Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
STATE NEWS.

Iron ore has been found near Iowa
City.
There are sixty.one Smiths at Des
Moines.
The Swedcs intend to build church
at Clinton.
Jones county will plant more corn
this year than last. +
GAINESVILLE is suffering from drouth,
The grand jury did it.
You can open q saloon at Creston |
by paying 81, 900 license.
Conrad Bender, Of Ioka, Keokuk
county, has become insane.
Butcher shops and brewcrics at
Boone do not stop on Sunday.
An Algona paper says the wheat
prospects in Kossuth county are splcn
did.
The Des Moines Directory gives
preference to the Smiths-6l, that's
all.
Jacob Suffer, a LIE Claire raft pilot,
was badly hurt in a river accident last
week.
The dead body of an unknown man
has been found in the river at Rock
ingham.
Two Oskaloosa horse dealers have
shipped 1850 horses from that place
within year.
Lieutenant Cranston, slain by the
Modocs, was a brother OF Mrs. Gross,
of Burlington.
A mammoth cave has been discover
ed in Rockford, Floyd county, on the
farm of o. III. Ll on.
Mrs. Brown, of Keokuk, gets $4,000
year for doing little. church sing.
ing in New York city.
Usage has one saloon keeper valiant
enough to pay $500 license for a mo.
nopoly Of the business.
VIM. Els cut his throat with case
knife, on the Sth inst, thereby depriv.
ing Webster City of resident.
1 The returns made to the State Aud
itor show that over two and o hal
millions OF dollars was paid in lows
last year for life insurance.
| The new code will be ready 70
delivery about the 18th Of August, an,
will be abouttwo-thirds as large as tn
revision Of 1850, and can be sold a
about $3.50 or "a.
A man in Keokuk county traded hi
wife off for "shot gun ana littl
: money" and the Neacs says she wa
foolish enough to get hufTy about
and apply for a divorce.
The Kilbourne revival after tiy
/, weeks of effort, closed on the 4th inst
, 4S persons having become converte
| in that time. During the meeting
, subscription fund for new church 9
Kilbournc was successfully started
and the building is to he complete
: this season.
! A hog fell into 1OO-foot we'll s
, Glenwood. last Thursday, and dashe
his brains out. Bud. Meadows was a
, eyewitness of the affair, being at tn
a bottom engaged in cleaning out til
: well. Bud has OCCASION to be yer
thankful that he was not in the hog
way.
Daniel McCoy, editor or the he
,, mar (Clinton county, journal, OH II
I'd inst, went over to Rock Island. .
t woman went with him-not his wifi
. bnt the wife of another man, name
: A. b. Goodrich. He signed the Ha
r per House register-signing not h
h NOR her real name, but those OF rs.
I Norton and Lady" Mr.. Goodrich w:
,, on the track of the twain, and 500
appeared on the scene. At first he WI
inclined to use revolver, but change
his mind, and told Mr.. Mccoy, ali,
Q Norton, 81 don't want to hurt you
l take her out Of my sight; will hay
no more of her." The three went SCI
0 aratc ways. The woman is neat, ia
Q looking and thirty. The Delm'
Q Journal is printed at Delmar, s.
n miles south of Maquoketa,, and is
: "patent inside" bearing the motto
e "Home First-The World Afterwards
Q II has thus far but reached its thirtie
|. number, but Mccoy has evidently g
tired of "Home" and started out f
The World" with little of the files
and the D--l thrown in.