The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-07-19
IOWA STATE NEWS

VIM. sHoMnKR, OF Ida county, while dig.
/ ging well, found q human skeleton at the
depth OF eighteen feet
| THE coal miners are on q strike ut Cleve
land, and local dealers are cut off from theil
| supply from that place.
JOSEPH Hurley, aged 10 years, was
drowned while bathing In Catfish creek, nj
Rockdale Dubuque county.
| The Climax ooal shaft ut Angus took out
t0o tons Of coal In one day. II
was the largest run ever made there.
| A LITTLE 2-year.old daughter Of Mr..
Tvining, Of Griswold, Cass county, drank
concentrated lye dying In few days
| The Executive Committee OF the First
Iowa cavalry have decided to hold re-
union ut Davenport sept ~ 20 and a.
The brother Of Robert ]. Burtiettc, Of the
burlington Ha~keye, IL to enter the baptist
ministry, having graduated from Newton.
A CRAZY man ut Traer imasines himself
the SON of Queen Victoria and Ia continually
talking about her and his claims to the
throne Of England.
A SNEAK thief entered u hotel at Clinton
and stolel0O silver spoons They were not
missed till next day when the table was be-
Ing prepared for dinner.
MAN who gave the name OF NJ j. Gull
bertson, and who claimed to be Federal
detective, was arrested ut Amcs with bogus
silver dollars In his possession
The caving OF the banks of Indian creek
ali III St.sS Sc. l,....
Council Bluffs 1t still goes on, and much
valuable property In threatened by the vast
ing banks
Mis- BoNNEy, Of Warren county, sued a
saloon keeper for maintenance, because her
husband squandercd his earnings ut defend
ants saloon The Supreme Court SAYS she
Is entitled to 1t.
Az insane woman, name unknown, at
tempted to commit suicide ut Council Bluffs
by throwing herself In front OF train OF
cars, but was prevented by her son, who
dragged her from the track
rEor. MAcoMBER, Of Ames Agricultural
College, exposed patent lightning rod.
showing clearly that it was u humbug Tho
company thcreupon sued the professor,
claiming $4,000 damages, but withdrew the
suit before it came to trial
PIERCE SHoRTAII, Of Palo Alto county. has
fled petitions in two suits in the Federal
District Court, against kiewert Bros, OF
milwaukee,, for the recovery Of sa,lsa and
s9is, being money paid for liquor sold him
the defendants since 1871.
HENRY s PARKER living near Clinton
signed an agreement to sell mineral paint
for two sleek-looking strangers and In few
days was asked to pay sa3s ON mote pre-
sented by Sawyer from Princeton. He
declared his signature forgery, and while
he was investigating the agent" skipped
Gov, GEAR has purchased the portrait Of
himself painted by Miss n P. Parin, Of Des
Moines, and which ornamented the Senate
Chamber during portion of the last session
Of the Legislature, Mrs Gear always liked
this portrait, and probably il was on this
account that the Governor bought it
FRANK TABOR. Deputy Postmaster at Rock
well City, who was arrested for opening let
tiers and embexzling the contents, was SEN
fenced by Judge Shiras at Fort Dodge to one
year in the penitentiary, Tabor has placed
$li5 in the hands Of the Postmaster ut Rock
well City to reimburse losses from his
thefts
CHAs oRcuTT. of Rock Rapids. while in a
state Of sompambulism, fell from the second
story OF q barn twenty feet to the ground,
barely missing the horn Of a COW which was
lying down near where he fell The strangest
part Of the occurrence is that he did not
know about his fall until his brother aroused
him in the morning
JOE oRRIE, single gentleman Of Shelby
county, attempted to suicide by taking
arsenic. The dose acted rs an emetic, and
Joe took an old-fashioned single harreled
shotgun out into the field. pulled on one
boot put his toe on the trigger and the
muzxle Of the gun in his mouth, gave a kick.
and blew his brains out, the charge tearing
fearful hole in the back OF his head
They are queer set at Dubuque Two
quarrymen got drunk and opposed some
new men coming to work The new men
refused TO 60, whereupon the old men got
powder and drilled holes, which they filed
with powder, lighted their fuse and coolly
told the new men To leave or be blown to
atoms The arrival Of the foreman and ex-
tmguishment OF the fuse saved tragedy.
CHARLES HOFFMAN, of De Witt, German,
came to the United States July 4. issa Only
two days after he donned the uniform Of q
soldier IN our Government and became a
member of the Twenty-seventh pennsyl-
vania regiment, and served through the war,
taking part in some Of the hercest battles Of
those years He had three brothers killed
Ut Gettysburg, all members OF the same regi-
ment as himself
CHANCELLOR BaLcH of the Central Univep-
ki,y, who has been wonderfully successful
i'll collecting large sums OF money for the
college in the past two years, was presented
by the Board OF Trustees with a beautiful
gold headed cane. as a slight token Of reward
tor the hard work he has done for the insti-
tuition, He was not very much in need OF a
cane rs yet, but will carry il with good
grace all the same.
The Des Moines Register relates an anee-
dote Of Gen GeorgeW Jones, one Of the two
first Senators from Iowa, which. though old,
ID rich: President Pierce notified Jones by
telegraph OF his appointment rs Minister at
Bogota The General replied: Il accept;
but, Frank, where in hell is Bogota.' The
Generals geographical studies had been
neglected, but as that was before the days
Of the Civil Service Commission, that was
not an obstacle to his appointment
\ SOME idea Of the big Hotel Orleans, at
/ Spirit Lake, may be obtained from the fol-
lowing items in the plastering contract late
~ completed; The surface plastered com.
prises an area Of u fraction less than four
acres! To do the work required the follow.
ing quantities of materials One thousand
six hundred aud seventy eight bushels Of
lime. III loads Of sand. 3o barrels of hair,
$4,000 lath, - kegs of nails, q tons OF
plaster. In addition 10 this there ART ~
feet OF chimney, requiring IL, ooU brick, and
3s mantcls and CRATES
SOME confidence men gathered around
John Toedt, of Grand Mound, ON train,
4 near Belle plalne and commenced tn tell