Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-07
IOWA ITEMS.
Calhoun county has no debt.

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Wednesday evening.
The cherry trees about Muscstine were
In bloom on the 2Sth ult.
Grinnell Catholics are intending TO erect
q $50, geo church this summer.
The general report is that spring wheat
never before came up so rapidly after SOW.
ing.
An Illinois man was con6denced out Of
all the money he had, in Burlington, q few
days ago.
The Charlton postofic e has been regis.
tered on the list Of internationa money or
der %ofices.
Milford, Dickinson county, which Is only
six months old. already has q population
of 80 inhabitants.
A mammoth stock yard, covering thir.
teen acres, is being made In Sanborn in
order to facilitate cattle shipments.
A small pox patient named Wilson
arrived IN Darlington from st. Louis re-
ceutly M WAS promptly ~qusrantined.
The city council of lie Mars has ad.
vsnoed the saloan lie spse from $3.50 to
$3.50, and placed the pool table license ut
1926.
The shores Of Brewers lake, Woodbury.
COuuty, are TtpOTItu 10 De iIUtu WIN ubhu
fish. 1t is thoupht they were smothered to
death during the winter.
The Iowa firemen will hold their annual
tournament at Waterloo on the 18th to
the 18th of June next. Prizes amounting
to nearly SO 0 are offered,
A man named Morgan. living near Vii.
lisca, shot u fine specimen OF the gray eagle
species on his place recently. 1t meas.
ursd over z feet from tip tip of the
wings.
The saloon he pers OF Clinton, on hear.
iug of the reatfirming { the decision on
the prohibitury amendment case, have de-
cidei not to fight the license ordnance in
tn 1t town.
A farmer named John Kettleson, living
near Walnut, Pottawsttsmie county, was
shot twice by Mrs. Coulter, of TIA town.
She claims that he had mase indecent pro.
posals to her.
Dubuque will be the banner county in
the democratic state convention at Des
Moines next month, it sending thirty dele.
gates, Only fifteen counties will have q
vote 9. c,eding ten.
MIR. Black, o veterinary surgeon living
on Walnut creek, Csss county, came near
passing Ia his checks last Friday night by
ulleIahluS JluCbure VI bCOultt lOF tuhL OI
sssafp:ida, and swallowing o dose.
The damage to apple trees in Iowa Ia
said to be greater than was first reported.
The trees in the northern portion of the
state were damaged less than those in the
central part, because they were of hardy
varieties.
Mills county has just lost . suit in the
supreme court Of the United States. II
| .,ht,k IA ,ara .@.A, a-l all ON mn IT.,
suit was occasioned by @ land grant made
by the county to the Burlington & Mis-
souri, river railroad company.
Mr.. G. Fl. Ragsdsle, of The Charlton
} Patriot, has purchased The LsMars Sen
two papers under the name of the LeMsrl
Sentinel. 1t is said he will publish it IL
the interests Of the republican party.
There were three small firep, all believed
. to be incepdiary, in Burlington last Sun
day night. Among other property burnec
| was a hose house. The hose cart ont
I horse were barely saved. The water pres
sure in the hydrsnts was not sufficient t.
. send q ueeful stream.
' At Clinton on the lat, thirty saloon
I keepers took out saloon licenses at $50
each, cash in advance, thus putting int
@ the city treasury an even 8 1000. Twenty
thres other saloon.heepers who did no
, come to time had their places locked up b.
. order of the mayor.
, Capt, Broderick, o detective employe
u by the Milwaukee company, confidenced
confidence man at Dubuque the other day
n The two were to work the Milwaukee pas
q sepger trains, and when the crook was II
o teresting a passenger at the depot his pal
. the detective, arrested him.
h The Brighton Enterprise proposes t
form a new county out f the four soutl
ern townships OF Washington county, til
c four northern Townships of Jefferson cour
ty With Jackson and Richard township
in Keokuk county and Jefferson and War
% from Henry, Brighton to be the count
> seat.
n A shameless trick has been played /
y somebody. An advertisement appeared
. some eastern paper calling for $50 lahore
to go to DIS Mnines and work for Sl.75
% day. Quite a number, it is said, are no
1t in Des Moines to take the job. but they cf
not find any such firm as advertised in Il
eastern papers.
Ed. Shamp, q telegraph operator at Me
10, while on q drunk recently, stole a qua
tity Of stamps from that place, but r
turned them after he had sobered up. T
d was artesteu ny Onlteu oGates Depu
: Marshal McCrary and arrsigned befo
United States Commissioner Key, wi
! bound him over in $500 bonds to await Il
! action of the grand jury.
The body of Paul Stellar, a Bohemia
l was found In the Cedar river six miles /
l low Cedar Rapids on the morning of t
20 10Th ult. There was o cut scross the thro
and indications of foul play lead many
9 think he was murdered for his none
6 having been known to have had $500 n
8 long before he was missing. The theory
2 suicide in maintained by Others, ss 1t Is
l ported his wife. who has been in st. Lo,
2 for some time, was said to have taken
- money with her.
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