The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-04-11
IOWA.

The Davenport glucose factory is now
equipped to use 2,5OO,OOO bushels of corn
annually.
Several Sheldon parties were recently indict.
ed for gambling, their offense consisting in
handling tens and baking powder with lot.
terry attachment.
George Mcqueen, of Harlan, the other day
had an ounce and q half bullet taken out Of
his left leg which le received in IL southern
battlefield twenty-five years ago.
The auditor Of Des Moines county paid q
bounty on litter of wolf whrlps the other
day, seven in number. The mot her was shot
and the little ones taken alive.
A ninc-ycar old son of Hans Balhow, a
farmer living near Mt. Joy, Scott county,
while plnyng with his younger brother had
his hand chopped off with IL hatchet.
While its mother was housc.clcaning tho
other afternoon, the little 2-yenr-old child Of
A, $. Travis, Of Sidney. got hold OF bottle
OF iodine and swallowed the contents, with
fatal effect.
Wolves are reported us having their own
way in the Skunk river timber district of JEFF
fcrson county and farmers are putting up
high picket corrnls in which to keep their
stock at night.
skiles, the patent right swindler who vic
tiinizca several Iowa citizens last fall has
come to grief in Cincinnati lie worked nn
indianapolis man for $500 and the IIoosier
followed him up and caused his arrest.
At Plensant Grove horse shoe was found
imbcdded in the heart Of a water elm tree u
distance Of six feet from the ground 1t is en-
tirely surrounded by solid wood and IL puz.
zlins people how it came there.
Frank Fook, tho Dubuque Chinaman who
shot himself after making u desperate at-
tempt to murder companion, has died from
the effects Of his wounds. His body has been
embnImed and will be sent to China.
Twelve miles northwest Of Britt, Iowa, the
srarlet fever il raging terribly, five in one
family, living in n rude hut. are all affected
In nll, Is cases are reported. Tho author
tiles have been very slack. and there has ns
yet been no quarantine.
The MaIuokotn Excelsior says that jus.
ticc of the peace of that town was presented
with petition signed by thirty citizens re-
qnesting him not to get drunk on the day
that o certain case was to lie tried before
him, but tho petition did no good.
A strange bird was shot near Audubon the
other day. ltsomewl,nt resembles u crane
but is pronounced to l,e not ol that species.
1t is long.legse'l, long-necke,l, spure bodied
creature, with snow white plumnge and is 4.
deep mystery to local naturalists.
Mrs. Henry Taylor, of Oskuloosa, is the
mother of an abino baby seven weeks old :,
with pink eyes, transparent skin and lnir
white ns snow. This peculiarity ot the case
in TINT both parents OF the child nre of pure
African blood, with com plexions as blnck us
ebony.
The Keokuk Gate City having noticed in
m exchange TINT an Iowa farmer gives no.
lice that he will sell 152 head of milcll cows
aud other cattle and twent y-five brood sows,
observes that 20 people do not seem to be
much crushed who hive resources like that
oil Il farm"
William Finner, a well-to.do farmer living
near Hamburg, went to Sidney and drew S2S5
from the bank, with which he started home.
lie has not been seen since. but his team was
found standing by n neighbor's house, with
lines tied up to I'll. dash board. 1t is
thought he has bee. wnylnil nllj murdered
for his money. A searching party is now
hunting for him.
A distressing death occurred nenr Wyom.
ing, Jones county. the victim being Mrs.
Joseph Nesbor The Indy was looking Tor.
ward TO maternity, md while Mt home alone
l'ccame terror stricken ut the sight of some
sGuaws on the premises. The nervous shock
caused IL complete prostration, which ended
in Il double death. Another Indy lost her
lie in Jones county some years ago under
exactly similar circumstances.
A tarmcr living near knox, has been mys-
tcriously missing for over IL week. He had
sold S2l0 worth oi corn in Sydney and after
paying n note OF $50 ut the bunk started to
see his sick wife, who is staying Mt her fn-
thcr's with her three children. lie gave her
$40 and started for home since which time
he has not been seen. II is reported TINT he
is OWING several hundred dollars, and the
general opinion is that ilo has fled from his
cred itors.