Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-13
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
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A Touring mill will be built at Carnavon
this season.
A Newall man has applied for q patent on
q feed steamer.
A half car load Of fab is sent out from
Muscatine daily.
Hoof rot has appeared among three herds
I'm Webster county.
Defiance no longer hopes for the advent OF
a railroad this year.
Muscstiue prohibitionists have determined
TO enforce the law.
-Four horse buyers made Lake City their
headquarters last week.
A female minstrel troupe captivated the
bald heads OK Cherokee.
A Swedish FIRE insurance company has been
organized In Burlington.
Carroll win have a creamery II the milk OF
500 cows can he secured.
Dubuque will go to the Burlington G.. A. r..
encampment via The river.
A number OF Northwestern Iowa towns are
organizing base ball teams.
There are 364 children In the soldiers or
phans' home at Davenport.
at Forney a young man dropped dead
while lighting a prairie fire.
The Webster county grand jury indicted
thirty men for selling liquor.
Twenty-seyen families have moved into
Ida Grove the past two weeks.
An Iowa City man has become insane In
the attempt TO locate Tascott.
The Hebrew residents Of Burlington are
INDUCING in a series OF parties.
Three places at Fonda where "hard cider"
was sold were raided by police.
Iowa City has no marshal because the
council couldn't agree or a man.
A search warrant captured fifty bottles OF
beer at Battle Creek the other day.
A Storm Lake billiard hall keeper wa lined
Si5 for allowing minors to use his tables.
At Carson, Loren Christianson's harm
burned, with four horses and other contents.
The power Of the incandescent electric
light OF Keokuk is furnished by an ~artesian
well.
Des Moines newsboys and bootblacks are
to play base ball with a vengeance this
year.
The governor has pardoned another Sioux
alone.
AT Humboldt John Mearn's, a wealthy
bachelor died, leaving a large estate without
heirs.
Manson's five churches are now sufficient
to accommodate the crowds that dock to the
sanctuary.
A Clarion couple are going to move to
Colorado by team, taking about six weeks for
the trip.
An Ida Grove man bought dfty gross OF
clothes pins AZ an auction sale because they
went cheap.
The Burlington Street Railway company has
been eued for 5000 damages for injuries sus-
tanned by q lady.
A mad colored man held three Des Moines
policemen at bay for over an hour Thursday
before he was captured.
A movement Is being made to organize q
gun club in West Bend and have a grand
tournament IN the near future.
Mr.. Courtney, q farmer living rear Center
Point, was paraly yea Sunday as be was step
ping from g buggy to go into church.
AureI'a IS about TO throw its system OF
water worSe back on the contractors. Thus
far they have been a failure In every respect.
The Marehslltown stone pile for the edit
cation of tramps has been abolished. This
will be good news for the geutl MN OF the
road,
An lows pastor recently married three
couples and conducted two funerals In on,
day, and to do It drove dtty miles. Total re
celpts, s..
o A Wall Lake man invented q washing una
chine which was ten feet long, five feet higl
and four feet broad. It looks like a barn
but It woa't work yet.
TIE numerous Des Mo!res people who have
embraced the doctrines OF Christian science
are happy in the establishment Of a church
representing their views.
The Fairfield Ledger notes n revolving
scandal, the elopement Of a young white CIR
with a colored man perhaps SO years Of age
and with a wife and family.
VIM. May was arrested at Newell for VIC
lating the postal Law by using thirteen can
ceifeu stamps on tnlrtecu letters, al Ol WHICH
were mailed at the same time.
1t is authoiitatiyely stated that there mas
been over loco conversions In the Sioux City
district OF the Methodist church since CON
ference, about six months ago.
At Beacon, Sunday night, thieves broke
into Harry T~empleton's place Of business and
carried OF a violin, smoking get, cigars and
other articles TO the amount Of $50.
The queer antics of a man who lay along
side the Illinois Central track for three days
last week, between Ackley AMI Rathton,
caused no little talk. When the officers went
out to see him Fr!dsy he struck out for the
west.
The Fairfield Ledger says: "A girl baby
was born 10 Mr.. and Mrs. William Despair,
Of this city "Wednesday morning. 1t is the
eighteenth child for the mother and the
twenty-third for the father, and their ages
are IS and 55, respectively"
At Marthslltown papers have been filed
askipg the district court To issue a temporary
Injunction restraining the city treasurer
from paying a So. OC0 city warrant issued two
wears sgo for the purpose Of getting funds
70 bore .or an ~artesian well or for natural
gas.