The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-17
IOWA STATE NEWS.
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DAVENPORT complains Of being oyerrun
with English srarrows.
A FAIR at tho Sacred Heart Church,
Dubuque, cleared 81, 600
THE town Of Milford, Dickinson county, Is
six months old aud has 20 inhabitants
TIE estimated yield Of wheat for tho State
this year u placed at oa,ooo, zoo bushels
TIE Dubuque furniture and burial case
factory was burned laely. loss, $500,
TIM engineer q the Government bridge mt
Davenport killed large sca gull during the
week.
II is estimated that Sioux county has
gained 100 in population since the ccatus
of 1850
4 COMPANY with abundant capital has heen
formed ut Pclla 10 work ton coil mines in
that vicinity.
ASSESSED valuation Of Council Bluffs is
placed nj sS.tas,eo3, an increase In the past
,car OF $1,000
Ti'Ey arc having mock weddings ii Dcs
Moines church festivals In order To draw q
crowd this se9san
pupuauE citizens have started contrihn-
ton purse 10 raise funds TO lif5 the debt on
Charlie stewart parnelrs tate.
TnE B"6e says some twenty or mere new
corners with ther families arrived in Pella
one day last week from the Netherlands,
Tx new well on the Cole farm In Grindy
county was sunk rs feet at a cost II 81 ono
before u satisfactory supply Of water was
found.
THE Mayor Of Council E.u''s is making
Efforts to clean out the Confidence men and
tonghs who have infested that city very
much Of late
Miss SALIIE LcoBs, of Hamburg this
state is said to be the first Iowa woman who
ever set foot on Alaska soil She paid VS.
it to S.tka last season.
JoE PARRISH, ten years age proprietor Of
fine saloon in Davenl ort. is now an inmate
of New York penitentars, He was con-
yicted OF grand larceny
Davenport was visited by fire few days
ago which destroyed n seton ~ the old
Burrows and prettyman block Total loss
about $4,000: fully insured.
A KEoauK man figures IL that tranips are
Improbable city servants. In three years
they have nominaliy worked out ss,9..a. % in
fines and costs by breaking rock worth to
tho city s3ll.
CAPT LucAs recently State Auditor Of
this state, In connection with his son, IL
sagting bank ami new paper at franklin,
Charles Mix county, OAK. They horc In
make /, the county seat
TIM widow of ex- senator Grimes has ,e-
turned IRON Washington 10 spend the sum
NOR in this sac She is ono Of the mot
accomplished and intellectual ladies that
Iowa ever sent To the na,iona etpltal.
4 TRAMP was run over and Killed AT Council
Bluffs who had been stealing a ride Oh the
trucks If passenger train, while attempt
ing to get from the car as the TIA n stopped
to register al the crossing Of the X. c, st ].
& C. B. and the c., r. l., ", 4 NJ roads.
The Supreme Court decides that county
is liable for injuries done by falling Of a to
fective bridge, in cases in which the defects
were not actually known, but could have
been known by the exercise Of ordinary
care and watchfulness on the part OF the
county officers in looking after, inspecting
and repairing the county bridge.
.aDrnuouE writer says tha, the first white
child born In Iowa after the real permanent
settlement was horn at Dubuque In Janu.
airy. 1856, and was named after lady still
living in Dubu l.e Both ladies' are living,
one over 10 and the other over 50 Yeas
Old Dubuque had school house in lisa
and a church in Isl.
CRAWFORD county Supervisors dec arcl all
section lines the lines of established roads.
One Manchest r fenced up his land itc'es-
ing the sect on line. The Road Suppryi s,rs
brought suit against Manchester for OBJ
stractin@ highway. The District Court de-
citiea tina. this wholesale cs.ablishin. of
highways Oh all section lines was illegal
THE Sioux City Journa' says: Mother
s. enc, aged ri, lives in a farm house III
this region In tho same house I've her
daughter, aged a. her n anddaugh,er, ased
AZ: her great granddaughter aged 2l; and
her great great granddaughter, aged .
This is believed to he the only house in the
country .hel,ering tvc generation.
TIE Grand Junction H,aa Light tell a h.
story OF man in Bristol township, Green
county, who, while boring for a we'll on his
farm at the depth of Is feet, was almost
saifocatel by rush .. "a from the lower
regions. The naS coEtaGea to rash forth
for some hours whsn sand vas throw out,
and iianally tso-inch saeam If water
commenced to flow, ho9ting nifty Tee ,.p
into the mir The water is still flowing, and
the Had Light claims it a. the @loss" art
sian well in the country.
ALBERT HENKE arrived in Dubuque the
other night to visit relatives. He knocked
TO: admittance at his mothers r. sidence
about o'clock in tie morning. That taay
became frightened thinking the Noise was
made by burglars, and csled n son who was
sleeping in the house. lie appear ell at the
window and demand, Il wha was wanted
and n h, was there Receiving no answerha
fired, the bali passing through his hrothef's
thigh, fracturing h. bone.
The Denison Crawford county, E4ittt:a
SAYS: The danger II ovcs-"rowdins the
mind is lustra,ei in the .a.e III u little
Denison girl, age about ltyears. Sle -
an uncommon'y II "ht chi Il. hut in prel:r-
ing for the leean, school exhibition she over
studied IN l. now in a most lis able con-
dit.on. Her memaly is apparently Zone and
she Is ver2.ng N the b I'd II Ut idiocy Al
though several weeks have IA sed sn c the
exhi.i ioa she shows no evidences at re-
very aud il ftalcl that lit, mind is per-
manently ruined.
THE Iowa Pharmaceutical A ISOLATION, in
session al Davenport, elected The following
officers for the ensuing year; ]. H. Harrison
Of Davenport, rr, sideat; A. IL Miles, # lbs
Moinos, First Vice President, { H. Wallace
If Independence, Second Vice President,
DR. H. II. Mcbride, OF Mar.halltown, Third
Vice President, Emit J. Boencr, Permanent
Secretary; G. J. Lander, ii Mar midtown,
local Secretary; G. u. Ward IT Tcs Moines,
Treasurer; d. ". Rogg, al lbs No.nes, and
Gust Schiegel and join u. Ha!!nri, OF Day.