Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-11
NEWS Of The NORTHWEST.


Two rival Ben Hur companies are lighting
II out In Des Moines.
A"shskespsarean Anntversary'ts a feature
of Burlington society.
The finishing touches are being put on the
federal building at Keokuk
Clinton claims that 1t has an unusually me
specimen OF dead board of Grade.
There were thirty-two deaths In Dubuque
In February and twenty in March.
Keokuk has slaughtered 10, 200 hogs during
the late season closing April ID.
A big new dynamo has been pat In to sup
ply Iowa City with additional electric light.
Scott county's heaviest expense continues
to be for the payment Of boupties on wolf
scalps.
OF one thing Keokuk has reason to be
proud is It's city park. 1t Is 3 place OF
beauty.
An attempt 10 making to drive the Saliva
| ton army out OF Keokuk where 1t is declared
a nuisance.
Iowa furnishes Jacob Mills, Of Des Moines,
who has been appointed postmaster OF LIS
bon, Oklahoma.
d u FDlc Vi ia W o4o VIZ PtoP'S " @'eS
catine defeated the proposition to build a
new high school.
The wife OF an Eagle Point engineer tried
to suicide because her husband refused 10
take her to a party.
Council Bluff has n youthful yiolinist OF
whom 1t ia 90 hopeful that 1t proposes TO send
him abroad to study.
The saloons OF Council Bluffs, the Nonpa-
reil says, apparently have no proprietors and
the bar tenders no names.
The Dubuque board Of trade has taken up
the centennial celebration idea and Is going
to see what 1t can do with it.
Six hundred cords Of maple wood was
bought for the Dubuque schools at $50 per
cord-a little "job" evidently.
The interstate college oratorical contest will
occur at Grinnell May 2. Grlnnell had a
cyclone once before and Is used to 1t.
Two men by the name OF Frits Meyer work
on tho streets Of Davenport and one adroitly
improved the situation to draw the others
earnings.
Secretary Shafer has received official infor-
nation that passengers will be carried for one
fare for the round trip to and from TIE Iowa
state fair.
Howard Everett, OF Tama, won the prize In
the sophomore oratorical contest OF Western
college Saturday night, his subject being
Modern Socialism.
A Dubuque butcher shipped forty-seven
cal easses Of veal to Chicago by express Sun
day Light. He had an overstock and I'm
loaded In Chicago.
'rhe Clinton papers refer to a woman ire
que1tly seea on the streets Of tina. city Ia an
intoxicated condition. And they call her
"respectable, to.
Oliver CanadJ, Il Salem, has In his posses
sion a letter that was written by David Crock
EFT from Washington sCity to a relative of
Mr.. Canady, in the year 1929.
The ladies of the Baptist church OF Grin
nell reaped a big harvest ~ giving a mum
social at which those who fpoke were fined 5
cents per word for every ~offcuse.
Andrew Jacobson, %jauitor of the Onawa
school, was found dead In the basement OF
the school Monday. The cause Of the death
is supposed to have been heart disease.
Lynch, the deaf and dumb pitcher, who
mas been on trial with the Davenport nine,
has gone home to Peru, Ind. He is afflicted
| with muscular rheumatism In the right arm.
The state auditor has issued a warrant for
81, 900 OF the apr opriation fund for improve
ments at the state university, also a warrant
Of a., 500 to the state normal school for ex-
penees.
The Burlington Hawkeye says there are
several places In Burlington where oleoinar-
garine is sold. Dairy Commissioned sherman
lately boosted that only 200 pounds were sold
In Iowa last year.
From the bottom OF a we'll on the premises
Of William McCord OF Defiance, has been
taken a monstrous tusk, s inches IN diameter
and about 8 feet long. 1t weighs $50
pounds and is hollow half way from the base
to the point.
The Creston Gazette says that the effort to
erect a monument to the memory Of the late
T. j. Potter has peen slaughtered through the
influence of q few prominent railway officials
who should have given the movement their
united support.
l.. c. Gray, the young Englishman who re-
Gently came from England and bought a
farm near Akron, was drowned In the Sioux
river Monday by the caps'zipg OF a sa,ali sail
boat. A friend Who was with him succeeded
in swimming to the shore.
AS the train going north on the iowa
Northern railway Friday evening was passing
near the Star Coal and Mining conpapy's
mine, three or four miles north OF Colfax, a
3-year. old child CT a miner named Carlson
was run over by the cars and killed.
A Keokuk yoman says that salt literally
sprinkled around the roots and on the
branches Of plum trees would Kill the
c~urculio. She made the experiment and
found salt eficscious, and desires the grow
es Of plum trees to have the benefit OF the
knowledge.
Frank Miller, indicted fol using the mails
To defraud, Is on trial before a jury In the
United States court at Dubuque. Miller Ia
OF Fayette. II Is charged that ne was In the
business Of selling counterfeit money at e
discount, using his own dupes, a half wi,tad
girl and a low villain, for the purpoge OF
communicating with the prospective pur-
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