The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-27
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

AAAV AL - A1I1 AAN1ASODs
Cholera is thinning out the hogs near
Dysart.
Des Moines expects $4,000 visitors dur
ing state fair week.
Apples are drug on the market at
Tama at % cents per bushel.
The Creston Blue Grass palace was
formally opened Friday of last week.
The Mississippi river at McGregor is
lower than it has been for twenty years.
The Third regiment, Iowa National
guards, was in camp at Indianola last
week.
The miners Of the Angus Coal com.
pany, at Angus, have struck for an eight
hour day.
II. G. Iseminger, of Des Moines. has a
Bible which was possnssed by his great
grandfather in 1868.
Andrew Jennings, aged AZ. died at
Farley, Dubuque county, while drinking
whisky on wager.
The postoffice at Deering, Winnebago
county, has been discontinued. Mail
viii be sent to Leland.
Senator John s. Woolson, Of Mount
Pleasant, has been appointed Judge OF
the First judicial district.
The Farmers Alliance at Rowan has
employed man to ship the grain OF
members at SO much per bushel.
Miss Anna He'll suicided Saturday
night by hanging, the commencement OF
suit for SANDER being the cause.
Pearl fishing is being prosecuted to a
considerable extent in the Coon river in
Dallas county with excellent success.
An Atlantic man has q big steer 4
years old that weighs $500 pounds.
which ne will exhibit at county fairs.
John Klingler, of Iowa City, who was
sent to the penitentiary on charge OF
larceny on circumstantial evidence. has
been pardoned.
The 13-year-old son of Thomas B. ia.
cobson, of Jewell, committed suicide by
hanging. himself with strap in his
fathers barn.
A. w. Mcfarland, of Boone, has com.
menced suit against the w. D. johnson
Coal company for $4,000 damages for
mining coal on his land.
Positive assurance is given from Wash.
ington that the Iowa Sac and Fox and
Pottawattomie reservations will be
opened for settlement Sept. Is.
The city physician of Mount Pleasant
has been instructed by the council to in
spect all animals before they are killed
by the butchers of that place for meat.
Company B, of villisca, took nearly
all OF the prizes at the Fifth regiment
encampment in Shenandoah and were
rendered banquet on their return home.
Sunday night the dry goods store Of
John Boesch, at Burlington, was entered
and $500 worth Of silk taken, and var.
lous amounts were secured at other
stores.
Last week officers raided saloon al
Wyoming. capturing over 200 kegs Of
beer and three barkeepers. The bar.
keepers were fined 500 and costs each
and the beer was destroyed.
A rich quality of blue clay, containing
eight ounces of pure aluminium to the
bushel, has been found at Hampton. A
company has been formed and works
will be built for its reduction.
Louis Thompson, farmer, was killed
at Radcliff while walking on a freight
train. He had boarded the train while
in motion and was in the act Of walking
to the caboose when he fell between the
cars.
The Des Moines Steam Heat and Power
company has closed contract with q
Lockport, N. Y, firm to put in steam
heating plant to heat the business por.
ton of Des Moines. The district com.
prises about twenty blocks.
The mystery surrounding the drown.
ing of Mrs. Burrows at Muscatine has
been solved. The body of Paul H.
Jewell, her companion, has been found
This dispels the theory of foul play and
proves they met death together.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Manning. an old
and wealthy couple, have been arrested
at Council Bluffs by United States secret
service officials on an indictment re-
turned at st. Joseph, charging them
with issuing 500 counterfeit $40 notes.
A wreck occurred on the Chicago. st,
Paul and Kansas City road at Arispe
Monday morning. It was caused by q
slide in an embankment which threw
over nine freight cars, piling them ur
promiscuously. Brakeman w. H. Stick.
ney was killed by being caught in the
debris.
The Dubuque Cornet band was in
camp with the Fourth regiment al
Waterloo last week. While there some
sympathizing friend sent them a keg Of
beer, but the sheriff seized it. The
package was labeled ..sheet music. but
the inscription did not save it from con.
fiscation.
The ann;al retreat of the Sisters Of
Charity was concluded at the mothe,
home in Table Mound, Dubuque county
Saturday. One hundred and seventy.
five sisters We're present from all parts
Of the country. A new mother house is
being built in Dubuque at cost Of
500, 900, to be completed next year.