The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
IOWA STATE NEWS.

TIN biennial reunion OF tho Thfrty-third
Iowa Infantry will DO held ut Mason City.
Sept. II and IL
A PURSE OF 1850 has already been given
to Mrs Maddy, whose husband was Killed by
one Of the Polk City murdcrers.
THE Iowa Prisoners Of War Association
viii meet In Dcs Moines Sept 3 to discuss
the best means Of getting pensions
IT Il said that the professional gamblers
arc abandoning Davenport because tho
bucket-shops gather In oil the loose
change
II Is estimated that the total number of
swine In Iowa this year is about ls5.OOo less
than last The approximate total this year
is 1865 900
A GRADUATE OF tho State University has
made $50 since commencement by selling
a .shirt chart Such are some Of the ad-
vantagss OF college education.
The boiler In Aliens laundry at Des Moincs
blew itself into tho recitation room OF tho
Iowa Law School No one was hurt but tho
engineer, who was burned on the arms and
face.
LEONARD BRowN, noted eccentric Of Polk
City, was showercd with eggs for expressing
the opinion that the law should have been
allowed to take it's course In the case Of tho
murderer Hardy.
A YOUNG lady Of - years, living In Council
Bluffs attempted suicide. Shc seemed de-
spondent, and while ayoung gentleman was
calling she went to her trunk and came back
eating something. After n little while hc
asked her what 1t was, and she replied:
"Sugar Of lead. / am tired OF life and
going to leave it.
An Ida Grove dispatch states that men
and teams are now at work clearing and
breaking the ground for the new 90, Geo
Court House there. The contract calls for
the completion Of the building by Jan
], 1884, When completed 1t will be one Of
the finest Court Houses in Northwestern
Iowa
JoHS W CHURCH gave himself up to the
Council Bluffs police with the story that he
was a heavy defaulter in his old home In
Coel county, ". Va The police wrote to
the Sheriff Of Coel county. and were an
swered that Church was well known, but
was not q defaulter. It is thought that
Church is out of his head
A MALIGNANT epidemic has broken ont
among the cattle and horses in the region
OF Council Blutfs Tho first indication is an
Irritation of the stomach, followed by tho
swelling Of the bowels, the animals often
dropping dead within two hours \ farmer
named George Tredford died from poison
communicated Ly skinning cow. The
symptoms are said to be unlike an, thing
hitherto developed among live stock in that
4 vicinity.
TIE cattle in the region about six miles
southwest of Missouri Valley are dying with
some apparently not well understood dis
eased Several have suddenly died and large
/ numbers of others are expected 10 die.
Strange, but true, while one Of the animals
was being skinned the man performing tho
work cut his hand and was inoculated with,
1t is supposed. tho same disease, and lived
but short time.
/ ABOUT year ago William Prast, Du-
bulue boy employed on the Illinois Gen.
trail, received hurt In the arm. Williams
father. though Il man of ample means, re-
fused to care for his injured son and left
him to the charity OF friends first. and alter
ward Of the sisters Hospital The young
man died recently. and tho unnatural
father refused to allow him to 10 buried IN
the family lot in the cemetery. The rail
road men in town clipped in enoughto give
him a decent burial
AMAS claiming to be from Des Moincs
appeared near Lincoln, Polk count. and
.eprescnted that he was looking for horse.
thief He stayed all night near Lincoln,
And the next day. at o'clock, called ut tho
house Of John Quintance and showed a
bogus subpoena for Reheec1, the l4-year-old
daughter. The father was not a. home. and
Rebecca was taken i'll the buggy ani driven
of toward Des Moines Cn tho road the
father was met and endeavored to stop the
team. but pistol at his head and thrt ats t,
kill him compelled him to retire 81
frightened that he has done noshiag snce.
Parties from Lincoln are In the city endsav
oring to ind the girl. and IL the man !
caught there promises TO be short work.
ONE OF the men who assisted in tho lynch.
ing Of Hardy, the Polk county murderer, has
written u letter in which he takes cSeep-
tious to the tone Of most of the State rfess
n commenting upon the recent lynchin :,
and says: sThe men who felt called uper
to take the law in their own hands in thi,
particular case We're OF tho hest
most highly esteemed citizens .
Audubon, Cass AMI shelby counties
men who would not have Lakel
the first step had they believed for mo
ment that, under our present laws, saffi
cient evidence could have been produced
with the dying declaration of Crawford t
the contrary, to have made sure Of th
Judges sentence to hang after verdict Q
J murder in the first degree"
DAVENPORT Democrat: I'm nayenpor
, there lives the oldest woman, heiiesc i
Iowa. said ex- Alderman james Cunningham
to Utaeefat reporter Mrs Mary ken
navy, who lives with her son Martin At No
$40 Judson street. is fully Ito years old sh'
was born in County Mayo. Ireland In rs
, at the time of the Irish rebellion, she was
: full ll-grown young woman; and you know
girls do not develop So soon Ii Ireland
they do In America She remembers a
/ about the excitement in her country well
0 and used to tell her sons about IL when the
were boysa The family came to the Inite,
0 States forty years ago. Mrs Kennavy can
$ not talk word OF English, but can u'.del
$ stand It. She speaks Irish entirely. She
: small, but so strong that she walks To -
) Marys Church once a month for confession
: Father Elayin understands her languag,
The distance il more than two miles sh
J hears well, and her sight il estraofdnar
y for one Of her age She has two sons III II,
city She bids fair to live several years 20
d LuSATIes are generally more fiy than som
: persons This proposition was verified
$ Sioux Falls. G. L Getchell, Sheriff of Trai
o county, arrived in the city with Chris sAe.
berd. subject for the insane asylum
Yankton Being obliged 10 remain ay,