Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-10
IOWA NE VS..

A new p~ostoflice has been established
at Struble, Ida county.
Camilla Urso visited the capitol build.
ing at Des Moines last week.
There were forty.one cars of cattle
shipped from Sloan in March.
The first boat of tho season loft pu.
buque for st. Louis on the lat.
The Sac City Methodis.s now go tc
church to the music of a new $50 pound
bell.
A travelling chronological fraud was
egged and hooted out of Sloan a few
nights since.
At Cedar Rapids the noisy small boy ia
hereafter to be banished from tho post
office lobby.
Near Cedar Rapids on the 1st the 8.
year old son of Frank Cooley attempted
to climb unon a mt wing train, when he
was run owe and killed.
A ffteen-year-old miss of East Des
Moines ran away from home last week
with a "peanutter" on the Winterse1
division of the Rock Island.
The tax collections in Monona county
for January and February were $40,
go. IL, the largest III tho history of the
county for the same length of time.
LeMars Sentinel, q: j. B. Close con.
cluded negotiations here yesterday, by
which Chicago parties take $500 acres OF
land near Kingsley for a confederation OF
$72,0 00.
There seems to be a fatality of NAL.
photography lowering about the name of
Congressman McCoid, of tho First lows
district. A majority of the newspapers
outside the state, and a good many in
the state, persist in spelling it McCord,
and the St. Paul Globe puts it Nc
Quot.
There is a complaint in northern Ores
thieves. In some instances they have
stolen all the chickens in coops, and il
others they seemed to be possessed with
the quintessence of pure c%ussedness anc
| chop the heads off of what they do no
steal.
When a Winterset girl wants her fel
low to go home she takes down her bacl
hair. The Alton girls take off their shoes
| Ottumwa girls say, sits time for m.
dearest Augustus to unclasp his c%irclin,
arms and HE away to his paternal demi'
cile." Creston girls are more practica
and less demonstrative; they simply say
"Sonny, times up; giti"
Robert X. Hooper, foreman of tn,
Central Iowa round house ut Marshall
town, was found dead near that city OF
the lat. He had gone out hunting tn,
day before, and not returning search wa
made for him. He had been struck by
lightning, and everything indicated tina,
he was instantly killed. He was 80 year.
of age, and leaves a wife and five chill
dren.
A Des Moines watch thief became quite
we'll known to different business mer
throughout the city before he committed
the theft. He claimed to be the son OF
a Danish nobleman, and his finely cut
features, together with the correctness
and even elegance of his language, bors
out, in a degree, his boast. he alss
fuently conversed in seven different
languages.
A Dubuque special says: The first rip
pie of the food that threatens to over,
whelm the saloon. keepers of this city wa
seen to-day in a notification by landlords
of several saloon. keepers that they mus
vacats the premises now occupied by
them. The latter held a mass meeting
but were unable to decide on n course o
action. They will hold another meetin,
after the city election, when they hop
in some way to avert the coming storm
In an Ottumwa saw mill on the 1st, a
a man was removing a board he allowet
it to strike a swiftly moving circular saw
when the board was flung with great forc'
and in its flight struck an old nance
John Harris in the breast, just above tn
collar bone, penetrating the chest abon
five inches, severing the jugular vein an'
almost severipg tho head. The force o
contact was 30 violent that his lifeles
body was hurled To the ground, fully hy
feet from where he had boon sitting
The deceased was about 30 years of az
and loaves a wife and Dix children.
November 80, 1879, John Norris wa
a~ssassinated as he was going to his HON
from his store in Delhi, Delaware cocnty
Several persons were arrested at tho tim
but subsequently released. Detective
were then put to work on the case. Cyru
Slower, a wealthy citizen of Delhi, Ed
ward Hughes, and several others, wer
arrested. Strong circumstantial eyI
dence was obtained and the men indicte
by the grand Jury. Tho trial was BIZ
gun last week and ended in the acquitts
Of all the parties, The feeling agains
the prosecution is very bitter, as it
claimed that the arrest Of Stover wa
malicious. 1t is likely that the matte
will 60 before the grand jury.
The trial of Robert Perigo, at Corning
for the murder of John Hidiuger, farm
ers and neighbors, has just CLOSED
Perigt was found guilty of murder II tn
second degree. Perigo claimed the Owl
ership of a dog in the possession {
Hidinger, and ssnt his son one Sabbat
morning after the dog. Hidinger refuse
to let the boy have the dog. Tho morr
ing following, Monday, Perigo went afts
the dog, and found Hiding, his hire
man and tho dog in the field. Perig
took q rope from his pock'
, and put it around the dogs neck, an
started off. Hidinger and the hired ma
followed Perigo, who wa leading Il
! dog off, demanding that he let the dc
loose. This Perigo refused to do, an
/. angry words were exchanged witho,
r limit, Perigo being very abusive In h
language. Hindinger was carrying q foi
in his hand. and Perigo a loaded %reyolv'