Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-21
IOWA ITEMS.

Story county has four tile factories.
Clinton has only ten candidates for the
m ayoralty.
LeMars has decided to refuse peddlers
license to sell in its streets.
The next state fire mems tournament
occurs at Waterloo in June next.
The next state normal institute begins at
Davenport July ., and continues four
weeks.
The loyal canning company of Musca.
tine paid a dividend. of IL per sent last
year.
Quite o number Ct Union county people
Ok pect to emigrate to Montana in the
spring,
The commissioners of Shelby county are
looking up some suitable location for a
poor house.
There have been o large number of farm
houses destroyed by fire in Adair county
this winter.
LeMars' city government requires some.
thing over $1,000 per month to keep the
wheels creased.
The opera house at Fairfield has been
sold to the Odd Fellows of that town. The
price paid was SIS, 900
John Carpenter q married man of 46.
and Elizabeth Miller aged 10, eloped from
Ottumwa last week.
All the school children in Muscatine,
numbering 1000, were given q sleigh ride
by the board on the 18th.
An Atlantic man was given a letter
eighteen years ago to post. he dropped
1t into the postotice last Thursday.
Wolves are plentiful in Adams and the
neighboring counties. A farmer recently
had q valuable horse eaten up by them.
The amount charged to the various coun.
ties for taxes of 1882, now due and pay
able to the state treasury, is $1,000, SS5. 52.
They have six thousand dollars worth of
lire apparatus in Lemars and not a drop OF
water In the cisterns to use in case of fire.
The Davenport school board is discuss
ing the question of teaching foreign Ian
guages, chiefly German, in the public
schools.
An engineer named John +. Whiting
on the c., B. & c., at Creston, was re-
Gently laid off for ten days for smoking on
his engine.
The smoke house attached to Messrs.
Booge Il Co. 8 packing house In Sioux City
took a tumble last week. The loss
amounted to 50, 800.
The Iowa prohibitionists will hold a five
days convention ut Clear Lake Park be.
ginning July Goth. Governor st. Johns,
Of Kansas, will be present.
A man has sued Waterloo for S25, 900
damages for false imprisonment. He re.
fused to pay his dog tax was fined and put
In Jail.
In Adams county there Is u French set
Element known as, the Ioarian community,
They profess to own everything except
family relations in common.
Ten cases of small pox are reported in
Finchford. A physician has been sent
from Cedar Falls to relieve the only doc
tor in town.
After the regular session of the Iowa
hotel keepers ia Des Moines last week was
finished, a supplemental "Mumm's extra
dry seance was INDUCED in.
Jack Rhin, a college student at Indian
ola, stabbed Link Pritchard in a restau-
rant In that city on Sunday night with a
dix. The blade reached the liver and in
hicted a very dangerous w.und.
8The Evening Gazette Of Cedar Rapids
endorses marriage fund associations. 1t
says the best business men of the town are
identified in the management of one of
them located there.
The recent storm at Keokuk was very
severe. The southern span of the Des
Moines river bridge, 600 feet long, was
washed away, and a number OF other cas-.
ualties.sre reported.