The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
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The State Sunday-School association will
hold it's next annual meeting at Council
Bluffs June 10 to II.
child of c. Helgenderf of Lyons, acct
dentally fell into tub of boiling water. re-
ccsying injuries which caused it's death short
" after.
William Vann jumped from Dubuque
electric motor carwhie it was in motion and
received injuries from which he may not re-
cover.
Water was struck in the artesian we'll at
Wilton at a depth OF l 400 feet. The flow is
$50 gallons per minute and is one of the
strongest in the state.
Louis West, of Floyd county. has brought
suit for divorce from his wife, claiming that
she has treated him ''cruely and inhumanly"
for twenty-one years.
Large numbers of sheep and other stock are
being killed in Lucas county by wolves, and
the farmers want the Legislature to in
crease the bounty for wolf scalps
Paul Schwabber, an employe in the pack
ing-house at Fort Dodge, slipped on q greasy
floor and fell on a butcher knife, the blade
cutting frightful cash IN his breast. He
will recover.
Lawyer M. E. Billings, Of Waverly, in the
Anamosa penitentiary fer the supposed muir
der of Kingsley, will start in o few days for
Dos Moines to plead his case orally before the
supreme court.
There are twenty-one patients in the In
dependence insane asylum from Bremen
county, the cost for the support of each being
$3.50 week. During 1889 the expense to the
county was SO, 259S9.
The Everly News estimates that the people
Of Clay county elbow i'm $12 900 year on
the Louisiana state lottery, and remarks
that in five years this sum would wipe out the
county debt.
Darlington has appointed John T. Merrill
as its industrial agent, at yearly salary of
$4,000. He is to keep family at work at
home and abroad in the city interest, visit
| ing eastern manufactures wishing western
, locations
Citizens ofCouncil Bluffs and Omaha are
talking Of building two to5oggan slides be.
| tween the two Cities The cost of putting up
the Slides will be in the neighborhood of
| 81. 500 and Will make slide of over q mile
each way.
The Des Moinss ". c. T. U. proposes to do
g. good work. 1t has been discovered that
some children in the city are unable to at
tend school because their parents are too
i, poor to buy books. The ladies propose to
! remedy this and furnish books to all desery-
ing needy ones
| 1t is feared the mild weather of the earlv
part of the season followed by the extremA
! cold df the past few days has done preot
damage to nest summers fruit crop. Tile
fruit buds are we'll advanced in Iowa and il ia
thought continued sStd snap will kill the
crop.
John sn yder, of Storm Lake. lost twenty.
four head of cattle by drowning in the lake.
He neglected to break a hole in che ice for
them to drink out of and they walked out to
a crack some distance from the shore, where
their com bined weight broke the ice and let
them in.
C. n. COUNSEL, a prominent citizen Of
Farley, Dubuau Ne county. was found dead
in his house, where he lived alone. When
found the body was frozen rigid. He had
apparently just entered the house when
stricken down, as his hat and overcoat were
not removed.
Mrs. VIM. SOnnenberg, of What Cheer
eloped with one of her boarders named Fred
Aehmeke, taking her 16-month-old child
with her and leaving her 3-year-old boy to
the care of his father. The couple also took
large amount OF goods. but were com.
PEELED to abandon them in order to make
better progress. They were traced to the
railroad depot. where it is thought they
took a train for the east.
Mise Minnie Brownlee, a Scott county
tsacasr, has been arrested for Furnishing q
refractory pupil. A party of boys banded
together with the determination to run
thiugD:- and when the teacher tried to call q
halt by birching one OF their number the
others made q united effort to rescue him.
Thsplncky teacher held on. however, and
trounced the urchin in fine style. The boy
claims the teacher used the stove poker, but
MisTBrownleed denies the charge The county
superintendent upholds the teacher in her
action.