Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-17

towns.
The town council of Independence has
passed an ordlnence ''settiDg down on
street faklrs and swindlers, and will here.
after refuse to grant the license.
The Dubuque Trsde.Journal has fig
ured up that Dubuque has expended
S9O3, 600 in building Improvements this
year, but the Telegraph says this ia un.
doubtedly an overestimate.
A new town is to be located in the
Maple valley, Monana county, with a
view of making IL the future county
seat. The people Of Onawa are anxious
about the outcome of the project.
/. I, Gilbert, a member of the Y. M.
@. A. at Lemsrs, accused another men,
Der, j. G. Kelley, of dishonesty, at a
recent meeting of the association, where
upon Kelley sued him for $4,000 dam.
ages.
Alta boasts of leading all the other
towns of Buena Vista county In regard
to the amount of shipments of grain and
stock. She also claims the largest eleva.
tor and most extensive roller mills.
Professors of the ''manly art" and gate
money are congregating at Sioux City,
and smuggling matches are multiplying.
The Journal thinks it is a melancholy re-
aection on the vaunted morals of the city.
One of the amendments adopted at the
| election providing for the abolition of
the grand Jury, is ia conflict with the
constitution of the United States, and is
therefore considered null and void.
Some detestable villain entered the
barn of Dennis Dixon, ten miles north
of Manson, set fire to the hay and then
went out, closing and fastening the door,
leaving a span of valuable horses to be
roasted in the flames.
1t appears that prohibition does not
strictly prohibit even in the moral town
of Cherokee. The Enterprise says it is
pretty generally understood that those
who are known to BIO no sQuealers can
get as strong a drink as they want at the
corner saloon.
The Sioux City board of trade has fired
a series of resolutions at congress in IA
vor o the proposed Sioux City branch of
the Union Pacific. The pushing metrop-
oils of northwestern Iowa is strongly in
favor of the 'oid flag and a railroad sub
sidy."
Creston young ladies are making a
crusade against young men who are in
the habit of using ''swear words" and a
local paper suggests that eternal silence
will be the price of q yoong mans solid
ity with the fair sex hereafter.
At Oskaloosa there is a spring of
water which Will tan skins, either with
the fur on or of, in from twenty.four to
forty eight hours, according to the size
of the hides. The spring of a mothers
arm can beat that record before break
fast.
Surveys have been made for an iron
bridge across the Mississippi river at
Prairie du CHEN, to take the place of the
pontoon structure. The latter has paid
from $50, 900 to $4,000 per annum.
The new bridge will be built by a stock
company at a cost of $50, 600 or more
and will be nearly a mile in length.
Tip. Owen, an old settler living some
five miles north of Glenwood, about 3
o'clock Monday morning last, went to his
sisters, about half u mile distant from his
own home, went in, and was told to turn
tue uhuipcT II luS btONo dAo ue "Oulu
soon have a fire. He did 30, and i'm
mediately blew the top of his head off
with a heavily charged shotgun which he
carried.
At Rose Hill, in Washington county,
A. F. Hockett, aged twenty.three, shot
James Fowler for seducing his married
sister and breaking up the family. The
guilty couple had spent the previous
night in an Oskaloosa hotel. Hocketi
went the next day to her house, and
when Fowler came around shot him three
times, after having first made him con
fess his guilt.
Jonathan Bunker and Marion Holdings
worth, of Henry county, have quarrelec
over a piece of road for some time. Or
Tuesday their quarrel came to a focus il
the shape of a bloody encounter. Hol
lingsworth used a dubbed gun on Bunk
or, who took an ak and cut a fearful gasl
on Holllpgsworth's head, literally sever
ing n of his ears. Bunker escaped
with slight injuries.
The Burlington Hawkeye says: "Mem
bers of the brotherhood of locomotiv,
engineers in this city has received q cir
cular letter from Tom Monaham, q few
years ago a popular @. engineer, who i
at present confined In a miserable Next
can jail where he is compelled to endurt
all the tortureS of Mexican brutality
+ Mr.. Monahan was arrested for an acct
dent with which he is In no way con
nected, and the letter requests the mem
bers of the brotherhood to bring abou
his release"
t The tramp nuisance Is getting to b
o serious In Burlington and Its suburbs
and the police are doing all in their pow
err to keep the vagabonds from runnin
the town to suit themselves. A fey
: evenings ago the town Jail was filed wit
the lazy gents of leisure, but during tn
temporary absence of the officers tn
: locks were broken from the outside an
the whole gang made good their 'escsp
to prey upon the law-abidipg, industriou
citizens of the town.
The town of Glenwood was recently in
vaded by a gang of eighteen tramps, who
armed with revolvers, coollY entered
number of stores and helped themselve
to goodstand money amounting to $40(
The business men finally closed thei
stores, and about fifty armed themselve
and proceeded after the enemy, who the
vacated the town, leaving a couple {
their number In the hands of the officers