL the his
tory OF criminal cases there are few as sensa
tional as this one promises to be. The cas-
is one in which n leading iurist and n youni
county attorney are the dramstis persOua
and the former is now on trial In a specia
term of the district court, which
there Tuesday, for the murder OF his fellow
member OF the bar. rhe court room wa
crowded with anxious spectators. The da'
was taken up in the examination Of the juror
during which time Mrs. Billings occupied
seat near her husband and his counsel. Bill
ings spent the day cogversing with his wife
both Of whom displayed little or no emotion
1t is now thought that II G. Avery, Of Ma
son City, who died suddenly sunday morning
was affected with the same trouble that caused
the death Of the two members Of the Brow
family OF the same place. The Latter death
with the mysteries surrounding Il, again ~
news talk relating to the Brown famil.
trouble About 10 O'Clock Mr.. Avery vas
strong, ROBUST man; was attacked with dizzi
ness, and in about ten minutes was seize,
by violent purging and vomiting, He wa
givei. some cola tea To drink and all pair
seemed to pass away. In a little over tire
hours he was n corpse. What has cause'
these deaths Is a complete mystery. 1t I
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