The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
IOWA STATE NEWS,

THOUSANDS OF hne pickerel are being taken
from the Calhoun County lakcs.
MAYon PHELPS, OF Sanborn, Is wrestling
for cheese factory for his town.
Two BROTHERS named Spencer were killed
at Ford by boiler explosion.
Mrs. MATILDA FLETCHER has permanently
pitched her tent In Des Moines.
THE gas to light the new Capitol has cosI
the State about $1,000 per month.
DUBUQUE is making elaborate preparations
for the May Musical Festival.
DUBUQUE wants the next onAention Of the
National Cheese, Butter and Egg Association
A TRAVELLING chronological fraud was
egeed and hootcd out of Sloan q few nights
since.
J. G. C,LToS, cashier OF the Newton Bank,
is reported to have absconded, and his ac-
counts show shortage OF a large amount.
THE Dcs Noincs Polo Club is arranging to
meet a similar organization Of Kansas City
In contest ut skating-rink Mt Council
Bluffs.
THE people of Rome, Henry County, are
considerably excited over the ravaaes of a
mad dog that bit several CANNES in that vi
cinity. Several cattle and hogs have died
from the effects OF the bite of the brute.
WHEN the Iowa Butter and Egg Association
was formed eight years ago, not pound of
butter was exported from the State. while
now the expectation OF butter and eggs
amounts to s., 0O0,0 900 monthly.
Mrs. A. w. ROLLINS, who died at Des
Moincs q few days ago, has left bequest
aggregating from 100000 to $4,000 to the
American hoard OF Commissioners for For
eign Missions and the American Home Mis-
sonary Society.
THE Iowa Trottng Circuit holds four meet
ings this year, giving $4,000 in purses. The
first meeting will he held at Cedar Rapids,
June 10, IL. II, and ID; then Marshalltown,
June Il, Is, 10, and 20; Council Bluffs, june
"a, 25, 20, and %; Dcs Moines, July !, 2, 3,
and 1. Each place gives 5000 in purses
THE Sioux City Journal says: 1.-The Clear
Lake Park Association have made arrange.
ments for the following meetings on their
grounds, Mt Clear Lake, Iowa, for 1884: Inter.
State Camp Meeting, July to %; Temperance
Jubilee, July 20 to IS; Sunday school A.
scmbly, July 20 to August IL; Musical As
sembly, August IL to co.
THE burglarics in Clinton and vicinity nv.
crage two or three a week. The house Of
William Holmes, the Lyons banker, was en-
tered, and two watches and some money were
stolen. A masked man in Lyons, the same
evening, stopped a couple, and compelled the
young mar to fly at the point OF revolver
knocked down the young lady, and tried te
commit an outrage. Her cries brought help
and tho villain fed.
A DIES MONIES family recently engaged
boarding in another family and remained
several weeks. They had a pet dog, but
nothing was said in the contract about ths
dogs board. At the end Of the time 50 wal
charged for the board of the dog by the pro
prictor OF tho boarding house. Payment was
refused, and some OF the furniture of the
family owning the dog was held for payment
and the release of it was refused, even to the
Constable. A compromise was finally agreed
upon.
In the habeas corpus case, at Dcs Moines
Of Mary T. Mills, Judge Connor has ordered
the release Of the girl from the Reform
School, when she was first confined In the
school the law authorized the commitment Of
girls until their majority, which was then Il
years. A law was subsequently passed fol
the keeping of them until they were Fl. Ths
girl in question is now over Is, and on tina
ground she was released. 1t is said that thi!
decision will result in the release OF seyera
girls now confined in Mitchellville.
Rev. THOMAS A. CHEEK, the well-knowr
colored minister, died at Des Moines Of luni
fever. He was born ut Lexington, NO., II
1871, and his parents, who had been pre-
viously emancipated, removed soon after K
Peoria, Ill. Mr.. Cheek stumped Illinois fol
Grant and Wilson, after which he attended
college at Evanston Being ordained I
Methodist minister, he was sent to Dubuque
u 1876. In 1879 he went to Mount Pleasant
and next year went to Dies Moincs. During
the last legislative session he was Door
keeper of the House.
In the United States Court, at Dubuque
Judge Love presiding, the Des Moines Vale,
land cases came up and were disposed of b,
defendants pleading guilty. Sentence wa
suspended. The defendants In these case
were four settlers accused of resisting at
tempts of the United States Marshal to dis
possess them Of lands which they occupied
which were claimed by the Des Moines Rive
Valley Land Company under grant from thu
State. The settlers, who were residents o
Webster and Hamilton Counties, pre-empte,
farms on these lands and received patent
from the United States Government, and tn,
latter's surveyor afterward decided that the,
had no title.
THE news has been made public at De
Moines, that broad gauge railroad is to b.
built from Des Moines to st. Joseph, Mo.
this year. It is to be built by a combination
of the New York syndicate of r. G. Wilson
l. Co. and d. L. Harding, of Des Moines, tn
latter being President of tho company
Wilson & Go. were the builders and owner
OF the Diagonal Road, built last year iron
Dcs Moines to Waterloo. They have con
nected this line. with the Harding, Des Moinea
Osceola, and Southern Road. which will b
kept a. . narrow gauge and extended t
GAINESVILLE, Mo. The same combination vii
build the new road to st. Joe, probably +
Kansas City. The iron and albother material
have been bought and the work Of construs
ton will be commenced at once. Tho di.
lance is 1855 miles and the route will be b.
way OF Winterset, Alton, and Mount Ayr
Iowa. ana Marysyille, Mo-, OF by rout
leaving Wintcrsct to the east and crossin
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ut Nun
ray. The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pau
has made trackaye arrangement with III
Diagonal branch OF this new system into De
Moines, and also IN agreement by which
can run through cars TO St. Joe and Kansa
| City. The road is to lie completed and Il
| operation by the LIST of November.
A PROMINENT nurseryman and fruit.grow
| er or this State says that the remarkably col
| winter that we had was decidedly against
| favorable fruit season, but that now pro-