Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-16
IOWA ITEMS.

Des Molnes is still r~ustling for that
$4,000 to ecu the permanent location
of the state fair,
A Cherokee saloonkeeper was fined
$500 and four others $3.50 each for buck
Ing prohibition.
Sioux City Is flooded with Canada
silver.
Dickinson county farmers will sow a
large breadth of flax this spring.
Carroll has one hundred and one
dogs that have owners and about six
hundred that are raining business on
their W hook, when the ASSESSOR comes
around.
Dubuque claimsa population of 1850,
based upon the celsus returns of school
children.
Foot pads robbed an old soldier named
Thomas Hoops of $500 In Des Moines on
Saturday night.
Tramps are beginning to give Ottumwa
a wide berth, The corporation stone pile
has no alluring charms for the rover.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern contemplate building a new
depot at Waterloo.
The robbery of the Fort Dodge post
Office, February 28th, it now t~ranspires,
was committed by a former clerk named
j. o. Jones, who at the same time forged
postofice orders aggregatlng $3.50.
Rev. F. A. Magoun, recently q resi-
dent minister at Storm Lake, is a hope
less invalid at his parental home in Grin
nell. His disease is pronounced cancer
of the liver, an incurable disease.
Ella l. Hubbard has sued the city of
Muscatine for $4,000 damages sustained
by a broken leg caused by neglected
grades and imperfect sidewalks.
Atlantic will build a $25, 900 school,
house.
An appropriation of $4,000 will be
expended on the girls reform school at
Mitchelville.
East Des Moines Is sgitating the build
Ing of a new courthouse that shall be
built in East,Des Moines.
A frightful accident happened a Des
Moines lad while ~indulging In the sport
of Gliding down a stair railing by having
a silver of the rail driven into his leg a
distance of twelve inches.
Page county Will build a freproof
courthouse, ninety feet square on the
ground, floors of tile and ceiling of
iron and terra Gotta, at an estimated cost
of $71, ZOO.
Dubuque was remembered $4,000
worth In the sundry civil appropriation
bill, which will 60 for repairs of public
buildings and private fortunes.
A farmer named Forrest, living near
Emmetsburg, suicided on Tuesday by
shooting himself. He leaves a wife and
two children, but no explanation of.what
led to the act.
While digging a cellar near Sherrall's
Mount, in Dubuque county, the workmen
are said to have discovered an old kettle
filled with coin and valuable papers.
Iowa's organized militia numbers a total
Of 2, BOO officers and men.
The immigration boom has already
commenced IN northwest Iowa. Num-
bers of families from the southern and
eastern parts of of the state with their
household furniture, farm machinery,
etc have arrived at Spirit Lake, Esther
vile and Sioley during the last few days.
On Thursday evening at bridge fifty
two on the Charlton and Abba branch of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad, about three miles west of Garden
Grove, a party of fifteen young people
returning from a literary entertainment
were overtaken by an extra train. Most
of the party slipped through the bridge
and held on to the tlmbers till the train
passed, while others jumped. One young
lady, Miss Scott, Jumped thirty.fve feet,
crushing her ankle. Others jumped a
lees distance without injury.