Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12
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the hen roosts.
3. Muscatine is to have q new hotel with
seventy bedrooms.
The Wabash road is ready to build q
Union depot at Keokuk.
A large acreage Of prairie will be broken
up around Fonda this season.
Over fifty large business houses are now
under contract In Des Moines.
The coal struck at Fontanelle Is five
feet six inches thick and 800 feet deep.
The new city building in Des Moines has
cost $25. 687 20, and the end is not yet.
Boone will employ an engineer to take
levels and make estimates for waterworks.
A four days meeting of the ~trotting
circuit will begin at Cedar Rapids on
June Is.
Boring for coal was to begin Tuesday on
the farm of @. 2. Woodland, just east Of lie
Mars.
Peterson claims q Bethsada Of q mineral
spring, and anticipates = rush Of invalids
to the healing waters.
LAUNDERING on the Mississippi opens dull.
The river is low and many Of the sloughs
are still closed by ice.
Hoyt Sherman, of Des Moines stopped
the morse car track that was being built on
Sixth street, by an injunction.
There have been 115 new members I'D.
mite to the Methodist church at Mar.
shalltown, q fruit Of the late revival there.
A special train will run from Dakota
City and humboldt to Fort Dodge on the
18th inst, with an Odd Fellows exour.
sion.
At Harlop, on the afternoon of Mon.
day, q fire destroyed 81, 200 worth of in.
sured buildings, the property Of John
Coeman.
The city council Of S~igourney have fixed
their saloon license ct $500 for saloons In
The original plat Of Sigourney, and $50 for
saloons outside, under their Jurisdiction.
The Msquoketa city council has adver-
tissd for bids on the water works which
will be put in. The water will be pumped
into an S0.foot stand pipe situated on q
hill.
The new gas company which applies for
q franchise in Dss Moines offers to make
the outside limit so per thousand feet, and
burned by the city.
The Injunction that blocked the putting
in of wa.erworks at Webster City hal
| Dtou Ou'hehhcu anu WOTh Will bcRlu NJ
once. The contract has been let for the
well that will supply the water.
Twenty-Five buyers of eggs assembled II
Cedar Rapids on the 5sh to adopt a consti
tuition and bylaws for a state organization
! pprsu noe OF the plan of the late meet
ing held in that city.
Butter at Msnsan, Calhoun county, 1
quoted at only eight cents and q numbe,
of her merchants are out in q card t. tn
effect that they will no longer handle tina
article, AZ there il no money In it.
The Wsshburn & Mon barbed wir
MONOPOLY has brought suit against Hodge
4 Andrews, hardware merchants of Boone
claiming %, 900 damages because tn
Boone men sold Grinnell bsrbed wire.
The teachers of Harrison county will
hold al educational meeting In Dunlap
Saturday April IA. On Friday evenin
proceeding, Observation-Disclosures VonC DELI
will lecture in behalf of education, withou
charge.
Alex. Dardep, arrested for burglarizin
Bixford's store, at Selma, Lee county. hs
confessed. He rays that his brother, San
and brot%her.in-iaw, john w. johnson, OF
sisted, Officers are In pursuit Of the tw
last named. ~
The state board Of health report show
that during 1882 there were $40 marriage,
767 births u 1856 deaths In Polk county
Among the babies were Is pair OF twins
One lady added three boys to the populs
tion within the year. -
The Glenwood Canning Company hav
commenced the manufacture Of cans. The
get them out pretty rapidly and will worl
faster still when they get into their owl
building. We understand that they Q,
pect to make 300. 900 for this falls car
n ng.
On the morning OF the LIST Sunday p. {
Molten and Peler Jansen, Of Harlan
Sh'lby county, started out duck hunting
They had NOT gone a milo when in son,
manner unknown the gun carried by Jer
sen was discharged, the contents Of tn
barrel lodging in Mollen's head. producin
instant death.
abe Spirit Lake hotel and improvement
company of Cedar X pids has cent o
order to the Iowa iron works Of Dubuqu
for the construction of an iron lake steamer
to be built entirely of iron and to be use
as a pleasure craft by the visitors to tn
lake. II is to be ~ feet long and fitted u
with ell conveniences.
Fire caught In the oil room at the Pacif
Junction found. house Tue day night o
last week and before II was discovered ha
made such Roadway that II was beyon
control. The round house was burned I
the ground. Two engines that were In til
building had sufficient steam up to remov
them to q place Of safety.
Dwight T. Edmunds, o we'll known bul
' iness man OF Correotionville, shot And