Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-28
IOWA ITEMS.


Tbs people Of Cedar Rapids make Q big
offer for the Episcopal seminary for young
ladies. They say to Bishop Perry that II
be will locate the seminary in their city
they will donate q beautiful site. compris.
fng Ave acres, for which S15, 900 was re-
Gently refused, and furnish $50, 900 for the
buildings, agree TO erect q church near the
seminary in ten years ut q cost Of $50 900
to 500, GOO and give their present edifice
for q mission church.
Alex. Graham and his alleged wife are
both in the Anamosa penitentiary for
dragging and robbing . man at Marshall |
town. Now the alleged wife tells that some
/, ears ago at Cedar Rapids Gresham muir.
dered u $1,000 granger whom he had en-.
ticed into his de-, and that the body WAS
thrown into the Cedar river.
In excavasing for " coal shaft at What
Cheer, the stump Of q tree WINS found OF
the depth Of forty feet below the ground.
The roots on one sldo were curved down.
ward, and had the appearance OF having
ut n time hung over " bluff. The stump
was in % good state OF preservation.
What Cheer ia dull. First the miners
were on u strike, ard then when they got
ready to go to work came the seizure of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North.
ern coal cars by the fuel company, and
the consequent ~stoppage OF shipments.
The miners are mostly idle.
Sioux City journal: The committee ap-
pointed by the board Of trade to inquire
into the feasibility of getting.another wire
for commercial purposes into Nebraska,
has accomplished the desired object aud o
nav wire will soon be up. '
The Atlantic Telegraph says that . 3
per cent tax has been voted TO the Allan
tic and Northeastern railroad In that CITY,
almost unanimously, there being but SS
vstes cast against the proposition in q total
of over 800 votes.
1t 10 claimed that Auditor Brown Is try
ing to compromise with the insurance com.
panies that he 30 unceremoniously at
tempted to pinch. The companies refuse
to compromise but demand o full and COM
plete retraction.
The city assessor of Fort Dodge writes
to the newspapers objecting because the
city council has cut down his assessment
of private corporation property. The gas
works are lowered to 81, 900 and the pork
house to $500.
Mrs. A. ". Doane, of Council Bluff,
lately an inmate of Benedict's lying.in
hospital at Des Moines, makes charges of
cruelty and neglect against the managers
of that in~stitution.
The Audubon County Sentinel has it
rumorsd that +. III. Whitney will bnild and
donate to Audubon county o 500. 900 court
house, providing the location be at Ham
lin.
The council of the town of Fontanelle.
Adair county, has Issued an ordinance pro.
hibitinR the use of barb wire for fencing
inside the limits Of the town.
The glucose works at Iowa City have
passed into the control OF the Buffslo COM
pany, now owe most of the largest glu.
cose sinks in the country.
Lyons requires saloons within two miles
of the city limits to take out license, and
, expends the money derived on the roads
leading to the city.
The Alton Review reports that q two
and a half foot coal vein was found ut the
depth of fifty feet in digging q we'll near
that town.
The Dss Moiaes Land League has been
reorganized, and 10 now q branch Of the re-
formed n~ationilists, under the Philadelphia
platform.
The Iowa City water works we're tested
in an Informal way last week and threw q
stream 100 feet high In the fsoe Of Q strong
wind.
A company ct Lyons, Iowa, will erect
match factory that will produce 300.
600 matches per day and employ about &C
men.
The objections to the report of j. b,
Grinnell, receiver Of the Central lows
railroad, were overruled by Judge Miller,
The Congresationalists Of Iowa begin
their annual meeting at Dubuque on
May so, and remain in session four days
Parsons college, Fairfield, has just re-
ceived y SIG, 900 endowment from Mr.. j.
+. Hunt, for q chair Of mathematics.
The Dunlap council has appointed Q
committee to investigate the cost and kind
of water works needed by the town.
A union depot project Is the latest agi'
tAtion at Keokuk. The railroad oompa'
Mes ore said to talk in favor Of 1t.
Corn planting, which was delayed some
what on account of the weather. 10 said Il
have started up again in earnest.
A pelican m~sasuring 8 feet 8inches from
tip to tip Of the wings was shot on q sane
bar near Dubuque last week.
Noah Williams, Of the Ida Grove bank,
talks OF establishing a 800. coo pork pack
/, ing house st Ida Grove,
, The deputy postmaster at Rockwell
, City has been arrested for the larceny 0
o registered lett5r.
A brick house, tern down In Mt. Pleas
{ ant last week 10 give room for q new Jail
was built in 1888.
, The principal bufiness houses Of For
Dodge have agreed to close promptly at
p, m.
/; The sinking a e coal shaft at Ogden
> suspended until the water can be pumpe,
out.
Mt. Pleasant expects to bring tn
water for tho water works from the Skun.
river.
1t is reported that Eve men were bite
9 by mad dogs in Red Oak one day las
week.
A franchise for q street railway Ia goinI
I through the Muscatine council,
8 The painters Of Des Molnes will hold a
invitation ball on May 30th.
= A number of Iowa colleges have the
. commandments on June 9th.
A fire and msriae insurance company
being organized at Dubuque.
n The town of Spirit Lake Is moving fc
better fire protection.
J.. Sioux county has a colony OF HOLLAND
ers numbering LOCO.
panllina Ia Ia have n cenetsrv and