Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-13

Town TENS.
Ottumwa will commence laying rails for
its electric street railway next week.
No more cemeteries can be located within
the city limits of Dubuque by edict OF the
council.
Fifty orphans from the New York Catho-
lie orphan asylums have been given homes
In Iowa this week.
Oscar Wilde, who drives q hack in Des
Moines, has been fined IS for trespassing on
forbidden ground at the depot.
Ottumwa colored citizens will celebrate
Emancipation day with an old. fashioned bar
becue at Mineral Springs on the 23d.
A reward of $50 Ia offered for tho capture
OF Hiram j. Lawhoad, the horsethief who
recently escaped from the Knoxville Jail.
Minnie Ender, of Princeton, has become
insane owing to the persistent cruelty of her
husband and has been sent to tho Mt. Pleas
ant asylum.
Prospectors have found two veins of coal
within three miles of Davenport which will
aggregate eight feet in thickness. The quail
ity is excellent and citizens are jubilant, 1t
is the only coal in that region west OF the
river.
A band OF Sac and Fox Indians performed
the peace dancer in the rotunda of the
state capitol, at Des Moines, the other day,
for the benefit of the governor and several
visitors. The governor was much pleased
with the performance and the good will ex-
pressed by the Indians.
Mayor .Ames, of Marshalltown, has re-
ceived a letter from II. McChesney, member
of the Chicago board of health, in reference
to o shipment of cattle received mt that city,
the animals being afflicted with the disease
known as "lump-jaw.n The letter requests
the name of the owner of the CATTLE, and
says the cattle were probably fed at the glu-
cose factory in Marshalltown.
A Storm Lake young LADY, while splitting
kindling WOOD, made q miss-lick with the
Ratchet and cut off a piece of her left ear,
says the Pocahontas Record. Her mother
did not take any stock in doctors, so she sent
up town and secured q bottle of mucilage
and pasted the piece back on with that ad-
hesive article and, strange to say, the piece
took root and is now entirely well.
wyoming.
The people OF Douglas lave unanimously
voted in favor of waterworks.
The Bessemer Journal claims that at a
depth of 225 feet n flow of twenty-five bar
rels daily is the result of the Moffat well
near that place.
1t cost Wyoming s1,52 for each patient in
the Evanston insane asylum during the
month of August.
Reports from the Savery ran GO in Carbon
county state that sheep men are trying to
drive cattle from the country and have fired
into several herds.
A real estate boom has struck the new
town Of Newcastle, five miles south of the
u. " N. COdl Cdilp w oEUUh equity, anu
seven miles northwest of Field City.
Ed 7. Moran advertises in the Buffalo
Sentinel that he Is about to Skip town and
requests his creditors to present their bills
at once or "keep their mouths Shut there
after.
The town of Amy claims to nave seven
coal mines, seven stores. eight saloons, two
temperance places, two barber shops, four
churches, one opera house ana three ice
cream parlors, ana says she only wants "a
good newspaper and the electric light to be
perfectly happy.
The Rawlins wool warehouse handled this
year 600, 900 pounds of wool, an excess over
| the handling of last year of 622, 600 pounds,
| says the Tribune. This wool was not only
handled in the matter of storage, but the
great bulk of it was sold at Rawlins. Myny
Wyoming points outside of Carbon county
marketed their wool this season at Rawlins.
The Rock Springs Independent says there
are now at work on the Carbon cutoff be-
| tween three and four hundred men. The
line itself, though only eighteen or nineteen
miles long, will really aggregate a length of
twenty five or twenty-six miles, as for every
mile of main track there ls half a mile Of
switch track leading to one or another of the
numerous coal deposits with which the line
is bordered on either side.