The Tipton advertiser., 1877-05-03
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Mrs Belknap Is in Keokuk.
Monona county is out Of debt.

weighs iSu pouha-.
Scott county has paid out s41. .ojl.os
to support her insane during the past
six year.
Council Bluffs claims an addition of
1900 to her population during the
last year.
Indianola voted five per cent tax
for the proposed Des Moines & St. 10.
Railroad on Wednesday.
Al Manchester temperance revival
resulted in securing nearly ,2oo names
to the ''iron-clad" pledge.
Nearly $4,000 have been rendered
in judgments against the c. II. |. 4 Z.
X. r. within a month past
4 company has been organized at
Iowa Falls Ia work the peat beds
which are said to he extensive in that
vicinity.
.Adair county has just finished a
Jail, with all the latest conseniencies
for the jailor-- al IA cost of s., ISL -.
4 keokuk maiden waits wisttuliy
in wedding rig for scamp who won
her young heart but did not tell her
true.
4 former lsostmi-tress Of Dubuque.
Mrs. Col. II. H. Heath, was married
last week toa Mr.. Phipps,a New York
newspaper man.
Oskaloosa can claim 10 be the worst
bored town in Iowa, having bored a
hole :, 800 feet deep at a cost OF sf,.vo,
and a failure at that.
As an evidence of Ninton's before
handedness. she has already taken
preliminary step for the celebration
of the Fourth of July.
A loan and building association was
organized in Des Moines on Thursday
evening last, with ss1,oD worth of
stock subscriptions.
4 man named Gi~pin from Illinois,
while passing though the State near
Avoca. sold his wife for u aran of
horses, and she was willing.
The premium List Of the State Fair
to be held at Cedar Rapids in next
September, the 18th to the 2lst inelu-
siye, has just been published.
jefferson County has brought suit
against the Burlington * Missouri
River Railroad for s58 900 for money
paid to the use of the company.
A drunken man, IA few nights ago,
laid down on the &. B. & q. track.
| the other side of Abba, and was in
stantly killed by freight train.
A breakman named Bessey at Viii
lisca, last week, stepped on an orange
peel and slipped under the ears. In
twinkling both his feet were mashed
to jelly.
! There was sale of Short Horn,
Ayrshire, and Jersey cattle, and Berk-
shire and Poland-China swine at the
Agricultural College at Ames, on
| Thursday, the s.! inst
| A ploughman on Clinton county
farm finished his furrow, the other
day, when a bolt of lightning struck
both his horses dead, and stripped
him of his pants and boots,
The Wright County Monitor tells of
citizen of Belmond who recently
secured Il divorce from his wife be-
cause of adultery, and he is now COM
! PEELED 10 marry her sister.
\ heavy wagon in keokuk on We'd
nesday ran over little girl, breaking
All arm and shoulder blade, and Sc
verely bruising her neck, which one
wheel passed directly over.
The Fairfield Letiyer says that the
| tirm of c. W. ~lagle " George Ache
son i the oli,--, legal firm in Iowa
TN Monday last they flushed thirty
four years Of successful practice i'll
that place.
4 Cedar Rapids saloon keeper pro-
posed To- his brethren in trade. that
| they confine themselves To the sale OF
| wine and beer, aud allow no whiskey
to be sold on their premises under any
! circumstances; and now hc j. social
! outcast
| Burglars broke into house in Du- |
| buque Oh Tuesday night while the |
family wa- al a theatre, cut their way |
through 500 worth OF doors with a |
hatchet, and had obtained about so |
worth of plumber when they were
frightened away.
The Monticello Erpress tells of
Mrs. Champion Of that place who,
taking all the money resulting from
the sale Of her husbands property,
about si,oo3, has left the old gentle
man in his old age penniIess, while
she is now OH her way 10 Merrie Eng
land
High Riddle, now President of the
T.. X. ]. Il r., in answer 10 an appeal
to take hold Of the proposed railroad
from Des Moines To 1t. Joseph, Mis-
souri, replies that his company was
not disposed to build any more roads
in Iowa, or spend any more money in
those commenced or projected by
Others, for the reason that the legisla-
ton is considered oppressive and aroi-
trary.
On Saturday last man named
Muffler tried to sell three fat steers i'm
Delmar, Clinton county. He offered
them at % cts. less than the market
price. Suspicion was aroused, and
the telegraph was brought into requi-
sition. The man got scared and skip
ped, leaving the cattle, and his satch-
ell too in his haste. 1t turned out
hat the cattle were stolen from Geo.
Raup, of Lost Nation.
A strange story Of the Charley Ross
,rder comes from Muscatine. The |
,oung hero's name is Harry Moor. |
Between 7and . o'clock Wednesday |
.vening he was picked up by a tall
nan, and, III spite of cries and kicks,
.arried off. He lost consciousness. |