Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-16
IOWA ITEMS.

Fonda has placed its saloon licenses at
$500.
O'Brien county has $72, 900 of its school
fund loaned out.
The Audubon waterworks are satisfac-
tory to the citizens.
Dry murrain is creating a havoc among
cattle around jefferson,
Over $500, coo worth of ice has been cut
aud stored away at Des Moines.
The Reinback trustees have reduced the
saloon licenses from $500 to 500 per year.
Eleven men have frozen to death during
the winter whose death ID directly attri-
buted to whisky.
Oskaloosa and Ottumwa both furnish
citizens tickets for the approaching NUM-
cipsl election.
The gas tank at Independence caught
| FIRE last week and all of the wooden por-
ton OF it was consumed.
a,The Perry broom factory is now in full
running orGer, aud is turning out a super.
Tor quality of brooms.
Davenport will vote at the coming cleo.
tion on the question OF having German
taught in the public schools.
The man who was experimenting the
boring of the artesian well at dubuque has
proved q defaulter and has skipped.
The Touring mills in the Boone valley
are standing idle q good portion OF the
time, owing to a lack OF water power.
The snow blockade on the railroads in
the state has been broken, and rains are
now for the most part, running regularly.
Missouri Valley is to have an opera
house In the spring, which will be built by
a stock company at q cost of Sl4,OOO.
The thirteenth annual exhibition of the
Iowa state fair will begin at Des Moines,
August 81 and continues to September z.
The Western Laud and Loan association
with 9 duration of twenty years and q cap:
itsl stock of $500, coo, has been organized
at Clinton.
A collision of freight trains on the Rock
Island road at Des Moines, on Friday
morning, killed Frank Huntley and in.
jured three others.
Van Horne, on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad is q rapidly growing. town.
The business and dwelling houses all show
good taste and enterprise.
The Unitarian minister at Creston,
Rev. V. b. Cushing, has fallen from
grace, having been overcome by the seduc-
tive sour mash. He will be given q three
months furlough in order to brace up.
The prohibition enthusiasm at Cherokee
brought q large attendance in answer to
the call to consider the appointment OF a
delegate to the state convention. There
were three persons on hand-the chair
man, the seer etary and q reporter.
The saloon keepers of ottumwa are as
tenacious for high licenses as they were
formerly against 1t. There are only twen'
ty.one Of them, and they put up their
81. 900 each The high license has caused
the suspension of about twenty places.
The lows City board Of trade has re.
solved TO let her erect its OWL buildings
for care of its insane and refuse to pay
anything to the state institution or to
have its insane cared for by the state.
About fifteen inmates have been sent back
there by the state officers by reason OF the
insufficient accommodations for them.
Sheridan township, Cherokee county.
has had a sensation. A somewhat impe.
%eunious farmer bargained of his daughter
to q young and wealthy land owner, but
the girl eloped with q good looking wild.
over and married him. There's trouble
all around, but Just at present the bridal
couple appear to be holding the winning
hand.