Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-18
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A $50, 900 jail Is to be built at Marshall.
town.
G 'inuell ia making efforts FIR its second
national bank.
Davenport puts In y bid for the reunion
OF the first Iowa cavalry.
A savings bank with $50, 900 capital Is
to be started ut Crostcn.
During the last municipal year Dubuque
paid out Sll ,502 30 10 salaries.
Missouri Valley proposes to have the
street grades Fixed by ordinances.
Burlington Is being worked by q gang Of
bur lars, and no arrests have occurred.
The wooden mill at Eddyvlllc has failed,
with liabilities of s2S, 000 already heard
from
Dubuque paid $3.50 80 last year for dam.
ages to individuals ana SOS. IS for damages
to property.
The electors Of Blackhswk county will
vote on purchasing u $40 co. farm for the
county poor.
A number Of V%illisca families have
moved to the Il khorn valley, In Nebraska,
and will settle there.
Manchester has q gold and silver mining
company, lately organized, with Its pros
pective mine In HALEY, Colo.
Three hundred children were confirmed
by Bishop Hennessy at s.. Patrick's
church, Dubuque. on the lat.
AT the last term Of court Ia Mshaska
county eight divorces were granted and six
went over until the next term.
The Cedar Rapids board Of trade pesi
ton the city council II ssloon license IL
granted, to make the figure $1,000.
There Is talk Of . draw bridge on the
Spirit Lake wagon road, to allos boats to
sail unobstrscted from one lake into the
other.
Dubuque capitalists are In Sioux City
10 king over the ground with u view Of
starting q new National bank In that
place.
A building boom has struck Creston and
o large NUMBER OF fine dwellings are being
erected on North Hill and other parts OF
the town.
The proprietors Of the Southern hotel at
Cedar II spids are in financial trouble, and
. closing up nuder mortgage Is daily ex-
pected.
The Vail Episcopal Church trustees held
q meeting last week aud determined to
commence the erection OF o new church
Immediately,
About 81, 900 has been saved the resi-
denis OF Lyon county by an e,ono nicL
administration OF the county funds during
the past year. 3o Hs
1t |, estimated thatfrom 200 to $50 Iowa
Heights aud ladies will make the pi i'm.
age to IN Francisco next July to attend
the conclave.
A special election will be held in lie Mars
on the % inst, to fill the vacancies in the
| caunril ooCasinpad hu Tho raaiop .k;an ,f
two aldermen.
Correotionville wants o tailor, a dentist,
o bakery, q creamery, q canning factory, q
tenement houses.
Steamboat agents on the river towns
complain that the railro ads have got away
with the freight business. leaving the boats
without business.
called to the death bed Of her sister, on the
evening Of the 3lst inst, dropped dead as
she reached the bed.
The Chicago company operating the gold
mine at Bear creek, near Ottumws, are
satisfied with the clean up and keep the
mill at work steadily.
trail rad at Dubuque quit work on the OH,
demanding an increase from 81 % to 81 so
and ten hours . day.
A wealthy farmer living near vinton,
Benton county, was viotimiEsd out OF
&1,l35 on the B., @. r & N. road, on the
l1th, by confidence men.
A new loan and trust company has been
oreanizod ct ! reston With a capital of l2i,
; 600. Toe institution 10 differed by the
best people Of the place.
, The Hubbard house at Sioux City wa.
closed on the Oh. owing to the inability oil
the prop ~ietors, John and Charles Ross, ia
m ,et 81 625 of unpaid rent.
The shores OF Brewers lake, Wood tury
county. are reported to be lined with dead
fish. 1t IL thought they were smother rec
to death during the wiuter.
1, Nick FIR edliver's team backed over the
. bridge acr, 81 the Sioux near Ida Grovs
g and one horse was b illed. Mr.. Friedliye,
came near being q well.done liver.
q John Kettleson, q farmer rear Walnut,
Pottawat' amie county, was shot twice by
. Q Mrs. Coulter, Of that town. on the 10th
He made inuecsnt proposals to her.
The inning factory at Glenw God is sale
to be an immense success. This season
besides q number Of men, one hundred wo
men and girls will be given employment
10 Monona county now has twenty town
!, ships, East Mspfeton having been createt
In the northeast corner of the county o
the late SEES sion OF the board Of supervis
+, ora.
The Creston G ,zette has been settin,
down verv hard on the Washers Of tina
town. 1t the paper succeeds Ia cleaning
out there idiots 1t will have accomplished
big thing
|; A. A. Mosher, superintendent of tn
. state hsh hatchery at Spirit Lake, hs
ZOO, 900 minnows ready to dis !ribute, al,
q another litter Of like number Ia expected
. in Q week.
Archer Steele, furniture dealer of Dem
eon a, d late chronic Invalid. thinks he ha
been brought to good health by the prays
cure. He vas the hrst Denison mAu t
try the remedy.
The history of Cerro Gordo and Frank
lin counties with biographies of distiu
,r guished ci liens who subscribe for III
work, is being connected by the Unio
publ hirg company.
John Danny, q LsMars ~inebriate, who
rated at Sl5. 90, Is defendant 10 q divorc
suit, Ia which alimony Is asked. job
has Desn accus iomet, when In liquor, tn
Liberal says. to abu'e his wife shsmefully
Meg regor b ~ def suited on her toud IL
> terest and is defend ant 10 several coupe
suuts 10 the coming term Of federal court 0
Dubuque. The News estimate the debt Q
n 500. 700, an increase Of nearly $50. COO !
a two years.
y The first examination Of dentists by th
atate board OF examiners will be held O
Iowa City on tbs 2l,t inst. The new 10,
IL requires that all 'prac itioners shall pa,
this ex animation before they can practic
in the state.
One hundred and twelve feet OF the we'
wall Of the new building for Morrel
Co = packing house 10 Ottumwa has to b
rulled d Iwn. l. il b3 feet high and frol
16 to "a inches thick. The brick were