The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-05
IOWA STATE ITEMS.

just lO0 days the season now pnst
:oHN HoLEc, . Bohemian Of Cedar Rapids,
dropped dead while duck hunting
HENRY cIAr DEAN Is receiving good audi
ences to his lecture on his tour throughout
Iowa
Ex-Gov kmKw,op Is lecturing In the diffcrt
ent towns OF the state on Education, Wha-
Is Its"
spInlr LAKE, Dickinson county, will issae
bonds to the amount OF $4,000 for new
school house.
EoME Sioux city sportsmen went out day
or 10 ago and killed fifteen Canadian geese
In : few hours.
THE original old settler IL Joseph p. Mr..
gan, Of Eagle Grove, who was born In Wa'es
lo6 years ago
The next annual session of the Des Moines
Conference OF the n E. church will be he'd
In Clarinda in September
DuDuouE citizens have presented Herman
+. Strauss. the hero OF the Newhall House
disaster, with costly gold medal
EuaKNE GEAR, nephew of ex-Gov. Gear.
was drowned while crossing creek on the
ice at Gordon's Ferry, Clinton county
KNoxynIE ladies' held fair, the proceeds
Of which were to 70 to buying uniforms fer
the Knights Of Pythias and realized $40
The Mississippi river Is open at Dubuque.
and railroad transportation boats are ferry
ing cars across to the Nebraska shore and re-
turn
THE Grundy Center Argus rer orts a case OF
wholesale poisoning in three families from
eating rcd candy. There were no fatal 70
suits
GEO. b. MURRAogTcN, q c-year old boy of
Fremont county, near Mcpaul. was burned
to death, his clothes taking fire fr, m sta ks
he was burning In the feld
Cor. HEPBURN, member of Con- ess from
the Eighth district, will devote the vacation,
until the convening Of Congress in Deccm-
Der, TO the practice Of his profession
| ESocn BRADSHAW, who is wanted in Nebras-
ka on the charge or murder, was arrested
in Council Bluffs The Chief of Police ex-
poets the $500 reward offered for the man.
OLE ANDERSON while out duck hunting.
went through the ice into the Mississippi .
few miles above Dubuque. The friends who
saw him were unable to reach him with
boats
THE Dubu luc fishermen arrested on the
Wisconsin side for fishing were acquitted.
The court held that the Badger law a. pied
only to inland waite and not TO tie Mssis
sippL
THE grounds for the new Government
were paid for recently. costing the United
States sls,tM Work will soon be CON
| menced
FRANK HATToN was robbed on the sleeping
/ car between Washington City and New York
last week, Of his watch and money. while
sleeping in Pullman berth, making loss
/ Of 500 in all
1HE shoot between Bogardns and DR. Car
yer at Council Bluffs was . tic, each man
breaking ninety six out OF 100 terra Gotta
birds In match at Davenport. DR.. Carver
broke ninety five. to Bogardus' eighty eight
GEN B. NJ PRENTIss, one of the most gal.
liant soldiers in the Union army. and an ora
tor Of rare ability. il lecturing in the south
western part Of the State on the wants of
the Day." Gen. Prcntiss lives ut Quincy, Ill
CREsroN's saloon license Ia el COO. Ottumwa,
si.ooo: oskaloosa, s6oo and bond that no
whisky shall be sold; Burlington s4oo: k,o-
kuk. 600; Cedar Rapids, eco, nav II. OF
sao; Council Bluffs, ssco; Mar.ngo. slsc:
Dubuque. esa
dawn HEATuERMAN, . wealthy citizen Of
Davenport. has been found in dcmeuted
condition in Philadelphia He had consid
erable sum OF money In his possession. and
his friends in Davenport were requested to
so to Philadelphia and take charge Of him,
HENRI BECKER, OF Key West. Dubuque
county, and his wife, aged respectively -
and .:i years. died within few hours ot
each other They had becn married fifty
years 1t is recorded that they had ottca
expressed the wish that they night die ut
the same time.
GRANDMOTHER lSsERsoiI, Of Clear Lake. a
lady s. years of aye and nearly blind, died
lately from the effects of injuries received
from falling down the Gel ar stairs She
was apcnsioner az the war Of 1872. in which
her husband was engaged, and was the
daughter of soldier Of he Revolutionary
war.
The Hamburg RepNblican tavs that fam
lily near Randolph are suffering with TIC
awful effects Of trichinn. The physicians
say it is the result Of eating pork from
swine that at some time during its | fe was
diseased with hog cholera, end the meat Ind
not been sufficiently cooked to destroy the
life of the parasite.
Mrs WuIIANs of Dubuque, one OF the
clerks of Mr.. Hogbin, on Main street, recently
was the means of capturing thief who tried
to sell her an overcoat She said she woald
buy 1t and went out % the thief thought -
get change, but in reality to inform tho
police, who secured their man, who had be-
side the overcoat, stolen Mr. Hogbin's cole
watch in the absence OF Mira Williams
As THE east bound freight on the North
western road reached Woodbine from Coun-
Gil Bluffs, it struck switch and left the
track, killing George |. Smith, the engineer.
and brakeman, name unknown. and
severely scalded Fireman Len Montgomery.
1t is thought Montgomery will not recover.
: Fourteen freight cars went off the rail, six
} of them live stock, and many of the animal
were killed and wounded
In the matter OF the amendment heard a.
Council Bluffs, Judge Wright and John G.
; Bills. attorneys for the anti amendment side
made motion ia the court to strike the pc
. titlon for rehearing from the docket, which
,. was oyerruled, and motion To transfer Il
Dubuque was also oyerruled The court an
nounced the matter woald be transferred 4
the Davenport term, TO be opened and pos
itisely disposed II there The State Al
nounced its readiness to proceed with argu
!, ments, but the anti amendment attorney
claimed they We're not prepared The CAS-
therefore goes over 10 the Davenport term
CONGRESSMAN PusEy announces that thsr
= is vacancy in the Naval Academy from b
' Ninth district the applicant Icing require,
q to report ut the Academy On the Eth O
q Mas next An opportunity IL now ottere
' to the resident male youth & tic dtsiric. i,