Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-03


Iowa has sent out about four hundred col
legc graduates this year.
A Creston restaurant man was fined $3.50
Tor selling lemonade on Sudday.
The keokuk schools will be repaired 81, 200
worth during the summer vacation.
Rev. f. S. Hill has been pastor of the Cen
gregational church at Atlantic for twenty
years.
An Oskaloosa girl was hit IN the stomach
by bullet fired through window, but was
not fatally wounded
Des Moines has been selected as the place
of holding the National convention of the
bureau of labor statistics next year.
The building Of the Tabor g. Northern road
from Tabor to Malvern is now certainty.
and work Will be commenced at once.
A Sioux City man invested all his money
IN confectionery store only to find that
his predecessor had bought everything on
credit and had failed TO pay. When the
discovery was made the seller had fled.
a Muscatine genius who has been applying
himself to the task of finding some mode of
transfer that Will operate nolseessly and
with speed has almost completed an inven-
tion called hydraulic road-cart' which
Will have two.horse power and move at the
rate Of ten miles an hour.
There is n scheme on foot to organize a
fine stock breeders company in Des Moines.
II is proposed TO have capital stock of at least
$3.50 COO and to purchase several thousand
ucres of land and start an establishment on
a large scale. 1t is The intention to make
Iowa headquarters Tor fine stock of every de-
scription.
Parties digging well near Let's, Louisa
county, have struck natural gas in large
quantities ut l2O feet below the surface. The
gas clme up with such force that it forced
the water out of the we'll The gas when lg
nited made a blaze nearly twenty feet high,
and after twenty hours of burning did not
Al M ri al 10 a "a nf hn + ta hal rod
to be u rich find.
Dakota.
There is talk of organizing a military
company ut PlankintOn.
Dakota Free Methodists will commence
weeks camp meeting at Parkston July IT,
There are twenty residences being erected
at EanSton with building association funds.
The board of agriculture of North Dakota
offer 81, ,OO1 in premiums for u band tourna.
ment at the fair in September.
The old settlers of Vermillion will hold
their annual picnic on the 18th and will be
addressed by Judge w. W. Brookings.
Leo Drapo and WIN Ewing are in Jail at
Armour. charged with stealing five ponies
from the Indians near Yankton agency.
Professor G. E. Bailey is to succeed Pro-
fessor Hoffman i'll the chair of metallurgy
at the Dakota school of mines, at Rapid
City.
John D. Cameron, of Sioux Falls, has or
ganized II company at Watertown for the
manufacture of water gas for heating pur-
poses.
1t will cost $3.50 to sell liquor in Deadwood
the ensuing year, the county commissioners
having fixed tho license at $500 and the city
demanding u fee OF $3.50.
Territorial Veterinarian Collins states
that thorough investigation of Eddy
county would bring to light thirty cases Of
glandered horses. Montana and Washing
ton territory wild hor ses, it is said, have
brought the disease with them, and spread
it in several locations.
George M. Bell. a resident of Dcadwood
for eleven years, has been reported dead six
times since he arrived in the Black Hills,
and is still hale and hearty. The last report
of his demise stated that he was killed In a
cyclone at Tacoma. The news reached Bells
daughter at Sycamore, H., and she was pre-
pairing to send for his body when she received
a letter from her father dated at Deadwood
Bell was never in Tacoma.