The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-08-23

itentiary 1t Fl. Madison at present
The I.ehish Union, anew weekly in
Webster county, supports the Green
back party.
Dies Moines' Public Library Is open
for all visitors morning, afternoon
and evening.
Hiram l.. Peel, OF Chicago, has
been elected principal of the high
school at Dubuque.
For the first time in its history
Kossuth county this fall will have .
Democratic organization.
Albert Lippineott, aged ii, was
smothered in the bin Of an elevator ut
Earlham, on The 18th inst.
Marshalltewn's new barbed fence
wire factory opened up Monday.
For the forty situations there were lo'
applicants.
The Chicago 4 Northwestern rail-
road have leased the Maple Valley
road upon scale of rental based on
the earnings.
4 school teacher named George
Roberts committed suicide in Mar
shalltown, on the 18th, by cutting his
/ throat with razor.
The X. 4 D. NJ. Railway hnds
much difficulty in procuring cars
enough for the rushing freight BUSH
ness now being transacted.
| The friends of Col. c. IL. Catch OF
Des Moines, urge him TO permit the
use of his name IS an independent
candidate for the State Senate.
/ Carroll county since the first OF May
j last has paid $40 bounty on gopher
and squirrel scalps-which means
| that Ii. 400 have been slaughtered.
Chris. Schliff, u saloon keeper in
Muscatine, sold beer on Sunday,
and was fined IS and had his licence
IA a vender of ale. wine and beer re-
/ voked.
| TIL. dead body of man was found
/ in the river, at Clinton, Saturday
afternoon, which is thought to be that
of John W. Hegler, who drowned
| himself week ago.
A little babe belonging to Mrs. r.
r. Grain, cook of the Logan House,
at Waterloo. was s,nothered to death
on the lith, under pillow, while
tossing by itself in its bed.
Mr.. Isaac +. Groom, now living IN
Maryyille, Marion county, was born
in Pittsburg, Van Buren, county,
| Iowa. March 2sd, 1888. and claims to
he the first hite child born Ia the
State.
The formal opening of the Govern
ment canal around the lower rapids at
Keokuk will take place on Wednes-
day next at noon. Invitations TO De
present have been sent to the mayors
of all the cities on the river, TO the
| Secretary of War, and the Congress
men and Governors of Mississippi
Valley States.
4 Young woman named Esther J.
Houghteiing publishes card III the
+, Des Moines Register warning her lady
+. friends against the young men oil that
city, the largest part OF whom she
says are decelvers. She sa!s q young
man named Con. Miller Was the
cause of her downfall, and that she Is
going to the Reform School to try IL
! lead better life.
Alta meeting of the Active Base
Ball Association at Clinton on Friday
II war resolved to disband the club
The reason for this step, as stated, Il
! that the members have found profess
ional base ball financially Improbable
but a more remote cause might prob
ABLY be found in the fact that there Is
no hope of their getting away with
1 the Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown
clubs, the only other league organiza'
ton in the State.
Samuel Howard was arrested and
bound over for appearance at the
/ United States District Court ut Cedar
Rapids OH Friday last, charged with
altering bank notes, and passing the
same. His method of operation was
to take s. and 81 bills, cut them In
two in the center and then paste half
of a five to half Of a one. In passing
them the end having the five on wa.
handed out, and strange "a ii may ap
pear the officers found that no les
than sixty-four Of these bills had beef
passed. The game was tried on il
Iowa City, and even one Of the bank
there was taken in.
Des Moines Register: THE yiei
in grain in Iowa this year is simpl.
prodigious. 4 great deal Of the " fes
is averaging thirty and thirty-nS
bushels to the acre, and the oats field
, are doing still greater things. OF
Pella correspondent thismorning tel
. Of oats in that region yielding as hig
a as eighty and even one hundrt
bushels to the acre. On the farm
. the agricultural editor of The Regist
IL field Of oats which will yield tn
= much. The grain is not only great
h quantity, but also excellent in quail
~. II is yellow grain this year,
wheat and large, white, firm gra
i In oats. This State again haas ext
:, reason 10 thank God, and be happy.
The fsuxetAssing Power 4