Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-02
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Keokuk draws the coler line In skating
Kinks.
Burlington spents So, o98 on her schools
last year.
The Catholic church at Lemsrs will
cost 100000.
A party of Oklahoma raiders have been
organized in Des Moines.
The Creston opera house will engage
no mora snide companies.
The spring registry shows there are
2,425 voters In Sioux City.
The engineers and surveyors have
formed a state organization.
A Burlington hickman was fined $50
for getting drunk at q funeral.
Storm Lake has a population of 1000
and is now a city of the second class.
The Lake Mills vigilance club bluffed
the natives Into respecting prohibition.
The loss by the burning of the Ham
burg pillow factory was $4,000; insurance,
$780, 00.
A Des Moines school teacher has been
discharged for reading the mistakes of
Moses"
The Keokuk medical college has Just
turned loose forty young cemetery pro-
moters."
Joe Fitzhenry rebelled against the pop
law of Keokuk. 'Eis goods were contis-
Gated and he was landed in jail.
An unmarried Algona woman is anx-
iouly watching the facial developments of
her new born babe for a likeness of It's
father.
The Fort Madison & Northwestern
railroad is getting 80 deep into the miro
Of litigation that ar early collapse is ex-
pected,
The railway bridge over the Miesis-
sippi river at Clinton, after fourteen
years service, is being replaced with new
iron spans.
A tailor named Miller, doing business
at LeMars, on being accused of living In
criminal intimacy with his ~step-daughter,
skipped out.
1t Is Estimated two-thlrds of the uu-
married women of the state are opposed
to prohibition. They favor the pop law
every time.
The dead body of n man was found
Thursday last four mile southwest. of At.
lantic. Investigation showed death had
been caused by exposure.
Col. Henderson, congressman from the
Dubuque district, Is confined to his bed
in Washington by breaking out of old
wounds received in battle.
Dubuque has a young amateur skater
named Mitchell whom responsible sports
wish to back against all corners under Ia
years of age, for from $50 to 500.
A tramp set fire TO the stables and
sheds of a farmer living about eight miles
west of Webster City, burning up besides
grain, hay, ETC., some eight or ten head
of cattle.
The authorities of LeMars have &C.
cured sufficient evidence to cause the ar.
rest Of James Hopkins for firing the Rs-
we're house and Plymouth mill a few
weeks age.
The policeman of Sioux City fired
twenty shots at a colored tramp on the
run and failed to hit him. On being
reprimanded by the marshal he claimed
the target was too dark.
Several ~able-bodied men have called at
the Office of the Oskaloosa Herald within
a week to complain of the lack of work
and their inability to provide food and
clothing for themselves and families.
Jim Wilson, a colored duke of Keokuk,
was filled with buckshot by his dutiful
step.son, whom he ordered to "stop that
racket The shots were excavated
without seriously damaging the old gent.
Des Molnes is still pegging away try
Ing, with as yet no great degree of sue
cure the permanent location OF the state
fair. 1t seems, 80 far, to be a permanent
dislocatlon.
The Cadar Rapids Gazette tells of a
woman in that respectable town who lay
In a trance for three days, and was only
aroused by one of the neighbors trying
to borrow some brown sugar of the hired
girl.
Major WATSON, who lost q pile Of
money and a paymaster's commission In
the regular army by INDUCING in draw
poker, will locate in Des Moinea, where
he has been given a position In the offices
OF the wabash road.
A Sc3tt county man of do applied fol
a license to marry the 19-year-old dsugh'
ter of his deceased wife by a former hus
band, only to learn that the expense O.
such a transaction would foot up from
one to ten yesrs in the pe~nitentiary.
Col. Fred Welker, of Muscstine, it is
said, will stand as n of the most prom
iuent figures in the proposed great pano
rama of the battle of Shiloh, represent
ing that part Of the field known as tn
hornets neat, to be painted by the ar
tlst, Paul Lameraux.
Mr.. John P. Whitney was kindly en-
tertalned by a MICA young man whom h
met on the train between Des Nome
and Sedan. When Mr.. Whitney awok,
from the sleep induced by the stranger
whiskey he discovered the absence of thu
nice young man and $500 in cash.
William Spencer, of Carlisle, Will,
driving into Des Moines, was struck by
locomotive of the Rock Islsud road, at
crossing on East Fifth strset. HI
sleigh was loaded with jugs, only one o
which was broken. Neither Spencer MOI
his horses received any injury.
There was a mysterious death nea,
Vinton last week. A young man, NAM
not given, had six weeks ago married
well-to-do farmers only daughter, anC
old people and young were happy ane
arranging 10 move to California in thu