Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-10
IOWA NEWS.

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libel suit on its hands,
Des Moines loses $54, 600 venue by
the passage of prohibition.
Ottumwa's new Baptist church, dedi-
Gated a week ago, cost Sl3, 500.
Dubuque grain men are making large
shipments of oats to New Orleans.
Judge Rothrock contemplates retiring
to his large farm in north western Iowa.
L. S. Pond has sold his Emmetsburg
Touring mill to George Iuman for $l0,
900.
The state oratorical contest will be
held at the Agricultural college on the
l4thinst.
Ottumwa voted down the superior
court proposition-799 for and 947
against.
At present there are sixty nine saloons
in Burlington, which yield a revenue
from licenses of S27, 600.
Kingsley has four general stores, two
drugstores, six saloons, etc. The popula,
ton is variously estimated at from 400 to
600.
Joseph Keorne, of Burlington, has
been adjudged insane. His particular
fancy is that he killed President Gar
field.
About fifty persons, says The LeMars
Sentinel, were admitted to membership
in the LeMars Methodist church last
Zunday.
The new Baptist church at Ottumwa
was dedicated last Sunday. The cost of
the building and furnishing i about
$751;
Excitement is still running high AT
Emmetsburg over the town site contest.
The prevailing disposition is to make no
compromise with the claimants.
In a skating contest in Cedar Rapids,
John Noll went a mile in 4;371; Ed.
Davis, in 4:42; Will. Smith, in 4:45b.
There were twenty-seven laps in the
mile.
At the Fairfield fire last Thursday
night, Captain M. T. Burgess had his
pocket picked of $27O. The pocket
book was found the next day, minus the
money.
Miss M. T.. Rudd, a p~receptrsss in
Burlington college, has been selected t.
deliver the Grafton before the alumni at
commencement of Pella university in
June IL, 1t.
At Newton last week, John Cool, who
shot and killed W A Kline, his brother.
m-law, at Baxter, last October, WAS SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment. He
is All old man.
Mayor Wallace says the prohibition
c%atine, except to deprive the city Of
about 5000 revenue obtained from the
licensing of saloons.
Mrs. Bertha Vertrees, of Harrison
county, near Dunlap, awoke a few morn
ings since and found her four months
old baby boy dead in bed with her, prob.
ably from suffocatiOn.
Joseph Chamberlain, a young man OF
st. Joseph, Mo-, was arrested at Crest0n
a few days ago on charge of stealing $500
| worth of diamond pin aud earrings be-
longing to his mother.
A lady with five pairs of twins boarded
a train at Woodbine the other day. The
entire party of eleven travelled on one
| ticket, none of the children being old
enough to pay half fare.
A prominent grain man of Dubuque,
who has been investigating the subject OF
seed corn, reports that nearly all sections
of northern Iowa are well provided with
seed corn for spring planting.
Orrin Butts, a resident of Monons
county 1852, died on the 25th ult. Il.
followed Brigham Young as far as the
Missouri river, and there, with man,
others, seeded on the polygamy score.
Fort Dodge, on Monday last week, cas-
a few less than 900 votes, Waterloo q
few more than 900 and Cedar Falls no
quite 600. Sac City cast abouts 200 anc
Humboldt something above 100. Rather
a light vote all around.
A son of Mr.. Sisk, while driving acros,
the railroad track near Sibley, Osceol,
county, one day last week, was run int,
by a train, his wagon crushed, and him
self killed His father, two women ant
two children with him m~iraculousl,
escaped.
The residence of Ed Dill, postmaster
ten miles south of Msrengo, Troy town
ship, MAS totally destroyed by fire re