Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-23
IOWA ITEMS.
Onaws has o population Of LIPS.
Muscatlne is building a ferry dock.
Clarinda has an Oklahoma COLONY.

Clarinda has al Oklahoma colony.
Steamers are beginning to move on the
upper Mississippi.
What Cheer keeps Its courage up with
twenty two saloons.
Manchester refused to bond itself
$4,000 worth for a high school.
Progressive spelling matches are Meth
odist novelties III Des Moines.
The Burlington Hawkeye was dished
up on the halt shell last week.
There were GAG deaths and 600 births
in Davenport the first two months of the
year.
The census give, Davenport a popula-
tlon Of 23,S1l, q gain of 1000 in four
years.
Hog cholera has disappeared from
Woodbury. county after doing $10,0 600
worth of damage.
The ice dealers of Dubuque have
pooled to put up prcos, and coolly whis-
per, "what are we here fyr?'
Mt. Pleaeants water works failed to
come up TO the requirements OF the town
and were +, iec!ed,
Moody's work amorg the sinners OF
Davenport cost 500 a day aud beard,
the great reviyalist pocketipg both.
A Minnesota farmer named Henrick
| Whitman dropped $3.50 while viswing the
elephant in Sioux City.
The question of teaching girls sewing
In the public schools of the state is re-
ceiving favorable comment.
Last week Albert Zears, living near
Oskaloosa, was MORALLY wounded by the
discharge of his WI gun while out hunt
Ing.
At the coal mining town Of Flshville.
sixty miners struck, owing to the com,
pany's inability to pay their wages in
fell.
The new spans in the Clinton railway
Iron bridge are said to be amorg the
strongest of any single track bridge In
the United STATES.
Nelson Case, living near Missouri Val
ley, is the champion wolf catcher in the
state, having captured ak full-grown
howlers the past year.
The total cost Of the new state capitol
building up to date is given at $780,
916 and an estimate of $1S9, 900 it is said
will complete the structure.
judge Thayer, editor of the Clinton
Age, is in Washington tryiog to catch on
to the office of commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office.
Several companies of the Iowa Ma.
tienal guard will accompany the gov
error IN his attendance, on Iowa day,
at the New Orleans exposition, April
29th.
The ministers of Cedar Rapids are
alarmed at the inactivity of the matt
monial market. One of them states that
he has performed but one ceremony the
past year.
The city ma-shal of Cedar Rapids adj
seiz5d ! Quors, wherein the case when
called was dismissed and goods ordered
returned. The marshal is now long ON ex-
perience, but 1877 short on cash.
George Hedrick, of Ottumwa, has
tapped the fifteen soft maple trees grow
ing about his residence in town, and is
engaged In the manufacture of purs
maple syrup. He will be able to put
about /, 500 barrels ON the market durIr e
the next thirty days.
In replying to the charge of the
Chicago He'ald that ''there has been
more lawlessness and general public vii
lainy In Iowa during the past year than
in any other state in the union" the
Sioux City Journal bristles up and
shouts, THE Chicago Herald i, a liar
Mans your weapons, gentlemen.
Mrs. Johnsop, of Boone, became SO In
censed at the marriage of her 15.year-
old daughter to a worthless, drunken fell
low named Shield, that she went into
spasms, and her life for a time was des
paired of. The man who furnished the
perjury necessary to obtain the marriage
~licerse for the child is close on the ragged
e]gs of trouble.
A shoemaker named Thomas, unable
to secure anything to drink in the prohi-
bi ion Town Of Marion, imported a pack
age of the srjent through the express
company, took it to his shop, invi ed q
friend to Din him, when both filed up,
had a war dance, and wound up with an
unsu cessful attempt to pulverHe and
carve each other. They were both jailed.
A letter WAS received at the depart
menu rum al IOWA postLuhS cl ASKING u
be retained in his position. 1t wac accom-
panied by a photograph of the writer,
and stated that he was a sufferer from in
lammstory rheumatism. At the closs OF
a long diagnosis of his ailments was a
rough drawing Of a mans leg, twist ID
aud contorted into almost a right angle,
while beneath were the words, This Isl
disgram of my leg"
"A great COB # gloom" struck the sa.
loon keepers of Des Moines when the de,
c's.On of the supreme court vas received
there. The Leader says the vendors Of
that which cheers and stimulates cam,
paigps, voluntarily closed up aud the al,
!, lence of a dozen grsveyards fell upon the
town. Zone or two healthy prohibition
lists attending strictly to business turned
, loose in any town in the state, can Great.
t more conservation to the square incl
f, than a VIII Ia nest Of horr cts ~sttendipg {
: picnic. The decision settles the saloon
:. and b'ewIy business in Iowa