Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-24

licsn IL iority in the ots..-1,2gO.
Rents have been coming down in Dss
Moimes all through the fall months.
The graduating class of to Agricultu.
raj college this year numbers thirty.two,
six being ladies.
Tracy Chapman, . leading farmer Of
Crawford county, reports yield Of eighty
bushels Of corn TO the acre.
Tho thrco-year-old son Of Charles
drowned in o slough last week,
The internal collection from Iowa for
the year ended juno 80. last, amounted
in the aggregate to S2,151 Sol
Tho scarcity of eggs In Sioux City has
reached tho proportions of q famine aud
prices a climbing 40 high a5 democratic
hopes of success.
Robert j. Burdette, the Burlington
humorist, has presented to the Baptist
church OF Merton, Pa q church bell in
memory of his late wife.
The grading of tho Minnesota aud
Northwestern railroad across Mower
county is practically complete. The
bridges will not be put in until spring,
Tho report of tho Iowa insane hospital
of independence, for the quarter ending
September 80, shows that there was a
total of $50 patients, sustained at a cost
of S2l, 1886.
The shprthorn brooeders' convention
and the Iowa Fine Stock association will
hold their respective annual meetinga in
Ottumwa, beginning on Tuesday. the pa
day of December.
Thos. Watts suicided with poison in
Dss Moiues tho other day for fear of be-
coming a public charge. lie was over -
years of age, n blacksmith by trade, and
had lived in Des Moincs many years.
Prof. Gustave Heynor. for three years
past a music teacher at Burlington, sui.
cided at the Msssasoit house, Chicago, u
few days ago, by shooting himself with a
revolver. Ho was partially intoxicated
at the time.
Red Oak, with its street cars, ito water
works, its fire companies, its gas works,
and Its other belongings of a city, is
actually without street lamps! Po ple
nave to lug lanterns around with them at
night to be warned of the step otfs in the
sidewalks.
Red Oak schools show an enrolment
of Sl5-403 boys and 4l2 girls. Tho
rapid increase of children of school age
necessitates the building of more schools,
and plans have been drawn for two to
cost SIS, COO.
The packing house at Atlantic was dc.
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
l9th. The loss is estimated at $3S 600;
insurance $4,000. The loss ia y severe
one both to the owners and tho city. 1t
throws out of work scores of people.
Edward A. Gallager, of Cedar Rapids,
married a widow in September, and In
October stole $500 of her money and
skipped. He returned and was caught
on Tuesday. He tried to work on the
sympathies of the wronged woman, but
she turned away and will prosecute the
rascal.
DE-. j. A. Mcfarland, an old and
respected citizen of Red Oak, Was run
over and killed by q freight train half a
mile west of the city on the 17th. The
body was not badly mangled. There was
a cash in the back part of the head, the
right arm was somewhat torn and the
bones fractured and the right thigh was
broken.
The Ottumwa Courier remarks: at ia
now said that the new branch to be built
by the 9. B. 81 Q from Fountanelle via
Carson to Council Bluffs, will be operated
jointly by the @. b. SO and 9. RI &P.,
and Is being put in to keep other and
competing roads out of that territory.
Creston Is not very well pleased with this
view of the affair as 1t hoped the branch
would run from that place.
Herman G.. Foster, of Iowa Falls, at 6
o'clock Wednesday morning rose partially
in bed and told his little girl to put some
wood on tho fire, and she says he fell
back and she supposed went to sleep.
An hour later he was found by his child
rem, dead in bed, In the position in which
he had fallen back. Mr.. Foster lived
alone with his three children, two little
girls and a boy, having lost his wife some
years since.
The Northwestern Telephone company
of Ida Grove fled articles of incorpora-
ton with the auditor of state. The date
of beginning business is September 10,
1884, and the object Is building, operat-
ing nnd maintsing a telephone system in
Ida, Sac, Cherokee, Plymouth, Wood.
bury, Monons, Harrison, and Pottawat-
tamie counties. The capital stock is $685.
600, and divided into one thousand shares
Of $25 each. The officers are j. w.
Rseu, president; f. W. Shearer, secreta-
ry; e. A, King, treasurer, and G. A
Case, general manager.