Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-13
R~espectfully, etc.
IL. II. C~HITTENDEN,
Pres't National Autobiography
League. Headquarters, Z Warren St.,
n. Y.
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Wapello has purchased a new 240 acre
poor farm.
A new steam Touring mill is being built
at Grundy Center.
Webster City has received the plans for
a new $40, 00O school house.
The tooth of q mastodon was found in
Marshall county recently.
One hundred and twenty five houses
have been erected in lie Mars since last
fall.
The new $500, 900 bank at Des Moines
will be the heaviest financial institution in
the state.
Iowa City and Muscatine are both TAX
ing steps toward the construction of street
railways.
Iowa City recently made a loan of S13,-
OOO for the purpose OF redeemlng city
bonds then due.
The farmers of Kossuth county are going
to organize for protection against the barb
wire monopoly.
A good many new settlers are locating
about Seney and a large amount of break
ing is being done.
Near Ely, on the Burlington road, a
single stroke of lightning killed seventeen
hogs the other,day.
The building rush continues at Fort
Dodge. Among the new buildings will be
a three-story brick hotel.
Arrangements have been perfected for
the establishment of a first-class wind mill,
to employ thirty hands, at Keokuk.
The Marshalltown canning works put up
$500 cans on the I'd, claimed to be the
biggest days work on record.
A few days since Clay county sold its
swamp lands, 1900 acres, for $40, 600, which
was 81, 79i above the appraised value.
The next convention of the Catholic
Protective society of Iowa, will be held at
Fort Madison on the second Wednesday of
June, 1882.
The Keokuk canning company has
10000 cans on hand, and is greatly en-
couraged with the outlook for q fine crop
OF tomatoes.
The Royal canning company at Musca-
tine will be ready for business in a few
days and will run q force of 200 hands.
Capt. Boyton, floating from st. Paul to
st. Louis in his rubber suit, reached Du-
buque on the Sth and was greeted by an
immense crowd.
There will be 1882 delegates to the re-
iblI1stll tbllN 81 llNtI 4
will be necessary to a choice.
A farmer in Marshall county reports
that in four weeks n stalk of corn on his
farm grew to a length of thirty-fourinches.
The pension Office at Des Moines paid
ont, during the past quarter, ending May
81, S9l4, 573. 90, and during the month of
May alone, $3.50, 305, 81
From the quantity of flax planted in the
northwestern counties this season, it is in
ferred that an oil mill ~hereabouts will be u
profitable investment.
According to n recently completed CEN
sus of Iowa City, it has at present a popu-
lation of over s, $50. The population, ac-
cording to the government census of 1880
was 7,l1S.
A stock company has been formed at
Grundy Center, with n capital of $4,000,
for the erection of u steam Touring mill
4Ox6O feet, five stories high.
1t is said that with a little dredging the
Iowa river can be made to carry grain
barges. Two small steamboats, are being
run on that stream this season.
One of the parties interested in the
starch and glucose works to be put up in
Des Moines, is negotiating for the purchase
of 10000 acres of land in Pocahontas
county 10 make u farn out OF.
Something very much like the army
worm has appeared in large numbers in
Delaware county. As yet the depreda-
tons of the pest have been confined to
timothy meadows and oat fields.
Lightning struck a quarry at Iowa Falls
the other night and heaved out fifty cords
of stone in as good shape as it could have
been blasted out with powder.
Iowa is getting a full share of this years
immigration. There are several large col
onies of Scotch, English and Scandinavia
ans forming, and besides that the state is
receiving many settlers from Illinois, Indi-
ana and other localities to the east.
j. IL. Barnhill, the clerk who was found
bound and gagged at Onslow, recently,
when the store in which he was sleeping
was robbed of $1,000 to $1,000, vas ar
rested on the Sth and taken to Anamosa
for examination, 1t is believed he robbed
the safe himself.
Near Iowa Falls the other night light
ming struck the house of Jesse COgswell
and killed his mother. She was sleeping
on a feather bed at the time, which goes
to show that the popular superstition that
they are a protection from lightning is not
well founded.
On Col. Blandens stock farm in Poca-
hontis county is a barn So by 200 feet, and
this with the numerous other buildings IN
the place cost SIS, 600. He has IN arte-
sion well, sunk at an expense of 5000,
which furnishes water enough TO supply a
city of l0,000 inhabitants.
1t is proposed to hold a meeting at Ona.
wa. Sunday, june Is, for the purpose Of
forming a Monona county Anti Bari Wire
association, and to elect delegates TO the