Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-15
IOWA BOILED DOWN.

IOWA BOILED DOWN..
Ottumwa expects to show up $4,000
population.
The question of a system of sewers
is being agitated in Cedar Rapids.
Hampton shipped 8 $3.50 pounds of
butter during the month of May.
Last week the Cedar Falls creamery
made 1000 pounds of butter a day.
The Presbyterian ladies of Clinton
cleared $3.50 6 by a steamboat excur-
sion the other day.
j. P. Leonard, a man % years old,
was killed by lightning at Floyd on
Wednesday afternoon.
Early potatoes of home production
are in the Burlington market at 25
cents for three quarts.
Engineers are locating sites fer piers
for the proposed railway bridge across
the Mississippi at Sabula.
The Iowa Life Insurance company
(co-operative) at Keokuk, after an ex-
istence Of six years, collapsed.
The crop of the state has been pref
ty much ruined by the recent heavy
storms of wind, hail aud rain.
The normal school at Cedar Falls
closes the term on the 18th. About
thirty students expect to graduate.
Coal has been found at Lake City,
Calhoun county, at a depth of forty.
five feet, but probably not in paying
quantities.
Over 1000 visiting firemen were
present on the first day Of the Mar
shalltown tournament. Cedar Rapids
sent the largest delegation, 200.
The Abba and Moulton branch of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad is completed to Moravia, and
will be running to that place by June
10.
A five per cent tax has been voted
in Malcolm to aid in the construction
of a railroad from Tama City to NAL
com and thence aonth to the coal
fields.
Mr.. Beatty, professor of science in
the Mt. Pleasant university, is or
ganiziug IN excursion party to spend
Sly weeks or two months of the summer
in the resorts of Colorado.
The telephone line between Ma
quoketa and Andrew will be completed
the latter part Of this or the first of
next month. Bellevue and Preston
are also talking of telephone connec-
tions with the first named place.
There is on exhibition in Muscatine
a Poland China pig which weighs
1882 pounds. The Dimensions of the
monster are: Length, q feet, grit of
neck, 81 feet; girt of chest, Il feet;
girt Of center,S feet; width across hips,
so inches.
Thursday afternoonA Abe Greenwood, |
recently discharged from the employ
of the Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge
company walked into the engineers
Office on the bridge, at Keokuk, and
In the presence of Superintendent
Melton, deliberately shot and almost
instantly killed Mr.. LETTER, the engi-
neer.
The fearful cyclone which devasta-
ted Pottawattamie county on the
night of the 10th, did it's terrible
work in a strip about eleven miles
long and eight rods wide. Some of
the killed were carried half a mile
before, they were whirled to the
ground dead.
A discrepancy in the accounts of ex-
Treasurer Walker, of Des Moines,
amounting to nearly SIS, 900, has just
been brought to light in that city.
Walker was formerly chairman of the
grsenback state committee, and is
now a candidate for state auditor on
the greenback ticket. He will proba-
bly, not proceed with his candidature.
The recent storms and floods have
washed away every read bridge in
Clinton county. The stores at Char
lotte were flooded and six mill dams
were washed out. The wind blew
down and unroofed various houses
and barns, and did other damage near
Calamus. The cropshave been drowned
out on the low lands. The total loss
IN the county will foot up 800, 900.
Anamosa has a sensational clone
ment case. A young lady was to have
been married on q certain day. and
everything was in preparation for the
event. The night before the twain
were to be united another fellow, a
former lover, made his appearance,
with whom she e'oped, and they were
the next day at Anamosa.
The farmers in Union township.
county, + what may be
termed on the wsr-path in regard to
herds now located in the township.
Several men claim that there is nearly
1000 head of cattle now being herded
there, greatly to the detriment of
home stock. They also claim that !
theie stock is being mutilated with !
hatchets and driven through wire !
A meeting has been held and
The entire township is solid for oustiug :
the intruders, claiming that it is an ,
outrage and imposition they cannot !
md will not submit to longer.
A Monticello man makes a PROPOSE :,
ion to Boone to construct a we'll that b
will supply 200 gallons per minute, to /
curbed with seven and FIVE inch t
'as pipe-the seven inch gas pipe to
70 sunk to a depth of 800 feet from =
he surface, and the five inch pipe the 4
of the distance. The we'll ia I
o be put down to q depth CT 500 feet
or $1,000, the city to furnish all the n
used in the construction of a