The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-13
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

The Irwin Journal has suspended pub
Hcation.
A new starch works plant for Des
MOines is insured.
Fifty-seyen persons live il Brighton
who are over 10 years old.
Farmers in the vicinity of Carroll are
experimenting with sugar beets.
The Keokuk Packing house has closed
down. 1t will reopen about Nov. l.
Des Moines' new city directory claims
q population for that city of G0,739.
One hundred and seventy EIGHT teach
ors attended the institute at Upton.
There are 361 inmates in the institu-
ton for the predetermined at Glenwood.
One hundred and fifty-six teachers are
attending the Marion county normal at
Knoxville.
The First National Bank of Tabor,
capital $50, 900, has been authorized to
begin business.
The Ottumwa Cutlery works will en-
large their plant and employ 500 per-
sons instead Of 100.
The Mayor of Dubuque has ordered
that unlicensed dogs be electrocuted in
stead Of being shot.
An employe Of the railroad shops at
Boone has invented a valuable improve
ment in the Westinghouse air brake.
-. rc~ol lc.. - aaa L.,
fire last week. The Grinnell Cart Man
ufacturinK company We're the heaviest
losers.
The bell for st. Mary's church at
Clinton was dedicated Sunday. 1t is
the largest bell in the state and weighs
$500 pounds.
The Davis opera house at Clinton will
be converted into hotel to cost $780,
700. Plans for new opera house are
being made.
Twenty-Five saloon keepers closed
their saloons at Sioux City last week,
having learned that the Law and Order
league was after them.
A. Childs, of jefferson, has discovered
that weak solution of peppermint tea
" 49, AAA NOOD0SO Wa AASs AAS ApplAI5 ~
with an ordinary sprinkler.
While threshing on the farm of Phil
lip Mach, near Brooks, the engine
blew up, killing Isiah Curtis, farmer,
and slightly wounding two others.
A hay baling establishment at Whit
ing employees fifty men and thirty teams
during the largest part of the year, and
Fifty tons OF hay are baled per day.
Miss Mollie Robertson, of Keokuk,
was elected president of the national al
lance of the Daughters of Veterans at
the convention held at Massillon, o.
H. w. Early's saw mill and 5000, zoo
feet of lumber, together with several
residences and barns, We're burned at
COmmanche Thursday night. Loss,
$3.50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
A man and his recently divorced wife
have been married over again at Du-
buque. The groom is s5 years
old and the bride 49, Each had been
married three times before.
Matt Wolfe, workman in Fengler's
stone quarry, at Dubuque, was struck
by 3 falling stone. He was knocked of
the ledge where he was standing, fall
ing eighty feet, killing him instantly.
At the close of the retreat of the Sis
ters of st. Francis, conducted at thu
German Catholic Orphan asylum in
Dubuque, thirteen young ladies' were
received into the order as novices by
Bishop Hennessey.
Major Fred Hope, of Mt. Pleasant
has resigned his position us distributor
OF plates and dies in the government
bureau of engraving and printing. and
was appointed special agent of the
treasury department
While the tent of a small travelling
show at Riceville was full of women
| and children, the J-year-old son of A.
Russell was caught by supposed pei
bear and SO badly bitten on the mech
that he cannot recover.
| Darcy Gwynn, Of Humeston. shot and
instantly killed his brother-in-law, Lib
erty Shocks. Gwynn went to Shocks
house and told him he had come to xii
him for calling his mother liar. Tit
murderer gave himself up.
Bot Bros shoe store mt Dubuque
was burglarized the other morning
Entrance was made from an adjoining
store and thence through skylight
| The safe was pried open and :s2225 takel
| together with other valuables.
Fred Leuerich, 19-year-old boy, on.
of the editors and proprietors of TIL,
Western Poultry journal, while il
bathing in the Cedar river about a mile
above Cedar Rapids. attempted to cross
the river but gave out and drowned.
The Iowa state fair will be held a
Des Moines, commencing Aug. 20 ant
closing Sept. 4. The premium.
offered aggregate 1000, and are lib
eral in all departments of stock, farm
and dairy products, the workshop ant
household.
/ A farmer named David King, Twins
near Algona, was worked by sharper
for $4,000. They bought his farm ant
worked HIM for loan of money unit
they could go to town and have some
imaginary draft cashed. On the way
to. town they suddenly decamped, leav
ing King to attend to getting the draft.
cashed.
A story is related of the recent cpl
denio Of burglars in Fort Madison
which goes to prove the burglar is not
as black as he is painted. The THE
ransacked humble home and founG
nothing either to tempt his palate OF
his pocket. He therefore wrote a note
to this effect: Yer goodness sake gel
something for breakfast y The note was
weighed down with half dollar.