The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-03
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

Sac county will erect monument to
her soldier dead.
The fence factory at Iowa City will
soon be in operation.
A new creamery IS to be built at
Humboldt this winter.
Clinton business men will see that the
city has better opera house.
There is claimed to be shortage of
school teachers all over the state.
H. T. Woods, Of Tabor, shipped
twenty March pigs that averaged 27s
pounds.
Farmers of Palo Alto county will ship
$4,000 tons Of upland hay to Eastern
markets.
There are twenty-seven cases on the
docket Of the Clay county court begin
ming Dec. 8.
Electric light wires at Manson are be-
ing put up and lights are promised be-
fore the holidays.
1t is estimated that $500. 900 worth of
lumber has been sold during the past
year at Ottumwa
P. w. Madden, sheriff of Clay county,
| is candidate for the wardenship Of the
Anamosa penitentiary.
Labor on the Manson water works is
at standstill, the contractors having
trouble getting material.
Constable Taylor, of Coon Rapids, has
been sued for $4,000 damages for Selling
1 a cal00n ont fit 1aSt summer
The new Y. M. c. A. building at
Iowa City, known as Chase Memorial
hall, costing $50, 1000, has been dedicated.
S. A. Jennings has just been called
upon to do jury work for the first time
in thirty years residence in DAY.
export.
A. Fernbach, proprietor of the West
ern hotel at Waterloo, while going up
! stairs fell over railing and was killed.
He leaves family.
The Catholic society of Pocahontas has
| Just finished 81 ,sCO parsonage and Is
now engaged in building an extensive
addition to the church.
Scarlet fever in fatal form is raging
| in independence. In one family of six
Il
Public schools have closed.
Jack Howard, who severely stabbed
Carol Jones in saloon row at Ottum-
wa, has been sentenced to four years
imprisonment at Fort Madison.
A Sons of Veterans lodge has been or
ganized at Missouri Valley, with J. B.
Lyon as captain. The membership is
expected to reach seyentyfive sons.
/ j. H. Berkshire, a Muscatine young
man, has been appointed first assistant
engineer in the mechanical engineering
corps of the worlds fair in Chicago.
i If half the building projects which are
in contemplation are carried out next
season it will be the best year for build
ing that Sioux City ever experienced.
| An enterprise has been organized il
] Boston by number of people who have
!. seen the Sioux City corn palaces with
the object of building a similar palace
!, in Boston.
One Underwood. colored man who
located at Rock Valley and claimed to
be professional horse trainer, suddenly
left the town and $500 outstanding in.
debtedness.
The state superintendent Of public in
struction has decided that no child in
the public schools can be compelled tt
participate in religious service contrary
to its belief.
William Parent died at the county
, poorhouse at Keokuk, aged IS years
He was veteran of the Mexican war
and was at one time reputed to b.
,, worth $4,000.
II The Cedar Rapids street car company
: has two damage suits ON its hands file,
: by lady passengers who want $3. 800 fo
| injuries sustained while riding in tn,
companys cars.
!: Glen J. Wall, dapper young man
: fraudulently solicited several member
ships in Davenport for the Worlds Mer
camille agency, of Chicago, at SO each
He was arrested in Ottnmwa.
While workmen were engaged putin,
! q new tin roof on the fremont House a
| Marshalltown a barrel of the stuff tool
: fire from portable stove, exploded an,
set fire to the building. Loss, $4,000
partly insured.
Judge Deemer sentenced J. X. Cum
= berland, the murderer Of the Robertson
near Harlan two years ago, to be hange,
Feb. 10, 1888 He will be sent to For
Madison in the meantime. The sen
tence gives satisfaction.
A member of the grand jury says tn
registered sales of liquor, not includin.
beer, by the drug stores of Wrigh
county for the last year, as compute,
y and estimated by that body, reached til
/, sum of SIS, 1880.
e The Clinton Brifge and Iron works O
d Clinton has been sold to c. Lamb 1
Sons, the saw mill owners. The consid
GRAFTON was $4,000. The plant is val
/ | liable one and has some big contracts
among others being the $3.50, 900 higl
+ bridge at that place over the Mississippi
{ Peter Blink has sued the J. G. Hub
niger Electric Light company of Keo
y knk, for $500. He claims to hay
:. been injured III the company's employ
He did not know the danger of tn
machinery handled at the time the in
jury was inflicted, and was not toll
n of it.
y An epidemic of diphtheria has agail
= broken out ut GAINESVILLE and two death
have occurred. A former qlarantin
:. was raised about two weeks ago. an,
/ the authorities allowed the schools t,
e open, supposing the epidemic to b
e over. The schools are now closed ant
l. all public meetings forbidden until afte
II Jan. |.