The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-24
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
MARY ANN JORDAN, Of Anita, IL said to be
106 years old.
MANY towns are already planning their
Fourth of July celebrations
A SISTER of Hon. George W. McCrary died
ut Vernon, Van Buren, county.
II. W. SANFORD intends to erect hotel at
Dubuque, to cost $4,000
Two RIvERToN, Fremont county J boys dug
out ten young wolves one morning last week.
JonN w. BuRDErTE, in, has been appoint
ed Collector OF Internal Revenue for the
Fourth district.
Ar Council Bluffs nm Swear old boy named
James Davis had both legs cut off by .
Northwestern train
The Republican State Convention, which
meets on the 9th Of June, will be represent
cd by s4i delegates.
SOMEBODY has ascertained that Iowa had
nineteen cyclones between the dates OF Feb.
%, 1875. and Oct. -. 1881.
THERE are Atty mine practicing attorneys
in Pottawattamic county, and twenty-five
divorce cases are on the docket
The total collections for internal revenue
in the Second Iowa district In April, as re-
ported by Collector Green, were s27,9o4
FAIRFIELD electric tower, $50 feet high,
was blown down In storm It cost III, $50
and had just been insured the day before
for $1,000
GES. OLIVER D. HOWARD, commanding the
department Of the Platte was advertised to
lecture at Glenwood on the Campaign and
Battle of Gettysburg
A PRIZE fight for $50 on ono side and a
mare and mule colt, was fought near Sioux
City Five rounds were INDUCED in when
one of the pugilists cried enough.
ANNIE WINTERS, aged II, living with Charles
Whitaker, Of Davenport has mania for
attempts to burn out that gentleman
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY Indiana editors
will arrive in Council Bluffs May @, over the
G., d. so. road, AMI from that place will
visit oil the prominent places in Colorado
DURING a storm at Dubuque tho steamer
Ben Hershey was blown on to sand-bar,
and two barges were carried out into tho
river A house was wrecked in Walnut
street: cellars were flooded, windows
smashed and telegraph wires broken.
A sANDoRN woman was divorced last week,
and married again before the ink recording
the decree had fairly dried The sutton was
In waiting, and as soon as the divorce was
granted he secured license and they were
srliccd ut once.
NINE Australian aborigines passed east
ward through Council Bluffs on their way to
New York, whittier they are being imported
by Snowman The Nonporea says they are
Of the cannibal persuasion, and are by no
means fair to look upon.
Gov KrRKwoop and Hon. L. Clark and
families are intending pleasure trip into
New Mexico and Colorado to be- absent
about four weeks. Mr.. ]. H. G. Wilson will
Start in June to Washington Territory to
spend two or three months
THE Murray Clarke county, Neps says the
crop prospect in that locality was never
more fiattering than NJ present It says:
"The small grain has all been gotten In, in
good shape, and is all up and presents an
even stand and a healthy color"
MRS NJ J. pFIrTSfn, Of Dubuque, sprained
her ankle Ave years ago, and since that time
has been compelled to use clutches until
within the last few days A year ago doc
tors broke her leg to make q permanent
cure, in which they have succeeded
THE Des Moines papers say the gambling
houses in that place are to be pulled once
month hereafter. until it becomes SO hot for
them that the tigers will be keen to emf
crate to Dakota The saloon men threaten
to compel tho city to make these dens pay
500 license each or close them up
BISHOP PERRY of the Episcopal Diocese of
Iowa, has been requested to act with the
Bishops of Connecticut and Albany rs q
committee of the American church in be-
half of the memorial to the late Archbishop
of Canterbury. undertaken In England un-
der the patronage Of tho Prince of Wales and
Duke Of Albany.
HERE Is case for the Supreme Court: The
matter of incorporating tho other day.
Ninety votes were cast, forty three were for,
two against and forty five were irregular, in
that the word incorporation was mkspelled,
but these were all against the question The
Judges decided tho question carried, but
there will he contest
ALGoNA has also enacted an iron. clad
saloon ordinance The price of license Is
$50 per year. Saloons must close at II p
r., must remain closed on Sunday. and win
dows cannot be painted or screened so rs to
ohstrnct a view of the interior from outside
But one room can be occupied or connected
with the premises and the saloon keeper
must not sell to any person under n years
Of age, or allow any minors to frequent the
place.
THE Birmingham Enterprise tells story of
prolific chickens that Is hard TO beat It
says: sone farmer living east of town has
the finest lot of hens in the State. He has
six, and tho fore part of this week brought
TO one of our merchants ten dozen and two
eggs, and declared that those six hens laid
tina, number Of eggs in one week, an aver
age of nearly three eggs to each hen FER
day."
JACOB DUNCAN. of Owens township, Cerro
Gordo county. died Of malignant blood poi
soning. contracted from attending to his dis
eased horses, which had q very prevalent
complaint affecting the mucous lining and
the glands Of the throat, resembling diph-
liberia His throat and head were fearfully
swollen, and he suffered great agony His
hired man is also afflicted with the same
disease, with but little chances of recovery
A GENTLEMAN who was stopping at hotter
In Clinton the other day accidentally met
ON the street q sister whom he had not seen
for eighteen years, and whose whereabouts
had been unknown TO her friends for many
years She, it is said, is widow residing in
Clinton, with son II years of age They