Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-21
Northwestern ITEMS
IOWA,

day.
Rev. w. X. Miller, Of Des Moines, has ac-
eepted a call from TIE Baptist church at Clear
Lake.
An insane man was found on the streets OF
Cherokee, Monday. The sheriff took him In
charge.
A twelve-year-old girl of Marshalltown was
before the commissioners Saturday, charged
with being insane.
1t sounds strangely to read Of the mud in
Burlington, but the Hawkeye says 1t has AT
last frozen up.
Mr.. Cottrell, a large farmer in Black Hawk
county has made an assignment to j. ID. VIII
liams Of Ida Grove.
Missouri Valley is surprised at itself that ii
has no creamery, the consumption Of butter
being 800 pounds daily.
Ii is now made known that 800 Is the num-
hsr of carloads of watermelons shipped from
MGseatine the past year.
A four-foot vein Of coal was struck a few
days ago one mile east OF Mitchelville. 1t is
ninety feet below the surface.
A journeyInan barber at Burlington took a
SO bill from a customer and went out for
change. He has not yet returned.
w. II. Cassidy, a pillar In the Democratic
household, and q prominent land agent at
Orange City, has located at Salt Lake City.
DIR. II. A. Kennaman, formerly n telegraph
operator at Ottumwa, is now demonstration OF
anatomy at Keokuk Medical college.
The Barrett clothing house Of Des Moines
was burglarized Saturday night, losing a con
siderable amount Of goods. No clue to the
perpetrators.
Missouri Valley has, after a number of fall
ures, succeeded In perfecting arrangements
by which that city will be supplied with cleo
trio lights.
A plucky constable by the name of Martin
is raiding the saloons OF Burlington. He is
meeting with good success, and SO far no blood
has been shed.
The Cerro Gordo county board OF supervis-
ors thinks Mr.. Weir, superintendent of
schools, Is paid too well and will reduce his
salary. Mr.. Weir kicks.
William Rex, of Sac county, has dchorned
$500 head Of cattle since October %, from
which IT would seem that the practice is be-
coming very general.
The O'Brien county bar docket has an I'M
usual number OF causes against druggists.
Will these men never learn that 'the way Of
the transgressor is hardW
G.. X. Turner, late train master on the Cen
trail road at Fort Dodge, has been appointed
superintendent Of the divisions of the Central
centering at Cherokee.
Lew Warren and Charles Baxter were ar
rested at Des Moines late Saturday night for
the larceny Of three cloaks. They are known
by the police as hard characters.
The new Baptist church at Red Oak was
dedicated on Sunday. Rev. DR.. Bartlett Of
Des Moines and Rev. DR.. Nareedy of Harlan
assisted the pastor in the service. The church
cost $500 and is all paid for.
Six ~convlcts from Montana, all dressed In
prison garb, on their way to Joliet, Illinois,
were one of the sights at Des Moines a few
days ago. They were on board the Chicago
and Rock Island train.
Randolph Smith, a citizen Of Burlington
but who has recently been travelling over
southeastern Iowa In the interests of prohibit
ton, has been adjudged insane and sent to
Mount Pleasant.
Clinton business men and customers have
been severely confidenced by a slick and ras
cally tea merchant. One man is loser about
$500 on rent and Endorsements.
Henry Madison, of Polk City, was arrested
on Tuesday and taken to Des Moines, where
he was lodged in jail to await the action of
the grand jury on the charge Of an assault
with intent to commit murder.
Samuel Farrr, living three miles south OF
Of Dies Moines, while looking over his pasture,
found a silver bag containing fifteen counter
felt silver dollars, together with three or four
pounds of metal, as also a number of tools,
dies, etc, used in the manufacture of the
bogus circulating medium.
On Monday last articles Of Incorporation
were filed with the secretary of state as fol-
lows: OF the iowa Railroad company, OF
Marshalltown, with a capital stock of $4,000
COO; Of the Cedar Rapids Southwestern Rail-
way company, capital stock $685. 00; and of
the Stuart News company, capital stock $500.
The State Agricultural society was In session
on Wednesday. The following officers were
elected; President, IL. c. Wheeler; vice
president, John Hayes; treasurer, g.. H..
Maish: secretary, j. r.. Shaffer; directors, r..
G. Ballingall, f.. n. Chase, J.. {. Baldwin, j..
w. MeMullen and c. c. Carpenter. The as
ISOLATION is about s., 900 in debt.
Armour's invasion of Burlington with
dressed beef has raised the question whether
the city shall become the dependent of Kan
sas City. The butchers and packers of Bur
lington have fully Sl50,G00 Invested in real
estate, machinery, horses, wagons, etc. They
pay out To the farmers Of Dcs Moines county
and contiguous territory from 500, 600 to 49,
600 a month for cattle, hogs, sheep and calves
which the farmers can market for better pri-
ces than they can get by shipment TO Chicago.
They pay out $1,000 a month In wages for
labor; and their expenditures for coal, wood,
barrels, tierces and other articles required is
large. Arnour's success, the Hawkeye claims
means the partial or total loss OF this business.
Pensions for lowans: Minor, of Tobias c.
Miller, Dubuque; Samuel, father of Anthony
w. TURKS, Eldorado; Mercy, mother of julius
A. Waters, Shell Rock. Original-Enos NJ.
Shoemaker, Mount AYR. lncrease-Charles
Bedford; Harvey J. Foster, Lamont;
NOAH q. Southland, Allerton; Benjamin T.
Floris; William Walters, Hawleyvine-