Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-21
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Iowa.

The city council of Dubuque refuses to
,ermit any more cemeteries to be located
Sithin the city limits.
The Des Moines Ledger calls the Salva,
ion army of that city a "band of tramps
md rufiansi and says they must 60.
Red Oak voted against the corporation
,wning the new electric light plant and
HiH be put in by a private company.
A reward Of $50 IS offered for the cap
:ure Of Hiram J.. Lawhead, horse thief,
Who recently broke jail at Knoxville.
Ackley has expended $4,000 on a hole In
10 ground 1900 feet deep, but can't get
he water nearer than $50 feet Of the sur.
ace.
During the state fair Des Moines wa in.
tested by an army Of crooks, but owing TO
Efficient police protection ne great losses
we're sustained.
Some of the ablest pulpit orators in the
country will be present at the sessions of
he Iowa synod to be held in Marshalltown
october IL to q.
Is. A. Bennett, q brakeman on the Rock
Island road, was squeezed between two
,ars in the yards at Atlantic Friday, and
uas since died of his injuries.
Persistent cruelty on the part of her hus-
sand drove Minnie Ender, of Princeton,
,ut of her mind, and she has been sent TO
he Mt. Pleasant insane asylum.
Associate Justice Miller, Of tho United
States supreme court, who is visiting rsla-
ives in Keokuk, made q speech at the tri-
tate old settlers reunion Tuesday.
Professor Schall and Sam Sawyer rowed
IN ordinary skif from Muscaine TO Bur
fngton, a distance of sixty miles, in the
surprising time Of Ii hours and 40 minutes.
Boone Standard: The famous Iowa horse,
Axtell, was named by it's owner after a
pchool teacher Of Independence. In this
,ase the schoolmaster has ''got there by
proxy.
A burglar under arrest at Wapello, broke
Jail Saturday morning and rode OF on the
lherif's best horse. The horse returned
alone during the day, but the burglar is
sill at large.
A story is going around that a republican
iaily paper will be started in Keokuk In
he interest of high license and local option
and advocating the repeal of the prohibit
ton law.
A Chicago officer arrived in Des Moines
Monday to take charge of Thomas Lally,
the well known crook and iail-breaker, who
Is wanted In Chicago for some Of his
crooked business.
Colored citizens Of Ottumwa are making
preparations to celebrate emancipation
proclamation day, and will have an old
fashioned barbecue at Mineral Springs on
Monday, the 23d inst.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Q: ~Broadway Is
still used as a cowpath for a herd of mich
cows that are driven through that thorough
fare morning and evening. Cam the city
marshal put a stop TO itl
The Avoca Mai has suspended publics-
icy sse .li"s,i ex iof' parfofage"fs fRe cause
assigned by Editor F. j. Stillman, who will
seek a more lucrative position.
The Council Bluffs board Of trade is
figuring on bringing out an excursion of
eastern capitalists during the present fall
with the intention of showing them the
advantages of investing their money in that
city.
Samuel d. Hollis, city marshall of Wiota
and possessor of a good wife and seven
children, skipped out last week with the
wife of a neighbor, who Is also the mother
Of five children. the youngest of whom she
took with her.
Fifty orphans from the New York Cath.
Ollie orphan asylum will find homes in Iowa
the present week. The little ones are to
be accompanied by an agent from the New
York asylums, who will see that they are
placed in proper hands.
0 h Kleinhart, of Warsaw, was
drowned while swimming in Copperas
slough Sunday. He was attacked by
cramps and before his companion, William
Pearson, could rescue him he sank for the
last time. The body was recovered.
The 2-year-old daughter of Chas. Tape,
of Muscatine, fell from a stair banister a
distance of twelve feet, and remained in a
comatose condition for several hours there.
after. The doctor says the child will re-
cover, but it is a miracle how it escaped in
slant death.
A band of Sac and Fox Indians per-
formed the ''peace dance in the rotunda
Of the state capitol at Des Moines, the other
day, for the benefit of the governor and sew
eral visitors. The governor was much
pleased with the performance and the good
win expressed by the Indians.
Lyons has a $751; 600 damage suit on its
hands. John Munko fell into a hot water
tank at the paper mill on tho night Of the
explosion, which took place in the min
some time ago, and wants the city to pay
him the above amount for the injuries he
sustained. The case is set for trial ut this
term of court.
c. B. Head, the well known travelling
man Of Davenport, has Just received in.
formation that his brother had been killed
In q fracas In the mountains of Colorado.
The brother had just returned to his home
in Colorado after a visit to relatives and
friends in this city and Abba. No particu.
lars of the occurrence have been received.
Pocahontas Record: A Storm Lake
young lady, while splitting kindling wood,
made a miss-lick with the Ratchet and cut
of a piece of her left ear. Her mother did
not take any stock in doctors, SO she sent
up town and procured n bottle Of m~ucilage
and pasted the piece back on with that ad-