Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-17
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.


10 improve their park.
The weed question is the absorbing topic
of a number of state papers.
The fire department OF o W VIII hold its
annual parade September 4.
The government building at Keokuk is com
plete and only lacks the furniture.
The building Of the $4,000 hotel at Eldora
has been postponed until next year.
The Mt. Pleasant postofiice has been made
an international money order office.
The Free Press is the name OF a new paper
Just started at Manning by Lahar q Co.
Polk county soldiers and sailors will hold a
reunion at Avon Junction, August 2l-23.
The Twenty-fourth Iowa infantry will hold
its reunion at Marion September Is and 70.
A new Catholic church Is to be erected at
Altamont, Shelby county, at a cost OF So,OOO.
The camp meeting at Storm Lake will
OBJ D August % and continue until septem-
Der 8.
Thirteen hundred excursionists from Cedar
Rapids viewed the attractions at Anamosa
Thursday.
The telephone company at Des Moines is
rebuilding its line and otherwise improving
fits service.
The Mahaska County Normal institute is
In session at Oskaloosa with $50 teachers In
attendance.
Creston is to obtain her water supply from
a~rtesian wells, a contract 10 that effect hay
ing been let to an Omaha man.
The family Of Hans Henson had a narrow
escape from death through the burning OF
their home, near Davenport, on Thursday.
Fl. II. Harrison and o. II. Wilson, light
ming rod ~swindlers, we're arrested at Des
Moines Saturday. They are wanted In Win
terset.
Harold Carpenter, a 9.year-old boy, mem
Der Of the Cedar Rapids Grace church sur
plIced choir, bids fair to rival Mrs. Shaw as a
whistler.
Wallace Martin, OF Reasner, was killed Sat
urday by the alling OF a hay derrick While he
was engaged In stacking hay on a farm near
that place.
Major. General Canadian, commander OF
the uniform rank Knights OF Pythias OF the
world, is TO be In attendance at the encamp-
ment at Osksloosa.
JnrR rage, Il iS-1tdf-blu wy wan hAN"P
ing to board a moving train at Msrshalltowh
Wednesday, fell beneath the trucks and had
his foot badly smashed.
The Dubuque Boat club has entered crews
for the races to be held at Pullman, HI, dur
Ing August. 1t viii also send representa-
tipes to Grand Rapids, Mich.
The work OF changing the big disti]lery al
Des MONIES into a malt house has been cons.
menced. 1t will have a capacity of LOO &c
400 bushels OF malt per day.
Articles Of incorporation were filed with
the secretary OF state Wednesday by the
Wellman Savings bank, OF Wellman, Wash.
ington county. Capital, $4,000.
re most prominent horses at Cleve-
land last week were from this state; Axteli,
Allerton, Pennant, lillian and Roy Wilkes
the latter now owned in Chicago.
The Knights OF Pytbias OF O'kaloosa are
pushing m.tters toward getting ready for The
state meeting Of the grand lodge and the
grand encampment August Is and IA.
McDonougb, the man who attempted tc
pass certificates Of deposit at Dubuque last
week, was released because be could not be
identified as the man who stole the certifi
Gates.
Chas. Dorman, 73 years Of age, and FOL
more than a quarter OF a century a residen'
of lakewood, about one mile east of Hamii
ton, was shot Tuesday night by a thief anC
seriously wounded.
DIR. A. Jones, Of Des Moines, is preparing
novel summer outing. He WILL soon start OF
an overland trip to Alaska, a span OK mules
to be the motive power and a light covered
wagon the vehicle.
The Clinton Age has been counting the
number OF counties touched In Iowa by the
principal lines of railway. 1t finds the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul touches the
greatest number, forty-eight.
Harry Adams, q 17.year-old boy, two weeks
sgo stole a horse and buggy from a livery
stable in Cedar Rapids. He has just been
arrested at Ashtabuls, o.. The horse and
buggy were found at Wheeler, Ind.
A circus was broken up In a general row at
Panora, citizens and showmen getting into a
fight because one OF the girl performers
claimed TO have been ~insulted by a man 10
the audience. Whisky was the cause OF the
disturbance.
A barn belonging TO VIM. Hamlin, two
miles west OF Glenwood Junction, was burned
Saturday morning about 2 O'Clock. Eight
horses, two cows, a buggy, wagon and har'
ness, farm machinery, eight tons OF hay and
1900 bushels OF cats were destroyed. No In
surance on any OF the property.
The annual reunion Of the members OF thu
famous Twenty. IF h lows Infantry regiment
will be held at Washington, Ia, September
% and %. At the time OF the mastering In
OF this regiment Geo. A. Stone, OF Mt. Pleas
ant, was It's colonel. He subsequently be-
came General Stone. The regiment held a
memorial reunion at Mt. Pleasant.four years
ago, when $50 Of the survivors were present
Come time ago William Phillips, a wealthy
farmer living near Delmar, Clinton county,
returned frcm Chicago where he had sold
stock, when two men Ia a buggy visited him
and wished 10 see some land he had for sale
He rode with them almost TO the place, when
the carriage stopped AZ the bridge aud two
more men sprang out with leyeled reyolyers.