Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-06
IOWA IN CHUNKS.
SCiniillatiOlS, Serious and Sentimental
From Several Sections,
Accidents Incidents, and Other Dente
in Life's Pathway in the Hawk
eye State.

The total assessed valuation Of Ceda
Rapids Is returned at So, Jig, S57.
The new Locust street bridge at De
Moines is to be 400 feet In ledgth.
The creamery at Fletcher, Sac county
is handling 1000 Epounds of milk pc
day.
The strike in the Hershey saw mills a
Muscatine has thrown 800 men out o
employment.
The Ottumwa starch mill, during tn,
past ak months, has consumed 104,00t
bushels of corn.
Work Ia reported commenced on thu
Wapsey Valley railroad between hide
pendence and Slnville.
Tho year ending March /, 1885, shows
an increase of gross receipts in the Bur
llngton postofice of S3,23S.
j. II. Roffsrty, an express agent a
Berwick, has been arrested on the charge
of stealing So, ECO from the company.
The criminal statistics received by thu
secretary of state from the various coun
ties show 1902 convictions during thu
past year.
Dss Moines has successfully ioatet
four and o half per cent. bonds to the
amount of S22S,000 In cancelled the
seven per cent. bonds outstanding.
Dave @. Crusen, who wss the conductor
of the first train that ever ran west Of
Burlington, Ia on the stone pile In thai
city. Too muoh whisky did 1t as usual.
A 13.year-old lad Of Davenport named
George Leach, had the thumb and three
fingers of his right hand amputated by a
saw In one of the mills Of that city on
Monday.
The proposed reunion of the veterans
of the'war at Dss Moines, now residents
of the state. promises to be one of the
largest and grsndest rallies ever held In
the state.
The United States census returns for
1880 gave Iowa q population of l 1924, Clio.
The present csnsus returns, juat com.
pleted, it is claimed indicate an increase
of GOO, 900, a population for the state Of
g. 24,O DOC.
David Pitman, a young man 26 years
of age, residing three miles north of Polk
City, was discovered by his mother and
brothers Monday night lying dead behind
the barn. 1t is thought he was killed by
q kick from one of the horses.
The body of Kristen Jensen, q former
employe In the Fleming mill at McGreg-
or, was found on Wednesday suspended
to the limb of D tree near that town.
The coroner decided the case to be one
of suicide and held no inquest.
w. X. Pershing has entered sui
against the Chicago, Burlington q
Quincy, claiming damages to the extent
of $25. 900 in one instance, and $4,000
In the other for the injury Of DR.. Carroll
and the death of his wife In the CromSell
wreck several months ago.
Manchester's sensation Is the elope-
ment of Mrs. Matte Reams, the wife of
an honest laborer, with Lester Williams,
but recently divorced from his wife.
Mra. Reams deserted her only child, a
bright little 6-yesr-old daughter.
Captain Andrew Mitchell, now a resi-
dent of Norway, Benton county, has In
his possession the original draft of the or
dinsnce of secession of the state of South
Carolina. The document was captured
by Captain Mitchell In the spring of
1865, at the house of confederate General
Prince, at Cherau, South Carolina.
The sleek Frenchman who introduced
himself to the upper tendon of Dubuque
ss Prof Comte Da lie Bouche, proved
never to have bsen in France, bat was an
illiterate Quebec Canuck, unable to speak
or understand anything but tho patois of
the lower province. However, he WAS o
around the ladies for a time.
Engineer Burkhalter, of the Wabash
line, discovered Saturday night a bridge
over a creek near OttumTa to be on fire,
and being too close to stop his train, put
a full head of steam and rushed his
train unframed over the burning bridge. |
The train was then halted and the fire
extinguished, when it wss found to have
burned some of the ties entirely in two.
The following articles of incorporation
have been filed with the secretary of
state: Iowa Suspender company of New
ton, capital stock not to exceed $780,
600; the Hawkeye Mutual Live Stock
association, of Charlton; and the Baxton
Mining association, of Charlton, with a
stock capital of 500, 600.
Thieves raided the residence of Joseph
Hopner of Hamburg, Monday, and
snatched $500 In cash and a revolver
from under his pillow. They also ex-
amined 81 1000 forth of notes and scat-
them over the floor In disgust. The
thieves choloformsd the watchdog and
the sleeping members of the family.
Two boys named Northouse and Berk-
eley, sixteen and seventeen years of age,
drowned In the English river at
Berker's mill, near Richmond, Saturday,
June 81, while bathing. They got into
deep water, and neither could swim.
Two others who were with them narrow
ly escaped drowning. The bodies of the
drowned boys were recovered the came
evening.
On Tuesday last, in the Jackson county
court, Judge Hays rendered a decision
In favor of the defendant In tho case of
f. @. Jean We. John Hennessy. The
suit had been In the courts for the past
six years and was brought by Father
Jean, of Lyons, against Bishop Hen.
messy, of Dubuque, to recover $1,000 0
damages caused by suspensions from the
exercise of bis functions as priest.
The Hon. John Vsnvalkenburg, of Fort
Madison, supreme chancellor of the world
Of the Knights Of Pythias, has just issued
kIa n.u.I 1000 d. aa-a Nh4An 49, Il