Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-17
IOWA NEWS.

Dubuque in it's school election cast only
| 263 votes.
Indianola has voted to establish a free
public library.
A Davis county baby, two weeks old,
weighs 81 pounds.
The latest school fund apportionment
divides $124, 244 40.
Coal has been discovered near Atlantic
at a depth of 120 feet.
A new opera house, to cost SOC, 900, is
talked of at Ottumws.
Sioux City is complaining of the soap
swindle on the street corners.
The fast mail train enables the Chicago
p. m.
Five unhappy Iowa Falls wives were
divorced from their husbands at the last
term of court.
The city treasurer Of Atlantic is now
required to give a bond of 500, 900, an
increase from $4,000.
Gillette Brothers store in Burlington
was burglarized of $500 worth of goods
on the night of the 10th inst.
j. A. Dyer, of Drake university, Des
Moines, won the first place at the state
oratorical contest at Ames last week.
The Keokuk Gate City explains that
it did not say that President Magoun was
something" crusty, but sometimes"
Peter Ellwanger, a well-known mu-
stefan of Dubuque, residing there since
1852, died of paralysis on the 18th, aged
GO years.
Miss Carrie Cubbage, OF Clinton, has a
hen-house A dog got into it the other
night and killed forty.two of Mrs. Cub.
bage's fowls.
Villisca boasts a young lady who dis
covered her house on fire, climbed upo
the roof, and put out the blaze with @
cup of salt. The Review asks the legis.
lature to vote her a medal.
Mrs. Barnard, of Cherokee, whose hus.
band recently ran off with anothe,
woman. hasbegun observation-disclosures
and Mr.. Gordon, whose wife Barnard
took, says he shallnot disturb the woman
IN her new relations.
A. j. Weaver, who suicided in Penn
sylvania the other day, was reported il
The Chicago Tribune to be the brother O.
General Weaver. This is now said to b.
a mistake. He is not known to be n rela
tive of the generals family.
MI. T,.. E;laI, l;u;ou oo, ,;4o
had the toothache. She saturated
piece of cotton with laudanum and NOR
phine and placed it in the tooth. In tn,
night she swallowed the cotton TIL,
family had to call a physician to wake he
up.
Alex. II. Lindsay, of the Gault house
Des Moines, has brought suit against hi
wife for divorce on the ground that sh
has another husband living, which fac
was unknown to him when he marrie'
her. April 90, 1880. The other man i
named w. r. Anderson.
The people of the state are beginning
to think they have an elephant of OK
pense in the new capitol. 1t costs 500
a day to heat it and 800 an hour to ligh
it. 1t requires q small army of men t
) keep it clean and in order. Five hur
bred dollars a day will not pay expenses
| Captain w. III. Alexander, Of Mt. Ayl
t Ringgold county, committed suicide thei
= by hanging a few days ago, while unde
the influence of liquor. He had a fin
g war record, and leaves a wife and 81
y children. Before committing the dee,
y he kissed his chilaren and babe the
good bye.
During the year ending September 3
1888, there were 1877 criminal convi
= tons in the state, 1927, 095. ~ fines &C
lected, and the expenses of the prosec
- don not counting district attorney sal
ries--s361, 1883. Muscatine coun
shows the greatest number-120-ai
Dubuque the greatest expense-$2(
:. S77. 70.
ID A Malvern item of the 18th reat
"The jury in the Watson case came in
2 o'clock this morning with a verdict
murder in the first degree, and that
serve the rest Of his natural life at ha
y labor. He was sentenced by Judge Lo'
IN borrow this morning, anu is now crossi
G. the state to Fort Madison in the pluc
Dan F%arrel's care.
in The Parkersburg Eclipse says IL
Mary Il. Carpenter, a 16-year old gi
r. dark hair and eyes and of light compile
lion, disappeared on February 8, a
nathipg has ainee beea heard of 1