Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
IOWA I'm Els.

The amount of Sioux Ci'y's debt to be
refunded into + per cent bonds 500, coo.
Thom.s Bradley. a Des MONIES printer,
earned S7S the first four days OF last week
double. urice1 nonpareil matter. This
is a remarkn Vi. record, but Bradley is q
good %.rinter and deserves his
There was a tumult in colored circles In
Sioux City last week over q criminal
by one Mason against his wife AMI
another &C ION" named Scanlon. After a
long and heated trial the accused was
bound over to appear before the next
grand Try.
Every Sunday Morning is the name of q
new CreSton paper.
John w. Burdette, .Tr., has been ap.
collector If internal revenue for
the Fourth district.
Iowa City papers are discussing q five.
mile liquor law for that city, to be passed
by the next legislature, provided, of course,
body sees it iu that light.
Bishop Perry, Of the Episcopal diocese
of Iowa, has been requested to act with
the bishops of Connecticut q d Albany Us
o committee of the American church in
behalf of the memorial Of the late arch
biahop of Canterbury, undertaken in Eng.
land under the patronage of the prince OF
Wales and duke of Albany.
A barber named Bovee, of Atlantic,
jumped the town last week, leaving his
wife and three children without o cent.
He proves to be a bigamist, and Is now
supposed to be in Missouri Valley.
Dog fighting seems to be the fsvorite
r-o.tn k1oaIa ne rraeapt
Oae or two persons are said to have been
arrested for indnlging in the brutal sport
Strawberries are 80 cents q box in Keo'
kuk.
Creston is enjoying q great building
boom this spring.
The prospects for o good crop of wheat
in garrison county never were better al
this season of the year.
Joseph Cook gave 800 to the Iowa col
lege towards the erection of q Ladies' board
ing hall.
An unusually large number # mad dog
are reported in Des Moines.
Cedar Rapids is clamoring for a hospital
The Des MONIES distillery paid q gov.
err emit tax for the year ending May LIST
of 81, 800, +S4.lO.
Waterloo is making extensive prepare
tons for the forthcoming state tiremen'
tournament. June 18th, 18th and l4th.
Ames College has q fire company msd
up of the students.
To keep the U. S. signal office at Kec
Luk running for the months of May al,
June the proprietor of the building rente
for that purpose was Obliged to reduce tb
rent from $40 to S. per month.
Il is reported that a colored citizen q
Belfast, Lee county, recently caught 5 90
pounds of buffalo fish, for which he re
ceived SIS.
The grand lodge of Iowa Masons meet
in Davenport on June 9th.
It il estimated that Sioux county ha
gained 1000 in population since the cen
sus of 1880.
A sharper named Callans was arreste,
at Glenwood a few days ago on o charge @
obtaining goods by false pretenses.
Scarlet fever is raging in the vicinity @
Elk Point.
The Iowa Preas Association will spen
the week ending July 18th, at Spirit LAX
this year.
Polk county has called in $13 600 Of he
outstanding bonds, of the issue of 1880.
Last Thursday the little son of Nj
j. H. DeWolfe of Vail, Crawfor
county, fell from o second.story Gwir
dow, in the postoffice building, lighting o
o cellar door. He struck on his head an
shoulders. Wheh picked up he was vi
conscious for o few minutes, but no bone
were broken and Tiers was nothing to II
dictate that bo had received any very ser
- H.tao Had ~ not haan that III
door upon which he fell had s~ufiiciel
spring to partially break his fall, 1t woul
undoubtedly hsye resulted fatally.
8 The Des Moines gambling rooms a
hereafter to be pulled once a month.
Over five miles of water mains ha,
been laid in Iowa City.
Boone county ia out of funds and count
warrants are selling at So cents IN the do
lar.
Ia sinking a coal shaft at Ogden woo
was found in q good state of preservatiC
at q depth of ITO feet below the surface.
The United States court will convene
Keokuk June 16, but owing to lack
funds no witnesses or jurors will be pre-
ent until Ju Us.
A colored man of Fort Dodge got into
saloon row the other night and was sh,
three times in different parts of his ans
omy. After the shooting he calmly lit
cigar and walked away as If nothing hi
happened
The Ls Mars Jockey club will hold
spring meeting June 2. Tnere will be q
races, including the always attractive hu
die race, and IL the day is line there W
be an immense attendance.
A large attendance Is expected at all Il
Clear Lake attractions this year.
Ottumws is to have free mail delivery
and after July l.
Harrison county Is infested by pate
sulky.plow swindlers. who are said to ii
numerous SUCKERS.
An intellectual Improvement socie
has been organized by a number of you
men in Carroll.
A party Of Dubuque capitalists
goirg to fit up a summer resort st Spi
Lake.
N. T. Burroughs, Of Cherokee, haI
herd of 5000 cattle. 1t is claimed to
! the largest drove ever collected in Nor
western Iowa.
> The Burlington Hawkeye complains d
the 5000 per annum paid to the govern
Of Iowa is barely sufficient to give Il
!, officer a decent living, and suggests Il
the next general assembly ought to re
the pay Of all the state officers to q alta
ard Of respectability.
Representatives of the York Nurs
~ company, Of Fort Scott, Kansas, were
Sioux City n day last week, looking o
the ground with q view Of locating an
~tensiye fruit tree nursery where ha.
trees can be grown for the northwest
trade, The land wanted Ia not Jess ii
Il60 acres to start with.