The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-12-13
IOWA STATE NEWS

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TnE indebtedness Of tho city Of Council
Bluns Is only 4iS5,0oo.
DUBUQUE is excited over the prospect or
having new railroad on tho east side Of tho
river.
CoxDucroR SHANK, who runs On the We
bash, between Ccntcrville and kcokuk, has
fallen heir to the snug little fortune Of
$4,000.
GOLD watch at Catholic fair Ut Clinton
realized for the society the handsome sum OF
e94l.70.
THREE THOUSAND cattle will bc wintercd
BY one OF tho largest distilieries at Dcs
Moincs.
wAGoN-wAY Il about 10 bc added 70 the
railroad Bridge across the Mississippi at Du-
buque.
GOLD has boon discovered upon tho farm
VI Christian Rassmans, four miles east Of
Peterson.
JOHN SELLER hes been sexton In Muscatinc
for thirty eight Years, and yet has no thought
Of resigning. =
YoUSa Irishmen Of Dubuque are talking OF
m Irish militia company, representative IN
character and credit to the community.
A NAN in Dubuque has largo hons egg.
inside OF which 10 another well-formcd and
complete eeg. The whole weighs I'VE ounces.
THE gas companies In Iowa are endcavor-
Ing to renew their contracts with the cities.
anticipating the competition Of electric and
other lights.
A DowN-EAsr Yankee has started . chicken
factory In Davenport with 100 hcns and ono
incubator, having . capacity Of 500 csss, -
| the machinery.
DUBUQUE intends giving q grand May
musical festival next year. At the rohearsai
therc were l.5 singers-oO sopranos, 81 altos,
20 basscs, and 10 tenors.
THE Legislature will bc petitioned TO 60
tablish rcformatory institution for women.
to which all women sentenced for crime
throughout the state may be taken, instead
Of to the penitcntiary.
AN exchange says; .According 70 the old
legend there are to be twenty-onc SHOWS this
winter. The nrst fell on tho 2lst OF October.
i &Hu 0S many u0yo OW 10 tuU AAAOnsA ~ -
many will be the SHOWS"
In 1870, Cass county had population OF
1912, and In 1850 her population wrs l6,eaS;
Of this last number 6,5ss were born In Iowa,
s,2lc were born elsewhere In tho United
States and 2,l4l In foreign countries.
TwESrY-sEvEN girls Of Council Blu6a, By
way OF reminding their male friends oS
semissness In the matter OF taking them %
entertainments, bought seats for the thcater
one evening and went In q body, with only .
matron for escort.
DEs MONIES will exempt from taxation al
property, both personal and real, directly
connected with new manufacturing estab-
lishments or railroad shops that may b il
duccd to come to that city and employ not
less than nifty men.
A GRANGER from Douglas county, Neb.,
occupied seat in the gallery OF tho theater
at Council Bluffs, one night recently, and,
probably thinking that he was at home,
the railing, exposed 10 view "very" neat
pair OF bare feet.
BISHOP HURST. OF Dcs Moines, Ii to pre-
side over tho conference at Zurich. Switxer-
land, commencing June ~ 1854: over the
Sweden conference at Upsada, sweden, July
=; over the Norway conference at BcrEcn,
Norway, July %. and over the Denmark con-
ference 1t rrcdcrickshaven, IN Denmark,
Aug. Q, 1884.
4 WOMAN living in Dubuque had $500. She
had more faith in dirt than tho banks, and
buried her possessions in her cellar. Upor
looking for II few days aftcrward she fount
!. was gone, aud raised q great ontcry over
her loss. accusing everybody of stealing II
The cellar was searched without success. Ad
joining was another cellar, which Was scarchd
and in an old oven the lost money was found
where Ii had been drawn In by rats who made
nest of the long ntensil.
The wife Of . Baptist minister, Mrs. Stiles
or Mason City, was expelled "for insu6erabl,
oYenses against the church." whcreup0n Oh,
brought suit last January, alleging that III,
church was = corporation and that she hat
been unlawfully exIClled thcrefrom, and
asking that writ OF mandamus DO issuct
compelling the church to reinstate her as ,
member. The defendant dcmurrcd to tn cpeti
tion. the demurrer Was ovcrrulcd and the de
fendant elected TO stand thereon; judgmcn
was rendered In favor OF the defendant, ant
the case went TO tho Supreme court. Tha
court reversed the decision and said tho mat
ter was purely ecclesiastical. into which the!
could not inquire.
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