The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-10
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

Centreville is working for system of
water works.
Cedar Rapids is threatened with a
wood famine.
A tariff reform club has been organ
lied at Creston.
Fourteen schools in Clay county are
without teachers.
A mad dog has been terrorizing the
residents of Keokuk.
Creston has curiosity in the shape Of
. two-headed calf.
Mrs. Catherine Bagets died at Dubuque
last week aged 81 years.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Gold
field and an epidemic is feared.
The Diamond Joe company will erect
large warehouse on the levee at Du-
buque.
Ottumwa citizens cannot agree on the
location OF their projected $1OO, 900 court
house.
The Mississippi river is solidly closed
at Lyons and people are walking across
on the ice.
There are at present 424 convicts
within the walls of the Fort Madison
penitentiary.
A lot of Dubuque dime novel reading
boys have fitted up woodsheds in which
to hold nightly sessions.
During the year 1890 the Boone
creameries shipped outside the state
lOo,OOO pounds OF butter.
The Ottumwa packing house is run
nlng at its full capa .ity aud turning
$500 hogs into pork each day.
A Wabash freight train loaded with
poultry and potatoes jumped the track
at Moulton. causing a loss of $40 200.
The diphtheria scare at Clarkville is
about over. Business has been almost
at standstill for more than month.
An ice machine. engine house and
otner improvements aggregating S3O, OOO
are to be added to the Boone packing
house.
The Dubuque city council is consid-
ering the matter If operating its own
electric light plant for the lighting Of
the streets.
Max Dlsch, who assaulted Miss Maud
Collins at East Dubuque about year
ago, has been sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary.
Measles is the fad at Davenport. In
one school room IN that city thirty of
thirty-four pupils are ut their homes
with the ailment.
NJ. q. Mills, Democratic rep. esenta-
tlve-elect from tin LIE Mars district. has
sent IN his resignation ON account Of i'll
health. A special election will be
called.
The Des Moines cotton mills were de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night, causing
| loss OF $15O,OOO. 1t was the only cot
ton mill in the state and employed 80
hands.
The Western Normal college at
Shenandoah burned Thursday night.
President Croan and sixty students
rooming in the building escaped. The
loss was about $4,000.
A woman named Gutter, living near
Ute, is under arrest charged with mix,
ing strychnine in griddle cakes for her
husbands breakfast. After hard tus-
sci her victim recovered.
At New Hampton A. S. Birdsall,
aged a, was recently swindled out of
$0OO Dy Chicago gang, who claimed to
be the Chicago Theatrical company.
He put up the cash and took worthless
mortgage as security.
Burglars seem determined to possess 4
gold watch owned by c. M. Hart. of
Council Bluffs. It is q family relic and
was stolen several months ago and
afterward recovered in st. Louis. The
same watch was stolen again Monday
night.
| The Dubuque electric car line, which
has been using the new storage battery
system: finds it too expensive, and will
probably adopt the overhead wire sys-
tenn In the spring, The manager of the
company says it costs 500 week for
batteries for each car.
Iowa is all right financially. The
cash OH hand is $522, 949. 50; receipts for
biennial period, $1,000, 40: this added to
amount on hand is 3,5S7 ,1S9. so: regu
lar expenses for next two years. &C
cOrding to last two years expenses.
$3,oSs, sa7:a, leaving for appropriations
$553, 882.25.
Some dynamite being thawed out by
employees at the government works near
Davenport exploded one morning re-
Gently, causing buildings to tremble in
the city. The workmen carried large
quantity Of the stuff out Of the shanty
where it was stored after part of It
was on fire.
A member of the firm of J. Olken-
heimer q Co., earthenware importers of
Dubuque, who went to GERMANY 4 wear
l that hos
secret process for white enameling pot
terry known only in that country and
will locate an establishment at DUBUQUE,
the first in the United States.
| William H. Blume, Des Moines
county farmer, last summer grew 800
pounds OF sugar beets on one-sixteenth
OF an acre, or at the rate Of "a. 900
pounds per acre, and the weather being
dry ard unfavorable did not then get q
fair average crop. He thinks that no
more than one crop should be raised
every nve years on the same piece of
ground.
/ The wife of William Schultz, a farm
or living five miles northwest of Eldora.
reported Sunday that her husband
had been found dead in bed.
Saturday he bought strychnine at
Steamboat Rock to kill rats, as he said.
but his wife said he took it himself with
suicidal intent. There was some sus-
picion that the woman poisoned her hus-
band and an investigation will be held.
4 The Ottumwa coal palace, which
/ during the past two years has attracted
to that city 100000 visitors has been
sold at public auction, Street Com
missioner Padden bidding it in for