Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-18
IOWA ITEMS.

Another creamery is to be built near
Mason City.
The largest barrel factory In the state is
to be built at Atlantic.
Des Moines has decided to experiment
with the electric light.
A bogus policeman has been engaged in
the ~blsckmsiling business in Des Moines.
West Union and Dubuque are having
fraternsl time which is truly delightful.
A1he Odebolt Methodist church. which
cost 81, 700, was dedicated on Sunday, the
18th.
Four hogs were recently sold in Farley,
Dubuque county, which weighed $500
pounds.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of u m factory ut Webster
City.
Tho Storm Lake Tribune complains that
the telephones make bushes dull on the
streets.
The Sumner rioters, to the number Of
six, have been arrested and held to $500
bail each.
The people OF Britt, Hancock county,
are moving to get the county seat away
from Concord.
A lodge of the Knights of Pythias has
been initiated in Upton with twenty.seyen
charter members.
Dubuque has been investigating its no.
tells, and finds that none Of them have fire
escapes.
The Ida County Detective society for
the recovery of stolen horses and mules ia
keeping up a vigorous existence.
The City bank of Boone has started out
I'LL GIN nnn nIl,Nt.- .A-.NI shs. .na.
and now advertises 500, 600 capital.
A plan of organic stion has been adopted
for connecting Davenport, Rock Island
and Moline with continuous line OF street
cars.
The Des Moinss Masons appeal to their
brethren throughout the state for help.
They lost over $1,000 worth of property
by the recent fire.
Three more deaths from small pox are
reported from Friswold. No new cases
exist, however, and the disease is thought
to lie checked.
The postmaster at Emerson, Mills coun.
ty, has been removed and q young man,
who is a stranger in the place, has been ap.
pointed in his place. The citizens are re-
ported as indignant.
A gang of six thieves and burglars l.
heading from Chicago for Des Moinet
over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road. The small towns are being worked
by them.
A mother, daughter and the latter'i
three.months.old illegitimate babe, werC
cGlsSocsed in Dubuque on Wednesday
night, both women being belstly intOXi.
Gated.
Hospers, which was laid low by a cyc'on,
-, Ivlu 1aut L. rao,uaFiny fr.pN sha hIauy
and the PresbyteriAn church, which wal
demolished at that time, will be rebuilt IL
the spring.
Two trampl were found in a corn car q
Dunlap nearly dead from cold and expos
ure on Wednesday, They had c5me from
Nebraska. One Of them has since pas, e,
in his checks.
Two ]prospectors for coal at Chesterfield
near Dss Moines, have bored into a vein o
milky fluid which they believe 20 be a val
liable mineral or magnesia, The vein wa
struck III feet down, and boiled up lively
feet high.
Sanhorn, the ex-postmaster Of the Audu
bon office, has skipped the country, and
is clearly demonstrated that he Is a defauI
ter, He has not reported TO Washingto
for six months.
Des Moines will now have q chance {
appreciate the telephone, the exchang
having been destroyed Ia the FIRE whic
burned the Clspp block. Nearly a mont
. will be required before another exchane
can be established.
The trouble between the Des Moline
water works company and the city has bee
. ' aggravated by the recent FIRE. 1t Ia q