Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-05
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Iowa,

Ananiosa Is 10 have a baby carriage fac
DRY.
The Des Moines river is the lowest It has
been for forty years.
The Davenport canning works uses uF
about 1000 bushels OF tomatoes a day.
The Burlington depot at Hawthorne was
and s2s taken from the safe.
The Fourth Iowa division of the G.. A. r
will hold u reunion ut Keokuk on October
10.
A farmer In O'Brien county reports tina,
his farm.
A man in Red Oak had his pocket picked
in the court room while attending "a trial at
that place.
Two children of sunny Italy and rs many
trick bears are making u tour Of the coun.
try towns.
A girl baby with $50 in her pocket was
left on the doorstep of Rev. Mr.. Bowden's
residence at Oskaloosa.
Summitville, n small town north of Keo.
kulE, is distinguished by having the first
snow fall of the season.
Cedar Rapids has a tailor so remarkably
handsome that he is bothered to death by
the attentions of the girls.
Nine Benton county white cappers pleaded
guilty to aggravated riot and were as.
sessed from 800 to 800 each.
The race horse John Z, owned by Mr..
Able, of Monticello, dropped dead on the
race track at New Hampton.
Lizzie Downey, aged 20 years, committed
suicide at Keokuk by taking arsenic. Con
tinued i'll health was the cause.
A mar named L. Il. Greenback is miss
ing from Sanborn, and fears are entertained
that he may have committed suicide.
Twelve hundred tons of hay belonging to
Bowman Bros, of the Lone Tree stock
farm, near Waverly was destroyed by
fire.
Alice Stewart, a Primghar widow, got a
verdict of 81 900 in "a breach OF promise suit
against S. o. Reese, a prominent real estate
man.
A highway robber g~lorying in the historic
name of Dick Turpin has been arrested in
Des Moines on order Of the sheriff of Dallas
county.
The Rock Island has n female postal
clerk who runs from Chicago to West Lib
erty. She is said to be very intimate with
the mails.
John Burns and julius Deering fell from
the top of a freight train near Davenport.
Deering was killed outright and Burns
badly injured.
A subscription paper is being circulated
at Sibley for the purpose of raising funds
to sink a four-inch artesian well to supply
water for the city.
Colonel Hogeland, the newsboys' friend,
is making a lecturing tour through the
state for a benefit of those happy, but
much suffering little mortals.
Steps are TO be taken TO ascertain the
number of children at work in shops and
factories between the ages of s and 10 years.
Also those not attending school.
The Noble Order of the Mystic Shrine of
Masons initiated forty new members at
Clinton and banqueted 100 visitors from
Chicago and other eastern cities.
The governor has appointed Senator
Cheseboro, of Muscatine, a delegate to the
national congress of farmers, which con.
venes at Montgomery, Ala, October ID.
An investigation by the state auditor dis.
closes the fact that there is nearly 5000, 0OO,-
900 of untaxed property in the state, which
is more than the taxable property in some
states.
L.. c. Duffy, OF Creston, a railroad brake.
man, who was fined $50 for assaulting Rev.
Fred Eason some time ago, carried the
case up to the district court and was &C.
quilted.
VIM. Coles barn was burned to the
ground at Mt. Pleasant. A little colored
boy who was sleeping on the premises, had
she presence of mind to save u span of val.
liable horses.
Two special freight trains collided on the
Chicago and Northwestern at Stanford, in.
Turing several of the train men and killing
a lot of hogs with which the east bound
train was loaded.
Slow collections, brought about by the
strike on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, caused the failure of Z. D.. Kerr,
one of Creston's leading grocers. Liabili-
ties IS 5000; assets unknown.
Requisition papers nave been presented
to the governor for the extrad..,on Of the
car thieves arrested at Davenport and
wanted at Rock Island, with prospects OF o
speedy transfer of the criminals.
A small-sized whirlwind at Northwood
scattered Mr.. Forba's barn all around
town. 1t also blew the front door off his
residence and picked up his little girl baby
and carried her from the parlor into the
bach room.
A thief threw a stone through the win
dow Of a Rolfs jewelry store and reached
in and took six Waterbury wat chez. II
caught he will probably nave to serve out
HE tame aeoording TO tho wstsrbury sys-
tenn Of movement.
Four West Side boys started out on q
lark and took the box car route to Carroll.
The car they got into was occupied by two
tramps who made the boys contribute all
their capital, consisting Of Siv, and then
bounced them Of the train.
Constable Whi,eInarsh, OF Malcom, went
20 Marshalltown To arrest a man named
Travers for securing money under false
pretenses. He found his man and while wait
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