Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-15
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST
IOWA.

Logan will celebrate the Fourth of July.
Monona county wants q new court house.
West Okoboli ia experiencing a building
boom.
Fort Dodge is building a new $4,000 school
house.
The Osceols county p~oor.house is de.
serted.
Citizens Of Onawa are building a swim
ming tank.
A scarlet fever epidemic is threatened at
Fort Dodge.
The Des Molnes Leader carrier boys "
their owl routes.
The Dubuque Driving Park association
has incorporated.
A Sons of Veterans camp has been In
stalled at Coggon.
Forty-one people were Inferred In Des
Moines during May.
The "pure milk' question is being dis
cussed In Burlington.
A brick and tile factory has been estab-
lished at Eagle Grove.
A new weekly paper will be launched at
| Fort Madison June Is.
Inc Dcb MOtucb NopheoA A"S
society news" column.
Dubuque is to furnish Sheldon with 9
SIS, 900 cracker factory.
Horse racing on the principal streets OF
| Sibley has been stopped.
A Knights of Pythias lodge has been or
ganized at Emmetsburg.
The Old Settlers association OF Grundy
| county will meet June IL.
c. w. Bixby is wanted at Cedar Rapids for
stealing his own daughter.
Sam Small spoke to an immense audience
In Bloomfield Friday night.
Holstien raised $47l In four hours for the
Fourth Of July celebration.
One hundred and fifty arrests were made
In Des Moines during May.
The Blue Grass league OF southwestern
Iowa has been incorporated.
A new Catholic school building is being
constructed at Emmetsburg.
Tommy Hughes, 9 years old, was killed by
q COW last Friday at Altoona.
Thirty saloons have teen closed In Fort
Dodge In the last two months.
A gathering Of southwestern Iowa editors
win occur at Corning June II.
The Plymouth county teachers institute
will convene at LeMars July s.
A branch OF the w. G. T. U. was organized
in Council Bluffs last Saturday.
Dubuque will make q proposition to secure
the Industrial home for the blind.
B. r. Erb, of Carroll county, paid a fine OF
A0pa L. uu~t- a. ttn,n~ r,1taaana
Building permits aggregating $1,000 were
issued in Council Bluffs last week.
The Fort Madison penitentiary is in good
order. Governor Larrabee says 30.
The Marion FIRE department will attend the
tournament at Cedar Rapids Thursday.
r. L. Lucas fell from a stock train near
| Creston Thursday night and was killed.
Freight cars stand idle so long at Lake
City that birds build their nests in'them.
Thirty applications have been made fol
principalship Of the Emmetsburg schools.
Judge Kline, Of lama City, will deliver
the Fourth Of July Grafton at Northwood.
The catalogue Of the Ioaa state library II
oIt. The library contains 81 900 volumes.
Dubuque hndsi 1t diff ult to select a locs
ton for its new opera house that suits every
body.
Des Moines has an organization Of Daugi
| tiers Of Veterans with a membership Of thirty
four.
The Linn County Veterans association Il
preparing an interesting program for July
and 4.
There are sixteen suits pending agains
the city OF Davenport for the ~refunding o
taxes.
I%ncendiaries are at work at Ida Grove. 4
recent attempt was made to burn the Pionee
office.
A tanning mill factory Is to be located L
Belmond. The $1,000 bonus has been sub
scribed.
w. H. Neizns, Of Waverly, says that he, in
stead Of Billings, Is the slayer Of Kingsley
He Is insane.
The farm residence and other buildings o.
Michael Savage, near Fort Dodge, burned
Friday morning.
AT Grafton scarlet fever has made its ap
pearsnce in q violent form, several DEATH
having occurred.
NJ. Bilderback IL Bon will commence the
| publication of q new democratic newspaper q,
Griswold June IA.
l.. G. Bannister, lawyer and prominent citi-
zen. died at his home in Des Moines satur-
day, aged "a years.
j. II. Jones, living near Eldora, was ar
rested last Saturday, charged with outraging
Miss Clara Kreiger.
The city marshal Of Dubuque publishes a
notice warning all saloopkeepers that their
licenses are now due.
Arrangements are on foot for leasing and
converting the Burlington Baptist college
into a public hospital.
The Willow Creek creamery, recently
started at Peterson, is now handling 500
barrels of milk daily.
The Buena Vista County Agricultural So
ciety will hold It's third annual exhibition at
Alta, June IL, ~ and IL.
The great flow Of water and gas from a re-
Gently bored well near Jefferson is causing
excitement In that locality.
Cows are dying In the vicinity OF EIdora.
The cause is supposed to be from the poison
Gus myrrh In the pastures.
Miss Olive Dorsey, OF Council Buff, who
was injured by a fall from an electric motor
train last January, has brought suit agains:
the company for $4,000 dsmages.