The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-03-29
IOWA STATE NEWS.

towns throughout the State.
TnrHz aro u inmates In tho Deaf and
Dumb Asylum 1t Council Blui1A
DxNlnoN has contracted for the erection Of
waterworks, ct cost Of 5000
THE nrst church building erected in Sioux
City has burned to the ground
CENruvriE, heretofore . license town,
~ this year carried for prohibition
TIE Irish societies 1t Clinton had : grand
parade on Saturday, St patrick's day.
4 COUNCIL BLuYSs sporting man has re-
ceived six fox hounds from Pennsylvania
ATLANTIC has / 400 children who ought to
70 10 school, but nearly half Of them do not
TN spring meeting Of the Council Bluffs
DIVING Park Association win b held Nay
", q, ~ and 2A
Tm Woodbury. County Agricultural So
ciety viii be held at Sioux City, beginning
Sept II, and continuing four dayA
THE most extensive sblack. jack mine yet
discovered in the Dubuque lead region has
,ust been opened on Kelly's blum, In that
city.
COOK RAPIDS u not yet . year old, md
polled ct the March election 200 votcA Tho
town and surrounding country u on the
boom.
Tm premiums offered by the Des Moines
County Agricultural society for the coming
fair win aggregate es,ooo Last year the pre-
miums were $3.5o0
A PARTY OF Dubuque fishermen were ar
rested BY the Crawford county (WR| Sheriff
for netting fish In the Mississippi too near
the Badger State shore
DopoE McCLMTocx, ! young man who
lived near Cedar Rapids, was kicked on the
head By horse one day last week, and has
since died OF his injur1ea
A MnxEroxxA tLsnnesota) hotel man has
,eased the new hotel 1t Spirit Lake. The
house was built by the railroad company
and Ii modern in al it, details.
or the nine persons suffering from pulmo-
nary affections who went to California from
Fairfield, eight Of them died within year.
and the last one inmde Of eighteen months
rouH children living four miles north Of
FAIRFIELD were badly poisoned few days
since, BY eating castor beanA They were
taken with severe vomiting. One, girl Of
IL, died after lingering several days in great
agony.
Ma n q Dxxa1xc, Nsa 4 q Carpenter,
axA u. ?. Hepburn anA lfA b. n. Cooley
have ossn appointed Vice Presidents Of
Iowa Of the Garfield Hospital enterprise at
Washington.
soxxrurso more than year ago ex-Con-
Rressman rarwell, Of this State, with his
brother, put 81, ,o,O into the cattle business
in Montana. and recently they sold their In
terest for e45,oo0
6eologist Of Iowa, and who b now Curator
OF Falcon. ology In the National Museum, -
we'll q Geologist on the National Survey Of
the Territories, hes been appointed Palson-
tologist to the Empire Of Brazil
JoHs HsRnrN04oN was found dead in his
bed at his home in Dubuque one morning
last week. He had retired 1t his usual hour
the night previous In apparent rood health.
but complaining Of . toothache. No cause
Ia assigned for his death He was 80 years
old. and leaves wife and ak children in
destitute circumstances
A srocx-rRArN on the Chicago and NORTH
II 1
ditching eleven cars and instantly killing
George L Smith, the engineer, and O. W.
Nertx, brakeman, and seriously hurting the
nreman and other employees The accident
was caused by misplaced switch, which
was desdgncdly turned by malicious parties
AMAx named Holbrook was run over and
cut In twain by freight train ou the Nil
waukee road, neal Brownsville, few days
since The sheriff Of the county was on the
train 1t the time and Mt once ordered on In
quest, at which the fact was developed that
no one was at fault Holhrook was stealing
ride, and in some way fell between the
cara
A NAN BY the name Of James Hyland, who
lives ak miles southeast Of Gowric, in Daw-
con township, Greene county, il accused Of
foully numbering his wife, by choking and
kiokinw her to death Her lower limbs and
faoe were cut In gashes, and around her
throat the prints Of fingers were plainly dis
covered The bed ON which she lay was q
perfect mass Of blood, and the room bore
evidence Of desperate struggle The hus-
band and wife had parted, and Hyland ac-
ouses q neighbor named Bond of committing
the deed
JIM EIIIoTr, the pugilist killed by Jere
Dunn in Chicago, lived in Lyons about FOUR
teen years ago He was well known among
: the sporting men, and bore the reputation
Of being q hard character. The Clinton
Herald states that, @It was currently believed
Elliott, assisted by two others, held up and
/ robbed an old gentleman from Mt Vernon
st the Clinton depot in the fall Of 1865, foI
! which crime the two accomplices were con-
} victcd and sentenced to terms Of five years
} each at Fort Madison, Elliott succeeding tn
/ getting clear
A RECENT dispatch from Des Moines re
: ports: sMany farmers report their apple
{ orchards entirely killed by the cold winter
. Mr. r. p shivers, farmer living i've milel
( east OF this city, reports that his entire or
> chard OF 500 trees il . total loss This orcha<t
! d II years old and has always endured pre-
yious winters without any marked effec
: upon it The small fruit on his farm wa
also killed Several other farmers in th'
neighborhood have made the same damag
inC discovery. It Ii estimated that the los
VIII be over 2. GOO 600 bushels Of apples
= THE cane growers OF Iowa held . meetinl
at Des Moines. at which Prof s A. Knapp
= Chairman OF the Committee on Machiner,
and Apparatus, submitted the follow. ng re
z port FIrst-We do not deem II advisable Z
y purchase machinery and attempt the man
= ufacture OF sorghum unless IL Is intende,
!. TO devote time enough to the business Z
: become an expert seeond-For sma
i works with capacity CT less than loo ga
Ions Of sirup per day. the use OF steam-p pow
. er for grinding and cooking is Of doubtful
d propriety. II Is safer to commence VII
Ia simple and comparatively inexpensive ma
1T chinery Good sirup can be manufacture
1t at profit by the use of machinery costin
Al less than $500 When more than loo gallon
per day is to be manufactured We recon
TO mend steam power as the more economica
II With n two horse sirun. crusher and the fiji,