Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-30
IOWA ITEMS.

The Ottumwa pillow factory employs
forty men.
A new court house Ia discussed by Audi.
bon county citizens.
The Catholics of Grinnell will erect Q
$780, 600 church this year.
The police of Des Moines run In nine.
teen gamblers on last Friday.
The capital stock of the Lyon county
bank has been increased to $50, 900.
Keokuk will try to get through with a
Is mill tax levy for city purposes this
year.
The Iowa pharmacists meet at Daven.
port April 20, A pharmacist Is O drug Q
o
There Is an active demand for Emmets.
burg town lots, and the town is having q
steady growth.
A carload of land seekers will start from
Leon early in May for the Northern Pa
ciic country.
The Capell Medicine company Of Des
Moines has been incorporated with u cap.
ital of $40. 100.
At Sanborn Q mammoth stock yard, to
cover thirteen acres, Is being made to fac
ilitate cattle shipments.
Paulson, Of Oorrectionville, Will build
q 81, 900 Touring mill at Lucky Valley II
citizens will put up half the money.
The Cedar Rapids and Marion street
railway company has issued bonds to the
amount of $4,000 on It's franchise.
The fish commission has stocked Eagle
lake, In Emmett county, with 10000
young whitetish and 5000 infant salmon
trout.
It cost 81, 1923 to supervise the building
OF the new Cass county court house. This
was about 10 per cent of the cost OF the
building.
Two additional cottages are to be added
to the plant Of tho state asylum for feeble
minded children at Glenwood, at Q cost of
$25, 1000.
The Dunlap Reporter estimates that
$50. 900 per month Is paid out for stock
within q radius Of twenty miles Of that
town.
Asslstsnt State Fish Commissioners
Mather estimates that 400 tons of fish have
been taken out of Lake Okoboji during
the winter.
The Iowa railroad land company offers
to donate two squares of city lots to Ls-
Mars for park purposes If the town will
improve the same.
The Old Settlers association OF Burling.
ton will take charge Of the semi-centen-
nisl celebration Of tho occupation of Iowa
by the whites in that city June l.
Penn township, in Madison county, will
have better roads, and its officers have or.
dered u carload Of thing which will be
used as . commencement in the improve.
ments.
James Cousins, postmaster at Worthing.
ton, vas arrested and taken to Dubuque
on Saturday to answer for retaining regis.
tered letters 10 his possession undelivered
for o month.
There was q bad FIRE at Newton on the
night of the 21st inst. Des Moines was tel.
ephoned for help, bat before it could be
sent word come that the fire was under
control. No particulars.
The academy Of sciences at Davenport
has q debt Of 81, 700 hanging over 1t. On
the evening Of the oath inst, q meeting
was helix at which 81, 200 of the amount
was subscribed by private citizens.
The Clinton saloonists who had banded
together to fight the license ordinance in
that town gave up the fight on hearing OF
the reattirmiug of the decision of the su.
preme court on the amendment. The
"oo.inB ooiiou w poftoCt OfBduiLhtiOu WAh
not held.
Des Moines is q hive Of industry. II
Possesses ele ZEN lines Of railway, a mum.
Der # large manufacturing establishments,
its retail and wholesale trade are large,
and eastern capital Is doing wonders there
Besides being the capital Of Iowa, Del
Moines has a commercial future which
no other city in the state seems able to
equal.
The Western, the Midland and the Cen
trial telephone companies were consolidated
at Davenport on Monday, and the Who'll,
goes under the direct control of the Bel
telephone company Of Bottom. The Iowa
IN exchange with headquarters at Daven
port and lines connecting ~neighborinl
towns. Is likely to go into the oo~nsolidAtsC
company.
In Cedar Rapids on the night Of the 90
Inst; Charles Frager, . blacksmith In tn
Burlington. Cedar Rapids and Northern
railway shops, became engaged In an alter
cation with Scott KushmAsh, an employ
OF the Star Wagon company, Ia . low dive
and during the drunken brAwl, FrAge
struck KushmAn on the head with . stici
inaictins injuries from which be died th