The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-11-15
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IOWA STATE NEWS.
A SWEDISH Baptist church will soon be
dedicated in Davenport.
iowa owns the largest and most complete
Masonic library in the world.
THE postal notes are meeting with very
general favor In Dcs Moines
THE Council Bluffs street railway has
passed into the hands of the Union Pacific
company.
Iowa corn this year is, most Of Il, decidedly
poor and chary. Too short season to ma
turc II properly.
JUDGE COLE, OF Dcs Moincs, has over 1000
roses In bloom In his conservatory. which II
called the finest In Iowa.
THE new asylum for fecblc-mindcd chill
drcn, at Glcnwood, has been accepted By the
State. It cost s2o,oo0-
| A BUILDING Ieex5s feet Is to be put up In
Council Bluffs to be used as skating rink,
bicycle hall and gymnasium.
| CITIZENS Of Dcs Moines are cndcavoringto
secure the construction Of narrow-gaugo
belt railway, with the aid Of the Wabash
people.
| THE new Capitol building at Dcs Moincs is
1854 feet long and "a feet wide. The height
from the base line to the top Of the dome Is
259 feet.
/ CENTREvILLE has one good ordinance. 1t
prohibits boys under 10 years Of age from.
being In the streets after o'clock. Six boys
were arrested and lodged in the calaboosc for
over night.
REV. c. II. SEYMOUR, of Dubuque, declared
from his pulpit on recent Sunday that while
the Sabbath morning might be spent in de-
votion, mild forms OF recreation might be in-
dulged In in the afternoon.
A HORSE baked with Mrs. Milton at Bir-
mingham, and she quietly took out her knit
ting, and sat there for nine hours. when the
horse concluded he'd better be going along.
Probably he'd never had any experience with
woman before.
TWELVE young ladies Of Dubuque have
formed themselves into a cooking club. Won-
der II the eligible young men of the city see
through the scheme. The name of the society
is the G. 0. d. Cooking club. We suppose that
the initials stand for ..catch on, DEAR
JOHN STRATHERS, a rich Australian, met
his betrothed, an English lady. on the trans
fer platform ut Council Bluffs. by appoint
mcnt. Each had travelled one-third Of the
circumference OF the globe to meet without
waiting each others arrival over Il half hour.
They had not met each other for ten years.
JOE DEvoRE. a brakeman at Council Bluffs.
w0o lad nf fha fran srur Ila al
between two emigranf cars, both having the
old style Of ..man-kil!cr couplers, and had
given the signal to the engineer to back elow
", but the train was being backed up strong
~. Devore, not realizing his position,
stepped In to make the coupling. He raised
the link to put ii In the draw-hcad of the car
backing up, but II missed the place, the link
was broken, both draw-heads knocked
under the cars, and Deyore was crushed be-
tween the two platforms In horrible man
ner.
AYorNG Holland woman, Depoe. by name.
,, living soue ten miles from sheldon, met with
painful, and what come near proving Sc
. rions accident. She was working about u
threshing machine, and in attemptin To step
over the tumbling rod her dress was caught,
throwing her to the ground and dislocating
her elbow. She also sustained severe bruises
on the limbs and her clothing was literally
torn In shreds from her body Her escape
without greater injury Is little short of mi-
raculous. There is q law providing that no
) threshing machine shall be run without the
J tumbling rod being boxed, and imposing u
heavy fine for each violation of the same;
but this law, like u good many o,here, seems
| not to be imperative.
/ ACCORDING to the Denison Bulletin, Charter
Oak township, Crawford county, has a genu-
1 Inc sensation in tho shape of ghost that
] comes from the dreamy land to the vale Of
tears. to prove to mortals the kinship Of life
and death. Some months ago the wife Of q
! prosperous farmer died, leaving nm infant
1 child to the tender mercies of a motherless
J homo. An old lady kept house for the widow
= or and took care Of the child. On occa-
S sion when the little one was very fretful, the
old lady, who Is devoted Christian, cx-
!; claimed: "If there Is God wish he'd let
. this child's mother come back and soothe it,"
]. few moments later the door swung upon
0 It's hinges without apparent cans., and a
: spcctcr, recognized as the dead mother In her
) burial clothes, glided into the room, knet
over the child, with her hands olasped as If In
J: prayer, and then as silently left the room,
q apparently passing through the closed door
Q The old lady was stupc1ed and her story was
"a not believed until two weeks later when the
= widowed husband observed the same
. . phenomenon In the dead hour of night. The
J. specter has ro-appearad regularly every two
, weeks since. and of late at shorter intervals
70 Not long since the man remarried and the
Is visit of the specter at midnight was witnes ssed
. by the BRIDE who describes the ghostiy visitor
Ls with startling minuteness Just before the
Y visit tho horses in the barn appear disturbed
tho dogs bark viciously and the window,
/ rattle. Nothing can induce the husband b
! uncover his head while the ghostly visitor h
/ In the room, although the new wife, unterri.
! fied by the spectacle, calmly observed hel
10 movements. Her story corrobprates that o.
the old lady, who tearfuly says she will neve
O. again appeal to the Almighty In such man
: ner. Tho new wife vouches for the truthful
ness of tho story. and the Bulletin pnblishe
4 1t as it came from her lips.
~ Thanksgiving In Iowa.
THE STATE or IowA-BY THE GOVERNOR
r PROCLAMATION or THAsksGlvINa.
In acknowledgment of the manifold hcss
ings which has been showered upon US, m
:. in appreciation OF the mereies youchsafod /
. US; for the general and excellent health 0
- all the people, the prosperity which has a,
tended our citizens, and that peace whic