Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-06
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A fire company has been organized at
Spencer.
A sorghum sugar factory is proposed at
b lie Plsine.
There |, likely to be Q savings bank
started at LeMsrs.
The machinery has been bought for q
broom factory at Onswa.
The site for q $l2, 0tO school house has
been bought at Marshalltown.
A colony of Germsns direct from tie
old country have located near Denison.
TIE Clinton county grand jury has con-
demned the all at Dewitt rs unsafe and
unhealthy.
Davenport claims 300 new houses and
30 0 new inhabitants within the past
twelve months.
The government building at Dss Moines
i, to bs made four stories high and other
wife bettered $s5, 0)0 worth.
The state ayr cultural college ct Ames
h,s bought q 800 Jersey calf. Fred Bolt,
of Boone. was the lucky seller.
Ths city engineer of Dubuque says that
sewers on the Warning system can he put
in for 81 to S1.25 per lineal foot.
The Ottumwa police are arresting men
and boys who get on and fl moving trains.
1t is proposed to break up the practice.
The city library building at Creston will
cost about Sl5, 200. The Burlington rail-
road company assists the city to put up the
edifce.
An elevator with a capacity Of o quarter
of q million bushels is to be built at Bur
lington. 1t will load grain directly on to
Mississippi barses
The big grist mill at Independence. the
best in the state when it was built, has
been fitted up with new machinery and
started up again.
Not only the signal service off 60 but the
be abolished. The democrat of that city
wants to know If the postofioe also Is to
be taken.
Bishop Lee brings suit against Griswold
money advanced by the bishop to the col
lege. The courts o lien.
1t has been decided to remove all fem ,le
prisoners from the Fort Madison peniten'
tiary to Anamosa. and the first Install.
ment IF three were taken there by Chief
Clerk kutter6eld this morning.
The Hudson Press manufacturing som
pany of Fort Dodge has Q n a man tc
works will be bought, and contracts le,
for the buildings at once.
A firm In Des Moines sought to ct on,
an injunction restraining the telephone
company from putting up q pole In front
of their place of business. The circuit
court declined to grant the injunction.
Creston's saloon license is 81, 600, Ottum
Wa $1,000. Oskaloo,. 5000, Burlington
$500, Sioux City $500. Keokuk $500, Ceda1
Rapids $3.50. Davenport 5000 Council
Blnts $500 Marriage $3.50, Dubuque $75
and Marshalltown nothing.
Rock Rapids needs a tow mill, . pape
mill, a fire department, q liberal club or
ganiz alton, a brick yard, q coal mine, al
arte sian we'll for invalids, q pubic hall,
marble works, ETC., and by yon pale moor
she will have them, too.
The Dubuque Motor company has beer
re%organized, and promises q vigorous cam
paigp. This is the company that built
railway from Dubuque to the bluffs bacl
Of the business part If the town, the sam,
to be operated by dummy engines.
The German Methodists of LeMars wor
ship In the second story of o building
During the services. last Sunday eveninI
the fl ash of q rairie fire outside raised tn,
alarm Of fire, and only the prompt actor
OF q few cool.headed worshipers prevented
q disastrous panic.
The Wall Lake ma shal arrested som,
boys who were fighting. The mother o
one of the youngsters ard an attorney In
tercepted the marshal and his prisoners or
route t, the cooler. The attorney was 8,
emphatic in his a guments of o hate 8 cor
H,s motion that the marshal conducted
HIM before the mayor to answer the charge
of carrying concealed weapons.
A syndicate of the Cedar Rapids CAPT
talists has bought an interest in the Colder
Summit mine in the Back Hills. TIL,
mine is stocked for 81, 600, 900. The Re
publican Of that town says: The sharel
were put On the market at so cents each
with a prospect of being brought to par
value within q year."
Hon. John N. Dixon, of New Sharon
Mahaska county, says that 10, coo apple
trees in his orchard have been killed. 0nl,
the Willow Twig variety lived through
This hesays, was occasioDed by the warm
wet spell last fall, which started the sap il
October, and which was frozen between
the wood and bark early in December
Mr.. Dixon gays he has visited several O
the best orchards in the state, and founc
them in the same deplo-sble condition.
DR.. Shattuck, a clairavoyant of indie
peudence, was consulted by o Jesup maj
about some money which the latter haC
lost. The doctor described the porson VIII,
stole the money. The description fitted
girl who was suspected Of the theft. Thl
man who consulted told what the CLARA
voyant said, and the girl brought suit TO,
slauder. On trial evidence of the CLARA
voyant's power was ruled out. and the cir
got q verdict for damages. The law doe
not recognize the occult science.