Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-12
low ITEMS.

Oeuar lVaplos is assessed at S0,OOO,OUU
The Methodists are planning to build a
church.
Burdette is billed for a series of lectures
n the state.
Sioux Clty's improvement list for 1884
foots up to $3.50, 395.
What Cheer keeps up its courage with
fifteen licensed saloons.
Algona got there last year with inn.
p%rovements to the amount of S92, 900.
The Angus strike has lasted three
months, and there is no prospect of a sat.
Element.
The city council of Des Moines has an.
propriated $4,000 to keeping the public
library open.
Two horses we're stolen from the priory
Of st. Malachi's church In Creston,
Wednesday night.
The internal revenue collections in the
Second district for the month of Deem.
Der aggregated $1S5, 800. 80.
The lime manufacturers of that part of
the state met at Davenport last Friday,
and organized a lime association.
Pupils to the number Of 1,O79 greeted
the teachers of the Creston schools the
morning after the holiday vacation.
The amount of cash handled by State
Treasurer Conger during the four years
of his incumbency is $40, GAG, 735 81.
The Rock Island road ha obtained
from congress a charter to bridge the
Mississippi between Davenport and Rock
Island.
The council of Burlington is consider.
ing the proprlety of licenseing saloons at
$50 q month, under the lemonade and
soda water dodge.
The big fire at Sioux City Friday night
destroyed the frederick and the Bruen-
sohulein block, causing a loss of $50, 600;
insured for $35, 000.
John Meenan, sheriff of Monroe county.
left Abba very suddenly, and he is now
reported to be a defaulter to the extent
of $4,000 or $4,000.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the
Iowa Horticultural society will be held at
Atlantic commencing Tuesday, January
20, 1885 and continuing four days.
A Grundy Center meat man advertiaes
to do family butchering with neatness
and dispatch. The interesting question
is does he do 1t without publicity.
The hog disease in Ida county Is report.
ed as becoming contagious to humans,
and several people in the vicinity of Ida
Grove have become afflicted with it.
The assessed valuation of Montgomery
county Is 81, 902, 5S3. This will yield
$140.427 IL. The valuation of Red Oak
Is $691, 279. Villisca, $25O,OS6 and the
town of Elliott, $47, $50.
Samuel R. Scattaboo, of Spirit Lake,
has commenced suit against the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 st. Paul railroad company
for damages in the sum of Sc, 900 for In
juries to his son, Lewis, who was run
over by a handcar and badly injured last
fall.
The mayor of Decerah determined to
enforce decorum In the streets of his
town at night, and to that end dressed
himself In the apparel of a girl, so as to
entrap the bad man who had habitually
insulted those maidens who ventured out
after dark.
The city council of Des Moines reject.
ed the proposition of the water gas com.
pany to build works and furnish gas to
the city at 81 %, and instead passed an
ordinance contracting with the old com-
psny for ten years ats 2 80.
A Mr.. Hascall, secretary of the Loan
and Building association of Des Moines,
has became a d~efaulter for $27, 800. He
has been arrested and held in q bond of
So, 900. He has turned over to the asso-
citation $40, 800 In boots and shoes, and
between 81, 600 and So, 900 in notes. He
used funds of the association In the effort
to build up a jobbing trade.
A bright, smart.looking, black-eyed,
black-headed boy baby about six or eight
weeks old was left on the front door step
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hewitt, of Fort
Dodge at about 7 o'clock Tuesday even
Ing. The Hewitt's came to the conclu-
sion that the child should have a home In
the future, and that his name should be
Hewitt.
DR.. w. w. Ordway was shot at his
residence near Castsna, Saturday. Two
middle-aged men came with pre- tense of
getting medicine, and while it was being
prepared, n shot him with a breech.
loading shotgun, taking way part of
his upper jaw. In the scuffle which
followed, the Doctor captured the gun
and a cap. A trunk containing nores,
deeds, mortgages etc, was taken. A re-
ward of $3.50 for the capture Of one or
$500 for both the thieves is offered.
Capt Mcdaniel, of the night police of
Cedar Rapids, was killed Tuesday morn
Ing near Scion station, south of Cedar
Rapids, by a passenger train on the Bur
ling'on, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail.
road. A murder had been committed at
a Bohemian dance in Cedar Rapids the
night before, and Mcdaniel and his men
had scattered In search of the murderers
Mcdaniel and Policeman. Healy had
come south on o freight train, got off
near Scion and continued the search on
foot. As they were crossing q railroad
bridge they saw train No. a coming, and
Healy said they would not have time to
cross. Mcdaniel thought they would,
and started to cross; but Healy ran off
the bridge. Mcdaniel either jumped
from the bridge and was killed, or was
struck by the engine, probably the latter.
The Sioux City Tribune says: Midway
between Onawa and Mapleton lives DR..
Ordway. For yearF the doctor has been
engaged In the practice of loaning money
to his pcor neighbors. He Is grasping
and Is commonly called the "Shylock of
Maple His mortgages number among
The hundreds, and his wealth Is
| Friday night, about ll:30 o'clock, he