Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-22
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.
IOWA

Early.
There are several cases Of scarlet fever In
Council Bluns.
Dubuque donated over q, 500 to the Johns
The Westgate Breeders association has
been Incorporated.
The Des Moines Directory company has
Hled articles Of incorporation.
Boone county has paid sec bounty on 49,
900 gopher scAlps this season.
A new creamery was opened the 9Th inst. ut
Communal, In Clayton county.
The bond interest account OF the city OF
Davenport is now reduced to tl2,240 per year.
4 German carpenter named Garand was
drowned In Clay creek, near Mineola, Sun
day.
Perry will pipe natural gas from Dawson at
a cost of SIS, 900, the work to at
once.
Lewis sabip, a 17-year-old boy, was
| drowned In the canal at Keckuk Saturday
morning.
The Davenport class voted to dispense
with all floral offerings at the commencement
exercises.
The farm house OF Geo. Arnold, ten miles
northeast Of Oskaloosa, was destroyed by fire
Thursday night.
A Coon Rapids saloonkeeper, named B. r.
Erb, paid 1900 for the offense Of selling liquor
contrary to law.
Henry w. Sage, Of Ithaca, N. T., has given
| $500, 900 for the endowment OF a library at
| Cornell university.
John II. Drsbelle, late Of the Burlington
Gazette, has entered the practios OF Law and
located at st. Louis.
The city marshal Of Dubuque publishes a
notice warning the ~saloOnkeepers that their
licenses are now due.
The druggists follow the undertakers In
state convention at Dubuque. Isn't this re-
versing the processioni
w. T. Bristol, . farmer living two miles
from schaller, was instantly killed Saturday
morning while blasting rock.
.. II. Watkins, q Hardin county youth, has
invented a machine for binding grain with
straw. He has secured q patent.
Independence has raised 90, SEQ for q big
blow on the Fourth; q, 900 Of this amount
will be put into purses for horse races.
Nichol Ballantyne, Of Brooklyn, had his
eyes nearly put out Saturday while expert
menting with q homemade freerscker.
Lars Knudson, living near Humboldt,
while Down In . we'll last Saturday was over
come with foul air and died before taken out.
c. g. Brown, who began learning his trade
as a printer in the Manchester Press Office,
Is now the editor Of the Union Printer, New
York city.
The people Of Muscatine are begging tho
council to move the power houses OF that
place from their present location amid the
dwellings,.
Articles Of Incorporation have been filed
with the secretary Of state by the Fsyette
| Opera House company, with q capital stock
Of 100000.
The people of Quimby, Cherokee county,
are proud of their churches. New Methodist
and Presbyterian church buildings have just
been completed there.
Burglars are operating In Oskaloosa. Last
Wednesday night five homes were entered.
The thieves failed to realize in but one,
where $40 was secured.
A. Givin, OF Poweshiek county, lost two
sisters and a brother. in-law, with their chill
dren ana grandchildren, eighteen in all, In
the YOUNGSTOWN disaster.
Axtell, the phenomenal 3-year-old stallion,
will attempt to beat the record for 3-year-olds
over q half mile track, for q special purse OF
$500, at Cedar Rapids June 81.
John Knapp, who died at his home In Vim
A. ~ 49, pth tat rnryaJ "a N sp1atar In w
Mexican war, and was a member Of the regi
ment commanded by Jefferson Davis.
The 10th day Of June In each year has beer
fixed by the grand lodge Of Iowa, /. o. y. +.
on which memorial and decoration service'
will be held In memory Of deceased members
The father, mother, three brothers, two sis
tiers and a son Of Mrs. Gertrude Sharp, Of
Museatine, were victims Of the Johnstowr
food. Mrs. sharp Is left without q relative
Mrs. Gideon Rathbone, four miles northeast
of Eldora, died suddenly the 9th. She was
apparently In good health and had just So,
down to the table when she suddenly ex'
PRED.
The real estate men Of Council Bluns con.
template the calling OF q mass meeting for
the purpose Of taking steps to advertise
Council Bluffs as the finest city In the west
for inve. eat.
Two tame deer were shot on Credit island q
few d." ago by hunters from near Musca-
tine. Tha deer probably strayed away from
some lark on either side Of the river between
Davenport and Muscatine.
Sibley subscribed $500 toward the organiza-
| ton Of q ball club and agrees to give 80 per
month, provided a base bali league be formed,
to include the larger towns, and twelve games
be played on the home ground.
The health officers at Wall Lake found q
suspected case Of varioloid among some emf,
grants who were going to Gushing. TIE
patient was quarsntined and the diagnosis
will be confirmed or disapproved.
Toughs broke up q Salvation army meeting
at Charlton Thursday night. The marsha,
refused to interfere, and many OF the saliva
tionists we're badly handled by the attacking
party, several being covered with blood.
A farmer living four miles southeast o
Nevada while boring for water this weei
struck a strata containing natural gas aboa'
ninety Il eft down, and he has piped It and Il
now illuminating the whole country around
The house OF Gus Ehlers, of Boone, wa.