The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-26
IOWA STATE NEWS.

Ex-dov WILLIAM NJ. STONE has removed to
Colorado for a permanent homo.
TIE Charlton postofllce has boon regis
tered on tho list Of international money
order Offices
TIE bail Of q chicken thief IL $500. Of .
confidence man 600, a. fxcd by Dos
Moincs Judge
TIE electric light ut Fairfield has killed. =
great many ducks during the past two or
three weeks
A DOMINO tournament Ii to be hold In Du-
buquo. Several expert players have prom
ised to be present
DAVENPORT has eighty -ninc saloons licensed
at 800 each, and an unnumbcred throng
that are not licensed
Ex-dov AND ex-Congrcssman Walden, Of
ccntcrvillc. has built IN incubator, and win
go In for raising chickens on largo scale.
THERE were forty-two marriages, sixty
seven births and twcnty-seven deaths In
Clinton county during tho month OF March
THE Dubuque police have been discharged
en-massc M preparatory step to rcorgan-
ling the force The good ones will be re-
appointed.
LOVERS OF billiards at Dcs Moincs are try
Ing to arrange nh exhibition game, to be
played In that city by jacob Sehaefer and
some other wel-known expert
The shores Of Brewers lake, Woodbury.
county. ARE reported to be lined with dead
fish 1t is thought they were smothcred to
death during the winter
A A. MosllER, Superintendent Of tho State
fish hatchery at Spirit lake. has 100000
minnows ready TO distribute, and another
litter Of like number Is expected
JonS KE1TLEsoS a farmer near Walnut,
Pottawattamic county, was shot twice by .
Mira Coulter, Of that town lie Is said to
have made indecent proposals to her.
JonN HENRY PLuMER, who had resided In
Western Iowa for thirty one years, was bur
led last week, aged % years He was .
soldier under Butcher, who saved Wellington
at Waterloo.
Ar Correctionvillc, Dwight Edmunds, a
merchant, found his wife and Andy Hose,
another business man, under suspicious cir
cumstances, and shot Hose twice, inflicting
fatal wounds.
Pr. HAlPIS, lately elected Recorder Of
Dubuque, has sued tho Tunes, Of that city,
for q, 900 damages said to DO sustained In
an alleged libelous article printed In that
paper just before election.
THE damage TO apple trees in Iowa is said
to be greater than was first reported. The
trees in the northern portion Of tho State
were damaged less than those In the central
art, because they were Of hardy varieties
Mrs. H. REIPrREcirr, wife Of druggist Of
Dubuque, threw her daughter, 0 years Of
age. into deep well and jumped in herself
The woman is supposed to have been suffer-
ing from mclancholia at the time Of tho
occurrence.
A3-YEAR. OLD son Of Eliza Halfhill, Of Do
troit, Crawford county, was kicked by .
horse, from the effects OF which he died
His frontal bone was broken entirely across
the forehead. making cash from which the
brains exuded
THE Grand Jury Of Clinton county has
condemned the De Witt Jail because 1t Is In
secure as place Of confinement, unhealthy,
too small and on account Of the great ex-
pense Of conveying prisoners between 1t and
the county scat
THE report that Points, one Of tho partici-
pants In the brutal fight near Missouri Valley
week or two ago, was dead has been con-
tradicted 1t is said that both the parties in
that affair, though badly punished, arc in q
fair way to get well.
THE Clinton lodge Of the Knights Of Honor
has disbanded. 1t was a branch OF ma
tional organization and most Of the men,
Iers will unite with an Iowa organization Of
the same name The members had grown
weary of paying for death losses outside the
State.
CAPT BRoDERlcK, a detective employed by
the Milwaukee company, confidenced con-
fience man Mt Dubuque tho other day. The
two were to work the Milwaukee passenger
trains, and when the crook was interesting 4
passenger at the depot his pal, the detective,
arrested him.
The Carroll Herald comes up with . fish
story. 1t Is TO the effect that the hard win
ter in Iowa has killed nearly NIL the iish
Perhaps the finny tribes, assimilating them
selves to the ways Of humanity, have pooled
their issues, and the big fish are eating UP
the little ones
somebody An advertisement appeared In
some Eastern papers calling for 20 laborers
to go to Des Moines and work for 81. IS Z
day Quite number, II Is said, ara now In
Des Moines to take the job, but they can no,
find any such firm as advertised in the East.
en papers.
Ex-UNITEp STATES SENATOR GEORGE w
JONES. Of Dubuque. has just celebrated hi
10Th birthday. Aside from cold, the TIE
graph says, he il enjoying good health, and
will, In few days, start on a visit 10 the Hot
Springs after which he viii 60 to Missis
sippi to visit jefferson Davis who was In thu
Senate at the same time.
An eight foot vein Of coal has heon dis
covered near Whittemorc, in Northern Iowa
and the fact has created a great deal o.
pleasurable excitement II was found in ,
well forty feet from the surface The be
lief l. prevalent that the northern part q
this Stats is underlaid with coal, and tha
the finding and developing OF the mines ar,
only matters Of time.
TIE Postoilice Department has made tn,
following changes in Iowa offices: Estab
lished-IGordons Ferry. jackson county
Peter J. Zeim,t, Postmaster. Discon inued
-Boardman Story county; Peoria City, Poll
county Postmasters appointed-Conkiing
Audubon county, y p. Smith; Aanteno
shelby county, George Greenwood soidie
Valley, Harrison county, Mrs. Sarah Chase
A MAN in Humboldt county has put l6
words into the space occupied by nickel
H. has also put l.l5o words on the face OF
! postal sard. which contains LIS squar
inches lie has written the Lords rraye
on a space covered by one side Of an old
fashioned three cent piece and SAYS he ca
pat $40, letters upon one side of a posts
card with steel pen, without the aid OF