Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-09
IOWA TIMES.

Dss Moines wants the council to take
steps toward getting a street sweeper.
Citizens of lie Mars invest ed Ss5, 900 in
Dakota town lots in one day last week.
The waverly canning factory Is makiaS
extensive preparations for this seasons
work.
The mission Sunday school Of the NJ. L.
church at Sioux City was organized last
Sunday.
For some mysterious reason the number
of lawyers Ia Mills county is rapidly de.
creasing.
Judge Hayes Is announced as q candi.
date for supreme judge on the democratic
ticket.
The Muse ,tine and the Sta, coal
companies, of What Cheer, have consoli.
dated.
Storm Lake and Sioux City, which are
twenty miles apart, are now connected by
telephone.
The semi.centennial celebration Of the
settlement Of Iowa will be held at Bur.
lington June LIST.
DR.. Evans, Of Iowa Falls, has invented
best in the market.
Britt lots are all In o mix because the
original survey was a rod out Of line A
resurvey Is being made.
The republican papers Of Pottawatta.
mic county are supporting Hon. B. +.
Clayton for state senator.
1t is said that Henderson, of Cellar Rap.
i'd, will be q candid ate for the democratic
nomination for governor.
Newspapers all over the state are urging
the people to take steps toward the proper
observance of Decoration day.
McGregor lumber men claim that the
Milwaukee company discriminates against
the town in rates on lumber.
Sioux City has organized q base ball
club and proposes to warm" ths clubs of
neighboring towns this summer.
The pharm4 cists of Iowa, at their recent
convention in Davenport, recommended
the adoption of a state license law.
A horse car barn and adjacent buildings
to the value If $25, 600 were burned at
Burlington en- Thursday morning.
Citizens of OttumwA have subscribed
$40, 000 stock in the cutlery company, and
that industry will net remove to Keokuk.
The jswelry box heats are working the
country around Sibiey. A number OF
agriculturists have tnken $40 worth of
agency.
Thirty thousand dollars have been be.
queathed for the establishment of a female
seminary Of the Episcopal church of
Iowa.
TIE butter shipments from Manchester
those of the corresponding month In 1883
by 10. 000 pounds.
Sac county democrats hold their conven.
tion on the 25th to select delegates to the
state convention, which meets at Det
Moines June 9Th.
The Burlington Hawkeye thinks II
would be a good idea fer the nihilists tc
import our cyclones to Russia to uie in
stead of dynamite.
A game of base ball at Des Moines las,
Friday, between the Quincy and Dst
| Moines clubs, lie ,ulted In q victory for the
former by q score of 4 to 2.
The Marion County Reporter wants t.
see this beaten: Mrs. j. s. Cunningham
made two pounds of butter from one day
milking from a jersey COW last week.
Rev. w. M. Brooks, president of Tabo
college, recently returned from New Eng
land, where he secured S15, 600 to add tt
the endowment fund Of that institution.
Mrs. Mabel Cannon, Of Ottumwa,
lady rs years old, has Received $1,000 bscl
pension, given on account Of the death o
her son, her only support, in the army.
Anton Busrger, deceased, was q Burline
ton drsyman. His heirs are dividing
800. 900 property, part Of which is the 10
and building occupied by The Burlingto
Gazette.
A hired man named W. A. Robinson
living near Brooklyn and lsboring unde
the delusion thst he had consumption, r,
Gently committed suicide by shooting hin
self.
james Cousins, postmaster at Worth
ington, has been arrested on q charge c
criminal negligence retaining register re
letters longer than was necessary AN
held in 81, 200 bonds.
Bedford deals with the lisuor questic
in its OWE way. A license of 81, 100, 4
games Of any kind in the same building
clo'e up at u o'clock, and only two chai
are allowed In each saloon.
Mrs. Frank Davey has entered suit
the circuit court Of hmmet county, again
three saloon keepers for selling liquor
her husband. The claim is for $500
against each Of the defendants.
A convention Of the state temperate
organization is expected to be called
once TO determine what action they wi
take in view of the re.afiirmance Of IL
decision Of the supreme court.
A barn, the main part 200x200 feet, Wi
/ . 5Ox5O foot 81" at each Of the corner
, is t. be built on the Cook ranch ne
Odebolt. The Observer rays 1t will
, , the largest barn in Iowa, If not in Il
, world.
The Home Life and Centennial Mutu
Life associations, Of Burlington, who
certificates we're recently revoked by Sta
Auditor Brown, will bring the matter In
court to ascertain whether the auditor b
acted within his authority.
| Two houses were struck by lightning
| Clinton last week. One had a lightnil
rod, but the lightning left the rod half W
= down and went into the house, tearing
I hole in one of the walls.
The town Of Holstein, Ida county, v
ted on the matter OF Incorporating one d
D., last week. The judges decided the que
tlon carried, but there will be o cJnta
asst IS claimed there we're some irregult
y tiles in the election.
2 A blacksmith, name not known,
a Bingham township, Hancock county, "
leaning carelessly on the muzzle of
gun while he watched some boys pitchi
g horse shoes. A shoe struck the sun a
a the blacksmith is no more.
? Des Moine4 citizens are being boycott
by the lOl s~alOonists of that town for p
curing the passage of the 81, 900 license
a dinance. Not a drink Is to be had owe
bar in the city. Who can hold out {
longest remains to be seen.
IA By q late decision Of the supreme col
a county ia liable for all injuries sustain
=, by its bridges falling down and killing
l. doing other mischief, when the def,
could have been known by the exercise
p ordinary care on the part of the cour
4 officials.