Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-31
Iowa Items.

iowa Items.
Chambers has been attacking Cass county
horses.
Denison citizens are agitating the Question
OF new court house.
The Methodist conference for the Atlantic
district meets at Dexter June 4.
Twenty -four students are to graduate from
the Muscatlne high school this year.
Charles Howard, of Perry, while chasing
awolf the other day, dropped dead Of heart
disease.
Tho annual camp meeting of the Seventh
Day Adventists will be held at Des Moines
June to IL.
An eleven-year-old Boone boy ate unripe
gooseberries and drank milk and then laid
down and died.
The board of supervisors OF Sioux county
at the June session will be asked to submit
proposition TO vote of the people to build
county G. A. II. memorial hall at q cost of
5000.
Strange things occur in prohibition sa-
looms. The other day at Dubuque some men
inveigled wanton into one of the whisky
shops, disrobed her, and kept her on exhibi-
tion on a table for twenty-four hours.
Mr.. Conable, convicted of libeling Judge
Hayes, was fined $3.50, but the attorney for
the prosecution moved to make the fine
lighter, saying the judge only wanted to be
vindicated, and the fine was reduced to $50.
The Wright county grand jury wanted In
ternal Revenue Collector Webster to divulge
the names Of the parties to whom govern.
ment liquor licenses had been granted, but
he refused, and the court sustained him.
Beyond the Rockies.
Boise City is agitatlng the question OF
sewerage and better water supply.
Near Pocatello, Idaho. an engine collided
with $50 pound cinnamon bear, cutting tho
animal completely in two.
Five saw mills and seven shinge mills
not ha Apm fne ht,tl1 inn
lumber at Centralia w. Il.
The excitement over the reported Montana
diamond discoveries at Eldorado bar, has
subsidized, owing to the fact that no diamonds
were discovered.
The Helena, Mont, assay office has re-
ceived bar of gold weighing 2l21f pounds,
and valued at SAG, 900, from the Spottedhorse
mine, near Maiden.
A dozen boys have, within short time,
been committed to the Napa, Gala, insane
asylum, whose insanity has been caused by
smoking cigarettes.
While looking for work from house to
house at Los Angeles, discarded daughter
of S. b. Sanderson, u millionaire, accident
ally found her parents and was welcomed
home. -.-tt'.a --.t
The dead bodies of Mrs. Lee and her
daughter have Just been discovered near
Haley, Idaho. They were murdered four
years ago by the husband Of the former,
who then married again and disappeared.
No trace of him has yet been found
Orrin Smith, accused of bgamy, had pre-.
lminary examination at San Bernardino, and
was held to answer. Smith has three wives
living. He married the last one about six
weeks ago, after an acquaintance of three
weeks. His first wife is living IN Kansas, tho
second in San Francisco, and the third in San
Bernardno.
Deputy Collector of Customs S. q. Croake
of Tacoma, w. t., has just returned from a
trip to the American border, between Wash
lngton and British Columbia. He says he
found that for several hundred miles along
the border there was not a single American
officer to prevent the smuggling of opium or
the crossing Of Chinese into the United
States.