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SEPTEMBER - VIII be TIA SeseE5 ttas III
jefferson county.
TIE Iowa Uniyersalist conycn ion vii
meet in Dubuque Sept - and =.
l. J. sraGf; Of ;siblcy, has received back
pension to the amount OF al,:Oo
Coop authority says the tiniber acreage OF
Iowa has doubled in the pas thirty years
THrsE are five candidates In the field for
the appointment OF postmaster at Odeboit
TIE American Bible Society expects To
distribute 1000 Bibles in Iowa this year.
Tnr late Mrs Finley, of Dubuque, be-
aucathcd $1,000 to the Finley Hospital in
that city.
ThE ,ostolicc a. Pleasantsile issued 1tH
postal notes on the day the system went
into operation.
JyD l. WARISG, of Carroll, claims to be
the Youngest master Mason in the State. Hc
Is Il years and months old
THE Mayor OF Les Moines refuse to
license street games of chance or gambling
i'll the city during the State Fair
A CHURCH made entirely Of ilowois was one
OF the many curious objects Of interest at
the Davenport lair, held recently.
Loup complaints are heard from the farm
crs who planted Nebraska seed this year. 1t
grows well. but does not riIen.
An elephant got away from circus cx-
hibition ut Carroll and did considerable
damage to propcrt, before he was cap-
tu,cd
TIE Latter Day Saints of Western Iowa
will hold their union meeting at Persia this
year, commencing on sept, - and continu-
ing one week.
SITTING Bull and his red brethren did not
attend the state fair ut Davenport HIS
Majesty got hunpy about something or
other and would not come.
H. ]. LANG, OF Lime creek. Cerro Gordo
county. got 1870 bushels of oats from
twenty-eight acres, . little over seventy
bushels to the acre.
THE pastor or the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church of Iowa City received the
nrincely compensation of 81 50 for his ser
vices during the conference year just closed
THE sensitive audience at the State Fair
objected to Miss Burke's riding in male
attire in the running race. and she was
obliged to change her costume before the
start
The tax-list Is now the order of the day in
the county papers. They are generally
shorter than usual, which is an indication
that the times are not SO terribly hard
after all
The ariver Of brewery wagon at Mason
City collected $50, tied his team in the
brush and lit out. He was captured, how
ever. and now reflects on the way Of the
transgressor in jail
j The family OF Chris Maloney, Of Wood
! bury county, while on the way to Sioux City
to church. were thrown from the wagon at
Big Sioux bridge, and Mrs. Maloney danger
Ously injured
WILLIE pELI, 20 years old, living ut Sibley,
/ .tepped on rusty nail. The sore healed
| apparently but ten days after there were
| symptoms Of lockjaw. 4 physician was
/ called, but the case was hopeless
TIE Herdics were introduced in Des
Moines with flourish and trumpet, by
i procession Of ten coaches, headed by the
Mayor and proprietor in buggy, and o
sixteen seat Hcrdic in which q brass band
played its merry melodies to attract and
distract public attention
A MAN was put off from q train on the
Northwestern road ut Denison for refusing
to pay his fare lie appeared to be drunk
and quarrelsome, and was placed in JAIL
supper consisting Of bread and beefsteak
was given him, and he began to eat as
though he had been starving. He ate SO fast
that piece of meat stuck in his windpiple
and choked him to death.
TIE College of Universalist ministers OF
Iowa will meet in Dubuque Sept Is and 10,
and the State Convention on the 10Th and
ast inst. Rev. DR.. Rexford. of Detroit:
Rev. DR. Demarest, General Secretary of the
| General Conventions; Rev. DR.. Hanson,
editor of the Star and corenant; Rcvs
Grow, Cooper and Dennis, Of Illinois, will bo
among the clergymen present beside those
in the State.
ANOTHER Of Dubuquc's pioneers. In the
person of John Simplot, passed away ut
Dubuque. Deceased was born in France
seventy five years ago, and came to this
country in 1885, engaging in trade. For
some years past he has lived retired life in
the enjoyment of Q competence. He was
highly esteemed by everybody in Dubuque.
Four children survive him, and he leaves
considerable property.
Two women did the female population Of
Davenport up in good style. They can
yassed the town in the pretended interest Of
Chicago hair establishment by the low
priced inducements offered, number OF
ladies were prevailed upon to part with their
bangs, switches and loose hair, and the gay
women deceivers and confidence operators
; secured hair treasures valued ut from siG0
: to s5o1
FIRE at Lyons burned A. Armstrong;
fiour-mill, which had been newly reftted;
loss $500; insurance. $500 It also burned
two-story frame owned and occupied. by
Nick krausc's harness shop below and a
dwelling above. Loss, 500; insured for
500 Also, q new barn filled with hay, hack
of the mill Loss, S5a0-not insured. Also,
dwelling near the mill, owned by G. d.
Wohlenberg, occupied by Mr. Klindt, en-
, gineer Loss, sso0-not insured The total
!. loss is about $4,000.
/ SPIRIT LAKE had a sensational cutting
I aifray married employee ut the Hotel
! Orleans got mashed on one of the waiter
girls, to which his wife objected Tie girl
was discharged, but her paramour paid her
! board at a hotel at Spirit Lake, which com
ing to his wifc's notice, she called on the
girl and urged her to leave, which she a,
first promised to do. but she afteiward said
she had as good right to the man as his
! wife had, when the angry woman drew a
razor and cut her severely on the cheek and
: hand
, AFTER q two-days session the Coroner's
Jury at Council Bluffs arrived at a verde.
as to the responsibility for the railroad acci-
dent ut Crescent station. by which Engineer
John Mabin and Conductor Wesley Mum, oi
a Northwestern freight train lost their lives
The train ran through an onen switch ut th.