Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-06

tinel, has bought the Adair News.
The lawyers and doctors OF Burlington are
having a great time with base ball.
A company is being organized in Daven-
port to make paper from sawdust.
Davenport will have a woman on Its police
force-a matron, she will be called.
The Consolidated Tank Line company is
erecting extensive buildings at Davenport.
The contest for the county seat OF Union
county has been decided in favor Of Alton.
The Pocahontas Record has entered upon
the sixth year Of its existence and is prosper
GUS.
Ten thousand people visited the Chautau-
qua grounds at Council Bluffs last Satur-
day.
Jacob Rich and wife, Of Dubuque, have
gone to Alaska, with q party Of friends, for a
visit.
II is estimated that fakirs who accom-
panied a circus took 5000 from Ames re-
Gently.
The Central Christian church Of Des Moines
will put Up a house OF worship costing
500, 900.
The annual reunion Of the Second Iowa
cavalry will be held at Manquoketa October
9 and 10.
1t is nothing unusual to get from three to
FIVE bushels OF cherries from a single tree at
Montezumx.
A tramp printer named Brown is under
bonds In O'Brien county to answer a charge
OF grand larceny.
The Council Bluffs iremen paid the eI-
penses of the state tournament and had a
handsome sum left.
William Stronks, of Alton, has made 5000
pounds Of cheese this season and finds q
ready market for It.
The Lake Park, the new hotel at Spirit
Lake, was formally opened TO the public last
| "Wednesday evening.
The annual reunion OF the Buena Vista
County Veterans association will be held al
Newell July 3 and 4.
The Buena Vista county normal institute
will be held at Storm Lake, beginning July
and continuing two weeks.
The Sanborn Journal Is satisfied that there
is coal In O'Brien county, and urges that
thorough examination be made.
Mrs. Lydia Chapman, late OF Cherokee
has been granted back pension for hersel.
and children amounting to over $4,000.
Henry LIE Gier, a young man living south o
| Humboldt, tried to commit suicide Tuesda.
by hanging, but was cut down too soon.
The fifth biennial reunion Of the Third reg
iment, lows infantry, will be held at Pella
Marion county, September II, IL and 10.
A series Of Sunday gospel meetings vii
be opened In Okoboji park, on West Okobol
lake, July Z, and continue through tn
season.
Mshaska county has furnished the stat'
Insane asylum with two women patients wh'
were sent there by the Salvation army ex
element.
The veterans Of Council Bluffs are making
quite extensive preparations for the recep
ton of Corporal Tanner, who will deliver al
address in that city July l.
A verdict for 81, 500 for the plaintiff wa
endered Tuesday at Rock Rapids in the case
o Esgan We. Murray, for seduction. The
suit was brought for $4,000.
Lightning struck the postoffice and the Of
fee Of DR.. A.. f. Gregg, st Panama, Thurs
day. L. w. Lantz and Anton Vrsng were
rendered unconscious, but will recover.
A convention Of rapid transit men inter
ested In electric street railways was held az
Davenport last Friday and Saturday, and u
permanent national organization effected.
A Rockwell City man was arrested last
Tuesday on a charge Of selling whisky, was
tried, found guilty, fined $25 and trimmings,
and is now boarding 1t out at the Greene
county jail.
The tents OF the Salvation army camp
meeting a. Creston were rihed Saturday
night. Two watches, some clothing and SO
In money were stolen. There Is no clew to
the miscreant.
Articles of incorporation of tie Hawarden
Improvement association have been flied
place OF business is at Sioux City. Capital
stock, 10000
Over 10000 gopher scalps have been re-
deemed by the county auditor OF Boone
county. at a cost OF over 81, 600. The board
OF supervisors has ordered the payment OF
bounty stopped.
j. B. Hume, a bookkeeper for Duqucttc 4
Co., commission merchants OF Council Bluffs,
Is found TO be a defaulter 20 the amount cf
"a ,eCO. Hume has turned his property over.
| There has been no arrest.
The agricultural department. has allotted
1000 for the experiment In Iowa with sor-
ghum and its products. The experiment will
be made at Cedar Falls, where considerable
works are already established. q
r. p. Wilcox, CT Clinton, has an oddly In
the line OF straw berries. /. Is In the form Of
a six pointed star, each point being a separ-
ate berry, while On one si0e In the center Of
the star appear three more berries, making
nine In all, and all joined together al the cen
ter