St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-24
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Des Moines has $50 telephones.
Dubuque, has a "Waltz me againn {

| Des Moines has $50 telephones.
Dubuque, has "Waltz me again. club.
LIE Mars already has a vigorous building
boom well under way.
In Ottumwa it costs an extra $50 to keep
saloon open on Sunday.
The defalcation of Cotton, cashier of the
Newton bank amounts to $4,000
The new railroad assessment of the state is
about 81, 000,00 more than the old one.
The recorded sales of Cedar Rapids city
property last week amounted to s19,335
John B. Pewters, long in the saloon bust
ness in Dubuque, will remove to St. Paul.
A LeMars Sentinel gag: ''Did Annie take
the train this morning?" "Annie whor'
"Anybody."
Big preparations are making for the fire.
mems state tournament, which will be held in
Des Moines, June 10, to IA.
A flask containing liquor was found in a
pocket of the man killed by the cars in Des
Moines last Saturday evening.
A new company has been formed for the
development of the Fort Dodge gypsum
quarres. Capital paid in, $4,000.
A gang of counterfeiters have been broken
up in Appanoose county. They worked prin-
cipally upon nickles and half dollars.
Burlington is discussing ways and means
to make good the $28, 900 it has heretofore
received annually from saloon licenses.
Porter w. Earl, resident of Cedar Rap
ids for nearly fifty years, died at his residence
in that city last Sunday morning, aged so
years.
G. w. Eckerson, master mechanic at Cres-
ton, of the Burlington company, was presen-
ted last Sunday with silver service, valued
at 500
Sam Clark, in twenty years. retrospect Of
Iowa journalism, says that not one of the
editors then at the head of Iowa dailies is in
the harness now.
The Des Moines fire department hence
forth will not be allowed to drive its teams
over the bridges faster than walk. even in
response to fire alarms.
AT Bedford the other day man named
Bailey became so discouraged over his poor
health and the prospect of becoming bur-
den upon his family that he cut his throat
from ear to ear.
Ninety-two nonresident fire insurance
ompanies did business in the state last year.
They issued policies to the amount of $127,-
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3S, and paid in losses 1911, $1,000.
Keokuk is having the same trouble that
Dubuque and some years ago, favoritism
in regard to paying saloon licenses, some
not paying any. Twenty-eight saloons have
paid S14, 900, while some have not paid a
cent.
At Council Bluffs an aged pauper, who
claimed that he was not properly cared for,
was arrested while hunting for the supervisor
of the poor with arevolver, with the avowed
purpose of shooting that official for neglect of
duty.
ssJimn Sherman of Waterloo, gentle
man scarcely less well known throughout the
state than his brother, the governor, was mar
ried few days since to Mrs. Blanche M.
Walcott, of Independence. Mr.. Sherman
buried his first wife few years since.
Miss Nettie Palmer of Cedar Rapids leaves
in May as Missionary to Ponape, an island
| in the Pacific ocean-one of the Carolina
group, about 1900 miles distant from Homo
lulu. An idea of its isolation may be formed
from the fact that mails are received at the
island but once year.
Mrs. Rachel Huff, of Des Moines, values
her late husband at $685. 00 and asks the
court that Aulman & Schuster, brewers OF
that city, be required to pay her that sum for
having sold the beer which made Mr.. Huff
intoxicated to an extent which prevented
him from crossing bridge without falling
off and breaking his neck.