The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-19
IOWA STATE ITEMS.

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IT has been decided to remove all female
prisoners from the Fort Madison Penitentiary
to AnamosR
POINTS, one OF the participants in the
brutal prize fight In Pottawattamie county,
died of his wounds
| THE fourth annual convention Of the State
Pharmaceutical Assocint on will meet at
Davenport on the lst of May.
Coal has been discovered In the vicinity Of
Fontnnelle, and the town is said to be ex-
periencing the biggest kind Of boom
The thirty first annual session Of the Iowa
State Medical Society will be held at Csuncl
Bluffs, beginning at 10 a M, Wednesday,
May 10, 1883
| IDA county IL the most productive county
In the State Mrs VIM. McKim, less than 45
years Of age. has recently given birth to her
fifteenth child
In fight mt Council Bluffs, . man named
Mcdonald bit of thumb belonging to =
man named Orth He was arrested on .
charge of mayhem.
FIRE ut Sioux City gutted Peavy 4
Stephens furniture store Loss on stock,
$4,000; insurance. $4,000. Loss on build
ing, e2,oou; insured
The State Agricultural College was tempo.
rarily closed, owing to the breaking out Of
scarlet fever among the students, but has
started up again, the disease being under
control
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Isaac
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sioners to inspect twenty five miles of the
track of the Northern Pacific railroad in
Montana
Two HUNDRED Knights and ladies are
booked at Des Moincs for the Templars' Cal
ifornia trip from Iowa Secretary Parvin
has gone to San Francisco to secure DOR
mitories
A COMPANY has been organized at Spencer,
| Clay county, with capital stock OF $4,000.
| for the purpose Of dealing in Montana cat
I tie It is called the Iowa and Montana Live
Stock Company.
THE Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
/ round house. ut Pacific junction, was de-
stroyed by fire the other night. Four
| passenger coaches standing near were con-
siderably damaged.
4 New YORK capitalist is in Council Bluffs
with view Of establishing large grain and
feed warehouse there. lie is to represent
/ . firm that does an average Of @N,oou worth
| Of business per month
BUTTER at Manson, Calhoun county, IL
| quoted at only cents, and . number Of her
merchants are out in card to the effect
81. hn.x
~ there is no money in It
THE International distillery ut Des Moines
I continues its heavy shipments 1t drew out
800 barrels Of alcohol and spirits on a recent
\ day, for shipment, quantity that repre-
sents a pretty large cash value.
PARTY of emigrants from Des Moines and
vicinity left for Dakota a few days ago. They
number fifty-one people and went by special
/ train, consisting Of nineteen cars Of house
hold goods, farming utensils and stock, and
two passenger coaches Their destination
Is Dawson
/ HENRY CAMPBELL, a colored porter at
| Council Bluffs bought some wild land in
/ Dakota not many months since, and has now
been notified that railroad company has
selected it for town site. This will make
him a good deal richer and viii augment the
Dakota boom.
TOMMY o'BRIEN. bell boy at the kimball
Hon G. in Davenport. fell forty five feet
down the elevator, and escaped compare
lively uniniurcd In his fall he caught
hold of the wire rope which operates The
elevator, decorating his hands pretty badly,
but saving his life
The Iowa Grand Army encampment at Its
recent session in Des Moines, elected J. b.
Cook, of Carroll, Commander for the ensu.
ing year, & L Davidson, Of Pattersonville,
Vice Commander. q. W Bywater, Des Mones
Junior Vice Commander, A. J. Hobert. Clin.
ton, Medical Director. and J. r Casebier. of
Marshalltown, Chaplain
DuRlN,s the season lust closed there were
killed and packed At ]. T, Stewards pa king
house, in Council Bluffs, over dN,tOo hogs
This number would have been Increased
could the porkers have been secured jus, ~
the times wanted The other packing
houses Of the city also killed and put up
large number during the season.
pAN1EI. SrArIEroS, resident Of Dasen-
mort for thirty years has come up missing.
Hasn't been heard from for three days He
Is a boiler-maker by trade, short In stature,
thin, SPARE form. rather sunken cheeks
and keen dark eyes He il genia and in
clined 10 converse on the sliah est eneour-
arement His family are OF the opinion tnat
he has been foully dealt with.
SEVERAL days ago John Moss, of Loveland.
and Douglas Points, of Honey Creek, potta-
wattamie county, made an agreement TO en-
rare in 4 prize tight TO see who was the het-
ter man The meeting took place as nckle
farm, and the hight was bitter and ugly
one Moss had his nose bitten OF. ana, en-
ragged at this. he stamped the bowels out Of
Points. and the latter has since died
THH hard winter in Iowa is reported t.
! have killed nearly all the fsh, in some way.
MANY Of the rivers show dead tish along the
shores, washed up from under the ice by the
rising Hoods, and it is said that the northern
lakes are revealing the same record Of
slaughter Many of the iish-wise people are
very solemn over this, and say II - the
worst ever known in the State
., GEN WILLIAM McE DYE, who has just been
M pointed Chief of Police in Washington
civ, used To live in Marion, in this State
He was Colopel of the Twentieth Iowa In
, fan,rs He was promoted to Brevet Rriga
,i,er General ut the close Of the war. and
, directly thereafter accepted service under
J the khe i've of Egypt, together with severa
other Federal and ex-Confederste officers
, who had suddenly found themselves out o.
! employment
: DUBUQUE woman performed an act O
bravery which not every man would care Z
. emulate runaway horse was coming NJ
the street at a rapid rate, and the woman
Z seeing child playing in the road, jumpe'
] from the sidewalk TO the road, descent 0
three feet, and pulled the child out Q
! danger with one hand and seized the hors
: with the other She then held the hors
until the owner came along. who, aite
:. COOL, thanking" her, drove Of