The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-11-13
IOWA STATE NEWS.

There are 81, 900 Germans in the State.
There are 4O7 Baptist church societies
In the State, with membership Of $4,000.
jefferson is ela!ed over the discovery
Of large and paying vein Of coal only four
miles away.
The Iowa Institute for the Blind will
make an excellent display at the New Or
leans Exposition.
For throwing acid upon his wife. Al
Nugent, Of Burlington, was bound over in
81 900 to the District Court.
The State has issued warrant for
$40, 200, TO pay for land bought for the new
Insane Asylum to be erected at Clarinda.
There are more than 100 manufactures
in Dubuque, employing 5000 men, the
total products amounting to $4,000. 900
annually.
Eddie Lardon, Is years old, was found
dead in the suburbs ut Keokuk with bull
let-hole in his neck How he came by his
death is a mystery.
-Lemars has four gambling dens. in
which, the Sentinel says, young men hold
ing positions Of trust nightly squander
money which is not their own.
Mrs. Taylor, colored woman OF Des
Moines, has been arrested for keeping
gambling house. Thirteen fellows found
at her house were pulled at the same time.
Eight thousand bushels of onions were
marketed in Davenport. on recent day, at
from ID to 1G cents bushel. Davenport
is one Of the principal onion markets in
this country.
BY n vote of 20 for to against, Esther
vile will issue bonds to the amount Of
$50 for the purchase of grounds for a
round-house and machine shops for the
Burlington Road.
Our Iowa correspondent writes that
most ct the corn IN the farmers fields and
cribs in that State is owned by Chicago
spectators on contracts made weeks ago.
Chicago journal.
Five hundred miners are on q strike at
Whit Cheer. They have been getting Is
cents ton for mining coal. and they want
s7a cents. At IS cents per ton they made
$50 per month easily.-Siour City Jour-
nal
AT Mount Pleasant, Michael Messman,
IN aged cit zen, was trampled upon by n
horse, which became frightened at the fire.
works used in the political demonstration,
and was SO badly injured that he died next
day.
Aunt" Becky Young, of Des Moines,
who followed the fortunes Of the One Hun.
dred and Ninth New York Regiment during
the war, will probably receive the appoint
ment Of Matron Of the new Soldiers Home
at Leavenworth, Kan.
Postmaster General Frank Hatton ID
the youngest man ever appointed to Cab
met position. He is only 81. Secretary
Lincoln was but couple of years older
when Garfield called him to the head OF the
War Department.
The Iowa Worlds Exposition Commits
sion has appointed L. +. Andrews, Of Des
Moiaes, to succeed the late Mr.. Farquhar-
son as Superintendent Of the sanitary de-
partment of the exhibition. Mr.. Andrews
is at present acting Secretary of the State
Beard of Health.
There died in Davenport. few days
since, French Canadian woman named
Aspasia Belongie, who claimed to be the
first white woman in Iowa. She was very
old. but did not know her age. Her second
husband was m Indiln trader. TO whom she
was married before the Black Hawk War.
Tho petition made to the court by the
boot and shoe dealers of Des Moines, ask
ing for IN injunction to restrain Stacy
Johns from giving prizes with his sales, has
been denied. The case was heard in
Gisen's court and the decision denying the
injunction was concurred in by Judge Con-
nor.
The Auditor Of State has issued the
following circular to the banks of the
State: To the officers of the bank to which
this is addressed: Gentlemen, in compli-
ance with the provisions of Chapter 0,
Tile lX., Of the Code of Iowa, you are
hereby called nlon for statement of the
condition Of your bank at the close Of bust
ness on the ll,h Cay Of October, 1884. upon
the incloscl form. Please observe instruc-
tons on Lank inc'o,el. Answer all ques-
tons raised by blank affirmatiyely or mega
| lively. Have yeibatim copy of the state
ment published i'll accordance with section
l57l of the Code. aud have the statement
on file i'll this office, accompanied by the
affidavit of the publisher attached to printed
copy, at the earliest practicable date A
| strict. nnquestioned compliance with this
reguisi;ion is exps cted and will be duly ap-
prec.ated.
One of the primary school teachers oil
Des Moines in expressing her opinion oil
| children who come to her after they have
had Kindergarten training, says: Il FIND
quite n difference between those who hav.
had kindergarten training and those who
have not The child from the kindergarten
is more active, observing. enthusiastic, ant
much better prepared for the work befor.
him. His lessons with the blocks. squares
n.aagles, etc, have given him good iles
of numbers and form. He learns to reat
with facility because he knows how to OBJ
serve and compare. and the training which
his hands have received enables him to write
| with comparative ease.
The Swan & Bosler Laud and Cattle
| Company has been organized in Warren
| County. OF which A. II. Swan, a large