Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-29
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banded.
The new roller mill at Newell is now ready
for business.
The Harrison County Farmers alliance has
been organized.
About Il, 1000 was paid out for hogs at Storm
Lake last Monday.
An addition to the opera house at Little
Sioux is being built.
The building improvements in Lyons this
year amoun to s201 $50.
At the packing houses in Cedar Rapids 1000
aogs are killed daily now.
Six cases of diphtheria In one house In
O'Brien county are reported.
An organized gang OF burglars has been
working Mt. Vernon OF late.
A calico leap year ball is announced for
New Years eve at Muscatine.
Only two schools In Marshall county are
without teachers for the winter.
Vinton bonds sold at % cents on the dollar
They bear 5 per cent. interest.
An effort is being made to institute a camp
OF Modern Woodmen at Malcom.
A farmers mutual insurance company is
being organized In 0'Brien county.
Louise Schneacher, aged 20 years, died at
Davenport last Tuesday from Group.
A movement is on foot TO organize a horti-
cultural society in Pottawattamie county.
Two runaway boys have been arrested at
lows City and locked up for Identification.
The supply of school teachers in O'Brien
county this fall is not equal to the demand.
Two hundred incandescent electric lights
are to be placed on the streets at Burlington.
The history Of Wright county is being
written up by a syndicate located at Webster
City.
A number of farmers In Fulton township,
Webster county, are boring for ~artcsian
wells.
1t is stated on reliable authority that the
Wapcllo county jail does not contain a pris-
oner.
An effort f. being made 70 collect all out
standing subscriptions to the board Of trade
at Dubuque.
The physicians a: Council Bluffs report all
there afflicted WI h SIN lpox recovered ex-
cepting one.
The total amount of delinquent taxes on
property sold at Keokuk this year amounted
to 81, 159.94.
A 81 bill that had been raised" to s. was
successfully passed on a Dubuque butcher
Monday evening.
The inhabitants Of Jefferson are at loss as
to what disposition to make Of their two po-
litical flag poles.
The hremen's association at Council Bluffs
is already making preparations fornext years
state tournament.
Lyons Is bothered with thieves who rob
clothesllnes and gather IN everything they
lay their hands on.
The graud jury discharged at Dubuque last
Friday found ninety-nine indictments, nine
teen Of which were against three wholesale
liquor houses In Illinois for shipping goods
into Iowa c. o. ID.
The neighborbood OF Chaplin is thoroughly
aroused on account Of numerous incendiary
fires which have occurred there during the
past few weeks. A ssloonkeeper has been ar
rested on suspicion.
An attempt made by the police to suppress
the illegal sale o: liquor at Keokuk last Fri
day reaulted in a shooting match. Nobody
was injured, and Barnesconi, the fellow with
the gun, was captured.
Talbert Streets, a farmer living near Ma
quoketa, filed up with liquor last Saturday
night, and while on his way home his team
ran away, throwing him from his wagon and
killing him. He was twice married and leaves
a family of twenty children.
A gang of eight tramps confined In the city
jail at Creston last Saturday night pounded .
hole through the wall of the cell into an ad-
joining cell aud drank nearly all Of a case
and a half Of condemned beer which had
been placed there for safe keeping.
Twenty-four suits were entered In the dis
trict court at Davenport Saturday against
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad
by Attorney General Baker, In the name Of
the state of Iowa. The charge is made be-
cause OF extortionate freight rates. Each suit
Is for 81, ZOO damages.
The Herald says: "The probabilities are
that Dubuque viii be made a port Of immed-
late transportation II other words a port
entry, to which goods shipped in bond from a
foreign country need not be unPacked and
appraised In New York. Surveyor McGIough-
Ah hoo DSSA ihsShSpeihS hILhSCil III lhio Lila
The Journal is authority for the following:
''The Ministerial association Of Muscatine
has resolved to hold a mass meeting on the
first Sabbath evening in next month to arouse
a sentiment In favor Of enforcement Of the
laws against the dens of vice that are allowed
by the authorities to multiply and become
hold and defiant in thfe citv -
Tony Winders, a farmer living in Dubuque
township, Dubuque county, was hunting rab-
bits with a companion last Sunday when he
came upon the badly decomposed body Of a
man In a ravine on the poor farm. a butcher
knife laid near the body, but IT was go badly
rusted that it was impossible to discern
whether or not there was blood on it.
The governor settled with the treasurer Of
state Monday morning and found tina: he had
on hand 1866 ,0,6,5l belonging to the several
funds, as follows: Permanent school fund.
$3.50; agricultural college endowment fund. |
S21l ,940.5l; agricultural college interest
fund, 1851 10; swamp land indemnity fund,
$50; general revenue, $93, 3@4 so; total, $500
016. 81.
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