The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-05-22
IOWA STATE NEWS.
The Court House square ut Des Moines IA
'aing nsed for goat pasture.

TIE Court House squire at Des Moines IA
saing nscd for goat pasture.
COUNCIL BLurrs will issue 800, 900 IN
bonds Tor paving the intersections Of streets
Sad alleys.
ONE woman In Dubuque makes herself
s,sagrceable to her neighbors by painting
their doors pea green during the night.
1owA's insane patients number LAOS In
the State Institutions, and tho cost OF sup
porting them for the past year was si6s,702.
Iowa has 1t present six female notaries
public, tho one completing the hnlf-dozen
having been commissioned recently in the
person Of Miss Ida T.. Davis, of osceola.
DAVENPORT dispatch says: Stephen
Lindley, aged CO years. one Of the oldest
residents Of this section Of Iowa, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself He leaves
m estate Of 100000
The Des Moines Board Of Trade has ap-
pointed committee OF thirty citizens to
raise tho $4,000 necessary to secure the
permanent location Of the Iowa State Fair
grounds at Des Moines.
ANTON pIHoE. a resident Of Dubuque
County for nearly forty years, 75 years Of
age, who recently lost oil his savings.
amounting to 5000, Is now an inmate Of
tho County Poor House on the County Poor
Farm.
MASON BROTHERS, at Des Moines, OBJ
tnined temporary injunction rcstraining
tho Iowa State authorities from paying to
the Farmers Protective Association the
5000 appropriated BY the last Legis-
lnture to help fight the barb-wire monopo-
lists.
JAMES HYLANp, who has bcen on trial al
New jefferson for eight days. on the charge
Of numbering his wife year ago, was con-
victed Of murder In the first degree. and
sentenced TO ninety nine years imprison-
mcnt at hard labor. The jury was ont -four
hours.
EDWARD BRrM, Of Dubuque, II years
old, was amusing himself by picking with
pin dynamite cartridge about the size Of
slate pencil and used for blasting under
water, when II exploded. mangling both
hands, necessitating the amputation Of ono
finger Of the right and two Of the left band.
Mrs. TRourMAN, widow in Henry
County, jumped into we'll. carrying a g.
year-old child down with her. Two men
got them out. but the child was dead, aud
the mother In reported to have died from
her injuries. She was undoubtedly de-
ranged. and In believed to have been failing
In mind for some time past.
THE Executive Council at Des Moines
has confirmed the appointment Of George
w. Bemis Of Independence, the Hon. E.
]. Hartshorn Of palo Alto. and the Hon. j.
| d. NJ. Hamilton Of Fort Madison. rs Com
missioners in the new Insane Asylum. Mr..
Hartshorn IL the substitute for DR.. Kulp, Of
Davenport who was first appointed.
At Des Moines, the homestead Of B. F.
Allen. the former well-known banker and
capitalist Of Chicago and Des Moincs, was
sold at private sale for SEC. 900. H. M. Hub
bell. Of Dcs Moines, being tho purchaser.
The house alone cost $i50, 900. A tract OF
nine acres Of ground goes with it. Allen
has been occupying il FOR the last two years.
holding Il In spite Ct desperate efforts in
the courts to dispossess him Of il
THE Iowa State Dental Society held its
twenty second annual convention In Coun-
oil Bluffs. A large number Of visitors from
neighborinG States were present, and tho
meeting proved Of great profit to the pro-
fession. The election Of oficsrs for the
ensuing year occurred. with the following
result; President, T. A. CARRIER. Of Upton:
Vice President, L. G. Rogers. Of ottumwa:
Secretary. ], b. Montfort. Of Fairfield;
Treasurer, J. Skulp, Of Muscatinc. Des
Moines was chosen ~ the place Of holding
the next meeting,
The State Eremen's Tournament will be
held At Des Moines, June 10. II, IL, andl3
The swccpstake prizes have been mised
from $500 to $500. and the prospects now
promise very large attendance. The cities
that have SO far promised to send teams and
men are Omaha, Council Bluffs. Creston,
winterset. Atlantic. Stuart. Avoca, Newton,
Wilton, Red Oak, Glcnwood. Fort Dodge,
Boone, Glidden, Grand Junction. Marshall
town, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo. Davenport,
Iowa City. Storm Lake. Clinton, Burling-
ton. and Dubuque.
Louis BETTs, a farmer living on the
point southwest Of the Sioux bridge. told q
Sioux City Journal reporter about the do
ings Of tho Missouri: 1T has taken my
farm clean away. Last spring ! had to
move the house back. and this spring had
to tear il down. We are camping out now.
The river is where my stables were. The
soil there melts like sugar. The river has
taken twelve or fourteen farms since have
lived here. It viii cut of the point and
come stmight to the mouth Of the Sioux,
sure. Tho neck is now only two or three
rods wide, and tho next little rise it will 20
through That will shorten the channel
about seven miles. and will stop the cutting
at Blessings. on the Nebraska side. But I
reckon it will cut on that side farther down.
No, don't know where will 60, came in
to- day to see about renting farm.
THE Chicago Tribune the other morning
contained the following special dispatch
from New York: George Brown. a man
about 60 years of age. is in a critical condi-
ton at the New York Hospital from the ef-
fects of some corrosive poison given him
BY stranger while on train coming to
this city from Des Moines, Iowa. Late at
night he entered the Chambers Street Hos
pital in an exhausted condition. DR.. Power
questioned him very carefully, and he told
his story in straightforward manner. He
said he was cattle dealer. He started
from Des Moines, where he resides, for