The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-20
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS

The postofice at Summerset wal
robbed Of $120 in stamps Sunday night.
Nearly $4,000 per month is distri.
buted to pensioners in Washington
county.
Robert B. Reynolds, Of Anamosa, was
drowned while bathing in the Wapsie
river.
Twelve section men on the Illinois
Central at Dixon struck Saturday for
moro wages.
The grand lodge of Iowa Knights Of
Pythias held its annual session il Sioux
City last week.
The third annual reunion of the
Twenty-third Iowa infantry will BE-
held in Des Moines, Oct. Z.
The packing house of James Booge &
Sons at Sioux City has been sold to the
Union Stock Yards company.
Jesse Garner, of Davenport, shot his
divorced wife twice aud then shot him
ssf. Their wounds will not prove fatal.
Mrs. Winfield w. Mossman, wife Of 1
prominent farmer living near Urbana,
committed suicide last week by hang
Ing.
An effort il being made to secure the
establishment of government signal
station for weather reports at Tama
City.
The body Of Alexander Clarke, who
who died while minister to Liberia, will
b brought from Liberia to Muscatine
for burial.
A baby assault and battery case was
tried in Des Moines the other day. The
defendant was 8 years old and the pros
ecuting witness 5.
A company has been organized in
Burlington for the manufacture and
sale OF new medical discovery for the
cure OF the drink disease.
Ex-County Clerk Bearce, OF Alama-
kee county, has been found Sc, 900 short
In his accounts. The shortage ranges
over period Of ten years.
The tenth annual reunion OF the Iowa
Union ex-Prisoners Of War association
will convene at the state fair ground in
Des Moines Sept. and 2.
While playing doctor the young son
OF james Moore, Of Burlington, poured
carbolic acid down his little brothers
car, causing an agonizing death.
A reunion of the Ninth Iowa infantry
and the Third Iowa battery will be held
at Maquokata Sept l6 and II. The
railroads have made reduced rates.
An old couple were recently married
o Riverside. aged respectively Il and
70 years. Tho groom has been married
TnNP fiYn0S aud 10 tho Fm%1 -
i've children.
A train on the Central Iowa at Oska-
loosa ran into buggy containing John
Langstaff and four children. All the
occupants were injured, two probably
fatally.
The Sheldon wagon factory is filing
an order for 100 dray wagons from an
Omaha frm. The factory now EMPLOYS
twenty-five men and the force will be
increased.
The two sharpers who swindled Dave
King, Of Algona, out of 1000 were re-
leased upon the payment OF the $1,000,
besides fines and costs amounting in ali
to 1900.
David King. the Algona farmer, who
was buncoed out of $1,000 by q couple
or sharpers, claims to have been hypno-
tized at the time he parted with the
money.
Mrs. Hays, = widow woman SO years
old, was struck by . freight one mile
north Of Clarkville and killed instantly.
She was attempting to drive q COW of
the track.
Bishop Hennessey, of the diocese of
Dubuque of the Catholic church, will
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary
OF his elevation to the pontifcate
Wednesday, Sept. 80.
A. B. Hall. near Gladstone, has an
artificial Ash pond that covers three
acres, well stocked with carp. He is
now putting down another artesian well
to supply the pond with water.
A trunk belonging to P. D. Brewster,
. travelling salesman, containing Jew
elry, was stolen from the depot platform
in LeMars Monday night. No clue.
The trunk was valued at $4,000.
An infant son of Robert Walker, OF
Carmen, during the absence OF his
mother from the house for few min
utes Friday, fell into q candy bucket
containing abou. three pints of water
and was drowned.
Henry Fellner, farmer living near
Eldridee, walked off q porch ten feet
high few nights ago, while in q SOM
nalnbulistic state. He alighted on his
head and received injuries that may
prove fatal.
Otis Arnold, formerly well known
business man Of Marshalltown. and =
brother Of ex-senator Delos Arnold.
shot and killed himself in Pasadena.
Cal. Business troubles caused despon-
dency which led to the act.
The two children of Albert White, of
Moulton, had q thrilling experience
while out picking berries. A pack OF
wolves got after them and chased them
some distance, and but for the interfer-
ference ct farmer with y gun would
have overpowered them.
The town Of Cleveland, Lucas county,
has been abandoned. Apostofice inspec.
tor reports that whereas there were coal
mines at Cleveland employing over
1000 men and making q little city of
nearly 1000 people, with q money order
postoffice paying salary Of $500 per
annum, the mines having given ont the
people have left the place and only ruins
mark the spot. The postoffice will be
discontinued.
Patrick Rourke, who lives on the Des
Moines river south Of Agency, while
digging posthole, unearthed the skele-
ton OF huge and probably noted Indian
chieftain. The skull was Of unusual
size, and possessed set Of double teeth
all around, above aud below. There
was also found two silver badges, one
that represented new moon and thu