Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-05
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
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The streets OF Dee Moines are flooded night
" and cleaned up each morning.
Keokuk Democrats will charter a steamer
TO 20 to the st. Louis convention In.
Iowa City has given up the cherished IDEA
OF having a professional base ball club.
The people or Buena Vista county are con
templating the building Of a new court house.
The Democrats OF Burlington viii start a
new paper for the dissemination OF campaign
lore.
The directors Of the 'Brien county agri-
cultural society are getting ready for a big fall
fair.
The state convention of Republican clubs
IS TO be held at Des Moines on Wednesday,
May 2.
The Dubuque papers are Boosting of the
relative superiority OF their telegraph by
freight.
Perpetual inlunctions have been issred
against twent, one saIoonkecpers Of Jackson
county.
over $4,000 has been subscribed for a new
normal aud science hall at simpson college,
Indianola.
Fire destroyed eight business houses in
GLIDING the large roller mills at Carlisle Fri
day night.
Council Bluffs claims the largest bicycle
club in the state. 1t numbers swenty-eight
members.
Thu Ida County Pioneer has received a long
list Of new subscribers sincs the indictment
OF the editor.
Robert NJ. Dawson, Of Scranton, was re-
Gently arrested, charged by his wife with the
crime of adultery.
The third annual meeting of the Iowa Mu
sic Teachers association viii be held In To
ledo May /, 2 and 3.
The little girl of Mr.. Sperry, of Grundy Cen
ter, was seriously burned last Friday while
playing near a bonfire.
An eight-year-oid son OF Charles Peterson
was struck by Ill engine and Instantly killed
at Davenport Saturday.
A Touring mill will be removed from Brook
lyn TO Garner, Hancock county. Two mills
In the former place did not pay.
An clipping Sioux City wife, who left her
home last fall, returned the other Gay and
found shelter I'm the poor house.
r O more a~rtesian wells are to be sunk at
Ottumwa near the water works. One is to be
800 feet md the other | 20 feet deep.
The dwelling Of Barthrl Rink, I'm Wright
county, was struck by lightning last Monday
night aud Rink was knocked seuseless.
After hearing Booth the Des Moines Lea
der doubts his genius, but admits that Bar
rett plays Oth,llo well in the main"
Eight business houses, including a large
roller mill, were burned at Carlisle Friday
uight. Loss, $4,000; Insurance, $4,000.
The Cedar Fails District (MeIhodist) Min
~isterial association will meet at Naverly June
4. An interesting programme Is published.
Keokuk has o. monstroslty In the shape OF
a human having six claws for fingers, while
the lower part of the body assemblies a bear.
The Salvation army has played out in Du-
buque. The singing "Over There TO a bass
drum accompaniment is not now heard on the
streets.
The West Des Moines training school cele-
DRAFTED the birthday of Frederick Froebel,
who founded the kindergarten system OF
schools.
A Davenport sporting character Is going to
olen a road house across the RIVER where the
patrons OF the deceased saloons can be ac-
commodated.
The PowesEiek county Sunday school asso-
citation will hold an annual session at Monte
yuma, commencing May A and continuing in
session two days.
The Fourteenth district Republican judicial
convention will be held AT Spencer, June ID,
TO nomi late a candidate for district ju4go to
succeed Hon. Lot Thoma
The jury In the case Of j r. Hurlbut, who
was tried for completely In the murder of s.
G. Logan, the Polk county constable, have
returned a verdict of not guilty.
The Leader says that the cases OF three
girls OF Belle vue, who have been ruined, have
come to light within the past three weeks,
and that the three guilty young rakes have
fed.
A mock Republican national convention
was held Saturday at Fairfield ~ the students
OF Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield colleges. They
nominated Allison Tor president and Hawley
for vice president.
The Maurice correspondent Of the Alton
Democrat predicts that their town will be In
corporated within one year from the time II is
reached by the Sioux City and Northern road
and In view Of this nominates a mayor.
A pretty Clinton nilliner was confronted
bv three tough looking men Thurs lay night
as she was counting cash preparatory to clos
ing her store. She escaped with her money
and her life by using her lungs and feet to
good advantage.
A team attached 20 a stalk-cutter ran away
from the Criyer tritay and approached the
house az Charles House. near Missouri Valley.
Mrs. House tried To stop 1t, but was knocked
down aud run over by the team and cutter
and terribly msngled. 1t is feared that she
may not live.
The great Iowa calf case Is aSont TO be
again tried AT Waterloo. 1t was originally
commenced in 1874 and has been in the courts
eve- since and is yet undetermined. 1t has
been tried once In Benton county, once In
Clinton county and twice In Blackbawk, where
1t is nov pending for the fifth trial. IL has
been twice or three times To the supreme
court OF the state and bankrupted the parties
TO the suit. who were wealthy farmers at the