Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-03
NEWS OF the NORTHWEST.
IOWA.

Milk fever is killing cows In Case county.
The blackberry crop of the state is I'm
mense.
The Tama Herald has a libel suit on IT.
hands.
A state bank has been Incorporated at Ma
pleton.
Spirit Lake is filing up with summer re.
sorters.
Another prisoner has escaped from the
Onawa jail.
There is a string on DubsLque's watch fac
tory scheme
The subscription for a creamery at Neville
foots up 81 500.
Company dances are the latest thing put on
by the Keokuk rifles.
Gllmore's band will open the Moore opera
house In Des Moines.
large quantities Of cheese.
John Lee, a colored traGp, was accidentally
killed at La Porte Thursday.
The Democrat-Ga zette thinks the slough OF
Davenport a source Of disease.
The feeling In favor Of a board Of public
wOTks at davenport 10 broWihs'
Davenport has more private schools thar
any city OF its size In the country.
A dead female infant was found on a side
walk at Vail one morning last week.
The two colored jail breakers OF Oskaloos'
were captured Friday at New Sharon.
The late smuggling match IN Mississippi ma
melted several Alta boys to pugilism.
Mascatine gardeners report that they have
not seen a single grasshopper this year.
Mrs. Franz els seuffert was sunstruck while
In a field near Waterloo last Friday after
noon.
August Goerler, Of Des Moines, a German
weaver, suicided last Friday. Drink was the
cause.
J. A. Beattie, president OF the Oskaloosa
college, has resigned on account Of his wife's
health.
korteRmeyer, the young Dubuque county
farmer charged with AL unnatural crime, is
IN jail.
The ladies OF Clinton are presenting
Agatha hospital with a complete outfit Of bed
clothing.
Ella Slater, z years old, ate some lye a,
Boone Friday, and her mouth is sadly dis
figured.
A competitive examination for the Yves,
Point cadetship will be held at 'Oskalooss
August 2.
The prisoners of the Muscatine ieil struck
last Tuesday, and are now living on bread
and water.
The Clinton courts are trying to end on,
who beat a man on the streets there three
weeks ago.
Monticello people are csnyassing the cues
ton Of getting industrial establishments
started there.
Albert Apthans, a stranger, fell among
thieves In Dubuque Friday night ana wa
robbed Of So.
The leading boot and shoe dealers OF BE
! Moines have agreed to close their stores even
lngs at : o'clock.
Denison is preparing for a general musics
festival, and has secured some Of the bes
talent I'm the state.
Iowa City business men spend a great dea
Of time now at the picturesque camping
places up the river.
Two sharps who were running a shell gam,
In Council Bluffs Wednesday were ARRESTED
and iRed $50 each.
The Guarantee Abstract company, OF De
Moines, has filed articles Of Incorporation
Capital stock, $40, 600.
McGregor mourns because the old boatipl
spirit that In former times made tie oarsme,
celebrate is dying out.
A. II. Clippen, OF Swaziland, Muscatin,
county, took a cold water bath and died sud
denly from the effects.
The railroad carpenters are building
twenty-four tool houses at Wall Lake for dis
tribution over the line.
The Marshalltown Glucose company will
put s25 900 worth Of new iron in their estab.
lishment this summer.
T. w. Jerrens, of Esterville, is boring for
gas. AS he goes down he finds strong indica.
tions OF both coal and gas.
A building contractor was arrested and
Aned In Burlington Friday for erecting a
chimney contrary to the city ordinance.
The Rock Island company is building a new
bridge over the Cedar and Moscow. 1t is
w " o'SA " ACct AohSci tuaH Inc present
one.
John Lee, q colored man, was killed by the
cars on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern railroad, a few miles south Of Water
loo, Friday.
Albert White, q German boy, while shock
ing grain six miles south Of Reinbeck, Thurs
day afternoon, was overcome by heat and
died instantly.
The Boone Daily News suspended publica-
ton Friday. The cause assigned is non pay
nent OF it's patrons and consequent financial |
Embarrassment.
The Wall Lake city council recently passed
law requiring every citizen to keep a tub OF
water on HIS premises In a convenient place
% use In case of fire.
Friday afternoon while Arthur Brywn, n 6,
bog, was playing in a gravel pit in
Waterloo, a bank caved In on him. When
AIKEN out life was extinct.
The filth and oifal If the city OF Muscatine
dumped on an open lot near the depot In
he heart OF the city and the papers complain
hat 1t is a source OF danger to the public
lealth.
The board Of s1blic works OF Des Moines
discharged all men and teams at work on the
treets of that city on Saturday. Under orders