The Tipton advertiser., 1877-04-26
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Mr.. Will r. Barclay has resigned
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said to have died from cholera in Har-
rison county.
Ii is said that so teams and 1000
men are now en- route for the Black
Hills from Iowa.
The City Fathers of Dubuque have
taken pity on thesaloon keepers there.
and reduced their licenses to S75.
Mr.. Kasson win not start for Mad
rid until after Congress meets and the
Senate confirms his appointme:t.
The Des Moines Register thinks the
middle of June, the usual date, Is the
time to hold the State Convention.
Mason City is trying TO induce the
farmers of that region to join in with
them and have regular market days.
Since the stone-pile provision for
calaboose lodgings in Clinton, tramps
are fast learning TO give that place the
go-by.
There is not single printer in the
Iowa State penitentiary, at least the
Columbus NoapureR makes that as
sertion
A Mr. Lee has obtained a iugdment of
5000 against the town of Creston, for
injuries received in consequence of
unsafe sidewalks.
The Farmers cooperative store, at
Mount Pleasant, last week declared a
dividend of - per cent, on the profits
of the last year.
Robert Ingersoll, in his lecture on
Liberty" at Council Bluffs. on Sat
urday, was greeted with large and
enthusiastic audience.
On account of the scarcity of funds
the May term of the Circuit Court at
Des Moines will be cut short, and only
one Jury will he called.
Hon. II. O. Pratt, of Charles City,
ex- Member of Congress, il reported to
have been converted at the recent
gospel meetings in that place.
j. II. McAdams, of 0dell. Appan
oose county, had valuable span of
bay horses stolen from his stables one
daylast week. No clue to the thieves.
The Fort Dodge Messenger and
Webster County gazette will be con
soliaated on the 4th of June next. and
owned hy the Fort Dodge Printing
Company.
The Board of Education of Dubu-
que decided on Thursday I" levy a
tax Of 81 900 10 carry on the public
schools next year; $4,000 goes for the
teachers fund.
The Congregational State Associa-
ton of Iowa will meet at Des Moines
the latter part of next month There
will be i'm attendance over two hun
dred members, clergy and layity.
\ gap Of five miles, between the
end of the c. C. 4 w and the D. L
| 1t. r., when closed up, a. il is likely
to he very soon, will put Davenport
| and Dubuqne within five or six hours
ofeach other.
A thick-skulIed man is in luck.
| On Thursday, at Mt. Pleasant. Chas.
Austin, colored, tried to shoot him
self He held the revolver close to
his forehead, but the ball fiattened
l b;o Ill
1t now turns out that the story
which had been going the rounds of
the press that Chas. II. Miner, of
Olin, had not slept any for six weeks,
was "A joke got up on him because he
was such a sound sleeper
Very distressing reports come from
! Pocahontas county. Farmers by the
scores are moving away. from the
| lack Of the common necesoaries of life
| The season is already far advanced,
and they have no money to buy seed
for planting.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Shofe. who aban-
doned her children in = Burlington
store, and subsequently, put up at an
Agency City hotel with man not her
husband, has been placed under five
hundred dollars bonds for desertion of
her offspring.
In a test case a. to wether the
elevator owners were responsible for
for the grain lost in the great fire at
Marshalltown several years ago, il
has been decided at the supreme Court
of Dubuque that grain thus stored j.
at the risk of the owner.
During the night of the 18th inst,
the flour mill of Work q Carr, "A few
miles from Dewitt, was set Oh fire
and burned to the ground. \ policy
of $1,000 had just run ont, so that only
81 900 insurance remained on the pro-
perty, which was worth s., 800.
A Cedar Falls paper mentions the
death of COW III that place lately and
her owner, OH opening her stomach,
found therein II eight and ten penny
nails, one and one-fourth inch
buckle, fence staples, section rivet
for mower, tack and a small stone.
Saturday afternoon, William Van
dyke fell from a scatiold on the new
Capitol; AT Des Moines, fifty-eight
feet, striking the ground on his back,
killing him in stantly. He was 81
years old, formerly contractor in
Texas. and had been employed but
five days.
A woman named Masters, living
near Lisbon, whose first husband wa.
in the penitentiary, married recently.
Lately the term of her first husbands
Imprisonment expired, aud he came
out to find his wife another'-. Like
Enoch Arden, he gave her up 10 the
other fellow, and went of on a trann
AT the meeting of the base l,all fra
ternity of the State, at Cedar Rapid.
on Thursday last, only four towns
were represented, Marshalltown, Clin-
ton, Cedar Rapids. and Atlantic
However, these four organized them
selves into permanent state Anna
teur Base Ball League" and chose