Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-31
IOWA ITEMS.

600 per year.
Charles City taxes its saloons $500 per
year under the new law.
The j fferson roller mills are running
night and day filling orders.
The Methodists Of Manchester will build
o $4,000 brick church this season.
A new brick depot building will DO put
up by the railroad company at Kellogg.
The treasu err of Marshall county took
in Sill, 5000 during the month OF Feb.
ruary.
A wealthy bachelor farmer Of Osceols
county committed suicide on the 10th OF
this month.
The contract for the iron and steel work
of tn Marshall county jail has been let
for $3.50.
A bed of coal four aud 8 half feet thick
Is being developed at Altoona, ten miles
east Of Dss Moines.
The Clinton county grand jury reports
that n new Jail is needed, and should be at
the county seat.
The Northwestern association Of Odd
Fellows will celebrate their Gath s%nniver.
sary at Cedar Rapids, April 26 to 30.
The Des Moines city council has nc I yet
granted the new street railway company
the franchise it asks.
The first meeting of the Iowa egg buy.
ers' association was held In the board OF
trade room at Cedar Rapids on the 22d
inst.
The expenditures Of Keokuk county { ,
the past three years have exceeded the In.
come by s12, 231 AZ.
Bob Harrison, the boy preacher, will be
one Of the attractions of Clear Lake during
the watering season.
The amount of sales of real estate In Pot.
tawattamie county for the week ending
March 81 was $56, e42.81.
While the journeymen tailors of Des
Moines are on . strike, the merchant tail.
ors send the material for garments tc
Chicago to be made up.
The oldest person living in Iowa Is sup.
posed to be Mrs. Madden. Of Plymouth
county, who |, now ITO years old.
Fish ere being caught and hauled away
from Spirit Lake by the wagon load anc
the people want 1t stepped.
Two Mormon elders were recently de
MED the use of pulpits in Dubuque IL
which to expound their doctrines.
The ech Dol board of Creston has decided
to erect two new school buildings. Boil
will be of brick and contain twelve room
each.
Des Moines has just put on a paid fir,
department. The chief gets $500 per year
the drivers $50, and the firemen S75 pei
month.
There is a probability of Cincinnati par
ties buying the idle glucose works at Des
Moines and converting them into a distil
lery.
A stock company has been formed q
Hlenwood to build a canning factory. 1
already, has q creamery, two fine hotels anc
a brick bank building.
It is rumored that q parry of surveyor,
sent out by the c., B. n Q railroad ar,
surveying u line irem Greenfield to Coun
ell Bluff via Atlantic.
The schools and churches of Harper
Keokuk county, are closed, owing to {
pre alence of scarlet fever. Seven DEATH
occurred in one family.
The old stone church on Locust street
Dubuque, now being torn down, was bull
more than forty years ago. AT one time Il
was used as q court house,
The Burlington city council has ordained
that wagon tires shall be three and q hal
inches wide. This Is to prevent the street
being cut up by narrow-tired wagons.
The little town of Bedford is believed {,
be the champion high license town in tn,
state, 81, 200 yer year being the figure. I
10 expected that three saloons will take on
licenses.
The Iowa and Mo ntana Live Stool
company Is the title Of q syndicate O
Spencer capitalists who have bandet
together to deal in Montana cattle. TIL
capital stock Is 500, 000.
The Des Moines gas company .afte
April LIST. will reduce the price Of gas frou
50 to 5 so per thousand cubic feet. TIL,
tariff on street lamps will be reduced from
$27 to 1926.
By a vote of 2,l4O out of $500 share
the Davenport gas company has amende
its articles of Incorporation 80 as to legal,
put up the necessary machinery for furu
ishing electric light.
An unknown woman was seen to jum
off the Mississippi river bridge at Dsver
port on the evening of the 25th inst an
after q short struggle to go down. He
identity is unknown.
Certain economical Des Moines citizen
want the paid fire department discharge,
and q volunteer one substituted. The OK
pense as 1t now stands Is only o little owe
$4,000 per year.
Des Moines has Just collected $l52, OOJ
Of city taxes, and the people are asking fo
strict economy in its expenditure, TIL
total amount will reach $3.50, 900, whic
the papers think Is enough to run the cit
government for q year.
The interior work of the new capitt
building at Des Moines will be complete
within the next three years. The hous
chamber is o magnificent room, muc
larger than that of the New York capitt
building.
Work has been commenced on the ne,
watec works at Newton. A very dee
well is being sunk, and q stone tower forty
hive feet high surmounted with q tan
twenty feet high is also q part of the work.
A Warren county farmer thinks he wi
lose at least one thousand apple trees b
the bursting of the bark, caused by the 8,
we're cold weather of the past winter
Complaints of the same kind are made /
different parts of the state.
The citizens committee has reported 1
the Des Moines council that the waite,
works company will not be ready to hay
the works tested until the frost Is out c
the ground. SO the water war at De
Moines will go on.
On the 26th at Creston the wife Of Hor
John McCaffery attempted suicide b
shooting herself In the side with O ~revolyeI
Mental alteration was the cause. Doubt
are entertained of her recovery.
The bill favored by leaders of the sta,
militia ra 'ses the state tax Ileyy from IL
of mill to II of q mill, raises the rank
officers, cuts down the enlistment tern
from five to three years, and otherwii
%softens the thing for the home guards.
Because Of the injunction restraining Il
Des Moines treasurer from paying out cit
mouey resolutions have been introduced |
the council to cut down the already me-
gre police force. shut off the gas, close tn
city library and hospital and curta,l tn