Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-07
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
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pended business.
The Salvation army is soon to strike Fort
Madison in full force.
An electric railway between lama and
Toledo is contemplated.
H~ydrophobia among the stock in eastern
Iowa is causing considerable alarm.
There are more than 400 buildings In
course of construction at Council Bluffs.
The death rate at Keokuk for the month
of August is 1.sS, the largest in the state.
The Odd Fellows of Humboldt are con-
templating erecting a fire proof building.
Amended articles of incorporation of the
Drake university, of Des Moines, have been
fled.
The fourth reunion of the Second Iowa
cavalry will be held at Maquoketa August
9 and 10.
The small pox epidemic is all over at Mt.
Ayr, and all the patients are on the road to
recovery.
John Barr fell from the roof Of q new
building in Grinnell Thursday and received
serious injuries.
Wilson Melick, of Liscomb, was kicked
in the side by a horse Thursday, receiving
serious injuries.
Uriah Zollers, an old and prominent citi'
zen Of Oskaloosa, died suddenly Of heart
disease Saturday.
The state association Of the Iowa chap
tiers Of the Agassiz society was in session at
Oskaloosa Thursday and Friday.
c.rol a.. aznarsn4 To- "a
new building at Council Bluffs Thursday
unearthed a fine gold watch and chain.
Miss Viola Newhouse, OF Des Moines,
became violently insane Thursday and was
placed in Jail awaiting an examination.
The artesian well at Fort Madison is
down $50 feet, and it is expected that q
fine flow Of water will be had at 200 feet
more.
The drug store proprietors Of Burling.
ton will hereafter close their places Of bust.
ness between ! and 6 o'clock Sunday after.
moons.
A step is being taken at Davenport 70
bury the ofal and refuse Of the city, in.
stead Of dumping into a slough adjacent 70
the city.
Louis G. Bastido, of Atlantic, inventor Of
the Bastido package carrier, has sold all
rights and patents on his invention for
100000.
A business man and q miller at Tetes des
Martes, ten miles below Dubuque, have
exchanged wives, each pair clipping the
same day.
Fire destroyed the dwelling house Of A.
Jewett, at ChiIlicothe, Saturday. Loss,
$1,000. The FIRE started from an explosion
of an oil stove.
Mrs. Hersch, living near Dubuque, who
jumped from a wagon while the team was
running away on the 10th, died Thursday
from injuries received.
The 3-year-old daughter Of Mrs. Tuscan,
son, Of Lansing, is missing from her home.
1t is feared she has strayed away and fell
into the river and drowned.
Articles of incorporation of the Medical
and Surgical Sanitarium company, Of Red
Oak, have been fled with the secretary OF
state. Capital stock, 100000,
"ns &hsaa, GIL ShhPioyS ~ Nht IOuuN
house in Shenandoah, was killed Sunday
evening by being crushed between a bag,
gage car and a passenger coach.
Samuel Armstrong, living near Wapello,
50 years of age and insane, wears straps
around his ankles to keep the witches from
crawling up the legs Of his pants.
A petition numerously signed by the citi.
Gems Of Earlville has been fled with the
county recorder of Delaware county, ask.
ing that the corporation of that town be
discontinued.
Secretary Shaffer is authority for saying
that the largest horse in Iowa, and perhaps
in the United States, will be on exhibition
at the state fair. He is only 5 years old,
but is eighty-one inches in height.
Sandy Schaefer, a young man of Daven-
port, is laboring under the idea that the
Lord has decided him a piece of property
adjacent to the city and proceeded to take
possession, totally ignoring the owners
rights.
Frank Smith, brakeman on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul road, was thrown
from the top Of a box car Friday, neal
Savanna, while the train was running at a
high rate of speed. He was severely in
jured, but will recover.
The city Of Des Moines has applied for a
writ Of injunction against the Electric
Street Railway company Of that city to re-
strain them from putting mp or extending
wires on any Of the streets Of the city to
Operate b electric Cars or for lighting.
win Brewster, Of Fort Madison, has Just
paid $4,000 for an experience lesson. He
has engaged in business in Kansas City
for a year. He bought an alleged silve,
mine In Arizona. He had not seen the
mine and never will. Several Kansas City
men are connected with the swindle.
A gang of thieves is raiding the farms
several miles northeast of Des Moines,
Within the last few nights a large number
Of hogs from different farms have been
driven Oh and farming implements are also
missing. The farmers are organizing a
body to take active measures In apprehend
ing the thieves.
In 1856 John Aukrum, u farmer of Mar
shalltown, received from the agricultural
department at Washington a pint of winter
wheat that was highly recommended Tn