St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-08
Iowa Notes.

Shell Rock is strangely overrun with snakes
Which force their way into houses. The
day in his cellar that had managed to get
upon table sitting in the cellar free from
the wall. Mr.. Adair said it was over three
feet in length. few days ago big snake
fell from overhead to the floor. in DR.. Smiths
summer kitchen. AT another time the doctor
noticed cat jumping up and down out in
the back yard, and by investigation he found
the cat held by the charms ola big snake
An Iowa chicken farmer has sent to con-
gress petition in favor of protection for the
industry in which he is engaged. He saws
he is advised that 10000, 900 dozens of eggs
were imported free. of charge last year, and
he wants protection against the cheap labor
Of the Dauper hens of Canada and Europe
The fiery trail Of meteor, reaching from
zenith to the western horizon, was distinctly
visible for half an hour at Emmetsburg one
evening last week Quite number of the
citizens saw the flash of light and heard the
rumbllng noise as 1t passed over, but no one
in town saw the meteor.
peculiar surgical operation was per-
formed at Schaller last week. Mrs. Thomas
Murray had been suffering with a tumor on
her jaw, and, to relieve her, the left half of
the lower jaw was removed, and will be re-
placed by an artificial one.
The Corydon Republican says that the
army worm is doing great damage in the
south half OF Wayne county. A number of
farmers set fire to their oat fields in order to
destroy the worms and keep them out of the
corn.
Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharp, the sole sur
vivor of the Spirit Lake Indian massacre of
1857, is spending the summer at Arnold's
park on West Okoboji lake, near the site of
her fathers cabin thirty-one years ago.
The July report of the Soldiers Orphans
home at Davenport shows that it contains the
following number of inmates: Soldiers or
phans, Sc; other INDECENT children, 254;
monthly expense, S2,6S5.15.
Carnle O'Brien, aged seventeen, and War
| ren Murphy, aged fifteen, are under arrest
near Usage, on the charge of murder They
administered beating to Harry Slocum from
which he died.
The Dubuque papers declare that the skel.
| etons recently exhumed there are the relics
| of Indians and stories of old murders are
| purely works of fiction.
On Monday evening farmer living up the
! Ridge road brought to Traer butter packed in
| hail stones that fell during the storm eight
days before.
a Wall Lake young man was attacked by
| cholera morbus while eating mush and milk
| at moonlight picnic. He wasn't used to
| high living.
| The Keokuk Gate City says the saloon
| sympathizers in that place lay the hot
weather to the enforcement of the prohibit
ory law.
Mayor Duncan, of Burlington, says there
| are 12O saloons in that city and mot one of
| them pays dollar for taxes or license.'
Mrs Henry Carver, of Pymosa township,
| CaSs county, was bitten by q rattleSnake
| through a finger a few days ago.
| Addie Rhoades, of Woodward, aged twen-
| ty-three, eloped with a U. P. preacher named
| d. 9. Wood. aged fifty.
| Mrs. J. A. Brown, who gave birth to the
| first white child in Cherokee county, died
! last Monday.
Judge d. Baugh, who died at McGregor
last week, was over ninety years of age.
A Scranton preacher keeps the worms roff
his cabbage by footing horn.
A batch of 600 bottles of beer was destroyed
| i'll Des Moiues Saturday.
A hoy evangelist is operating in Des
| MoineS.