Omaha daily bee., 1885-04-15
IOWA IN PIECES.

IOWA IN PIECES.
Keoku6 is threatened with the base
ball fever.
A $1,000 school building ia going up at
P~ieasantville.
A $1,000 school Is rising on q hilltop
at Anamoss.
The Cedar Rapids weolen mills are
again running.
The Boone barb wire works arc crowd.
ed with orders.
The Burlington is grinding out mer
charitable iron.
There are 6.000 dispensers of minor
justice in the state.
Navigation on the Mississippi will have
Its formal opening May LIST.
The Southwestern Dairymen's a~ssocia-
ton will meet at Villisca May 13.
Two hundred Polish immigrants have
recently settled in Audubon county.
The millers of Davenport have added
four cents per Jack to the price of flour.
The new soldiers monument al Hum
boldt will BIO dedicated on Memorial day.
The saloons of Brooklyn are closed
and the police find their occupation
gone.
Belle PLANE has a little lady twenty
years old and bat thirty-six inches in
height.
The Muscatine military company will
attend the Mobile inter state military
encampment In May.
The Traer opera house, with a seating
capacity of 800, has been completed at
an expense of Sc, 900.
Prohibition injunctlons are mailing up
the doors of hundreds of saloons In diff
ferent parts of the state.
A seed aud tree company, with an al
legged capital of half a million, has been
organized in Sioux City.
The Iowa commiaslon at New Orleans
calls loudly for more funds. The Creoles
are getting in their work.
The pillow FACTORY of Tuttle, NeH & Co,
at Burlington, has passed into the hands
OF a receiver. Dull trade.
Fifteen saloonkeepers al Marion re.
P "o etooauty VI tue ulSlrlCt
court with $15, 600 recently.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the Iowa Sunday School association will
be held at Newton, Jasper county, June
1918.
Davenport has subscribed $4,000 to.
ward defraying the expenses of the state
trsman's tournsment to be held there
June 9th.
The Grinnell barb wire factory Is ruiz
ming eighteen machines night and day,
ana shipping two to three carloads Of
wire per day.
The late Frank Robinson, of Dubuque,
died intestate, leaving a fortune of $3.50,
OOO to be divided among his wife and
three children.
Hon. M. V. Cannon, of Davenport,
was seriously injured in q railway smash.
up on the Milwaukee road near Dewitt
on Tuesday night.
A Des Molnes weather manufacture
claims that 1t has showed In Iowa every
9th day of April for twenty years, with
only three exceptions.
The Des Moines jail birds who at
tempted to burn their way out were put
on a diet of bread and water for eight
days, The effect was soothing.
The uneasy masses of rock clinging to
the face of Dubuque's overhanglne bluff,
have loosened by the heaving frost, and
are tumbling and crashing into the
streets.
Mrs. Hampson is about to begin a
series of revival meetings in Cedar Rapids.
She Is described as "a noted English
evangelist wonderfully blessed of God. ("
Salary not stated.
Prof. Parvin, of Cedar Rapids, a SO
degree Mason, advertises j. G. Baker, of
New York, and FL, M. Yoaston, of Min
neapolis, as organizers of fraudulent and
spurious lodges of Masonry.
j. W. Dudley, the abscondlng Cedar
Rapids express agent, has been captured
In New York and taken to Chicago.
Dudley's troubles arose from a delusion
ne Rugged that he could gamble.
Tim Flemmings, a 1~5.year.old O,ka
ioosa youth, ruptured himself while try
Inf. to gather a handkerchief from the
rink floor with his teeth. He was
gathered to his fathers next morning. ;.
Messrs. j. f. and Ed" Charles. long.
time citizens Of Cedar Rapids, have pur-
chased several hundred acres of land In
Florids, including an orange grove of
slxty.thres acres, and will make that
semi-tropical CLINE their future home.
John Watson, a boiler maker of Clln.
ton, went to Cedar Radios a few DAYS ago
where, Notwithstanding the s%irrocco of
prohibition winds prevail ing in til. 1t town,
he got gloriously drunk. and was run In
and fined a substantial $50 and coats.
Scott Bagley, q young travelling man of
expensive habits, and in the employ of a
Cedar Rapids firm up to January last,
has been arrested for embezzelmen The
shortage was discovered after the Young
mans discharge, and amounted to 5000,
On a three days acqusiutance Belle
Herman, OF Eldora, married Edward
Ellis, a strollipg juggler. After five
weeks OF married life Belle came In con.
tact with another woman who outranked
by date of commission Bellies title as
wife by two or three years. Ellis pswned
Bellies clothes and skipped, leaving her
among strangers In a penuiless half