The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-23
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
IOWA.

IOWA.
Monona county has short potato crop.
The Davenport Daily Gazette was 80 year
old on the 10th inst.
The Iowa Baptist state convention meets /,
Des Moines on the ed.
Boone county needs larger income-mor,
tax or higher assessments.
Council Bluffs printers are making prepare
tons for their annual ball.
It is estimated that Spencer will ship IL, OO'
tons Of balcd hay this season.
The new Christ Episcopal church at Burling
ton will be dedicated next Christmas.
Little Sioux is to have skating rink SOx3
feet, with raised gallery, Office and cloak room
No less than fifteen candidates for consta
bic in Council Bluffs are around seeing thei
friends.
Cherokee Prcsbytcrians have been enlarginl
and lettering their church building abou
$4,000 wo:th
Rudolph Noltc, one of Dubuquc's oldcs
settlers, died last Saturday of apoplcxy of tn
liver, aged II.
G. w. Thompson, after a separation o
eleven years, has resumed the cditorship of tn
Dunlap Reporter.
Since the LIST of March III re have been IL
cases of scarlet fever in Davenport, and S
cases Of diphthcria.
LcMars Globe, IS: Col. Strait is in the cit,
and will most likely soon commence operation
on the Woodward coal mines.
Col. f. D. G. Morgan, q prominent citizen
of Fort Dodge, is to be married on the 23d a
Waukcsha, Wis.,, to Miss jackson.
Peter Finch, one of the oldest, wcalthics
and must respected farmers of Dubuque coun
ty, died on the 18th at the age of 81.
At Sutherland numerous creditors are in
quiring for young barber named w. C. Ku
gel, who appears to have skipped out
Andrew Sullivan, the night Waterman VIII
was drowned at Dubuque about four week
ago, was found in the river on Tuesday.
The amount of new corn coming into marke
at Sioux City, is increasing. In quality TIT
new crop is fully grade ahead Of old corn.
George Maycock's ice-house, in Fort Dodge
was burned on the 18th. There was but littl
ice in it. The building was insured for $3.50.
At least 5000 bushels of onions were mar
keted by farmers in Davenport on the 18th, a
the dsgustingly low price Of - to Is cents
bushcl.
Mrs. Margaret Laughlin, wife of farmc
living six miles west of Correctionville, on tn,
18th, was taken to the insane asylum at indie
pendcncc.
Lung disease is prevailing with fatal cffec
among hogs in Sac county. The foreman OF
II. c. Wheclcr's big farm says their loss vii
reach 1000
The next term of the Iowa supreme cour
will be held in Dubuque, commencing Tuesday
October 2lst. There are seventy three case:
on the docket.
The widow of the murdered Mayor Stubs
of Polk City, has gone to Wheatland, Cal
with her four children, expecting to remail
about a year.
Francis Lunkley fell through trap-door i,
the hardware store of Thos. Hcally, in Ottum
wa, on the 18th, and died of his injuries few
hours later.
The Sioux City Foundry and. Machine Work.
are building large Corliss engine for thei
own use, the first engine of the kind ever at
tempted in these parts.
Mrs. Lon Wright, who disappeared from
Spencer, was found a week later in the rive
by her son Charlie. The coroner's Jury re
turned verdict of suicide.
The old college building at Algona is beins
rcmodeled. The upper part will be made into
public hall, and tie lswer floors will be uset
for restaurant and clearinghouse
There is talk about division headquarters a
Dubuque that the Saturday and Sunday train:
on the Central, that now lay over at Dubuqu.
will soon be run through to Sioux City.
Miss Susie Weare, daughter of John Wearc
one OF the Oldest settlers of Cedar Rapids, wa.
married in the Presbyterian church of that cit,
last Wednesday afternoon to Mr.. w. H. Hub
bard, of Chicago.
Mrs. Andrew Byerly, an elderly lady
dropped dead in Anamosa last Friday Will,
carrying some cabbage from a wagon to thu
house. 1t is supposed her death was caused
by rupture of the heart.
The annual convention of the Sixteenth Sab
bath-school district vf the state will be held Al
Rockwell City on the 9Th and eth of November
The district includes the counties of Buen,
Vista, Boone, Calhoun, Greene and Webster.
A fire in the yards of the Chicago Lumbc,
company at Council Bluffs, on Saturday night
resulted in loss of about $500. A pail
OF horses, belonging to j. w. Lee, a team
stcr, were SO badly burned that they had to be-
shot.
In Sac county recently the 5-year-old daugh
ter OF Charles Workmcistcr, while playipp
around burning straw-stack, caught he,
clothes on fire, and before the flames could be
extlnguished the little one was so badly burn
cd that she died the following day.
Sarah Cox has filed petition in the circuit
court OF Lee county for divorce from Geo.
Cox. The couple were married in Lee county
thlrty-three years age. and nine children have
been born to them, all of whom are living, and
six OF whom are past their majority.
On Thursday last half-witted man named
Tom Tryon, fell off raft at Keokuk, while
fishing, and was drowned. After trying fol-
some time to get his body outof the water with
grab hooks, his fish line was pulled up, and
with it his body. His coat sleeve had caught
on his own fish hook.
Council Bluffs, Globe, 10: Yesterday after
noon young man named Roberts was assault
ed in most brutal manner by Bill Wyckoff,
and the young man Roberts is now in vcry
critical condition from the effects of his beat.
ing. Both parties were under the influence Of
liquor when the trouble began, and Just what
the cause of the difficulty was no one seems to
know.
There were three wrecks on the Northwest.
crn road last Saturday and Sunday. Two freight
trains made head collision five miles east of
Cedar Rapids, ditching both locomotives and
eight cars. There was wreck on the What
Cheer branch, but caused little damage. Sun-
day morning, just west of Clinton, during q
dense fog, wild train ran into belatcd mr..