Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-31
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.
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ton camp meeting than for years.
Frozen coffee is the latest luxury INDUCED
In by the society swells Of Des Moines.
Dubuque must have more school room, says
the president of the board Of education.
Denison is discussing the question as to
how the new court house is to be paid for.
The editor Of the Adams County Union
has written a lecture entitled, "The Rise anC
Fall of the Bustle."
Bert Inks, a young farmer living north Of
Mt. Vernon, had his leg broken the other day
by the kick of a horse.
The body Of an infant was found In the
river at Davenport Tuesday. 1t had evidently
bees-lrowned intentionally.
H, WILLIAMS, the Milton champion runner,
defegtedI Its opponent from Upton In a sew
go fs-e<ySlaash last Friday.
roiear-old son Of Marman Hadding, q
I-lher living in Keokuk county, had both
Get cut off In a mower last week.
By the 1st Of September Davenport's house
of detention will be In order for business for
the reformation Of fallen women.
John II. Cauthers, Of Warren county, veri-
fea the statement that he threshed 40 bush
els of oats from one acre this season.
At Big Rock, Scott county, on Wednesday,
George Montgomery outraged a l5-Year-old
girl, and is now fleeing from the officers.
Ed Cannon, a middle-aged man, was locked
up in Council Bluffs last Friday, having be-
come insane at a Salvation army meeting.
Davenport papers claim that the city is
IpnpdafaI ky frauppp rat1ru{nu from tho
harvest fields Of northern iowa and Mime
sofa.
The number Of entries for the trotting and
pacing races at the state fair is an even 100,
the large,t number in the history Of the So
cIety.
Dubuque Is putting in q sewer system, the
lateral branches Of which are constructed
through the alleys of the city instead Of the
streets.
According to q correspondent In the
Marshalltown Times Republican a family in
Rhinebeck without a baby is a difficult thing
to find.
George F. Kzdder, a Paullina druggist
was fined $50 and costs for running six days
without a registered pharmacist as employe
or principal.
Msior-G General Cornahan, commander OF
the uniform rank Knights Of Pythias Of the
world, was In attendance at the encampment
at OskaloosG.
Joseph f. kllwell, a young business man
of Davenport, has been arrested on the charge
of embezzlcment, and has been bound over
to the grand Jury.
Mics Ida Bows, OF Davenport, traded heI
geld watch for a ponyto,a ~peripatetic agen'
and then found that the pony had been stoler
and had to give It up.
Scranton and Rippey base ball clubs played
friday for the championship of Greene
county and e1U0 a side. The score resulted
in Rippey's fsvor-8 toe.
About 300 'fakirs" are fitting up shanties
along the principal streets of Des Moines,
preparatory TO preying upon the crowds who
will attend the coming state fair.
While James Firm, living near Independ-
ence, was leading e colt to water last Friday
1t turned and kicked him in the face, seri-
ously disfguring his c~ountensnce.
The miners at Flagler donated to Mrs.
Shaw, the wife of the miner killed there last
week, $104. Che has gone to Weir City, Kan,
to make her HON with her parents.
The Muscatine News Tribune says the little
covering shelves with that material house
wives escape the visits Of the pests.
A couple Of samples Of liquor we're received
by Prof. Besl, Of Toledo, from Cherokee.
They were marked "Heppiness," and were
found to contain OF per cent. alcohol.
The father of the boy who stole a horse and
buggy and tried to sell them In Keokuk, at
tempted to whip the editor OF the Constitu-
tion because he said the boy read dime novels.
The state mine inspectors will embody in
their next annual report a number of epin-
ions from leading miners anu mine operators
in regard to needed legislation, coal rates,
etc.
Captain Sam Scott, of dubuque, a steam
boa captain, who has been known on the
Mississippi river for more than fifty years, is
about to lose his home through extreme
poverty.
The White Breast Coal company had cut
out at Flagler this week, to put on exhibition
at Creston blue grass palace, a chunk Of coal
measuring 4 feet wide 0 feet long and 6 feet
In heighth.
While threshibg near Glare last week VIII
jam livery, Of Manson, got his right arm
caught In the cylinder of the machine and
iacerated to such an extent that amputation
was necessary.
Sneak thieves are numerous at Pomeroy.
The residence of A. A. Loats vas entered for
the second time while the family was absent
a few days since, and several valuable artt
Giles we're stolen.
Professors Calvin and Mcbride and DIR.
Faruswortb, Of the medical department Of the
state university, are In attendance at the
American association for the advancement of
eciences at Toronto.
A double-headed adder was captured by f.
Rspard, Of Muscatine, while blowing In his
strawberry Geld, and Sas presented by him
to the academy Of science of that city. Beth
heads are perfectly formed.
john Fox, wko has beea RAINING a r~estsur-
ant at Cedar FaRs for the past two years, has
suddenly disappeared. He LETT a note on the
table to his wife, saying; "Do not follow
me-" He Is said TO be in debt about $500
A couple OF Manson hunters net a Justice