Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-28
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
IOWA.

A Nuscatine mans mustache became 80
badly frozen that he had to have 1t manipulated.
Clear Lake IL talking up the matter OF
water works. Some incendiary fires are the
incentive.
Prohibition is getting In its work In
Ottumwa. The dispensers Of prohibited stun
generally plead guilty.
The residence Of Jacob Lemley, OF Lucas
county, was entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday
evening. Loss, $1,000.
A full new roller mill Is one Of the many
improvements which Corning people are ex-
pecting the coming season.
Odebolt is going TO spend $50 In improving
her base ball park, and expects to have a first
class club this summer
house viz be ready for occupancy by the 10Th
Of February at Council Bluffs.
Senator Schmidt, Of Davenport, IL the
youngest member Of the Iowa senate and is
said to have fallen heir to $4,000.
Roscoe Bennett, n young man of more than
usual promise, died mt Des Moines Sunday
last. His disease was typhoid fever.
Gen. Chambers, who during the war was
colonel of the Sixteenth Iowa infantry, died a
few days ago at San Antonio, Texas.
The records Of the state board OF health
show the deaths In Iowa resulting from
lightning in the past four years to be eigh-
teen.
A company has been organized In Paulina
for the purpose Of building a town hall.
Capital 1900, which may be increased to
1900.
Rock Valley Is organizing u brass band.
They propose to make a noise iu the world
and they viii find that brass and wind are
just the things needed.
Elkader, Clayton county, s~aloonkeepers
have signed written stipulations agreeing TO
abandon the business the LIST of March. The
alliance has concurred.
Justice Edmunds, of Sioux Valley, fined a
man 81 and costs for using p%rofane and un-
gentlemanly language In the postoiiice at THAT
place. Served him right.
On assembling court at Indianola the Judge
told the grand jury that there was no one In
the county holding q permit TO sell intori-
NAiLH aih II hhl hiNc WIZ hi"'S tHNy WIN
In violation of the law.
Articles OF incorporation OF the Creston
Water and Light company, OF Creston, have
been filed with the secretary OF state. The
object Is 10 furnish water and light In that
city. The capital stock is $250,000.
Geo. Bates, a miner from sevastopol, was
found by the police at Des Moines Sunday
morning on the street, chilled SO badly and
one hand frozen so that it may have to be am
puta.ed. He also lost his pocketbook, con-
tanning about $50.
A young man was released from Jail on
Wednesday at Dubuque, and on the following
evening, being refused a drink, he whipped
out a razor and inflicted q severe cut across
the cheek Of the bartender. He made good
his escape.
Miss Delano sued the city OF Marshalltowu
for damages sustained by a defective crossing
and obtained a judgment for $500. The city
threatened 10 appeal, but through the inter
~vention OF friends the matter was settled by
the city paying $500 and costs.
There are serious Indications OF a soft coal
famine in Council Bluffs, with much the same
condition in Omaha. The Globe in comment
Inc upon the subject says: The private coal
bins that were filed in the fall with soft coal
viii have TO be opened to the poorer people OF
the city, or great suffering must inevitably
result rom this weather"
The engineer OF the water-works at Allan
tic In his report for the month OF December
ga 80: The revolutions of the engine were
Ills, 1870; amount Of water pumped, S,6G6,-
53l 20 gallons; amount Of coal consumed,
5000 pounds; average amount OF water
pumped daily, 279,56O.53 gallons; average
amount Of coal consumed daily, 3,llS93l.
A brakeman attempted to cross the track
in front Of a snow p,ow Friday at Waterloo,
but fell, and In an instant was hidden from
sight beneath the ponderous mass of iron and
snow, and apparently under the wheels OF the
engine. The engineer cav the man fall, and,
reversing the lever, stopped the train, but not
until the victim Of the accident had been
dragged about fifteen feet. He was taken out
and found to have sustained no injury.
Thursday evening, just before the storm,
John Olney and Bernard Bell, aged sixteen
years each, left their homes, two miles north
OF Marathon, TO come to town. Their horses
became wild when the storm struck them and
they became separated. Bell left his horse In
a slough and vent east with the storm, reach
ing Laurens more dead than alive. On Fri
day the section men found Olney's horse tied
TO Il snow fence two miles east OF town. A
crowd immediately started In search and
found him five miles east frozen dead.
Pensions for Iowans-Ninor Of Benjamin
B. Taggart, Roschiil; minor Of James Stewart
Jr., Fairfield. Original: JAS. Boldmans, Da-
yis City: David Bigger, Macedonia; Willium
P. Hess, Odebolt; VIM. A. Welty, Hampton;
Henry +. Gibbs, Burlington; Albert Burgess,
Cedar Rapids; Charles Ii. Crawford, Macks-
burg; Robert Wonder, Noingonia; Joseph
Egbert. Fairfield. Reissued: James Taylor,
Alta; Henry McNair, Angus; Benjamin +.
Buckley, Romley; George w. Dellinger, Lake
City; Joseph Carr, Kew; Thomas II. Poster,
Ottumwa; William Haven, ML Ayr; j. j..
Lamb, Hopeville.
Frank +. THU, OF Dee hoines wps Satur
day indicted by the grand jury, three times
for embezzlemsnt and twice for forgery. His
career has been q remarkable one. He was
book keeper for the King Iron Bridge com
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