The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-17
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.
Clinton's electric cars have started.

Clinton's electric cars have started.
Waterloos new packing house q
nearly completed.
Iowa has more oats this year than any
state in the Union.
The Peoples party Of Buena Vista
county nominated ticket.
Fruit peddlers in Des Moines must
pay an annual license Of 800.
/. Hull, living near Greenville. had
fourteen steers killed by lightning.
The gate receipts for the Iowa state
fair were f37, 1875, a slight increase
over 1890.
The new Cedar Rapids high school
building was opened Thursday and TO-
600 people visited it.
Fort Madison is to have $25, 900 pub
lie library building, the gift of Henry
Cattermole, deceased.
E. E. Sayers, deputy state veterina-
rian, ordered eleven diseased horses shot
in Osceola county last week.
A petition for woman suffrage was
presented to the $50, 900 visitors to the
state fair and only 1,S45 signed.
Probably the largest watermelon in
the state is one raised at Muscatine,
which weighs fifty-four pounds.
The grand chapter Order Of the East
ern Star met in Clinton last week.
About $50 delegates were present.
Judson Clark, Q boy about Is years
old, was killed at Spirit Lake by the &C
dental discharge of his gun while get
ting out Of boat.
Several cases Of hydrophobia have de-
veloped among cattle in Boone county.
So far two herds in the northern part
have been affected.
A Washington telegram says that the
name of ex-Representative John III. Clear
is being used in connection with the in
terstate commission.
A German baron, who is also com
missioned officer in the German army,
is now working in Dubuque lumber
yard for 80 per day.
Near Sheneyville the 4-year -old son Of
Mr.. GLENN, prominent farmer, while
playing with matches in the barn, set it
on fire and persisted in the flames.
State Superintendent Sabin of Clin-
ton, has been appointed member Of the
worlds congress auxiliary on public in
struction by the Columbian commission.
The silver jubilee Of Bishop Hennesy
will be held in the cathedral at Dubuque
Sept. 80, on the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the bishops conservation as bishop Of
Dubuque.
John Carroll, q railroad man, attempt
ed to board moving train at Council
Bluffs Tuesday and fell under the wheels
and was horribly mangled. He lived
only few hours.
An excursion train from Montezuma
bound for the Grinnell fair left the
track near the latter place. Two
coaches were upset and about twenty
persons injured, some quite seriously.
The jury in the case of the State VI.
Byron Gwinn, for the murder Of Liberty
Shocks, of Charlton, last August, re-
turned a verdict Of guilty in the first de-
gree. He was sentenced to life impris-
Onment.
The Des Moines and Northwestern
Railroad company have changed their
guage from narrow guage road to one
Of standard. There are lis miles Of
track and it was all changed in twenty
four hours.
The United States department OF
agriculture has commissioned s. E.
Mossman, of Hubbard, as Especial agent
| of the government to obtain samples for
the national exhibit at the Worlds Co
lumbar exposition to be held in Chicago.
The Rescue Hose company, of Musca-
tine, recently refused to take part In .
| Labor Day demonstration because the
| parties having the demonstration in
charge proposed to sell beer on the pa
rade grounds for the benefit of the fire
department.
| The Saturday Chat has just COM
pleted census of Cedar Rapids which
shows remarkable growth since the
census was taken in 1890. Then the
population was $1,000, while now The
Chat shows Cedar Rapids to have q pop
ulation Of 21,174.
Jacob Lambright, of Eagle City, was
hauling load Of hay and his two child
rem, a girl of Is and q boy of 5 years old,
were on the load with him. The team
started to run away and threw the
children of, breaking the boys collar
bone and and the girls leg.
Iowa has more horses than Delaware,
Maryland, the District Of Columbia,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana put together.
The eleven states named have total Of
,2S3, 613 head, ~, 466 less than the single
state Of Iowa.
J. Sloat Fassett, who was nominated
for governor Of New York by the Repub'
licans on Wednesday, and who Is thu
present collector of the port Of New
York, having been recently appointed t.
vice president of the Commercial State
bank Of Sioux City.
\ Judge Ney, of the United States dis
trict court at Dubuque, decided thu
Eagle Point switching cases in favor o.
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pan
road; that the state railroad commits
sioners had no jurisdiction in the matter
and that it properly belonged to tn.
interstate commerce regulation. Thu
case has been pending for some time.
Lew Swingle, well-to-do farmer liv
ing six miles south of Walnut, was bit
ten in the forearm by stray dog about
six weeks ago. The wound healed and
nothing more was thought Of the mat
ter, until about a week ago the wount
became infiamed and broke into q run
. ming sore. He had complained for tn,
> last two weeks of not feeling well. H,
now lies in critical condition will
every symptom Of rabies.
Killed Xhila Aklaan In Had.