The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07


suspended operations, never having paid.
1t cost $67, 600 four years ago, and could be
bought to-day for 1900. There is about
$4,000 Indebtedness and $500 floating
debt. An effort will be made to organize q
new company and put electric lights in con-
nection if this rolling stock will be sold out.
Christopher Latham Sholes, one oithe ear
ly settlers of Wisconsin, has died. He gained
a national reputation as the inventor of the
first successful typewriter. He Was one Of
the earliest of Western newspaper men. and
had been state senator, member of the as
semby. a collector OF this port, postmaster
OF kenosha and Milwaukee and member Of
the board of public works o. Milwaukee.
IOWA.
doctor who fled death certificate With
the city recorder at Dubuque recently called
for it later in the day and explained that
the patient was not dead.
One of the long lost dollars of 1906 has
been discovered by A. NJ. Ingersoll. of Bur
lington. He found it on the levee near the
Mississippi river. 1t is in a good state OF pres
ervation.
In the jail at Ottumwa Henry Murphy, Q
burglar awaiting transportation to the peni-
tentiary, stabbed and seriously injured a tel.
low prisoner named ames Hill, in a quarrel
over point in table etiquette.
swindler givi ng the name of E. F. Glib
berson worked" several turner's in Webster
county by getting them to sign what ap-
peared to be tree orders, but which in reality
were promissory notes.
Mrs. Thomas Niiana, wi e of Rock Island
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one of five heirs to an estate worth $4S,-
900, 600, left by wealthy Englishman named
Ford, recently deceased.
Z. Hamilton county has IA school buildings,
valued at $67 1926; employs 1852 teachers at
an annual compensation of $36,61O.7O.
There are 2,7O3 males and 2,739 females Of
school age in the county.
The Charlton Herald says most iof the
prairie land in Lucas county is fenced and
used, but it ia estimated that there are 3d.
600 acres of brush and timber land lying un-
fenced and unused except az free pasture,
By order Of the county board two CLAN
dered horses at Gering have been shot and
two others quarantned. A suit for damages
has been commenced againstMr. Brown, who
sold the horses. q.
Samples of yellow ochre discovered at In.
dianola, at the depth of thirty six feet, have
been tested, and from the satisfactory re-.
ports received the people there are inclined
to believe they have struck bonanza. 2
Wapello is seriously considering the advis-
ability OF putting in an electric light plant,
orgnnizinga building and loan association;
forming company to manufacture paper;
the erection of large hotel building and
many other needed improvements.
Willis Phipps is in Jail at Boone on @
charge of making the recent murderous as
sault on Mayor Wells. 1t was supposed at
the time that the weapon used was a beer
bottle but it turns out to have been ham,
mer or wrench from a wagon. Phipps was
arrested in Greene county and taken back to
Boone.
A Hartley couple applied for q marriage
license at the county clerks Office in Spencer
few days ago. They were refused because
the prospective bride was not of legal age.
The would be bridegroom vas also the legal
guardian OF his intended and he staggered
the clerk by writing out and placing on flo
his free consent to the ceremony.
While playing about some freight cars az
Rock Island tho other day little boy named
Clark was fastened in an empty car by his
companions. just then IN engine hooked
onto the car and the boy was aoon speeding
on his way to Muscatine. At that place the
boy was released from his unpleasant posi-
tion and returned to Rock Island. He had
nearly cried himself sick.
An old gentleman living at West Keokuk.
while carrying lighted lamp around his
room the other night was taken with an
epileptit fit and fell to the foor The lamp
was broken and the oil ran on the foor
about the old man head and took fire. The
opportune arrival of his daughter was.ths
only thing that saved him from O horrible
death. He was severely burned.
Noel Bradford, just released from the Joliet
pententiary, has been brought to Daven-
port on q requisition from Iowa to stand
trial for shooting and wounding telegraph
operator named Delaney in the latter city
three years ago. He esce ped from the Dav-
export authorities and was gu subsequently, ar
rested in Peoria for burglary and sent to
Joliet.
p B. Hoist, the recently installed school
superintendent of Boone county. claims to
have discovered serious discrepancies in the
books of G. W. Ashton. who recently 70
tired, which would indicate that he was q
de 'aulter to the county for several hundred
dollars Some records arc entirely worthless.
having been mutilated with q knife. Ashton
moved to Texas recently.
While handling vicious horse at Oakland
the other day John Roy was kicked in tho
stomach, and received injuries which may
prove fatal strange point in the circum.
stance in that about a year ago George
Powell, for whom Roy was working and for
whose widow he is still working, was kicked
by the horse, the blow striking in almost ex-
actly the same same spot and proving fatal-
in short time.