Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-07
10 NEWS.

A Burlington saloon license, good to the
4th of July, is worth ST..
Spencer saloons may buy a privilege
good to the 4th OF July for 500.
w. S. Moore, printer, has been ap-
pointed duputy oil inspector in Des
Moiues.
Thirty-one Clinton saloon. keepers have
paid $50 each into the treasury for IL
censes until July 4.
Two houses in Bedford, Taylor county,
were slightly damaged by lightning a few
evenings ago.
The Polk county Woman Suffrage So
ciety have decided to invite the National
society to hold it's annual meeting in that
city next October.
1t is said that the city councils of
Davenport and Dubuque, will, prior to
July 4, pass ordinances licensing the sale
of ''soda water, lemonade and other bev.
erages."
Jessie Norton, a young girl of Water.
loo, died on the lat inst. from ~tetanus,
brought on by falling while skating on
roller skates and cutting one of hel
hands.
Of the three women in the Polk coun.
ty Jail, one is past go and went from the
temperance town of Boone to Der
Moines for the purpose of having O
spree.
A farmer near Radclitfs, Hardin coun-
ty, started out to pillow on the lat inst.
but not feeling well he returned to the
houaa ubora ha diod IN n fau, ,,ou,o,t,
Mrs. VIM. Brownbride, while chang
ing cars at Ames, in the middle of the
night, for Des Moines, fell between the
cars and the station platform and broke
her leg.
The Gazette declares it to be rank
folly to expend 500, 900 and over for
school houses and grounds in Corning,
and then hire school teachers at S35 and
$40 per month.
The Estherville Broad-Axe commune
Gates the fact to a sinful world that citi-
zens of Spirit Lake are moving in earnest
for a camp-ground layout which shall
throw Clear Lake into the shade.
An interesting prayer meeting was
held at Battle Greek on the 34th ult. in
the Presbyterian church. At the conclu-
sion of the usual programme, Rev. Mr..
Leclare united in marriage Mr.. w. w.
Condit and Mrs, Myra Hersey, both Of
Ida Grove.
An Emmett county young man felt SC
bad over an unrequitted love that he first
killed a pig belonging to the girls father,
then threw something into the man 6
well, and in the third place shot the fam.
lily dog. Every m~arriageble girl in EN-.
met county should be warned against the
fellow.
A Mt. Auburn correspondent of the
Vinton Eagle writes: A couple of young
lady school teachers, in this township,
tried to smuggle a gentleman friend
from Vinton to this place, on Sunday
night last. They covered him up with
their gossamers and tried to palm him of
as an old satchel.
VIM. Morrow, of Manning, said to be
one of the best citizens of Carroll county,
wal assaulted in the street on the Isl
inst, by a couple of women of alleged
questionable character. They threw
cayenne pepper in his eyes, completely
binding him, when one of them began
using a h%orsewhip upon him. Morrow
was q delegate to the late Burlington
convention. The ARRAY grew out of q
letter the women had received, telling
them they were not wanted at the skat,
ing rink, and they thought Morrow had
something to do with sending it.
Des Moines Register, Q: Every way
conceivable is going to be tried to evad,
the law in regard to the selling of whisky
and beer. A gentleman in Des Moinei
yesterday says a saloonkeeper in Rose,
vile, in this state, has rented rooms in
the rear OF a store which he will use as q
drug store, though there is no communi
cation between them. In the back room
he will run his billiard hall, and from hi,
drug store in front will furnish the whis
ky for the drinks. There is one place il
Des Moines, now in operation, wher,
there is a billiard and card room on tn,
second floor, over the saloon, and tn,
drinks are sent up from the ssloon on /,
dumb waiter. The parties who drink d.
not know, of course, who sells the whis
| ky, but it is just az effectual in making
!. them drunk, and on the stand they could
swear they did not know where it cam,