Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST.
IOWA

mile track.
The Keokuk Chief is the newest Gate Cit,
publication.
The Tama Indians want to have a pow WOW
with tine governor.
Steamboats, are being reftted at Clinton TO,
he seasons work.
The Democratic faction of Dubuque are
said to have united.
Marshalltown has q scheme for q great In
dustrial exhibition"
Dubuque base ballists opened the season
with a game Saturday.
Genuine Cinnamon make the ties for the
church socials In Atlantic.
There is q steady decrease Ia the number
of c~onvicts at Fort Madison.
"A Christian home for needy women" IL
the latest Des Moines charity.
Mt. Pleasant asylum Is receiving an unusual
number OF insane patients.
Burlington has arranged accommodations
for ',00e men during encampment.
A clean sweep was made of the old police
force at Marshalltown 1t was shaky.
A. ID. Sweet was struck with a well sweep
at New Hampton and instantly killed.
A Columbus Junction man wants the Iowa
river dredged out SO It will be navigable.
The bonus stock OF $50, 600 for the new
Ottumwa opera house has ell been taken.
Work on the new Methodist church at Ids
Grove has begun. The cost will be s., 900.
Seven hundred and s'xty-three children are
enrolled in the Baptist Sunday schools o.
Muscatine.
Out Of 1000 persons In Washington county
between the ages OF 5 and II years, only 2,30(
are attending school.
The big saw mill at Montrose, Lee county
that has been idle for four years, is soon &c
be put In operation again.
a maj who looked so seedy that he was
arrested for a tramp In Ottumwa had 1900
In his pockets, and was a prominent citizen.
i. J. Childs, of Council Bluffs, aged "a, fell
from a ladder while trimming trees and
died the next night from conclusion Of the
brain.
Twenty-Five men, many OF them vel
known citizens, were caught by the police In
a gambling joint at Marshalltown Saturday
night.
Paul Gauss, the Wapello travelling mar
who embezzled ST. 900 from his firm, escaped
punishment by his friends making up the de
fciency.
Leon dedicated q new M. f. church Sun
day, Bishop w. X. Ninde conducting tn,
dedicatory services. The building cos
$40, 200.
x.
The Burlington Gazette says a prominen'
society girl got boiling drunk and made al
exhibition Of herself in the public park Sun
day night.
TIL Gravity Echo has been suspended be
cause Miss Nellie Cresbro, editor and pro
prietor, found too little reward along tina
road OF work and worry.
The state board Of health Ia now after the
men who are deceiving the people of the STATE
by selling recipes for making gasoline CON
pounds for Illuminating purposes.
Thieves entered the millinery store o
Harvard q Co., Of Davenport, Sunday night
and got away with more than 81, eco wortl
Of goods, including hundreds Of valuabl'
handkerchiefs, silks and v~elvets.
Mr.. William Hulhouse OF Burlington, wb'
Is candidate for steamboat inspector, has tn
endorsement OF the Illinois senators, tina
state being embraced within the territory &
which he viii be assigned, II appointed.
The report OF the Ciarinda hospital for tn
month Of February has been filed with Gov
Larrabee. There were confined during tina
month 234 inmates, OF whom two died durin!
the month, leaving 232 when the report wa
made.
The town Of Ruskin IN Nuckolls county /
q great corn market fDr It's size. 1t has sew
e~nty-dvc Inhabitants, all told, and has som
so, 600 bushels of corn In Its cribs. One frr
has been shipping from forty to fifty car load
per month.
At Farley In the recent election one OF til
issues was the question Of voting a tax I
raise funds for the building Of q new schoo
house. The result Of the election was q Tie
and the old chool house will still shelter tn
future presidents.
The Oskalooss Herald Of Saturday says
emma Sweeney, for keeping a house O
prostitution, WAS sentenced by Judge John
son this morning to ak months at the For
Madison penitentiary. The law fixes tn
lowest limit OF the sentence as the tern
given"
A Dubuque ncwsboy got even with a dea'
beat In great shape. The man owed the bo
for papers and would not pay him; the DO.
wrote to his {the boy's) brother who is attend
Ing school in Indiana, telling about the actor
OF his customer, and one day last week thu
man received a box by express marked &C. O.
d." The express charges amounted to sew
eral dollars, and upon opening the box, Il
was found to be full Of bricks.
About ten days ago a young babe was lef'
on the porch OF a family named Parker a
Bloomfield. Several weeks ago a woman gave
birth to a child In the hallway Of a boarding
house conducted by Mrs. Verden ~ Ottumws
| The latter visited the Parker house, and iden
! tilted the child AS being the babe that wa
born at her house which was taken away b.
Ice mother on the same evening that tn
Parkers found It on their porch In that city
The Iowa delegation in Washington hav
agreed 10 recommend the following for ap
pointments: +. G. Foster OF Clinton for on
OF the auditors Of the treasury W. d. Gibfoi
OF Lucas country as medical referee In tn
pension ofice q; NJ. NJ. Walden Of Appanoos