The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

Many new residences are being bnilt
Ut Creston.
Shelby county voted bonds for new
court house.
A Creston grocer sells thirty pounds
Of sugar for 81.
At Keota not even the drug stores are
allowed to sell liquor.
Mason City's school census give 1885
children Of school age.
The new prison for females at Ana
mosa is nearly completed.
Twenty coons were bagged recently
by Montezuma sportsmen.
The postal route from Salem to Hill
boro has been discontinued.
The cost of the recent election to the
state is estimated at 5000, 900.
Iowa's total vote at the late election
was 420, PA, the largest ever cast.
The Boone packing house killed q
thousand hogs one day recently.
Gambling houses at Ottumwa feared
prosecution and have closed temporarily.
The Mason City Democrat has sus-
pended publication owing to lack Of
patronage.
The Des Moines cotton mill is making
30 900 yards of goods per week and can
not fill its orders.
A Cherokee audience recently objected
to q high-kicking actress with COM
pany playing there.
Shelby county voted by 600 majority
to issue $4,000 bonds to build new
court house ut Harlan.
Muscatine is talking about having a
grand wolf hunt, several animals hav-
ing been seen in that vicinity.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars have been expended at Estherville
this year in Improvements.
Daniel Foley, 70 years old, died at
Keokuk last week. He had lived in
that vicinity for forty years.
The strike in the Dubuque overall fac
tory has been satisfactorily settled and
the girls have gone back to work.
Republicans of Boone favor resub-
mission of the prohibition question, ac-
cording to The News, Of that city.
In Palo Alto county tramp lay down
to sleep beside straw stack. It tipped
over on him and he was suffocated.
Fire at Silver City Thursday morning
CO., Tss Rre e Thoughts 10 int t to ha V
started by thieves.
Shenandoah is still moving right
along. More than 800 new houses have
been completed already this year, some
of them elegant homes costing $4,000.
Work has been commenced upon a
new reservoir for the water works at
Boone, 26O feet long by 200 wide. The
capacity will be about 1000, 900 gallons.
Fred Schubert, Dubuque collector,
was held up by footpads while on his
way home the other night, and because
he didn't have any money they beat him
terribly.
Thirteen boys and two girls from the
Children's Aid society, of New York.
have found homes among Algona peo-
pie. There were about six applicants
Tor each child.
The large barn of John Egel, near
Blue Grass, was struck by lightning and
totally destroyed by FIRE. Four horses,
two colts, seventy tons of hay and a lot
OF farm machinery We're consumed.
Fifty-eight cars of cattle left Algona
In one day last week, making three
train loads, in return for which over
$4,000 was paid to the hands of the
shippers and then to the farmers.
The steam heat, electric light and
electric railway companies of Ottumwa
have been consolidated into one, called
the Ottumwa Electric Railway COM
pany and the capital stock increased
from 500. 900 to 100000.
Liberty township, Dubuque county,
IL the banner Democratic township in
Iowa. At the recent election 228 votes
were cast for the Democratic ticket
without q scratch on them. Not a
single Republican or Peoples ticket was
voted.
William H. Blume raised sugar beets
successfully in Des Moines county. He
| no local market for them. Mr.. Blume
Is Of the opinion that the crop can le
made 3 profitable one provided q sugar
factory is near at hand to consume the
product.
The Governors Greys have appointed
| their three commissioned officers, Captain
Thrift and Lieutenants Blocklinger and
Jaeggi, committee to secure, if pos
sible, the tournament OF the Interstate
Military Rifle association next season at
Dubuque. Seven states will be repr, :
sented by $50 men, who will be present
from ten days to two weeks.
The farm residence of James Lafferty.
who lives six miles south Of Indepen-
dence, was burned to the ground about
| / o'clock in the morning. The family,
consisting Of father, mother and four
small children, were awakened by the
| falling roof and barely escaped with
their lives. Nothing was saved. The
| origin is unknown, with loss about
A workman at the Burlington wire
mattress factory ruined circular saw
Saturday while cutting a black walnut
plank. 1t was found that in the heart
Of knot broken mules shoe and a
short piece of iron chain, which were
firmly imbedded, had done the mischief.
The piece Of timber was from the South
and it is believed that the shoe and
| chain had been used as canister during
the late war and had lodged in the
heart of the tree thirty years ago, which
In the meantime grew from sapling to
monarch Of the forest.
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