The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
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Charles Reardon, a veteran of the war liv.
ing at Alden, has become wildly insane. The
Cedar Falls G. A. r. post will look after his
family.
Dubuque parties have made proposition
to erect a packing-house at Emmetsburg
employing from so to 100 men ifproper en-
couragement is offered.
Spotted Wolf, the crack shot of medicine
company, entered turkey shooting contest
IN disguise at Marion, and bankrupted the
owners of the scheme by killing all the tur-
keys.
Sheriff O'Neil was fined S. and costs in O
justice court in Council Bluffs for assaulting
two visitors to the county Jail who had
called to give prisoner friend plug of to-
bacco.
d. E. McCollun, of West Liberty, shipped
carload of horses to the Philadelphia mar
ket. During the year now closing Mr.. Nc
Collum has paid the farmers of Muscatine
county $4,000 for horses.
While digging a well a short distance south
OF Monroe man named Marshall was over
come by foul air in making an ascent and
fell out of the bucket to the bottom, q dis
lance OF seventy-five feet, breaking his neck
The family OF Roger Dryer, whose man.
gled body was found under freight car at
Davenport, assert that his death was not
accidental but that he was murdered for his
money. He was known to have large sum
of money in his possession and when found
his pockets were empty. A thorough in.
vestigation is being made.
In a tussle with gang of tramps at Dav.
export Officer Grapengeter fired in the air
in order to frighten them. Not succeeding
in fetching" them that way he shot one Of
them named Ward in the leg, which had the
desired effect, and he landed them safely in
the calaboose
George G. Home, slick young man from
Logansport, Ind, started a Christmas dollar
store in Mason City and managed to interest
the sympathy Of the citizens by telling them
a tale of woe about just losing his wife, etc
After borro wing money from half the bust
ness men in town he folded up his winnings
and skipped for parts unknown.
The Iowa legislature will be asked this win
ter to make liberal appropriation for the
improvement of the state house grounds
The state has an elegant capitol building
and as shabby grounds as can be found any,
where. The building does not look it's worth
in such setting, and the setting ought to be
improved.
A confidence gang has been working the
farmers in the vicinity of Carson. They pre-
tended to be making "green gooda" from
stolen government plates, and baited their
victims with genuine bills to draw them on
Loses to the amount of $4,000 have been
discovered. One farmer named C. E. Denton,
who was mulcted for 81 900 last October,
gave out story, which was published at the
time that he had been held up by masked
robbers. Two of the gang have been arrested
and bound over to the next term OF the
criminal court.
romantic Christmas story comes from
Davenport. About twenty years ago Mr..
and Mrs. Owen, now of Davenport, resided in
Geneva, MINI. They had little son to
whom neighbors named Jordan had become
attached and finally kidnapped and moved
away with After travelling all oyer the
country the Jordan family settled in Ohio,
where the head of the family soon afterward
died. Mrs. Josdan kept the boy until he was
IA years o: age, when he started out for him
SELF He had been told that his parents lived
in Minnesota and commenced search for
them. After many years of wandering he To-
Gated them in Davenport and Christmas eve
he returned full grown man to the mother
he had been taken away from when little
more than baby.