The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-02-22
IOWA STATE ITEMS.

THE institute fund in Hardin county ID
ahead s7sl..D.
4 SECTION of land recently sold In Lyon
county for over $4,000.
BURLINGTON will try and raise her saloon
licenses from SIS to 5000
AJErFERsoN man recently sold 2-year-
old jersey heifer for $50.
The water at Prairie City has given out
for the first time in ten years
ScoTT county farm Of lib acres recently
sold for sl2.o,5. or S15 per acre.
coRN il being burned by the Plymouth
county farmers who can not get coal
THE water supply Of Atlantic is carried to
that city from distance Of five miles
STATE Spiritualist camp ground is about
to be located near Clinton, to contain
eighteen acres
DAVENPORT will vote at the coming election
on the question Of having German taught in
the public schools
Sioux CRY denizens Of upper stories throw
slops on sidewalk passengers, and the police
are on the war path
The carpets, furniture and gas-fixtures Of
the City Hall at Des Moines were bought in
Chicago, and cost over $2.oo0.
The Marshall Times is kicking Justify about
the quality Of the night mail service through
that place on the Northwestern.
THEY are cutting down cottonwood trees
i'll Fairfield four feet across the stumps that
~, fbn, MT lod
The Lansing Journal tells about man
who ought to be strung up by the neck at
least an hour. lie brutally beat his wife.
THE salary and fees of the Sheriff of Scott
county. according to his statement. amount
to 81. feS ~ He must pay his deputies out
of this sum.
GEORGE W. BARNES, a well known agrfcult-
ural dealer Of Waterloo, has been pro-
nounced insane and sent to the Asylum ut
Independence
The postoffce at Pacific Junction was
broken onen, the safe blown and SO worth
Of stamps taken. The burglars overlooked
$50 in stamps
Duane the cold weather it took seventy
Ave bushels Of coke and nearly a ton Of coal
each day, at cost of SO: to heat the Court
House at Burlington
MANY of the smaller towns in the interior
of the state are to lose their telephone sys-
tens. which will be taken out on the ground
OF not doing profitable business
NEWTON D.mocrat: Mr. d. A. Creamer, Of
New York who has been purchasing horses
in this city and vicinity for some time past,
has in the last six weeks paid out 4l5,tOO for
horses here.
Sioux CrTy's voters decided by their ballots
70 annex some territory, but the city fathers
ignore the fiat Of the people, and there Is
much noise upon the subject III that usually
peaceablc burg.
THE business part of the town of Lucas,
Lucas county. was recently destroyed by
fire. \ hotel. eleven business houses and
some dwellings, are no more. The estimated
loss is So, ,GoO; insured for $4,000
GEORGE DICKINSON son of the gentleman
who at one time managed the defunct Tre-
mont House at Dubuque, il now a cattle
king OF Texa. He was married to widow
who owned some .,e01 head of cattle
Mrs JOSEPH WoRRELL OF Newport town
ship. johnson county. committed suicide by
drowning herself in a well. She leaves
family Of several children. Her mind had
been affected by an illness of severe ma
ture.
JOHN q. JONES was lately admitted 10 the.
practice OF law by Judge Hayes, at Daren-
port. He is said to be the first colored man
ever admitted to the bar in Iowa. He
studied three years in Chicago, and his ex-
animation was very creditabic.
| THERE are :a,60o cattle in the sheds ut the
/ International distillery at Des Moines One
i thousand OF these boyines were placed in
/ the sheds last August and have never been
out OF their stalls since. They will be fed up
/ to May and then shipped East for sale.
THE people of one section Of Dubuque are
very indignant because a resident has bar
gained To sell his ls-vear-old daughter to q
80 year old farmer of the neighboring coun-
try, the farmer being quite wealthy; but the
young lady Is unwilling tn be bartcred away
Mrs SUSAN PHILLIPS, Of Green township,
Wapello county, committed suicide. She
procured rope, went into an old house.
climbed onto a bench. put the rope over q
joist and swung herself off. She had been
sick for some months. and was mentally de-
! ranged
OrrrMwA has had genuine case Of elope-
ment The Young lady was abused by her
step mother and went to her intended, telling
him how matters stood They Immediately
went to Fairfield and were married The
father of the girl tore and cavorted when he
discovered the fact
THERE are 80 boys in the Reform School at
Eldora, The farm embraces 1.S acres, Of
which 5o0 are under cultivation. The build
ing> entire cost about 100000. The school
has received up to the present time about
.s,a inmates, and most of those discharged
have become useful citizens
4 NUMBER OF Fairfield people, and several
In the county also. have sent money To the
Chica. 20 sbucket shops to which the Post
Office Department has refused recently to
deliver mail matter. One gentleman sent
$40, and received Il dividend of 81 i'll a few
days. but has heard nothing of his invested
capital Another got s. return from sat
investment, and still another sic.
4 SPURIOUS deputy United States Collector
who has been operating his little game fol
slime weeks past in Allamakee county, col
lecting liquor. bser and tobacco licenses
was arrested at Postyille, and taken to Du
huuue for trial. He has been living in clio
yer for some time ON his ill gotten gains, bu
, the future now looks very dark for him.
4 SERVANT girl In a Dubuque family, will
! the assistance Of a member OF the family
undertook 10 transfer a large and well -illlet
/ barrel from the kitchen to the cellar, by
narrow stairway. She had reached the thir'
step in the stairway when she stumbled an,
j fell to the stone iioor below, alghting o.
t her head The barrel fell upon her. sh
D will hardly recover.
j l'HE Manson Jourad reports "A hnrrihl
o case of cruelty. 4 father buys hall pann
t al meat, or what he needs for himself TAXI
it home. cooks it before the eyes OF h
h starving children and wife and eats It hi.
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