Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-05
IOWA BOILED DOWN.

The railroad is close to Rockwell City.
Pipe is being laid for the Fort Dodge
water-works.
DEBORAH is providing itself with water
works.
Buchanan county farmers have COM
menced cutting corn.
The saloon license in Des Moines has
been raised from $500 to $50.
The Osceola county fair will be held on
the 18th and 10th of September.
The Adair county fair has been post
poned to the 2Sth, 10Th and 30th Of Sep
TENDER.
The Sioux City tax levy rises to u mills
this year.
Vinton has a new fire engine, costing,
with hose.cart and hose, 1850.
The Wilton camp meeting is said to be
the largest ever held in the state.
Probably no town in the state, of its
size, has rs many fine brick business build
ings as Carroll.
They say that the biggest watermelon
yet corralled in Nuscatine weighed fifty.
two and a half pounds.
Horace G. Wolfe of Buchanan county
has been appointed by Gov. Gear Inspector
general of the Iowa national guards.
They have q new wagon bridge, at OF.
tumwa, and it is the first free bridge ever
built in that county or over the nes MOines
river.
The first annual meeting Cf the Dunlap
district agricultural society will be held at
Dunlap on the 18th, 18th and 10th of Sep
TENDER.
a barn containing six horses, belonging
to Nicholas Butcher, near Pleasant Prairie,
wa struck by lightning, last Friday, and
burned with all its contents.
The storm at Hamburg on the 3lst ult
was very severe. A house belonging to
Thomas Williams wa struck by lightning
and burnt down. Loss $50 insured in
the Iowa State for $3.50.
Warden Mcmillan, of the Fort Madison
penitentiary, say the boarders at his hotel
are leaving him so fast and new ones are
coming in SO slow he fears he may have t.
close the doors and go out OF business.
The two Methodist societies Of De,
Moines were formally consolidated ON the
9th, upon which occasion the new church
was dedicated. The new building cost
$4,000, and the united society moved into
it out of debt.
Two Keokuk youths, aged about ffteer
years, have joined that innumerable cara
van of boys who annually start out to b'
Buffalo Bills" and slayers of the vii,
beast and savage man. These two lef'
their homes on Monday night with vi be
tween them, II have not since been hear,
of.
Blackhawk county boasts of the bigges
feet in the state, for which a Waterlo'
shoemaker has made u pair of boots. Thu
boots in question We're made for Andrew
Gilman, 10 years of age, Nc. l3a, heel Il
inches, instep III, ball l23, calf 2l9, lengtl
of foot l2l, breadth of ball 81, weight o
boots q pounds, made of kip. Beat thi
who can.
John freddy, n tombstone manufactur
er, was so badly injured by
runaway team at Valparaiso, ON the 29tl
ult, that death resulted in a short time
He vas in his wagon when his team start
ed, and, attempting to Jump out, wa
caught IN some way and dra ged seVera
blocks with his head bounding on tn
ground.
The Marshalltown Sugar Refining Com
pany shut down work the 10th inst, ow
ing to the high price of corn. The com
pany represents a capital of 100000, an
will use the time Intervening between
better condition of the market for in
provement of the works, expecting !
double their capacity. Monday they sol
100000 bushels of corn, ON which the
realized q net profit Of S65, 600, and the
still retain $4,000 bushels in the crib.
The quarrel between Mr.. and Mr.
Brooks, of Davis county, which resulte
in the killing of Brooks by his son Hiram
arose from II dispute between the wife an
husband as to which of two Of their chi
dren should milk a COW, she having bidde
one and her husband another to do il
Hiram, who took the part of his mother !
the wransle, shot his father and he died /
a few hours afterwards. Hiram claim
that his father was whipping his mothel
that he ordered him to desist, whereupo
his father came at him with a board, say
ing; IN fan you out, too" that he OF
dered him not to COME closer, and tina
when he came within four feet of him b
bred. The father moved only once afte
the fatal shot. The ball entered the brain
The boy, who is about 10 years of ag'
was lodged in iail nj Rloomield.