Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-23
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
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being done In respect to u new electric llgbt
for Muscatine.
Buena Vista Is paying for the board and
expenses Of nine patients at the Insane hos
pital at Mt. Pleasant.
The patrons of the telephone system at
Fort Dodge have taken up arms against the
poor night service furnished.
Members OF the Jefferson school board have
been In Des Moines 80 study plans for the re-
building of their school house.
six vigorous youths residing In Dubuque
are about 10 strike out for the far west where
labor Is scarce anu wages are high.
A fine brick block and q number OF foe
residences are among the contemplated i'm
proyements TO be made at Winterset In the
spriog.
The State Business Mems association was
| organized at Marshalltown last Monday night
aud a committee was appointed to draw up
articles OF Incorporation.
There are now In the Polk county jail six
persons serving out sentences fer violations
Of the prohibitory liquor law, and their terms
vary from sixty TO 100 days.
Joe Meakins, OF Vinton, jumped from q
| moving passenger train to save "A little walk
n going 10 his home. He struck on his face
| and has been under the DOCTORS care since.
The place for holding the lows conference
OF the United Brethren church has been
changed from Monticello to Bristow. It VIII
meet April 10, and be presided over by Bishop
Weaver.
The faculty Of lows college at Grinnell has
made known It's intention Cf presenting a
| window TO the new Baptist church TO be
erected on the site Of tic present building.
The window win be known as the "Iowa col
lege window"
A son Of DR.. Smith, Of Conesyille, met With
a serious accident last Wednesday. He bad
a revolver In his hip pocket and Jumped on q
train for a short tide. When he Jumped OF
ne fell on his shooter, which discharged, leay-
ing the ball in bis thigh.
The attorney general has sustained Audi
tor LYONS In the matter Of refusing to Issue
warrants for losses sustained by a state uni
verlity endowment fund. They both hold
that the claim Of the fund las been outlaweI
by the statute Of limitation.
The house OF William Staley, nine mile-
southeast Of Glyndon, was destroyed 10y fire
on Tuesday night. Mr.. Stsley is one Of tn,
well-to-do farmers Of Clay county, and hit
loss Is about $1,000.
Rev. Kristen Berven, pastor CT the Nor
wegian Lutheran church In Red Wing, hat
brought suit in the district court against ID,
I ,tb.ra, church In PaIviIora tpwnzhfn IN re
cover salary due him.
The taxpayers Of Red Wing have voted t
secure a legislative act giving authority +
pay the city bonds rs they mature by the is
suance OF new bonds running over a lOui
term of years aud bearing a los rate OF inter
est,
Rev. j. Milton Akcrs, OF 81. Charles, die
on Sunday Of pneumonia, after AZ Dlrcss o
but a few days. H. has been q leading mem
Der IF the Mlnncsots conference for a uumbc
OF years, ana was well known throughout tn
state.
While Riley, sen NJ to the state prison fly
years ago from Mobiles county on conY,ctio.
Of the murder of his father, was released las
Tuesday on a pardon from Gov, herrisp,
Riley has just become Of are anu ia Ia fecbi
health.
The society ladies' Of sauk Center hay
formed a "Gu,ss What Club and atter,
social gatherings on their own hook. Thu
move IS made .ccause the you2- gentlcmci
are so ungallanJ as to allow hem TO 90 unat
teuded.
The coroner'a jury 10 the case OF JOSEPH
Berntck at Delane, who 1t was supposed ha'
suicided, have returned a verdict that Der
nick came to his death from \ wound inIhI
throat made by a razor in the hands Of uu
known parties.
The Crestou board Of trade has closed
contract with the Beggs Brothers Manufact
ing company whereby their wagon factory
will be moved from King City, Mo, to Ores
ton. The board agrees to dispose OF one
third the products Of the factory for the first
year.
The.board OF education Of Fergus Falls has
entered suit against he bondsmen Of Rand a
Drew, the Minneapolis contractors, who built
the new high school in that city, for e.. eco,
the amount which the board has had TO pay
above the contract price. The bonlsmen all
i've In Minneapolis.
A grain elevator and a tesement house
We're destroyed by fire at Hastings Friday.
The loss is about $40, 600. The owner OF the
elevator, Lewis Van Inwegen, while attempt
Ing to rescue his horse from the burning
building, was badly burned about the face,
although not seriously.
A case OF assault and battery has just been
decided at Woodstock, which will serve "a an
example to that class Of boys that are bullies
and attempt to run the school. A teacher
was reprimauding one scholar and another
pupil interfered and assaulted the instructor.
The offender was iined S75 and costs for his
sport.
A Thma City correspondent ssys: "Con-
siderable surprise and indignation were felt
| by the large audience which greeted Rev. Mr..
Garlock at the Sunday afternoon service,
when this gentleman told, with tears In his
| eyes, the attempt that was being made by
some person or persons to injure his charac.
ter. The minister held in his hand two or
more slips containing vulgar quotations from
the Bible TO which his name had been tigned.
and which were sent by mail TO prominent
ladies OF the church."
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