The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-26
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

Hay SOiu III Lie l)lItl
Last week for IS per ton.
The electric street cars at Ottumwa
will be heated by electricity.
There is some talk Of organizing
commercial club at Dubuque.
A Nebraska City man proposes to
start creamery at Hamburg.
The Atlantic packing house is running
with full force Of employees.
A new Evangelical church at Rem
wick will be dedicated Dec. 9.
There are 666 Christian Endeavor So
cieties in the state with membership
of Is, 400.
The people of Columbus Junction are
talking of sinking number of gas
wells in that locality.
The Muscatine County Fair associa-
ton has paid all its debts and has bal
ance of $S79.T on hand.
Kimball Bros. will move their ma
chine shops and elevator works from
Anamosa to Cedar Rapids.
By the first of next month Anamosa
will be lighted with electricity, the
plant to cost about 5000.
Davenport business men are becoming
interested in the mile track scheme, and
it is thought it will now be built.
A county seat war is on in Tyler
county. Conway wants the court house
removed to that place from Bedford.
Nicls E. Hansen, of Des Moines, has
been elected assistant professor Of hor-
ticulture and forestry at Ames college.
Dubuque expects to issue 100000 in
bonds per year to pay the brick paving
and local bankers treaten injunction
proceedings.
0. D. Smith, night yardnan for the
Iowa Central at Oskaloosa. was killed
while making coupling, his body being
cut in two.
The eleventh anniversary banquet of
the Iowa State Travelling Mems associ-
alton is to be held at the Slavery house,
Des Moines, Friday evening, Dec. 4.
Gamblers Of Sioux City have come to
the conclusion that Mayor Palmer's
order to them to close was given in
earnest, and none of them have attempt
ed to resume.
Floyd Crazy. former Lyons girl,
mysteriously disappeared from the home
of her adopted parents in Chicago. She
is IS years old and her parents died in
Lyons several years ago.
The second annual convention Of the
Iowa Epworth league was held in Wa
terloo last week, about 400 delegates
being in attendance. w. II. w. Ross,
of Des Moines, is president.
Frank Pence, the notorious ex-con-
stable, ex-searcher, etc, who is under
indictment for the murder of old man
Wishart the Both of last June, has been
granted change of venue to Warren
| county.
A young man named Charles Valid
rath, of Madrid, was bitten by sup
posed mad dog while at work on farm
near Woodward, about ten days ago.
The young man has been taken to New
York for treatment.
Walter Patterson, Is years old, broke
| into Grinnell hardware store and stole
| few pocket knives, which he intended
to sell to pay a debt of Il few dollars. He
is now in Jail and will answer to the
charge OF burglary.
Treasurer Stone states that about
| So, 500 of the $40, 800 of the corn palace
guaranty assessment has been paid in,
Thus far no steps have been taken to
push the collection beyond the amounts
that have been sent in voluntarily.
The coal operators of Des Moines
have combined and raised the price OF
soft coal 80 cents ton. making it now
$3. It is anticipated that the demand
will be greater than the supply thi.
winter and the price is likely to sc
higher.
/ An extensive land deal has been con
summated by which ] 1857 acres Of land
in Butler county was decided to j. G
Lusch, of Ackley. The tract is known
as the Iowa Central Stock Farm, and i
situated near Allison. The price pait
was 81 per acre.
| st. Johns Episcopal church in Du
buque is torn up over quarrel over thu
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Walker, who cam,
from Georgia some three yesrs ago. Il
is claimed that the rector is too assert
i've as to his prerogatives, in which
however, he has been sustained b,
Bishop Perry, of the diocese.
The state board Of health has re
ceived notification from Mt. Pleasant o.
another case where trichina spiralis wa
, found in hog dressed and on the mar
. ket in a butcher shop. Some of tn,
J meat had been sold but the local boar,
at Mt. Pleasant has not yet Learned
} whether it will prove fatal to the pur
, chasers.
A call has been issued by Presiden
Walter Scott for q state convention 0
organized and unorganized miners to b
held at Ottumwa, Dec. 3. for the pur
pose of preparing legislation to be aske,
: for this winter. The representation vii
be one delegate from each mine and on
additional for each fifty miners or frac
ton over fifty in any mine.
|. A gang of professional safe blower
has been doing Indianola. The SAT
in the postoffice was robbed of $500 il
r cash. 81 900 in stamps and number q
5 registered letters. Two stores wer
visited and the safes blown, bet littl
cash was secured. The thieves the
stole II horse and buggy and drove I,
2 Des Moines, where the rig was aban
l doned.
5 Reports from sugar beet crops ar
: coming in, and the result shows TIL,
Iowa can raise beets with enormou
profit. One farmer in Hardin count
: reports So tons per acre; per cent. sugar
! IL; yield Of sugar, 1,751 pounds pc
: acre. In Polk county, yield per acre
IS tons; per cent of sugar, l1.15. Sin
liar reports come from all sections wher
J triad has been made.
EX-State Senator John Gillett, frol
Boone county, who was indicted in 1Se
;. for fraud in connection with his bank q
Ogden and who has resided at VIM