The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-06-21
IOWA STATE NEWS

INV N C1 Al NEVDs
Mrs HARroN Of Lyon county, lady 70
years old, has written ! 200 legibls words on
a single postal card
DAVENPORT fruit-dealcr received more
than he paid for. 1t was tarantula which
came North in bunch Of bananas
JOHN PINE, evidently intoxicated, fell from
freight train, ut Des Moines, whilo steal
ing ride His head was cut Of, and he was
otherwise mutilated
A Dies MONIES gentleman is the owner Of .
full-blood Arabian horse, snow-white and
perfect In form The animal is valued at
", 100, and has many admirers
WALTER SMITH, Of Pomeroy, has had .
three-inch darning needle removed from
his lett sido, which he drove into his alb
domen In falling down stairs fourteen ycarl
ago
THE Des Moines Grand Jury returned In
dictments for murder in the first degree
against w. A. Kline and Charles Wilcox, al
legged mnrderers OF Mayor Stubbs, Of Polk
City
FARMER namod Henry Sparks, of Tieds
Grove, Clinton county, has been adjudged
insane and sent to the asylum at lndepend-
ence He became discouraged over the
backward spring and other annoyanccs
JOHN SULLIVAN. one OF the New York or
phans imported into Lyon county, attempted
few days ago to rape the little 8 year old
daughter of J. J. Rush, ten miles north OF
Rock Rapids The boy is reported to have
been caught Mt Sibley
Sioux GTY Journal; Van Sam, Of Green,
went fishing His hook caught covered
tin pail which he had lost In the river sir
months before II had n,inrows for iait Id
1t when lost The same little fish were ii 1t
still, alive and somewhat larger.
Two YOUNG ladies of Amcs, while crossing
. railroad bridge few days ago, were so
frightened at the approach of train they
could not move. The engineer succeeded In
stopping his engine as the cow-catcher
touched the dress of one of the girls
ARTHUR B. GRAVES and Joseph +. Brown
have been elected Directors Of the Des
Monies and Fort Dodge railway The road
has been extended 56a miles, and grain and
cattle yards located at every station The
earnings were less than last year. but suffi-
Client to meet the interest on obligatory
bonds
A LITTLE girl. about 10 wears Of are, was
arrested at Des Moines for highway robbery.
A man was stopped on the street by another
little girl and asked for a nickel As lie was
about to give 1t to her and had his money In
hts hand, the other little eirl snat he'd 81
out OF bis hand and ran of with it. bat was
caught and taken before Justice McMartin,
where her examination will be held
THE female confidence sharp has made her
appearance. She successfully worked a
Mrs Bondson en- route II ON Denver to Sioux
City, day or two ago, at Council Bluffs
depot By means of n bogus check and a
presented bill of $50 to pay express charges
on some millinery goods, Mrs Bondson a,as
only too glad to accommodate her newly
found friend with loan for that amount
A SHORT time ago Secretary Bushnell, Of
the Des Moines Board of Ira lie, received
proposition from business man in an ad-
Joining State to furnish So 90 capital for
the establishment of wholesale dry goods
house In Des Moines provided another par
ty could be secured with an c tual amount
OF capital to Join him in the enterprise Mr.
Bushnell has secured the second party, and
. conference will be he'd between III I'm Mt
Chicago, when it is possible arran sements
will be perfected for the completion of this
enterprise
IL G. BEEMAN, q detective from New York,
arrested William c. Moore In Ben on town
chip, ten miles from Atlantic Moore was
President Of the Victor IN ~ bank. branch
Of the Rochester bank, with Mr.. Charles Up
ton as President Both backs closed the
same day. the Victor bank with sl:oooo de
posts and no assets while the Rochester
bank gave showing of s.Nn,to 90 deposits,
with but $4,000 assets Charles Upton's
trial comes of at an early date Moore and
his son George came to Atlantic three months
ago George bought q farm in the township
where they were living a, he time of his
fathers arrest
T Y. HARRISON. of Clarke county. has
Bible with history 1t was printed in 100
and in 1'a3 belonged to Joshua swank tan
ancestor of Mr.. Harrison,, who was then liv-
Ing in Eastern Kentucky In that year
party OF Indian s, led by simon Girty, were
prowling near. and one tlansilxed Mr.
6wank's body with his spear, who fell , the
ground with the open Bible ben, ath him,
the point of the spear cult ny from the
ninth chapter of Esther to the seventeenth
chapter of !. Samuel The Indian set his
foot on the Bible 10 pull out his spear, and
thirty years ago the prin, Of his bloody foot
could be seen Now il Is a dull rusty stain
Thus it is made priceless by the sacrifice of
his ancestor.
DAVENPORT Democrat: In the matter of
population Iowa is the tenth state in the
Onion, having within its borders June |,
1850, 1,6a4.6l5 persons II one takes the
aggregate population at each census since
l790 he will find a blank opposite the name
Of Iowa for every decade up to 1910. when
the State had a population Of 43.h rank
Ing it as the twenty ninth State in order q
magnitude of population In lsi0. with
with . population Of i,ala, 1t was twenti-
eth; In 1870. with lai ,oao 1t was the elcy enth
and In 1850, with l,6.4.6ls. 1t ranked tenth
The population OF Iowa cities and towns OF
|, 600 inhabitants and upward is rs follows:
Burlington. $3.50. .l9.4so Cedar Rapids. 10 loA
Clinton. .......... e,os2 Council hluls. .o63
Creston. ......... h.us Davenport. II 1871
Des Npincs ,4os Dubuque ....... q, 2s4
Fort Madison. $50. 4,67a Iowa City,. 1928
ke0kuk a. III Lyons ........... 4,095
Marshall ........ 6.aao Mascatin inc. s,295
Mount Pleasant. 4,tlO Ottnmwa. 9,OOa