Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST.
IOWA.

alarm.
There are 24O scholars In the Postville
A Sioux Rapids man has invented On air
motor wagon.
The city cemetery Of Muscatine is in sad
need OF repairs.
A Durham woman abandoned her husband
and three children.
The Clinton police have made but one arrest
eleven days.
Work has commenced on the Des Moines
M. c. A. building.
Floyd county farmers will carry ov great
mount Of hay this season.
The Irish National league Of Des Nome is
giving q series Of entertainments.
The Centerville Citizen denies the report
that scarlet fever 10 epidemic there.
A street car team ia Dubuque ran away and
havoc among the passengers.
Des Moipes critics thought Fanny Daven-
ports La Tosca too wearing on the nerves.
A prophet has arisen in Dubuque who says
the world will come to an end In nine days.
A Marshalltown man discovered a litter OF
nine wolf cubs in an old house In the woods.
George Hislop, foreman OF the DEBORAH Re-
publican, has been appointed to a mail clerk
ship.
Milton Damp, a Keokuk youth had a bean
shot into his eye from Il ''nigger shooter" and
lie minus an optic.
Malignant diphtheria in sections of Dee
Moines is attributed to the absence Of sewers
I'm those localities.
Burlington is still %plumipg itself very
grandiloquently On the way in which 1t enter
the g. A. K.
The clerks In Internal Revenue Collector
Webster's Office are busy issuing special
tax stamps for 1889.
The art exhibition In Dubuque receives
from all the principal American and
continental cities.
Cashier Stone offers 81 600 for the appre-
OF Mr.. Simpson, the sanctimopious
who swindled the Sioux City Savings
A Muscatine policeman raised . fund for an
ostensibly poor woman and was Mortified to
money, though.
Lewis Harding, q farmer near Eddyville,
did have q flock of 10 sheep. A week ago
dogs got among them, killed forty-six and
MANNED ffty-four more.
Governor Lsrrsbee has commissioned
Griffin, of Red Oak, to represent the
Of lows at the Paris exhibition,
which commences on May 5.
DR.. Kirby, who was on trial at Boone for
was sentenced Friday to two and a
half years In the Ausmosa prison and was
taken there by Sheriff Zenor.
II. f. Thomas was collecting money to pay
for the painting Of the Schaller church, and
they started the report on him that he was
collecting names to send before the grand
Jury
The body Of a drowned boy was found In
the river at Muscatine Thursday, and buried
In the cemetery at that place. The unfortu-
nate lad was apparently about 10 years Of
age.9
Belle PLANE merchants who bought large
quantities of potatoes last fall at 80 cents a
bushel are selling them out TO farmers at 10
cents to feed to their hogs. 1t is fun for the
w. G. Hewitt, an employe OF the "Q'
yards al Ottumwa, while throwing a switch
lad HE foot caught Ia a frog and he fell so
hat the wheels of a stock car ran over and
his right leg.
The report is current In and around Coun-
Bluffs that Judge Brewer will be appointed
o I'LL the vacancy on the supreme bench
by the death OF Justice Matthews, and
I that appointment is made, it ic the inten-
ion Of the friends OF Judge Reed to present
lis name for the vacantseat CT Judge Brewer.
The condition OF Kit Edwarde, the Coun-
IL Bluffs woman with a bullet In her brain,
5 about the same as 1t has been during the
)ast week. She is conscious, and appears to
De gaining strength slightly. Her case is
a remarkable one, and interest
lmong members of the medical fraternity In
,reases as the days go by.
A new effort Is being made to arouse pub
&c interest In Iowa history and the memories
If the state. There is but little In the way of
data at the state library or any
where else accessible to the public. Wiscon
sin has a great deal more OF what may be
allied 'the material for history" pertaining
o Iowa than Iowa itself has. There are In
he state library Of Wisconsin, county his
cries of seventy lows counties. But In the
tate library OF Iowa there are but forty
c unties represented. A man who wanted to
rite a history OF Iowa would have 10 go to
to collect the necessary material.
his neglect 20 secure the historical data,
UGH as manuscript letters, records, papers,
etc, pertaining to the pioneers Of
owa, has been due to public Indifference and
'ublic ignorance Of the Importance Of doing
omething. Hon. Charles Aldiicb, Of Web
Ter City, has helped In one direction by his
ute graph collections In the state lib
AIRY. That contains manuscript letters,
md portraits Of the leading Iowa soldiers
nd prominent Iowa men who distinguished
ht mselves in different pursuits. State Tress
lrer Twombley is making an effort to secure
Of all his predecessors for the state
Iouse. The different state ofii ,ers are doing
he same, and the capitol will, In due time, |
ave quite a gallery OF portraits OF early state
Ulcers. Pictures of all Of the governors Of
he state, including the territorial governors,