The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-22
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

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Lands in Lyon county are selling at
from S92 to $50 per acre.
Postmasters for Lamont will hereafter
be appointed by the president.
Never before have freight cars been so
scarce in Iowa as at the present time.
The Waverly canning factory sealed
over 100000 cans of sweet corn this
season.
Mrs. John Stron committed suicide at
Fontanelle BY drowning herself in rain
barrel.
J. A. Becker, well-to-do furniture
dealer of Charles City, hung himself
Friday.
At Iowa Falls Richard Stewart, bridge
contractor, was instantly killed by fall
ing timbers.
One hundred and seventy new resi-
dences have been built in Boone already
this season.
Edward Flynn, an old resident of
Clinton, was run down and killed by a
Northwestern engine.
G. B. Smith and wife, of Cherokee,
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary last Saturday.
The Western Improvement company,
with a capital of $1,000, 900, has been
incorporated at Dubuque.
A wagon is in use in Keokuk, hauling
fifty bushels of coal to the load, which
was manufactured thirty years ago.
Isaac Lane. of Cherokee county has
received back pension amounting to
81 ,2S3, and will hereafter receive So per
| month.
A. L. Goodrich. of Des Moines, died
Friday morning from the effects Of an
overdose Of morphine, administered by
his own hand.
The Morrell packing house at Of
tumwa is being enlarged and greatly
improved. 1t will have capacity Of
2,1O0 hogs day.
A young woman appeared in the
Dubuque police court the other day SO
drunk that she couldn't button her shoes.
A court attache fastened them.
The october term Of Calhoun county
court has more cases than for years be-
| ing to SO many saloon injunction cases.
Electricians of Iowa have formed q
| state organization. with N. M. Vaughn,
| Newton, as president The next annual
meeting will be held at Spirit Lake in
July.
| Thomas Barry, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Iowa Central rail-
way, has been promoted to the Office of
general passenger agent to take effect at
once.
Frank Carson, Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern car inspector was
caught between a couple of cars in the
yards at Cedar Rapids and crushed to
death.
Milton Croakham, one Of the oldest
residents of Mahaska county, and also
one of the wealth;est, died suddenly in
Philadelphia. where he and his wife
We're visiting.
/ Alfred Lanferman, a machinist, went
| to Sioux City to see the corn palace. He
saw it and then went to Covington to
see the town. He also saw that and was
robbed of $500.
Tho Sioux City Journal says that the
midnight closing restrictions to which
saloons have been subjected has been
removed, and many drinking places are
now open all night.
Mrs. J. B. Hawley and Mrs. George
Bumbarduer, two Of seven persons who
organized the Muscatine Methodist
Episcopal church in 1899, are still living
and attending services.
Judge Edwin Flint, for number of
years prominent attorney of Iowa and
Wisconsin, died at his home in Mason
City, last week, aged is years. For the
past ten years he has lived a quiet life.
A runaway horse at Cedar Rapids
knocked one man senseless and ran half
block down crowded sidewalk. when
it struck telegraph pole and fell dead.
1t was almost a miracle that no one was
killed.
| There is dispute about the number
of acres of swamp lands in Bremen
county. The United States agent
claims there are thirty forties and the
county's swamp land agent claims 1873.
The case will probably be settled in the
United States courts.
At Marshalltown, James Lynch, Ed
Harrington and James Monroe. await
ing trial for burglary, nearly succeeded
in breaking Jail by saving hole in the
floor with pair of old scissors. The
sheriff drove them back into the soli-
tary at the point of a revolver.
/ G. Mosebaugh, living near Garrison,
bought COW at public sale. While
leading it home the animal became un-
ruly and struck him in the back of the
head causing conclusion of the brain
and fracture of the skull. He lived
two days and died from his injuries.
Hon. James A. Hurley died suddenly
at his home in Wapello. aged so. He
was one of the original incorporators of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern railway. and was delegate
to the electoral college which elected
James A. Garfield president Of the
United States.
The committee appointed by the gov
!, ernor to visit the insane asylums of the
state have made their report. 1t shows
that the state asylums contain
1888 insane, 1,1le males and S4o fe-
J males. In private asylums there are
|. $500, or total for the state of 4,45S.
This was up to June 1, 1891. The re-
port recommends the erection of a new
asylum III the northwestern part of the
! state, rs the present accommodations
are inadequate for the demands made
upon them.
The Farmers Alliance in session last
week at Des Moines, adopted resolutions
declaring for a new system of taxation,
by which the farmer will be relieved:
the government ownership of railroads,
telegraphs, telephone, and express COM
panies; s-cent passenger fare; free coin