Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-08
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST.
IOWA.

IOWA.
The News at Missouri Valley is now issued
daily.
DUBUQUE has raised $1,000 for a free race
track.
Cedar Rapids is infested with gang Of
gypsies.
Scranton has not a vacant building on her
business streets.
A tramp at Burlington got away with a
virtuoso's $S5 violin.
The college at Grinnell consumed $l,1Oo
worth of Goa. last winter.
Thirteen cottages are being built on West
Okoboji lake this season.
Independence proposes to do honor to It's
name on the Fourth Of July.
The two lodges Of Odd Fellows at Atlantic
will be consolidated on the 4th OF June.
The water works are now supplying 1900
600 gallons daily TO the people OF Davenport.
Fred Lehman, of Des Moines, declines the
invitation OF Fort Dodge for the Fourth OF
July.
The railroads will charge one fare and a
third 10 the druggists convention at Du-
buque.
Fort Dodge Is talking OF organizing a
militia company to enter the Iowa National
Guard.
Northwood thinks that place would be a
splendid location for a paper mill or starch
factory.
Mrs. Wellington, a widow lady Of Dawson,
was arrested Friday for selling Intoxicating
liquors.
Postmaster Crane, OF Dubuque, has re-
ceived his commission and filed his bond In
10000.
Seventy.fve Council Bluffs fremen spent
the day with the fremen Of Nebraska City
last Saturday.
Judge Kline, Of Tama City, has been en-
gagged to deliver the Fourth Of July Grafton
at Northwood.
Superintendent &. r. Shelton, Of the De
Witt schools, has..bought an interest In the
Clinton business college.
A Boone boy, Franz Hartford, aged IL,
died from the effects OF eating unripe goose
berries and drinking milk.
A Dubuque servant girl gave her lover all
her earning-sl0O-and he skipped out and
married a girl in st. Clair.
Malvern votes on the 9th OF June on the
question Of voting a 2 per cent. tax to AID
the Tabor and Northern railway.
James Malvern, of North Tama, has just
brought four thoroughbred stations and one
thoroughbred mare from Scotland.
The Marshalltown band will hold q fair to
raise money to pay the expenses OF the or
ganization to the state tournament.
3. L. Casterly, Of Anamosa, for man
years treasurer of Jones county, has located
at Colfax, where he has bought a hotel.
Work upon the repair and reconstruction
Of the Keokuk sewers, In accordance with the
recently prepared plan, will not begin before
fall.
ThreeDubuque fellows inveigled a wanton
into a notorious saloon, disrobed her, and
kept her on exhibition on a table for twenty
four hours.
Miss Henrietta Clayton, the Harlan young
woman who mysteriously disappeared, has
been discovered living as a domestic in an
Omaha family.
The Farmers Savings bank, OF George,
Lyon county, has been authorized bg the
state audltor to do business. The capital
stock is els, 900.
Ed Hughes, the successful orator at the
interstate contest held st rinnell In May, has
accepted the pastorate OF the Marengo Meth
odist church for the summer.
Company G, OF Vintop, has enlisted a corps
of twenty-four young ladies, who Will learn to
lrg1 Thov will ha t1pifpynpi md will spryl
as long as the company lasts.
The Dubuque Driving Park association has
been reorganized. The capital stock is $50
600, In shares OF $50. c.. Z. Wales is presi-
dent and +. B. Farley secretary.
The board of supervisors OF Sioux county
at the June session Will be asked TO submit
a proposition to a vote Of the people to build
a county G.. A. r. memorial hall at a cost Of
s., 1000.
s. NJ. Clark, Of the Keokuk Gate City, TEN
%porarily retired from editorial work by rea-
son OF ill-health, has been appointed commits
sioner Of education to the Paris exposition.
He will be absent about four months.
A party OF gentlemen, representing the
famous Sprague Electric Motor company, are
In Burlington preparing plans ana making
estimates for changing the Union Street Rail-
way company into an electric railway.
Dubuque Telegraph: 1t is reported the
soldiers are so dissatisfied over the rejection
OF their candidate for the Dubuque postofiice
that they will organize throughout the state
TO defeat Senator Allison for reelection.
Missouri Valley News: Clara Louise Kei-
logg passed through the Valley on the st.
Paul Saturday evening. She sat in the smok-
ing apartments Of the sleeper putting cigar
cites In a nonchalant manner very amusing
to a countryman.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says that
Conductor Callahan, Of the Wabash road
met with an accident last Friday evening as
he was taking bis run out of the Bluffs, that
came near ending In his death. The train
was Town In Missouri, near a little station
named Evona, and was running at g very
high rate Of speed. Mr.. Callahan was pass
ing from one car 10 another, and just as be
had closed the door behind him OF the car
he had just left, the train gave a shoot
around a curve with such o jirk that he lost
HIS hold and was thrown headlopp from the