Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-01
NEWS o. TIE NOR INVEST.
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warden independent.
Rock Rapids wants = system Of water works
and a FIRE department.
Charles City Is once more stirring up the
chair factory project for that place.
The Salvation army at Boone has become
discouraged and mas abandoned the "
A boy shot an eagle at Washington Tues
day which measured six feet and six inches
from tip to tip.
Harvey w. Enerest, Ii. d., OF Wichita,
Kan has accepted the presidency Of Drake
university at Des Moines.
Youthful vandalism has reached such a
point OF Intolerance In Cedar Rapids that the
Gazette cIamors for It's suppression.
Charles City claims to be doing more man
ufacturirg than any other town In northern
Iowa, with the exception OF Dubuque.
An epidemic Of the typho-malarial fever IS
raging ut Oakland, there bling sixty-two
cases at present. The schools have all been
closed.
The latest invention Introduced In Council
Bluffs Is a street ssiiing yacht. 1t is rtgzed
on wheels and will travel ten or twelve miles
an hour
The suditor OF Boone county has paid out
the tum Of 5000 oouut, money on the eeaips
OF 1000 gophers this spring, says the Boone
Republic IN.
Alex. Mo script, Of Inland, last week drew
bounty money frum the Cedar county treas
ury on 745 squirrel scalpe, amounting 10 more
than $50
& At least thirty applications have already
been fled for the prtnctpaiship OF the En-
netsturg schools, AMI there are yet several
to hear from.
The city council OF Fort Dodge has refused
the cows the right to use the streets OF that
city as a pasture, and hereafter taey will be
Obliged to dad grazing fields else where.
Jacob Minis, Of Des Moines, will leave that
city to establish "A newspaper In Li-bop, Okla
homa. His wife goee wi h him expecting to
take charge OF the postotfice In the new town.
The Washington Press says Michael Hayes,
an old settler who died recently at that place,
had 81, 900 In gold stored away In his house
when death overlook him, over 800 In 81
pieces.
j. F. Noble, Of New Hampton, recorder Of
Chickasaw county, is working up a conven-
ton Of the county ecorders Of the state, for
the purpose Of forming an association Of these
officials.
The suit brought by Congressman Walter
/. Hayes against the Clinton News for Grim
inal libel has been decided In favor Of the
plaintiff. The defendant viii make a motion
for a new trial.
VS. WINS, IN old and prominent business
man OF Keokuk, died Saturday afternoon.
He was stricken with paralysis on the Mon
day before last and had been unconscious
since that time,
Calhoun couaty has undertaken the drain
age OF $1,000 a res Of worthless lake and
marsh, heretofore used only by goose and
duck hunters. The estimated cost Of the
work Is $50, 900.
A. G. Dooiey, q wealthy merchant OF Water
loo, left that city two W. eks ago fer Chicago
on business. He never reached that city and
bis friends are making Inquiries concerning
his whereabouts.
John Zimmerman, OF Dubuque, claims the
honor Of making the first plano in this state.
His shop was established In that city twenty
five years ago aud has been continuously OPP
Grated since then
TX, City Clerk Burke, Of Council Bluffs,
made good p shortage. in mis- sons accounts,
who acted as bis deputy, by transferring his
house and lot to the city. The shortage
am M pteI "a cd ono
w. w. Jackson, a coal dealer Of Dubuque,
is AZ present. IN Desbone, Sullivan county,
Pa, whert ). 600 900 tons If anthracite coal
have been discovered on 40 acres belonging
to the estate of bis father, Of which he Is one
OK the heirs.
At Fort Madison, In the absence Of any
real genuine boom, the citizens are working
themselves up to \ great pitch OF excite
uent, over a man's trial Of strength and en-
dursnce In carrying a brick in each hand for
q certain number of hours walk
The four cars OF beer seized at Burlington
have been ordered released by Judge Phelps.
The Anheuser- Busch Brew Ing company FIJI
day afternoon brought suit against Sheriff
y ullSIlOu W ItCONcr fooo, INC hlbOunL VI
damages sustained by them In connection
with the seizure.
Fort Dodge Messenger: With the worth
less ours OF the city shot, the cows closed up,
hew sidewalks built, q syndicate block erected
asd numerous other important Improvements
made, when Governor Cue visits Fort Dodge
again he will write q different letter. The
city Will have taken the the place anticipated
for her.
In 1S3S Antoine lie Claire's hat did duty as
Da%venport's postoface. In 1888 Duncan G.
Rldridgc was appointed postmaster there, and
he was ~reappointed again In 1s49, an incum-
Sency Of four years by john Forrest inter
vening between his two terms. The appoint
ment, just made, of Colonel Henry Egber, TO
ths place, Is the eleventh appointment TO the
ofxce.
For nearly six years past Mrs. John vetter,
living near Manson, suffered from violent
pains In the stomach, being so violent at
times thar her life was despaired Of. Sstur-
day morning she was taken with a violent fit
OF coughing which lasted nearly twenty min
utes, during which abe turned black In the
face and finally vomited up a reptile re-