Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-21
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
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Clinton IL taking Oh u paiu N'P"'
Baskerville is raising a bonus for a louIlng
: mill.
Council Bluffs insists that it has a building
booiE.
The Congregational church at Rockford
wants a preacher.
Council Bluffs has made certain OF a new
and magnificent hotel.
A poker joint is located in one OF the OF
tumwa printing offices.
The small boy out late nights IS declared a
nuisance at Little Sioux.
The wool clip in Gilmore township, Osce-
ola county, this year amounted to 10000
pounds.
A barber with a wife and a young and pref
ty music teacher eloped from Cedar Rapids
Monday.
1t is estimated that 90 per cent. Of the
young colts foaled In the vicinity. OF Vinton
this spring have died.
The Iowa Grand Lodge Of Colored Masons
has been In session at Cedar Rapids, closing
with c grand parade.
Ernest Waaa, aged j.! years, died from sun
stroke Saturday, while working in a corn field
near Battle Creek, Ida county.
The Trinity church az Davenport will be
closed until the first Sunday in September on
account OF the illness OF the rector.
The man who was run over and killed by a
Chicago and Northwestern train near Beverly
last Saturday was Frank Fox, Of Iowa City.
The rowing association Of Council Bluffs
has organized a junior crew which is entered
for the four-oared shell races at Spirit Lake.
Hon. Rodcrick Rose, recently appointed as
sociatc justice Of the supreme court Of Da-
kota, was for many years a resident OF Day.
export.
The reported sales Of liquor in Plymouth
county for June number only l45 as against
$500 for May. Alas even the druggists are
learning to lie.
The Belt Railway company and the city
council of Des Moines have harmonized all
their differences, and work will be rapidly
pushed hereafter.
In a s~parring match which took place al
Okoboji on the Fourth James Naloney had
his jaw broken by a right handed, half arm
blow intended for his jugular.
Sacred Heart church wac dedicated at Eagle
Point, Dubuque county, last Sunday, with
imposing ceremonies, conducted by Bishop
Hennessey. The building cost $4,000.
The : year old son OF August Kruse, living
a few miles north of EVERY, Clay county,
had one OF his legs cut of ard the other
badly mangled by the sickle OF "a mower last
Tuesday.
Four boys were seriously injured and dis
figured for life at Denison on the Fourth by
the explosion OF seventeen pounds of powder
which they were carrying. a carelessly
thrown frecracker did the mischief.
Three tramps raided several farm houses in
the vicinity of Gilman last Wednesday, and a
party of farmers ran them Town and captured
two Of them, and killed the third one for re-
fusing TO stop when ordered to DO so.
AS the result of a runaway last Friday
evening at Little Sioux Miss Carrie Whiting
had he collar bone broken and George Hope
had an arm similarly injured. 1t is to be
hoped that the young mans arm was not
previously out OF place.
Dubuque saloons did an immense business
on the Fourth. The Telegraph says: THE
town was filled with visitors from thc arid
districts, and as these found Dubuque an
oasis they irrigated abundantly, and in some
cases over-abundantly."
Since January, 1883, the county treasurer
has paid $4,000 of the Indebtedness Of Polk
county, the last installment of 5000 being
,N,il G,t,,la- n,lv 1DO Iln ~ Tho ola b,pIc
now remain unpaid.
IT took SG,329.2 to run tn Anamosa peni-
."entiary during June. TIL. support warrants
issued the institution reach $3.50, the con
n~ection Improvement, etc, 1880, transpor-
tation OF discharged criminals, $l22.46 and
salary OF officers and guards, s., e6G. n.
4 woman canned Mintonye shot a boy
named Ed V&nness at Eddyville Friday morn
ing. The boy was in her yard chasing a
canary bird that be had lost, and not going
out when ordered she gave him a shotgun
chsrgein the leg.
l.. $. Woodland, of Center township, O'Brien
county, attempted TO kill his fathcr-in-law,
Thos. Scott. last Monday. He fired several
shuts from a revolver without effect and then
cut the old man severely about the throat
with a knife. He was arrested and is now In
Jail.
Mr.. Norris, the East Des MoInes man who
was bitten by his dog "a week ago, is in a
| critical condition. His arm Is swollen very
large and is discolorcd, and the doctors are
doing all they can to prevent the spread of
the poison to his body. There is not much
chance to save his life.
A freak OF nature Is reported from lreton
in the shape of a pig with a head shaped like
that Of an elephant. 1t had Il projection on
its nose resembling All elephants trunk. An
other strange feature about 1t was that while
1t had eyelashes on each side OF Its head it
bad only one eve and that was in the center
| Of the forehead.
Sheriff McCann, Of Dubuque, seized the
circus of Ferguson Il Williams on the Fourth
to satisfy two mortgages, one on horses, etc,
for 81 600 and one for s4t0on the tent. Land
lord Rcinke, Of the Finley hotel, took a
wagon in payment Of a boerd bill, and other
| local creditors at last accounts were trying 10
lind something to seize.
An extraordinary case is reported from
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