New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-19
IOWA.

IOWA
At Toledo $50, 900 has already been raised
by the citizens for the rebuilding of Western
college.
twenty-five citizens of Ottumwa viii whack
up $500 each as a starter for the coal palace
fund
are reported from various sections of the
state.
Nearly all the saloons in Keokuk have
closed their doors. This has been caused by
the numerous iniunc ton suits which have
been fled lately. A few still rem ain open
The soldiers relief comm ittee, of Burling
ton. distributed 5000 among the needy sol
diers or their families for the m onth of Feb
ruary OF that city
VIII Andrews, late city editor of the Bur-
hngton Hawkeye, has accepted position on
the editorial staff of the New York World.
and will enter upon his new duties next week
A vein ofcoalfrom three to five feet in thick
ness was discovered afew miles north of Fort
Dodge The mine will be developed i'm
mediately.
Jennie Davenport, Dubuque girl. is unde-
arrest at ST. Pau on a charge of killing
$1,000 from his person,
While racing home from spelling school at
Cumberland, Ira Chew, a young man living
near Cumberland. was thrown from his horse
and fatally injured.
4 rabbit hunt re Gently came off at Selma,
twelve persons on a side, in which 612 rab-
bits were killed, an average OF twenty
i've and over to the gun, Three men killed
forty-one, torty-eight, and forty-seven.
Contracts have been let for the erection of
the new Grace church a Cedar Rapids. The
cost of the building alo ne viii be So, 900,
and the furnishing. adornments, etc. will
bring the amour up to about $50, 900.
John Nicholas, of Mo iris, H., while in an
intoxicated condition fell from a passenger
train at West Liberty and had both feet cut
OF. He died q few hours later. He was on
his way to st. Paul, MINI
Mrs. Upton, the wife of Silas Typton, who
was murdered at MouItou by Dr. Murdy last
October, has become raying maniac as the
result OF mental anguish caused by her h US
bands untim ely death.
While nursing her sick mother at Speneers
Grove, Mrs. Sam Kelso, of Walker, suddenly
exclaimed, 's0h, my heart.,' and fell dead to
the floor. The doctor attributed her death
to apoplexy. Mrs. kelso was one of the
leading ladies in Walker
Dick Herndon, while watering mis- horses
near school house three miles south of
Moulton, Iowa, was fatally shot in the back
by an unknown party with gun loaded
with buekshot. Herndon is brother TO the
Herndon who was sta bbed at a dance in that
vicinity some weeks ago.
Speaking of Iowa newspaper property, the
Davenport Democrat says: 1T is noted that
for every newspaper man who is ready to sell
or get out of the business there are two or
more anxious to get into the profession On
the whole newspe per property IN Iowa pays as
well as it does in any other state in the union .
Mrs LaFountain and John Beattie eloped
from Kansas City the other day without the
consent OF the Eoman's husband They
were captured in Davenport and held to
await tina arrival OF Mr.. LaFountain few
hours in jail had the effect OF changing the
Woman,s mind and after dramatic meet
ing with her better hall she decided to make
back tracks for Kansas City, leaving Beattie
to finish the elopement all by himself
j. Il. Kenger, oil South Englieh, keokuk
county, has a clock with a history It was
brought to this country by Mr.. Wenger's
great grandfather, in 1929, and has been in
the family many years in the old country and
is supposed to hav been made sometime be-
tween 1000 and 100. The clock is made of
brass and has q solid silver face tits artis-
ueally constructed and must have cost sew
eral hundred dollars when new
Gov. Larrabeer of Iowa, in his message to
the legislature urges the adoption of the
Australian ballot system and that women
be permitted to vote at municipal elections
The governor dweals at considerable length
on the question OF prohibition He does not
believe that high license policy or one which,
he says. will leave only the respectable sa-
loon in existence will ever be sanctioned by
the people of Iowa