Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-20
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.
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Ut Charter Oak.
Manila has twenty men whose combined
weight is two tons.
The Methodists nj Ida Grove have com
menced work on their new church.
The Muscatine News-Tribune has changed
from an evening to a morning paper.
A patent has been Issued TO +. d. Patten,
OF Montrose, for a balanced slide valve.
The Catholic church at Coon Rapids was
struck by lightning last Friday morning.
The Early Settlers association will hold It's
annual picnic at Mitchellsville August 5.
sanborn BARRIERS have united on an agree
ment to keep their shops closed Sundays.
The Keokuk Constitution Democrat will
publish an illustrated edition about August.
Doran brothers, living six miles west OF
Ogden, lost a large barn by fire last Friday
night.
The sheriff has notified Denison people not
to Jump on moving trains on penalty OF being
arrested.
Fred Smith. Of Burlington, had his shout
der broken by a locomotive on the morning
Of the Fourth.
At Rembeck last Friday death claimed the
last member Of a family Of FIVE. They all
died OF diphtheris.
A commission as assistant state veterinary
surgeon was Friday issued 10 John Tile, OF
Muscatine county.
Oskaloosa business men have agreed 10
close their places Of business a, $50 O'Clock
during July and August.
Several OF the gamblers accompanying
Wallace 4 Co.'s circus were arrested al Al
gons and fined els each.
AT Wsucoma Saturday a man by the name
OF Hollis was killed by { race horse boiling
the track during a race.
A new clock for the lone Of the govern
ment building at Council Bluffs has arrived
and Is being put in place.
Two workmen engaged In carrying bricks
at the Y. VI. &. A. building In Des Moines
were sunstruck Saturday.
DR.. J. n. Long, David Algyer and four
others OF P~rimghar's leading business men
200 pounds in weight.
A small boy named Ell, al Boone, held a
lighted fire cracker In his teeth. When il ex.
ploded a part Of his tongue was gone.
The farmers Of Humboldt county nave
agreed TO bind their grain by hand rather
than pay over Il cents a pound for Irvine.
The First Iowa regiment viii hold rs at
nual reunion at Dubuque, not August 10, as
announced some time ago, but August :.
Ground was broken Friday for Creston's
glass palace, which will be built At q
cost OF s25, 600, and be completed August 20.
Miss Sadie Carter, is years Of aged, living
near Kcokuk, took poison on the Fourth with
suicidal intent, and died the next morning.
A premature explosion In a mine al Oska-
loosa Wednesday evening so injured Gus
tave Loaf as TO cause bis death q few hours
later.
The business Of the Montezuma postcffce
has fallen of the past year to an extent suf-
clsss office.
Antron wants a bank and a good hotel.
The town is situated In q rich agricultural
and stock region and makes large shipments
Of stock and grain.
The Lutheran church near Wall!ngford, al
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email. Extra room will be secured by the
erection OF galleries.
Emma Riordan, Of Chicago, while watch
ing some children play with frecrackers at
Burlington, had her dress catch on fire and
she was burned 10 death.
Tn Louisa county gas well was a gast-!y
failure. 1t burned two days and then went
out, and Prof. Calvin, Of the state university,
says II was only marsh gas.
The inmates Of the insane asylum at Mt
Pleasant numbered 753 during the month Of
June, as shown by the report Of the ~superin-
teDdent 10 Governor Larrabee.
"Some one will be brought up standing
some Of these fine days II the work Of desc
Grating the graves at the cemetery is not
stopped, 4" says the Muscstine journal.
Toe Republican believes that If the matter
OF placing an electric light plant In Boon
field were taken hold of and pushed with the
right sort Of energy it could be made to go.
The water in the Des Moines river Is lower
than during the dry season OF two years ago
and bids fair 70 reach the famous low water
mark OF 1861, when the river was chiefly such
In name.
One OF the last acts performed before the
OF the Chautauqua assembly az Coun.
ell Bluffs was the taking Of a collection. Sub.
scriptions and donations amounting 10 $425
received.
The state board Of health has received In
Of a case Of varioloid at Boone, the
being the man who nursed the brake. |
nan Of the Northwestern who has been down
With the disease.
A. B. Keith, formerly Of the Den.son Bull
etin and later OF the Des Moines Leader, ha.
a position on the editorial staff OF
he Montana Live Stock Journal, Russell
paper.
Walter Terrell, colored, was shot at Fort
last Friday by George Anderson
Ilso celored, and seriously injured. Terrell
6 a married man who had been paying de-
'oted attention TO a dusky damsel named
sadie Thomas. Anderson was an admirer Of
he girl and grew jealous Of his rival.
Fire destroyed twenty-five buildings al Car
on Sunday morning, including fifteen bust.
houses, the hotel and city buildings.
he estimated loss is sS5, 900, with about 49,
90 insurance. The cause Of the fire Is un-
nown.
The report OF the hospitel for ,bo tpsspa ~