Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
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A stock company Is TO build q creamery
Nt Dunlap.
Davenport spent S67, 500 on her public
schools duiiug 1882.
The small pcx quarantine ct Ida Grove
has been raised
Calculating from the new directory Bur-
l~ington claims 30 900 population.
IndianolS has raised the required stock
for a o%snoing company.
Maj, hsllto IN has determined to try the
electric Ugh. and will put in twenty lights
at once.
The recent fl ,ods at Webster carried off
two spans of the bridge there with q los
Of Sl5, 900.
1t Is laid that merchants of Eldora profit
s2S. 600 per year.
Msrshalltown's old jail has been torn
down. A new one will be commenced
Immediately.
Atlantic has offered the proposed nsw
railroad from Oskalooss SG0. 600, to make
that town q point on the road.
The Mt. Ayr colony which went to
Creighton, Neb., some time since end set
tied there, is In a Hourishing condition.
Keokuk saloon keepers have petitioned
the city council to take out the ", 0)O bond
clause from the new license ordinance.
Scott county, by o vote of 1,051 to 140,
decided to build o new poor house, to take
the place of the one thst burned recently.
The Peck line of upper Missouri steam.
boats are undergoing repairs at Sioux City
preparatory to the opening OF the season.
Waterloo has received three pieces of
artillery and four cannon balls with which
to decorate the graves OF soldiers buried
there.
Dubuque Is about to adopt the sewer
system OF Memphis and Des Moines has
already adopted an e~xtravagant system Of
expenditure.
The suit Of a Marcus saloon keeper
against the city marshal for destroying his
stock Of goods has been settled by the mar
shall paying $50.
Peddlers of poor clothing arc again
search Of suckers. They will doubtless
find them.
The Oskaloosa packing house has shut
down after killing II SOL hogs. for which
$500, 0O0 was paid. The labor bills
amounted t, SIG. 900.
The Milwaukee railroad il preparing to
| sink an artesian we'll at Perry. If the In
dertaking is succ sssful the company will
Fay $40. 900 for it,
Keokuk thinks Il hos in sight o govern.
ment dry dock to cost when completed
$3.50. eco. An Introductory appropriation
of $50, 0G0 is assured.
Business at Vail, Crawford county, has
been very good for some time past. From
$50 to 200 loads of grain are brought into
the town daily.
Quails will be scarce in the state If the
report prove true that whole coveys have
been found frozen in places where they
sought shelter.
The Eagle iron works at Des Moines has
been sued by a Vermont man foe 5000 )O,
damages for the infringement of n patent
for making barbed wire invented by him.
The Folk county treasurer paid out
SAC. 511. IL during 1882. This includes
S140, 995 90 collected for Des Moines and
turned over to the city treasurer.
Dubuque Telegraph, Is. While /. is true
that the funded debt Of the city Is about
$500, 900 and the floating debt about 500,
OcO, It is not the fact that the municipality
is bankrupt.
A rumor has been received at Mt. Ayr to
the effect that w. B. Starke of that place,
and six other Iowa men, were recently
frozen to death In Sweetwater Valley il
Wyoming.
Keokuk Germans held o meeting on The
10th, at which it was resolved tn It money
collected would be sent to sufferers from
the Ohio food rather than to victims Of
the Rhine inundation.
Cedar county has just occupied its new
poor house which cost 81, 1862. 40. It wa
also constructed with special reference Il
the nerves of insane patients.
The 200, 600 pounds of government mea'
for the Standing Rock agency is beini
shipped from Sioux City. The meat wa
all bought in Sioux City.
1t Is stated by some politicians in th,
state that the fusion of the prohibition anc
greenback parties will give q united vote o
10000 in the coming spring election.
A prominent capitalist of Des Moines i
contemplating the erection of $l00,0 0'
opera house. 1t will probably be buil
during the coming season.
The police of Creston have raided
poker room run by o man named j. b
Wise. The csse will be tried in o iustic
court and determined whether the gam,
will be tolerated.
At the meeting of the State Butter ant
Cheese association ct Msrshalltown 1t wa
stated that there were 1000, 600 cows Il
Iowa and that there had beed paid out Is
milk and cream during the past
900, 600. $50,
An ARRAY occySycSsh;sh Exirs, a Aus %
county, ls;s 6sS m (Which Rs sir% strshi, i tn
I<.LsI~ t,,aI m uhotur,p into q pr0u
and they, returning the fire, killed Strah
G.. G. Everett, the Dickinson count
teacher who was arrested on charge
threatening to use o revolver to subdue r.
! fractory pupils, has been examined ar
I discharged, the evidence showing thath
,, was being violently assaulted by the byf
Al The Lee county grand jury, aftS Il
\ spee.ing the county, poor house, rapos.s
!. 1--WE think that such q tumble otunior
tunate poor and decrepit, with the lnnauss
with their filthy habits and envdoptien
of foul air, ia q disgrace to the codpy' an
ought to be abated."
A A recent scene in . country church nea
I YIN aOd; aasc,oseTfh The preacher was in b
sh;rt sissvss, the religion. portion Of til
a con.resation were on their feet shoutin
sHafleluj ah," the country beaux an
girls were flirting in the rear pew
. while the hard young men were ha'
4 ing a game of five cent ante up in OF
4 corner.
a The Cedar Rapids mail robber has bee
caught, and the money, $3.50, re'overe
; He was o hickman of the town nans
Flemmipg b. Lewis. The case vi
y worked up by Special Agent Bears.
Peru. Ind, and j.. ID. King, Of Wisco
sin, Lewis says that he found the reg
tered sack on the baggage truck in t
baggage room, cut it open, threw. t
rssStered letters into his hack and dro
off. He had spent but $50 Of the none
One Iowa woman a. least Is not afraid
say what she wants. Listen to what 81
says: Husband dead a year ago; Apy,ge
tleman feeling inclined to fill the sacant
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