Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-03
Iowa.

Inc Iowa apple crop is not up TO the aver
age.
A freight car factory is talked of at Du.
buQue.
A fine vein of yellow ochre has been found
near OSkaloosa.
Hog cholera is raging to an alarming eN-
tent in Fairvew township Monona county.
The Davenport syrup refinery manufact-
ures 5000 bushels of corn into syrup every
day
There has not been singlecriminal case
on the court docket OF Worth county for four
years.
The will of tho late F.. B. Jaggar bequeaths
to the Burlington public library the neat sum
Of 500, 900.
The new packng-house at Emmetsburg
was opened Wednesday with speeches and IA
brass band.
The good people of Warren county are
contributing to relief fund for Kansas
drought sufferers.
AT 1ndianola the other day Willie, the
1-year-old son of William 1ilton, fell into
the river and was drowned.
Frank Blomenthall, n Dubuque Hebrew,
has disappeared leaving n wife and a num-
Der of children in destitute circumstances.
The state dairy commissioner is preparing
his annual report 1t will be very long ana
voluminous and contain much interesting
matter.
A stock company with 100000 capital has
been formed at Waverly to manufacture
utensils for dairymens uce. Operations
Will begin in January
II II. Heath, whose oat meal mill at Des
Moincs was recently destroyed by fire, has
arranged to build at Fort Dodge mill with
capacity of $50 barrels per day.
A brakeman named William Painter was
run over by locomotive in the yards q !
Bartlett Thursday night and suctained ilS
iuries from which he died in "A few hours.
The new Central stock yards company that
is now about ready for business in Sioux
City is meeting with much opposition from
the Union stock yards company, the old con-
Germ that has done business there for years
Rock Valley man has invented a steam
threshing engine which he claims can bo
manufactured cheaper, is more compact and
less liable to wear and breakage and requires
less fuel than the thrashing machines now in
vogue.
A German boy living near Geneva acci-
dentally shot and seriously wounded himself
the other night He was preparing to 20 tOa
charivari and was testing the merits of ~
caliber revolver rs a seepdisturber when it
was accidentally discharged, the ball lodging
in his thigh.
The Sioux City packers have addressed
letter to the railroad commissioners of Iowa
asking what is to be done in relation TO the
interstate commerce commissioners decision
in the case of the board of trade in CHICAGO
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The packers protest that this decision thrca-
tens the existence or every packing house in
Iowa.
Captain j. S. Mckinley of Usage probably
carries as many painful momentoS of tho
late unpleasantness'' as any veteran in the
country-in fact the body is n network Of
scars. Since the war II pieces of bone have
been taken from his body, Ell eishty-seven being
taken from his head alone. Ho is now fifty.
two years of age, and Notwithstanding tho
hard usage he has experienced still enjoys
good health.
The superintendent OF public instruction
hiss issued pamphlet con tanning the statistiss
of the nigh schools of the state. This is the
first time anything of the kind has been at
tempted. 1t contains the length of the copr.e
of each high school in the state, the number
of years spent in labor and the number Of
boys and girls in attendance. ON
October Is there were 1885 pupils,
6,S55 of whom were girls and 4,O3l boy7
During the school year of 1SS9-90, the total
attendance was II ,O93, of girls 6,S31, and N
boys 4,226. The additional pupils who will
come in will carry this years total far above.
that of last year An interesting feature is
the greater proportionate increase of tho
number of girls in attendance than boys
Mrs. S. S. Armitage of Keokuk, Ia, is Wis.
iting her sister, Mrs +. M Woolcy OF 2~ll
South Nineteenth street