The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-09-13
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Ero ETC, ETC.

Iowa has :, 81 nolc boys thnn girls
NATHANIEL BARRIER, one Of tho pioneer set.
tiers Of Clinton county, II dead
TWELVE THOUSAND leop'c attended tho
Scott County Fair a. Davenport on Ihsrs'
day, the Ct III attraction being the races
A yfiS Of coal thirty eight inches nnd ono
forty two inchc, thick, have been found nt
l'c rrson, Clay county, Mt depth OF Ito
feet
Iatlsps or Hardy are in Harlan looking
after hts iyhchcrs md taking steps to have
them indicted Fifteen persons have been
arrested SO far.
a youNa and handsome woman Of Hamil-
ton has become SO hopelessly addicted to
opium. eating TINT she falls TO sleep ON tho
streets Of tho town.
81, SEWING machine vii be voted to the
most-popular young lady in Western Iowa
hy vote Of the newspaper fraternity ~ tho
Council bluffs Fair, Sept 10th to 18th.
NELLIE BURKE, the caucstrienne who r.
doing many Iowa fairs with her ten-mtio
races is widow, 80 years old, with one
enid, d boy Of Il Her husband died
eleven years ago
HoN. J. H. GalSNEIr, or Iowa, tclcgrnrhed
to ex-Gov. Marshall, Of NJ nncsosa, from
Lake Crystal. Il am on my way homo
Draw on me for the cyclone sufferers at
Rochester for $40 ut Grinncil Iowa
YouSa Willis Ilallock, wounded in tho Elk
Horn Grove charge, IL very dcsirous Of get
ting home, and Is yet very weak The
Rock Island road has placed special car at
the disl osal of his friends SO he may DO
taken home without change Of cars
TIE semi centennial OF the first white set
tlcmcnt OF Dubuque was celebrated n that
ETY.. Among the speakers were ex Minister
+. II. Washburne, Gen. chetlain, Of Chicago.
Hon A, c. Dodge, Of Wisconsin: Cen Geo
W. Jones, OF Dubuque, and many others
TUE fact has now dawned upon the suffer-
ny community Of Shelby county that mcm-
bcrs OF the so-called Anti Horse Thief Asso-
citation have been aiding tho thieves in their
acprcdations, giving them shelter and
spont,rs,' and also buyrg up the horses at
$40 and 50 head.
One Of those shocking and heart rcnd!ng
accidents, which 80 often follow rs the re-
suit of carclessncss aud thought,essness,
happened in Davenport Little Johnny En-
gland attempted to jump from the front
platform Of moving stice -car, and hack
coming up At that instant struck the 10y.
III. owing him in front Of the car, en- tho
track, ana the wheel passed over him.
DEAN cnsucd i'll few momcns
A Ilsrgg SSiNa accident leicll the family OF
Maurice Burnham Of Malvern, resulting III
the death OF ono Of fis caildrcn The child,
who was 1 or } years Of age, was missing
during the day, and after considerable
seaceh it occurred to one Of Mr. II. = daugh-
tc.s that the child might Lave fallen into
the we'll 4 pair of steelsa ards were quickly
secured to rope and lowered into the
diatcly tho dead body Of the child was
brought 10 light
TIE handsome badges worn by the Iowa
Grand commandery ut san Francisco at
tracted much attention among the knightly
broth. rkood The design has 4 moninful
int, est To the Iowa knights, from tie fact
that II was designed by the late Grand Re
rordcr, Nm. Iargr.dge. of Muscatine, tho
Grand Recorder Of the Iowa rand body
death, which occurred verv suddenly. The
funeral occurred tho very day that tho
comman,le,y started on the San Francisco
pilgrimage. In his memory tho largest ban
ner to be G rried ly the lowans has been
lraped
THG dubuque Herald has the following:
Tor ome time ast Ed Glansman had been
emp.oved in m of the several mining shafts
about the city. That il nothing strange.
AS all know, tho men working IN tho shafts
are lowered every morning and hoistcd to
the su,face in the evening Well, during
the nigh. referred t.. some inhnman wretch
Gu. the rope on the winalass by which the
men We're 10 be lowered in the morning and.
the da>taadly decd not having besn diseov-
eied, Mr., Glansman, uloa returning 10
work, got into the taD i'll which tho blntf
material is raisel To the surface and, un-
conscious OF the d,nger that awaited their
fellow workman, his companions proceeded
to les him duwn into tho saaft Tho Test
can be imagined The unsusnec,ing man
fell a distance Of about six y feet to the
ot,er, and MAS terribly bruised. narrowly
esca,,iag death
A BRAKEMAN on u Westward bound freight,
by the name of George Gray, residing in
Alhia, met with Il serious accidental few
mites east Of Dcs Moines While attending
To his duties on top OF the train, and while
In the nc u rsssing from one car 10
another, hy some means tho couplings of
the cars gave Way i,sss as he Was making tho
leap The ,ais attached To the engine were
lerkcd raj is forward and the luckless
brakeman fell to the ground between tho
parted train Before he could recover HIM.
self. he was caught under the wheels OF tho
&c, aehe,l train His night ann was terribly
naanglcd and the shoulder badly crushed
TuE HoN. NJ T. Currs member OF Con-
gicss from tho Sixth District of Iowa, died
MT oskaloosa t. day, aged % years He was
one Of The leading Republicans II the sixth
Congressional pistricrmd OF Iowa. and was
one OF the strongest nfcn the state has pro-
duced lie once represented Mahaska coan-
u in the Legislature, And was for peri ID
Attorney General Of tha st ,tc, In this ca
pac.,y he represented 1.-THE state in the
Granger eases before tho Supreme Court of
the United States, and in winning these
cases he added to the Tine reputation he had
airead, enjoyed Mt the har. In lsso Mr.. Sutss
Was elected TO Congress on tho Republican
ticket by a vote SO close that /, was reversed
and his opponent seated In lss. hc was
elected To Congress again b. a large and un-
aue TONED plurality, and consequently his
death causes u vacancy in thai office He
was hold, radical man made strong friends
and had strong enemies, hut none of them
ever said aught against his personal iateg-
ri,y. His service in Congress was broken by
il health. as he had during the eansas If
In eAnnsel himself ln nnl.nn exert IN In