Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-10
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.
IOWA.
has q newspaper. the Alta.

Thieves are still numerous in Council
Bluffs.
Belle PLANE has a band tournament Au-
gust s.
a yacht race is to take place at Lake Man
ava soon.
Dubuque's system Of drainage is nearly
completed.
A mad dog was shot at Des MONIES
Wednesday.
Dizziness in trade is reported In Mississippi
iver towns.
A horse and buggy was stolen from Dewitt
last Tuesday.
The Iowa Glucose works are paying q
cents for corn.
The ladies' cornet band at Ruthven is be-
coming famous.
Goldfeld people vigorously deny that they
have a small pox case.
Charlton is going to put in a l,Oo0-lamp In
candescent light plant.
Marshalltown is 10 have a more extensive
system q water works.
Council Bluffs is elated over the prospect
of a $4,000 brick plant.
Horsemen at Waverly have Just imported
l03 horses from Montreal.
Tama has a tent meeting conducted in the
interest Of the u. B. church.
Toledo will have q pulling match" on Au-
gust 10 for a purse OF 800.
The Central house at Alden was partially
consumed by fire Wednesday.
Asher Smith, of Anaposs, was sunstruck
last Saturday. He will survive.
A mass Sunday school convention will be
held at La Porte, August Ia and Is.
Citizens OF Centerville are raising a sub
scriptlon to purchase a public library.
The district fair at Keokuk, August 10 to
10, promises TO be Of rare excellence.
Jesse Walker was drowned last Monday
evening while In bathing near Newton.
The homeopathic physicians Of Dubuque
have formed a permanent organization.
The Davenport Shoe company, Of Daven-
port, has fled articles Of incorporation.
The Manila Register has increased It's sub
scription price from 81 to 81. SO per year.
A blackbird shooting tournament will be
held at Mediapolis July 81 and August /.
There are 100 teachers in attendance at the
Marshall county normal at Marshalltown
Clinton has a number Of toughs who anus
themselves by insulting unattended ladies.
+. n. Chase has been appointed inspector
Of oils for Waterloo, Cedar Falls and vicin-
ity.
The Davenport papers are kicking on the
outrages committed by the police of that
city.
A number Of Muscatine saloonkeepers have
been fined $50 and costs for selling intoxi-
cants.
II. Myerholz, a farmer living near Wapello,
had an ankle broken by being caught in a
mower wheel.
Red Oak will hold a special election Au-
gust q to vote on a proposition TO issue bonds
for electric lights.
Three young men were more or less in
lured In the saw mills at Clinton yesterday,
uone fatally, however.
VIM. Brown and Chas. Sheldon, two runs-
way boys from Stuart, were arrested at
Council Bluffs Saturday.
Carleton Joslyn, a Centerville drayman,
was ran away with Thursday and so badly
injured that he viii die.
Ed Cox was thrown from a horse at Gil
bert Wednesday and his right leg broken be-
tween the hip and knee.
The Shaver Carriage company, OF Des
Molnes, has filed articles Of Incorporation.
Capital authorized, $25, 200.
Manning is to have another newspaper. 1t
will be q seven column folio and will be called
the Independent Free Press.
+. II. Warner was elected mayor Of Angus
to I'll the vacancy caused by the removal of
Robt. A. Lowry to Oklahoma.
Hon. b. j. Hall, OF Burlington, will open a
law office In Chicago, making patent office
business the principal feature.
The big Touring mills at Carroll, which
have been closed three years, a-e being re-
fitted and will soon be reopened.
Sheriff O'Neill, Of Pottawattamie county,
refuses to serve iniunctions on saloonkeepers
unless he is paid his fees In advance.
A number Of improvements are being made
In the canning factory ut Wapello, prepare
tory to commencing the seasons work.
A Touring mill at Moulton burned last Fri
day night. The loss was q, $50. The fire
was thought to be Of ncendiary origin.
A colored man named Richard Dickson Is
travelling through Iowa lecturing, raising
funds to educate himself for the ministry.
Andrew Hansen, Who was injured at one of
the saw mills at Clinton some time since,
died Wednesday from the effects of the
injuries.
The Governors Greys, of Dubuque, are
talking OF building a s25, 600 armory by rails
ing &c., 600 stock and bonding the building
for Gil, COO.
John Robinett, formerly OF Des Moines was
scalded to death last Sunday by the explosion
Of the boiler OF his engine while running his
train through Georgia.
An old fellow from Greene county took a
rink from the public hydrant at Carroll the
other day, and was very much disappointed.
lie had heard that the city supplied free beer
to the public.
Hon. John Y. Stone furnished half the
raspberries sold In the Red Oak market this
year. They averaged him 1919 cents a quart.
Mr.. Stone has a very fine fruit farm, and he
Is also a fine and capable lawyer.
Miss Stephens, IS years Of age, has escaped
from the industrial school at Mltchellville.